Foggy: Guardian Of The End

Chapter 17

They came near, and nearer. They looked like branches of a fallen tree. Their skins were dried, grayish brown and scaly, every moves try made, made a peek of their skin, and it regenerates every seconds. Their legs folded up the twigs and crush them into dusts, in every steps. Their eyeballs were out of the socket, looked reddish yellow, like a burning fire. Their claws was like the root of a tree and smoothen like the edge of a sword. They moved slowly, watching every steps.

Kyar didn't know more about them, than the gateway, the first demons, where we found ourselves. Slowly I began to regurgitate on the visions I saw in the house, or building of Mikorth. I started to get the urge to make a ball of glowing sparkles from my hand. I watched the hand responded to my thoughts, they produced a ball of glowing sparkles, with red and blue lights. They rolled, and we're like they were flames of fire. Immediately one of the bunyip saw it, it startled and screeched loudly. The bids from the trees flapped loudly, coherently and jumped off every nearby trees, about a five hundred black birds.

The bunyips bowed immediately, even the supposed dead one, rose up and bowed down to us. Before they would raise their head, we were off the lane, Kyar held my wrist, and dragged me behind her.

"You thought you're their king now, that made you want to stare at them?" she asked, breaking every words as she panted along the way.

What else? I thought

"Yes, they did bowed down to me, when they saw what I did, I produced a ball of glowing flames from my hand, and they respected me for that." I responded, breaking words, as I panted to. She stopped and turned to me.

"Hey king, their king was present. The mother Bunyip. She would attack anyone, who was more powerful than her buns. They call those little Bunyips buns. She came, responding to third screeching, their own means of calling for help."

"Fuck!" I cursed loudly, she rushed to close my mouth, from the shout. It was late already, the mother Bunyip heard and screamed in a thicker voice than her babies, making the little ones ran after us, with terrible smashes against the floor. Their footsteps were coming nearer and nearer. My thoughts came again and my hands responded to it. Quickly, I threw a ball in a random direction, which hit a tree, causing fire rage among the dried trees. Dried trees, and fire, a fierce fire, we had to run as fast as our legs would take us, to a safe.

Running went out of option when the fire went off. The mother Bunyip put it off by the scream of the mother Bunyip. They caught up with us. It was left to fight only. I turned my head to Kyar, she did same and twisted her swords. I was fazed but she wasn't, she smirked at me "ready guardian?" Without getting a response, she ran towards one of the coming Bunyips,the leading one, she swirled her swords, that clanked with the Bunyip's claws, the two weapons made a flash of lights as the met in the air, attacking themselves. I watched as one of them, the second one, running, thumping the floor loudly, shaking as it ran furiously.

I threw a ball of glowing flames at it. I missed and cursed, thought the Bunyip paused in fear and walked slowly, when it got a few steps from me. I hadn't knew well, how to control the sparkling flames. I had to focus, wait for a target. It should be as bowling. Just focus on one target, without fair and jittering. It should work.

I waited, snarled and exhaled. Kyar was busy cutting a Bunyip in pieces, till they became two. The other three were standing before me.

"One by one" I muttered and walked slowly, anticlockwise. Just like starting a fight. My claws came out, sharp. The glowing sparkling flames came out and just as I had plotted, focused on one, the one at the left side. It looked like it was more afraid of the flames, than the others, then I chose my target and hit it. Luckily enough, it was so close at ripping off its head, but got it's arm, the hand burnt to ashes without regeneration.

No wonder they were very afraid of it. Before the wailing Bunyip got to it's mother, I threw another one, as I took off from the ground with a technical flip, I threw it and it took off its head.

The remaining two never wasted time, rotating for a fight to start, they attacked immediately, I startled, feared their rush and one jumped at me, at my face. My claws went in from it's jaw, before he landed, and only its head remained on my claws, the body dropped dead on the ground with a loud thud. The mother Bunyip screamed again, more loudly and furiously, that it shook all the ground. She raced at me, furiously, before she got to me, I already burnt, and slashed the last one, after Kyar provided a dead Bunyip with her sword.

The mother Bunyip came, ravaging, running, breaking down obstacles. Just a meter away, she pressed her hand into the ground, forming roots,that growled in the same moment. Tilling the ground and tearing it apart, into it got to us. The swords and claws, became useless against it, even the flaming balls, did less to nothing to it. It starting squeezing our breaths out. Kyar brought an idea.

We combined forces, I made a flaming arrow, used her bow, which she shot to the forehead of the mother Bunyip. The mother Bunyip released us from the grip of her root, before she regained energy, many flaming balls and arrows, had already brought the monster down to earth. It sank into the ground.

Kyar turned to me and smiled at me, I turned to her also, panting one by one with heavy snarls and growls. We hugged each other with a laugh.

If the first stage could be this dangerous, how much more the remaining two? We would face it, I am a champion. I held Kyar's hand and we walked out of the scene, happily and smiling, well, we just started, the woods tore apart, revealing a very different place.