Chapter 1: Midnight Calm

Midnight Calm

He looked down the edge of his blade, confused as when one takes his first step into the unknown. All his prior learning and experience was as useful as a waterless well. “Don’t just stand there, get to the Citadel with haste,” Viola yelped. The surrounding fiends grasped the attention of the only capable leader of a secret order known as the KOTL, keepers of the lost.

The KOTL were no ordinary bunch, every member carried with him a sword, which might look ordinary; however, the Reaver as they are called is a hand gun with a 4 foot blade on the top. It looks like a pistol with a sword on top. These weapons were the prized possessions of any member of the KOTL.

Listing to the ghoulish sounds of men, I stepped into what seemed to be the abyss of the unknown. The chaotic and the thunderous power omitted from the beast was perplexed into my vision stunning me. The thought of fleeing was bereft from me because the beast's image stole my wits; it did so without reviotolizing my fleeing instincs. This perpetuated into a continual hesisitation...

The farm seemed still, Viola, the beasts, and I were on the northern section of the farm. My neighbor standing in front of us with his ordinary sword held up high was calmly paying attention to the beast movements. When the opportunity presented itself, he swung with all his might at the beast; however, the beast was immune to his blade. The beast opened its slimy like mouth and prodded the helpless farmer with his jaws, swallowing the man with ease. I rushed to his aid; however, another beast appeared before my eyes, and seconds later the world was black. My body became devoured by the beast. It felt like I was swimming in a warm thick liquid like substance...

Viola said, “Dam it, I was going in to save these, you should have run kid.” He pulled out a special purple bullet from his belt and loaded it into his Reaver. Viola raised his Reaver, he pulled the trigger and the hilt of the Reaver began to glow. Shortly after, the loudest sound I have ever heard was made. When the round hit the beast, a purple like aura appeared in the shape of a misty donut. It flooded the area and reached well beyond the perimeter of the farm, lighting up every corner and killing every beast with a seemingly supernatural ferocity

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