THE LEGION- Uprising

CHAPTER TWO

Maddox had been walking for two days non-stop. He was following some birds that were probably migrating.

He walked directly into a Quaf camp. The Quafs, standing no more than 3 feet 6 inches, was a primitive race that were born for battle. They had camps everywhere and were always armed. Whether there was danger or not.

Oh shit....

He turned and ran but they had seen him. A camp contained a few hundred of Quaf soldiers. Armed with Quaf blade.

Quaf blade was a kind of knife made from an ore found only in the Quaf nation.

He ran. They chased. He hid. They spread out and searched. 

Three Quaf soldiers came dangerously close to where he was hiding.

Launching out of his hiding place, he bashed the head of the Quaf closest to him with the flat side of the jorl, still with that momentum, he spun round and hit the other Quaf with the pointed edge. The spike sunk into the Quaf's eye and protruded through the back of it's head. The third Quaf was shocked.

People from Brai weren't fighters. They even lost the great war centuries ago and since then they had nothing to do with weapons.

Coming out of it's shock, the Quaf threw his knife at Maddox. The knife flew through the air and sank into his chest. The Quaf followed up with a kick which Maddox stepped into and caught the leg. And with all the anger and pain of the past few week, he brought down the flat edge the the jorl on the Quaf's knee.

The knee bent beyond an angle no knee should bend to.  The Quaf howled in pain before the pointed edge of the jorl entered its mouth and caved it's jaws in.

But the howl alerted the other Quafs and they located where Maddox was. And they all came at him.

Aww shit...

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Mike blinked once. The Xeran blinked twice. Time stood still. Literally.

Dax was shocked that this creature in front of him could move when he literally paused the time.

"Where am i?" He asked

"Earth...." Mike replied then added "Wait, you don't know? What was the last thing you remember?"

"I don't know..... I remember running.... Then crashing.... Then darkness... That's all, i guess." Dax said "what are you?"

"Me? I'm an alien experiment..... From Ceres. And i take it you're an Xeran. Correct?"

"Correct. My name is Dax."

"I'm Mike. Now would you please stop whatever it is you're doing" Mike said, gesturing outside at all the objects frozen in time.

"Oh yeah...."  And then, the bee continued it's buzzing. The truck and cars outside continued moving. Everything continued as if nothing had happened.

"I'm surprised you speak English" Mike said to Dax who was looking out the window

"Yeah. They made us learn Earth's most common language back at home. The said Earth's the most civilized planet in the multiverse." Dax replied while still looking as if entranced by the sheer color of the sky and clouds.

"I'd disagree to that. I've lived here all my life and there's nothing civilized about most people here."

Dax snorted in response.

"I need to go back home...."

"How did you get here in first place? Why were you running? From what?" Mike asked Dax.

"I was running.... For my life. I must have created a gateway. But no gateway has ever linked two different worlds before..." Dax said, as if thinking out loud.

"Can you remember what you were running from?"

Dax squeezed guys eyes shut for a moment "Ordons..." He opened his eyes and terror was written all over his face.

"Why do you look so scared?" Mike asked him, noticing the scared look on his face.

"A gateway leaves two prints behind. One at the origin and the other at the appearance point. It weakens the barrier between the two places. Making it easily manipulated with enough power...... Well, Ordons have enough power."

"So what you're trying to say now is that...."

"The Ordons are capable of opening the gateway i passed through.... And following me here"

The door opened and Mike's mom put her head through "Mike..... Oh hello dear... Hope you're feeling better..." She said on seeing Dax, who nodded in response. "There's been an accident along the Quick -  e - mart road... Some strange looking creatures are supposedly the cause of it."

"They're here...." Dax said, his voice trembling.

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Maddox ran like he ran never ran before. He knew he should not have killed those Quafs but he couldn't help it. All the anger and frustration had finally lessened.

The Quafs were not tall but we're very muscular and agile. And they obviously knew this terrain more than Maddox.

Soon, as one, they brought out a special kind of spear and threw it. He knew he could not outrun the projected spears but he kept running anyway..... Until the ground have way too a 3,150 foot drop.

Damn, the cliff of Dermtod.... I should have known

He had no choice. He closed his eyes and jumped.