A man standing in a dark forest lit by moonlight with jet black hair tied into a ponytail along with a rugged black goatee, brown chestnut eyes wearing a grey hat to cover his face wearing blackish armor, over the armor he wore an black trench coat, boots, gloves, with pants to match along with an silver great sword with a black hilt that had blue inscriptions strapped to his back carrying daggers along on the side of his belt.
the man had broad shoulders, chiseled jaw with an scar over his left eye that stood six feet and was bent over following tracks, his name is Zane Lazarus with two other men behind him.
One of the men with him has an young baby face with blue eyes an blonde hair cut in a bowel shaped with huge bulky topaz color armor holding a great shield with an mace his name is Julius next to him is a man with emerald green light armor with a hood on that covered his bald head with a red beard an green eyes holding a crossbow with a quiver full of arrows named Shepherd.
The group of men were out in the forest hunting the infamous Silver Fang wolves and their alpha the Silver Saber.
" You got the scent ol fearless leader ? " Shepherd started to chuckle lightly."
" Do you always have to take everything as joke Shepherd ? " Julius gave Shepherd a smug look while shaking his head."
" The only joke out here is that haircut of your's Julius ! " Shepherd chuckle turned into a hearty laugh as a tear came to his eye."
Julius face became red with anger " This is a prestigious hair style that a uncultured swine as yourself wouldn't understand you bald bandit ! "
" Quiet ! the both of you stop playing around. " Zane gave both of them a cold stare before turning back around to continue analyzing the tracks.
" They went this way... and it looks like they were in a hurry..they must have caught the scent of their next prey come on. "
Zane and the others made their way deeper into the forest and began to hear howls echoing all around them.
" That was a cry for help... the pack must be facing another predator..something strong enough for them to call the alpha come on we're on the right track. "
Zane began a light jog with the others behind him when he suddenly stopped holding his fist up he sniff the air.
" You guys smell that... death and burning flesh in the air.. along with sulfur an brimstone..., but there's something else."
Zane eyes started to glow white like moonlight as he drew his sword.
" Bog Trolls...they are coming they share this territory with the wolves, they are grade 2 beast, but their intelligence is up there with grade 4 if they are moving this fast in this direction then that means that whatever the wolves are facing they want no part of it and decided to hunt this way instead. "
Zane and his group prepared themselves as they heard rustling through the forest which also gave off a skunk like smell, Zane drew his great sword, Julius raised his shield and mace while Shepherd ready his crossbow.
Soon they could see fog spread through the forest surrounding them as they got in formation with their backs against each other.
" It reaks out here what is this mist ? " Julius used his arm with his mace to try to block out the smell.
" It's the bog trolls before they attack they spray a mist to block out their prey vision before they ambush...Shepard you know what to do."
Zane looked at Shepherd an nodded his head while his eyes began to glow, using his free hand waving it as a mini tornado swirled around them clearing the fog up, as they fog was being cleared they were surrounded by what seemed to be thirty brownish-green creatures that stood about 5'5 had long arms and fingers, with quills on their backs, long ears and noses baring their sharp needle like teeth.
The leader of the bog trolls stood at 5'9 and was more heavy set then the others swinging a giant club yelling out a war cry as the bog trolls began rushing in.
Julius smashed his shield in the ground causing a slight tremble in the earth making the bog trolls off balance as Shepherd used a mini tornado to levitate him in the air up to a tree branch quickly planting his arrows in between five bog troll eyes dropping them dead.
Zane held up his sword and it began to glow along with his white eyes, Zane threw his sword and as if it was alive began cutting down the trolls swirling around killing ten of them before returning to his hand.
The bog troll leader was outraged by the death of the others and began wacking his club on the ground then blew on the end of it making the sound of an horn when suddenly more sounds of running and rustling came from the forest.
Zane closed his eyes and could sense more coming their way.
" Looks like it's summoning the nest, Julius ! " Julius nodded his head while his eyes started glowing as he swung his mace into the ground and a rockwave came forward hitting majority of the troll's that were there, after the wave was finished Zane ran up the rock formation slashing at the rest gracefully hopping from one rock to the other until all that was still standing was the leader.
The bog troll leader got in position raising his club screaming as more swarmed out from the forest.
" Damn this is going to be a long night ! " screamed Shepherd as he let loose a flurry of arrows.
" Nothing we can't handle ! " Zane eyes lit up like the moon as he opened his trench coat with a arsenal of glowing blades flying towards the horde of trolls.
Finally as the trio finished slaying the last of the troll's and collecting the cores from their body including the leader they could see light coming from the sky, Zane leading the way coming up on a clearing in the forest could see bones, broken trees and blood splattered all over the ground.
" What the hell happened here ? Zane it looks like a battle took place here and what the hell is that ? "
Julius set down his shield looking at the battlefield.
Zane walked over to what look like a wolf, but only it had black fur with red fangs ripped in half examining the body he gave his companions a cold stare.
" This is a Harbinger of Death.... "