Ch. 24 Malice of the Darkness

I walked toward the ruined houses seeing many wounded Sky tribe members, they were still alive!

"Zyan! Kaidence!" Anyira called out.

Suddenly she began to run toward a pile of ruins "Zyan!" she said frantically and crouched down by a man who I assumed to be Zyan.

"Are you alright!" she said loudly.

Zyan looked at her weakly "A- Anyira?" Zyan said, his voice cracking. "Y-you came b-ack." He said, strength draining from him.

"Where is Kaidence?" Anyira asked.

He looked around, the suddenly the ground began to shake, black and purple began to spiral in a circle infront of us. The malice began to take the form of a man.

I shifted my weight sensing a different energy. Suddenly a peice of malice shot out and without a second thought I lept infront of Anyira and Zyan. I felt a surge of power and a purple and blue barrier formed infront of me bouncing the malice back to the forming figure.

The barrier slowly faded from infront of me. I drew my sword, I eyed the figure. Red eyes appeared on the figure and the malice left it, now standing before me a man who looked familiar.

Then I realized, the man looked just like the one from the flashbacks I had in the Snow Realm. The oldest cheif, Darbuse, cheif of the Darkness.