Disclaimer:I do not own the characters in this chapter Disney does.
Chapter one: Merrick's dream
One late, cold and dark October night deep in a forest, a young man with dark brown hair and gray eyes frantically ran though the thickly wooded forest. His heart raced almost as fast as he was running. He knew he was running from something but did not know what this something was.
"You can't run from your past." A deep voice said almost in a snarl.
The young man stopped and looked around in confusion. Who was that? It couldn't be him…I thought we destroyed him years ago. The young man thought as he looked around more.
"I'll always find you no matter what. You can't run from me forever. I will reunite with you soon enough." The voice taunted as it seemed to get louder and louder.
He could feel fear starting to consume his body. His breath was harder to catch as he started to tremble uncontrollably as he felt the evil presens get closer and closer. The young man's pale skin was soaked with sweat as he moved his gray eyes from the left to the right scanning the dark forest. He wanted to run but his feet would not let him move even an inch.
"W…who are you?" The young man shouted while fighting his trembling voice and his feet.
"You know who I am, Merrick. Or have you forgotten about your past?" The voice whispered as its hot breath shot down Merrick's neck.
With each hot breath that this creature took Merrick grew more and more frightened. The hairs on his neck stood up like pins in a pincushion and Merrick's gray eyes glazed over with fear as he stood there fighting the urge to shake. Merrick's eyes widened in shock as his pale skin became more drenched with sweat. He slowly turned his head around towards the creature until he was staring in straight in its yellow glowing eyes.
It couldn't be...Zen-aku, b...but how is that possible? A gasp left his lips as he slowly backed up. "I…it can't…can't be you! It can't be! I thought we killed you four years ago when we cut your horn off!" Merrick shouted as he backed up into a tree.
A sinister laugh left the silver and black wolf org's muzzle as it grasped its huge black colored crescent shaped blade and slowly bought it up to its muzzle. "Prepare to die, Merrick!" He quickly snarled as he raised the blade high above his head and started to bring it down.
Merrick's eyes widened in fear as he saw the black blade come towards the head. Almost as quickly as the blade came down Merrick moved slightly. The bark hit his face and tore small cuts in it, but an immense pain came from his shoulder once the blade had hit the tree. Merrick could feel a warm liquid come from his right shoulder as he let out a yelp of pain.
Zen-aku stared at Merrick curled up against the tree in pain, bleeding and helpless. Seeing Merrick in this state made Zen-aku feel overwhelmingly satisfied, so satisfied that he did not see nor hear Merrick crawl behind the tree. Zen-aku staired at the tree and noticed that Merrick was not there all that was there was the mark that his own blade had left.
"Where is that bastard?" Zen-aku snarled as he slowly walked towards the light brown rough barked tree.