Terin Gaspar could feel them. Like dots of light in the darkest of nights. Each dot connected to another forming a web of light that encompasses the world. Focusing on one point, he could see the lights in the fleet.

“You are the Blinder of Light, Terin Gaspar.”

Caldor Ando said. He stood with his sword blooded around a group of monsters. Behind Caldor Ando was a burning cabin and not far from that cabin was his father standing up.

“I have come too late, forgive me.”

“What are you saying?”

“You know what happened here. Before long, the omens will come and the very fabric of the world will quake. It is my duty to bring you to the heart of the world. And then finally blind the eyes of the world.”

“Father…my father.”

“I am sorry.”

Terin Gaspar did not understand. He didn’t understand why it had to be him. Lady Rosalve appeared and alongside her was his good friend. They quelled the fire and stopped it from spreading to the villages.

Madam Rosalve appeared before him. And it was then that his journey around the known world began. A year of traveling and yet he could not still believe that he was the one chosen.

Unfortunately he was the blinder of light. Not a single day that he had been traveling that the monsters hounded him.

If not for his father. Oh father, how could you leave me behind? Terin opened his eyes to the present reality that was before him. On a Grand-Galleon head to a place that to people had not known. Legends only for the humans but a place where the elven-kin had visited and vanished in the face of the known world.

“Why me?” was a question that never left Terin’s head. Mardon, his friend, had to join him after knowing what he had been through. If it wasn’t for the goodness of his friend, he wondered where he would be.

Images of light are like lights blinding him. When he closes his eyes there was only the dots of light interconnected to one another.

“Hey you,” a voice called. Terin Gaspar turned. He saw the doctor that treated Zyra. Terin Gaspar blinked, then he froze at what he saw when he had blinked.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes, Doctor,” said Terin.

“Good, don’t spend the night here. Have a rest.”

He watched the Doctor enter the hatchway without looking back. Terin Gaspar was not accustomed to the kind doctor. Though the doctor was hard on his patients, most of the civilian crew respected that tough kindness he displays. He admired that he could act like that and still keep working every day without a moment’s rest.

He was supposed to be the blinder of light. A person that brought forth endless hope. Yet here he was looking silently at the stars without a moment’s rest. Not a sense of foreboding or mercy at the injured.

No matter where he goes the sky was a constant companion. Terin could recall the days where his father would let him sleep under the flat on top of their cabin.

“Be strong,” Terin said to himself. “That is how you can continue to push on. If I am not strong then all the stars in my mind’s eye would vanish.”

There was a weight on his shoulders. From the voices inside of his head that was tempting him. To let go of that weight and bring forth an age where there was only dimness. He heard begging in his head. “Please, oh, blinder of light, bring forth cooling to our burnt skins and bring forth reprieve.”

“I am sorry,” he said to this voice. “To do that would be snuffing the light for the world.”

A cry could be heard when he said that. The cry of someone lamenting the death of his or her children. It was painful to hear and it made his head throb in pain. But Terin ignored that plea of the monsters. Who knows what their intents are for calling out to him. There was nothing that comes from hearing the creatures of the dark.

And their presence disturbed him to the core. It was like they are little crawlers that crawls on his skin. He didn’t like that feeling of tiny legs running on his arms and shoulder. Not to mention that there was this sound that he couldn’t describe that made him dizzy. If it wasn’t for the light that embraced him. He would have followed the temping cool place where there was only calm.

There were no waves hitting the side of the Grand-Galleon. Only the wind that flutters the sails of the grand galleon. Surrounded by the fleet that surrounded the Ark that was almost like a small floating island. On the bow of the Ark was the face of an elder tree with its eyes closed. Appearing like a stag beetle to him, the Ark had spread tiny wood-like limbs that was extending the shape of the Ark.

Terin found it curious how it could grow like that. He didn’t understand and Lady Rosalve was quiet about the secrets of the Ark. Nonetheless, the Ark itself was getting larger than the Grand-Galleon. Even the Warship that the Admiral of the Fleet commanded was like a dwarf to the current size of the Ark.

Terin was about to enter the Galleon when he heard this cracking noises that resembled the sound of twigs crunching below his feet. It was followed by a groaning noise as the sea itself rumbled and shook. Running to the railing of the Galleon, he saw the patrol boats actively looking at the sea firing fire flowers. Sailors rushed out of the hatchway and held on the ropes. The boatswain of the Grand Galleon shouted and roared as the Grand-Galleon made for a port-side turn. Terin felt the critters of light manifest as they begin talking to one another. They begin to blow the sails and from the sound of the critter comes the voice of Lady Eletha guiding the winds on the sails of the fleet.

A giant shadow rose from the depths of the ocean. Terin froze at the sight of an eyeball the size of a small hill reflecting the lights on the ship. As the body emerges he saw molded carapaces and beyond that molded carapace was a strange fauna that resembled a forest with tree leaves that looked like seaweed. The creature itself didn’t register the fleet. It moved forward while pushing the whole of the fleet backwards. A great wave threatened to sweep the fleet and if not for the quick turn of the fleet, riding the giant wave to safety. Terin couldn’t imagine the consequences of such thing.

A thin transparent barrier surrounded the whole of the fleet with the Ark acting as this center for where this barrier was being produced. The creature didn’t attack. It reminded Terin of those shelled-creatures he found on a beach which was slow, but this one was larger than a small mountain and on its back seems to be these odd trees.

There was silence in the air. The air became still and the sea returned to what it was. The stillness brought the fear. It was then that they heard something coming out of that creature. Near the neck of this creature there was something sticky flowing out. Terin thought it was water, but when the sticky liquid came contact with one of the patrol boats floating near to the creature. They discovered the water below them turned pale red.

Looking back to the creature’s eyes, it was dilated. There was a shaking on that beast as it seems to be swimming softly.

The beast was injured. There was no doubt about it. But yet it only produced fear in the hearts of the men on deck. Terin could feel something coming to the fleet. Something big and filled with malice. And it was hungry.

A creature jumped out of the water and bit on the neck of the giant. Fangs that were taller than giant trees. Scales that was like a rock. This creature with stone-like skin tore through the carapace.

It took the fleet a second before something happened. Lady Eletha, the guardian of the Milostiv fired a spell. This spell brightened the night and it hit the creature on the back. The creature didn’t let go of that creature.

The whole crew was stunned until something was fired on the direction of the stone creature.

Seeing this the fleet followed with every gunner and boatswain shouting the same thing. Terin moved away from the rushing gunners and sailors as they loaded every gun and artillery on the Galleon, pointing it on the giant creature attacking the wounded sea beast.

“YOU SAW THE SIGNAL FOOLS. FIX THE FLAGS! MAN THE GUNS. FOLLOW THE LADY’S ATTACK! BRING THAT CREATURE DOWN! MOVE THE GUNS NOW YOU BASTARDS! PRIME AND LOAD THE CANNONS AND THEN FIRE! OPEN FIRE! BRING THAT CREATURE DOWN! EMPTY OUR IRON ON THAT DAMN CREATURE BEFORE IT DIVES DOWN!”

The whole fleet seems to roar as every cannon and artillery fired upon that creature!