The Beginning of it All

Chapter Fourteen The monster who hides deep in the Lake

The group had finally made it to the lake. They looked across the crystal blue waters seeing gentle waves on the top. Through the water there was fish. Fish bigger than they could ever imagine. The fish would jump out of the water. Their scales like a beautiful painting on a creature. Hydra smiled and walked near the water's edge, getting into the water. That was a mistake, the Leviathan shot up from the deepest blue the group has ever seen. The lake didn't seem like a lake. It seemed like an ocean, They looked into the abyss and saw it rising in a coil. Hydra quickly ran out of the water. Her clothes clung to her body because they we all wet. The leviathan lowed its head towards the group. Its eyes being a sickly and venomous green. The beast opened its maw to say. "This lake is sacred, and Forbidden. To get my blessing you must Defeat me and claim my head."

"Well we accept. We will fight you and claim our Victory." Xiu stepped forward his large axe was drawn. It was a glowing hot red. His eyes showed that he wanted to fight. The leviathan only laughed and made the water rise around it. Its sickly green eyes now glowing. The water seemed to become the same sickly green as the leviathan. All of the sudden the water lowered. Everyone lowered their guards to only be struck with the green water. It went into their systems making everyone be thrown into a coughing fit. Blood came out of their mouths. Ragneer passed out. He laid there motionless. His breathing was slowed but he wasn't dead, yet. Dracin looked towards the leviathan. He pointed his blade to them.

"Leviathan. We will slay you. And you will give us your blessing." Dracin said. He felt the tight coil of a large tail around his waist as he was picked up by the leviathan. Its tail coiled around him tightly constricting his breathing. He coughed up more black blood onto its tail. The leviathan looked into his eyes and said.

"Who are you? You don't know if you're an angel or a demon. You are not even a primal. You don't even know where you fit into the world." Dracin took all these words. He looked back into the beast's eyes as he passed out. Soon enough. Hydra was trying to wake up dracin. He woke up with a pain filled cry. Blood was raining from the sky as the head of the beast was being loaded onto the cart. Dracin looked as if he went through hell. He staggered himself to stand. Hydra helped him up.

"Are you okay Dracin? Something caused the Leviathan to just die after you passed out. We had to clear a lot of its dead corpse to find you. I am just glad you're alive." Hydra had said hugging him tightly. Dracin looked down at his arm to see that the mark of the leviathan was there. Right next to Ragnarock's mark he has had for years. He had a feeling he was going to get all of them.

"Yeah. Me too." Dracin said plainly as if this was a normal occurrence. He stumbled to the cart. On another cart there was Ragneer still passed out from the venom of the Leviathan. The blood of it was also venomous but that didn't matter. The trip back to Life would take days. Days in which they can't lose.

Ragneer, He grew sicker and sicker by every day. The blood that was splattered on him was carrying some sort of poison as they brought him back to Life. They were all tired. The leviathan's head was on a crat being dragged by Xiu. They never thought that a leviathan would be this hard to fight. Ragneer started to throw up blood. It was a null grey with streaks of red. The entire party felt sick to their stomachs after this. Nothing more than blood to keep the group feeling alive. Dracin was looking into the sky. The words of the beast echoing through his mind. The group wondered what was wrong with Dracin as they walked back to Life. She stood there smiling as they dropped the head of the beast at her feet.

"Good job guys and girls. I guess you are worthy of having me on the team." She walked over to Ragneer and healed him from the poison. He shot up his eyes now tainted by a sickly green. He was panting and he had the look of terror in his eyes. The group helped him up to hear him talk.

"The primals are waiting for us, Violet and Ivy both, At the other side of the mountain range. In the direction of the forbidden kingdom. They have an army at their sides, They seem to be wanting to kill you all. Especially you, Dracin." Ragneers voice had silenced the crowd. They looked at dracin whose brow was dripping in a cold sweat. He couldn't think straight, Dracin He looked more worried than before. He looked down at his arm to see the mark of two beasts. The mark of the forbidden beast and the mark of the leviathan. The group couldn't see his marked arms. But dracin knew they were there. He could feel them in his skin moving. Changing him.

Life stepped forward. She bowed her head to them and said. "It is a pleasure to be apart of this group and I will help you on your travels." She seemed more genuine. The group headed off to the mountain range. They knew the hardest part of their journey was coming. Dracin wondered how he would be able to save them all. He didn't feel like he could. He was hopeless in his own mind. He felt nothing from this victory. Nor anything from Ragneer telling he will be injured. Dracin just wondered still. "Who am I?"