Featured Story
Skies of Sais
This issue's story is Skies of Sais written by Rownlioneyes. The prologue is below, and if you want to check the whole story, click here.
The brown tiger with emerald stripes sat along a cliff, staring down at the empty realm. Jagged cliffs stood tall in the distance like the ground had come upward from the ground, and defying gravity. The sun wasn't burning as brightly as it should've, and it was peeking behind the clouds. It seemed so lonely here, no other animals.. or even humans for that matter. Just a empty world, one of those dimensions that's just completely barren. The tiger squinted in the sun, hearing a scuttling noise and bent his head down, to find a mouse's tail trapped under his claw. An animal here? Impossible.The tiger was the only living thing there. Or at least, used to be. The tiger looked up, seeing that the sky begin to go on flames, burning the sky. The tiger backed away cautiously, and saw that meteors were slamming into the ground, leaving huge craters. He ducked to the side as one fell near the cliff inches away. The mouse panicked, twisting and struggling under his claws. Backing up against the cliff more, and peeking it's head from out of the bushes, the flames stopped. Now the sky was full of darkness-- just like night-time. This was confusing the tiger, too much. Flames.. Darkness.. what next? Clouds gathered up together, like they'd be having a conversation. They were fluffy and huge like white fur of a rabbit. Mmm... the tiger thinks in his head, the first time he could ever eat meat. If only those things were true, those types of animals were only on Human Earth. A moon slowly lifted from behind the clouds, rising slowly. This had to be a illusion, the tiger thought to himself. Suddenly animals raced out of the clouds, Rabbits, Deer, Centaurs, Peacocks, Ravens, Dryads.. so many animals he had heard about in the Runed Books of Three. Than human-people with crystal blue eyes and ripped white dresses, as humans would refer to ''Bride dresses''. The men there wore a white-tshirt and white shorts. Those books told about parts of nature having a conversation, and the world full again. The tiger stared curiously at what came next. The clouds faded, making a whistling noise and the sky was lit on flame again. Flaming humans stepped out, with most of them having amber or fiery hair with fierce hazel or green eyes. The flames vanished just like the clouds have done.
Than the Darkness came, the sky filling up with a pitch-black light. Wisps of air flew around in the darkness, suddenly coming together to form something. It looked like a human too, except it had very pale skin and fangs, with black dull eyes. Vampires is what they were called in the Runed Books of Three. Amazed, the tiger saw the moon lift into the black sky slowly, shining like giving off a intense glow. Essence of the moon flew off of it, creating creatures with snouts, black noses, long legs with claws and very sharp teeth. Wargs and wolves, the tiger remembers. Human-looking wolves step out, in a sort of crouching stance. Lastly, the tiger thinks, the Wolverines. Than all of those animals ran away, the wolves, wargs, and wolverine's legs pumping. They split into groups, running off into the distance. A pine-tree forest formed, spreading across the area. A Kingdom built itself, at least 120 feet tall from the tiger's view. It was white with wooden doors with little golden dragons encrusted on it and the white-building was glowing. There was a first story- wide like the bottom of a cake. And so it went on, and it did-- mostly look like a human cake. The tiger was eager to join new friends in the realm. 12 years of loneliness and it could finally end. The tiger jumped off, his light brown feathered wings spreading out, propelled him to the ground. The tiger bolted away, excited.