Welcome back gang. Well, here we are, the conclusion of Gard's saga. This will end with an epic conclusion. Characters from The Savage Heart will appear, characters from Enter Procyon will appear and I promise you that even the mentioned characters will appear with new characters appearing also. As for the Scourge of Mumm-Ra, he won't be appearing until the seventh chapter to give him a proper build-up. As for the evabon child that was introduced at the end of Enter Procyon, I have chosen a name for him: Balor, much shorter than Bellerophon and less Greek. Without further wait, here we go!
A Long Canoe Ride
Gard paddled away. In a great canoe, Gard and Hattanzo did their work. Lynx-O sat in the middle, listening to his surroundings. And then there was the young evabon boy, Balor his name was, he sat in front of Lynx-O, starring at him with curious eyes.
"Are you a cat?" Balor looked at Lynx-O curiously. "I've never seen a cat before." The boy touched Lynx-O's leg. "My father told me that cats were evil monsters. You don't look so bad." Lynx-O pushed Balor's hand away from his leg, clearly annoyed. "Why are you covered in hair? Are all cats covered in hair?" Gard let out a sigh. Balor had the curiousness of a young cat or a young petalar. "Are all cats blind?" Lynx-O mumbled a response, something that Balor didn't hear. "Are all cats like you?"
"So… Balor, what can you tell us about this 'Scourge of Mumm-Ra?'" Gard wanted to know what he could about whom he'd be going up against. This 'Scourge of Mumm-Ra' was mysterious at the very least, with stories saying that he breathed fire and was invincible as long as he touched the earth. Gard's cousin Thomeheb had been under the impression that by rubbing dirt on himself he was invincible. Didn't help him when he died in a battle at sea. Gard thought about that. He thought about how among the races of third earth, the belief of being connected to earth to be invincible did not belong solely to evabon.
"He's an evabon, like you and me, Gard!" Gard listened intently. Balor said that the Scourge was and evabon like the two of them.
"Like us?" Balor nodded and pointed at his skin.
"Grey-skinned!" Gard was puzzled. Another grey-skin? Thomeheb had grey skin but Thomeheb had died when Gard was thirty-four. It couldn't have him. "And he's a giant! Bigger than any of us in this canoe!" That made Gard think. Thomeheb had been large, twelve feet in fact but the tallest evabon on record had been twenty feet. That made Gard consider what Balor had said. The Scourge could have been that tall, the height range for evabon only went as far as twenty feet and that height was particularly rare. "He rides upon a huge mount and he wields a strange weapon." Hattanzo turned his head to look at Balor but quickly turned back to paddling when Gard glared at him to focus. "It's not like a tomahawk, a bow and arrow, a yumi, a kanabo, a dory spear, an aspis, a claymore, targe, dirk, a composite bow it's not like any of those it is a magic weapon!" Balor stood up. Gard's eyes widened in alarm and Lynx-O forced the boy back down without standing up. "He just points it at someone and a sound like thunder is heard and a light comes from the weapon then the person dies." Gard thought about that. The Scourge had a weapon of the technological kind, a gun. He also thought about Balor knowing every evabon weapon. The lad's father must have been a blacksmith or a warrior. Just who was the Scourge of Mumm-Ra?