The Legend of the Eclipse Twins

THE LAST PARTS OF TRAINING

Tereus only took a fumble in the branches of the trees before he taught with a one finger onto one branch of a tall tree. He rushed through the treetops like a monkey while a fast-pasting rustle of the branches was closing in behind him. The sounds of something rushing through the green leaves of the long oak trees with wide barks that make a grizzly bear difficult to climb hurdled in the ears of Tereus.

No matter how he jumped on every branch and dashing up and down of every bark of every tree, the sounds of rustling leaves grew ever closer. He had the greatest of stamina to keep up to par with whatever was behind him, but a human's speed was limited to how much even a cheetah could move, and he was dealing with something faster than a cheetah's speed.

He was armed with only a sword with no shield. He weas dressed in only his causal clothes of a shirt, brown pants, leather boots, and a poor set of armor made of good quality wood: a small breastplate on his chest, bendable arm sets on his elbows and wrists, and a pair on his kneecaps.

After jumping to a tree separated in an open area yards away from others like a runt of a group, a large shadowy figure leaped over him while jumping through the air of a leap of his own.

The sun was in his eyes, and it was his weakness. The sun's ray of lights was the greatest strength of his sister, Teriel, and his worst weakness. If it had been for the moon at night, his eyes would be able to see through even the thickest of skulls of dragons and a dwarf's furry beard.

A hard tugging sound poured from the shadowy, black figure being directly in the sun, blinding Tereus's eyes.

Tereus only had his sword gripped in hands and swung once from the release of a bowstring. Arrows with sharp, pointy arrowheads was shot down. His sword was something different when it suddenly deflected the arrows, and it glowed a magically color with his eyes of darkness,

He foreseen when the arrows would be shot, at certain spots, at certain angles. His sword sliced and each arrow puffed into the air like a little puff of smoke.

Then he landed on the tree's lower bark with thin branches, and the shadowy figure landed on the higher ends of the tree where longer branches resided. From the angle, it was much clearer for Tereus to see what the figure above him.

A strip of a green cape weaved through the air and a hood covered the hair but not the face targeting the Yin Twin. A pale face with glowing green pupils holding a bow in one hand and several arrows in another hand. The figure was dressed in emerald armor and a face with pointy ears sticking out from the hood.

It was the Elf Lord Naeryndam.

Naeryndam trotted along the higher edges of the lone tree runt, hopping from one branch to the other. The arrows he shot from his bow were pulled from the quiver and with great skill launch the arrows one-by-one.

Tereus had the lower ground and with the sun pointing in the sky directly above at a central point; it meant it was lunchtime for everyone and he should be sleeping during the day. But he was awake from having spent an entire night in the nearby hot springs. Now he found himself in the run of his life against the obstacles of giant, wide bark trees.

He was nearly thrashed around all morning from an ambush after he was done bathing in the hot water moisturizing his skin from years of workout and blood-wrenching training. He quickly gotten used to punching his fists into trees and hard rock, but the hardest parts were the ability not to cast magic but to get away from an enemy.

The elf was certainly the most difficult to evade while running on land or swinging in amongst the trees. A high experienced person living in the treetops gained the biggest advantage over a god in human who spent his many lifetimes' experiences on the ground walking and talking like a human.