Welcome, gang. As I started writing this story, I ended up mentally casting actors for the voices of my characters. William Smith for Gard, Keith David for Zuvowang, Jim Carter for Dalv, not that some of them will be appearing but by actually giving them a voice it helps me picture them better. What's that you say? Jim Carter has never done voice work? Check out Shakespeare: the Animated Tales! He did the voice of Mark Antony in Julius Caesar and Jim Carter has always been an actor I like.
Awe Inspiring
The ThunderCats stood in awe as they stood before the Valley of the Tombs. A place that legends were spoken about, it was the burial place of the Evabon from their golden age. There was something wrong about it though. There were only four tombs, but still those four dwarfed even Thundera.
"I believe Jaga would have used the term 'colossal.'" Cheetara starred at the valley. How any non-evabon could not have found it before now was beyond her.
"Just Jaga?" Lion-O shook his head.
"Our father would have used that same term." Tygra starred the closest tomb. He started to walk towards it until an arrow flew past him. Everyone turned around to see a group of evabon, led by a leathery red evabon with a slender build. He was the one holding the bow that the arrow had come from.
"Not another step." The leader starred at the ThunderCats with untrusting eyes. "That first one was just a warning, if you try to get any closer you won't be living." Panthro walked towards the leader and starred down at him. He must have only been a foot shorter than Gard.
"Who are you to order us around?" Panthro found to his surprise that the leader had been bending over. As the leader straightened his back, he revealed that he was in fact taller than Panthro, by about an inch or two.
"We are the guardians of the tombs, and I am our leader: Autolycus." Panthro backed away from Autolycus, fully understanding why these evabon were so hostile. "Gard has spoken highly of you, ThunderCats, but still I won't allow you to enter the tombs."
"You've met Gard?" Kat walked towards Autolycus. This leathery red evabon just walked past him, not even noticing Kat.
"About three hundred years ago, when I was young, the body from the tomb at the far left was stolen." There was a look of shock on all of the ThunderCat's faces. Steal a body? Why would anyone do such a thing? "You can stay in the valley but you cannot enter the tombs." Lion-O nodded in agreement. "We'll stay nearby but not in plain sight to stand guard. Don't try any funny business." The tomb guardians dispersed, going in their own directions but into the valley. Some practically vanished within a few seconds. The ThunderCats just could not understand who would steal a body.