Welcome everyone. This story is meant to bring Gard in to help the ThunderCats against Pumyra and Donalbain. It is also to do some world building. Enjoy and review.
Wilusa's Northern Gates
As Cheetara walked towards Wilusa's northern gates a strange expression formed upon her face. It was best described as half a smile and half a frown. Wilusa had stood for forty-five hundred years and eight times it had been either sacked or destroyed. The recent siege had taken pieces from the city. Mumm-Ra's decision to keep the Labinnac primitive had resulted in a cannonball taking the face of a statue on the left side of the gate.
Cheetara then noticed an inscription and knelt down to try and read it. Alas, she could not. She could speak the language to some extent but she could not read it. Evabon writing was not Thunderan writing, in fact the Evabon language had been a thousand years old before the Trade Language, which the animals had brought to Third Earth, even began. It should also be noted that to the Evabon there was no difference between fact and fiction, truth and legend. For all Cheetara knew, the name of this figure could have been of a fictional character but on the other hand the fictional character may have been loosely based on a real person. Cheetara was only left to wonder if Thunderans had been the same, would Mumm-Ra and technology have been regarded as just myth?
"Cheetara!" Cheetara looked up and saw Balor. He had a red loincloth twisted about his middle, typical of his attire. What were not typical were the iron armbands and brass ankle-bands he was wearing. "What are you doing here?"
Cheetara only blinked. "Balor…" She looked the eight-year-old boy over. He had the black hair the grey skin the blue eyes the right eye that only happened halfway, the thin frame the slight curve in his back… It was certainly Balor. "Why are you wearing those bands?"
"I want to." Replied Balor.
"Well, why?"
"Yaath wore them!"
"Who?"
Balor pointed at the statue on the right side of the northern gates. It was missing a nose. "He is one of Wilusa's great heroes."
"What did he do?" asked Cheetara.
"He proved many alleged traitors innocent during the Evabon-Labinnac War of the Fiftieth Lindworm."