Homecoming

I finally was able to present my Kite project to King Reedi of Pastura! However! Nothing went according to plan. But that was mostly because I couldn't remember ANYTHING! So instead of showing Reedi how everything works, because ya know I forgot, Lio Midnight Vatna and I all went to investigate!
 
The first order of business was to find out how to read my notes! I knew that I wrote them in my native tongue but the symbols on the page just didn't make sense. So we first took the airship to the squirrels tribe outside of Pastura to see if they could help. We landed and asked the locals for help. But even though they had some of the symbols on the architecture, they didn't know how to read my notes either! They suggested that I return to my home world? Plane? Place? and ask around there. I couldn't quite remember quite how to get back but luckily Vatna and Midnight knew a way!
 
Vatna opened a rift and led us through the tunnel towards Arboreal. And with Midnight at the wheel, we had a real smooth ride through the rift. The space between worlds is a wonderfully beautiful place. If you listen closely I swear you can hear it calling to you. As we approached arboreal we detected traces of the Librarian. The man responsible for stealing the knowledge of worlds. Now my memory loss seemed to have a reason and I grew worried for my home. After about a week we arrived in Arboreal.
 
First thing we notice, well not me at the time but everyone else, is that the world is lacking its normal color. And there wasn't a single kite in the air! Unbelievable! Arboreal without kites is like oceans without water. Anyways I wouldn't remember that till later! So we walk into town and start asking questions and it is very clear that something is very wrong. Everyone has this mental block and cant quite remember how things work here. We meet up with Master Longwhiskerchin and he informs us that everything is wrong and we need to fix it. He points us to the cloud river and says that's where I used to live and should check there first. Of course I know where I lived! Except that I had forgotten! Kind of!
 
We get into the airship and begin our descent into the cloud river. Luckily Amel was there and turned all of the clouds into ice! So we didnt even have to worry about the river part! Again with Midnights expert driving and the rest of us controlling the wind we made it to the forest that lies beneath.
 
I had spent many of my years in this forest. Traveling back and forth between the towns and learning all that I could from the Tree of knowledge. But at that moment we landed, I had only the vaguest memories of the place. How could I forget something that is such a core part of myself? It just doesn't make sense. Alright back to the story.
 
The forest remembered me. It was calling to me, bringing forth the runes that I couldn't read, trying desperately to tell me.... something! I decided to follow the runes where they would take me.
 
The runes led us to the Great Tree of Arboreal. Back to where I had made my home for many years. In any other circumstance this would have been a wonderfully exciting time. A time to tell Lio and Midnight where I, Tsoki Chatterfang, came from. But this was no ordinary circumstance. My memory was shattered, broken fragments swirling around, my mind barely able to connect the pieces.
 
As I approached the Great Tree the Guardian appeared. This awesome creature that was both my best friend and mentor. And he looked at me as if he no longer knew who I was. Luckily I was able to calm him. The Guardian showed us that the Great Tree had parts of it erased. I had tended to this tree for years. Making sure that the acorns upon it were kept in immaculate shape! How did this happen? The knowledge on this tree was erased, and why did it affect my memory? How is the Librarian doing this? We needed to fix this. But how could we replace what was lost? Stolen? Gone...
 
One of the blocks of ice that fell managed to fall onto the Great Tree breaking off a branch. So before anything else we decide to try and put the fallen branch back onto the tree. We decided to use the same tactic that I used to heal the word tree in Liminal. By using the acorns of the Great Tree itself as glue, and a lot of help from everyone to get the branch into position, we successfully reattached the limb. Suddenly knowledge flowed back into my brain. Knowledge that shouldn't be there, the forbidden knowledge that should have been left forgotten. How could I have forgotten what exactly these acorns I carry with me were? Before I had time to reflect on my newfound memories, a rift formed!
 
A place of fire and flames accompanied by some aggressive music lied on the other side. Four redcaps jumped out of the rift and we all jumped into action! Vatna threw his holy fire while Lio and Midnight charged in! The Redcaps didn't even know what hit them! Unfortunately the Guardian went through the rift! and the rift closed! He always was so curious to explore new things. Vatna suggests that he could try and reopen the portal to see if we can find the Guardian. I gladly accept his help and the portal reopens.
 
But on the other side is not my friend. Instead a giant monster with a gun bigger than all of the party combined walks through the flames towards us. It starts to unload fire a volley of bullets at us as it breaches the threshold of the portal. The guardian is gone, there is only us to protect the tree... I was so full of anger. My world was being siphoned, my knowledge and memories taken away from and now my best friend had disappeared. I decided in that moment that I had to be the one to take this thing down. So I channeled all of the emotion that I was feeling and flung myself at the beast. I weaved through the gunfire on my approach, somehow avoiding the entire onslaught the demon directed my way. I reached its feet and began slashing and clawing. The first hits seemed blocked by some sort of barrier and as I continued my flurry of blows the shield gave way and my claws found purchase. I ripped and teared up through its torso before repeatedly attacking his face. It tried to shoot me. It failed. Through the portal I glimpsed the Guardian, he was coming back and he did not look happy. A few more blows and the demon placed its gun right beneath me. I didn't care, in that moment either he was going down or I was. As the whir of his gun started I attacked one last time. And tt the same time the Guardian breached through the rift, and through the demon. I jumped onto the Guardians back as the lifeless demon fell back into the portal. The portal closed and another battle was won.
 
After we all calmed down. I communed with the Great Tree, just like I used to! As I reached out to the spirit of the tree I could tell that it was weak. The spirit had barely any form and could not speak with me. It was a tree without sap, and The Tree was dying.
 
I told my friends what I had learned and that's when Amel spoke up! They suggested that we just needed to infuse the Tree with new life! Like a transfusion of sorts. And that must have given Vatna an idea because he said he had a plan and disappeared. I am not sure what he did but soon enough new life began flowing into the Great Tree. Lio, Midnight and I came up with a plan to replace the knowledge on the tree by carving the lost knowledge back onto the blank acorns. And as we wrote the knowledge my memories came back one by one. Whatever Vatna was doing was working and the Tree hummed with life once more. We did it. We saved The Great Tree! and possibly Arboreal as well.
 
In the aftermath the Guardian approached and bestowed upon me additional powers. He showed me how to find any answer I seek but warned me that there could be a great cost if done wrong. As I reached into the unknown with my mind I found myself looking upon the Library. It was here, siphoning knowledge from my Tree. And then it moved onto the next world siphoning its knowledge as well. I got the feeling that it was looking for something. Searching but unable to find some sort of knowledge. Suddenly I found myself in a room. Face to face with the Librarian. One arm burnt off, the other cradling a sapling. He looked at me and smiled. "See you soon" he said.
 
As I snap back to my body I am covered in scratches. How could the Librarian possibly have known that I would have that vision? And did he attack me WHILE I WAS IN A VISION? How can that be possible? We must warn the others.
 
I inform my companions of the danger we are in and we waste no time. We head back to Liminal through the portal Vatna made and go to warn everyone of the Librarian.
 
I have many questions. But first I must rest and reflect on what this newest vision could mean.