Early the next morning, the two stroll through a densely packed jungle as they make their way to their destination. The jungle was thick and full of life as the pair could hear various and marvelous sounds coming from every direction. Hours passed and their movements through the jungle seemed to have no end in sight. In frustration at the endless traversing, Lilly looks up into the sky and notices something strange.
Wooden houses littered the treetops with poorly made bridges of vine and sticks connecting them. "Strange looks like an entire village up there," Lilly proclaimed as she looks on in curiosity. But before Kiyoshi could look up, there were surrounded. Little brown skin people covered the trees with at least one hundred of them being present. Huge brownish-black oval masks with blue, red, and orange patterns covered their faces and bodies. Their masks were so huge that only their arms and legs could be visible. The strange miniature people quickly enclosed Kiyoshi and Lilly.
Making weird clocking noise whilst jumping up and down. One of them had a crown-like object on their head made of banana leaves and coconuts, indicating that this one was their leader or king/queen, who knows. Their leader made its way to the pair, making loud annoying clocking and moaning sounds as it flares its arms crazily up in the air.
"Can you understand anything it is saying, Lilly?" Asked Kiyoshi, concerned if to pull his sword or not. "Yeah, I can a bit. It's old forgotten tongue centuries old. Older than the demonic conversions event itself, so I might be a little rusty, but I will try to translate." Replied Lilly. "Hmmm, he is asking what we are doing here," remarked Lilly. "Tell him that we are just passing through and we mean him and his people no harm." Replied Kiyoshi. As Lilly translates Kiyoshi's message, the miniature creature makes a loud bang noise and several clocking sounds.
"What is he saying now?" Asked Kiyoshi, "It is saying that they can tell from your look and smell that you're either a hunter or a warrior, and they he requires your help." Replied Lilly. "What help does he need.?' Asked Kiyoshi annoyed, and after several back and forth with Lilly and the miniature king, Lilly related to Kiyoshi.
"He said there is a monster inside their temple and it has killed several of them and he needs you to Kill it. Since none of their weapons work on it and in return they will show us out of this jungle. Remarked Lilly. "Fine, show me that direction of the temple and stay here with the egg while I go get rid of whatever has these people scared." Remarked Kiyoshi, " Oh, and one more thing, tell them if I come back and anything happens to you or the egg, they will see something worse than whatever is hiding in their temple. Declared Kiyoshi as he storms off into battle.
A few hours later, Kiyoshi arrives at the entrance of the temple. They made the temple of brick and gold, which was a far cry from the poorly made houses, the miniature people were living in up in the trees. "They forsake themselves for Gods, that allowed them to be eaten by a monster. The wonders of men never cease to amaze me." Remarked Kiyoshi to himself as he walks inside the temple.
Inside, the temple was poorly lit by torches that lined the walls. Temple itself had a parlous feeling to it like death was just around the corner. As he strolled through the temple, crude drawings of the gods and other mystical beings filled the walls and ceilings. Halfway through the temple, an overwhelming feeling of dread filled the air. The feeling was so strong that it felt like it had its only presence and consciousness itself.
From the far end of the temple, a pair of red, ungodly eyes straight from the bowels of hell appeared. In an instant, Kiyoshi knew where the iniquitous feeling was coming from. Whatever was behind those eyes was pure evil and ungodly wickedness. "So those delicious appetizers send out a meal for me how nice." remarked a male voice in a ghoulish tone. Kiyoshi knew instantly that the creature staring at him with those red demonic eyes was the one speaking to him as the unknown entity continued.
"Unfortunately, you smell of rot, so I won't eat you. I will just take my time and kill you for entertainment," announced the creature. "They sent me to kill you, not full your belly," Kiyoshi responded. "Kill me, those Mekneki bastards hahaha. After I kill you, I will eat them all, hahaha." Laughed the creature as it made its way out of the darkness. The creature that came out of the abyss was nothing more than an abomination.
Out of the shadows came a creature straight out of man's nightmares. The creature's upper half was that of a lion, whilst its lower body was that of a deer. Its tail was that of a green and yellow serpent. It sported two wings, one of which was of a bat-like nature, and the other wing look like it belong to a bird with brown feathers covering it.
The entity roared monstrously and, as it did so, long blue claws projected from its two front paws.
