Carnies

The 'Carnies', their presence is now known to be no rumor in the town, being responsible for the missing of some children and even abled men and women, some speculated that it could be a vampire, heard from an escaped victim, the Carnies were three shady men with a creepy look of that of an old wizard, they wore rags and had very great strength, and also craved for human blood and meat. The police went into investigation, searching the woods thoroughly, looking for their 'hideout' but found nothing. A set of police men decided to go in deeper into the investigation, no one could explain how nine officers went into the woods and never came back, some speculated the trio to be more than the assumed number. Everyone stayed away from the forest, not wanting to get their selves killed, different myths soon arose from the people, some said it was three bestfriends who died in the woods and now hunting for blood, while some said that the woods and trees has always been cursed, either way, different families told their own story to their children differently.

"Fuck!" Gary shouted before running to the west side of the woods, he ran forward, checking the back at intervals, the next time he did..

*bum

He collided with one of them who came from the adjacent direction. Gary screamed before pushing himself back up, and prepared to run when an arm grabbed his leg, he looked back, to see the man with his souls face and budging eyeballs coming closer to his legs with his mouth wide opened revealing his black dirty teeth. Gary used every bit of energy he could summon to free himself from his grip, Gary then stomped on the man's face who let out a shout, Gary ran forward without looking back.

"*We're going to get you kid!!" The man said with a hoarse voice.

Gary kept on running, but couldn't help it but look back again and again, but this again led to another bad luck, his leg made contact with a fallen tree branch, taking him to the ground. Gary was about getting up when one of them came from behind.

"*Well well, what'd I say, I'll be the first to feel that skin of yours." The man said licking his lips. Gary made to run but was stopped by another who appeared in front of him.

"*Going somewhere?" He said.

Gary turned to the left to see the other one which he previously stomped walking towards him. This was it for him, now he regretted his actions, he shouldn't have come down to the woods to test his so-called 'superpowers', now he saw why his grandfather detested fiction, because it was misleading, now he's in an inescapable condition. Knowing that he couldn't escape, Gary still tried fighting them, he swung his fist forward which was grabbed with a lot of force that caused him to yell out in pain, the man smiled before giving him a headbutt that sent shockwave through his brain, the other three both held his leg up while the former held both hands. Then, something really nasty and inhuman took place, the men started licking his opened skin, the both holding his legs removed his sneakers and started doing the same, creasing his skin softly with their bony fingers. Gary tried to escape while crying out for help, trying to move his body, but it was stagnant in their grip, Gary cried out as one of them had bitten his skin.

"*What the hell? No blood is coming out." The one who bit his leg said.

"*You didn't bite well comrade...You didn't." Another said, licking his leg.

Gary couldn't bare this any longer, he started trying to fight with all his strength. Like his prayer was answered, he was granted an unbelievable amount of strength that as soon as he shook his hand, the one holding them flew away, he landed on his back before swinging both feet's backwards, taking the duo to crash on a broken tree branch. Gary stood back up with a smile on his face, his vision had now turned blood-red, one of them came at him with incredible speed, that blew Gary off his feet once they made contact, another came after the later, then held his neck, drawing Gary up with only a single hand.

"*You think you're strong huh?" He said.

"*I don't think so, I know it." Gary said, and amazingly, the crimson energy dashed out of his face, and as soon as it made contact with the man, the man burnt down into ashes within a matter of little seconds, he turned to the other men who in turn tried escaping but the energy destroyed them also, and while turning to them, a great amount of trees had need destroyed, Gary closed his eyes before looking straight at the moon, the energy traveled to the skies as Gary shouted in happiness.

"I've got optic powers!!" Gary said, the energy soon died down, but something was amiss, he couldn't see the moon again, it was not hidden in any sort of cloud since the night sky was crystal clear.

"Holy fuck, did I just destroy the moon." Gary said panicking.

Gary looked back up to the sky, an there the moon was, shinning brightly on him, Gary heaved a sigh when he saw these. He had to now find his was pass the fallen trees, all the trees had fallen and burnt into crisp revealing the vast land with black burning ground creating a crater in on the earth as it kept on expanding, Gary was surprised by this, be jumped onto one of the craters like a fool, thinking nothing could harm him now that he shot destructive energy from his eyes. And he was in fact right about that, the burning stopped immediately his filled touched the ground. The whole earth rose back up to its previous level, and the earth solidified with no black marks, but there were no trees at all. Gary happily walked back home without shoes, who would be thinking about their sneakers in a period like this?

Z'aheer rested on his throne with Varilence standing beside him, his palace was a huge cave with fire erupting from the ground, brighten the whole place, two guards stood by the huge gates while two other stood at the end of the stairs. The gates opened before a man walked in, he had purple hair reaching to his neck, he was dressed in a silver armor and had a huge sword behind him. Z'aheer stood up with a bright smile once he saw his visitor.

"Jaztu, I was just about to see you." Z'aheer said walking down the stairs.

"No need brother, I know about your goal of getting the optisiar." Jaztu said, he hovered his hand in the air before a fiery image of the moon displayed. The image was normal, not until a crimson energy oblitrated the moon, Z'aheer's eyes widened when he saw this.

"My optisiar is already with someone else!" Z'aheer screamed.

"Someone on earth, he must be pretty powerful to beat you to it." Jaztu replied.

"I don't care who ever it is, I shall take he or she down!!" Z'aheer said, his voice boldly portraying anger.