A high Fantasy epic in short story form
Nunley paces in front of ten beautiful young women. A blond catches his eye, but he keeps browsing. He lingers on each girl, making sure to inspect each one as if he were buying one of them.
“You have a fantastic assortment.”
“Variety is the spice of life my friend.”
“Indeed it is, I’m in the mood for something special, I’ll take the blond.” He says as he points to her.
“At last!” Betta cries as he sees the forge with his eagle eyes in the distance.
He and Zyno have been slowly making their way to the forge for days. Betta is at the point of exhaustion from having to carry both Skymen’s weight; nut soon he will be able to rest.
As he surveys the mountain top, he sees Kobi and Ayepex talking with a few other Skymen. Without hesitation, he lets out a screech. The emergency signal of the Skymen.
At once, all the Skymen turn toward them, with Ayepex and another jumping into the air to meet them, The fresh Skymen relieve Betta of his load.
“Come on out Birdman.” He hears from behind.
It’s Nunley and crew, they have Ann.
“Before I collect the rest of my cape, you are going to watch me deal out some justice. Magic is illegal in the land and hiding a magic creature on your land is an offense punishable by death.”
“Run Zyno! Don’t worry about me!” Ann screams.
Zyno lands on a thick branch about forty feet above the forest floor. He nestles himself against the trunk of the tree and swiftly falls asleep before the last sunset. Flying all day makes for early evenings.
Hours later he is awoken by a commotion in the tree. In a shock he looks around and he sees a man on the branch below him! He has a thick beard with strange dress.
“Got you!” He screams as he locks a chain around the leg of Zyno. He immediately scales down the tree to avoid an attack from Zyno.
“Welcome to the Great Forge. I am Kobi. I would have brought my own compatriots, but I am the only person here.”
“I know, I have been watching you since the day I first saw you.” Ayepex responds.
“How? I have looked for you ever since that day.”
Ayepex looks over the cliff toward the ocean.
“There, see those two sea dragons sparing on the horizon?” Ayepex asks.
“No.”
“They are fighting for mating supremacy. The one with the red scales appears to have the upper hand. Do you not see them?”
“No.”
“I can watch you from miles away and you would never know it.”
This cycle repeated for a few more days with weapons and fruit being exchanged until one day, there was a piece of Skyman armor left behind.
It is clearly an old relic, but still pristine in condition. As Kobi picks up the armor, he realizes that this is different from everything he has ever forged. This armor was from the same material cave as the weapons he was forging but this one has a light purple tint that almost glows to it. For the first time in his life, he is holding an actual magical item.
Relics of the Old Age