Week 5: Storytelling - Meet the Vanars.

"Where are we?" Penny-Nichole inquired. They had been walking for what seemed like days. After the battle with Khara, everything seemed like it was going smoothly. Until Kellan's brother, Raxus, had come to seek revenge and took over our mothership. All of the crew members were still aboard when he stole it, so now it was up to Penny-Nichole and the Strike Siblings to get them all back. Penny-Nichole had made many friends since joining the Strikes and many of those friends were aboard the mothership, along with many supplies for the sick on the surrounding planets. It made Penny-Nichole's blood boil thinking of all of those who would die because they never received treatment. She couldn't wait to get her hands on Raxus and save all of her friends and all of the people she could with the medicine he had stolen.

"We are in the forest of the Vanars. We are looking for a very powerful Vanar to see if he will help us in the upcoming war." Sarah informed the girl. Penny-Nichole seemed content with the answer.
"Shh, shush ladies. Here comes a vanar now." Gregor slowed their walk to a crawl as a creaky old man made his way up to the three.

"Good morning three travelers, where are you off to on this fine fine day where the sun surely shines bright up in the great sky up above us?" The vanar chattered on to them about many things before the three were able to speak.

"We are Gregor and Sarah Strike and Penny-Nichole. We have come looking for Vedos, do you think you could take us to him?" Gregor spoke calmly to the creature and the more he spoke, the more the creature's face lit up. Once Gregor was finished the vanar jumped in to the air with great ease. His rags fell away and turned into beautiful garments of turquoise and rich purples and when he landed, the old vanar was no longer there. In his place stood a tall, lean man with the face and tail of a monkey.

"I am Lark, close friend to our leader, Vedos, and son of the wind lord Mayu. My people and I have been waiting for many days and many nights for you all to arrive to us and seek out Vedos! We know of your story and have a story of our own that we seek your assistance with as well. Like you, our great ruler has lost one he loves dearly and he, like you, has been cast from his home." Penny-Nichole perked up as the vanar spoke. She wasn't sure what he meant when he spoke of being exiled. She had joined the Strikes on her own terms but she had never heard anything about the Strikes not being able to return home.

The four walked along the winding road and spoke of many things. Well, mostly Lark chattered endlessly to the three about the story of their leader as well as his own lineage.

Authors note: I know this story is short and seemingly meaningless, but I was running very short on time and I felt that it was a good transitional story to introduce some new characters and some new plots. This story is based off of Sugriva and Hanuman. I still have my three bounty hunters as Rama, I am missing the Lakshmana character, but Lark is supposed to be Hanuman and Vedos is representing Sugriva. I tried to provide some recap between the last story and now that went along with the actual story as well.

 

Rama and Hanuman

Bibliography:
Sugriva and Hanuman, written by Geraldine Hodgson