"What now?" Said Andrew unsure what is going on.
"Well at least it's distracted." Norland charges the creature, with his fist clenched.
The beast seemingly is afraid of the flame still burning from the arrows in the ground.
Norland swings fiercely connecting with the creatures side. A crackling sound is heard on impact.
"Raaaagh!" His hands glowing as he does so.
Andrew not missing a beat comes running behind him grabbing two of the arrows from the ground. He stabs one I to the creatures eye.
It shrieks loudly, while thrashing about shaking its head.
"Let's go man we can't take this thing!" Andrew said starting to run in the direction he left Ikari.
The norland nods his head, now running after Andrew.
The creature then takes pursuit after them closing the gap quickly.
Andrew grabs Ikari throwing her on his shoulder not breaking stride.
The beast coming after them is knocking down tress, mowing through them as if they were nothing. However These trees were nothing to scoff at either similar to oak trees on earth. The tress are about one meter thick in diameter.
As they are running for their lives, they can hear twigs snapping on both sides of them.
Suddenly from the dark, on the side the arrow is stuck in the beast's eye a sudden blur rushes towards the creature.
Andrew tries to adjust his eyes by squinting,
A hooded figure is seen holding something against the creatures side.
A plunging sound could be heard followed by a sloshing sound. The beast stops in its tracks falling to its face. The figure stands up and looks in the direction of Andrew and his new acquaintance.
The figure approaches Andrew getting very close then removing their hood.
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It was a woman. She had silver shining hair.
Her eyes a milky white. Her Carmel skin almost sparkling in the moon light.
"Aiya" the woman sais almost touching noses with Andrew.
" I'm sorry?" Said a confused and slightly embarrassed Andrew.
Norland then started to speak in a tongue Andrew could not understand.
"Aiya, sine hida ine dee wadles, fom scry bast."
(Hello, and thank you. We tried to hide in woods from scary beast.)
The woman's long ears perked up with a slight smile. Her eyes widened.
She grabbed Andrews hand and spoke again.
"Come here to me homan."
"Seems she speaks broken common" said norland
"Broken common? Also what were you speaking , what language was that?"
"Elvish what else?" Norland said blankly.
"Elvish?" Andrew thought to him self with certifiable confusion.
The woman leads the three through the brush and trees to a unusually large tree.
She takes a pendant from around her neck on a string. She grips it firmly. She sais " aiya tee fend ope grn we safi pasha."
(Hello tree friend grant us safe passage please.)
The pendent begins to glow the ground starts to shake around her cracks from the ground begin to form. The begin to climb the tree up and start to swirl in front of the woman.
A path way apears, the woman walks in waving for Andrew to follow.
Andrew a little hesitant is the pushed on the back playfully by norland.
"Oye I thinks she's sweet on ya!"
Norland laughs walking in the door way.
Andrew readjusts Askari on his back and takes a deep
Breathe before walking through.
The stairs going down are built Ina. Twirling fashion like a tower. As they defend down further. The darkness is soon pushed back slightly as the walls are illuminated by art work. Glowing in the dark covering most of the "canvas" as it were.
The woman noticing Andrews interest in the art.
She grabs is arm with hers and starts to excitingly jump around pointing to the walls. She is on a high speed ramble pointing all over.
He dying of embarrassment not knowing how to deal with the sudden.... Contact.
Eventually after some time, they arrive to what seems to a underground village. There seem to be where this woman is from. She leads them through "town". It's not entirely lit but enough to see. A lot of the same paint or bio illumine-cent murals cover the houses and ground.
The two attracting quite a bit of attention causing somewhat of a spectacle.
The people were staring not out of fear or malice but curiously. Andrew looking back and awkwardly waving began to notice something.
They all had that Carmel skin and white shimmering hair with those milky eyes.
Norland enjoying the attention quite a bit is waving with both hands not sensing the potential danger. He is enjoying himself quite a bit.
Andrew starts to examine his surroundings. He notices quite a few people in the shadows upon roof tops weapons drawn. Almost as if they are waiting on the two to make the wrong move.
Norland completely unaware of this sees a couple kids standing in the crowd staring in awe at the giant man. Norland attempting to break tension picks one up throwing the kid on his shoulder. He starts to stomp around the other kids. They get into it and playfully slay the beast "being him" . He sets the other kid down and lays down "defeated"
He jumps back up running to catch up with Andrew.
"Your pretty sociable" said Andrew pushing norland playfully.
" well I like it when people are at ease. Those goofy little guys reminded me of my sons."
"You have kids!!??" Andrew said more shocked then he meant it to.
"Yes and a fine wife to boot. She is probably still waiting for me, stubborn woman she is."
Norland said with pride a slight twinkle in his eyes.
Ikari starts to wake up holding her head.
"Bro where are we?" She rubs her eyes trying to adjust.
Andrew stops setting Ikari down.
"Are you alright Ikari? Also I'm not sure but I don't think we're in America any more.
"Yeah my head hurts a bit, but I'm alright."
The woman seeing her awake comes up and kneels down grabbing her hands. She then presses the back of Ikaris hands to her forehead. She stands up grabbing Andrew around the arm signaling for Ikari to do the same.
The approach what seems to be the biggest house of the village. Outside is a large man wearing a skin similar to the beast they just got done dealing with.
He is staring directly at Andrew, you can almost see the steam coming out of his nose.