The Eye stared at me as hints of its body peeked through the tree it hid behind.
It was a huge humanoid creature.
'Survive?' I thought, as sweat I didn't dare move to clean poured down my face.
Screams started behind me as everyone else noticed the giant. It didn't take long before they started running.
Then it moved, leaving the cover of the tree.
It was fast for its size, it bent the trees it passed with its weight, tearing the ground with each step it took.
It wore only a large strip of leather as a skirt, and held a giant club as tall as two grown men, yet the club was only half its height. Its face had a single large eye.
From behind me the Barrier ran towards the creature, walking directly on thin air.
As I watched the man race towards the monster I started to hope.
Whatever the creature was, it couldn't take on all of us.
But then, the person running towards it was just a man...., very tiny compared to the monster.
A mighty gust of wind swept through the trees as the monster swung its club, using my hands, I shielded my eyes from the sand the swing blew in my direction.
The Barrier, at that distance... he might as well have been dead.
I immediately turned, running as fast as my legs would let me.
Then suddenly, A loud sound. The sound of shattering glass rang in my ears, I immediately ducked trying to protect myself but then, I tripped rolling on the floor.
And yet nothing hit me. The ground was sticky, and as I stood to my feet some of it gummed to my hands.
The monster groaned from behind me, its frustration echoing in my ears.
I turned to look. The Barrier was jumping in the air, the shattering sounds must have come from whatever he was standing upon after the creature swung at it.
A loud boom shook the ground as the monster dropped its club, trying to use its hands instead to catch the man.
'He's alive?' The Barrier stood right above the monster as it turned, it's giant eye staring upwards as it tried to grab The Barrier.
It's hands flailed in the air, about to squish the man into a bloody pulp between its fingers.
Then suddenly the Barrier dropped.
He fell, landing right on top of the creature's eye.
And then, he pierced it, falling into the creature's eye. The giant screamed, falling on it's knees and banging its head on the floor. It's hands dug into the ground, staining the already red earth a thicker shade of red.
Blood pooled beneath the creature as it slowly died, it thrashed violently on the ground, eventually using its own hands to bash its skull. It never stopped screaming, not until it took its last breath.
I took a look around me to see everyone, they just watched in silence.
Seconds after the creature went still, The Barrier tore himself out in a mess of torn flesh and blood, then landed right above the pool of blood.
His black outfit didn't have a drop of red on it, completely stainless as he hovered towards us, just centimetres above the ground.
"There are monsters in this place, I suggest you all head to the tower in the distance" He spoke to all of us as he stood right in front of me, he didn't even smell like blood.
Suddenly Kendali ran up to my side, I just noticed how tall she was when she leaned on me, she was only slightly shorter than me.
'Why was she leaning on me?' I would have pushed her off, just that it didn't affect me much, I just wasn't comfortable with it.
"Where are you heading to then?" She asked The Barrier, He didn't reply, He just turned to walk away or more accurately hover, he still didn't touch the floor.
"What's your name?" She asked again, at this point I would have given up, he clearly wasn't interested in talking to her.
"Muri" he replied, to the surprise of both me and Kendali.
Just when she was about to ask another question he just shot into the air, leaving in the opposite direction of the tower.
"Follow me" Kendali said, tapping me on the shoulder as she turned towards the group that was slowly assembling themselves.
'Was that an order?' I thought, I would have completely ignored it if not for the fact that there was no point in standing to stare at a corpse.
We both walked towards where everyone gathered, they too must have realised that if we were going to survive here we needed to stick together.
And more importantly we need a leader.