Night of Fate by Kinomi (books to read this summer .txt) 📕

Tobashi, would you like to tell them what happened?” I asked.
Yoko took the lead and started talking.
I got closer to Kein and whispered. “You may heal yourself now.”
“At long last!” he said quietly. His wounds started healing up and he seemed to feel better.
I walked into the forest and to the valley alone. Mother…father…have I made the right choice?
I sat there for about twenty minutes before it started raining.
I stood up and smiled. I put my arms out letting the rain soak me.
The rain seemed to be singing a song. Follow me here, but lead me there. Take my hand and dance. I’ll hold you tight, you shall not fall. I’ll lift you up, you’ll never doubt.
I danced in the rain as I listened to its song. It reminded me of the first time I was allowed outside. It was raining, but I dance with my father and mother. I too started singing a song.
“Listen my child, you say to me. I am the voice of you history. Be not afraid, come follow me. Answer my call and I’ll set you free. I am the voice in the wind and the pouring rain, I am the voice of your hunger and pain,” I sang dancing to the rhythm of the rain. “I am the voice that always is calling you, I am the voice...I will remain.”
I smiled. That’s the song you taught me to sing, father, mother. That’s the song that comforts the rain… I thought feeling the gentle rain on my skin.
Little flashes of my memory went through my head as I danced. The first time I dance with father, the first time I cooked with mother…and my older brother who had died giving me his power, along with my mother and father.
I smiled. “You’re watching…aren’t you Kein?” I said looking up. The rain pattered on my face.
Kein stepped out of the forest, but not quiet into the rain.
“Let me enjoy myself this time. I don’t want to get angry with you before we go to Aaron’s town tomorrow,” I said looking at him.
Kein smiled and stepped into the rain. “May I have this dance?” he asked politely.
I smiled as well. “You may,” I said taking his hand we danced to the beat of the rain, but in a soft gentler way.
Kein held me tight and kept his thoughts on me.
I couldn’t believe how gentle he could be. “What are you scheming?” I asked.
He smiled. “Do I need a reason to dance?” he asked.
I smiled back. “No, you just seemed to be in an odd mood. Is there something you would like to tell me?” I asked.
He looked away. “Even without reading my mind, you always knew me…,” he said with a smile.
“So there is something?” I asked. I didn’t know what he wanted because he wasn’t thinking very much.
“Yes…there is something,” he said with a smile. “You’ve always known.”
“I…,” …don’t clearly know what you’re saying…. I stopped what I was saying. “What do you want? You’re acting strange,” I said backing away from him.
Kein looked away. “I don’t know…I’m just trying to be a better person. You seem to always be mad at me…so I’m trying to see how I can get you to not be mad at me,” he explained.
I wasn’t convinced. “You’re frustrating me now, go away,” I said rudely.
He bowed. “Sure thing.”
He left just as I had told him to.
I stood in awe. He usually asked why I was so impatient. I decided to keep my eyes on him throughout the next week or so.
In the morning I waited for all the other Spirits.
When they were all there, I made them change to their human forms.
“Where’s Kein?” Trinity asked.
I sighed and closed my eyes. “He’s coming,” I said after searching.
Kein came into sight.
Yoko stood back making sure not to get in the cross fire if I were to get mad.
“Where have you been?” I asked as calm as I could.
“I forgot about this morning, sorry,” he said.
“How could you forget?” I asked.
“I said sorry. Sheesh!” he said.
The rest of the Spirits took two steps back.
My calmness was reaching its limit. “What has gotten into you?!” I yelled at him.
“Nothing, what’s gotten into you?” he said plainly.
I stopped in my tracks. His thoughts…I can’t hear them…
He looked at me. “Something wrong?”
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“What do you mean?”
“You’re the only one whose thoughts I can’t hear right now. I’d like to know the reason!” I said getting frustrated.
“Nothing,” he said smiling.
I changed to my elf form. Ice started creeping up around me. “What are you planning?”
He stayed where he was. “Can’t you take a joke!” he said stepping back from the ice.
His thoughts came rushing into my head.
“Do you know how hard I was trying to not let you hear my thoughts? I was testing something! I’m sorry!” he said.
Yoko broke the ice when I had calmed down...
“Don’t do that again. If you do you’ll regret it,” I said so serious it made him step back.
He bowed. “I’m sorry!”
“Change to your human form, we’re going to Aaron’s castle,” I said changing to my human form.

We finally got to Aaron’s castle, so I made each one of the Spirits stay behind me.
We stepped into the throne room.
“Good morning, Aaron, Zelia,” I said with a soft smile.
Aaron stood up. “Good morning, Lady Mikazuki!” he said with a slight bow.
Zelia stood up as well. “Good morning, my lady!” she said bowing.
“As I said I would, I brought all my nobles,” I said walking a little closer to Aaron’s throne.
I stepped up beside him. “They will do as they did yesterday. After they have each shown you their power, they will team up and show you what they do together,” I explained.
