the Grand Stream Saga: Revisited

Mani is a directionless teen. He’s on the Forest Isle watching the wind rock the trees the grass and the clouds. He watches a flower next to him with graceful petals and it starts to glow with a white light. He wonders how it works but soon resigns himself that it is a mystery far beyond his understanding. Mani heads back to the outpost to get food then heads back to the village. On his way he meets the herder’s daughter who has a crush on him, he thinks, but she doesn’t, but she does. She gives him a ride on the animal she uses to herd the farm beasts then disappears to do more work for the day. Mani gets the food then starts home by himself. When he gets to the village it is night and only a few lights were on. The sky shows a bunch of stars and the fires from distant islands become visible. The sky watcher has an observatory on one the two mountains. Mani gets home and passes out. Mani’s dream means something. A drive to leave forest isle and explore the world and get to the edge. Dio is out hunting for a type of magical animal that flies in large packs and grazes on the islands. Dio is the youngest. One animal, a youngling, gets in his sights. The hunters let Dio go after it by himself for practice. While he is chasing it, the youngling disappears. It is eaten by this other beast like nothing Dio has ever seen before. Immediately it sets its eyes on Dio and charges at him. Dio runs to a hiding spot he knows, a cave. The beast loses interest and disappears into the woods. Freaked out Dio returns empty handed. His goal is to kill this beast and show everyone how great he is and that he isn’t crazy. Dio meets up with Mani They are friends. The two of them go to the club house where they meet the rest of the gang. They have a pretend pirate king and everyone has jobs: cook, pilot, lookout, swabs, muscle, digger, navigator, bug catcher (had no other skills). Well on their adventure, the kids run into a real pirate crew planning to sack the village. The pirates get pwned by the Knights. One pirate escapes, and joins the club, but it’s a secret from the knights. He has a secret agenda and immediately starts to construct an air skiff he intends to escape on. The kids steal parts from the village for him. Something happens where the pirate dies sacrificing himself for mani’s girl. Mani decides to go out and deliver the pirates last words to a person in the grand city called Pyrus the Beggar, who is actually a nobleman planning a coup on the king, and the pirates were messengers from Pyrus to a neighboring island where rebel forces are building up. The pirates just needed supplies and they had no money. Mani Dio Girl Pirate Lookout Cook and Bugcatcher set out. After the village finds out about the stealing they get mad and out of fear and adventure they leave the forest isle in the middle of the night with that flying beast following stealthily. The first island they come to is called ocean isle, there are no people on it. Just ruins from long ago. In the ruins they find old scrolls and an ancient city, however, the island has a guardian which attacks and pursues the crew. It is a monster to them, it is a self defense mechanism of the island. Just about when dio is about to be killed the mysterious flying beast saves him and he is able to defend the guardian. Automatically the hum of the island dies down and it starts to shake and fall. Everyone hangs on to the beast as they head for their ship. They all make it out. But now dio has an awesome pet. Also bug catches got some glow bugs and mani picked up a club, a weapon, a key? They fly off as the island falls apart and into the sun. Navigator sets a new course to the grand isle, and they’re off.