Part 2: Reunion of monsters

  “When am I going to see something other than snow?” This is getting irritating. “HOW MUCH LONGER!”. I have been walking for to long; I had a lot of energy at the start while running down the mountain, but as time passed, most of my energy aeme with it. The way Capti framed it, I thought I would only have to walk a little, but nooo, it’s just walking.

  I could get to the top of the mountain to leave Draga quickly enough, so it seems my little house was closer to the top of the hill. I guess Capti made it further to his destination thahought. I don’t feel like losing to him, so I start running.

  “Just watch Capti. I am going to have lots of fun,” but as I am running, I bump into something, which causes me to trip and fall face first into the snow. “Ouch, what was that,” as I turn around to look, I see an adult man with scars all over his body.

  After I get up, I take a sed to ready myself. This is the first person I have met, and I have already made a wrong impression. I got to fix it, so I bow and say, “HELLO, I AM ORB. IT’S O ME YOU!”

  No response; did I already mess up? But then, I take a sed to look up ahat the man is unscious. I then proceed to go up to him and have a look. From what I see, he looks very rugged, he has scars all over his body, he is thin but muscly, his hair is brown short, but messy.

  Wait, he has been ying in this snow, that ’t be good for him, so I turn him around to look at his body, he is frostbitten across. Shit, this isn’t good. There isn’t any warm water nearby, and I doubt I could get him back to the house. So, my only opinion is to get him down the mountain.

  So, I pick him up and start going down the mountain with the man on my back. As I tinue going down, I trip and fall; he is heavy, It’s hard for me to carry him, and the weight of the box but not impossible, so I go on, but as I walk, I see the snow around me being thinner, until I feel a small amount of warmth touch my skin, then as I walk its gets slightly warmer and warmer, looking up I see a yellow light in all this snow, it’s the sun. How beautiful.

  “Woohoo,” I say as I jump with joy, but due to the man on my back, I fall and nd on him. Crap almost fot about the man. This is still an emergency, so as I tio walk, I take in the sery as the sun shines on me.

  There is still snow c the ground, but it’s much lighter than before. There are also patches of frozen grass seeping through the snow. As I tio walk down, I eventually see a golden tree. My eyes are dazzled with excitement; I all but guarantee, I am the most excited human currently alive to see a tree.

  Still, are trees meant to be gold, and this tree’s leaves are rather rge? Maybe this one is just special. While I had that thought, I saw more trees down the way and began to walk toward them. It seems I might be getting closer and closer to civilisation, “It looks like we will be able to patch you up soon. Just hold on.”

  Then after walking, I eventually reach a forest full of golden trees, though the snow is still everywhere. But I hear a sound, maybe another human, so I walk towards where I heard the sound, but I don’t see any humans. I see something rather cute and small; I think it’s a scardo.

  In Capti’s books, they’re said to be very friendly and loving to humans, and if I correctly remember, they hang around humalements. It could guide me to humans. Yeah, lucky as it sees me, the scardo starts running towards me, it looks happy. Maybe I will pet it due to all the good fortu brings me.

  So, it runs towards me, but my eyes feel a little itchy so a scratch them, as I open my eyes the scardo is gone, where did it go? Looking around I see to my far right a creature over the body of the scardo biting into it. The animal iion has two legs, and four wings at its side, covered in light blue feathers. It’s a tor.

  They’re over 200 cm, ivorous, aremely fast. Sorry scardo, but I’ve got to run, so at full speed, using all of my strength, I run with the man still on my back, but then I hear a screed footsteps oer another in rapid succession, it’s chasing me, so I try to use the tree as cover as but then I hear loud sounds behihe trees are falling. The tor’s wings aren’t for flying. They’re for chopping their prey into small bits, so they are incredibly sharp.

  I run as fast as I , but I know it’s going to catch up to me, so I guess I have no choice. I throw the man on the snow in front of me and then take the box of things I had ed around my waist and hold it in one hand.

  I stick out one of my hands, letting the tor bite into it. Ouch, I scream as tears fall from my eyes, but it took the bait tor have extreme soft skulls, so o to the head it enough to kill them, so as I am about to smash my box into his head an arrow suddenly hits it in the side of the head.

  After removing its mouth from my arm, I looked at the dead tor, and for the first time in my life, I uood why Capti ate meat. “YOU SUCK!” But no time to think about that now; I took the y bag was in and ed it around my arm to stop the bleeding.

  Now I must find some way to get him out of here with my arm like this fast since all the loud noises we made will attract more predasaurs, so I have to act fast, so as I try to lift the mans body a searing pain appears in my left arm as I fall. Crap, I ’t get him out of here like this. I o think of something.

  “Don’t move.”

  Hearing a voi the heroes song, I suddenly turn my head around and see a little girl smaller thah long white and gold hair in fur clothes with feathers in her hair pointing a bow and arrow at me.

  She fires an arrow which scratches my face. “I said don’t move!”

