THE GHOSTLY EYESHADOW.

The young man lay stretched out on the ground, the bright sun beginning to warm his face when he suddenly heard voices talking and murmuring,

-Young man, you're fine, hey, wake up.

......….. no response from the young man lying on the path,

A bucket of water falls on his forehead, perhaps it was too cold, because in one jump he regained consciousness, and unsheathed his sword that he carried on his back.

- Hey calm down, I don't want to hurt you.

The voice came from an old man, a few meters away lay a cart, and in it there were a couple of children.

- What am I doing here, where is the guy in the armor, who are you, where did that guy go?

He really didn't know what had happened, his memories became more and more confused.

- I'm a traveler, answered the old man, and I don't know who you're talking about, you were just lying there on the path, I thought you were dead, you didn't react to everything I said to you, are you better now?

Little by little he was diminishing the adrenaline and lowered the sword of him.

"What happened here, a moment ago I was... he had me held and I don't remember anymore, and more importantly how I got here, I was on that lonely mountain, and now I'm here, this is quite far from the place where I was."

Every time everything was more confused in his head and he doubted the veracity of what happened, the old man already saw him with a little suspicion thinking that he was crazy. Having regained his calm, he sheathed the sword, but to his surprise there was another sword on his back, or that seemed to be since it was only the hilt, looking at it astonished and with a little terror in his eyes he held it in his hands and he thought "It's the same one with which they pierced my chest in my dreams, I don't understand, what's happening, everything is getting stranger and stranger."

The old man, seeing that he was already better, said:

- I guess it's nothing serious, I should go now, I don't want the darkness of the night to reach me before entering the town, you should do the same young man, lately the trails are not safe.

- Can you take me in your cart? whispered the young man, I would like to visit the next village too, my provisions have already run out.

- As you like, exclaimed the old man, I could not leave a helpless boy on this lonely road, and much less exposed to the dangers of the night, they also say that some mysterious creatures lurk here that attack the villages and leave everything desolate, it's something terrifying truth.

Soon the old man got into the front part of the old cart, and the young man got into the back together with a boy and a girl that the old man was carrying "his grandchildren".

Soon he pulled the horses and the cart began to move, the children moved their feet back and forth, their legs did not touch the floor of the cart, they were still small, the girl about five years old, the boy about seven years old.

The brown-haired girl was wearing a shirt that reached her knees and the boy was wearing shorts and pants with suspenders that were held on his shoulders over a white shirt, they were looking carefully at the young man with great curiosity since this He had a lost look on the horizon that moved further and further away from the road, he saw that mountain with immense anxiety, even remembering what he thought he had seen.

- Do you feel good asked the girl, you look sad,

- Don't bother him said the boy, he's weird, maybe he bites haha.

To which the young man smiled and said:

- I'm fine, I just slept badly last night.

- Of course, anyone who sleeps on top of the dusty stones would have a bad night, the boy exclaimed between laughter.

The girl hits the boy with a twig and says:

-Hey, don't bother him, I'm sure he's not feeling well, my name is Clara and he's Cory, my grandfather's name is Robert, we're going to see my grandmother.

-Wow, great.

In a quick play, Cory lifted the young man's hood, revealing his face, white as a sheet of paper, and his fairly long black hair with white streaks, and deep, light-colored eyes, almost transparent that in the sunlight. sun glimpsed a reddish color.

-Look grandpa, how cute...

"Without a doubt, it is an unusual combination" said the old man, while he lit a pipe with some leaves that gave off a pleasant smell of eucalyptus, strangely for the smoke alone.

As they advanced, the path began to close in a circle, the trees intertwined their branches, footsteps on the wet ground could be heard with the movement of the cart, the red leaves flooded the ground, covering it with a jet color while the leaves that remained on the trees appeared a crimson red.

It was beginning to get dark, then the old man, seeing that they could no longer reach their destination during the day, decided to turn on some old streetlights that lay in the front and back of the cart, curiously as it got darker, inside the path it seemed to become even more dark, however, fireflies clung to the cart everywhere lighting the way as if it were magic.

As they walked through the darkness of the night, the children slept and the old man thought of stopping to rest.

- Do you think this is a good place to camp?

- Shhhh said the young man

- It seems that we have company, Robert, protect the children, this will not be easy...

The fireflies vanished in a blink of an eye and the dim lights of the street lamps seemed to go out at any moment, the horses did not stop bucking and broke their reins and ran away, at the same time that the first one who runs after Within seconds of disappearing into the darkness, he lets out a shriek.

Corrupted creatures began to appear from the shadows, they were wolves with three corrupt tails, five eyes, and points like horns all over their bodies, their tails had mouths full of fangs, and their main mouth gave off a nauseating smell.

