"AAAOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
The howl made the ground tremble, the human body of Adi got hidden by gray fur and his body grew bigger and bigger, almost 10 feet tall, his eyes we're red, his face turned into a snout, his ears perked up like a predator listening.
He–.. No... That thing finally looked down and it's eyes were red like crimson and fangs peeking from the gritted teeth in its snout.
Darya narrowed her eyes at it.. She wasn't shocked, just surprised.
Darya:"ah... Seems like you are the beast type hunter... That's.. Kind of shocking... Beast type hunters have more of a... Distinct structure of nose.. But you had everything normal.... No wonder you catched my eyes when I first saw you."
She said that in a even tone, not scared, but surely knowing that's not normal.
Darya:"he feels different than before.. Is he mad?.... Well, he does look enraged.. But why hasn't he attacked yet?.... Is he plotting something?... No way, he's too much of a idiot to plan anything."
As she was just thinking "that thing" Moved, like a blur of image and got in front of her, she couldn't even react to its speed.
It slashed her with his claw, right on her gut, but it cut through her after image, because she was behind him, ready with a full long sword, glowing with aura. As she just thought she got him, her gut tore open... His claws.. Had cut her before she shadow stepped him.
???:"AAOOO!,.. Grrrr!"
Darya:"when did he–?!".... "Gah!".
"I didn't even see that ... I remember it clearly.. I dodged him right before he reached.. So when did he?... No way... Am I loosing in terms of speed?!... No no no no no.... This can't be happening... I can't move in this state... I don't even have a healer with me right now."
He swiftly turned around and pierced his claws in her gut.
Darya:"n–.no .. Please this can't be... I don't want to die... I–... Huh?"
The beast's eyes we're fuming with rage.. Glaring deep into her soul, freezing her movement completely... This was the second time after so many years, When she felt..... Real fear.
Her vision starts to blur and she starts to getting flash backs of her past.
When was it?... When did I become so numb to emotions?.... Why did I get so strong?.... I asked that question to myself many times. But there was never a answer... When did it start, you ask?....
It was when I wanted to climb a cliff in Russia, mount elbrus... A cliff so high up that even a helicopter can't reach.
It was so up... People always said that there was never a human who could reach it except one... They called her a "chosen one". After she reached the top.. She got immense power and was chosen as a warrior who protects the kingdom.. When was it?.... A hundred thousand years ago.. Yes, there were humans that much in the past too. The girl who reached the top of the cliff was just 13 years when she started to climb it.
I never knew it until I reached the top.. The story of that girl... I only wanted to climb the top, because, mom and dad said there were no humans in that cliff top. Yet there was so bright light, like torch or LED bulbs... I started to climb it out of instinct. I felt so attracted to get the truth of those lights.
??? :"Darya.. Darya... Darya!.. Wake up... You fell again right?"
Darya:"m–.. Mom."
My mom, she was a blonde haired woman, with blue eyes, like ocean. She was gentle but scary when she wants to be. She was one of the seven childs of the hero. Her voice was soft and calming.. Like a angel from heaven.
Did I tell you about the hero?.. I guess not.. The heroe is the lady, the same girl who the people titled as the chosen one, a thousand decades ago.
Mom:"how many times did I tell you not to climb that cliff?"
Darya:"but mom... There's always so bright up there..... I want to see what's that light off"
Yes, lights.. The light above the cliff that touch the clouds, but doesn't go up further, people tried to reach up with helicopters and other stuff, but even though they passed through the 50 meters thick cloud layer, it never ended when someone tried to climb it with hands and equipments.. The clouds and rocks never ended at all.. It was infinite to climb up.
Darya:"I want to see... Where do that light comes from."
Mom:"sigh~.. Not again... Darya... Didn't you promise me not to climb that cliff?... You know it's dangerous."
Draya:"but mo–"
Mom:"no buts!"
I flinched at her raised voice.
Mom:"Darya... You will never climb that mountain again... You heard me?... You will not come here again."
Darya:"fineee~.."
I roled my eyes and got up from the ground.
Darya:"you're too scarey sometimes, you know that?"
Mom:"well, I am sorry if I am worried about my only daughter to be falling off the mountain every single day"
She clearly meant it as sarcasm.
I understood her worry but I couldn't shake off the Curiousness of seeing the source of that light up there. For I now I went back home with her.
We reached an street of our town, it was not well built and had many holes dug by the dogs.
A man about 5'8 , with red hair And greenish eyes stopped and smiled at me , then turned to mom.
??? :"she tried to climb again huh?"
Mom:"yes... I am sorry.. She won't leave the village again."
??? :"haha.. Don't apologize miss-verzetse... She's still in the growing period... And it's quite the nostalgia to see someone climbing that mountain like we heard in the stories... We don't know but maybe she can replace the old hero."
Mom:"... Mr. Boris, I appreciate the complement, but please don't praise her idiocy.
Boris:"... "
He went silent for few seconds before responding in a solemn tone.
Boris:"you are still holding that grudge from your mother?... It's been a thousand decades now... And.. If it wasn't your mother.. We all people, who are living our eternal youth is all given by her... If she hadn't gone against the tides and asked for our town's people to live the life with not deaths and age.. We wouldn't have been here."
