This is a tale nearly lost in time; a tale of a glorious kingdom. A kingdom where man and animal lived in peace and equality, led by a man known simply as the Piper. The Piper held in his possession, a magical flute known as the Piper's Flute, an instrument with the power to not only understand the thoughts of animals, but allow the Piper himself to change into any animal. Using this power he was able to lead his land to greatness… but, it was short lived, for even in the brightest light there is still darkness. An evil phantom by the name of Chara wished to steal the power of the Piper's Flute for himself. In an attempt to steal the flute, he struck down the Piper. Using the last of his strength the Piper sealed Chara away. Without the guidance of the Piper, the animals quickly broke into violence, so gates were put up to keep them from total war, and the humans were left to wallow in self pity. The memory of these events has long since faded. The only proof that these events happened are the gates that still stand today…
"Clark… Clark… CLARK!" I shot up in bed. In front of me was my uncle Greg, tapping his foot impatiently. "It's about time you wake up, me boy, there was a meteor shower last night and I need you to go into the forest and make shore everything's ok, you know what happens to the monkeys when something bad happens. I don't think I need remind you what happened after the flood last year.
I shivered; our village was overrun with monkeys for weeks after that flood. I sighed "Alright Uncle Greg", and with that he left. "Well I guess I had better get up" I said. I hopped out of bed and went to the bath room to wash the crust out of my eyes, and to also push my bangs out of the way so I could see completely. Curse my bangs! The rest of my hair is blonde like my mom's was, but I just HAD to get my dad's bangs, which were apparently brown and curly! But nobody's really sure, since the only person who met my dad was my mom and she never told anyone about him! As I walked down stairs, I couldn't help but think about my poor life; my mother died giving birth to me, and my father had abandoned me before I was born, so I was stuck living with my Uncle Greg and Aunt Sophie, which was alright, but my since uncle is the mayor of Akon Village, I often have to help him when he's busy, which is basically every day. Not a fun job.
As I reached our kitchen, I saw my Aunt Sophie preparing breakfast, which consisted of fruit from the forest and a loaf of bread, aka my typical breakfast. As I went to sit down at the table my uncle stopped me, "Oh come on boy, don't tell me you can't spare your breakfast, to get going faster, can you"? Yup typical old Uncle Greg, always wants everything done as fast as possible.
Thank Din for Aunt Sophie "Oh come now Gregory, he'll starve to death if he doesn't eat, you know that." "Fine Sophia, I guess you're right, but be quick about it Clark, the faster something is done, the better!"
"Alright, alright" I said as I quickly ate my breakfast.
I left as soon as I finished my breakfast, but not before saying "Ok I'm leaving now, are you happy Uncle Greg", which earned me a smile as he went to his office.
As I walked through my village, which was somewhat small, but still large enough to have its own windmills located near the front of the village, a large store-house right in the middle of town, a dock at the back of the village on the cliffs even though I've never seen a ship come in as long as I've been alive, and plenty of houses most of which were occupied, the only thing I could think about is how boring things have been.
"Man I wish life was more exiting!"
As I made my way to the forest gate I got a lot of smiles and one "how are you". But as I reached the gate I could tell something was off, it just didn't feel right. About 20 minutes of walking through the forest later and I could just tell, something was wrong, I couldn't hear the normal chirping of the birds or even the occasional chatter of a monkey, it was quiet… too quiet. And as if on cue a monkey came running down the road screeching, with… Wait is that a giant floating eyeball? All of a sudden the monkey crashed into me! As I'm trying to get the struggling monkey off me that eye caught up to us, and… "Hold up a second! Is that thing growing?!" Then out of nowhere this huge black hand, picked me and the monkey up. It started to crush us and as my vision was starting going black, the last thing I heard was evil laughter and then…