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Saturday, May 8, 2004
Part 1 of the Pilot of My Story
Here starts the pilot, the first draft before getting to the real thing. Enjoy.
“HELP!” screamed a wounded woman. Running through a forest, she was leaving a trail of blood. Her upper right arm had been badly cut. The middle of the night is not the best time to be in a forest rumored for being inhabited by dog-like earth demons. Sprouting vines covered with thorns, they are not friendly creatures. Taking a short cut through their resting grounds may seem like a quick way home, but as the woman quickly found out, it may not have been the best of ideas. Just stepping on one tail woke them all up. One bit her arm and they’ve been running since. If not for the full moon providing light for her to see, she surely would have been ripped to shreds by now.
There is a path going through the woods, however. It’s narrow and is hardly noticeable. Few people would actually travel it. He is one of those few. She stumbled onto the path and ran into him. They both hit the ground. He got up first and lent a hand to help her to her feet.
“Are you ok?” asks the man with silver hair and ice blue eyes. She stutters something that he can’t understand. The blood all over her sleeve, however, he has no problem understanding. He lifts his head, as if noticing something.
“Get down. I’ll take it from here.”
“N-n-no. T-t-they’ll kill you,” she managed to utter.
“No they won’t,” said the man in a calm voice.
How can he not be afraid? Does he not know about them or even hear their loud, horrifying roars? she wonders. As he turns, the long blue cape around his shoulders shifts, revealing a sword at his left hip. Does he think he can kill them with that?
He walked forward a few steps. Suddenly, from out of the trees, they lunged forward. Two large demons, about eight feet long and five feet tall when on all four legs. They were a blackish-green color with fur like pine needles. She watched with horror as they appeared to fly from the trees towards her and the strange man. They landed and growled. Their mouths drooled and their dark-yellow eyes began to glow. As she began to faint from the blood loss, all she could see is the man reach for his sword as the demons were just over an arm’s length away.
“Dear, are you all right?” asked the woman’s mother as she began to wake. They were in their home made of wood, in her room. She was lying on her bed with a wet rag on her head and her arm in bandages.
“You gave us quite a scare. It’s a good thing that nice young man found you. Imagine, fainting over losing blood in a fall. We were worried. We told you not to go through that forest. You could have gotten lost.”
“Tree?” wondered the woman. Were the demons just a dream? And that guy too?
“You wait here. I’m going to get some fresh bandages.” Her mother walked out.
Just then, she heard two people speaking in the other room, both with voices she knew. One was her father’s voice, and the other was that same calm voice from last night.
“I can understand why a traveler such as yourself would need a weapon, but still, the craftsmanship. It must have been expensive.”
“Actually, it’s a family heirloom. Didn’t cost a thing.”
She forced herself to get up. The blood loss made her a bit dizzy, but she made it to the doorway. Her father and the man were sitting at the table. Her father turned his head towards his daughter.
“Seria, shouldn’t you still be in bed? We don’t want Niko’s efforts to get you here to be in vain, now do we?”
“Niko?”
The man stood up and smiled. “Yes. That’s me. My name is Niko. Pleased to see you again, this time awake.” He put his hand out for her to shake. She did and noticed a strange mark. It was a circle on the back of his hand, except that the circle was open near the middle knuckles and had a line going through the opening. The marks were light blue.
“What are those?” asked Seria.
Niko looked at his hands. “These?”
“Are they some sort of foreign markings? Are you from some far away village?”
“Seria, you really shouldn’t ask so many questions. It’s…”
Niko interrupted. “It’s all right. I get asked that a lot. Not many silver haired people with odd symbols on their hands around here. That’s about right. I’m not from around here.”
Seria’s then asked, “If you’re not from here, why are you here?”
Niko thought about that. “I’m just traveling for the sake of traveling. No specific reason.”
“And your family doesn’t mind?”
“There’s not much of a family to mind.”
Seria frowned. She was taken by surprise. “Oh I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…”
“It’s fine. I didn’t know much of them that well anyway. My grandfather raised me. He’s still alive, and he encouraged me to wander around.”
Seria’s mother walked in. “Well, now that Seria is up and about, we can eat lunch. Niko, would you please join us?”
“Sorry, but I really must be going. I don’t want to be caught out in the dark in another creepy forest. It’s kind of hard to see. It’s best if I get going while there’s still sunlight.”
“That seems reasonable enough,” spoke Seria’s father. “Thank you for finding our daughter Niko. We would have been insane with grief if you didn’t bring her to us.”
“Thank nothing of it. I was just fortunate enough to get lost. Again, thank you for the breakfast.”
Seria’s mother said, “It’s the least we could do. Please visit next time you’re in town.”
Niko picked up his sword off of the table and put it in his white sheath. He then waved and walked out the open door into the dirt road. Seria ran out after him. Her parents just figured that she was thanking him.
“Niko!” She caught up, but he kept walking. “Why did you lie and say I fell? Why didn’t you tell them about the demons? What happened to them anyway?”
While walking and without facing her, he replied, “Demons such as those aren’t common around here. They’re vicious and dangerous. The last thing this town needs is to start an angry mob to go after a bunch of demons, just to have many of them die, demons and humans.”
“Then what happened to them?”
“They won’t be bothering you anymore.”
She stopped. What does that mean? How did he stop them?
He kept walking for a bit and then stopped and turned around. “By any chance, do you know where to find a man by the name of Tayaku?”
Part 2 to come soon |
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