Loralle, Her Journey Chapter 7 part2

CHAPTER 7 (Part two)

A day passed and Loralle flew back into the Metal Tribe. She quickly made a pit, filled it with magma, then built four pillars of earth coming out from it. On top of the pillars, she made a little hut.

Then she sat down and tried to obtain the metal power again.

This time, when several people arrived they were angry!

Their yelling and swearing at her, made others join in to do the same, and Loralle couldn’t concentrate.

“Shut up!” She yelled angrily.

But, they didn’t stop.

More so, something making clacking and clinking noises was starting to be heard.

She got up and walked a step, to the edge of the hut, to find something big coming towards the pillars beneath her.

Her first thoughts were that of awe…But, she remembered where she was and sighed. Honestly, she could leave at any time but she wanted to see what this big metal thing will do.

Watching it stop before the magma, she saw three men pull and push something backwards, away from her, then move away after a clicking noise.

Curiosity overwhelmed her as she waited. What was going to happen? She was nearly jumping with fascination!

“Go!” Someone yelled.

Another person hit something on the device and the thing that was pushed back before, came towards one of the pillars below her hut. When it hit the pillar, it shook the hut but it didn’t collapse.

Knowing her power was doubled, she looked down to see a dint in the earth pillar.

She laughed heartily. They weren’t strong enough but their metal built thing was really good! She was sure now that they hadn’t been accepted by metal , because if they had been, it would have probably been easily ripped apart with the power this metal could have had!

With her powers as they were, she was no longer scared of them, but suddenly had to urge to play. She hadn’t interacted with people for so long and she really wanted to know more about this strange metal power.

“Ah, boss?” One of them said.

“Yeah, I know…Again!”

Loralle stopped laughing and said, “Wait! I do.”

With that, earth came up and pushed back the thing that three of them did last time!

Silence filled the air as it quickly rattled into place.

Then Loralle nodded her head, “It ready, try again!”

They all looked at her in bewilderment…She was helping them defeat her?

“Go!” She said impatiently, imitating the boss.

Someone hit something and the same thing happened again. When it hit her pillar, Loralle nearly lost balance and she held onto the side of the hut.

She laughed again and looked down at the pillar. A bigger dent was formed and it looked unstable. Her eyes grew wider. Metal was amazingly strong! She thought.

“Ah, Boss?” Again, someone said.

“Mmm…” ‘Boss’ replied.

Loralle smiled and looked at the boss. She pointed at the bit metal thing and said, “I like! Very good! Strong!”

Silence filled the area yet again. Suddenly, the ‘Boss’ laughed. “Yeah, it’s great n strong!”

Floating down to the ground, with air surrounding her, Loralle’s eyes sparkled as she stared at it. “Metal, strong!”

The ‘Boss’ smiled, glancing at a few others, “Yeah, Metal is strong!”

Then, suddenly, he took out his sword and went to slash at her. Others followed, by taking out their weapons as well.

Loralle laughed, putting an earth bound on herself and building a wall of earth around the people, including the metal big thing and her hut.

The sword hit the earth bound on her but didn’t penetrate all the way through.

Loralle then released the earth bound and flew to the top of the high earth wall around them and laughed. She wanted to see how long it would take for them to get through the wall…

“I want time.” She said, then flew outside the wall and tried to focus yet again on obtaining the metal power.

Sadly, this didn’t work. There were bangs, as the contrapment hit the earth wall, and the people who had come from elsewhere were yelling to the inside of the wall to find out what was going on.

So, Loralle build another wall, entrapping those people as well, and went a little further away.

An hour slipped by and they had been able to break down the inner wall, only to find that another had been put up, just as the people had said!

So, they had started on that wall. But, more people had showed up and there was more yelling and banging!

Another wall was created to entrap more people….Then, another two hours after, another wall was, again, created…

The Metal Tribesmen were exhausted, hungry and thirsty! None of them had ever come across someone so annoying before! Getting trapped within their own village was actually quite embarrassing! And one of those people was the boss of the tribe!

This person was really quite unable to get angry enough though. All this time, he had been thinking about the strange behaviour of this person, and he could see that she was very powerful. The fact that they weren’t all killed kept him calm, thinking that if they were to endure this embarrassment then they should be fine. So, while many walls had been put in place, the people stayed calm because of the ‘Boss’.

