[h2][i]In this forest, the tales are no longer tales...[/i][/h2]

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At the conclusion of their meet, The Girl and her new companion found that their journey was no longer arduous. The Flurry Forest guided the visitors on a straight path, leading them to another lost [@Jay Kalton] in her wood. Little did they know that she also kept an evil at bay.

A horn tore through the sky above the holy knights and their squads. The sound was a low bellow that shook the trees until blankets of collected snow cracked and tumbled from their boughs.

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The horn sounded a second time and moments after were the numerous howls of what one would have prayed to be wolves. The howl had been much deeper and ghostly in sound. The creatures swiftly darted between trees and over fallen logs. They were unhindered in their pursuit of their next meal and were all too familiar with the ways of the wood. The Flurry Forest aided them in their hunt.

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The beasts resembled dragons and lions. Their bodies were covered in sturdy blue scales that forever remained cold as ice through any temperature and white mystical fur that would keep anyone who wore it warm through any winter. From their snout to their foreheads was a mountain ridge of bone, bone that could break through the trunks of trees. They were quadrupedal with white eyes shrunk in their ferocity. The beasts were hungry, and there were units of mortal knights waiting to be devoured.

The holy knights would notice their units growing fearful as the forest started to rustle with the swift crunch of snow. Snarls and growls surrounded the platoon in a whirlwind as the beasts moved like shadows in the trees, assessing their meal.

“What are those things!?” a knight shouted, trembling and clinging to his sword and shield.

“The forest has set monsters upon us. I told you this forest was cursed!” another shrieked.

In the distance, standing as large as a lonely mountain was an entity told only in tales. Its white, icy eyes gazed in the direction where its pointed ears heard the excited whines of its pet. It resembled a colossal man. His beard blew in the arctic winds as he stood over the forest. Birds circled the massive horns that protruded like towers from his skull. Adorned in fur and steel and wielding a hammer so large and jagged with numerous ice spikes that it could tenderize a field in one swing, was the fabled Jotun—a creature seen by only few men and women and remained as a bar tale in every tavern…until now.

[@Inertia]
[@Lord Zee]
[@Gowi]
[@HowlsOfWinter]