Skylar landed after his long jump on top of the center surface of the black rock- a statue of eight headless giants hurdling around a feminine headless giant which neck's is the center surface.
"What's the meaning of this?" He looked in front of him in confusion at rocks put together like a sacrificial altar and at the corpse of a giant snake placed on top of it symbolically. "Let's see." He then walked closer to the ritual-like setup.
At the same time he approached the giant snake, the small injured bird perched on one of the other eight surface glared intensely at his figure, then it flew hurridely to the surface where he is and towards him, when he made his way towards the ritual-like setup.
My stuffs are still below... Skylar stood in front of the giant snake, examining the dead creature with his eyes and shortly after, the exotic and familiar eagle-like bird arrived behind him while emmiting a menacing aura which Skylar totally ignored.
He turned behind him, and made eye contact with the bird. "Little guy, there should be a big bird here, have you seen it?..." The bird did not reply.
After he received no obvious reply, he smiled at the bird glaring at him. "Are you hurt and hungry?"
But after a few seconds of waiting for some kind of response from the bird that clearly doesn't want him around as indicated by its look and expression, Skylar shrugged and then left the top of the rock, and this action of his, the bird clearly appreciate it.
...
After about an hour since Skylar left, whistling, Skylar returned while carrying his old sack on his back. He returned to the center surface specifically where the bird who has resumed its glare now coupled with an aggressive stance is.
"Guy, chill." He dropped his sack beside the small rocks supporting the dead giant snake while ignoring the bird spitting fire at him with its eyes.
He walked to the center of the surface, sat in a lotus position and then switched to a meditative state.
If i analyze carefully all that I've learned...
I can manipulate to an extent pure natural energy...
I can boost my cellular activities with natural energy...
And lastly i can manipulate earth element and fire element to a degree. My mastery of earth element should be far greater than my mastery of fire element though. Butnow i have to try something completely new before i loose the inspiration i just gained...
He took a deep breath, and a couple seconds after he settled his mind; tiny dark-red sparks appeared and starts to dance on his exposed skin.
At another side; the bird powerless to eject the rude intruder and therefore has accepted its fate moved closer to the edge of the rock altar supporting the giant snake and leaned its injured body on it.
Also, the bird golden eye looking at Skylar who is far away at the center reflects Skylar's figure which is now covered and cocooned with dark-red lightning.
As time moves on and while the bird watch with an unknown look that concealed its thought, the multi-colored Sky blanketing the region starts to adopt a dark-red shade that is slowly starting to dominate it from within.
(Sizzling... Sizzling...)
And not long after, the sky turned completely dark-red, and a menacing and ruthless aura spread over the region while the sky brew something very sinister in its belly located at its center- its eye, that just appeared.
(Sizzling... Cracking...)
At this point, dark-red lightning bolts like tiny spears danced below the sky that has completely turned into a dark-red storm cloud of intensity and magnitude several times greater than that of mother storm Skylar previously fought against.
(Sizzling..... Crackling.... Howling....)
And at the other side where the bird is, the suffocating winds from above blowing on the surface of the rock threatens to carry its feeble figure with it; but like smoke into water they dissipate when they make contact with the bird and like this, the bird watch the heavenly display like an omnipotent witness sitting nonchalantly amidst the wrath of the heavens.
(Sizzling... Crackling... Howling...)
(Pulsing hums)
Now on top of Skylar's figure cooconed with dark-red lightning and located just below the eye of the cataclysmic entity above that is pulsing and opening slowly, a white pillar of light emerged from within the cocoon and linked with the eye of the storm.
(Humming... Chanting....)
This white pillar of light was that emerged was so bright it seized all the glory of the region together with its heavenly chant that caused a subtle change in the expression of the bird and when it forced open the eye of the storm and pierced into it.
(Pulsing Hums, Chanting...)
After the white pillar of light enter the storm's belly through its eye, suddenly, all phenomenon in the sky disappear and the sky returned to how it was originally like nothing ever happened in the first place.
Then simultaneously, Skylar opened his eyes and exhaled deeply. "That was a great experience." Now my mastery of storm and lightning is substantial... He stood up and walked towards the bird and the stone altar where the dead snake is.
