Adventure, mystery, and treasure left behind the old worlds are plenty in this world entirely inhabited by monsters and creatures.
Sheila, a young normal tortoise wants to be a famous adventurer and have stories told about her all throughout the lan...
James woke up from a seemingly dreamless sleep. The tanuki got up to his feet and took in his surroundings. The world around him was void of all life, color, and motion. Stone shards and wooden splinters float in the air, as James found himself in a city amidst its own destruction, roads and buildings being torn apart, frozen in time.
None of this bothered James.
Looking to where the destruction seems to be coming from, James was drawn to the source. The tanuki took a step forward, and in the moment time shifted ever so slightly. The tanuki began to walk, and all the shards and remains frozen in time began to flow back into each other, returning to their original architectural forms. As James walked forward down the empty street, time was working backwards. The city and road around James continued to restore itself until James made it into a plaza.
From here, the city was whole, but there was still no color, no people, and time refused to move again at this point. The road went around in a circle in this plaza around a large beautifully design fountain. Water was around it where it should have been flowing, but even up in the air, the water was still.
James walked towards the fountain and stared at the base where the water would pool into. It was clear, he could see the many coins thrown in that decorate the bottom. The thing was, however, is that he see the coins clearly through the frozen ripples of the water and nothing else to obstruct his vision. There wasn't a reflection of himself in the water...
Thoughts began to stir in James' mind. It was only now that he began to feel like something wasn't right. He stepped back from the fountain and walked backwards. He looked up and saw the castle that towered over the city like an ever watching colossus.
James' slight sense of confusion was overshadowed by his growing anger. He remembers now. This city. That castle. What he was about to do.
As the final memory was revealed in his mind, time continued forward where it stopped, the fountain flowed with clear and rich water. Color and wind returned and brought clarity back to reality. And then, the people. Monsters of every kind who weren't there, suddenly came into existence, tending to their normal lives and schedules as if nothing was going to go wrong today.
Oh how wrong they were.
James didn't look away from the castle. Monsters walked by, barely paying attention to him. They unaware, for the moment, that the tanuki standing in the plaza was changing very slowly. James heard a voice come from his right.
"Hey, you doing okay?"
In that instant the ground shook. The paved ground under James cracked and shattered as a huge dark claw shot out of the earth sending the tanuki flying in the air. The innocent passerby monsters watched in shock and horror as James fell back down towards the claw in which it crushed his small feeble body in its grasp. That same claw then stretched and slammed itself into the ground, pushing against it to pull the rest of its body out of the earth.
Monsters began to panic and escape as the abomination emerged. It was covered in pitch black fur, with a single gleaming pearl white eye. Each of its limbs that grew out of its massive body could topple buildings like they were simple constructs made of sand.
Monsters skilled in magics appeared in an attempt to subdue the creature. Their efforts were wasted. The abomination began to raise its two massive arms into the air and swung them back into the earth, sending a shockwave of destruction all throughout the city, reducing the roads and buildings to shards and splinters once again.
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