The Legend of Kujalita
Chapter 4
By Martin the Warrior
Tarra was frightened. At first, it had only seemed like a low hanging cloud. Now, as she walked into it, everything had got quieter. It was as if some evil presence had overcome the planet. As she tried to walk back out of it, the cloud seemed to grow as she walked.
"Ok, so I'm stuck in some giant cloud that is growing as I'm walking, and I can hardly see 5 feet in front of me. Nothing to worry about…" She said silently to herself. As she was talking, something had got hold of her ankle and as she walked forward, she tripped. Tarra acted quickly, sensing that the thing that had grabbed her ankle was going to try and kill her. She rolled over onto her back and saw what she thought was a tentacle. She jumped up quickly and sliced down with her axe. It cut the tentacle in half and it pulled back in pain away from her. She took a closer look and saw a black, oily, substance leaking from the tentacle. It thrashed around for a little while then lay still.
"What the hell was that?" She asked herself.
"A little friend of mine, dear. I don't appreciate people killing my friends. Muhahahahahahaha!" A voice answered back from inside the mist. The voice sounded muffled, so she couldn't tell whether it was male or female.
"Show yourself!" She shouted loud enough so the voice could hear.
"Show myself? If I did that, you would know who I was, wouldn't you?"
"If you don't show me who you are, I'll be forced to take extreme measures."
This was greeted by a mocking laugh.
"Uh oh, looks like I got the little girl mad. Oh, look at the time. Guess I'll have to finish you now. Eat this!" The voice shouted. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a lightning bolt came through the mist. Tarra dived out of the way, only to be met with a large fireball coming at her from her right. Tarra was knocked right back into the path of the lightning bolt. A surging pain went through Tarra's body. She had no idea that it would hurt that badly, and she screamed in utter pain. Tarra was knocked to the ground, losing consciousness fast.
"Hahahahaharr, I win. I'll have some fun with you when we get back. Take her boys." The voice laughed. The last thing Tarra saw were about 20 tentacles reaching out of the mist towards her.
Meanwhile, back here at the castle, I had been put on castle gate duty with Steiner. I was enjoying the afternoon air, but Steiner was his usual gloomy self.
"Why are you so upset Steiner? The sky is blue, birds are singing and the sun is setting. Steiner, look at that sunset and tell me you're upset." I said to him eventually.
"I'm not upset. I'm angry because the castle is in danger, I can feel it." He replied.
"The castle's in danger?"
"Yeah, I feel as if some huge monster is gonna suddenly come over the city and destroy it all."
As Steiner was explaining what he felt, Bahamut was getting closer and closer towards Alexandria.
"Ohh, my head," was the first thing Tarra said as she came back to the world. She was still very weak, but stood up and took stock of her surroundings. She was in some sort of cell. To her left was a small door with bars across the top part to form a window. The wall was painted a dull green (as were all the other walls). To her right was a toilet with two rolls of paper on the floor beside it. In front of her was a bed. It had one pillow and one thin blanket draped over it. Behind her was a wall. Above her was a vent.
"Hello?" She shouted. Her voice echoed back to her from all directions.
"No one will answer you." An old voice replied. For the first time, Tarra realized she had a roommate. He was an old man with thin, greying hair. His face had so many wrinkles, it would probably take about 300 years to count them. His stomach looked as if it had caved in a long time ago.
"Hi. My name's Tarra Englewood. Who, may I ask, are you?" She asked him.
"Me? Oh, I lost track of that about…can't remember how many years. Just call me John Doe." He laughed.
"Are you hungry?"
"Ravenous."
"Here, take this."
Tarra reached into the back pocket of her jeans and brought out a wedge of cheese, a slice of bread, and a small bottle of ale.
"I keep this in case of emergencies." She said. He looked at the food wide eyed, took it politely from her hands, and dug in hungrily.
Steiner was worried out of his mind now. He kept saying, that a huge monster was gonna kill him and everybody else in the city. I kept telling him to keep quiet and go see a psychiatrist. I told him this again and then heard something. It was like a giant bird flapping its wings.
"Steiner, shut up!" I yelled, "do you hear that?"
"Err, what?" He replied.
"It's like a huge bird."
He was silent for a while then his eyes widened. He muttered something under his breath then said,
"Yeah, what is it?" I think we both saw it at the same time. Bahamut!
"Steiner, get inside the castle and raise the alarm. Hurry!" I said. Oh my dear Jesus, I thought, I'm gonna die.
End of Chapter 4
Read chapter five to find out more about John Doe. Will Alexandria survive Bahamut's fury?