Klempey [EN]

Chapter 5: Following whispers

15 years ago

Cleo was playing knights with Lenin, she was holding a wooden figurine in the shape of a fortified warrior, Teph was holding one that seemed to represent an imposing Terk.

"I USE THE RUNE OF FORCE AND RAISE A HUGE STONE TO HIT YOU IN THE HEAD!", Cleo grabbed a paper ball and raised it as if her warrior was performing those movements, she threw the paper ball in the direction of the Terk held by Lenin, it made an explosion sound simulating the impact of the huge projectile.

Lenin made as if the Terk absorbed all the impact and howled in pain, "Ho no my levitation is failing!". Cleo smiled victoriously and exclaimed "Now you can't use your stinking flare anymore!".

Lenin let out a laugh at that comment, "Terks aren't dragons, they don't eject flares," he explained to her. Cleo was annoyed to see that Lenin had cut her off, "But! They're like snakes with wings that fly, how do you know they don't spit fire too?".

Lenin picked up the Terk figure and pointed to the mark on its belly, "Do you recognize this symbol?" he asked. Cleo made a grumpy gesture at what he was asking her, "Yes, it's like the buoyancy rune, we've already gone over it for the exam, Now it's time to play!".

Cleo picked up her warrior again and threw it in the air with a battle cry, but Lenin stopped her again, "Exactly, but as you saw yesterday, the buoyancy rune doesn't make you fly, does it?". Cleo pouted at him again when she saw that he wasn't following her lead, "Terks don't fly or eject flares, they crawl to high places and launch themselves from them, they glide through the air as if they were paper airplanes, sustained by the power of the underground."

Cleo interrupted him, "I know! You've told me a thousand times when you helped that Terk who got stuck on top of the wall." Lenin smiled as he saw that she still remembered what he had taught her and decided to resume the game, "But with a pebble you can't stop me! My flare is still strong!", Lenin blew as if the Terk had spit a powerful flare in the warrior's direction.

The warrior rolled just at the right moment to avoid the wall of fire that was coming towards him, he looked at the huge Terk that was surrounded by a wasteland of flames, the heat made the warrior sweat and he could feel how he was against the wall of the city, he had nowhere to escape.

The Terk approached slowly crawling towards its prey, the only thing it had to do was to give a fatal bite to finish with the so acclaimed warrior of Klempey.

It raised his head in to the air to gain momentum, but just as he propelled himself towards the knight, the knight rolled back to the right, his head following him in rage seeing the mistake he had just made. With great cunning the warrior made the head follow him around, when the huge snake wanted to realize it was entangled on itself, unable to move.

The battle seemed to have been won, so the warrior turned around in a gesture of victory, however, the insipid man had made a big mistake, he had forgotten the enormous power that the monster's flames harbored, when he turned around to see the Terk, it had already charged its attack and went to unleash it against him, when...

"I'm back!" shouted Sara as she entered the house, Lenin stood up to welcome her back while Cleo grumbled at her for cutting out at the worst time.

"Has she given you much war?" she asked Lenin exhausted at the day's work she had led.

"Cleo doesn't give any war, don't worry, although well, I'm sure that Terk would love to disagree," he smiled looking at Cleo.

Cleo smiled back and continued to play with the two dolls while Lenin and Cleo continued their conversation.