A reason to live(Open).

[Alucard5200]

In the Lost Lands, an African Elephant walked through the swamps, watching his steps to make sure he didn't wander into anything dangerous, this is Noor,a twenty year old African elephant, he walked through the murky waters of the swamp, it was quite shallow so he didn't have much problems and then Noor stepped out of the swamp onto a peice of land, dry land, the sun slowly set as Noor breathed out and thought "this place may not be a great place to rest but it would be alot harder to go through it at night" and so he lied down as the sky darkened and closed his brown-yellowish eyes.

[Mycna]

Mycna, an adult colorful toucan, flys over the hot and humid swamp searching for a banana tree. He spots one and lands on one of its branches. There is a huge bundle of bananas hanging from a stem, he pulls one off and continues to peel its skin revealing the sweet fruit inside. After Mycna finishes the fruit he lifts off and searches for a place to digest his meal. After a while of flying he finds a hollow tree on the edge of the swamp. He nestles himself inside its empty trunk and peers out of the hole. Mycna sees an elephant wandering out of the swamp and laying down on a dry patch of land. It falls asleep as the sun sets, Mycna puffs up his feathers and slowly falls asleep.

[Alucard5200]

After five hours of sleep, Noor awoke, it was still dark as the sun had not risen yet. However as he stood up, the sun slowly began to rise...

[Mycna]

Mycna lifts his head up and see that the sun has just started to risen and he is satisfied with his night of sleep. He notices the elephant walking around and decides to confront it. He spreads his wings and glides down next to the elephant leveling off as he got to eye level with it. "Hello" Mycna said...

[Alucard5200]

Noor stopped in front of the toucan that had glided down in front of him. "How do you do" Noor said after the toucan greeted him.

[Mycna]

"Fine" Mycna replys. He flys at eye level as they walk together. He looks at the elephant and says "So where are you heading? I cant imagine anywhere a land animal would want to be in this wet & thick swamp".

[Alucard5200]

"Where ever destiny takes me,as it turns out I ended up here" Noor responded as he slowly walked...

[Mycna]

As Mycna is thinking about what Noor said he notices that he is getting hungry. "Well hope we meet again, friend" Mycna tells Noor as he flies away to find food. Mycna flies low not wanting to attract the attention of any eagles or other predator. He spots a salamander laying on a mossy branch sticking out of the water, He grabs it off the branch and gulps it down. Still hungry Mycna continues his search until he finds a mango tree, his favorite fruit. After he has gotten his fill of the fruit and his beak is sticky with the sweet juices he pulls a mango off to give to his new friend. Mycna lifts off in return to his new friend. He spots Noor and starts towards him but he is hit by a huge force and drops the fruit and falls to the ground. Mycna's vision is blurred as he lays on the ground about one-hundred feet from Noor. He sees the blurred outline of an eagle coming down to him. Mycna thinks is it going to end like this, becoming an afternoon snack to another animal?. He tries to move but there is a terrible pain in his wing as he tries to get off of his back. He blacks out...

[Alucard5200]

Noor stopped, he could've sworn he heard something, he turned and Mynca was nowhere to be seen, he could have flown away, or it could have been something else, something darker.

[Mycna]

Mycna screams "HELP!" hoping that Noor is still bye. The eagle tries to bite his throat but Mycna slams his large beak into the eagles head, it stumbles backwards disoriented. As the eagle tries to come back to Mycna, he stands up and puffs up his feathers to make himself look bigger. It works the eagle hesitates for a second giving Mycna a moment to escape. He runs through the thick brush and dives under the murky water. The eagle stands at the edge of the water looking for the injured toucan but unable to find it he takes off in search of other prey. Mycna can no longer hold his breath he comes out of the water and clambers up a tree to get dry. He starts to walk back to his new friend. Mycna gets to where he fended off the eagle and collapses on the ground in exhaustion. He blacks out...

[Alucard5200]

Noor had seen the toucan collapse and lay motionless on the ground, he walked over to where Mycna lay and tried to get him to come around.

[Mycna]

Mycna wakes up and sees Noor over him. "Hello" Mycna says. He manages to stand up and tells noor everything that happened.

[Alucard5200]

"You're lucky to be alive" Noor commented, as he continued walking.

[Mycna]

Mycna nods "Yes but I may not be alive very long... I am very weak and injured". Mycna says "I must rest now Noor, I am very weak and cannot walk".The toucan stumbles over to a large crumbling log and sits inside. "Goodbye friend I hope to see you again!"

[Alucard5200]

Noor's blood ran cold after hearing Mycna's words, it was the reason he was a loner, ever since his parents and adoptive mother died Noor had an overwhelming fear of even being around other animals, fearing their lives would suddenly end like his mother's did all those years ago. "Goodbye, I doubt we will meet again" Noor said as he left, he would be far away by sundown...