A Mythical Creature

Fanfic created by: Jaggathan4523

## Chapter 1

An army of humans marched out of their ships, towards the valley scouted to be one of the main outpost of the Unyielding Legion.

Concord soldiers: It's empty!

The commander notices the seemingly untouched terrain of the valley. He blew his horn signaling to stop the advancement. Out of the sudden, the ground shaked hinting the charge of the enemy forces, the commander blew his horn again, this time to form a defensive position. But the ground kept shaking harder, turning into an earthquake, it was soon apparent that it's the not enemy approaching, it's something else.

Concord commander: Take cover!

There was no signal for this, most of the army couldn't hear the commander, not that it matters. The even the ones who took protective measures couldn't escape their fate. A few seconds later, the quake quickly fades away. Although falling rock injured many of the soldiers, they were cheering, cheering over something that would be cheering now.

Cuts to Sendaria\*

A young ardoni lands down in front of a vast farmland, but with only one ardoni working. She walks towards the ardoni.

Viasel Sendaris: Hi-

Older ardoni: Careful Viasel.

Viasel looks down and realized she almost stepped on a carrot.

Viasel Sendaris: Oh, sorry! I was hoping I could help with something.

Older ardoni: Everyone's doing well no struggles.

Viasel Sendaris: Are you sur-

Older ardoni: Uhh now that I think of it the others preparing dinner why won't you go help them they're at Riseus's house.

Viasel Sendaris: What about you?

Older ardoni: I'm just watering the crops shouldn't take too long.

Viasel Sendaris: Are you sure? What about the plow.

Older ardoni: Oh that I was just thinking about tilling, it's been a while since we did that.

Viasel Sendaris: So, let me help you then.

Older ardoni: Oh no you don't need to do that.

Viasel Sendaris: But-

Older ardoni: Don't worry about me, now go help out at Riseus's house you don't want dinner to be bad because of you.

Viasel Sendaris: A-

Older ardoni: What are you waiting for?

Viasel with a face a disappointment slowly runs up for her flight and takes off with her song.

Cuts to Felora\*

Two humans one young, one much older making deals with a government official at the mines.

Katrina: 90000 gold? Who even carries this much gold with them!

Government official: That's already the price for mass purchase.

Katrina: How are we even supposed to pay for that?

Older human: We'll pay every month.

Katrina: But-

Older human: Come on Katrina, let's go home, it's late.

Katrina: (sighs)

Cuts to the two walking down a road in Felora\*

Katrina: Do we really need this much iron dad?

Older human: The government requested 2000 iron swords for 200 gold each that's quite a hefty deal, better for us on our side of course.

Katrina: Couldn't we just reject it?

Older human: That's a once in a lifetime deal Katrina, of course not.

Katrina: How are we gonna make this many iron swords though? Who needs this many iron swords anyway?

Older human: A part of the army has been decimated by one of those magical earthquakes again. They need to replenish it quickly, which is in about three weeks, but we'll figure it out.

Katrina: Are you sure?

Older human: The government chose us because we're capable of doing so. We're lucky to receive this request, most blacksmiths wouldn't get the chance within their lifetime, it's always been what your grandfather wanted.

Katrina: (sighs)

Cuts to snow flats\*

A few men hurry across the snow, carrying shoulder poles attached to what seems to be fire wood.

Stephen: How have we not arrived yet? You said this was a shortcut.

Other person 1: I don't know, I think the snow messed up the path.

Other person 2: So we're lost.

Other person 1: Uhh no we can still use the direction of the snow hills.

Other person 3: The winds haven't blew since last season, the snow hills are gone now.

Other person 2: I knew we should've taken the normal road.

Other person 1: We wouldn't've made it anyway.

Other person 2: Well now we're definitely not gonna make it!

Stephen: Spikes? We're at the Ice Spikes now?

Other person 2: See? I knew we shouldn't've trusted him.

Other person 3: Well at least we know where we're going now.

Other person 2: What do you mean we know where we're going? We won't make it to Frostburn before the storm hits, we don't know where we'll stay during the storm and even if we do, we'll be at least 3 days late and nobody's gonna pay us for that.

Stephen: I see a hut in a distance, maybe we could find shelter there.

The group stops walking.

Other person 1: A hut? That's the map seller!

Other person 2: Map seller? Who's gonna pay for the map?

Other person 3: Perhaps we could share the cost.

Other person 2: Well he got us lost why can't he pay for the map?

Stephen: Maps are expensive, none of us brought enough to afford one.

Other person 2: Fine, but he's paying me back later.

Other person 1: That, we'll discuss later.

The four walk towards the hut.

Cuts to the badlands\*

Robed figures are seen in an outpost, some wearing hoods, bandanas and all sorts of clothing suited to be disguises. Most are wielding weapons, patrolling the camp for government spies. Others do light labour work, moving crates of goods and valuables.

