Quest
for the
Shining Crystal
by: Joseph Aravich
Prelogue
"Hold your fire!"
The dust cleared at 9:45 that night and nothing was to be seen. Nothing but a thin patch of clustered trees.
"Keep your eye's open, men! It's still in there somewhere."
The military commander looked back and saw nothing. Had his troops gone awery. No, never. Or had they been... I'll stick with the first idea, he thought. But then he turned back around.
A black fog, which, in fact, seemed to be living, was creeping toward the commander. He took out his machine gun and showed it to the fog. " See this? With this, I... I'm not afraid 'a you! No sir. I-" he stopped talking. He could not breath. Litterally. He tried moving, but no such luck. Then he started levitating into the air. " Ack- Ah!" The fog crept closer every second.
His life was being stolen. There was no way to stop the process once it started. He had failed his world- Arnia- in stopping it's destruction. And he had failed himself. Then his eyes rolled into his head and he started shaking uncontrollably. His blood vessels started exploding. Then he fell limp to the ground. Red Fellin, Arnia's top military commander, was dead.
Joebushy- For anyone who thinks this is off the subject, have no fear. Remember, this is just the prelogue. Trane Mahony is the hero. Meet him in Chapter 1. As for A Tale of Many an Adventurer ( Joe's Story), I'm still working on it.