Here is how he bacame a fierce creature


(Day time) somwhere in the forest of evil witch

The group are walking on a path in the forest barda turned his head" just as i thought he's still following us" barda said. "We've got to say something the more of us there are the easier it becomes for thaegen finds us" manus standing in the road looking at them "manus" shout lief this made him happy and runs towards them. Lief said "I'm sorry, but you can't come with us" and manus seem sad and used his finger to write in the dirt ground"the four of you have saved me twice once from the gray guards,once from jin and jod now my life is yours" barda read " he wants to repay us for what we have done" barda said "he doesn't have to do that?"jasmine said "but you saved us from jin and jod to manus remember so I say we're even" lief said.

Then manus got back up and crossed his arms in an X signaling no."Ya manus don't you see your completely free from those evil monsters you can go back home if you want to"jasmine said and manus lift up his right arm to point in the direction everyone turns their heads and manus walks in front of them and looks at them. Lief realized "i get it in order to get to the leg of tears we've gotta go through the village of Ralidin" jasmine said "thats manus's home isn't it " lief said "ya and that means he could probably lead us right to the lake of tears" manus nodded his head "thats good this could save us time" barda said "looks like we've got are self's a new guide" jasmine said with fili agreeing by bouncing up and down.

(traveling day and night) montage

And so it was that lief and his companions continued their journey with manis leading the way. According to him, he would only take that three days to get it to Ralidin however it would not be an easy journey. In order not to attract any unwanted attention they slept on the cold, hard ground without the warmth of a fire this was especially difficult for Jasmine who was still recovering from her wound. They had to be careful during the day as well and kept a small well hidden paths this slowed them down at least they were able to travel at ease. Jasmine could also talk to the trees and make sure theagen was nowhere nearby. But eventually they were forced into the open as the trees became more and more sparse.

We now see them running in an open field "manis I think we need to stop and let Jasmine rest" lief said. "I don't need to especially not here I mean, we might as well put up a big sign telling theagen where we are" and cal said "manus follow me if my calculations are correct the spot should be here" while he was walking " manus cal why are you running away from us?" barda then says " i think maybe he has something they like us to see".

Manus and cal ran to the edge of a cliff and manus signaled them to follow the other showed up. "Uh a log cabin" lief said and cal replied "not just any log cabin leif my family's log cabin.


(Day time ) log cabin

The group had made it to the log cabin lief said "hello anybody home" barda added"doesn't seem like it" then cal spoke "well when you've been gone from a cabin a long time someone's bound to live in it". Jasmine then walked to a tree while she said "wait sec" and pressed her head on the tree she saw past vision of grey guards hurting people. "I thought so this place was attacked by grey guards" jasmine said manis shakeing his head back and forth "ya take a look at this" barda said pointing to the side of the house on it was a print of a hand with an eye in the palm, this was the symbol of the Shadow Lord.

"It's been marked by the shadow lord's brand" lief said manis look down and clenched his right hand into a fist "this isn't good if the gray guards have come this far then it's quite possible they have reached ralidin" barda said "then there's no time to waste we gotta hurry" jasmine said running back to the group "but jasmine, your wound still healing you need to rest" lief said "im fine"she interjected and manus ran into the house "what is it manus"barda said.

(Inside log cabin) day time

Everyone was inside the log cabin manis was inspecting a big wash tub and he stood it up straight and did hand gestures of bathing." Is he for real could he be saying we should take a bath in that thing doesn't he realize we don't have time to sit around seriously?" jasmine said, and then manis tossed a small empty bucket to lief. Manus points to the well outside "a well, a bucket oh wait i get it" lief said "there's nothing left to get he wants us to take a bath" jasmine pointed "actually i think manis is really worried about that woundof yours jasmine he wants you to clean it before we continue" barda said. "But we don't have time"jasmine objected "i agree with manus you should take care of it while you have the chance" lief said "of course you take his side" she said.

"You know sometimes it's good to listen to other peoples opinions" lief said "don't you remember that's how I got the wound in the first place" she said. Manus tapped on the wood getting their attention and on the wood post "that mark again" lief said manis did a bird movement "is that a bird is that what you are saying" lief said "but what does it mean?" jasmine said. "I know that mark now it's the secret symbol used by resistance fighters they struggle agains the tryanny of the Shadow lord so"barda said "so their symbol looks like a bird flying freeley in the sky and since the mark is carved on this post that means the resistance group has been here too" lief said

It was afternoon Jasmine was enjoying a nice hot soak in the giant tub of water. She heard a squeak it was fili asking if shes ok she said " i'm ok now I think I'm ready to go on".

Log cabin inside(night time)

Everyone one is eating dinner at the table lief said "oh man it's really delicious i think Barda should do all the cooking from now on" Barda turned his head and hummed as a sigh good work". "And you were right telling us to stay and rest here good call manus" he nod and hummed in agreement jasmin said but "yes I know I'm worried about ralidin to" barda said. "But why would the Shadow Lord be interested in them anyway?", lief said "he knew the ralids were clever and strong workers im sure he wanted to make them his slaves as soon as he took control the land when the ralids hered that the shadow lord eyes were fixed on their village manis went to del for help thinking he would find the strongest resistance group there" barda said " I see "leif said. "But any resistance in Del was crushed a long time ago " barda said lief got up and said"no way I know it's still exists they may be in hiding but I believe there are many people who would fight against the shadow lord" lief said. "Liefs right i'm sure there are members of the resistance protecting ralidin even now" jasmine said "that's why we need to go "Barda said.