Robed figure 1: We've been here for months, no sign of the officials yet, I told you Jack was smart.

Robed figure 2: Well if we chose Jeffrey to lead us he would've brought us to somewhere better.

Robed figure 1: It can't better than this.

Robed figure 2: Of course it can, he would've brought somewhere that isn't at the constant threat of being engulfed by monsters.

Robed figure 1: Well at least this place hasn't been spotted by the government after months.

Robed figure 2: Jeffrey would've brought us to somewhere that can hidden for years.

Robed figure 1: No he can't.

The ground hints violent shaking soon. Everyone looks around and at each other, some of them show a face of confusion, others showed fear.

Robed figure 1: Must be the wind.

Robed figure 2: Can you hear yourself?

Robed figure 1: Hear what?

The ground start shaking violently.

Robed figure 1: W-why is your face like that?

All activity stops, panic burst throughout the outpost.

Jack: Take cover!!!

Robed figure 1: What? Alright then.

Even with the call of their leader, the panic continues. But with the instinct that comes with it, everybody hides in shelter and reinforced it with pieces of furniture or whatever they can use, even their own bodies. But the robed figure, he just hid in pieces of thick hide. The ground shaked at extreme levels, just not enough to tumble down buildings. A few seconds pasted, everyone went out of their shelter glad that everything is fine. A few of them were injured due to falling goods but no lives were lost.

Cuts to Sendaria\*

On a flat a field, a group of ardoni kids, teens and parents are playing together, some familiar some not, but Viasel was just sitting on a rock at a distance, not watching but starring at the ground. Another young ardoni notices her, he figured that he leave the group and check-up on her.

Anean Sendaris: Viasel.

Viasel Sendaris: (just awakened) Www- what?

Anean Sendaris: Why are you sitting here?

Viasel Sendaris: W-wh-

Anean Sendaris: You look depressed, what happened.

Viasel Sendaris: W- Oh, nothing it's just, my dad.

Anean Sendaris: What happened to him?

Viasel Sendaris: I- I can't believe you all just let him work all by himself!

Anean Sendaris: He did?

Viasel Sendaris: Yes, yesterday! I saw working at the farm alone.

Anean Sendaris: Oh he was just watering the crops.

Viasel Sendaris: He was watering the crops and tilling the soil.

Anean Sendaris: But he said-

Viasel Sendaris: This isn't the first day you know him, you know he always does everything himself, he's working himself to death.

Anean Sendaris: Well, sorry we'll pay attention next time. But he's fine now, c'mon lighten up the mood, let's go join them.

Viasel Sendaris: Alright fine.

Viasel runs up takes off with her song with Anean chasing after her.

Anean Sendaris: Wait up I don't have a mobilium song!

Cuts to Katrina's house\*

A torch lights up, another one follows, a piece of iron on an anvil glows under the light of torches, and a sudden \*ting\* by a pounding hammer ignites sparks flying away from the anvil. The sudden noise wakes up Katrina, while the noise repeats itself Katrina walks out of her room and enters a blacksmith. Her father was working hard to craft swords in the blacksmith, Katrina sighs.

Katrina: Dad?

Older human: (while work continues) What is it Katrina?

Katrina: I thought we agreed to not overwork ourselves?

Older human: Well, we haven't done enough during daylight, I'm just compensating for what's missing, you can go to sleep, I'll be fine on my own.

Katrina: But, you said "Work is best done when it should be"

Older human: (smiles) Well when work isn't done we'll have to recoup.

Katrina: But-

The ground starts shaking a bit, but the early warning was ignored and the arguement continued.

Katrina: But we didn't miss that much, we could just do it tomorrow.

Older human: Today's work must be done today Katrina, I thought I taught you that.

The ground shakes increasingly, items start falling over and down, including a chest full on reflective blades.

Older human: (slight panicking) No! Come on Katrina, help me put them back.

Katrina's father puts back the blades that he made, however Katrina froze in fear when she saw through a window that buildings after building exploding after a fast moving entity touches them.

Older human: (angry) What are you waiting for!

The older human of the two sees the chaos outside. A huge piece of debris flies towards Katrina through the window, but fear kept her from moving, so right before it hits her, her father pulled her away. The debris crashed through the building, ripping of a huge portion of the walls. That helped regain her senses.

Older human: Let's go Katrina!

The two humans escape out of their blacksmith through the hole in the wall and run away from the town as fast as they can. Because of the fear in their they don't even notice the fast moving entity rushing towards them, though by luck, right before it lands another fast moving entity rams into it and redirects it's movements. The two entities roll into a flatland, making it easy to make out what the entities are. Two nearly identical beast of monstrous proportions, both built like like a lizard all the way. In a defensive stance the two beast stared at eachother, moving in circles, looking for the smallest of openings. In a sudden one of them, pounces on the other, the fight had began, the humans had no interest in the show however, and chose to run away as far as they can.

**End of the chapter**