Chapter 11: Back home
A farmer was quietly tending to his farm, brushing some seat off his forehead he admired his doings, the field he was cultivating had first been planted by his grandfather, then passed down to his father and finally to him, 3 generations worth of labour and it had grown to incredible size.
It could wield 2 tons of kapuchi every 4 months and coupled with 12 bellies’ trees and a few head of cattle it provided good money and all he could ask to live on.
Planting the hoe on the ground (not talking bout his wife) he walked to the well in a relaxed manner and washed his face, the cold water felt good on his sun-burn skin, that’s when he raised his head and saw something weird in the sky.
He could barely discern the silhouette of a bird flying over the clouds, however what attracted his attention was the faint red trail left behind by the bird, then another bird approached the weird silhouette, that bird size seemed smaller, however it still had the courage to get near the bigger one.
When the smaller bird was upon the bigger on a flash appeared between the two and the smaller one began to fall, the more it approached the ground the bigger it became, the farmer fixed his gaze on the falling… he couldn’t call it bird anymore.
Its feature were starting to become clear the more it fell down until he could see a grey body the size of two horses with 4 legs and wings protruding from his back, a chill ran thought his back, he had seen one before while selling kapuchi, an air drake mounted by an imperial paladin.
The drake kept falling towards the ol’ Tobias farm and it finally crushed in the kapuchi’s field, its sorry body kept sliding in the ground for 15 meters before coming to an halt, the farmer cringed seeing part of his cultivation ruined but overall he felt fear, why was a drake falling from the sky?
He approached the drake one step at the time, then he saw a weird shadow growing on the ground, it kept getting larger and larger, puzzled he looked above and saw an actual person falling!
Moving out of the way he kept observing the falling figure, it certainly was a man (intended as person, it could also be a woman, so calm your feminist ideas that both men and women can fall from the sky.), a small trail of smoke followed hid fall to the ground.
It landed a few meters away from the drake, the farmer approached the remains of the person first, it was wearing an armour or at least the remaining of one, it had partially melted and fused with the skin, a sense of vomit assaulted him and he took a few steps back.
After emptying his stomach he moved his gaze to the sky and his blood froze, now there were dozen falling silhouettes, and more still battling the original one with the red trail behind……
“How did they found us?!”
Said Elpis while avoiding the arrows trying to claim his head.
“RHAAAWK!”
Answered a phoenix unable to speak human language while in this form.
He looked around and saw over forty knight mounting drakes and behind them all a paladin flying with his own two wings, he wasn’t an angel, but thanks to all the new… materials, the humanity found how to make a pair of fake wings, thus enabling humans to fly.
“Drake-5 advance!”
A drake suddenly sped up and lunged on the phoenix trying to claw its wing, however with a flap the phoenix wings launched a tremendous heat-wave on the drake boiling him alive mid-fly, its poor lifeless body then fell from the sky.
“Use water arrows to hit the fire-roc!”
The knights rubbed their water stones on the arrow-heads, thus granting a freezing effect to the arrows, when an arrow was ready they would let it fly toward the roc.
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