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{The Legend of Nanaki} [Chapter 1: The nightmare]





A young cub was running the plains of Cosmo Canyon. The sun was setting as he ran freely, his thin mane blew in the breeze. He had run around the towns people of the canyon and heard them talking about some demons that would appear soon. They were worried, but they knew that it would all be a past time as soon as the great warrior was sent out to eliminate them.

The cub stopped running and walked up to an Elder of the canyon. The Elder saw the cub and bent down and scratched him behind the ears. "It'll be alright. The warrior will take care of this." he said to the cub. The Elder resumed his position of talking to the people and other Elders.

The cub ran to another Elder. "Your father will settle this once and for all..." the Elder said. The cub ran to another Elder. The Elder bent down and put a necklace on the cub's neck. "Your father wanted to give you this if he never came back..." the Elder ruffled the cub's mane. The cub didn't know what any of them were talking about; he was so young. Another Elder walked up to the cub and picked him up.

The Elder wispered into the cub's ear. "Go to the cave if you wish to see the one...." the cub squirmed in the Elder's arms and jumped out. He ran as fast as he could. The Elder smiled, for he had known what he'd done. The cub reached the entrance to the cave and ran in. He wasn't sure what the Elder meant by "The one" but he had a pretty good idea of who it was.

The cub reached a cliff in the back of the cave. He stood at the base of it and looked at the full moon above it. There, he saw a shadow of another one of his own race. The cub couldn't make out who it was, for there were a lot of his kind, but no, this one was different. He looked closer.

The shadow engulfed the mysterious figure's face and body. Soon, the shadow figure moved. "My son......." the figure said. The cub soon knew who it was right then and there. "F-father....?" came the cub.

"Yes...Have you come to assist me in battle, Nanaki?" the cub's father spoke. Nanaki backed up a bit. "M-me? No...I can't possibly...I'm just a cub, I'm not strong..."

Seto, the cub's father, turned fully around. "Nanaki, my son, you are plenty powerful. After all the training we've done, you can take down an enemy or so."

"No father!" the cub stepped back. "I can't! I'll be killed!" Seto shook his head slowly. "The son of the great warrior, Seto, can't be killed so easily." Seto said. He looked over the cliff at the plains of the cave. "They should be here soon..."

"Father...." Nanaki stepped forward. Seto turned to face him again, his face still covered by the shadows. "Nanaki, trust yourself. Never give up. Keep up with your strength in battle.....and never lose the time......." Battle cries were heard coming up the side of the cliff. Seto turned quickly to face them, and out of nowhere, an arrow struck Seto's chest. Spills of blood came out, but were quickly turned to stone as Seto's fur and flesh slowly began to turn to stone.

The GI tribe still shot at Seto with the poison arrows, making a thicker coat of stone to engulf him in. Nanaki was so terrified, that he could barely breathe or move. The hundreds of GI tribe warriors ran past Seto. Nanaki finally got the courage to move. He ran up the cliff to his father. The GI tribe stopped as soon as the saw the young cub.

"Master, should we kill him?" a GI tribe warrior asked. "No, he's just a cub, he cannot cause any harm to us." The Master said. The GI ran for the canyon to make an attack. Nanaki reached Seto and stopped. Tears overcame him and he howled into the night sky. Nanaki looked Seto in the eyes. They were dark yellow, yet everything else was pure stone.

Nanaki's eyes filled with tears and he rubbed up against his father.

"Father...father....come back....no....NOOO!!!" Nanaki howled into the sky again. "Please....please father.....don't leave me.....don't leave the people of the canyon....please!" Nanaki cried harder. He put his paw on his fathers. Seto's paw was so big compared to little Nanaki. Nanaki's necklace touched his father's upper front leg. Seto began to shake inside his stone figure, as his eyes went from dark yellow to bright, glowing yellow. Nanaki saw his eyes and backed away slowly.

Seto's eyes turned a shade of bright red as a group of shrilling screams were heard from throughout the cave. Nanaki backed away more. "F-f- father...?" Seto's eyes returned back to dark yellow after all the screams were heard.

Nanaki ran from the cliff to where the screams were heard. When he reached his destination, he saw burnt-out torches, spears, bows and arrows, and white and purple feathers. He howled into the night sky once more.

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Nanaki was shaking and sweating. His eyes flew open and he stood up quickly. His shaky legs collapsed as soon as he knew what had happened.

"Grr..." Nanaki rubbed his head. "Why? Why is that dream coming back to me?" Nanaki stood up and walked over to the mirror. He studied himself.

"I'm not supposed to have that dream anymore...." Nanaki looked down. "Maybe it means something...." He layed back down. He sighed heavily. "I... I only had that dream when I was a cub...after my father's death....why is it coming back to me now?"

Nanaki thought. He knew the dream was true, he just didn't want to admit it. "I still wonder how father destroyed the GI tribe....was it mental powers from within the stone? And how did all of my race die but me?"

He laid his head on his paws. "Maybe it should be left unsaid...." Nanaki yawned and tried to go back to sleep, but no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't. The dream was frightning, but he DID need the sleep, for he would be protecting the canyon all day like any other day.







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