Carl's Adventure Journey

Chapter 3: The First Enemy

'*Hoot~* *Hoot~*' The sounds of an owl can be heard through the night. The moon is high and the clouds in the sky occasionally covering it.

Carl and Kim are under a tree surrounding a campfire. Carl places a small metal bucket on the fire to cook some soup. He then gives him and Kim some to eat, after eating, they went to sleep.

The next day....

As the sky slowly lights up, even though the sun wasn't out yet, Carl and Kim had already started their journey.

"Hey, Carl, are we there yet?" Kim asked.

"Hmm, we should be there soon." Carl said looking at his compass and map.

"Arwowwowowowow! ~" Kim howled because he was bored of walking. Their surrounding was full of mists. Then....

"Shush!" Carl suddenly stopped and hushed Kim. He listened carefully to his surroundings, low growling and footsteps can be heard. He made hand signals to Kim asking him to be alerted.

"Run!"

Carl yelled softly, the duo started to run forward. Behind them were sounds of howling wolves and enemies catching up to them, they kept running forward without paying attention to the road, Carl wore his goggles and scarf to not be hurt by the mist. They kept running, unfortunately, they ran into a dead end, when they turned around, they were surrounded by their enemies.

Carl sneakily took out his sword while asking, "Who are you?!"

They were surrounded by four or five people, one of them who looked like a lizard monster stepped forward and said, " We are The Dark Side! Hand over your things!"

"The 'Duck' Side?" Carl and Kim said tilting their heads,  the lizard monster had a thick accent, therefore they didn't hear clearly.

"Stupids! It's 'The Dark Side'!!" The lizard monster stomped his leg in anger. "Enough chatting! Hand over the stuff!"

While the monster was talking, Carl took the chance to jump up to him, kneeing him in the face and used his sword to defeat the other monsters so that he could escape. But, when they tried to run, the number of monsters had increased, while fighting, Carl accidentally cut himself. Suddenly, at the cliff of the dead end, gunshots were heard.

"Who's there?!" Carl and the lizard monster said. The atmosphere was silent, they wanted to hear the movements from the one who fired gunshots.

Not only did the person didn't reply, but they still continued shooting after a while, the monsters were hit with the bullets, gunshots were rapidly repeating, most of the monsters were down.

"R-Retreat!!!" The lizard monster shouted. The other monsters were helping their partners onto their shoulders to retreat. Carl was wielding the sword while panting. Then, the sound of someone climbing down can be heard behind their back, because of the mist, the stranger's face cannot be seen.