They all adored their boss to ultimate means! They knew he was quite creative and thought about the village in long terms. Even though some lives had been snuffed out because of their leader, they saw the results that happened because of it. They weren’t talking about lives killed by the Air Tribe, they were talking about the knowledge learnt from obtaining some of the power by the field of big flashes.

In return to losing those lives, weapons had became stronger and ideas obtained started to become real.

But, those deaths were foretold and even asked by their boss. Knowing that their boss was someone that they could rely on to get better results, so, they followed his calmness and hoped that their boss saw that they could be of help!

It was dark when Loralle decided to stop obtaining the metal power and released the walls, that the people were stuck in.

"You!" The 'Boss' yelled speechlessly, his hair in disarray and looking exhausted.

Loralle pointed to herself, "Me, hungry."

Again, she made everyone go into an astonished silence. The nerve!

Many of the people who saw her first that day, breathed out in defeat.

This girl...She's too much!

"Boss?" Again, someone asked.

The 'Boss' laughed, loud and clear and totally defeated. "Let's eat!"

The crowd dispersed happily.

"Great! Show me food!" Loralle said, excitedly.

She knew everyone ate different everywhere, now she wanted to taste the Metal Tribe's food!

"Right...Nathan, get the booze!"

Cheers filled the area and Loralle smiled while following them.

It was the first party she had ever gone to!

But...In the first hour of the party, Loralle sampled their food and found it very unsatisfying...

There food consisted on being cooked underground or being burnt to a crisp!

The taste didn't seem something that she was used to at all and instead, decided to use other tribe's methods to fill her belly.

At first, many of the Metal Tribesmen were upset and offended to her making faces and ignoring their food. But, as they tried the food she herself did, they were quite astonished.

By the end of the second hour, the spread of dishes, made from two other ways, were all eaten!

Loralle hadn't been able to show them the raw ways of the Water Tribe, but was able to light a fire to cook meat, instead of the metal power that burnt it. She also dried meat, in which became quite popular!

Loralle found it quite funny that they liked something so much that was from what they think of as an enemy tribe!

Loralle was so happy, she hadn't realized that she had drank too much, as she drank their hard liquor like normal water. It did taste a little strange...But, everyone was drinking it!

It was the first time she had drank alcohol, so she hadn't any idea on how to react to the strange feeling that started to go through her.

What she still could see, were some the vicious looks that some of the Metal Tribesmen were giving her.

They had waited and waited till this moment to act on their revenge!

How dare she intrude onto our tribe!

For the other tribal members, not making those kind of faces, they had found something quite surprising. The magma underneath the hut, that she had created, had indeed, some use for their tribe. A weapon had gone in there by accident, then he watched, as the metal had gotten hot!

This person was one of the weapon makers...

The weapon became so hot that he couldn't even touch it anymore!

He had dropped his blade on the ground, away from the magma, in haste, but it had still burnt his hand!

When the walls had gone down, he realized that his weapon had changed a bit. Dirt had gotten stuck onto it and it wasn't straight anymore. But, looking closely, and with eyes of a maker, he knew that this magma could be a help to improve their weapons!

Another couple of people looked at Loralle with curiosity, she hadn't killed them, just entrapped them. By the looks of it, she had the power to destroy them, but she didn't...Maybe, she could help exterminate the Air Tribe!

The last lot of different looks were of males who fancied her or females who didn't.

Then there was their 'Boss's' thoughts...He had heard what the magma had done to a weapon, by the weapon maker, and also watched as Loralle introduce other foods and stayed relatively passive and silent...So his thoughts, they tended to lean towards Loralle in a favourable way. His eyes watching her very closely, liking her more and more as the time goes on.

None of that mattered though, when Loralle finally felt that she had enough...She felt really strange!

So, shakily, she flew up, not in a straight line, and tried to fly away.

People watched her, some getting out of their seats angrily, as she disappears.

Some sigh in frustration, and some in relief.

But as the party started to continue, they heard laughter in the air above them. They looked up to see Loralle and her flushed face, again!

She tried to talk, "I got lost! Haha. Left, then back again! Haha."

She laughed while leaving again.