"A Chimera. I thought all had died out, " remarked Kivuli as the beast stared down Kiyoshi. "A Chimera, what is that?" Kiyoshi responded. " A Chimera to us is what a dog is to humans. During the demonic conversion event, we used them as weapons of war, but sadly, they were weak against human magic and thought to have died out. But it looks like some remained and hide after all these years." Remarked Kivuli.
"Evil creature from hell gotcha," Kiyoshi responded. "I will tear you limb from limb," the Chimera shouted as it steadily made its way to Kiyoshi. With a burst of speed, Kiyoshi attacks the creature, running his blade down the side of the beast. But as if cutting a tree with a butter knife, nothing happened. Kiyoshi quickly composed himself and went for the creature's neck, but his sword had no effect on the creature. The Chimera's tail reacted by shooting acid at its attacker, which damaged Kiyoshi's cloak.
The Chimera laughed, mocking Kiyoshi for his weak attempts at killing him since his skin was plated with a thick amour. "What are you going and do? Your sword won't kill it," asked Tyrook telepathically. "I will use that bastard's Devivial's power and use that move again and end this," replied Kiyoshi as he begins jumping on the spot. Soon the temple grew hot as the temperature inside it grew dramatically.
The Chimera looked around to see where the dramatic rise in temperature was coming from. When it notices small embers of flames coming from Kiyoshi's feet. "It's you! You're making it hot here." Cried the Chimera as he charged toward Kiyoshi. But in an instant, Kiyoshi moved and began bouncing around the temple, leaving spots of flames everywhere. Until the entire temple was like a fiery carven. The entire place was engulfed in flames, which" caused the Chimera to become immobilized due to the extreme heat.
"I can't move, nor can I see where that bastard is." Cried the Chimera before realizing that Kiyoshi was above him. As Kiyoshi came down to finish the Chimera off, it laughed as it believed that Kiyoshi's sword will still be ineffective as before. Kiyoshi swings his sword, barely cutting the Chimera's skin, but it was enough to completely catch the creature's body on fire, as he calls out the name of his attack (Burning Sage.)
With the creature completely engulfed in flames, it let off a boweling scream as the fires consume it. As the creature's screams grew louder, so to did the intensity of the flames surrounding it. Which burned everything except Kiyoshi and his clothing. Soon the creatures' screams and life were done and with that, the intense flames became silent as well. All that remained were Kiyoshi and the ashes of the creature.
Kiyosi dusted off some of the Chimera's ashes off of him and proceed back to Lilly and the egg. Moments later, Kiyoshi arrived back and informed the Mekneki people through Lilly that the monster was defeated. As the Mekneki people rejoiced in victory, Kiyoshi takes back the egg from Lilly when suddenly the egg starts glowing in a blinding bright orange color. Thrown back by this, the Mekneki people flee back into their treetop homes, as Lilly and Kiyoshi try to figure out what is happening to the egg.
Suddenly, the blinding light stops to relieve that the egg had hatched. What used to be an egg was now a grey and black peacock chick. The chick's body was covered with grey and black feathers, whilst it had white tail feathers. The top of its head had crown shape feathers of a peach-like color.
"Welcome to the world prince Negasi," shouted Lilly in excitement as she got to witness such a beautiful creature being born. But as if the chick didn't see her, it blew past her and jumped towards Kiyoshi, knocking his hat off and nesting in his hair. Kiyoshi, shocked by this, removed the young peacock from his hair and handed him over to Lilly. But the bird quickly made its way back to Kiyoshi's head nesting and even falling asleep in his hair.
"Looks like prince Negasi thinks you're his father, Kiyo," giggled Lilly as she mocks how annoyed Kiyoshi is by the whole thing. "Whatever, once the prince is safe, I don't care where he stays," remarked Kiyoshi as he picks up his hat and places it back on his heading hiding the cosmic prince.
The Mekneki, now sure that the situation is not dangerous, came down from the treetops and proceeded to guide the pair out of the jungle so they can finish their mission. Three days later Kiyoshi and Lilly, with the help of the Mekneki find themselves outside the jungle entering a fishing village. "We need to find a boat to make it in time," remarked Kiyoshi as he looks at the map, realizing how much time was lost, fighting the three men and the Chimera.