Mom:"please.... This is not a gift... What's the use of immortality when we all can't go anywhere else?... How long do you think we can keep hiding from the world?.. It's only this mountain which has kept us hidden from the world.. And she's trying to climb this off, if she even managed to climb out once.. People will immediately know that there are people on the the other side of this mountain.. Then what?... They'll attack and torture us to know about the solution to immortality... I've already lost my husband to those people.... She clasped her hands together in defeat... Don't make my daughter do the same."
Boris:"..."
He just opened us the way and mom started walking with my wrist in her grip.
Then a woman not so older than 30 to 40 came to boris. Her hair brown and eyes deep blue.
Zyannie:"she said the same thing again, huh?"
Boris:"yeah."
Zyannie:"her words doesn't makes sense... Her husband disappeared out of nowhere... And all she says is the weird dreams she have every night... If only marya(darya's mom) and daryan(darya's dad) hadn't tried to climb the mountain that day."
The breeze flows and a man in the heavy jacket for climbers talks, hanging by the cliff with marya looking up at him with worry.
Daryan:"MARYA!... WOOOH!... I FINALLY REACHED THE HALFWAY!... THE PEAK IS VISIBLE!"
Marya:"YES!.. BUT PLEASE STOP HANGING LIKE THAT!... YOU'LL FALL DOWN IF YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL!"
Daryan:"WHAT!?... I CAN'T HEAR YOU!."
Marya:"I SAID, BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR GRIP... DON'T FALL DOWN!"
Daryan:"OK!.. I'LL TAKE CARE... NOW I AM CLIMBING UP FURTHER!"
daryan started to climb more up and disappeared into the cloud fog.
Marya got worried but tried to keep calm and called out to him.
Marya:"DARYAN!... DARYAAAN!... DARYA IS WAITING FOR US AT HOME!....COME DOWN IF YOU HAVE SEEN THE PEAK ALREADY!...CAN YOU HEAR ME!?"
Daryan:"I CAN... AND I CAN SEE THE PEAK CLEARLY!... WOOHOO!... THERE'S SOMETHING UP HERE.. LIKE A TRE–!"
his voice cuts off and disappeared... Marya got an uneasy scrunch in her gut.. Because his voice disappeared mid sentence, it wasn't like someone stopping midway, but it just disappeared.
Marya:"DARYAN!... DARYAN!... CAN YOU HEAR ME?!.... PLEASE RESPOND BACK!... DARYAAAAAAAAAAN!"
Marya flinched and got out of her zoneout. She was still walking and shrugged off the thought. They finally reached their home, which was a not so bigger than 20 feets, completely made of log pieces like a jungle house and windows on all the right walls of the house, with a brick chimney on the top.
Next day I was there again, but more prepared, I had the equipments to climb it, that I stole from a shop near my house. Two climbing spikes, a bag with snacks enough for atleast 4 days. If I don't get too hungry luckily.
I had made up my mind today to climb it no matter what.
I started, and... Already fell down about 5 times in the first try. It took me 17 falls before realizing that my bag was too heavy to climb with, so.... I ate the food. And went back home, because my gut started to get vibrations for freashness.
I came back again next day, now with just the spike climbers and ropes to wrap myself with the the handles of both spikes... I started to climb up.. And reached up... I climbed for about 2 hours,..
When I looked down... I had climbed just a meter up from the ground.
Darya:"... I hate this.."
I started to climb anyway.. And kept climbing up. I climbed for how long, even I don't remember.. My hands were aching.. And when I looked down... I could see the whole town like a miniature toy town I play with... My hands were aching.. So I hanged slightly and swung myself back and forth before jumping into a small cave opening in my left.
It was silent and not so deep, about a size enough to fit two adult men and still have enough space to sleep.
I sat there and collected a few sticks that fell inside from the trees that were grown from the cracks of the rocks above the cave. And made a small campfire with a rock, I learned it from dad when I was 4 .. Just a year before dad left us both.... Mom said he was taken away. But I am sure he's not... He climbed the mountains without telling me.. He might be on the top of this, that's why there's light, I am sure of it... I'll find the source of that light and find dad.
After few minutes I was about to climb again but suddenly I heard mom's voice from the ground, which was pretty much worried and .. Angry.
Marya:"DARYA!... WHY DID YOU CLIMB UP AGAIN?!... JUST WHY CAN'T YOU STOP TRYING TO CLIMB THAT THING!?"
Darya:".. B. BUT MOM!.. THERE'S LIGHT UP THERE!.. WHAT IF THAT LIGHT IS DAD?!... WHAT IF HE'S ASKING FOR HELP WITH THE LIGHT BECAUSE HIS VOICE CAN'T REACH DOWN TO US!?"
Marya:"THAT'S NOT YOUR DAD!"
Darya:"BUT MO-!"
Marya:"HE'S DEAD!"
I froze mid words... He's dead?... Dad?... How can he?... No way... But we never saw him after that day.. How does she know that?... But wait... Aren't we immortals?... How can dad die?
Darya:"BUT WE ARE IMMORTALS.. HOW CAN YOU SAY DAD IS DEAD!?"
it was her who froze this time... Because it was true... How can dad die when he's a immortal like her, me and other town people.
Marya:"S.. STILL!... COME BACK DOWN... I.. I DON'T WANT MY DAUGHTER TO LEAVE ME LIKE MY HUSBAND!"
Darya:"MOM.... I PROMISE.. I'LL COME BACK WITH DAD!."
With that, I started to climb again and her voice faded with my name that she was screaming.
Marya:"COME BACK!... DARYAAAAA!"