"Boss?" Said one.

The 'Boss' shock his head and laughed, not knowing what to say.

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Loralle found herself uncomfortable and with a head ache when she woke up. Then she gasped at the view, knowing that this wasn't her house and she couldn't remembered how she had gotten here...

She saw it as quite a spacious cave and a small amount of daylight entered from the entrance, from around the corner a few metres away.

Looking down, she found that she wasn't wearing any clothes and that they were all over the floor.

Uh?

She tried to move her head further around to look, but it hurt too much.

She put a hand up to her thumbing head, and thought, how did I get here? What happened?

Picturing the strange flavoured liquid, she continued her thoughts, I'm never touching that stuff again!

Getting up slowly, she didn't find anyone around.

Looking out towards the exit, she was worried...

Closing her eyes, she tried to focus but, as she wanted to use the earth and air to see outside of the cave, her head hurt even more!

She wasn't able to see anything!

Sitting down, with a thump, and noticing the bed had a metal frame, Loralle felt sick.

Never again!

How can people drink that stuff!

Laying down, she closed her eyes, there was nothing she could do until she felt better.

A noise woke Loralle and she looked up to see a male. As he came closer, he turned his eyes away from her naked body but still walked towards her.

Uh?

"You're up! You've been sleeping nearly a whole day! Look, it's dark out now."

She stared at him, not saying anything. Was there a reason why he didn't look at her?

"Oh! Haha, you were a blast last night. Everyone adores you!"

Who was this person?

Loralle scratched her head.

She still stayed silent but the male shock his head in happiness, still looking away from her. "You are invited to stay! After you and the boss left, everyone didn't stop laughing for ages, they had a great time!"

Uh? "What?"

The male stopped, a little shocked, "You don't remember?"
"I ate, Leave." Loralle explained.

Startled, the man couldn't believe how blunt her words were. Suddenly, he felt sorry for the 'Boss'! The male let out a small laugh, "That's all you remember?"

"Yes." Was all she replied.

The male laughed uncomfortably, "Ok, first you kept flyin around laughin. Then people started shootin at ya. But ya never got hit! Ya just told em 'More, try harder!' Haha. So, more shot at ya but ya continued ta laugh! Then ya threw somethin in the air and...It was really pretty...I'm really not sure what ya did but everyone watched as ya threw more and more...Then ya made a ball n hit people by throwin it at em. Haha. Then ya made more balls n ya dodged the ones thrown at ya! Haha so funny! After that...Ya made a big hole n put warm water in it. In front of everyone, ya took ya clothes off and went in! So, other people went in too! Really! Oh...We hun seen anythin like that before aye! Then ya made water fall down, somehow continuously, from far away ta go into this hole, but then it overflowed! So, ya got rid of the water n filled in the hole and everyone was upset! But ya spurted water at em all, n said, 'Clean now' Haha, so funny! We all watched ya run around chasin a fire ball, then ya surprised us by usin the metal power! Ya were like a child, playin...With powers! It was...Amazin! Good show, good show!"

Loralle, by this time had wide eyes and stared at the male in disbelief, "...Lie!"

The male put his hands up and shock his head, "No-no. Ask anyone, we all watched ya. I'm not lyin!"

"No. Lie. I not do that!" She yelled at him.

The male was stumped, why didn't she belief him?

"Why here?" She asked.

The male took a moment before answering, "Actually, more happened last night...This is the Boss's cave."

Loralle stared at him and waited.

The male lightly bit his lip then said, "Well, ya danced n sang with us n ya..."

Narrowing her eyes, Loralle said, "What?"

The male coughed and sighed, "Maybe ya will find out soon."

With that, the male left, in a hurry, not wanting her to ask him anymore questions. As it was, staying there while she was naked, could get him into a lot of trouble!

Loralle had no idea! How and what happened!?

Does this tribe...Make up stories? Is it...Another kind of power?

Being unable to remember any of it, she decided it didn't happen. Even though it seemed something she might do, but how could she have acted as such? Maybe, they were all drunk...And, they all thought they saw the same thing!?

Loralle shrugged and let the matter drop.

She saw the food by the bedside and ate. Then, still feeling a bit funny, she went back to sleep...

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Chapter end