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Chapter 5 - Cullington Saga

Cullington's Sheldon, Halys Cut.

Very early in the morning, A Man is walking down a pathway, he's holding a lamp but everywhere still seems pitch black.

As he moves he hears wolves howling in the distance I have to be quick I miss my kids he says.. **he fastens his footsteps**

*He feels the cold breeze of the morning flying past his face, he hears a the gentle break of a tree branch so he stops and looks around.. nothing seems to be in sight except pitch black**

He began to feel something following him so he stops and points his lamp behind him as he asks, who's there??

No one answers, he faces his front immediately, to see a long thin twisted figure, Gray body long sharp teeths, eyes black as the night fingers long as knives, the figure stabs his stomach then pulls out all his insides and drops them on the floor. the man is shouting as he's alive while all these is going on he falls to the ground the twisted odd looking creature crawls into body using his mouth as he enters into the man's belle, which closes up. The insides are all over the floor, the man cries and rolls all over the ground in pain but no one comes to his aid.

After the creature has settled into his body, the man eventually stops screaming, gets up takes his lamp which happens to be broken when he falls down and continues his journey like nothing happened.

Cullington, Halys Cut.

We're here, just up ahead right after this trees at the front Captain Eli says.

*As they approach a small village, at Cullington the stench of death filled the air, rotted dead animals, with blood, Peter, the captain and the rest of the crew drew their swords as they approach the village*

*Corpses of people are hanged on spikes, farm animals of all types are all over the place dead, their guts all over the place.*

What's happened here? Captain Eli asks.

*The party proceed to check every houses to see if they're any Survivors, so far there doesn't seem to be anyone at all. until they reach a particular house where a guy blood soaked is on the ground he whispers HELP right before he passes out.**

*The party takes him into a house cleans his body, treats his wounds hoping he wakes up. He eventually does*

What's your name the captain asks?

Brandon he replies.

**Brandon is a figure of average height long hairs that falls on the sides of his face covering his both ears all the way to the back of he's head. He's a bit muscular**

What happened here Brandon?

Captain Eli asks.

Brandon: (he talks slowly) at evening a day before yesterday, we were suddenly attacked by some creatures, most people called em demons. They were very tall and slim, sharp fingers sharp teeth, eyes as black as the night sky and very fast...

Captain Eli: How many attacked this village?

Brandon: I don't know maybe three or four, one of them kept changing forms into anything and anyone it wants. It was scary

Captain Eli: that's definitely demons, Thanks Brandon but besides u we hardly seen any other person why didn't the demons kill or destroyed you?

Brandon: (eyes moves downward) I don't know, most people went into Cullington's Sheldon.

Fred: Sheldon?

Captain Eli: that's still Cullington..

*Captain Eli asks audience with peter and the others, he moves outside of the house the others follow him, he's not telling us everything the captain says, what do we do? Cyrus asks.

We'll take him along with us, we'll move around this village to the central city of Cullington, from there we will go into Cullington's Sheldon.

**The king after winning the war goes into his daughter room to let her know, as he enters she's no longer there, then her window is open showing that she has escaped as he looks through the window he see's a while horse with a lady untop leaving the stronghold... He shouts for his guards to bring his daughter back**

Iron Fortress, Shady Vale.

King Thress: An army of black knights?

Wait so the Queen Lori has been killed? For crying out loud we're the Elven Council..we can't watch one of our own go.

King Jay: there're rumours that King Gomah did this!

King Thress: what do you mean? Have you ever heard of knights dressed in black....it's the demons...the tree is dying.

Lord Jerle: calm down! That can only be demons, Soldiers wearing black armour invading a stronghold, sounds familiar??

Besides the king Gomah has nothing to do with the demons , we'll commence investigations as well, just in case.

*Conversations continue as they continue to argue and debate the matter*

Cullington's Sheldon.

So we're here, Cyrus talks to himself.

*Everywhere is quiet the boys all come down from their horses all drawing their swords, Brandon stays on his horse..

they look around as they kept walking slowly while at the same time observing their surroundings, Sam hears a sound in the bushes up above him, He looks up to see a very odd looking but scary creature that jumps from the tree, he screams as he moves by the side allowing the demon to land on the ground. The demon proceeds to hit Sam with its claw that sent him flying across the path to the other tree, Peter draws its sword slashes the demon which uses its flaws to hold the sword, Cyrus joins the game as he swings his sword at the demon who happens to dodge it's swing at the last second Captain Eli joins the fight as they proceed to jump the demon, the demon shows insane skill and intelligence proving it's more than just a gnarly beast. The demon tries using its iron claws to gnare the Captain at his vital point, Just then Cyrus drops his swords and proceeds to clap his two hands together... Which swaps the Captain with a dying log of wood at the side of the road**

INCREDIBLE!! the captain shouted!

**Peter begins to smile as he drops his sword and walks slowly towards the demon, Sam gets up too, Cyrus strengthens his stance, The Captain stays back with Fred and Nicole**

I can't go in battle with them, I'll just be in the way, *he looks at Fred and Nicole** they're both scared the demon is too intelligent for a monster who just eats humans, considering its basically more experienced than us, probably faced more stronger version of us .

