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Chapter 48: One-Eyed Demon

The three of us had been traveling for about five days now. The food supply was surprisingly low around here as well. All of us saw this as totally weird because according to the bestiary, the area was supposed to be crawling with game.

“There’s been less and less food the further we get in! I don’t think we can survive, baby!” Star whined. I was used to surviving on little food all the time, so it didn’t bother me much.

“Oh, you’ll be ok, love! We don’t have much farther at all!” I consoled her as she rode her horse and I walked beside it.

Ashley chimed in, “Yeah! Only another day or so! Just hang in there, ok?” Star nodded and smiled, sitting up straight on the steed’s back. Later at lunch, Ashley asked, “Hey Dyron? Tom was talking about some badass demons around here. What are they?”

Honestly, I hadn’t checked earlier. “Let me check!” I said wiping my hands on my clothes before picking up the large book. I sat cross-legged and rested the book in lap, scanning and flipping the pages. Finally, I found a page. There was a wave of shock and fear that hit over me.

“Baby, what’s wrong?” Star asked knowing that my face signaled something serious.

“Yeah Dy, what is it?” Ashley whispered looking around. Slowly, I got up and showed them the book. Their reaction was pretty much the same. “Ok, we need to GTFO, now!” she panicked.

I myself was not panicking, but I was packing up quickly. These monsters were no joke! Luckily, we’d be safe in the next two days. It was best we move as fast as possible, and get as far as possible, in a short amount of time.

By sundown, the rain had stopped. We did as well for a few short minutes. I stretched, my bones popping and realigning themselves as they did so. The girls were using the bathroom off the trees so I was left to wait alone. The horses were tethered to thick trees and they ate from low branches and nearby patches of grass.

I got bored. I whipped out the chain scythe and did a little practice to kill time. The blade spun rhythmically on its chain and I cast it off, jerking the chain so it curved and wrapped itself around a young skinny tree. I didn’t actually do it, but I could visualize myself snapping the tree in half and going in for a mad combo with my katana.

“Let’s go, honey!” Star hollered untying the horses and hoisted herself up onto one.

“Yeah, yank that thing out and let’s win this thing!” Ashley shouted throwing a fist in the air. I nodded and did just that. I gripped the chain and snapped the tree in half. The chain came snaking towards me and I caught most of it, coiling it around me.

“Let’s ride, ladies!” I said hopping on the other horse. I let out a holler and kicked the horse into a gallop. Again, we traveled for hours into the night, for we were absolutely positive that the other teams would do the same. Early the next morning, we stopped for breakfast.

Ashley decided to do some hunting, maybe find a rabbit or two. No such luck. I was helping her, looking in some bushes a little ways away from her. Suddenly, a horrible, wretched stench filled my nostrils. The pungent odor was what was identified as rotting flesh and just plain stink. I shook off the eerie feeling gripping me and treaded lightly as I walked.

There was a familiar scream in the distance. A shaking of the ground beneath us. Over and over. It was Star’s voice! Ashley and I raced back to camp, but found it hard to keep our balance, for the ground shook harder and harder the closer we got. Thunderous roars resounded throughout the area, sending birds skyward in order to escape.

Finally, we arrived at our campsite and my eyes fell upon what I feared most of finding in this area. A cyclops. Cyclops are an incredibly rare and dangerous demon. To even see one is to give you bad luck, because they will always find you. The defeat of a cyclops has never been recorded in Moracian history. Were we to be this beast’s next victims?

Star was on the ground, our things scattered about. No horses. Ashley let out a shriek coming to the realization that they’d been eaten alive moments ago. Star stood, hot tears in her eyes and fire in her heart, for she’d lost her horse, who she loved. “******** you!!” she screamed attacking it with a flamethrower.

The one-eyed demon raised his mighty arm and took on the flames, fanning them away with a swipe. Ashley followed up with lightning, yet met the same results. He slammed his giant fist into the ground in an attempt to crush Star, but she moved out of the way in time. Powerful, yet no speed.

Now it was my turn. I stepped forward, stringing a few arrows in the bow. “Die, you dirty b*****d!” I demanded, letting them go. The arrows, aimed at his large eye, simply bounced off his tough exterior. The cyclops stood two stories high, his signature single eye gray and dull. He let out another howl and charged at us.

“Move!!” I screamed, seeing that the girls were frozen in place. They scattered at the sound of my voice. The two of them got a safe distance away and attacked his head, which stunned him for a bit. We weren’t making any progress. This thing was incredibly tough in all senses of the word. Team Neravien would have to make its first retreat. “Grab everything you need and run!” I instructed the others. They both nodded, hearts racing.

The cyclops had gone on a rampage in the forest behind him, giving us the perfect chance. He was ripping trees from the ground and launching them with immense force like no tomorrow! The three of us picked up what essentials we could find. Everything else, like camping equipment and things like that, were left behind.

This trio took off as fast as our legs would possibly carry us. We ran for practically a mile and passed out on the spot. I woke up two hours later, the girls still out. I crawled over to Star, resting my hand on her warm cheek. She was very much alive and I could hear her breathing softly. That was good. “Come on, love! Wake up!” I whispered kissing her cheek.

Star stirred and awoke to see me gazing down at her with a smile. She smiled back and kissed me on the lips. She stared in to my eyes lovingly and giggled.

Just then, Ashley woke up, stretching and yawning. “Oh my god! We actually got away! I can’t believe it,” she said falling silent afterward. That being true, we all rose without another word looked at each other, group hugging for a while. We survived a cyclops. Surviving was more important than beating it this time around. Quietly we gathered our belongings and started walking.