Prologue [part 1]

Prologue

Kyn ran as fast as he could. His cat-like ears twitched every time he heard the ground rumbled and shook, made by the marching mastodons. The sky was red, almost matched the colour of washed blood. A mass of clouds substantially metamorphosed, changing and furling into eerie shapes of misshapen animals. Kyn’s heart was pounding unevenly, and each throb sent shivers to his skin, and his eyes were really sore, like it had been soaked into a great amount of sea water.

He stopped and wiped his eyes, before clutching tightly at the roll of letter that he just received from the castle. Deep in his heart sealed a grudge on the king upon his late judgment. Kyn wondered if he will ever make it to the colossal armies that lumbered ahead him, waiting to fight. He mustered his breath and energy before he darted off again. He jumped from a huge rock to another. In fact, he leapt higher than trees, far higher than any other human could. And his tail helped him a lot to swing from branch to branch as he passed through the Forest of Darkness.

              Kyn ran and jumped again. Down at the corrie, he suddenly became more alert, and he came to a halt. There was nothing in front him, except for large rocks and geysers that were gushing out dangerously from the Earth’s crust. He shut his eyes tightly and his ears started to twitch. Slowly, he sensed the aura of universe around him. Everything seemed blue in his vision except for living things that looked like flowing blue energy, for instance the birds and waterfalls.

            Then, a sudden frigid feeling rushed into him and he jumped ably, just in time when a pair of hell hounds lunged to his stance. Again, he jumped as they attacked again. He made a back flip and landed onto a giant rock as another hell hound appeared from behind, and it almost had him. The three of them were big and black, with a pair of horns on their head like those mountain goats had. They growled loudly in anger, as their mouth opened, before firing blast of fire towards Kyn.

 

    The flame was so hot, as Kyn would rather soak himself in the geysers than being shot by the fire blast. He dodged and shunned, before realising he was surrounded at a corner with the hell hounds inching closer in an insidious way from all direction, and their mouths breathed fire. The biggest one seemed eager and prepared to lunge, which made Kyn to be more meticulous.

        Suddenly a hell hound leapt towards Kyn at super-speed, and almost got his head. Kyn made a side-step, and the hell hound crashed on the wall beside him. The gritty and rubble got Kyn in his eyes, which made him slightly blind. He lost his balance and fell on the ground. Feeling rather angry and frustrated, he closed his eyes and forced himself to stand. Now he had to depend on his aura to defeat the hell hounds. He flitted and sensed the hell hounds in front of him, which made Kyn to step forward and stretched out both his arms towards one of the hell hounds, before an orb ball of blue power glowed between his palms and shot the hell hound right in the face. It did not kill him, but sure powerful enough to make it ran away. Kyn concentrated again, and aimed at the other two hell hounds.

But, one of the hell hound leapt high and jumped towards Kyn, almost ripped him in pieces.
“Boom…!” the hell hound was shot right after it landed onto the ground. Kyn took aim again, as the last hell hound shot him a blast of fire, but only Kyn’s power was stronger. The orb in Kyn’s hand glowed more and Kyn’s body radiated such power that it ran through the fire as it was made from nothing. ‘Boom…!’ the last hell hound fell at least 10 meters backward, before running and bawling in pain.

            He let out a sigh of relief, before moving on. An odd flower that looked like an oyster shell was nearly stepped over by him. It gleamed brightly, as it closed its petals.

Finally, he came to a halt as he made a final land on the peak of Eacan Canyon. He gazed down the valley. 

        He knew that there will be a great battle here soon. Kyn turned to West. Ahead of him, a huge wave of army was ready in blue armour steadily marched, along with their weapons. They were ready in everything, including accoutrements. But only few were humans. The rest were animals or creatures that seemed to be from the prehistoric age. He saw a flock of greedy harpies flew in a circular motion. Along with them was a group of white-winged unicorns. Each of them had great shining twisted horn, as if it can fire a powerful beam from it.

       Down there, Kyn descried a herd of mastodon. For twice the size of jumbo elephant, the hefty mastodons could easily run through things as if even a big tree seemed like nothing to them. The mastodons and unicorns both wore significant blue armours on their heads and bodies.

Not to mention, there were creatures that Kyn himself did not know exist. A long, rock-made snake that reached the length and size of two school buses, steadily trailed along the mastodons. Plus, imagine a creature that owned the body of a lion, and a couple of scorpion tails with three heads of bears emerged. Now make the size of that creature size. The moment Kyn looked at it, his heart pounded faster.

-to be continued-