Beyond The World. Chapter 1 : The War [part 1]

             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 being 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 judgement. Kyn wondered if he will ever make it to the colossal armies that lumbered ahead him. He mustered his breath and energy before he darted off again. He jumped from a huge rock to another. In fact, he jumped 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 large rocks and geysers that were gushing out dangerously from the Earth’s crust. He shut his eyes tight and his ears started to twitch. He sensed the aura of universe around him. Everything seemed blue in his vision except 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. 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 leaped towards Kyn at super-speed, almost got Kyn’s 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 stepped 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…

>to be continued<