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...My first challenge for :iconwindsonde:. Zalira is lurking by the entrance of the medicine cave of Twistoult shamans, waiting for a perfect moment to go and snatch what she is supposed to take.

A Nachtbrag, while still a foot soldier, is of a higher rank than your character. They have told your character to go to Twistoult and steal some important medicines from their shamans. Go get them and bring them back to the Nachtbrag...or else!

Zalira repeated the things happened in the past hour. She had been relaxing by the Skrekrill territory where she lived, and right when she was about to stretch her wings to go for a little flight, she heard someone landing behind her.
"Just where do you think you're going, fledgeling?"
It was a Nachtbrag, a large and intimidiating gryphon, staring at her with his vicious eyes. Zalira pressed her wings against her body tightly and turned around to answer, but she didn't manage to say a word before the soldier spoke again.
"You know, we're running out of this special herb that only the Twistoult shamans have collected and dried. I would go and snatch some with greatest pleasure, but my wings are just too tired from a special mission I just returned from!"
Zalira could easily see that he was lying, and that the soldier was just too lazy to do these everyday jobs. He was clearly implying that Zalira should be the one getting that medicine. She nodded.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Now scram and get me those herbs!" He suddenly said.
"Yessir!" Zalira said immediately, turned around and set flight towards the Twistoult territory. A sly smile carved up on her face; it was the first mission given to her, and she was not going to fail. She would do it perfectly.
Of course, she had troubles finding one of these supply caves. Right in the edge of the Twistoult forest she landed on a tree branch and continued her trip by hopping on the branches. She had to hide from every Twistoulter that she found and she had to stay in a good view towards both the sky and the ground(and yet remain unseen). She was already getting frustrated when she suddenly spotted an old white gryphon that had propably just landed on the ground since he held his wings that way. Zalira perked her ears and stared at the gryphon's decorations on his pelt. Could this be a shaman? Zalira decided to keep an eye on him.

It appeared that Zalira was right, since soon the mysterious white gryphon disappeared into a dark cave. Zalira took shade from a tree branch, behind a bunch of leaves that would make her much more difficult to spot. Now she would just wait.

It took a while for the gryphon to return with a tuft of herbs between his beak and some potions hanging from his neck. Zalira now knew that this was a shaman and that this cave was packed with medicine supplise, and now all she had to do is to wait for the shaman to disappear and then she would make her move.

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Sorry for such a long story. I didn't even write it till the end. I hope it's okay though. Zalira looks older than she should here, but I made her throat feathers lighter to show a more juvenile plumage. The leaves on the tree look kind of sloppy, but I just had to get this done with. XD

Zalira belongs to me then.
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chocomutande's avatar
Oh wow o.o gryphons are beautifull anymals! And great painting!