The beast made a grunting noise to her, though she just made a clueless gesture. This time it made the same noise, but longer and more precise. “I don’t know what you are trying to tell me!” Ella said, getting a little more comfortable around this thing. It huffed and rolled it’s eyes annoyingly. It pointed to her then to itself, using a claw, then made a cat-ear-shape on the top of it’s head. “Griffe Noire?” The thing nodded, vigorously. He made some more strange gestures and noises that Ella could not understand, so he just gave up and shook his head, disappointed. “Maybe could be continue our journey?” Griffe Noire raised an eyebrow, questioningly, as if he was saying, ‘and where is the destination to this journey?’ Ella sighed, and said, “You are right. We don’t really know where we are going.” They both thought for a moment then Ella said, “Why don’t we just go, and try to do something right.” He agreed and they set off into the unknown forest. Strange bugs that lit up of varying colors swirled around the pine trees. Glowing mushrooms dotted out on the roots of all the plants. Even with all these bright things, it was really dark, so dark that Ella couldn’t see Griffe Noire by her side. Suddenly he screeched on the top of his lungs, and thumped to the ground and laid there, motionless. “Griffe Noire?” Ella asked, a bit scared. There was no response. Instead, millions of fireflies covered him, shining as bright as the sun. It was a beautiful sight for anyone to see. A burst of light shone and the bugs disappeared, leaving only a faint glow, but then went back to darkness. A rumbling sound came from Griffe Noire, a growl. He heaved himself up off the ground, and looked straight into Ella’s eyes. She looked back, but saw nothing in them, no feeling, it was like he was lifeless. He suddenly leaped