"This guy is still fresh, did that bird kill it and where the hell is the bird" He examined the corpse of the giant snake. He then turned to the bird looking at him with meaning in its eye. "Have you seen a big and mighty bird?" He paused briefly and with a look of sudden realization smiled at the bird that responded his action by rolling its bright golden eagle eyes. "Are you by any chance her baby?" He waited for an answer from the bird with a snow white feather on its head to its neck contrasting the black feather on its body just like that of a typical eagle, "Where is your mum?" He added.
The bird at his questions opened its golden beak like it was going to tear into his flesh and also raised its dark-golden talon at him. And this action, Skylar found it confusing until another look of realization appeared on his face together with a smile. "I see, you want me to help with your injuries first."
After Skylar spoke, not caring about the reaction of the bird or its consent, he moved closer to the bird about a mita tall and dragged and rest it on his lap as he sat down on the cold, black and smooth surface.
With a green spiritual light on his hand, he checked the body of the bird that is struggling to seek freedom from his claws for any abnormality and at the same time he injects the bird with natural energy to alleviate its weakened state. "What do we have here?..." Skylar touched and examined a black ring on one of the bird's golden leg, and at this action the aura of the bird took a darker hue. It glared fiercely with literal flames in its eye at Skylar who is touching the strange ring with an eery pattern. And after Skylar refused its signal to leave it and the ring, it sank its beak into his flank, and a blood fountain returned with it.
"This ring i can tell somehow has a restriction function...". Skylar ignored the blood and the large hole the bird left on his body and that is closing at a visible speed as he draw closer to examine the pattern on the ring. "I don't understand this symbol but it kinda make me nauseous."
After several minutes during which he was injecting the bird with natural energy, he let go of the bird that has finally submitted to his overwhelming will at some point. "You should be okay for now. But that black ring, i can't remove it now. Maybe when i become a bit stronger..." He stood to his feet and stretched his muscles. "Let me guess your mom was probably captured by those responsible for that ring on your leg..." He paused and look at the bird that seems to be crying while it look back at him.
He sighed then walked closer to the dead giant snake. And with his back to the bird that has not stop looking at his figure, he lifted the giant snake effortlessly. "I will roast this guy and we can eat it together." He turned to the bird and locked eyes with it. "I hope you eat meat."
...
Under the illumination of a milk-looking multicolored sky, two figures could been seen seating face to face on top of a black gigantic rock. The two, one Skylar and the other the eagle-looking bird have in front of them a stone bowl filled with roasted meat which gradually reduce in quantity as both feasted on it with a clear expression of happiness and great pleasure.
"Goldie, you know we have to preserve the rest..." Skylar bit a chunk of meat, chewed and swallowed it, then look at is happy partner. "For some reason i can't sense the presence of any living creature around here..." He paused then drank from a bamboo pipe. "So good" . He checked the level of the water remaining in the wooden pipe. I am running out of water maybe i will have to go down the mountain. "So Goldie. Like i said its like this place is off limits to wild life..."
While he communicated with Goldie. Goldie busy with emptying the large bowl in front of him and not particularly listening will nod at the end of every thing he says.
Then after Skylar finished his lecture on food preservation and management and after he relieved the bowl in front of him of its content simultaneously, he stood to his feet and made his way to the stone grill behind them.
After he made his way to the grill, he carefully examined the state of the rest of the meat the grill is apparently tending to. "Maybe i really have to go down the mountain and get water and proper wood." He looked behind him at Goldie who is dragging his stone bowl behind him with a clear intention of coming to ask for more. And at this sight Skylar put his oily hand on his brow as an expression of his exasperation. I don't think this guy understand the definition of there is not enough meat for now...
"Okay." He turned to face Goldie and with a stern expression instruct. "You will stay here and watch... " He paused then turn back to face the grill. This guy will just eat everything... He waved his hand, and like a signal the heat and smoke coming from the grill vanished. And following that, rock from the ground rose to form a dome over the grill that seal it up.
"Good." Then he returned to where his sack is and from the sack he brought out two wooden pipes, and made his way towards the edge of the surface.
"Don't leave here, and don't come down to look for me. I won't take long." He screamed his instructions from afar at Goldie who is glaring with intense ferocity at the stone dome sealing the grill and its content.