"RUN, TORGILD!" His mother screamed out in the hallway.
He leapt in an instant, in the other direction, looking back for a second, seeing the creature dig its teeth into his mother's throat.
Except for his girlfriend, who was a witch. His mother was the only relative he had in his life after his sister and father turned into bloodsucking, pale creatures of darkness. Now, his mother will turn into a monster as well, and he is the only one in his family who is still a Valiant citizen; everyone else is a bloodsucking monster lurking in the darkness, waiting to attack the innocent.
He kept running through the hallway and turned left when blue bolts of electricity blocked his path. He turned back and could see his mother approaching, pale with blood dripping down from her throat, and she smiled when she saw him, showing him her teeth where two of them were longer than the rest. She will be here any moment, and he turned back to the electricity, noticing a boy made of electricity.
"There is no time, you need to hurry to the trainstation. There is someone who can help you."
Torgild looked at him and kept an eye on his mother as she closed in.
"Wh-What do you want?" Torgild asked.
"You are the son of the hunter of Crawlers, are you not?" The blue boy asked.
"Yes, but what has that to do with anything?"
"Hurry to the trainstation, I have sent help to your cause and free the town of darkness."
The electricity opened a small path so Torgild could pass through, then it covered the whole area when his mother showed up around the corner, and he could not hold back the tears.
"GO! GO NOW!" The electricity boy yelled, and Torgild brushed away his tears and heard his mother call his name in a soft voice, trying to trick him, but he knew that it was the way of crawlers to attract citizens into a trap. He slammed through the double door, ran down the stairs, and grabbed a short sword hanging on the wall. He ran down the stairs to the basement of the big house and found the stone wall leading nowhere.
"Shan ki ta fu khaan!" He uttered the spell, and the wall suddenly opened, and he grabbed a torch before entering.
While walking fast along the stonewalled path, he could hear the wall close shut from a distance. After walking for a while with only a torch, he came to a larger area and lit several more. He grabbed a belt on the wall and put his sword in the sheath. He put on a gear around his wrist made of the finest leather anyone could find. Protecting himself when attacked by the monster, as they can not bite through the protection, minimizing the risk of turning into a monster. He put on a black blazer jacket with a crest of his family history on the back. He grabbed a dagger with a chain around it and knew that, depending on the path he chose, the monsters were probably looking for him as they wanted to end the bloodline once and for all. He couldn't imagine it would get this crazy in just two weeks; it was like too many crawlers had shown up in the city and started attacking people. Could he trust the boy of blue electricity that help would arrive with the train?
He grabbed one of the torches, exited the area, and entered a smaller room. There were five pathways, each leading to different areas of the city. He needed to be smart. What is the best choice right now? Should he go to the witch's shop first to get his girlfriend, or should he first go to the train station?
He went into the second pathway on the left. He decided to try first to gather all the resources sent for help, and then to take some cover in the witches' shop, as it is big. He tried to think whether over one hundred brave heroes were coming to aid in rescuing the city. Maybe there is even more; he knew this could be a possibility for the citizens to take back a part of the city. He hurried so he would reach his fellow heroes as fast as possible.
"Shan Ki Ta Fu Khaan!" Torgild chanted as the stonewall opened up, and he stuck his head out to check the area to see if any monsters were around.
He relaxed a little when nobody was in the alley between the two buildings, and he entered the area, hearing the stonewall close behind him. He hurried towards the main road where all the markets were, and it wouldn't be so far; it was a straight road all the way to the train station. Torgild stuck his head out into the area and saw several red eyes on the road, visible only as shadows, blood splattering around them. The lightning in the area has been turned off or broken the modern art for the royal, on what they call a Lamp. He unsheathed his sword and kept his thumb pressed at the bottom of the handle when a small metal grommet pushed out from the bottom. He took the dagger from the chain and attached the short sword to it instead.
"Calm down, Torgild, this is like an everyday hunting trip with Father. Aim, strike, and swing!" He told himself and took a deep breath. He walked back to take a stance and build momentum for the run, being up to speed when entering the market. He closed his eyes for a moment, making it look like he was a very experienced hunter concentrating, when he was in reality only 18 years old. He took a deep breath and then opened his eyes, clearly showing confidence. He rushed forward and turned to the left as he released the sword from his right hand, flying into the head of the closest monster, and kept moving forward fast as he jumped up with both his boots landing on the chest of another in the middle of the street. He pulled the chain in a quick movement. It flew towards him as he rolled forward when the sword passed him and hit the chest of another monster, and the one he hit on the chest went up on his knees as he pulled back the chain and moved his body slightly to the left as the sword passed him, hitting the one behind him right through the skull. He kept running through the market when he glanced at red eyes on the left behind the fruit stall, and swung the sword to the left when he, in the exact moment, grazed something to the right and pulled his dagger out from the leather on his left wrist, and stopped his movement halfway when the monster on the right was his sister. He gave her a weak kick, pushing her right into another stall, as he pulled the chain back to him, looking at his sister for a second before continuing to run, entirely committed to reaching the train station.
There was a small gap while he was running, as no monsters appeared, and he exited the market area and entered a more luxurious area with windows in shops connected to the buildings and several bars in the alleys on both sides. He was not far from the station now, and suddenly a red ball on fire swept in at high speed across the middle of the road, forcing Torgild to jump to the left. He had never seen that before, as it burned everything in the middle of the road. A big box screen, the same one that showed up two weeks ago, appeared in the air. It made an announcement:
"New players joining the No Name Town! Sublevel changed from Easy...to Impossible!"
He noticed several colored circles of fire falling into various areas across the town. Torgild was in shock, as the last time the box showed up, all the problems started. Were all the circles new enemies? Did Valiant send the strongest superheroes to save the town, a town his family is responsible for protecting? What is the meaning of Easy to Impossible?
"W-What is happening?"