Silvia'a cunning mind was working hard to find a better way to get down the mountain, as she ran the bird flew right for her again, but this time she jumped as high as she could as the birds beck slammed into the rock.
Silvia pulled the rope from her backpack as she flew through the air landing on the birds back and throwing the rope over its head. The bird was a bit dazed so it complied with her commands as she pushed it to fly away from the rocks of the mountain and head towards the trees.
It started to pull back as she pushed it to go lower, she kicked it as hard as she could on the neck as she tried to keep her balance.
The big bird pulled up and they circled the treetops. Silvia saw a branch that she thought she may be able to get to as they circled by. As the bird flew near it she jumped and landed a little shaken onto the branch.
The bird squawked at her and took off. Silvia caught her breath from the ride she just had as she watched the bird fly away back up to the top of the mountain with loud squawking. She knew which tree she was in and headed in the direction Lacey had fallen.
She saw a glint of red and headed for it. Lacey hung from her skirt on a small branch. As she saw Silvia approach she let out a sigh of relief.
"Get me out of this mess!" She yelled, Silvia couldn't help the giggle that came out as she went to help Lacey up onto the branch.
Silvia saw the rip on the skirt and Lacey sighed at the sight of it. Her backpack was nowhere to be seen. "Well let's go back to the hut, we will have to figure out a different way around the mountain, we aren't going to go back up there with those birds blocking the way." Silvia mused, Lacey nodded in agreement.
When they reached the hut and Silvia had taken care of Lacey's bruises and scratches from her fall, they sat at the stone table to talk about what to do next.
"We could find another way around the mountain, maybe we should take a couple days scouting it out and find a way around the birds." Lacey suggested. "There is more to this island than just this forest." She said,
Silvia nodded. "It's getting lame over here! We have killed most of the monsters, and it's getting to be too easy of a life over here!" Silviasaid jokingly, Lacey laughed.
"I like it here without monsters." She stated, Silvia sighed. "Well we can wait a while and scout it out before we try again, we still have a lot to do to get you into shape." Silvia said.
"Yeah, I miss my life before, I didn't have to do anything!" Lacey replied. Silvia looked at her, "That sounds boring Lacey, here we have a whole island to ourselves!" She laughed throwing up her arms. "Yeah, but I really miss my family." Lacey said. Silvia looked down at the table.
"Yeah I miss my mother too. But there is no way off this island unless you can build a ship and can sail it." Silvia said. Lacey shook her head, then sighed.
"Do you think maybe someone would come find us if we lit a fire on the beach as a help signal?". "Maybe but it will take a lot of work to make one big enough to attract a ship, they never come close to here." Silvia replied.
"Oh, well the trees here would burn big and hot for days." Lacey remarked. "Well we aren't going to light the whole forest on fire." Silvia stated, getting up and heading up the ladder to her room.
"I didn't mean the whole forest!" Lacey called after her, Silvia stopped and sighed. "Well we can't cut down just one of them, I don't have the tools." She told her before going up the ladder.
Lacey sighed getting up and heading outside to sit on the branch and looked up at the sky. The stars were bright in the dark sky. She sighed, she did want to see her family again, but there was no way off this island that she and Silvia knew.
She didn't mind the island or the monsters that much now that she had grown use to the big forest and the ways of not living in a castle.
The night air was chilly but she was warm. She got back up and headed back inside and laid down to sleep.
They took a week and started to dry more meat and berries for another attempt at going over the mountain. "I don't know about this."
She announced, as she hung the last of the meat strips to dry. Silvia sighed. "Come on Lacey, if you don't want to go you can stay here." She said Lacey signed too. "No I want to go I'm just a little worried that's all." She replied.
Two days later they headed on a scouting trip, Silvia led the way down the trail on a smaller part of the mountain hoping it would be easier to climb, they hiked their way up the mountain one step at a time, the loud squawking made them both look up at the big bird in the sky circling them. "Oh, come on!" Silvia yelled, crouching low, Lacey laid down on her stomach next to her, her dress so nicely turning yellow. "Great!" She heaved a sigh.
"Get your spear ready!" Silvia said. Lacey pulled it up so as to be ready for an attack, as the big bird came for them. They jumped up at the same time planting their spears deep in its neck, but the bird wasn't fazed by it.
"Attack!" Lacey screamed, as she saw her dress blaze red and jumped on top of the giant bird's head it let out a loud squawk as its head was burnt to a crisp where the dress had touched it.
The smell of fried chicken filled the air. "What the.." Silvia stood shocked as Lacey stepped back from the bird that was dead, her dress turning blue again.
"What? How did you do that?" Silvia asked. Lacey shrugged. "I just felt like the dress would help so I jumped." Lacey replied, looking down at her dress.
"Wow! Well we will try again another day. I think that was enough for today. Let's go back to the hut." Silvia said, as they turned back and headed for the tree.