A/n: The Nihalis are a race I have created.

Krill shifted in his bed and opened his eyes. A warm breeze was coming from his open window and sunshine was shining through the curtains. The light blue curtains made a gentle ruffling sound from the wind. He sat up and yawned, stretching his arms to the sky and his pure white wings out. He grinned as he felt the wind ruffle his feathers, he stood up sipping his sandals on that sat right next to his bed. Krill Vizel, was a Nihalis, a winged humanoid race that could be mistaken as human except for their eyes and their wings. Their eyes can be a wide variety of colors and that often startled most non-Nihalis who did not know much about them. They had pointed ears and their hair could be very vibrant in color.

He dressed quickly and made sure he looked somewhat put together. His tanned skin made his white hair and wings jump out along with his golden eyes. He had put on his uniform and grabbed his bag. He hurried out of his room and hurried down the flight of stairs. Once he got outside he stretched his wings and took off. He scored upward and felt the wind blow in his face and through his body. He flew in a loop and then headed straight. He glided through the air and smiled as he felt the wind on his body. Nothing beat this, the wind at his face, the ground far below him, the feeling of freedom. 

"Hey. Krill!" A voice shouted behind him. He turned his head and saw Mayra. Her tan wings spread out wide and her golden hair flowing behind her. "Where are you off to in such a hurry?" She asked. 

"Headquarters!" He replied. "New assignment today."

"Well, this must be some new assignment. You ran out so fast you did not even stop to eat breakfast." She said. "I worked hard to make it, ya know." 

"Well, I don't want to be late to get the assignment." He said. "That and High Captain Vet is scary when you are late." 

"Very true but you are the best OutRider," She said. "You are an A Ranked OutRider. That's two bellow Vet." 

"True," He said. They then both flew in silence heading to the headquarters they were stationed on Cerul. Which was on one of the many floating islands that made up most of Elayra. The home of the Nihalis, there was a city that was below these islands and some towns. The grounded towns and city was there mostly for business, the fishermen, merchants, and the other races who came into the country of Elayra. There were transports that went up to the floating islands but most did not take those. The only ones who did were adventures and diplomats. 

Mayra smiled and dropped a little so she could go right below him and she turned so she was facing skyward. Krill looked down and asked, "What?"

"Well, I have a new assignment as well. How about a race?" She asked. 

"I am one of the fastest flyers. You really want to challenge me?" He questioned her.

"Yep," She said and flipped over while she said, "Last one there buys drinks for the whole barracks the next break we get." She then speeds forward leaving Krill behind.

"Oh. It is on," He said as he moved his wings faster. Soon he caught up to her and they were flying side by side. She looked up at him and frowned trying to go faster. He grinned and speed up. He did a few loops and waved at her during one of them. She rolled her eyes, show off she thought.

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Krill landed on the steps of headquarters and Mayra landed a few moments after. "Dang. You are fast." She said. 

"The fastest," He replied as he headed inside. She rolled her eyes and followed him inside. They headed up the stairs to High Captain Vet's office. They knocked on the door and the strict voice of Vet sounded. "Come in," 

Krill stepped in and saluted along with Mayra. High Captain Vet turned around and looked at them. Her golden eyes hard as always and her black hair cut short against her coffee colored skin. "Good. You are both are here together." She said. "Be seated. Both of you." 

They both sat down in front of the large oak desk that sat in front of a large window. Vet turned to look at them both and said, "There have been reports that there have been weird energy signatures coming from some of the ground islands. We called both of you since Mayra of the few Nihalis who have magic and Krill is one of the best fighters we have." 

It is rare for Nihalis to have one of the five magic types. The five magic types where Mental, Elemental, Spiritual, Spellcasting, and Shapeshifting. If they did get powers it was normally elemental but Mayra had a Spiritual magic type. "I want you two to check it out and stop the cause of this disturbance. This comes directly from the Queen, so take any measure you feel you need to do to keep our home safe." 

"It will be done," Mayra and Krill said together. 

"Good, leave when you both are prepared." She said. 

"Sir!" They said together as they stood up and saluted. They turned to leave and stopped when they heard Vet say, "Good luck. To the both of you." 

They turned and bowed their heads. They headed out of the office and down the stairs to the armory and to the storage center. 

"Well this should be interesting," she said. 

"Yep. Not every day we deal with magic stuff," he replied looking at her.  "It will be a very interesting story to bring back to the others when we have our next break and you buy us all drinks." 

