The Last Guardians : The Blood Of The Archibald

Chapter 6 : The Struggle for Life

Without paying attention to the station he immediately sinks into the forest thanking his many almost military training sessions because, although exhausted, he feels quite able to continue his race.

He will eat once arrived at his destination, his euphoria remains high despite all these setbacks.

He strives to progress as quickly as possible, while bypassing or avoiding obstacles.

The high leaves, the trees... he perseveres and of course he thinks of his new friends Brioche and Tomate met during this expedition to the temple of Ysium.

They are probably very worried for him, he said to himself, when he feels a sharp pain in the left leg that immobilizes him.

He looks at his leg and, in a split second, receives a deep burn on his right arm.

Before he knows it, he sees two beasts resembling giant dogs, but more loose that attack him.

They injured him and his left leg, whose white flesh appears under his torn outfit, is painful. He sees blood dripping from his arm and suddenly his pulsations become more spasmodic, he is on the verge of apoplexy. but he must survive no matter what!

The Oumous, encircle these two species of wolf dogs seem to want to make him their breakfast, but it is out of the question that this happens, the reflex...

The dust there is earth and while they measure it he squats and scrapes the ground, he takes earth with his two hands, but the animals are totally out of reach, all fangs out.

They growl and are menacing then one of them attacks, and he throws this dust in his throat and grabs him by the muzzle not without being wounded in the hand, but holding firmly he holds the animal in his hands and tries to spread the fangs to him, but he is bitten by the other on his right knee on the ground.

He sends the beast flying away with all his strength, The second rushes on him and aims the jugular, but in a flash, he is no longer there. he sticks his head to the ground his lungs are smoking and his vision wavers. He rushes and knocks on this second beast that is more powerful than the other and plows the flesh of his hands and arms.

Seizing a branch that he aunt to unhook from his tree, he finds himself in the middle again of the two beasts that he seems to have managed to frighten, it forces to break the branch of its mother tree and receives an attack from the left at the level of the ribs and it strikes with the elbow sending to roll the beast which recovers quickly, it takes its breath all its emotions and sensations are accelerated.

He decides to attack the oumou closest to him, the one who has been skimming his guts since he ate earth. He sends his elbow directly into his throat after turning it over. He leans with all his strength on this shot and the animal will not recover, he tries to catch his breath, he should have his account, but the other animal attacks him again and he is short while he holds this beast by the jaw and strikes with the right directly in his eye by planting him a fang which he has just snatched in the mouth of his first assailant lying.

The animal barks and howls for a brief moment then, with its branch unhooked, it sticks it in its other eye with force, it penetrates the skull of the beast. The latter tries to stall with mechanical gestures, before collapsing. Briefly, he feels the satisfaction of having managed to push them back, but at what cost? When he collapses totally out of breath and eventually loses consciousness.

His memories overwhelm him, he sees again his island birth twins, the time spent with his grandfather, his grandmother, his friends and his life, to hope to be up to his father so important, because he worked for the government of the Imperium, the quid pro quo was that he never saw it.

Some friends whose parents had known him, said that the death of his mother had changed everything and that looking at him one had the impression of finding a part of this great woman. But he knew nothing, he had never known anything.

No one ever told him. Of course he had his grandparents who were present for him and who gave him affection, but he had not understood. This immense distance with his father.

Of course he had Maia who was there and who supported him. They had grown up together in the family field been to school together, but it had been upgraded regularly so they no longer spent as much time together as before.

Nevertheless, during the holidays, they still spent time together, she brought him joy by telling him incredible stories and she was even his first love, when they went to the crater lake to bathe with Joshua, He had experienced the most peaceful moments of his young life.

During his university years, he excelled in various sports and martial arts. Like his father before him, he had added many individual and collective records in the trophy cabinet of the Archibald family.

He also had a rather marked tendency for applied mathematics. And he had taken the opportunity to examine the archives of his father's old works, he liked to devour his reports and research.

It was written top secret on the box, and nothing that pushed Lucian to solve the mystery. So much so that over the past two years he had spent less time with his friends than digging through his father's belongings.

Nevertheless, this feeling of solitude remained strong and he had therefore made the decision to go to the Hunan, because he wanted to visit a temple of warrior monks very well known in search of a meaning to his life. He didn't know why he was attracted to this place, but it had become obvious over time.

One day, he had felt that he was no longer in his place on his small island. He wanted to find a goal and had therefore secretly programmed this trip on "Hateya".