Legends, Heroes and Brother
Episode 1: Not of his Kind

by Evil_lord

The Northern Reaches

The massive white Lupe stood still and silent in the snow. Fur off his back ruffling as the snow fell hard and blew around in the air. His Sterling silver eyes appeared invisible in this storm. Yet you could feel them look at you. It just stood there in the blizzard like a heavenly white statue. Chest out, head high, like he created the mountain. Tail flipping in the harsh wind like it controlled the storm. Obvious no blizzard would keep Shadad off his mountain.

He looked to one side and the other then put his head back down and continued his muscle bound plod down the path. Huge white feet walking silently on the top of the snow as only experience could teach a creature his size to do. He flicked his white ears in the wind and snow whipped wildly around his face, almost ordering the Lupe to turn around. But, a master of this element, the Lupe barley even blinked at the storm that would take a Tatsu of it's feet and continued around a bend.

Before him around the bend lay his home. A mystical site to anyone who saw it. Like a huge icicle hanging of the mountain. It was a frozen water fall. Shadad's shield from the storm. A formerly raging fall of water now silenced. Stopped solid . Even in the river below it that lead down to the far off valley where it melted into what Shadad presumed had to be a crystal clear spring. Sweeping his tail he walked behind the water fall into a small cavern he called home.

Shadad flopped over onto his side hard and just lay silent. He heard the snow and wind whistle outside and felt both a gladness and a sadness inside himself. As anyone who knows Lupes would know that Lupes are very listless creatures when they are lonely. Shadad had been alone all his life. A large scar on his shoulder displayed this sorry fact. Weather it was because of his freakish size, strength, and speed or his deep and haunting eyes it appeared apparent that this strange Lupe was master of his element, yet an outcast of his kind.

Shadad closed his eyes and slept as the wind whistled around the outside of his ice door. Silencing slowly over the night and allowing the clouds to relent and the moon and stars to appear and bast the mountain snow in their perpetual glowing. This was an odd occurrence. Something the owners and pets in the valley claimed happened only once in a blue moon. The event when the village could see the frozen waterfall and some could see Shadad behind it and claimed it was an ancient and savage white Lupe frozen in the ice. But something else was there that night.

It was only a Skeith and her owner that saw it. The big red Skeith and her blonde haired owner flew closer to the waterfall than anyone ever did before. Still it seemed as Shadad was inside the ice. They came closer to it when a shadow passed in front of the moon and floated there. It could be seen on the waterfall, right above where Shadad was sleeping. The girl and her Skeith turned around to look at the moon but there was nothing there. Just that full moon staring back at them. The Skeith looked back and the shadow was still there on the waterfall. They stayed aloft in the air staring at the moon a few moments and the two crystal blue eyes appeared and came closer to them. They could hear wings flapping very faintly but there were simply two small eyes. Then the eyes were just in front of the girl's face as she sat on the stunned Skeith's back. They jumped and sparkled at her. Like they were laughing, not mocking, but laughing. Then one eye winked and they disappeared. The girl took a deep breath in. The whole timed she had tried to scream but her voice was frozen in her throat. The Skeith finally regained composure itself and quickly dashes back to the village in a the valley far below. The eyes reappeared in the sky and watched the two dash away in panic. Then the faint noise of wings could be heard again as they took flight toward the snow covered mountain not far from where they where.

To be continued...