That earns a glare from Mayra and she slapped his shoulder slightly. He stepped back right before she did though. "Come on. Let's get the stuff we need." He said. 

~~~

They got to the ground Island by nightfall, they were dressed in their armor and both of them carried a bag on their side. They both had their weapons that they specialized in using. Mayra had her whip and Krill had his spear. His spear was a very special one though made by the best blacksmith in the world. This spear was called: Crimsonlight. This spear was a fire spear when activated it can burn almost anything. Yet, you need to say the right words to activate this spear which is only known by the person it was made for.

"There definitely is something strange going on here," Mayra replied. One of the things that Spiritual magic could do was it could feel different energies and track them. "It's coming from underground. I can not tell what it is but it feels very strange." 

"If I remember correctly there is a passage that leads to underground caverns," He told her. 

"Alright lead the way then." She told him. He nodded and began walking and she followed behind him. They lit no lantern to light their way, they could see just fine in the dark. The eyes of a Nihalis was powerful, they could see in the dark and great distances. 

They walked side by side heading to where Krill knew about the passage that leads to the underground caverns. They headed down the slope of the passageway and soon they reached the cavern. Mayra looked around and said, "Wow...whatever is causing this is something else." 

"Or who," he replied. "Look here, footprints." 

"Your right," she said. "We should hurry and get there." 

"Right." He replied and got his spear ready. He whispered quietly to it and the top of the spear turned a fiery red. They ran forward preparing for a battle they got to a turn but they stopped as they saw light coming from there. They heard no voices but when they turned the corner they saw a large circle drawn on the wall with strange runes surrounding it. Even stranger markings and drawings inside the circle.

"I have none of the magic types but this seems like a Spellcasters work." He said. 

"It does look like that." She said as she walked over. 

"What should we do?" He asked. "Destroy it?" 

"No. Unfortunately, we can not do anything if this is the work of a Spellcaster this is bad. We need to go find someone who knows about Spellcasting to take care of this. If we do anything it can destroy this whole island easily." She said.

"Then what can we do?" He asked. 

"I can try-" But she stopped as she heard something. She turned just as an arrow pierced her leg where there was no armor showing. She shouted and fell to one knee as she pulled the arrow from her leg and stood up. She turned and gathered energy into her hand so she held a hall of energy and threw it. It sailed through the air and hit where the archer was but the archer dodged it and ran at them shooting another arrow at them. She dodged it and Krill ran at them with his spear ready. The archer was ready for the attack though and sidestepped and hit Krill in the back of his leg with part of his bow. Krill fell to the ground as Mayra began fighting this archer. 

Krill picked himself up and unfolded his wings having an idea. He flew up into the air and held his spear ready. He nods at Mayra who jumped back as Krill threw his spear at the archer. The archer looked up as the spear headed towards them but the archer held his hand up and a shield appeared around them and the spear bounced harmlessly off. The shield then vanished as a ball of fire appeared in his hand and he threw it at Krill who dodged just in time. 'He has two magic types!' Krill thought in surprise. It was not so common for someone to have more than one magic type. Whoever this was he meant business. Krill flew down to retrieve his spear. 

The fighting went on and on. This archer was dressed in a white robe with a hood covering his masked face. Krill and Mayra kept up until the archer grabbed Krill and threw him into a wall. His back hit it and he felt pain in his wings as he hit the ground. He groaned and slowly stood up. His back really hurt also his arm felt burnt from where the archer grabbed it. 

"Krill!" She shouted and turned to the archer. She ran at him letting energy gather in his hands. She then launched them at the archer. He dodged the energy and returned the same thing she did. She, however, was not able to dodge them. They hit her and she fell to the ground in pain. The archer notched an arrow and aimed at her. 

"No!" Krill shouted and ran at the archer tackling him. The archer's bow and arrow dropped and they rolled on the ground. Krill got pinned to the floor and he grunted in pain. The archer punched him in the face a few times but Krill was able to kick him off. The archer rolled on the ground and then stood up. He looked behind him at the circle and then back at Krill who ran at him with a spear in hand. They waited and once close by they moved to the side and kicked Krill in the back hard. He stumbled forward and hit the wall with weird runes. He turned around just as he saw the archer notch an arrow. He let the arrow fly and it hit Krill in the shoulder and he got pushed back into the wall once more. He cried out in pain and looked at Mayra helplessly as the archer notched another arrow. "Mayra!" He shouted as he moved to help her but he felt something dragging him back into the wall. He then felt like he was falling and all's saw was black now. Nothing but black.