His bare feet smacked the ground at a quick pace one two one two with a soft pat accompanied by a slaping sound of his newfound companions feet hitting the forest floor. they both ran as fast as their legs could carry them ducking and weiving between the trees going deeper into the brush till it became so thick they had to take a moment to stop to assess their surroundings.
"Where the hell did they go Quick split into pan formation we will surround them!" a booming voice sounded out behind him causing Donald to become alert and glance at where the voice came from behind them.
"shit they are going to surround us how are we gonna get out of this!" Donald was running out of ideas this chase had gone on for almost an hour with them barely managing to outpace their pursuers."Think dammit think!"stressed from his current predicament he could not think of a way to outwit these shrine guards.
"i- I uhh I think I can get us out of- Quack here." Arieta's voice trembled as she looked back and forth erratically from the voices they could hear approaching them in the distance.
"seriously you can that's amazing how are we gonna get out of their encirclement!" he exclaimed shining ariets around in his excitement and joy. he would hate to implicate this angel for his sake and just wanted to get to some form of civilisation to start his new life.
"ahhh Quack eek" she was quickly startled by suddenly being spun around like a ragdoll
"oh sorry malady I forgot my manners" he quickly set her down after seeing her frightened face pale in the dim light available through the trees and brush that surrounded them."please speak quickly there closing in as we speak." He spoke kindly to her trying to not let the urgency of the situation take hold and scare her
"I uhmm" she twiddle the tips of her wings together trying to formulate her words."I can fly us out of here I uh have never tried to fly with someone else before Quack but it's worth a shot Quack!" she spat out her words fumbling over them as she spoke .
"oh my I thank you for such a offer you must truly be an angel!" he exclaimed after hearing her words just a tad too loud.
"ohh umm quack it's not that big of a deal quack" she stuttered with her words quaking a little more than usual embarrassed by the rabid praise this fanatical duckman had given her but their conversation would be cut short.
"over here I hear them just over the bend!" the voice of their pursuers rang loud in their ears as the thunderous sound of countless footsteps began collapsing on their location.
"shit here they come it's now or never Arieta!" he called out to the harpy girl beside him shocking her out of her stupor.
"quack hold on tight!" Donald quickly latched himself around Arieta's neck after she spoke and with a start she began flaming her wings heavily. with a struggle they both took to the air slowly but surely flying out above the canopy of trees to behold the vast lands before them.
"it's buetiful" Donald managed to speak before the rush of wind stripped the voice from his mouth drowning their voices in the rushing winds. below them they could see countless guards armed and armored shuffle throughout the forest floor but they were now long gone. the endless sea of green stretched out before them as they flew off into the distance looking for a safe place to land. the blue sky above them was clear the clouds like cotton candy lazily drifted through the air as the duo spotted a small clearing not far off from a wooded town in the distance. tumbling from Arieta's care Donald rolled to a stop in the grassy clearing they landed in, ending up face down in the dirt, causing a hearty laugh from Arieta.
"What did I do!" Donald cried seeing arieta laugh at his well timed misfortune.
"nothing quack you're just funny pfft."she giggled lightly before falling back onto the grass of the clearing looking up to the bright blue sky." today has been crazy Quack I don't think I've ever had so much fun! I wish more people were like you."
"What you wish more people were on the run from random guards because they fell out of the sky?!" Donald asked her perplexed at why she would wish more people into such a situation.
"no you dummy I wish more people were nice like you quack." she lightly punched his shoulder causing him to make a dramatic scene of falling backwards and dying on the ground before screeching out strained words.
"ahh I've been stuck goodby cruel world blehh." quickly ending his over the top reenactment he sat up to get a better look of their surroundings."and what do you mean more people should be nice have people lost their common decency. an angel such as yourself should be heald in nothing but the highest regard!" he mixed the motion of flipping his hat off to the fair Arieta before him
his sudden outburst brought a smile to her face before drawing her legs to her chest with a saddened look on her face."pepole back home just never wanted to be around me quack. they said I was a filthy half breed and that I should just leave quack, so I did I went to that pond and I found you suddenly falling from the sky, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would meet someone as nice as you.quack" she looked on the verge of tears recalling those sad memories till she was shooken out of that trance as Donald's demeanor suddenly turned cold his voice like cracked ice threting to stab into you.
"There wrong!" he took a deep breath to steady himself before continuing, "don't listen to them you are a lovely lady and no one should have to feel like they are lesser than anyone else." his blood ran cold from her words but he quickly picked himself back up with a beaming smile on his face like warm Sunray bouncing off a pond surface. it was a smile that could light up a room and it cheered up Arieta if only slightly."anyway no need to dwell on such things what do you want to do next?" he asked like it was the most natural thing in the world that they would do whatever she so said they should.
never before had she been asked what she wanted to do only what others wanted to do, it caught her off gard and she did not quite know how to respond. ideas raced through her mind like saying' whatever you want to do' or 'let's get some food' and even 'let's head into a city' but those did not feel like the right awnser to her. in that moment it was like she was given the option to do anything in the world, go anywhere or have anything she wished, and she felt this crazy man from the sky would do it for her. as if he would walk through the very depths of hell if that was her request. it was a strange feeling but those eyes.' his eyes' se thought they were filled with determination, an inky black void that threatened to gobble her right up and it was as I they stared back into her very soul.
"arieta?... Arieta" Donald was calling her but she was lost in her own thoughts till she was suddenly snapped back to reality."ARIETA!"
"oh yes quack!"she meekly responded after being called back to the present by his voice.
"you spaced out there for a second. like I was saying what do You want to do? anything you Name it I owe you one for getting us outta that jam."
"I uhh- I i... I umm i..."