Chapter 2: Sail

Chapter 2: Sail

A tornado burst with sands, swirling up to the looming sky. Howling and yelping, Thousands of animals were fleeing under. While it traveled toward the pyramid, green-ish plants had been swallowed in jiff cluster by cluster.

 

Fergus’s trembling leg persisted due to the lashed hit back in the tomb. So he closed his eyes, tried to enjoy the last moments of the fact that he could hear and speak like a human. The rowdy noise and beating winds got louder and closer. And all the motion abruptly stopped. When Fergus re-opened his eyes, the scorching sun was still raying its heatwave across the outland, as if the once devastating tornado nor bolting animals had ever come to existence. But following a series of wisping winds drifting away from in the air, two creatures came to sight. Their shadows stretched out to a far reach position. And their sizes were third as big as their original race.

 

The one on the ground had tawny color on his coat, a scar on his left eyes, rolled his head and relaxed his jaw, stuck his tongue out for a wipe around his mouth. Fergus could clearly see the pointy teeth sharp like knives under the long whiskers. Another creature was hovering overhead whistling, encircled down to the ground, landed beside the Arabian leopard. He twisted his head, like almost breaking it. Exceptionally calm, who faced at Fergus, his white heart-shaped face with dark eyes were like sucking one’s soul if staring long enough.

 

The leopard strode forward, bobbed his mouth and spit a colorful marble on the sand,’ If you want to be one of us, take this.’ He smirked and gave a look to the Owl. ’I’m Alphonse and he’s Kio.’ Their eyes suddenly changed its color. Leopard had a deep blue aura shimmered from his back while Owl had a jade green aura spiraling around his feathers.

 

Scorpion instinctively stepped back a little. ‘ Don’t worry mate, we’re the guardians of you in this journey. Just take the pill and you will understand.’ The leopard stilled, waiting for him to eat up.

 

Was there a choice not to? Fergus did not think so. Two large mutated monsters were literally towering in front of him.

 

So Fergus clapped the marble. The astronomical colors of stream flowed down onto the sand as the scorpion bobbled his head to sup. Within a moment, the ill feeling spun in his head, reeling his balance lost. As he fell, the explosion triggered. All of his inner muscles sponged up outwards, rendering the black shells deteriorated. ‘Please, make it stop. PLEASE!’ The excruciating suffering made him scream. But nothing had stopped from it, his own organs started to tear apart themselves while his tail was shoving madly in any direction. Blue drops of blood were watering down, saturating with the sand. He passed out. The potion bag left on the ground and Kio picked it up.

 

 

Fergus did not know how long it had been this way. But when he came back to his consciousness, he felt his body had switched from other species. A muscular body, faster tail, powerful with his claws, he was twelve times larger than his original. His comrades nodded their heads.

 

’How long had I passed out?’ Fergus asked, moving his tail from left to right.

 

The other two laughed. ‘ About an hour my friend.’ Kio said. ‘ The last time I had was about a quarter.’

 

’How do you feel?’ Alphonse circled Fergus round.

 

’Incredible. I’m stronger than ever.’ Fergus pitched his tone, no longer to hide his excitement.

 

’ Good. We still have work to do.’ Alphonse said,’ We should go now.’

 

’Wait, I suggest we should make a vow before we go.’ Fergus paused them.

 

’What vow? We need no vow.’ Alphonse said solemnly.’ Do you not trust us?’

 

’A vow is a safeguard for all of us.’ Fergus said.

 

Alphonse and Kio quiet for a moment as they were weighing their advantages of it. They knew that a vow meant a solemn promise to Djoser, which cannot be break otherwise. Becoming a human was certain it was just a matter of time. But the power of Torch light, secretly Alphonse and Kio both wanted to have it. Seeing the scorpion in front of them, weak and foolish, so they compromised.

 

’ In the name of the third prince of Scorpio Kingdom, I, Fergus, with two brave combatants today make a vow before the one and only Egyptian God, Djoser.’ Three mutated animals kneel down before the step pyramid, ‘ We do not betray, we do not abandon, and we will have each other back.

We will arrive at the furthest north and receive the power of Torch light.’ Fergus looked on his right side, the other two had hesitated for a short moment, gave a look to each other and said ‘ I, Alphonse agreed.’ ‘I, Kio agreed.’ Alphonse and Kio repeated the same statement as Fergus and three of them dripped their own blood infusing on the ground before began their odyssey.

 

Their footsteps in the journey brought merely destruction and annihilation to other animal kingdoms.

Plundering and pillaging every habitat they could find, and with the wrath of powers on their hands, disobedience or frailty would be executed with dripping hearts hanging on gnarl trees for intimation.

From the dry desert on the way to mountain ranges at the northwest, infamously they had struck the nests of carpet Vipers, teared every inch of their fleshes out from the scaly skins. Devoured the home of mongooses near the black sea where a group of wild boars and ostriches were luckily escaped from their teething of slaughter, they would avoid any interaction with humans. The strategy was advancing their pace at nights, resting under a slit of rocks during the days, unless they had to hunt for prey. Crossing multiple landscapes, treading through muddy forests and a few of grasslands, they finally hunched on a stolen wooden boat and began their voyage to Arctic Island.