Cal finally spoke "hold on everyone It's still dark outside we'll leave in the morning", "but why don't we leave now cal?" Lief said, "because lief I told and promised all of you I would tell you my whole story the truth when we are safe and the right time and place this is now".

"My real name Calibar Eclipse and i'm about 118 years old" cal said everone was surprised "hold on how can you be 118 years old?", jasmine said "if thats true then that means you've been around since king adin" barda said. "Trust me you will find out about everything right now" cal said. "First lets show all are forms" he said as he placed baggy and hatter on the table baggy had sprouted eight octopuse tentacles from her back and hatter sprouted eight spider legs from under his rim. Everyone was surpised " i will explain all now".


(Cals story)

Before the belt was forged, my family and I were skilled dungeon divers. After a long time we have have decided to take a break from dungeon diving and make a life in a far land. The land we choose was deltora land my family had built the log cabin we are currently in.

During out time we had saw what sorceress theagen and her children were doing and on occasion we had stopped them. I also decide to taunt them which caused them to be angry and searched for me.

Things were good but one day when my mom was helping me with my magic project we completed it was a neon stone the size of a small marble. This stone called the retain stone had the ability to stop a certain part of a spell/ritual any way I want I then put it in my pocket since it was complete and went out side to play with my rainbow ball my had called out dinner time.

You wanna know how that witch and her children found us it was because of me. We hid from theagen and her kids by placeing a sand circle around our cabin If i had looked before getting out then maybe they would still be alive. They caught us of guard and they killed my parents I thought their cruelty nows no bound how wrong I was.

jasmine said "but cal why are you like this" he said " I'm getting their" Theagen and her chiledren surronded me in a spell ritual circle. The scene we see 12 shadows but jin and jod could be seen what they were doing is performing a ritual to permanently turn me into a creature like them so I would be cruel just as they are. But what they didn't know was that i hid the stone in my mouth that gave me a chance to alter the ritual spell I kept my humanity, but got turned into that creature. From this ritual not only did I get the creature form but a side effect for every 50 years that passed by I only aged once. I saw a lot of horrible things they did to everyone so in the dead of night, I concealed my presence and ran away from them. "So how did you know how to fight and cast magic" lief said.

You see my father was a great warrior and blacksmith named aaron gavel. My mother is cielya a powerful sorceress, who knew about the magic and what it is she also taught me six types of magic water,earth,fire,air,light and dark. I had cut their hair one time and took a bag mixed with dried octopus, moms hair and hat mixed with dried spider, dads hair. I put them in different spell circles and took a forgeing hammer and combined them the result baggy and hatter. I knew the sorcereress and her children would find me so I hid in the one place they wouldn't even think i hide the forest of silence mostly because of the creatures there.

Barda said "does this mean you know what happened at deltora" cal replied "I don't just know it I was there and saw it far distance."

I had saw how the Shadow Lord wanted the land of deltora and I saw adin with the belt uniting the seven gems and tribes I even saw the size of the Shadow Lord he's almost as big as a mountain. There was the sight the akbaba carry the gems away while all of us sat on top of the highest tree in the forest.

During that time i had encountered the winn but I always escaped them then I decided to use one of my new great abilities. I traped one winn killed it within the law of nature drained its essence blood style mixed a potion drank it I got the winns agility and venom. Since a lot of grey guards passed through the forest of silence and fell victim to the winns venom I help myself to their stuff. Thats how I got a lot of weapons,coins and books one I found very interesting was a hand held sized belt of deltora book.

No POV

"And thats my story ive been hiding in the forest of silence ever since till our adventures together began" cal said. Everyone was understanding why cal kept that secret and how they new they could trust him to prove it kree and fili came to him and started to pet up against. "You have proven that theagens magic does not rule you" lief said "cal you helped me from jin and jod our debt is paid but i still want you around" barda told.

"Anyone who can stand up to someone as vile as thaegean and her children you earned my trust" jasmine said manus nodded in agreement. "Im glad you all feel that but lets get to bed we'll leave first dawn and manis don't tell your people about this until we defeated theagen" manus agreed but not before lief asked "how are you able to handle all this cal?" and he replied "one of my great skills is that i can absorb skills from someone whether they're defeated in battle or I got a sample of them".

Then cal turned to manus and said "manus im trusting you with this info and I want you to promise me you will tell your people when the time is right". Manus nodded in agreement and cal said "good and prove it bump fist with me" he lifted up his right arm formed his hand into and fist and manus did the same as soon as they bumped fist the promise has been kept then they all went to sleep.

Sorry this took so long but like i said a chapter ago rome wasn't built in a day.