Creatures Caves

Hi everyone, what's up? Due to my Role-Play, and some ideas I had about it, I decided to make a story (a fan-fiction if you want to call it that

) to explain what I firstly had in mind, and to connect everything that might had escaped you, if you had watched the development of my RP.

But you can also see it as a normal story, since I would do everything as possible to keep things not-boring for you!

My initial plan was to post it on fanfic.net and put the link here, but after talking to kezune, she said I could post it here, and I am doing it, so that anyone who doesn't know how fanfic.net works can see, but also because I want to share with this community, same community that means a lot to me. I think I'll be posting it here like 1~2 days before I do on fanfic.net, so you people can always be ahead

Enough talking, let's get to the story!

Note (it'll be quick

): this is my first fic ever. I had some ideas on the past, but never wrote then down. So sorry if at the beginning it is a little bad, but I'll try to make it interesting as much as I can! Also sorry for grammar! (kezune helped me on that part

)

Note 2: Ahuge thanks goes to Kezune (who was the first person I interacted with my creatchi Jack

), Norndara (who had done RP with us and for her ideas) and TigerCivet (for being so brilliant with her ideas

). Also a thanks to DarbyDoo, she has given me support for the story. And of course a huge thanks to Rascii, for the awesome site (sorry if I am missing someone).

Note 3: The characters are going to be the creatchis I've controlled and the spouse and/or daughter/son or related... (except for one generation which I didn't control).

Note 4: ENOUGH OF NOTES!!! (

)

Chapter 1
“A new beginning”

The egg started to crack, a light creature noise coming from inside. The rumble lasted for a minute, and then the grey shell finally gave away.
A blue ettinchi found his way under the remnants of the egg. He stood up, contemplating the bright world around him. It looked wonderful; green grass covering most of the ground, big trees around him, with bushes scattered all over the place. He heard a splashing noise; he looked around and noticed a pond some meters from him. He approached it, and when he took a good look at it, he saw small yellow handle fish swimming around.
He then decided to go around exploring, to see the rest of the forest, absorbing the amazing surroundings. A couple of meters later, he heard movement between the trees. He followed the sound of the movement, to find himself in an opening. At first it seemed empty, aside from the flora, but then he noticed a small ettinchi beside a bush. He approached it, and then it turned around.
He then observed that it was a female baby ettinchi, with a beautiful fur, in an orange-yellow shade. He struggled to speak.
“H-hello”
“Hi” she answered. He tried to say anything else, but he was too tense. She noticed it and she smiled.
“What is your name?” He opened his mouth to answer, but then he remembered he didn't know his name- at least, he didn’t know he had one.
“I-I don’t know” He wore a sad face “at least I don’t know if I have one”
“It is okay.” she said “I also didn’t know my name when I first came into the world. But a note was left beside my egg, in which my name was, and explaining why I was alone” he made a slight frown, but then he saw her face light up “By the way, my name is Amber('Amber! It suits the colour of her fur' he thought). And with you… hmm let’s see. What is the first name that comes into your mind?”
He thought for some seconds. He then found it. “Jack” he smiled “I like the name ‘Jack’”
Amber gave a big smile “Hello Jack”
He played along.

“Hello Amber”