  This must be the person who shot the tor, I think. Isn’t this sort of a bad situation? It’s very tense; I shouldn’t provoke her, but the man behind wasn’t gettihier as time passed, so I got to act, and if she wao kill me, she would have shot me from a safe distance.

  So, I immediate go from a crouched position, to on my knees with my head on the snow and say, “THANK YOU FOR HELPIH THE TOR,” I gnce up at her after I say this and she looks shook. Good, I have brokeension a bit.

  “What are you doing here, and where did you e from,” she asks with her bow still poi me.

  “I came from high up the mountain, and found this man while walking down, now I am trying to get him somewhere to get him better.”

  “You lie. If you were that far up the mountain, you would be over frozen to death.”

  “I am immuo the cold, so I ’t freeze to death. See, I don’t have shoes, and I have been walking on the snow,” I say while showing the girl my feet.

  “You could have ridden on the back off something, and e from somewhere other thaop. Everyone animals, people freeze to death on top of the mountain without exception.”

  “I happen to be the exception, and to be ho, a little girl like you who is youhan me shouldn’t be talking about absolutes. How do you even know they have all died? How many have you seen been killed by the cold.”

  Visibly Irritated by what I said, the girl responded, “Fifty.”

  “There are ruffly four billion people, so you have seen about 1.25x10^-8 of the popution die a one iy million that’s not enough to be clusive.”

  “Fras are evil,” she says as she draws the arrow back.

  “Sorry”, I shriek, looks like someone doesn’t like arithmetic, but I shouldn’t be arguing with a kid anyway, something more critical.

  So, I return to my bowing position and say, “I’m sorry, that doesn’t matter. The man behind is going to die if you don’t help me, so please help me. You check him if you don’t believe me.”

  She looks like she is pting, but eventually says, “Keep your hands where I see them. I am going to check his body.”

  So, as I follow her instru, she goes up to check the man’s body and a look of worry overtakes her face. She suddenly says, “The frostbite has worsened.”

  “Then you will help us.”

  “I am sorry I ’t, but the leaves of the tree have hot water in them so that you use those.”

  “But that won’t help if the snow is still around here, and I ’t carry him much further.”

  The little girl looks flicted “It’s against the rules.”

  “I will take full responsibility for everything, so please help him.”

  “Why are you doing this? From what you said, you just met him.”

  “It’s just that I know the only reason most people climb the mountain is that they want to die, and I think that’s just too sad. I am not ok with people killing themselves. It’s a waste in every way you look at it, so please help him. You even fet about me.”

  So as the girl stares, rubbing her head furiously, she screams and says, “Rules exist to help, not to kill!” She takes a thin cloth from around her waist and tells me to put the fabric over my eyes like a blindfold. “Sir, I am going to need you to follow me. I will hold your hand to guide you to my vilge.”

  So, as I start trying to put on the blindfold, I tell her, “My name is Orb. But how are we going to carry the man.”

  “I got that covered,” she says as she quickly picks the man.

  Dumbfounded by her strength, I hear her shout at me, “HURRY UP,” so as I finally get the blindfold on, I allow the little girl to take my hand and guide me. “Orb repeat this song after me.”

  “Why”

  “We just have to, no pining sing loudly as well”, so she starts singing horribly.

  My god, my ears now uand how my tongue felt eating all those rotten fruits, and now I have to listen closely a; I would have rathered she shot me. So, while walking, I repeated the song lyrics, while wanting to rip off my ears, but I persisted because the thought that I had just had a proper versation with someone had given me a lot of strength.

  -Break-

  “Ok, you take your blindfold off.”

  It barely took any time, though; that may be because her singing was making me slip in and out of sciousness; we also took a ridiculous number of turns, one shortly after ahat, bined with her singing, made me lose all sense of dire. At least we get this man some help.

  So, as I take off my blindfold, I see where on a cliff edge, “So you were trying to kill us.”

  “No, look down.”

  When I do, I see a small vilge with Large buildings. “This is my home. We will get your friend patched up here.”

  I was seeing all the active people fill me with nothing but excitement.

  Year 8 End

  Distorted Vilge Arc begin

  Log of animals

  Name: Scardo

  Height: 122cm

  Type: Predasaur

  Description: It is small with a beak and a fluffy tail. It’s covered with red and purple feathers scardos are said to be very friendly and loving to humans.

  Fact: They hang around humalements since humans don’t like eating them due to them being cute

  Name: tor

  Height: 205cm

  Type: Predasaurs

  Description: It has two legs and four wings at its side covered in light blue feathers. They’re also swift and have very soft skulls.

  Fact: They specifically will 4-year-old children.

  Predasaurs: Animals that evolved to live in and around the area of Fimbulwinter.

  12 Months in Order

  Aquarius

  Pisces

  Aries

  Taurus

  Gemini

  cer

  Leo

  Virgo

  Libra

  Scorpio

  Sagittarius

  Capri