As they walk through the forest Locus hits his head on a tree branch. "Ouch! I can't see shit, it's too dark," Locus says as he rubs his head. Tempus and Sonoshee look at him. "Shhhh! Keep it down, we don't know what's out here," Tempus said.
Locus looks up and sees how dark it is and says, "I think we should set up camp for the night." "I agree we shouldn't walk in this forest when we can't see," Tempus says. Locus and Tempus gather up some fire wood and put it in a pile. Sonoshee lites the pile of wood on fire with some rocks.
While they sit around the fire trying to keep warm, they hear a noise in the forest and it keeps getting closer and closer and suddenly a demonic Scarecrow appears. Its eyes illuminate an orange glow as do the holes on its body.
As they jump up, the Scarecrow cuts Tempus on the arm. Tempus stops him with his other arm and yells to Locus, "Get us out of here!" Locus quickly grabs Tempus and Sonoshe and teleports them away from the Scarecrow.
They teleported far from the Scarecrow. Sonoshee notices a town in the distance. "Guys let's head there, maybe it'll be safe," She said. They start running to the town as fast as they could, hoping nothing else jumps out and attacks them.
"It's ok Tempus we're in town. Now we have to find someone to help you with that cut," Sonoshee said. In the course of walking around, looking for people to help, they notice no one is in the town. "Where is everybody, is this town abandoned?" Locus said. A figure from a distance appears and slowly walks towards the town.
Locus takes out his hammer getting ready to fight, "I'm ready this time you damn scarecrow." jumping up in the air slamming his hammer on the figure making a big dust cloud.
"Did I get him," Locus says as he coughs from the dust.
The dust clears out and a man wearing a cloak with sun symbols and a revenant mark on his arm stands before kids. "Not bad, but I'mma gonna have to kill ya'll now cause you're interrupting a mission, on the order of the New Demon King.
"Not even a scratch on him, I put everything into that hit," Locus says as the man takes his hand out of his pocket, starting to glow bright like a small sun.
The man throws a punch and shoots a beam of light towards Locus. Locus teleports out of the way of the beam. "That was too close," Locus said. Observing the colossal power in the aftermath of his punch, "That would have turned me into ash, if it had hit me," Locus thought in his head.
Locus gets ready to swing his hammer, the Scarecrow appearing behind Tempus and Sonoshee. Suddenly, the man appears next to the Scarecrow flicking its head off, sending it flying. The Scarecrow's body falls to the ground turning to ash.
"I don't have the time for yall. Witches are killing people to make this monster and ya'll are in my way," the man said.
"At least tell us your name," Locus said, putting away his hammer.
The man cleans the fluids from the Scarecrow off his face saying, "I'm Julius the first general under the New Demon King."
Locus, Tempus, and Sonoshee freeze up after hearing Julius's response. "Guys we may not make it out of this alive," Locus says, unable to stop shaking in fear.
"Imma go take care of this witch problem, then imma take yall to the Demon King," Julius said as he walked into a house illuminating an identical glow of the Scarecrow.
Moments after entering the house, the house explodes and standing in the middle of the house is Julius with a witch's body in his hand. As he drops the body, a bright light engulfs the house, turning the remnants to ash.
Julius brushes the ash off his jacket and walks over to the three. "Now that's done; y'all are coming with me, back to the capital," Julius says, picking up Tempus, walking toward the capital.
A Day Later
"We're finally at the capital's gates," Julius said as the gates opened. He starts walking in, as a guard stops him. "Stop right there, state your business here!" the Guard said, looking at Julius.
"Sorry, General Julius, I didn't recognize you with the three kids and that substance on your jacket," the Guard said, as he let them through the gates.
As they're walking through the capital streets the people start to stare at them. "They look scared. Julius, what's going on?" Locus asked.
"They're still afraid of his majesty because they haven't gotten to know him the way the people in the castle have. We're here, time to take this kid to the life ward, y'all stay inside the castle grounds, so I can find y'all," Julius says while he's walking towards the castle with Tempus on his shoulder.
As Julius takes Tempus to get medical attention, Sonoshee and Locus walk about the castle grounds. They catch a scent of cinnamon coming from one of the windows and run over to the window, peeking inside and see chefs cooking pies and cookies and a plethora of all types of food.
Meanwhile, "Thank you. Let me know when he wakes up please," Julius said to the nurse, closing the door.
Julius rubs the back of his neck. "I hope the king doesn't get mad that I brought humans into his castle," Julius says as he walks outside of the building.
"Now, time to go find the other two, hope they didn't get into trouble," Julius said, sighing, then walks around looking for Sonoshee and Locus.
A few minutes later, while Julius walks around, he spots Sonoshee and Locus staring into a window.
While Sonoshee and Locus are staring at the chefs cooking, a shadow appears and they slowly turn around to see Julius standing over them.
"Are you guys hungry, y'all are drooling all over the place," Julius said as he picked up Sonoshee and Locus.
Julius takes them into the kitchen. "Ask for anything, these chefs will make you anything," Julius said as he walked outside waving his hand.
While Julius is walking a guard walks up to him. "The king would like to see you when you're free," the guard said. "Tell his majesty I'll see him soon and I'll be bringing some new friends, I guess you could say," Julius said as a nurse walked up to him and tapped his shoulder.
"Sir Julius, the kid is awake," the nurse said as she walked back to the life ward.
Julius walks back into the kitchen to grab Sonoshee and Locus. "Your friend just woke up, let's go get him and then I'm taking y'all to the king," Julius said to them.
As they're walking to the life ward, Sonoshee and Locus ask Julius about the king. "So what is the king like?" Sonoshee asked.
"Well I haven't known him for long, actually the first time I met him, I tried to kill him," Julius said as he rubbed his head. "Why did you try to kill him?," Sonoshee asked.
Julius tells Sonoshee, "I thought he was one of the people who murdered my family, but I discovered otherwise, the hard way. Other than that he's very powerful and understanding."
"I hope he doesn't kill us; that's all I care about," Locus says as they enter the life ward to see Tempus.
Moments later approaching the door the nurse addresses Julius and the kids about Tempus's condition. "He's lost a lot of blood. It's a good thing he got here when he did. An infection would have been disastrous, possibly leaving him without an arm."
The kids sigh in relief that Tempus is alright. Before the kids could go talk to Tempus, Julius comes in, picking up Tempus and grabs them, dragging them to the throne room. "What's the deal dude," Locus yelped. Julius sternly replies, "We can't keep the King waiting. He already waited long enough."
As Julius and the kids approach the throne room, the guards open the doors and there they see the king sitting on the throne. Julius pushes the kids forward one step at a time until they finally reach the bottom of the steps.
The King looks at the kids hurriedly and says, "I have important matters to attend to, who are these kids?"
With a confused look on his face Julius replies, "Sir you're the one who summoned me to see you."
"Oh sorry you're right it's been a busy today. I just wanted an update on the witch situation?" Yusei said as he moved his hand telling everyone to get out.
Julius steps in front of the kids. "This is Locus and Tempus, they're twins and this is Sonoshee. I bumped into them at one of the towns where the witches were located." Julius said as he went up the steps.
"It's very nice to meet you three, I wish I could stay longer but I still have some paperwork to do then I'm done, Julius I guess since you brought them here you can take care of them." Yusei says as he leaves the room.
"UUUUGH, fine I guess." Julius says as he facepalms.
"So what's next?" Said Tempus, Locus, and Sonoshee at the same time.
Chapter 4 End.