~15 days later~

The little wooden and stone house blended nicely with the surroundings, in the middle of the trees. The sun wasn’t up yet, but morning was imminent, so the two ettinchis were still asleep. They had made the house in the same clearing in which they had met. They were already young adults, since all creatchis live only around 24 days. They have been living as best friends during the whole time since they first met, for they got along very well; they occasionally went for a walk around, in search for food, or similar, or simply just to see the environment around them.
The sun finally rose, and light from it found its way between the branches and through the windows of their bedroom, where they shared a bed. As the light hit them, they lazily got up, and each one went through their morning daily routine. While Amber was making the bed, Jack went outside do get apples on a nearby tree. He caught a few, and then he got back inside, went to the kitchen and dropped four of them in the quirky cookie machine. Two apple flavoured cookies soon appeared on the plate of the machine. He then walked to their farm, grabbed some bramboo berries, and got back home to make some delicious bramboo juice.
“Amber, breakfast” he called, a few minutes later.
“Coming down!” she said back. He was met with a rather sleepy smile.
“Slept well?” She asked.
“Wonderfully, although a few more hours wouldn’t hurt” he finished with a laugh, which made her laugh too. “So what do you want to do today?”
“Well…” she seemed to be thinking “recently I have been reflecting on something.” Jack waited for her to continue. “Maybe we could go to your original birth place, to see if we can find more about you” she finished hesitantly, scared that he wouldn’t like it.
He pondered about it for some minutes. She was about to say no when he finally get his voice back. “I think we could… I actually have thought about it, although I didn’t want to venture too long in the deep forest at night, ‘cause we could be ambushed by an uglee or something.”
“As long as we keep an eye and hear to everything around us, and if we find a safe place to sleep, we should be good to explore.”
He smiled at her answer; she always knew how to think things through. “Alright then. Do you want to go today?”
“Yes!”
“Alright then, we go after lunch. I hope we can find something about my past… and those dreams I’m having are making things even worse… I cannot stop thinking on those black ettinchis…”
After breakfast, they went to the farm to tend the bramboo, explodonuts and mushroom plantations. After, they picked up a few of each, and brought them home. Jack heard a grunting noise coming from outside, a very familiar grunting noise, and suspecting of what it might be, he headed outside. As expected he found a grazer pacing around. With a grin on his face, he moved to get him.
A few minutes later, Amber saw Jack entering the house with a grazer on his shoulder, and smiled. “Awesome, that will make a nice lunch!”
They ate the roasted grazer with the cooked mushrooms, which tasted like heaven to them (it was not every day that they had a meal like that). Afterwards, they packed some apples and pumperspikels into a backpack, and made their way to the road. The place itself was quite near, but they decided to go investigating around in case they didn’t see anything on the destination place.
When they got there, nothing attracted their attention, but they carefully watched every inch of it. The clearing was lighted by the sun, but still it was hard to spot anything. After a few minutes of search however, Amber saw some faint footprints, but she immediately thought it was from an animal, but Jack inspected them better, and noticed that the shape of the foot didn’t match any creature except one: an ettinchi. They followed them, having to stop at some points in order to find where they were heading. Suddenly however, when they were passing through an open field, the footprints disappeared. They sighed, and then looked around. It was an ample place, with tufts of grass here and there. They decided to do a rest stop there and eat something to regain energies. They both sat down, Amber turned away from Jack in order to take the food out of the back pack, when suddenly she heard a shrieking noise, followed by a scream from Jack. She turned around quickly, but she didn’t see him.
“Jack? Jack!?” she screamed “Jack, where are you!?”
“A-a-a-mbe-er!” she heard Jack screaming her name. She looked around not seeing him, until she looked up and then she saw him being taken away by a goshawk.
“Jack? Jack! I’m coming for you” she screamed, starting to run.

Chapter 2
“Feelings and Truth”

