Y'shaati continued on her journey of self-discovery throughout Amazonia. Thanks to her survival instincts learned during all her life, she managed to live without anyone's help. Whenever she was hungry, she climbed for fruits in the top of the trees, or she searched for an ant colony and used a stick to eat them easily. She also knew how to hunt large animals, however, she never liked the idea of killing other creatures to feed on them, so looking for prey to survive was always her last alternative in a situation like this. A peaceful ideal, but one cannot always deny the law of the jungle...
Whenever she felt tired, she searched for a good and safe place to sleep without the risk of being attacked by some wild creature.
The monkey-girl traveled to many places of Amazonia, extending her knowledge of the entire Jungle; However, no other place surprised her like the strange cave she found days earlier. Due to an unknown reason, she felt attached to that place, like if her heart and soul were telling her that she belonged to that odd site. She started to consider to return to that cave, but she didn't find the strength and will to do it. She was just recovering from the sadness and sorrow from the recent events, so she wasn't prepared to face more nostalgic and blue feelings.
Instead, she decided to go and visit the Tahuayos, Y'shaati's beloved second family.
During her travel to the Tahuayo territory, she began to feel strangely tired. Her whole body was trembling a lacking the strength to jump from branch to branch and swing through the tree vines; Y'shaati stopped for a moment to recover her breath. She didn't know what was happening to her. She inspected her own limbs to see if she was stinged by some poisonous creature, but that wasn't the case. She wasn't feeling hungry nor battered, just exhausted... very exhausted. She thought that maybe she hadn't had enough sleep during her journey.
Thinking about this, she looked for a branch wide enough to lay on it and have good nap. Y'shaati rarely slept during daytime, so she thought that it was going to be hard for her to fall asleep. Once she found the ideal branch, she sat on it, letting her legs to hang and crossing her arms. Just in the moment she closed her eyes and relaxed her body, she surprisingly fell asleep profoundly.
A few minutes passed... then Y'shaati opened her eyes. She couldn't believe what her vision showed her: She found herself floating at the bottom of the deep Amazonian river, astonished to see the depths of the river. She was being surrounded by all kinds of submarine species. She deseperately tried to swim towards the surface, fearing that she would drown in any moment, but it was futile.
Just when she thought she was about die... nothing happened. She realized that she was breathing under water and her lungs weren't lacking air. Her body was numb, so she couldn't move an inch.
Then, when she least expected it, a blinding light appeared in front of her. It was so bright that she couldn't stare at it for too long. Soon, the light faded and she finally saw what was behind it's scope: Y'shaati was shocked...
An strange human-fish hybrid creature was staring at her. The creature's white skin was glowing in an intense green aura that illuminated all the place. The monkey-girl was scared; in all her life she had never seen such a majestic but otherwordly creature. Then, the creature started to talk to her in an incomprehensible language. The sounds of its voice echoed in Y'shaati's mind like shockwaves. The poor girl couldn't understand what the creature was telling her.
But then, in the blink of an eye, Y'shaati started to have visions of what the creature was speaking her. Through images, the creature showed her a human couple with a baby living in the Jungle, then changing into the Sun and the Moon fusing into one whole body.
Finally, the creature showed her an image of herself glowing in the same green aura as the creature, but suddenly being involved into a cloud of darkness, giving result to an image of an altered version of her. A sinister form. That wasn't her anymore.
Just when she was about to say something to the creature, a thunderous sound caused everything to go pitch black.
Then silence... deep silence remained...
Unbeknownst to Y'shaati, the creature that appeared before her was no other than Yacuruna, the Goddess of Life. The images shown to her telepathically by the goddess were images of her past and possible future. The images of the Sun and the Moon merging were a representation of Kuarah'y & Aras'y, the entities that created Amazonia, Yacuruna itself and the whole world.
This contrast with the images of the human couple, her parents, holding her just a few moments after she was born. Yacuruna also told Y'shaati that she is the vessel of it's essence... it's reincarnation.
Of course, all this was too much to dig for the poor monkey-girl at the moment, but the answers she was looking about her origin now are buried within her subconscious... waiting to be awakened.
Y'shaati suddenly woke up... Confused, she noted that all she experienced just a few minutes earlier was just a dream. However, it felt so real to her. After thinking about what happened, she realized that her strength returned to her body more powerful than ever. She wasn't feeling numb anymore. She felt some kind of energy flowing through her veins. While she tried to remember what just happened in her dream, she closed her eyes, and concentrated all that energy in her mind. When she opened her eyes, she observed that she was glowing with the same green, beautiful aura that the creature had in her dream.
She felt surprised but happy to see that all her body was involved in the resplandescent aura, from to the top of her head, to the point of her agile toes. Once the aura vanished, she smiled and felt in harmony with herself and the environment of the jungle.
When she was about to descend from the tree branch she was sitting, she hung upside down from the branch just to see something that left her pale: a group of tribal humans were gazing at her from below, surprised to see the white-skinned naked girl hanging from the tree.
Startled, Y'shaati quickly jumped from the branch and started to climb to the top of tree hide herself on the foliage of the leaves. Some of the humans started to climb the tree aswell to see her closely, but they couldn't do it as fast as Y'shaati did.
Noticing that the humans spotted her and were getting close to her, she jumped from branch to branch across the treetops to escape from them. The humans who were in the ground, started to run towards her direction, but soon lost trace from her due to the speed she was swinging through the trees.
Once the humans gathered, they began to discuss between them what they just saw: they couldn't believe a wild, naked blonde girl was living alone in the deep Jungle.
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