Oo-De-Lally!

[kryll]

(Shrike)

A young bird the color of soot and flames darts through the trees. She is closely followed by a streak of yellow. Amber glanced back to her friend Oliver. "What wisdom would you ask for?" She called back dodging a low hanging branch.

[Shrike]

(Love the thread name! It's kind of funny, we just watched Robinhood with my little siblings.)

"Probably swift flight, then I can be the Golden Streak! Or Blur, or something cool like that." Oliver answers cheerily, gliding in the wind as the sun fell.

[kryll]

(Robinhood is my favorite tale/movie )

"Surely you aren't that bent on having a nickname?" Amber rolled her eyes. "It's not as fun as you think." The she-bird stopped in the air and looked around. "Where are we?"

[Shrike]

"Well, I'm just saying.... Pheonix and her sidekick Oliver!" He spread his wings for effect, "just doesn't sound right." The finch scoped their surroundings, they were amidst a wood full of oaks, huge towering oaks, the further you got to the center of the valley, the bigger the trees became. "On the outskirts of the Valley of Oaks." Oliver stated and perched on a branch laden with green actions the size of his head.

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"Fine how about Phoenix and Daffodil? Because that's what you look like." Amber giggled and perched beside him. "Well were getting closer." She shuffled her wings to settle them. Her eyes narrowed in grim concentration at what was in front of her. She had just seen the second village burn down to the ground. She glanced over at the yellow bird beside her. He was at first just another bird out there but he just so happened to follow her into a fire with no hesitation. A cool afternoon wind blew past them and she scooted closer to Oliver unconsciously.

[Shrike]

"At least it's not Buttercup." He mumbled and flapped on, oblivious to Amber scooting next to him. The huge rounded leaves blocked a straight passage, so theFibch had to weave under, over and around them.

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Amber snickered and followed him. She wove along side him and ran into a thicket of leaves. It nearly knocked her out of the sky. She chirped warning and managed to level back out. "Ok...never trying that again."

[Shrike]

Oliver laughed. "See, I'm smaller and more agile than you thought!" He peeked back around the green leaf to snicker at her before continuing.

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Amber grinned. "Oh you think so? Are you challenging a thief?" The firebird darted off into nothingness. Amber was about to have some fun. She soared upwards into the darker canopy. Using shadows to her aid. "Where am I now?" She asked casting her voice out. Seeing him below she dropped out of the trees and clipped his wing. Just enough to spin him before disappearing again.

[Shrike]

Oliver shrugged. "Noooooo." He chirped. "Not disappearing, just, erm... Agility, like....this!" He shot forward and curled around a branch like he was liquid, he zoomed past a leaf, narrowly missing it. Then he flattened his body, turned his wings into narrow blades and shot through a narrow gap between thorny branches.

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Amber laughed. "You don't just use agility that way. You also have to agile in the mind, to think three steps ahead." She flew out and flipped over Oliver. Leveling out she spiraled down to the ground. Looking around to see if she saw anything interesting.

[Shrike]

Oliver scoffed. "You know my feathers are bright, but not my mind as much..." He joked and flapped onwards. "You coming or not?" He flapped on. "Even mighty thrives should move on!"

[kryll]

Amber threw her gaze over the trees once again. Then she took off after Oliver. "You move on when you get tired." She fluttered her wings.

[Shrike]

"Suuuure!" Oliver rolled his eyes and continued. "You just don't want to admit my quickness." He stated.

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"Whatever helps you sleep at night." She laughed. Banking to the right she dipped back down below the trees and collided with something fuzzy. She groaned and opened her orange eyes. Brown ones gazed down a snout at the speck of feathers on its nose. It growled. Amber choked in surprise. "Bear!"