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Short Story Community Competition!
#26
IGN: SaberFury
Genre: Fantasy/ Lore
Word Count: 812

Our story begins in a universe that has formed with ten planets. Various creatures and mythical beings inhabit these planets and each have formed their own tribes. One day a new race of adventurers began appearing on planet Alpha and bewildered by their surroundings, they were unsure of what actions to take. Suddenly there was a rustling in the bushes. An army of spiders, snakes, rats, bats, owls, boars, wolves and bears arrived in front of the adventurers. These creatures began to attack, but strangely they came only in waves. A group of entlings charged at the adventurers, but these were  creatures unlike any they’ve seen before. Although the adventurers were surprised, they knew they had to kill them in order to survive. Finally, the forest guardian appeared and the adventurers could tell this was not a creature they could defeat easily. They worked together to fight the forest guardian, but they were taking heavy damage. One of the adventures was on the ground injured and cornered by the forest guardian, the man unable to move was facing possibly his last moments but suddenly everything froze as if time had stopped. At the same time, some of the adventurers began feeling a surge of energy coming from within, feeling immense strength they charged at the forest guardian. This time they brought down the creature with ease and saved the injured adventurer. They were puzzled at the power that was running through their bodies and perplexed at how everything had stopped moving except the adventurers. Then, the wind began blowing and they could hear the rustling of the forest as time began to flow once more. They felt their power slowly fade away. The adventurers had survived the battle, but there were more enemies still out there.

The adventurers decided to find a safe location to stay at. More adventurers began to arrive over time. They collected wood and mined stone and began to form a campsite as they planned to stay for a while. The adventurers discussed about what their plans going forward would be and they agreed upon working together to explore the planet and training to get stronger. Over time the adventurers began forming parties to venture out and then creating organized guilds. The adventurers learned to harness the abilities they had gained and they found out that their powers could not be continuously used. They could use their powers for a short period of time, then, there would be a cooldown, but this allowed the adventurers to travel further into the forest where they defeated tougher creatures. They began taming their own snakes, bats and wabbits as pets. Their pets fed on empowering apples that infused the animals with power and when fed enough, the animals would evolve into a new and stronger being. The adventurers soon found out that like a drug, as their pets ate more and more of these empowering apples, the pets required immensely more food in order to power up to evolve further. They needed a way to gather empowering apples faster and one day they stumbled upon a method to solve this problem. The adventurers had discovered empowering apple trees deep in the forest where only the strong adventurers could reach. These trees were guarded by creatures the adventurers had never seen before, but they could gather empowering apples as far as they could beat these creatures. What was truly amazing about these empowering apple trees was not how many there were but that these trees grew back all their empowering apples at the stroke of midnight. The adventurers just had to beat the creatures daily in order to earn the empowering apples and as their pets got stronger, they could go farther in to gather even more food for their pets.

Eventually, the adventurers ran into the rats and werethings tribes. Groups of two were sent out to take care of watchtowers and for bigger raids against enemy outpost, groups of six adventurers were required. The strong adventures grouped together to take the responsibility of clearing these outpost. The experience of battle allowed the strongest of adventurers to guide weaker adventurers through battle and taught the inexperienced ways to get stronger. The strongest adventurers pushed forward through the forest farther than the rest of the adventurers. One day these adventurers never returned and as others got stronger, they too traveled farther into the forest of planet Alpha, but like those before, they too disappeared. New adventurers continued to appear on planet Alpha but no one knew what had happened to the strong. It was a mystery but guilds continued to grow in strength and the adventurers taught the new and helped the weak gain the strength required to survive.

Here is where the story ends but it is just the start of a long journey for our adventurers in this new universe.


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Short Story Community Competition! - Level - 02-02-2018, 03:54 PM
RE: Short Story Community Competition! - SaberFury - 02-04-2018, 06:41 PM
IGN: vexatyk - vexatyk - 02-06-2018, 04:16 PM

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