The young man got down from the cart and unsheathed it, the blunt-sized sword looked like a crosshead and he used it with one or two hands, he does it quite skillfully, there seem to be about twenty or more of those abominations, the old man with fear watched as the monsters they began to surround the young man, he had never seen anything like it in his life, suddenly the sword began to shine with a white light, the monsters pounced first five to which one turn with great force was enough to split them in half, others They ran towards the wagon, fear they could smell and blood they could almost taste, in a quick movement he stood in front of them and waved the sword with such force that energy came out from which the sword emanated and cut the trees at the same time that one one the monsters were falling, it moved very quickly, you could hardly see where it was going, the only thing the old man could see was a dark shadow with bright eyes, when he finished each one of them he buried the sword in the ground and placed his arms on her, his heart was racing and his breathing was fast, it seemed that he was beginning to lack air, then he said:

- How long will you continue to observe, do you think you are very smart hiding in the shadows?

A voice from the darkness whispered as footsteps were heard that seemed to make the earth rumble:

- Curious that one of us hunts us, rather why don't you join this feast brother, that monstrous aura can only be that of a fallen into corruption and depraved by the malice that bathes these lands.

A silence occurred while the young man could not understand what was happening, the monster, was he talking to him?

And why he could understand it, it had never happened to him fighting monsters before, it was the same when he met that guy from his dreams on the mountain.

He shone the sword even brighter and out of the shadows a mountain of bones and rotting corpses was revealed while a host of other monsters lay eating and dismembering the bodies there, wrecked wagons, mutilated horses, they were everywhere, it seemed. as if they had lost the path at some point since there was no trace of where they came from, perhaps it was when they thought of camping, but none of that mattered, it was soon revealed where the voice came from.

Huge about five meters tall, its appearance was the same as the other creatures, hair everywhere and abundant muscles, it walked upright and has four upper and two lower limbs on which it leaned, accompanied by an unbearable smell, clearly it was the chief of those creatures, his eyes seemed to form a six-pointed star on his forehead in which there was a grotesque enormous eye, these twisted while the tails devoured the entrails of the unfortunates who lay dead there.

- Although it is strange, a human should not have this aura, what are you little creature? I had never seen someone like you, although undoubtedly those eyes affirm that you were not human, although that does not matter, soon you will be part of this feast.

A shiver began to run through the young man's body, but the anger he felt at seeing such barbarism was enough for him to throw himself without thinking twice against the henchmen, each time he cut faster, as if the steel blade he was fanning became lighter. , propelling himself through the corpses that he left behind, he surrounded the enormous abomination, but it was when he approached to fight the boss that it fanned his tail and sent him flying, crashing him crashing into a tree leaving him almost unconscious.

- This is just a matter of numbers, no matter how much you kill these minions, they will continue to come out of that pile of corpses, your fate is sealed.

Screams of terror came from the cart, the children were terrified, Cory jumped out of the cart and started running, while Clara and Grandpa just couldn't move from the terror that ate them to the bone, the old man hugged her and told her that did not see that everything was going to be fine, while the child yelled at them "run, they are going to eat us, do not stay there".

With a quick movement as if it were not difficult to move that huge body, the beast pounced with its claws on the boy, the crosshead blocked his way while the half-stunned young man blocked his way with great difficulty, his weight was crushing him, and it was only enough with a spike that came out of the beast's mouth to pierce the young man's abdomen from one side to the other and Cory in one of his legs.

The child's cries of pain could not stop being heard throughout the forest while blood gushed from the young man's mouth, who, hearing the screams with difficulty, tried not to pass out from the pain.

"Use it or would you rather die?"

He whispered a voice to her; he didn't know where he came from and he didn't care either.

With some footwork and effort, he managed to get the beast off balance as he swung the crosshead and nailed it to one of the beast's legs, the young man's eyes turned yellow and he held that bladeless hilt that lay in her back.

- Time, if I'm right, you haven't even opened your mouth to deny that you're a monster just like all of us, but your eyes say the opposite, it just has a pretty shell, but what can you do without a leaf?

The beast began to rip the crosshead from his limb while the young man jumped holding the child, more and more blood came out of the wound, he kept his distance holding the hilt with one hand, although it was much heavier than it seemed.

The crosshead shot across the field as the monster flung it.

- Now you have no escape brat.

He began to run while his mouth suddenly opened and his tails accompanied him throwing spikes, the young man dodged and threw the boy into a bush.

-Aaaaaaaa damn… he yelled as he struggled to stay on his feet

He started a race in the direction of the beast while shouting loudly while shaking the hilt with great force, when the monster was in front about to touch him, a scream was heard in the depths of the crimson forest, it had cut him to the side. half, then fell to the ground covered in blood.

The young man's vision turned dark, he knelt down on the hilt that caught a glimpse of a blade bathing in the monster's blood, it seemed that he was absorbing it, immediately afterwards he fell unconscious.