The Forbidden

Chapter 6 - Leap of Fear

What JR was seeing that filled him with awe was a cliff 45 meters deep, a long river at the very bottom can be visibly seen as it shines by the sun's rays. The breathtaking view is unique in it's way. The other side of the cliff, apparently, is 34 meters across. One step and you slip here and you receive instant death on the spot.

Soon, his cousin had arrived, Zef had guided him along the way to JR. Zef soon disappeared in the air.

"Wow...now that's a cliff!" Ralf said in amazement.

"Guess I found our so-called 'progress'" his cousin said with his right eyebrow slightly lifted.

"Heh. You beat me." Ralf looks at JR, then back at the cliff

Ralf asked, "Guess we're gonna cross this?"

"Yeah. Apparently we might be able to find something we haven't seen in this world." JR takes a good, long look across the cliff.

JR had an idea. He put his bag on the ground, kneeling down to make sure everything he had inside was still there. As he got up and brushed his chest, he backed off some distances away, his cousin a bit confused as to what he was doing.

"What're you doing?" he asked.

"I'm going to try a flying technique." His cousin said.

Ralf blinked. He can fly and all, but that was the first time he's gonna do something that seemed risky.
"Whatever that 'technique' is," he added an accent on the 'ni' there, "as long as you don't get harmed."

"Trust me. I won't" JR lowered his body a little as he prepared himself.

It makes him nervous, to think that he's gonna jump to the cliff that far, and after, to spread out his wings as he will fall.

JR took a deep breath, after taking deep breaths slowly. He looked down to his feet, slowly lifting his head to see the footpath he was about to run to and last, the edge he was gonna jump.

After a nod, he made one leg and the other run, running like he was in a race. Making it, he jumped, making a fall for a few seconds as his wings spread out, some feathers falling off as the wings had pushed him up. He then flew towards to the next cliff at a fast speed. He was about to hit the cliff's rocky wall, but he avoided that by swiftly flying back up, making his way to the top and landed safely.

"Is that even a technique?" Ralf yelled for JR to hear.

"Just try it!" JR chuckled.

Ralf backed away from the edge a little bit, looking down before making a run and leaped, his bat wings spread out after falling some distances. He did the thing JR did, as he reached the rocky wall and flew to the top and landed swiftly.

"Wow. That was new."

"Told ya'." JR closed an eye.

As they observed back to the other side of the cliff and looking at their background, they can see nothing but fog. The fog didn't show any silhouette, meaning that it was thick.

"There's what's waiting for us." JR pointed to the fog.

"Let's go then." both cousins went on ahead.

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A dark smoke, back in the other cliff, formed into a figure. It was that figure from before, as it hid himself behind a tree.

"Heheheh...so this is where they're heading next." he smirked.

The hobgoblin from before had stumbled near where the figure was hiding, as he hid himself behind a bush, watching.

"I'll get to the power first before THEY could get their grubby hands on it." he laughed evily.

Terrified, the hobgoblin shook in fear.

Does this monster plot on something?

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