The Hills Of Hope #20

Tyberious walks towards The Hills Of Hope in 'hope' of seeing a vision.

Waterfalls and birds chirping all around.

Tranquil and relaxed

The Hills can be.

And also deceptive.

If your mind and heart both desire different things, it can overlap

Thus making the persons goal unmet

Whatever you strive for, put your mind and heart into it fully.

Being alone can be both like life or death,

And alone Tyberious was on his journey.

Still so young.

Putting his all into justice for the King.

"This might take me years to gather enough evidence that King Wonders innocent."

The fear of time was slipping in

"But I won't give up. I won't ever give up."

But it didn't slip fully.

He shuck it off, and approached a waterfall.

"Tracks.. no. Just a rabbits trail."

Dad, this is getting boring...

THEN HE HEARD FOOTSTEPS BEHIND HIM!

What???

"Hello boy!"

"How you doing?"

"You two!"

It was Cleo and Gruntar!

"We couldn't let you go off on this mission on your own."

Cleo says happily

"How did you even know I was going here?

Why me?"

Tyberious asks with confusion

"We spoke with the King in his cell. He told us what you confessed about us..."

Cleo mutters.

"He wasn't too happy, But he stuck to his word and forgave us!"

"So how did I get involved with you finding me?"

"The king said you were young, and sook after evidence. We... are walking evidence, but RahTahShar is the one we should all blame!"

"RahTahShar?"

"Yes, RahTahShar. He kidnapped one of the prince's of DusGoria."

"Weren't you going to do the same?"

*Cleo and Gruntar shriek*

"Not... exactly. No. RahTahShar has more malicious motives. The OoBras hired us to take him so that they could have blackmail over the king."

"That's still kind of malicious..."

*Cleo and Gruntar shriek yet again*

"We're aware of our deeds. But we weren't apart of DusGoria's kingdom. We were told King Wonder was an evil ruler. That the people were evil too. We've been tricked..."

"Please, believe me."

Cleo begs.

"YES! BELIEVE US!"

Gruntar jumps in begging for the same thing

"Alright, alright! I believe you... for now anyway. You've got to prove yourself, by making some good out of you this time!"

Tyberious commands.

"But of course!"

Cleo was happy to hear this.

"Yeah, we can do that."

Gruntar also agrees

"Say... what brings you to The Hills Of Hope?"

Gruntar asks.

"I was kinda lonely. A little afraid of going on with all this - on my own... and what do you know - you guys showed up. Could be coincidence, but I'm thanking the Hills on this one."

"Your mind and heart is strong it would seem."

Cleo observes

"I guess... thanks. So, if you guys think RahTahShar is to blame for all this... shouldn't we just go to where he is now? We could take him down!"

"It won't be as easy as that I'm afraid... he knows how to control twisted energy and dark magic. Making his will tangle with that of the 'Corruption'"

"The 'Corruption?' What do you mean?"

"Light and dark forces wrestle within our world. He is in tune with the dark forces, while DusGoria's forces have seemed to be filled with light. It's probably why they exiled him from the throne."

"Exile??? You mean... he was king of DusGoria at one point?"

"Precisely!"

"What happened?"

"Evil came in to his heart... soon, so did his mind. The power he had got to his head. Due to this, I thought the kingdom to still be corrupt.

ironically of the situation were all in now."

"What do you mean?"

"King wonder was good, and yet the kingdom hate him. RahTahShar was bad, yet no ones spoke of him since his exile. With the people having hate, they attack the good. Which is probably why RahTahShar came at this time..."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying... he picked his timing very well. With everyone concentrated on battle, and... us. He was able to run past them all confidently, almost as if he planned for this to happen. I mean... why was the king gone? How did RahTahShar succeed in this kidnapping and destruction so easily?"

"He did mention his eye speaking to him. Maybe we could learn something more if we knew what he meant."

"A speaking eye? Hmm."

With Tyberious and Cleo thinking,

Gruntar suggests something;

"SurGone had a talking eye too."

"That... beast."

Tyberious got flashbacks of his torture

"You know of him?"

Cleo and Gruntar ask

"He captured me and murdered my friend."

"I'm sorry..."

They share their condolences

"I do remember him always talking to himself. I thought him to be crazy, but maybe he was talking to that eye of his. It's plausible."

"King wonder said it spoke to him too, so that's a lead for us to look into!"

"Yeah, now we gotta know who or what's been talking to him through this eye..."

"It could be RahTahShar..."

Cleo suggests.

"What's your thoughts?"

"We know he dabbles in magic and dark forces. Maybe he created this eye and is using the iris as a way of looking through it from another destination. It would explain how his attack was so successful. With the King disappearing at just the right moment too..."

"Maybe... but even if RahTahShar was the guy behind the eye, what do we do from here? Where do we go?"

"We can't take him on... we would all die within seconds. Only King Wonder has the power to defeat him, and he's in the dungeon rotting away."

So they were at a brick wall. With what seemed to be no way around it.

At least not yet...

So they decided on waiting for a better moment.