*He's still in thought*

*When he sees claw marks of the demon on Sam face slowly varnishes.....*

What's Sam powers again? He asked himself.

* The fight continues, Peter charges towards the with no weapons or nothing, the demons screams for some reason Fred eras begins to bleed, The Captain tells fred to calm down while holding fred ears... Peter sees what happens but still proceeds to throw a punch demons tries to hold Peter's hands, but Cyrus claps, the demons appears at Sam's front who happens to be swinging a sword at the exact moment,

The demon loses its arm, but it doesn't seem to care,it looks at Cyrus and runs so fast towards him, the demon's speed are soo unmatched that Cyrus couldn't clap his hands on time, luckily Peter blocks Cyrus whole the demons pushes his claws right through Peter's chest, Peter's heart in his hands he puts it in hits own mouth.. You monster! Sam shouts as he attacks the demon, who jumps very high,the demon removes a finger from his hands then throws it's claws at Sam who couldn't react fast enough as it passes through his throat hitting Fred in the head, still passed through Fred's head, hits a tree passed through the tree into another tree, the finger never stopped just kept moving and moving...

Sam falls to the ground

Peter gasps for breathe as he sees this, Cyrus takes up his sword and charges whole shouting...

The demon hits the sword off Cyrus's hands then grabs Cyrus by his neck, Cyrus gasp for breathes...**

**The Captain can't move, he's scared as hell, the sudden turn of events is crazy.

what happened? He asks..**

*The demon suddenly stops choking Cyrus as it looks over them, he see's someone riding towards them in a horse. The demon becomes scared drops Cyrus and begins to run, the approaching person in a mask draws out a sword, The demon keeps running at an amazing speed that made Cyrus who was gasping for breathe shocked!*

*The stranger rides past them as he throws his sword so fast it was not seen until it slizes of the demons head..he stops then jumps off his horse then runs to the Injured...walks specifically to Peter's lifeless body touches him then leaves peter to check on the rest of the party, He draws out a silver sword from his side walks over to Nicole and the captain then proceeds to behead them right there and then the speed at which he did that was insane no one notices him doing so (that's how fast he was),

Why did you do that ?WHY!? Cyrus shouts

**The stranger is in long black sleeves that covers his entire body, he's also wearing a mask, An iron Mask. At the sides of his head are long ears, suggesting his an elf.**

Ohh please I just saved you the trouble of doing that later. The stranger replies.

Cyrus shouts: ARE YOU.....

insane?, (the stranger cuts him halfway, then continues) No am not.

Call me Emerald, I have a reason for doing this, Follow me (he puts peter's body then Sam's on his horse, Brandon walks right behind them) and you don't have a choice they're more demons on the way..

*He begins to walk away with his horse, containing the two corpses. Cyrus looks back and front holds his throat as he follows the stranger, They walked for miles until they began to meet people, everywhere on this side is filled with people going about their daily lives, they come to an old house the stranger takes both Sam and Peter into a bed in the home. Brandon sits at the corner of the house watching the conversation s*

Who are you? Cyrus asks.

Am Emerald, A direct descendant of the druid who created the Ancient one, hundreds of year ago.

I also saw to the well-being of peter when he was younger, *she removes her mask*

You are a lady? Cyrus asks.

Yes I am, very much. She replied.

Why did you kill the others? Cyrus asks.

Well it will take a while to explain... She replies.

Then explain we have all the time in the world... Cyrus tells her

No we don't, we don't at all.

*She cuts him short then continues*

A majority of the Cullington Territory has been killed, Four or more demons escaped from the barrier recently I killed two, the others will be a nuisance, have been tracking this demons for days yet I can't seem to get a specific pattern they use..

They even got to you guys before I did.

That doesn't connect to what am trying to say. Cyrus replies.

Emerald continues,

You were sent here on an assignment by your king where you not?

And you all failed miserably, if I had not noticed the presence of Peter you would all be dead except peter offcourse.

What do you mean?, he's already dead. Cyrus replies her.

No his not!

How long have you know peter ? She asks Cyrus.

Well not long, Cyrus replies.

Brace yourself she tells Cyrus.

The demon you all lost too was a simple basic demon, Demons have different bodies than us, all organs in there bodies are heightened to a specific level, Demons have incredible speed, they're extremely strong, although not that durable a single slice might kill them but it's almost impossible to touch them in the first place, Not to talk of their high intelligence for a monster.

Peter's body is built like that even more than that, He sees what no one can't, he feels the flocking wings of the eagle on a mountain, he can hear the footsteps of an ant, his speed his incredible so is his strength.

Peter killed both of his parents shortly after his birth. She pauses.

What do you mean? Cyrus asked.

Well let's not get to that yet, Peter is the key to all these, Just like my ancestor The druid did hundreds of years ago, Peter could finally stop the demons, kill them forever...