“Jack!” Amber yelled again. ‘Darn, when is that goshawk going to land? Doesn’t it need to rest?’ she thought, while continuing to run after them. Luckily, the field was huge, and the goshawk never turned.
Jack, meanwhile, was up in the sky, the goshawk grabbing him by the arms and leaving him turned to Amber, who he saw as a yellowish blur passing through the grass tufts. He didn’t saw the goshawk picking him; while Amber was taking the things from the backpack, he was looking at her, thinking. Thinking of how much she helped him, and how he helped her. They have lived as best friends, however, sometimes Jack felt more inside him than just friendship when looking at her… but he didn’t want to tell her, because he didn’t know how she’d react and probably that would destroy their relationship. That was what he was thinking right now. He felt such a strong feeling, seeing her running after him. He heard faintly her screams, due to the altitude.
Little did he know that Amber felt the same way about him; she always felt safe around him. He always did everything to protect her, and in those times, she felt closer to him than ever. When she heard Jack’s scream, turned around and didn’t see him, she felt her heart stop; if she loses him, she’ll lose everything…
Luckily, the animal seemed to be slowing down, and getting lower and lower. It started to turn slightly to the side, to a far way tree, which bared no leaves. Jack, noticing the bird’s sudden change in movement and speed, looked behind him in order to see were the goshawk was heading. He let out a sigh of relief when he saw the tree, however he became worried when he thought of what the bird might do to him when it stopped.
With pure luck though, the bird released one of Jack’s arm to land on the tree, holding him tightly with the other, rising it so Jack was out of range of any branch.
Amber reached them, gasping for air, and her eyes met Jack’s, which had a desperate look in the face. She looked around to anything that could help him get down. The goshawk was resting, with its eyes closed, but one could see he was not fully asleep, to prevent its victim from escaping. They knew that they didn’t had much time until it decided to fly again. Amber paced around, trying to figure out what to do, when she finally had an idea. She ran around, ripping off the ground as many bushes as she could, and placed them in the spot directly beneath Jack. She then snapped a rather long branch which was already bent over, and started to climb the tree with it. Jack observed the whole process quietly. When she reached his height, she looked straight into his eyes, motioning with her lips ‘trust me’ to him. He nodded, and then Amber, inhaling, pushed the branch as hard as she could in the direction of the bird’s foot; it immediately opened the other one, releasing Jack who dropped down, and flew away with a sharp scream of pain. Jack landed with a thump on the heap of bushes. Amber, who was still at the top of the tree, watched as he dropped and then not moving. Her heart jumped, thinking of the worse. ‘Oh no, no, no, no, no. Please, tell me he is okay, please’ she thought as she was climbing down ‘Oh that was a stupid plan, why did I had to do it like this. Please, I can’t lose him…’ She finally felt the ground beneath her feet, and she ran to Jack’s body, which was still immobile.
“Jack? Jack?” she yelled, shaking him. She bent down, approaching her face to his, and felt the air faintly coming in and out. “J-Jack?” She watched as he slowly opened his eyes.
“Am… Amber?” he gradually got up, getting into sitting position, rubbing his head. “What happened? The bird… wait, the bird!?” he motioned to get up, but Amber stopped him.
“Relax Jack” she said with her familiar smile appearing on her face. “I think I’ve scared it for good; it won’t be catching creatures like us any time soon. By its scream, I think I’ve hurt the claw badly. Thank god I’ve avoided a disaster…” she didn’t finish the sentence, her smile disappearing, and a face of sadness replaced it.
“Amber? Amber, what’s wrong? What is it?” she just looked at him, her eyes undoubtedly about to give away. “Amber…” he trailed of, she now clearly crying, with both her hands on her mouth. He didn’t waste any time; he leaned forward and hugged her. She shrugged at his touch, and with a sad face he lowered his arms, but she suddenly wrapped her arms around him and hold him even closer. Jack gently embraced her again. She then cried and cried.
After some minutes, she seemed to be calming down. Jack was still holding her, just in case she fell down to tears again. She sobbed for a few seconds, before giving Jack a sign that she wanted to talk.
“I-I-I am so-sorry Jack. I just… I was pretty shaken up by you imminent absence… And” she looked down “more when I saw you didn’t move when you fell down. I could stand losing you, and it would be even worse if it was my fault…”
Jack placed a hand on her chin, making her look at him. “Amber everything is alright now. If it weren’t for you, I would still be on its grip, or worse. It is all thanks to you, and your smartness” she smiled lightly at his statement “I’m glad to have you by my side” he finished, giving her a kiss on the forehead. She then felt the need to say it. It had to be now. He had to know.
“Jack…” she started. He thought she was going to cry again, but after quickly scanning her face, he knew she was more serious than ever. ”I-I have to say this. I think I can’t hold it any longer.” She took a deep breath. “Jack… I-I lo-“she was interrupted by a sudden loud thud, followed by a whirring sound. They looked around, but they didn’t see anything. The sound was slowly fading, and then three seconds later if ended with a double pitched tone.
“What was that?” Amber was the first to talk.
“I don’t know but… it was a very weird sound, and it didn’t came from far away… But wait, what did you wanted to say?”
” It’s… It’s okay, it can wait” she didn’t had the strength to say it again, for now “We have to investigate that sound. And that’s final” she finished when she saw he was about to talk. He nodded, and then they got up, inspecting the surroundings. The whole plain was empty, except for the tree next to them, and an agglomerate of trees a few dozen meters away from them. Since it was the closest place to them (the edge of the forest could be seen even further), they changed a look, and nodded in agreement. They walked towards the trees.
When they got closer, they could see that the tree logs were fairly thick, making their passage through them rather hard. When they reached the centre, a more ample place, they were disappointed once again. It was empty. Jack looked around looking for more clues, while Amber sat in the middle, with a frustrated face. Jack glanced at her, but he noticed something unusual and he turned back to her.
“What is it Jack?” Amber questioned, looking at his confused face.
“Look around you” he simply said.
“What?”
“Look around you” this time, he made a smile. She looked around and started to get up
“What do you mean look around…” she then saw it. A very odd marking on the ground.
By the looks of it, something that had a square base and that was a bit large had been sitting on the grass, which was squashed, which made them assume that it was heavy too. It was a perfect square so they assumed that it couldn’t be a natural thing. They also noticed a piece of paper that was on the ground, smashed in a ball. Jack picked it up, and unfolded it. The writing seemed to be composed of circles and lines, but as far as they knew, they didn’t understand it. However, Amber noticed another writing on the back of the paper. It was two simple words, but they were so small that it was really hard to spot them. After a closer inspection, Jack read them out loud.
“Time lord?”