The Prophecy: Battle for the ark of time

Realty or illusion

I barely managed to crawl out of the cottage; the pain I felt was really intense.

"I saw how you killed that ogre; you won't be getting beyond this point" he added as he stepped forward.

."What! I... I ..... Killed it" i stuttered.

"Oh please, drop the act, your life ends here"

Suddenly, the other fingers also transformed to claws, and then he attacked me,

"Zzuupp! Zzuupp!" the claws went straight for my neck.

I managed to evade some of the attacks with my sword, but the final strike was so fast that I couldn't react to it, it then sunk its claw through my chest,

After that, the beast attempted to deal a final blow, realizing this, I immediately reached for my dagger which was strapped to my leg and stabbed it in the eye,

"Ahhh!" the beast screamed out in pain.

Without a single second to waste, I ceased the opportunity, got up and made a run for it.

I ran into the forest in so much pain and nothing but a single thought in mind, survival,

After covering some distance I stopped on noticing continuous bleeding from my injuries, any further strain on it would result into really serious issue, I then sat down underneath a tree which had long branches, and a lot of leaves on it,

The sun was barely able to pierce through the leaves of the branches, the winds current was very calm, I could hardly hear anything other than the birds singing,

But suddenly, I heard another sound, it wasn't from the forest, it was different, it sounded like... footsteps.

"Where are you human!" a voice cried out, from out of nowhere.

I peered down on the beast from above the tree, he had finally transformed to its original form, I held tightly unto the branch as I wasn't evenly balance due to the haste I was in, while climbing onto the tree.

"Looks like am safe up here, if I can only stay long enough, he might lose interest and leave" at least that's what I thought.

But then the beast continued moving around, as he stared at something on the ground,

As he moved around, I couldn't help but notice it "What's he looking at" i asked.

I then looked closely to the ground, only to discover my blood trail all over the place.

"Oh no, am done for" I thought to myself still staring down on the beast,

Suddenly, I noticed a quick movement around my leg, I immediately turned around only find a cobra staring right back at me, I was lost for words,

The beast was directly underneath me and I couldn't move, it was a dire situation, I then tried to move as best as I could, in order not to be spotted, but then, the cobra quickly reacted and attacked me, I immediately held onto it, just in the Nike of time, but suddenly.... the branch broke.

I fell right on beast still holding onto the cobra, trying to defend itself, the cobra attacked the beast who was face first against it, the beast screamed out in pain but immediately got hold of the cobra body and strangled it,

Without much effort it completely separated its body from its head, in the midst of the confusion, I grabbed my sword and in a single swing, slashed out the beast's legs,

"Ahhhhhhrrggg!" the beast roared falling to the ground.

I tilted up my sword and aimed for his head,

"Hahaha! And I thought I was dead" i laughed.

"Wait; don't kill me," the beast pleaded.

"And why in the world would I do that" I asked.

"Well, I can give you some information"

"Concerning what exactly"

"The beasts...... the beasts in this forest" he claimed.

On hearing this, I dropped down my arms slowly "your right, I had wanted to ask you about something"

"Ask away"

"How were able to transform to that man, am quite sure I saw him before entering this forest" i said.

"Oh... that, I can transform into anyone or anything I eat" the beast replied.

"Ahh, what a disgusting ability, I can't let you go knowing that you killed a human" I said as I lifted up my sword once again.

"What! But you said you will let me go"

"Did I?"

"You... you liar, you just used...." before he could complete his sentence, I sliced off his head.

After the whole incident, I took out one of the healing potions I had in my spatial ring, and drank the whole content,

"if this continues i might run out of healing potions"

The effect of the healing potion was magical, to a point; I regretted not getting more healing potions than the others I had in possession.

I spent the other days killing monster and beast of all shapes and sizes till I couldn't lift my hands anymore, but for some reason, I felt good about the eight day in the forest, maybe it was because, I thought I was finally about to reach the end of the forest, but then, it went on as the rest.

It was no use, I had completely depleted all my magic, and only hoped for the monsters, not to show up, I sat underneath an oak tree, the wind blew through the branches setting the leaves in motion, the forest was so quiet, you could clearly hear the birds singing,

At that very moment, I had some strange noises coming from the other part of the forest; I quickly hid myself in the midst of the bushes and looked to see what was happening,

I then saw Prince Collins and his bodyguards, the seemed to be taking on a dark troll, I looked a little closer to the other side, and saw William, he seemed to be fighting off some ogres all on his own, the strangest thing about it was, he was killing most of them with little or no effort,

But then, from his blind spot, an ogre jumped to attack him, I immediately came out of hiding and tried to go assist him, but he instead, turned his sword backward and stabbed the ogre without looking at it, I was really surprise to see such mastery in swordsmanship.

"Hey, William it's me" I called to alert him.

"Oh, Charles, you survived" he answered in a friendly tone.

"Yea, you don't look to bad yourself" I replied.

"Well, I did tell you I was serious about this" he asserted.

"Alright, let's go" i proposed.

At that very moment, prince Collins and his bodyguards were already done with the troll, so the joined up with us and we continued the journey,

As we kept walking, more and more people joined up, to some extent, I thought we were about to leave the forest, well, not until I saw it.