ChiarOscuro Book One: Episode Three - A Snake Eating Its Own Tail

By ChiarOscuro Official

ChiarOscuro Episode Three A Snake Eating Its Own Tail (Words 9,355).

The group are close to reaching the top of the mountain to bring Baruto down to Lemekia. However, Dasha, Wex, Isa, Dakar and Manny will have a task on their hand which they would have never imagined earlier that day and the shadow of Decabia nears...

SERIES

ChiarOscuro is an ongoing online fantasy series being published at http://chiaroscuroseries.wordpress.com/. Taking place in an alternate world where humanity is just discovering it's full potential after nearly being brought to extinction five millenia ago, the darkness that once threatened humanity has returned, seemingly with the intention to finish what they failed to do 5,000 years ago.

ChiarOscuro is made up of 'Books' each one containing an Episode (these normally span a week or two) and a chapter is released throughout the duration of an episode. The official site will be the first place to find the newly released chapters at first, as well as extra pieces that delve deeper into the lore, world and characters of ChiarOscuro and once the Episode has concluded, it will be shortly be available as a single 'Book' to read in full.

So follow a small select few in this time where the world's and humanity's certain is uncertain and travel with them to meet many different cultures, people, beliefs, customs through deserts, mountains, the city of nine walls and even the parts of the world the human eye cannot see...

SERIES SUMMARY

Taking place in a world where at the dawn of human civilisation, a catastrophe struck nearly bringing humanity to extinction and close to forever changing the world as we know it.

They called them Demons, twisted, ruthless creatures with no seemingly other drive than to conquer all those weaker than them as they were the strongest and fittest and Earth seemed close to falling into the hands of these strange beings, who came to our world with no warning and legends speak of skies literally tearing open as Demons invaded our world.

However, humanity as it always seems to do, fought back and though most of the people living at that time were forever lost, the Demons were defeated, the remaining leaving this world or scattered as they fled the humans only hours before they had been slaughtering mercilessly.

It’s been 5,000 years since those events, though many dismiss the tale as legend and humanity has only recently started picking up again, there have been some strange reports recently across Aludin and with the mysterious Decabia to the east, the era of peace may soon be coming to the end and new heroes will have to answer the call to defend humanity’s flame once again, as they did so 5,000 years ago.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ChiarOscuro Official
• Release date: Aug 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311882882

ChiarOscuro Official

What can I say? I’ve loved reading and writing for as long as I can remember. There’s something special in being able to create a whole world, a whole group of characters, a whole series of events that although they may be just words, they can inspire, make you dream, relate to and carry with you for the rest of your life. Those are the kind of stories I love the most, the ones that once you’ve finished, you feel ‘sad’ in that you leave behind a group of characters and a world and those are the stories I want to create for other people to read. I have been developing and seriously pursuing the craft now for over two years, for this is what I feel I was ‘made’ to do although I knew since I was younger this is what I always wanted to do. Ever since in school my class was given a writing exercise to create any story we wanted to and while just about all my classmates only wrote about 1-3 pages, the sense of freedom I was given had me lost into it and I wrote my own story of about 20+ pages, haha. And that story was a fantasy one as is the ChiarOscuro series although all genres appeal to me and all I really want is to have people read my work and enjoy it, maybe even inspiring them to pursue this craft and if I’m able to even influence one person to do that, well then, I think I can be glad of my work and the time and effort was worth it. I would like to write more but writing calls, so I hope you enjoy!

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VII – Sanctuary

Ah Gods help me, please save me, I don't want to die.

Dakar, it's just a shell backed snake said Dasha as they all turned back to see him cowering as the slithering snake, with a dark yellow-shell that ran down from his eyes down to the point of his tail, rustled through the brown leaves that littered the path up the rocky mountains They're harmless, don't you ever listen to anything you're taught?

Harmless? That thing was two meters long, it didn't look harmless to me he said as he dug his walking stick into the ground with some force, hitting the rock which caused his to bounce back and fall on his backside Those twenty gold pieces aren't looking like they're worth it, not for this.

Quit complaining, we're not far now said Dasha as she turned back round and continued walking up the path.

The trees of the mountain shielded them from the heat of the afternoon as they neared the mountain top. Akello had told Dasha that in the past, when Nephlin still walked the lands, this path was tended for and along it, during the night, would run burning candles placed upon the balls of rock that ran along the path so if you looked up to the mountain, it seemed to glow, hence the nickname of the Lighthouse Mountain.

Now though, the path was broken, roots had cracked the slabs of stone and the balls of rock had either rolled down the mountain or had been overrun by the forest which had started to reclaim the path.

'To think Sailem used to to do this every week' she thought to herself as she looked on ahead as the path kept rising before turning right and disappearing behind the mountain side.

Hey, can we take a break? called out Manny as he lift Dakar up like a doll with one arm to his feet though Dakar didn't appreciate it.

Sure, let's take a small break, hey Isa called out Dasha ahead of her We're taking a break.

Fine said Isa as she backtracked and joined them as they opened their pouches of water and opened up their bags with their lunch. Several pieces of fruit and vegetables, a loaf of bread and cooked pork. Dakar watched in disgust as Manny wolfed down his food, stuffing more than he could chew in his mouth at once which made Isa giggle and Wex look down at his food with disgust.

"So, who are you Manny? I've never seen you about