Limits Chapter 185

I sat near the pond for a while but didn't notice any other movements . 'Is that something inside, aware that I'm here?' I thought . I decided to test that and moved away, from the pond . I moved only a bit, I still needed to see whatever that thing inside was . I waited for some time again, staring at the pond .

Suddenly, a movement . I didn't rush to the pond and stayed in my place . 'The creature might be testing, if I really left . Let's see what it does next?' I thought and stared at the pond . Some time later, the movement repeated . I again stayed in my place and didn't move .

This thing repeated for a few more times, before a creature resurfaced and looked around . When it noticed me, it seemed surprised and quickly hid inside the pond again . 'This was not a fish . I could only see its head but it looked like lizard? Are lizards able to live underwater?' I thought . The creature's head was blue and although it resembles a lizard, it also differed from usual lizards .

I decided to investigate . I took off my clothes and jumped into the pond "Splash!" . I could still see stuff around me, as I was near the surface, but the further down I looked, the less I could see . The creature which I was looking for was there, nearer the bottom, or at least the bottom of what I could see . When it saw me, it dived deeper, until I wasn't able to see it whatsoever .

I resurfaced and thought 'This thing is weird . It's head is like that of a lizard, its body is long like that of a snake, and it also has 4 legs, or 2 legs and 2 arms . If what I saw is correct, it should be about 1 metre long . The size of its body though, is not that great, the creature is just long' . I wondered what could that creature be . I went out of the pond and dressed myself . I took out the Beast Scriptures and recorded that creature inside .

Besides the shape of the creature and the colour, I knew nothing else really . I added whatever I could and named it Water Lizard . 'I will have to enquire Avians about that creature . It seems to be a bit shy or perhaps scared' I thought . While I was adding stuff to my book and gathering my thoughts, I heard a splash behind me .

When I looked back, it was the same creature that resurfaced . It looked at me with panic in its eyes and ran towards me . What appeared next from the pond, stunned me as well . It was another creature with many tentacles . The size of that creature, was at least 5 times that of a human being . I moved back as well, while the Water Lizard moved towards me with panic . I said "Stop following me . I don't want to deal with that thing" . The lizard made some noises but still followed .

The creature resurfaced completely and gave chase . It used its long tentacles like legs, its speed extraordinary . 'Why am I always being chased!?' I thought and took out my bow . I turned around and started shooting at the creature running towards us . "Swoosh!" "Swoosh!" "Swoosh!" "Swoosh!" but the arrows simply bounced back . The tentacle creature chasing us, was like a rubber .

'There is no other way then!' I took out a small portion of the Yellow Dust that I still had on me and set it up . With the torch lit, I shouted "Come at me!" . This seemed to enrage the tentacle creature and it went straight for me . I lit the torch and started running . When the creature got close to the Yellow Dust, I threw the torch .

"BOOOM!" "SCREEECH!!" . The ear piercing screech of a creature that was blasted away, sounded through the air . I stopped running and turned around . The tentacle creature was all mangled and burned . It didn't move anymore . The Water Lizard stared at the creature in shock . I came over to the lizard and said "What type of disaster, did you want to bring on me, huh?" . The creature snapped out of its shock and looked at me . It panicked again and started to run .

"Oh no you don't!" I exclaimed and chased after it, at my full speed . The lizard was fast, but not as fast as I was . I caught up to it and caught it . I said "Where do you think you are going?" . The lizard almost started crying and making loads of noises . It seemed to be apologising, begging not to kill it .

"I will not kill you . Just don't run!" and placed the lizard on the ground . It seemed confused and glad at the same time . Probably because it pleas worked, but this time, it didn't dare to move away . I said out loud "What was that thing?" . The lizard got worked up again and pointed somewhere . I wasn't really asking that lizard a question but I still looked to where it pointed .

It was the exit from the Valley . I was a bit confused and asked "What is there?" . The lizard seemed to fear something and pointed toward that direction while making noises . I asked "You want to go there?" The lizard nodded and urged me to come . I was baffled and said "I still want to examine that tentacle creature" . It shook its head and still urged me .

It was then, that I heard an ear piercing screech in the distance . To be exact, it was in the same direction, where that pond was . 'Shit, so that is why it urged me to run!' I thought and grabbed the lizard . "I now know what you mean, we are going!" I said and ran at my full speed, towards the exit of the Valley . I heard more screeches behind me, and it sounded like more than just one creature .

When I looked back, after a while of running, I didn't notice any movements behind me . 'Fortunately we managed to run away . Just what the hell, did that damned lizard do, to enrage so many of them?' I thought . I decided to investigate just that . I lifted my hand and noticed that it was a bit light . I looked at it and noticed the lizard was gone . 'That bastard! Don't let me catch you!' I thought and looked around . Something moved in the corner of my eye . 'So that is where you are?' I thought, and released all the energy in my legs at once .

"Booom!"

I sped through the Valley and toward the place, I saw some movements . It turned out, it was the lizard I was after . When it noticed me, It started to run . "Now you are done for, lizard!" I shouted and ran after it . It suddenly gave up and stopped . I approached it and asked, quite angry "What did you do, for them to chase you?" . The lizard spat out something and made some noises . When I wanted to pick it up, the lizard quickly swallowed it back and stared at me .

I said "I don't think you have the right no to show that to me . You are alive only thanks to me! I just want to examine it . I will give it back" . The lizard thought for a while and spat it out again . I took it into my left hand and examined it . It was some sort of round stone, blue in colour and cold to touch . I was a bit confused and asked "Why would you steal such a thing? Does it have any uses or something?" I threw it up and down couple of times and then, placed it in my right hand .

What happened next was extraordinary . My hand started to freeze up and absorb? The stone . The lizard made a lot of noise and became angry . I was quite stunned by that process but after a while, I snapped out of it, and placed the stone in my left hand . With the stone in my left hand, the absorption stopped . "Just what the hell is that thing?" I asked myself . The lizard demanded the stone back, while making a lot of noises and jumping up and down .

I gave the stone back and said "I didn't know my right hand would do that . Here take it back, it's yours afterall" . The lizard took it and swallowed it back . 'This stone is probably some kind of rare herb, that can help water or ice based creatures increase their strength . Just that short amount of me absorbing it, already made my right hand's freezing abilities better' I thought .

"Ok, so that is the use of that stone . Are there any more of those stones, inside that pool?" I asked . The creature nodded and extended its arm . It showed me 2 out of the 3 fingers, that it had . 'So there are two more inside that pond . The problem is, the tentacle creatures . There must be loads of them inside there . I can't see stuff inside there either… It's too dark' I thought .

'Wait! Dark, that is it, I almost forgot . I wanted to test out the vision from my dream . I need a dark place in order to do that' I thought and asked the lizard "Do you know how many of those tentacle monsters are down there?" . The lizard shook its head in response . 'Hmm, I will have to let the things calm down there first . I can go visit that place later' I thought .

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