Chapter Thirteen
Hearts of Buzzards
Part Two
The Fight
(Fists and Blaze II)
Finn, the giant slept in one of he deep halls away from all the commotion, while the Manticores pounded their hairy chests about with excitement at all the disorder going on. Thus, under the stars the two antagonists started their jumping, leaping and tarring each other part.
It was morning, dawn, and the two still were grunting at one another; still both beating on one another: both bloody; skin torn off their shoulders, and for the viper it would be of course its long body [That of: Blaze II; skin shredded with scratches and bits, yet both lived, if only half alive.
The battle through the night was neck to neck you could say. For the viper he liked a close fight, for the rat, he liked it to be more at a distance: to pace, and attack; the viper to leap and attack. Both took heavy blow; a heavy blow, at one time (when Blaze leaped on the rat), a blinding b low to that broke the rats willpower for a moment: he went staggering about. Fists, was no push over though, yet the weight of Blaze was melodramatically, overemotionally, too, too much for most of the onlookers, it was crushing, almost humiliating but somehow he got back up to, and his feet, to fight again.
In one respect, it was a long tedious fight, at least for the spectatorand in both beasts, both were losing their championships, and this was not good. It was one thing to give it up to Siren, another to have it taken away from another race.
On top the cliff, three Manticores watched every movement of the fight: then out of nowhere, she leaped off the high cliff, Siren, yes Siren, she leaped like a flying hawk, awkward it looked, but steady she landed on the ground below, said, Im back! And the valley below, in front of her, surrounding her, all its inhabitants, thereof, were in an uproar with elaborateness, splendor grandeur to have gotten there queen back.
She looked around, and wished she had peace and quiet for a spell, a place to hide; comfort, like the place she had build on the mound, the keep in the trees, the castle like, now she could use it, if only she could find her way back. But her mind was wondering, and to tend to business, and get her army back in order.
Chapter Fourteen
Siren the Conqueror
(Scoriae and Finn)
Siren pronounced Fists, to be the leader of the Rat, and Blaze II, to be the leader of the vipers: the General of the Viper Army that is, and Scoriae, to be the one leading the Manticores, the general, of the one hundred and to be her personal guards: feeling they were not after power, but rather, a place to fit in, and should they follow her, theyd be damned by both the vipers and rats. So if theyd wish, this was her plan.
Finn, wanted to remain where he was, for it was the only kingdom he knew, alone perhaps, or perhaps not. In a way he was a gentle giant, perhaps forc ed to be, for he would be the only one of his kind against a host of other races and armies. Should he offend anyone, there was no place to hide. He knew the king had a tall daughter, and perhaps someday hed allow them to mate (tall meaning: he was twenty feet, and she about eight or nine), it was in the back of his mind, but way back there. The king now was nowhere to be found.
Henceforward, the armies left the cliff dwellings; leaving Finn behind. As fascinated as she was with the humanoids and their control room, she had no time to explore it further; she had to gain control of her armies before they killed one another and dipped the balance of the planet. In a way, you could say, the picture she saw was bigger than her wants; nonetheless, she took on the rulership of the three armies and sent the Manticores off (the one-hundred off them), back to show their tribe how to make fire.
She now had her garment on, and felt it was a symbol (since the cliff dweller s wore cloths) that shed have to return someday and perhaps conquer the cliff kingdom, but for the time being, her army and she needed to leave.
It was at this intersection of her life on the planet her reputation started to precede her. It was circulating around the orb. From the mountains, to the plains and now the cliff chambers and this new found kingdom, as well as throughout the grasslands.
Troubled Manticores
Chapter Fifteen
Siren noticed as she journeyed back to the tall grasslands, of which the vipers called home, the Manticores, all but one, became spasmodic.
Their hairy chests heaved in and out like fish gills, sucking in air, and wishing it was water. The air was odd for them; kind of a chemical imbalance took place in their bodies. They became weak, a quarrelsome bunch. At times, blood came running out of their mouths, with wheezes of pain. Several times they had to stop and rest after only a few miles. It was as if evolution had not built a strong enough system for them to endure this part of the world. The Humidity was high also.
Perhaps that was the plan of the God of the Universe, thought Siren: that is, to keep these wild creatures away from each other: thus, build into the evolutionary track, a climate thermostat (or territorial one), and when it goes into a certain forbidden area, like a buzzer, it goes off and the system breaks down.
Perhaps that is why Finn didnt want to leave the cliffs, and why the bears remained on the mesas; the rodents seemed to adapt pretty well everyplace they went, but did not like to go below the mound area, where the grasses were so high they could entangle one, and bind them up forever.
One night, one for the Manticores whirled himself around and around like a crazy dog, and with a warped like back, leaped into the fire unintentionally, and burned himself up bad. It was but an instant all this took place. Siren pulled him out, but the deep wounds di d not heal, and he died.
Scoriae
The leader, Scoriae, was left with little alternative, but to go back (To be continued)
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Author:: Dennis Siluk
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