Calamity

After I left Mom and Isaac continued to talk.

"What do you think?" Mom asked.

"To be honest I don't know what to think" Issac began "about a week ago they started moving in small packs and as time passes they just seem to be getting more and more organized. With only me defending, if they attack the village in earnest we wont stand a chance."

"Is that why your going to start training him?"

"Yeah. Try as I might I can't hold all of them back, they will overwhelm me eventually. To be frank I need him."

"Do you think it's Him?"

"God I hope not. If He actually escaped the world would burn and we would be first to go." Isaac said before leaving the house. The village is composed of about 7 houses each made of logs from the nearby forest with thatch roofs. the houses are made in a circle pattern around a large open area and a well in the center and a small area off to the side with DIY training dummies made from potato sacks and large branches for the almost nonexistent adventurers and soldiers that pass through.

"Are you sure about this? I wont go easy on you just because your my brother."

"C'mon lets start already!!" He's always rejected your requests before, I wonder what changed his mind?

He sigh's "Well alright, might as well get started" Isaac spends the rest of the day showing me the basics of swordplay as well as some exercise regimes I should follow "There you go your a natural!"

"Just you watch I'll surpass you in no time!"

"Hmph, I look forward to it" he says with a smirk "alright serious time, come here" I walked over to him "With the monsters getting more active I'm gonna need you soon. No pressure but without you, this village might fall, so I need you to take this training seriously, okay?"

"...Alright. I'll make sure to take it seriously, if you need help don't hesitate to come to me alright?"

He smiles and relaxed a bit "Alright. Thank you, its starting to get late we should head back before mom gets worried, you know how she is."

As we head back to the village we were talking about the future when we were interrupted by an ear splitting explosion in the village that engulfed it in flames while smoke blackened the little light that was left in the sky.

"What the hell!?" Isaac yells. We start to run but I stupidly begin to rush ahead of him "Andrew wait!" he called out but I ignored him. As I approached the village I notice giant monsters unlike anything I've ever seen. Spiders the size of buildings, dogs that eye's and mouths glowed with a crimson red, what seemed to be a tree that was twisted and grotesque with an agonized face carved into the bark, even nature has turned its back on this village. It was like hell on earth. Just then I began to hear a low rumble, at first I thought it might be my imagination or caused by the monsters rampaging, but slowly it got louder and louder, and then suddenly the very ground beneath me gave way and before I had a chance to react I fell, deep into the abyss.

I could hear Isaac call my name in desperation only to be snuffed out by the darkness. As I fell for what seems to be an eternity my life began to flash before my eye's, everything I knew, friends, your family gone, in the blink of an eye, leaving everyone to fend for themselves. You begin to cry.

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