My limits are are much, but his?...he's limitless..

Hold on so Peter's not dead now?!

Cyrus asks.

He's not, I saw his heart was ripped out, his body is regenerating another heart as we speak, He can't die untimely or even natural am not even sure anymore.

Emerald pauses.

Okay okay, Peter parents are dead, Peter told me about how his mum was killed before his eyes, how his little sisters were captured, how he misses his dad.

Cyrus added.

Well those were the people I put in charge of Peter they had one job and they fumbled, You know Peter's name isn't peter I gave him that name to hide him from his parents enemies.

His actual name is Hester.

Hester!? Sam (who was standing by the corner the whole time shouted)

Sam how long have you been there?

Cyrus asks.

Enough to hear all that, Hesters my.....never mind it's probably not him.

Sam replies.

*Emerald looks at Sam, then says*

I know you're his step brother.

What is going on here! Cyrus gets up.

Calm down! Emerald yells at him.

Look Peter is the son of Rover Colt, so is Sam, Rover is a master and practitioner of magic, Giving birth to both Sam and Peter he made sure he imbuded all his magic in them. They can't die because they're magic themselves. I never figured out why he did that. But they have been rumours that he fought alongside my ancestor, The druid who imprisoned the demons. It was all with Rover's help that is.

Both Sam and Peter have significant roles to play in the final eradication of the demon army. Just as she finishes Peter gets up and sluggishly walks towards the area where they all are sitted.

Are you alright? Emerald asks?

Aunt Emerald? Where have you been? peter asks, as he sits down slowly.

Well have been at the Crimson valley for a while doing things you know I do.

How has everything been peter?

Emerald asks.

Nothing is fine, Peter says.

I can't find dad, mum is dead, my sisters are being held hostage, am just tired *Peter puts his hands on his forehead signifying a Heavey head pain*

What happened at Crimson Valley?

Peter asks her.

Alot peter, alot. hold on she says.

*she gets up then walks towards Sam and Cyrus*

Go around town, ask around if they've heard or seen anything, don't go too far, I need an update. Emerald says to them.

Alright,

*Sam and Cyrus leaves the house*

Peter I have something to tell you?

Emerald faces him.

Gorhata

*The chosen ones who are to cater for the ancient one have arrived, they're kneeling while greeting the King, he orders for them to get seperate rooms. The king tells them to begin work at once*

**The princess rose walks right past the tree when she begins to hear some whispers from the tree, She walks Close to the tree to try and understand what's it's trying to say**

Ggeett tooo Safffehoold the ancient one whispered.

*Princess rose rests her head on the tree to try and listen more*

* The more she tries to listen, the more the words loose meaning.....*

Get to safehold? That's all I could hear

The princess rose says to herself.

Cullington's Sheldon

So Peter's actually your half brother, know that I look at you too you both look alike.

Cyrus breaks the silence.

You never told me what your actual ability is.

Cyrus added.

Well basically I adapt to things...

You do what!? Cyrus asks Again.

Am sure you heard me the first time , *he walks to a farmer and asks*

Good day sir, My friend and I Slay demons, Have you heard of any demon sightings lately or seen anything?

Sam asks.

Well you too do look like something, not sure if it's demon related, But on the west of here towards the Elves territory of Cullington, it was said that a man walked home after farming all night to murder his wife, his children included.

The farmer says to them.

That's just a psychopath, cyrus added them looks away.

That's the issue, he loves his wife he would never harm them, besides the man isn't a killer have known him forever we do businesses together.

The farmer said.

What kind of businesses do you do with him?

Sam asks, well he has a honey farm, I have crop farm we do sell things to each other at extremely small rate sometimes we just use the barter system. The farmer added.

I see. Thanks for your time he hands a coin to the farmer *then continues Walking.*

I think we should report this to Emerald as soon as we can, *Cyrus says as he goes the opposite direction*

Don't we have to solidify our information before passing it to her?

Sam says.

Why do you think the farmer assumes the man's case is a demon issue? *Cyrus asks as he jogs back to Sam*

Well Demons do possess people afterall..

Sam replies.

*At the Old looking house*

That's everything I have to tell you.

Emerald says to him.

Even though they aren't my actual parents they did do their best for me, I still need to get my sisters back, and for Sam I'll talk to him. Hold on so my dad has actually enemies?

Peter asks.

Yes alot of them, He was the strongest of his time Soo he did have alot.

She replies

I am still weak how do become stronger?

Peter asks.

Well as for now we do need to start with how fast you regenerate and how durable you are. *Emerald says while getting up*

It will be tough but it's for your own good, and for mankind's good.

She added.

Okay let's start now, I want to be the one to kill the next demon we encounter. *Peter stands up too, feeling determined*

Alright we have to make your body gets used to damages so it increases how fast you regenerate. She says.

And how do we do that

Peter replies.

Well *she grabs a sword then stabs peter through his heart* we'll start from here

She says.

*Peter groans as he falls on his face, blood all over the place*

*Cyrus and Sam runs in, we've found our next demon they said*