Chapter 3:lurking danger

Rumbling could be heard as I was knocked out of the stupor I was in. Looking around I concluded that the source of the rumbling was coming towards me.

Fast. I panicked, a monster must have smelled my scent and came for a free meal. Damnit I thought in annoyance. There's no way I can hold my own against a monster that create this strong of a tremor.

Looking around I noticed my only option is to climb these massive ancient looking trees. The rumbling was started to get louder as I ran towards the nearest tree and started to climb it as fast as possible.

Barely under a branch the rumbling sound hit its peak as a creature emerged from the massive bushes that were on my right. I froze. My body was shaking beyond comparison. There, coming out of the bushes was a creature my mom told me to never be near.

An shadow panther king. It emerged from the bushes with it's majestic black fur coat with golden rings on it.

Muscular body with sharp claws on it's paws ready to rip anything to shreds. Not even mentioning that it was easily triple the size of me.

I couldn't move out of fear of it seeing me. So I hanged there like a deer in headlights. A raspy voice rang out from the panther "where are my prey?

I can smell you. I can smell your fear. Why don't you be good and let me end it quickly" it said while sniffing and looking around the area. I didn't say a word. I was completely shocked.

The one creature that my mother told me to always avoid appeared in front of me. Not to mention the fact it's one of the few creatures of the martial world almost no one can fight head to head with.

Let alone my powerful father. After sniffing for a couple more seconds the panther looked upward and we locked gazes.

If a creature could smirk it would totally be smirking. "Found you" it said tensing all the muscles in its body ready to leap for my body. A massive blurry figure tackled the panther mid air and gave out a roar that made my eardrums feel like they bursted.

I couldn't hold on to the tree anymore and fell, my eyes slowly fading into darkness.

Before I lost conscious I looked over and saw a massive serpent that was blood red in color slither towards me while saying "you dare to attack my lords nephew, you really don't like living don't you?"

It said towards the panther that was still getting up.

Right as my limp body was about to hit the ground the Serpents tail lightly grasped my body right before I hit the ground. With that, I blacked out.