Title: Forgotten Tribe ©
Author: Guardian Julaya-Lu
Quote of the fan-fic:

“…I left the tribe not wanting to believe that my life
would have no meaning to it and no one would know who
I was.  And now I’m returning to speak, to my father,
the one echidna I never wanted to see again…”
 Sabre, chapter 2,  Part of the tribe 

Prologue: journey to the past
On nights like these, where the warm breeze blew
through his window, Sabre spent his nights thinking
about Life in the Forgotten tribe…when he was a kid. 
About his mother about Athair and about how life has
changed, from the simpler times, too now when there
was no guarantee about life and death…  Thunderhawk
walked in silently 
“ Knock knock… can I come in?” 
“ Sure.”
“What’s wrong?  You look so depressed.”  Thunderhawk
said 
“ I’m going back…I need to know what happened.” 
“But what if you don’t get the answer you’re looking
for?” 
“ Then I’ll come back and it won’t bother me anymore.”
 “All right.  I can’t stop you!  Good luck.”  Sabre
smiled and nodded and then he started is mission back
to the forgotten tribe 

Chapter one: Times have changed 
Sabre stood on the edge on Mercia and the Cat country,
down below he could see Athair, and the tribe of
Arakkis, slowly making there way to the promise land.
Albion, Ha, could there really be such a place?  He
thought before he started to glide to the ground.
“ When we get over the ridge we’ll make camp for the
night.”  Athair said to the huge group behind him
Sabre landed not to far behind the rest of the tribe,
but caught up quickly and was unnoticed until someone
looked back 
“ Who are you?”  She asked 
“ I’m Sataya and you?”  Sabre used is real name this
time instead of its translation just to be safe 
“  Cyrix, Brother Athair said he had a son named
Sataya, but he disappeared years ago.”  Cyrix said
straining to see the front of the group
“ Where are you camping tonight?”  Sabre asked trying
to decide where to find Athair next 
“ Over that ridge, up there.  You look a lot like
brother Athair are you sure that you’re not related to
him?”  
“ Yes, I’m sure, I’ve been told that a lot.”  Sabre
said with a nasty tone in his voice
“ Don’t like Brother Athair?”  She asked plainly
“ We have our differences in opinion, over
everything.”  Sabre dryly to Cyrix  
 “Oh, that’s too bad.” 
“ Not really…” Sabre was cut off by Athair calling for
Cyrix 
“Cyrix what are you doing I need you up in the front!”
 Athair came up right next to sabre and he didn’t see
him 
“ Yes Brother Athair.”  She said softly to him
 
Sabre telepathically said to the fire ant who came
immediately and teleported him out and onto one of the
ridges away from the tribe 
“ Who were you talking to a second ago?”  Athair
stared to interrogate her 
“ Sataya.”  She turned around “ Hun?  He was a second
a go.” 
“ Sabre!  HE’S BACK!  I KNEW HE’D COME BACK!”  Athair
was close to a joyous rage as he heard that is son was
in the tribe
“ Brother Athair?  Where are you going?”  Yannar asked

“ To find my Son.”  And Athair left in a rush
“ Lead the tribe until I return Yannar, I have full
faith in you.”  Athair went up the hill and out of
Yannar’s range of vision 

Chapter two: Home is where the Tribe is 
Sabre sat on the edge of a gorge with his legs hanging
off talking to Archimedas about the Tribe
“ I don’t get it.” 
“ What’s not to get.  You panicked, and spoke to
someone that you shouldn’t have.”  Archimedas said
sarcastically to Sabre 
“What’s so wrong with that?”  Sabre still looked,
somewhat distant as the ant spoke to him
“ What if that woman told Athair about you?” 
Archimedas said with a chuckle 
“What’s so funny?” 
“ That you actually thought, somehow, no one would
find you.” 
Athair came up behind Sabre and stood there listening
to the conversation intently 
“ I just want answers!  What’s so wrong with that?” 
Sabre put his hand out and the ant appeared on it
“ What answers?” 
“ I can’t tell you!  You wouldn’t understand.” 
Maybe he wants to come home? 
Athair thought to himself then took another step
forward 
“ Archy, hold on a second, someone’s behind us.” 
Sabre whispered to Archimedas as she got ready to turn
and shock who was behind him. 
“ Sabre?  Is that you?”  Athair asked his son
“ Who—WOAH!”  Sabre turned around and started to stand
up, when he lost his balance and fell off the side of
the gorge 
 “SABRE!”  Athair grabbed his sons hand 
“ Athair?  Wha- What’s going on?”  Sabre looked up at
his father who grabbed him by the wrist 
“ Don’t look down Sabre.”  Athair said; trying to
fight the sinking feeling he was getting 
“ What?  Oh my god!  Archimedas get me outta here!” 
The ant did as he was told and Sabre landed back on
the top of the gorge
“ Sabre are you all right?”  Athair said, Sabre
nodded, still quite shocked over the near death
experience 
“ What are you doing up here, I thought you hated
highest.”  Athair put his hand on his sons shoulder 
“ Trying to find you.  I need help.”  Sabre answered
only because he was in shock; usually he would’ve
ignored Athair completely.
“ Why?  It’s dangerous here, come with me I know where
it’s safe.”  Athair helped Sabre up and they rejoined
the rest of the tribe.

