The Samurai: Rise and Call of Cthulhu

Chapter five: The Mythos

The Next Morning On a mountain's edge where a temple lies, a conversation can be heard within its inner walls despite the roar of the nearby waterfall.

"So you're dealing with The Galra and found Veronica?" the voice of Tom' Jr sounded as the male prayed to a stone.

"Yes," Lance said.

"Thank god, she was still alive." Lance's father said.

"I hope she'll be okay. I heard she was doing well at Alderaan." Lance said, standing up from the ground.

"Now what about my son?" the elder monk said "What will you do from this point on?"

"Now that I have found my sister, there is only one more duty that I desperately need to take care of." Lance said as he looked up to the air "To ease the hearts of beauties scattered throughout this land and with my body and mind, I will-"

He stops momentarily, taken by a frightening visage of the team's angered faces that appears when he goes on these rants about women. He looks around frightened as if checking his surroundings.

"Shiro or Keith isn't here. What am I thinking?" Lance said in relief, easing his elevated heart rate.

"What ails you?" Tom'jr asked him.

"Let's say a lot of people who are jealous seem to haunt me." Lance said with a sigh "Will I ever recover from this fear of, my father?"

The elder monk laughs before speaking. "Come my boy. Let me read your palm."

Tom'jr hands the monk his hand as the elder monk examines it. "Hmm, Oh dear...You have only three days to live." the monk said, revealing his findings.

"Only three days?" Lance said surprised

"Actually, I'm only kidding you," the monk said until he received a fist to his head which leaves a small red bump

A little later, Inside the temple, Lance sits before a buddhist statue awaiting the return of the monk. "I have something for you Lance."

"Your grandfather, the monk Tom Senior, left this last testament with me." the monk said, carrying in a box as he sat before Lance. "I was told to give it to one of his grandsons."

Lance moves to open the box removing the string and talisman on top. He opens the box taking out a slip of paper and looking at it dearly before he reads it.

Elsewhere, Out by a sunken river in the land, Hunk and Pidge flies on Kiaion looking over the land down before him. "I wonder what everyone's doing right now?"

Kiaion growls and Pidge responds "You know what? I think we should hurry home."

Kiaion begins to mew in approval until something catches his attention causing him to growl.

"Huh, what's wrong?" Pidge said.

"Kiaion!?" Hunk said as her saber begins to fly in another direction

Down on the ground. A young figure moves swiftly through a forest in fear as he hops logs and trees to try and escape the hoard of pig daemons following him close behind.

"Hand it over!" one daemon called.

"Give us the Medallion of Y'ha-nthlei!" another daemon said as they continued to run.

One of the demons catches the boy by surprise, dropping from the trees and stopping his sprint. However, the boy is swift in retaliation as he cuts the neck of the pig daemon that caught him open as it released a swarm of flies. The boy continues to run, losing his breath and speed by the second as the demons move in closer to catch him. One of the daemons fires an arrow that catches the boy in the leg. As he screams in pain the rest of the hoard begins to surround him as he clutches his leg in pain.