TALES OF AZIRA ~MARK OF AZIRA

~CHAPTER FIVE~

~πJASONπ~
Jason was so up in the sky he could barely see the ground . The swords glow was bright and it somehow kept Jason warm . It was night and Jason didn't know how long the journey would be. As he continued flying his speed or at least the sword's speed increased. Everything was peaceful well until Jason heard thunder and saw lightning in a distance indicating it was going to rain. Dark clouds slowly covered the sky and the only Jason had was from the golden sword. He wasn't sure whether it was even possible but the clouds became darker and the lightning wasn't it's normally colour it was red. Then again his vision wasn't so good sometimes things were blurry and that was probably the first thing he had taken note of when he had woken up in the forest . He felt the hair on his arms stand up straight and instantly knew something was wrong . He felt like something was coming something dangerous , something pure evil . He felt a dark presence watching his in the dark clouds he couldn't exactly fly back down since he didn't know how to control the sword but only follow it's direction . The feeling grew stronger and he felt sick like he was going to throw up . Fear came upon him which was strange it was just clouds right? He tried to convince himself everything was okay that he had nothing to worry about but everytime he tried to do so the fear in him grew stronger . He felt weak and his grip on the sword began loosening by the second . He knew he going to fall and the landing was not going to be pleasant. The clouds closed him as if they were trying to squeeze him to death . He tried closing his eyes hoping everything would pass but his eyes refused to close the scars on his skin instantly began to pain and he was surprised to find out he had a scar on his lip. He eyes scanned around him but everything was dark only the sword was his light he had a growl and his eyes and ears followed the sound only to see a black clouds making an image . Two big red eyes and lightning red in colour flashing once after two mins . From the cloud erupted a loud terrifying laughter but the sword began glowing brighter and the pure black clouds vanished leaving the grey rain clouds. Jason's fear left him an his scars no longer pained him but he kept hearing screeching coming closer and closer and he could tell it was more than one screech . The screeching finally got to him and he still couldn't see what or where the screeching came from but when the red lightning flashed he finally saw them and his eyes widened in shock there before him were creatures which looked like bats except they were much more  furry perhaps too furry. The batlike creatures had long claws and sharp ears their eyes were black and the had razor sharp teeth no doubt they would try and get  Jason's blood. Their wings were long and like that of flying squirrels and their tails were long and coily. They were a lot that Jason could count. The sword continued moving but the creatures formed a circle around Jason ready to attack, ready to kill him . Instantly it began raining and Jason was drenched in water. The creatures began attacking one by one  rapping their tails around both  of his hands and legs and one around his neck as the rest went to his ribs and began bitting. Jason screamed out in pain and tried to move his arms and free himself and he was able to free the arm which held the sword and sliced the monsters which were bitting the flesh around his ribs and the exploded . More creatures came and he sliced towards them too and they exploded into dust .  Jason stopped flying and began falling and it gave the creatures an upper hand since it was hard to use the sword while doing flips the monsters tried to attach themselves to Jason again but Jason was cautious and quick enough to prevent that from happening. He tried to block out the pain as his sides began bleeding attracting more of those creatures . It was a long fight and Jason got weaker from the more blood he lost and his head began feeling light. He had black dots dancing on his vision and he had an urge to close his eyes but he fought it. The swords began glowing brighter and brighter as Jason closed his eyes . He had the screeching quiet down and finally there was silence he quickly opened his eyes and remembered he was still in the sky and the ground was getting closer. He suddenly remembered something, a technique to reduce the fall damage . Holding the sword tightly. He hugged his knees and began rolling like a ball and when he got close enough he straightened himself and landed one knee on the ground and the other leg stretched out like a black widow landing pose except both his hands were on the ground. He felt weak and used a tree to support himself he couldn't go further not while he was bleeding. Where he was he didn't know the sword began to glow and he closed his eyes again when he opened them he was in a school? A hallway infact. He kept walking past the lockers and classroom doors the place did not look farmiliar soon he had footsteps like someone was running towards him he moved aside and saw a girl who looked about 12 years old ran past him taking a corner and Jason followed and heard another voice from behind him. "Kierra , wait up," another boy ran past him his hair was blondish brownish and he had silver eyes it reminded him of someone but he couldn't quite place a finger on it." Come on Johny we have a lot of time before mr.carco comes to pick us up we can play outside," the black haired girl said pushing the exit doors open and ran through the boy following suit. The light from the door was bright and Jason closed his eyes once again and when he opened them he wasn't where he was before but he was standing right Infront of the Hollywood sign? Jason was beyond confused many questions who were the boy and girl? Why did the boy remind him of someone? He knew that must have been a memory but whose memory was it? And what did that memory have to do with anything? Why were the clouds black earlier and the feeling he had . What were those creatures that attacked him? He was removed from his thoughts from the sharp pain on his side he move his right hand to his side and flinched from the pain and move his hand back as he felt a wet substance on it he wasn't so shocked to see it was blood but he knew his condition was worse and he needed to find medical care but the problem was if he was asked how that happened how would he possibly explain that he had been attacked by monsters that couldn't be seen by anybody else apart from him and a werewolf kid he had rescued ? Even that sounded crazy to him but there had to be a reason as to why the sword took him there maybe that was where he could find the girl. He had to keep moving maybe there were monsters nearby too and if there were he did not want to stick around to find out. He had to limp since each step was painful.