Queens Quest Part 6

When morning came, Allurna woke to a prodding motion on her back and shoulders. Her senses were dulled as if she was in a hangover, possibly because of the food she had eaten as well as the due stress she had been under for the past few…how many days had she been gone now? Come to think of it, She didn’t even know if it was morning or afternoon. Low voices murmuring “kupo…Ku…Kup-po?” reached her slender long ears.  ‘Moogles?’ she thought as her eyes opened, the light was muddled by some sort of canopy.
    Another small voice called out, “Allurna!!” the voice came from her little friend. When she lifted her head, she saw the mini mage in a metal cage about to be lowered into a pot of bubbling hot oil. She sat up, “Go’pah!”  once she sat up and spoke, the creatures lurched forward and raised spears and clubs up at her, speaking with the one word of ‘kupo’ as well as variations on it. She could see a little clearer, noticing a platter- being garnished, it was as big as she was.
    Her mind was a bit hazy, but she tried to focus her eyes upon her captors. She was thrown into another situation, and was reminded of her scholar on the cliffs. She cringed and felt an anger bubble up from her stomach. She could feel that she was tied at the wrist, she leaned back, and worked her heel of her shoe through the knot of the tie and pulled it apart carefully in what seemed like hours.
    Her ears swiveled as they seemed to chant and it got louder and louder as time ticked by. She scanned over the bat-winged bear people with her ruby red orbs and her white eyebrows lowered slightly. She then got an idea and grabbed a spear from one of her keepers. They stood back slightly as she yanked it away and stood to her feet, towering over them. They seemed to gasp and look to each other, seeing that her arms were free- and started to advance with spears and clubs drawn.
    The Vieran Queen bent down , snatching the closest one up by the scruff of its neck. She pointed to the mini mage with the spear, and her index finger. She spoke loudly and angrily, “LET. HIM. OUT.” the Moogle she had scuffed was flailing a little bit, yelling ‘KUPO!!’  She jerked it slightly, and it stopped flailing and curled up a little.  The tribe of moogles started to yell at her and jump about, pom poms bobbing with their jumps and spears flailing.  
     Allurna  seemed to make a guttural shout at them, to which they stopped and scampered back. “I SAID I WANT HIM OUT OF THAT CAGE NOW!!” She jabbed the spear in a violent gesture towards the moogle hanging there in her hand .  A hand full of the Moogles scurried to swing the cage away from the oil and lowered it to the ground.  Once it placed against the ground the mini mage grunted and the Moogles opened the cage and scampered back from him. “Go’Pah, find my sword.” Allurna said to him. He looked confused for a moment, then went rummaging for her weapon.
    The Moogle that curled into a ball in her hand was shaking, She pointed the small spear at the rest of them and lunged forward slightly to startle them.  They all yelped and the Moogle in her hand seemed to cry.  The sound tore at her heart and she looked down at it, and set it down on the ground carefully and released her grip. “go on now…go to your family…” she whispered to it.  She stood back from it and it scampered away - the others all ran from the tall Viera, but Go’Pah came back and handed her the sword she had taken from the cargo ship.
    “Thank you Go’Pah…” She said as she took it from the mini mage. She looked about her  to gain where she could be, “…I wish I knew where we were…” She picked up some of the garnishing from the plates to take with her to eat. “Come on, Lets see if we can get out to the shore again, maybe we can make a boat.”  At the moment when she felt that all was safe the sound of moogles rushing through the brush reached her large ears.      She turned around, and Go’Pah grabbed her hand and dragged her along in a run, he was screaming in his language as they ran. She didn’t dare look behind her- feeling that something was chasing them. She let her white hair fly free behind her as they ran through the jungle- back towards the ocean shore.