Chapter three: Part of the tribe 
“ Everyone, I would like you to meet my son, Sataya.” 
Athair Said to the tribe, Sabre looked over to his
father, who nodded and Sabre went over to Cyrix 
“ I’m sorry for lying to you.  It’s just I needed to
keep my cover for as long as possible.”
“ It’s okay, I understand.”  Cyrix looked over to
Yannar, who was coming over to them 
“ Hi, why’d you leave the tribe Sataya, brother Athair
never told us.”  Yannar said bluntly 
“ Creative differences, and opinions.”  Sataya said
dryly 
“ Over what?”  Cyrix asked   
“ It doesn’t matter anymore.” 
“ Sure it does!  What was it over?”  Yanar said 
“  Someone was dying and I asked my father to go see
her and he said no because he was Mitre, so I got mad
and left.” 
“ That was stupid.”  Cyrix said 
“ I know that now, but the Floating island needed me
to be the guardian.”  He said to them both as another
came over
“ What’s the island like?” 
“ Well, it’s like a rain forest, a desert, an Ice cap,
a city, and field all in one with mountains and water.
 That’s it.  It’s hard to describe.” 

Later that night Sataya was sitting alone with
Archimedas in front of the fire, when Yannar came up
from behind him
“ Mind if I join you?” he asked
“ No.” 
“ I have a question for you.”  Yannar sat down on a
rock
“ What?”
“ Why did you decide to come back.” 
“ I needed to talk to my father about the choice I
made.” 
“ What choice?” 
“ The choice of never coming back.”  Sataya was blunt
“ Why?”
“Well, I never thought I’d feel at home here, I left
the tribe not wanting to believe that my life would
have no meaning to it and no one would know who I was.
 And now I’m returning to speak, to my father, the one
echidna I never wanted to see again about how I
should’ve stayed and, and let my life go the same path
as everyone else.”
“ You ran away from your problems?”  Yannar said 
“ Exactly, I…I didn’t want to accept that I couldn’t
make my father go see my grandmother before she died
and that I had to just act like I was okay with it. 
What I said didn’t matter and no matter what I did my
life would be pointless and I would never be known
because…  No one even remembers that this tribe
exists!”  Sataya said staring into the fire blankly 
“Then to go somewhere that still doesn’t care about
what you say because they don’t understand your
language and you have to be followed by a translator
everywhere!  Just like before, still no choice in the
matter!” 
“ I thought that guardians were respected?”  Yannar
said softly  
“ They are, but I wasn’t.”  Sataya picked up a stick
and tossed it into the fire
“ Wow, that sounds horrible!”  Yannar said softly
“ Yeah,” Sataya sighed “ I’m going to talk to Athair.”
 Sataya got up and went over to his fathers tent as
Cyrix came over and sat next to him
“  Watta life!  Never taken seriously just because of
a language!”  She sighed and looked over to where
Sabre was standing.  Athair was talking but
somehow…what he was saying looked depressing.  Athair
kept speaking for another moment before Sabre lowered
his head and nodded.  He left a second later to Athair
calling after him.  
“ What happened?”  Cyrix called over but there was no
reply.  A puff white smoke could be seen on the
horizon  

Epilogue: Return to the Island
Archimedas and Sabre appeared on Lands End.  The
islands constant orbit meant there would be no more of
this for another year or more.  The ant looked up at
his friend and sighed
“ It’s not that he didn’t help me if that’s what
you’re thinking.”  Sabre replied dryly as he sat down
on the edge
“ Then what did happen?” 
“ He said that I didn’t belong down there… and I would
never be a nobody if being a guardian was nothing then
my family wouldn’t be trusted with the lives of
everything on the island.  And that if I didn’t run
away so long ago then there wouldn’t be anymore
guardians and the island wouldn’t be what it is
today.”
“ So why did you leave it things were so right?” 
Archimedas asked softly
“ Because he said that if I stayed that I wouldn’t be
accepted into the tribe and there would be a lot of
hostility because of who I am.”  Sabre sighed 
“ I’m gonna go back to Haven.  Alone….”  Archimedas
jumped off his shoulder and to the ground
“ All right.” and Archimedas stood and watched as
Saber slowly walked back to the Forbidden Zone.

The end