A Deadly Return

Prologue: The Vision

Conor walked with his friends. It felt nice having a full year of peace. No more visions, no more fighting, no new threats to destroy Erdas. Conor felt a little faint.

Wait what?

The euran blinked as his vision blurred. Conor rubbed his head as he leaned on his shepherd's crook. He was about to have a vision, he hadn't received one since his almost death back against Princess Song. Conor looked to see blurry figures rushing to him "Vision," he whispered as he fainted.

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The world was dark blue and swayed. Conor coyld believe what he was seeing.

The ground was a light color, maybe white, and the air around him moved like waves. Conor slowly realized it wasn't moving like waves, it was waves! He was in the ocean again. Conor looked up to see a creature swam high above him in the water.

The creature had green and white skin but as it drew near to Conor, he realized that part of the green was scales and the other part was clothing. Spikes rose from it's back ripping apart the clothings back. The creature drew nearer, revealing an ugly, twisted face.

It's face was stretched thin to the point of seeing the veins underneath, the eyes were mishappened with them being to thin almost loke slits to barely show off the emerald green eyes hidden within. It's teeth shoved through the thin lips, large and pointed like a monster's mouth filled with fangs.

The beast held something to its chest. A dark emerald with a eye drawn inside of it. Conor gasped upon recognizing it.

The Dragon's Eye.

The creature opened it ugly mouth at him

"You... Failed... To... Kill... Me... Little... Ssssheep boy... Now.... I.... Ssssshall... Kill... All... Of... You..."

Their voice was broken, the vocal chords were either to stretched from its change or from never being used.

Conor blinked "Who were you?" He asked.

The creature swam closer, the hands and feet of this once human were sharp talons as its arms and legs were bent at ugly and odd angles and decorated in bright green scales

"I.... Wassss... Ssssong... And... Until... You... Four... Killed... My... Ssssspirit.... Animal... Sssseassspray..."

One hand pulled the ruined green silk away to show off a ravaged black tattoo of a gaint creature. It leaned closer

"When... He... Died... I... Lived... And... Ussssed... The.... Dragon'sss.... Eye... To... Ssssave... Our... Bond... I... Became... One... With... Him... I... Am... Sssseasssong... And... I... Will... Kill... You... ALL!" Seasong bellowed.

The force of the shout shook the water around Conor. The world began to blur but he caught a brief image before he was gone. The flash of two animals attacking Seasong.

An Animal with a duck beak and webbed feet but the body of a otter and the tail of a beaver and another animal with that looked like a tiny antelope. They wore talismans around their necks. A black horn and a tiny gray animal.

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Conor woke up with a gasp. His friends had set him against a tree. He took in heavy breaths, Rollan waved a hand at Conor "What happened to you?" He asked.

Conor looked at his friend with horror "Song isn't dead and she's going to destroy all of Erdas," he said.

The three looked shocked "What?! But Song was crushed by the boulders, not even she could-!" Abeke said.

Conor shook his head "Seaspray died but she didn't, Song is this monster of her former self now. I did see one last thing before being kicked out," he added.

Meilin stared "What was that?" She asked.

Conor sighed as he tried to remember "These two animals attacked Song, a weird hybrid of a duck, an otter," Rollan flinched at that " and a Beaver. The other animal looked like a tiny antelope. They wore necklaces and were using them against Song. A tiny version of the hybrid and a black horn from the tiny antelope," he explained.

Abeke perked up "That antelope wasn't an antelope Conor, that was a Dik Dik!" The niloan informed.

Meilin smiled "That hybrid wasn't a hybrid, that's a platypus. My tutors taught me about them," she added.

Rollan stood up "Guys, I get we've just got this world breaking vision and all but shouldn't we tell somebody like I don't know, Ovlan and Lenori?" He said.

Conor got up with a little help. He was still tired from his vision "We should go back to Greenhaven," he agreed.