They already knew who was going when, so they started showing their powers. They each changed to their elf forms.
“I am Hatsumomo; I am the Spirit of the rose. I am also the Spirit of fighting,” she said.
Hatsumomo demonstrated her rose first. She closed her eyes and made roses appear around her, making her look like a beautiful maiden.
Aaron smiled. “How shall you show me you’re fighting skill?” he asked.
Hatsumomo was just as clueless as Aaron. “I don’t know,” she said looking at me for an answer.
“Will you ask one of your best guards to come forth?” I asked Aaron.
Aaron signaled one of his guards.
Hatsumomo laughed. “This’ll be too easy!” she said taking stance. “I’ll make this quick. As a handy-cap, I’ll let you use your weapon!” she said to the guard.
Aaron looked at me. “Will she be alright?”
“I should be asking you if you’re willing to let your guard get hurt.”
“Kein can heal, can’t he?” Aaron asked.
“Sure, sure,” I said.
Hatsumomo and the guard started fighting. Before long, Hatsumomo had the guard pined to the ground in pain.
“I give!” the guard said.
Aaron laughed. “That was fast!”
Hatsumomo bowed.
“I am Hinode, I am the Spirit of the forest,” Hinode said shyly.
Hinode lifted her arms and plants of every kind swarmed the throne room. She bit her lip. “I think I over did it…,” she said when Aaron tried getting the roses out of his face.
Zelia smiled. “Beautifully done, though,” she said taking one of the roses of its branch.
Hinode smiled. “Thank you!” she said bowing. She made all the plants disappear except for the rose that Zelia was holding. She then walked over to where Hatsumomo was.
“I am Mayo, my power lies within my people…I’ve never tried it on humans…,” she said trying to think of how to show him her power.
Aaron looked at me impressed.
I smiled back.
Mayo sighed. “I can’t show you my power on my people, and I’ve never tried on humans, so it might not work,” she said closing her eyes.
The guards in the room looked at her with one hundred% attention to her.
“Dance!” she said bringing her arms up.
The people took their weapons out and began a sword dance.
She seemed pleased with herself. “Halt,” she said softly.
Each one of them stopped the returned to their positions
Aaron was intrigued. “Astonishing! Well done!” he praised.
Mayo walked over to where the others were.
“I am Adoel,” he said stepping forward. “I am the Spirit of metal and ore,” he said opening his brown eyes. “I will show you, but I will need one sword,” he said calmly.
Aaron signaled for a guard to give him a sword.
Adoel took the sword and threw it in the air. When it had landed in his hand again, it was a completely different, much bigger, sword.
“I can also make it vanish then form it into something else,” he said showing him how he did that.
He bowed, making his short black hair wave, and walked over to the others.
“I am Hayashi,” he said with a smile. “I am the Spirit that plays with fire,” he laughed. He raised his hand up and fire twisted around his body. One final touch made the sparks fly like a firework.
“Beautiful!” Zelia commented.
“Why thank you, Zelia,” he said bowing. His short brown hair hadn’t yet covered his jade eyes.
“I am Trinity,” a younger girl said. “I am the Spirit of illusions,” she said with a smile. Her indigo eyes went well with her violet hair. She raised her arms up then they all seemed to be in a forest.
It wasn’t raining, yet it was damp. It wasn’t dark, but it was hard to see for all the tree’s leaves. And it wasn’t like the one at the village; this was the forest I had found her in.
I smiled. “Looks familiar,” I said when she stopped the illusion.
“Yep!” she said bowing. She too walked over to the others.
“You know me, already, I am Tobashi,” he said. “I will show you what I can do with animals,” he said. He let out a small whistle.
A panther with black fur and blue eyes came running in.
“KYAAA!!” I yelled clinging to Aaron. Of all the things in the galaxy, I’m afraid of panthers; not tigers or bears, just panthers.
Tobashi saw his mistake and made the panther leave before I did anything wrong. “Sorry, lady Mikazuki. I forgot,” he said shyly.
I let go of Aaron when I realized I was crushing his arm. “Sorry,” I said healing him.
Aaron twitched. “I’ll never get on your bad side!” he said rubbing his arm.
“G-go on Tobashi,” I said looking away.
Tobashi put up a target then walked away from it. He called three wolves instead. “Dance of blades,” he said crouching down.
The wolves circled him with snarling teeth.
“Remember your target,” he said too low for humans to hear.
The wolves turned and jumped at the target.
“Dance of leaves,” he said changing the formation.
The wolves switched their formation from anxiously angry to a gently deceiving one.
“Strike!” Tobashi called.
In a split second, the target was in shreds.
“I’d hate to get on his bad side,” Aaron whispered to me.
Tobashi smiled when he heard that. He bowed then walked to the others.
“I am Namida!” a girl with blue eyes said. “I am the Spirit of cooking!” she said as she put her long blue hair into a pony tail.
“That’s kinda useless isn’t it…,” Aaron said under his breath.
“It is not!” Namida said. “I’ll let you eat some of the best food you’ve