Detra

Cruelty:

It was a beautiful day in Metrypa, one of the sun’s moons, Metrypa also known as Detra, is inhabited by strange and lovely creatures. Tom, an adolescent boy, this time woke to a feeling, and was quite excited about it. This had never happened and was quite strange, either way Tom prided himself and said “I bet no one in the entirety of Detra has ever been woken by a feeling.” The feeling Tom woke to was change, because today was the day his world started to come alive.

“Four innocent royal servants brutally attacked by a pair of Doisi, (giant flying hounds).” said the man on the television. Tom, sat down on a patch of grey-as-smoke grass watching a small TV that only provided a view of half the screen. “King George has sent hunters to slay these gruesome predators.” the man continues.

Where Tom comes from there are millions of mystical beasts, e.g. drions (a lion that inhabits large puddles). Apparently drions lurk underwater waiting for a tasty meal to wander past, then, SPLASH! In an instant the prey has been taken underwater to be devoured.

Hundreds die each month to these brutal creatures, but Tom likes these creatures, the beautiful purple on some of their scales that look like the galaxies in space. In Tom’s mind the real monsters are the humans. They ravage the land killing anything that displeases them. They hate the poor people for being poor in their minds they’re savages just like the beasts. In Tom’s mind the royals are the real monsters.

It was the parade time of the year, (a special event that occurs each year) where all of the Royals from the different lands would come to celebrate another successful year of sales and trading. All the people in poverty were shunned and locked away,in ruined houses, closets, dried out wells. So that only the royals remained. Then, all the royals would party and play games and get excessively drunk on 50 year old glasses of wine.

It was Tom’s thirteenth time to be locked away, Tom listened very carefully as all the royals quieted down. Tom figured it was just some old ceremony that the rich performed. The sound of King George’s voice echoed through the lands “My beautiful daughter Sophie is getting married to the prince of the Din kingdom.” Tom, surprised by these words, as Princess Sophie was only twelve years old, let out a “What.”King George stopped with his noble speech, and Tom felt all the eyes of the royals turn to his direction.

He heard heavy footsteps clinking and clanking as if the security guards were marching towards him, then he felt his closet being lifted up and then dropped into a river. Even without his thin clothing the cold would’ve been unbearable, so when the water flowed through the holes in the closet his singlet didn’t help. Tom let out a squeak of surprise and writhed around, and he saw through a hole the most beautiful girl ever. Sophie had honey coloured hair flowing down to the middle of her back, her eyes were a kind of purple that looked beautiful with her caramel coloured skin. This time Tom’s squeak wasn’t in pain.

The raging current beat his closet to shreds, but he wasn’t affected .“She’s magnificent! Gorgeous! Wonderful! Amazing! Wheeeeeeeeeeeee.” then Tom blacked out.

An echo in the distance woke the boy, an earth rattling ROAR, that could split boulders. Tom woke to see an assembly of mythical beasts curiously looking at the new specimen like, if you crammed curiosity with hunger and awareness, together you don’t know what you get. When Tom looked up he also didn’t know what to think, puzzled he thought it was a dream. And started smacking his face, the creatures now even more puzzled by him smacking his face,decided to bring the new specimen to their leader. Tom, now being dragged by these new creatures, was smacking the soft grass. After a little while Tom realised that he wasn’t in a dream, and met a large barn owl that was supposedly their leader.

The plan:

Zorco was a massive 60ft red Avian dinosaur which translates to a really big bird, apparently he founded cryptus,(the city of beasts). Zorco spoke to Tom about Detra, and how the mythical monsters came to being on it. “Detra as one of the sun’s moons was naturally powerful and mystically powered already,” Zorco says, while sliding his large gnarled talon across a long wooden beam. “Then, the sun started acting up, it shot blasts of flame hot enough to melt any planet. As it turns out the sun was in distress, because humans were harvesting it’s power, causing it to release massive amounts of energy. One of the blasts hit detra creating all its creatures.”

Tom stood there looking at the leader flabbergasted. Then, Zorco gazed into to Tom’s eyes and said. “Why are you here Tom?”

“Well you see I was dumped in a river and-” Tom was cut of by Zorco.

“Only people that need help or guidance wash up in cryptus, so tell me what do you need help with.”

“A girl.” Tom said embarrassed.

“A girl” said one of the beasts. “Ooh la la.”

“Zip it!” Tom said turning redder. “She’s only twelve and getting married to the wrong person.” Tom said while looking at the floor.

“I see, and who is the right person.” Zorco asked.

“Me.” answered Tom.

“Well standing here isn’t going to help you get a girl, we need a plan,” said the owl.

“Their wedding in in 3 days, so we better hurry up!”

The Royals:

Back in Detra, even before her stupid father announced that she was going to get married, Sophie wasn’t feeling good. She had been having strange dreams of a handsome boy rescuing her on a large winged beast, then when she woke up it turns out Dee and Doe (her 2 favourite servants) were eaten by wolves, and just to make it worse her father promised her to the smelly, fat, obnoxious prince of Din.

At the parade, all Sophie did was sit down beside her father’s throne, and would wait till it was over. But, after her dumb dad promised her off, the night got interesting. She heard the crack of, was that Tom’s surprised voice say “whaaaaaat” which made her giggle. She knew Tom because he always got in trouble pulling pranks. One time when King George was destroying the homes of the poor, the following night, the guards saw paint all over the castle that said “King george king of Detra? or the king of lameness?”and then there was a picture of her dad saying that he’s stupid. Sophie learned to follow Tom’s action, when she was bored and she grew to like him.

The special day:

Tom had been forming a plan for a couple days, and was just making a backup just in case something went wrong. Armour, for the creatures,in case the royals try to lynch them. “Come on.” said a creature. “It takes hours to get to Detra.” So Tom took a shower under a pink waterfall that was used for toilet water, “Nice.” Tom grumbled. Then, after that experience put on extremely comfy clothing, that was soft and light. After that, he started preparing. “Hey, what are you doing?” Tom asked, as a creature walked towards him. Then, the creature sprayed him with a weird aromatic tincture.“Hey, stop that. It’s putrid.” Tom said while squinting. Two hours later, Zorco thought he saw a clown, but instead it was Tom. He had rosie cheeks, and hair slicked back hair, and was wearing a weird shoes. “You look like you’re ready.” said Zorco. “So let’s go!”

Tom climbed onto Zorco’s soft, downey plumage, and they took flight, next to all the other creatures.

A marriage gone bad:

In the stone palace of King George, a rather dishevelled, unhappy princess lay down in bed, wishing that she could crawl under the covers and disappear. She was bathed and fitted in to an unflattering white dress that reminded her of a bunched of sandwiched swans. “Father this is ridiculous!” Sophie yelled. Scaring the king so much he dropped his weetbix. “The dress? I can fix it.”

“No it’s this stupid wedding!”

“Well the Din kingdom offers lots of wealth as they live underground, that gives them access to all Detra’s minerals. I’m sorry but this is already done and can not be undone.” George hollered. Three hours later, at her wedding, Sophie made a prayer in her heart that something would stop the impending treachery awaiting her. She put on a brave face and stood there as the celebrant began the process of matrimony.

A prayer answered:

Tom was circling over the wedding, two thousand feet in the sky. “Now’s your chance lover boy.” one of the creatures spoke. Tom pulled on the plumage of Zorco as began descent.

Tom could hear the voice of the celebrant as they descended even faster towards him. The pastor looked up and thirty feet from the ceremony, spotted an ominous figure speeding towards him. Zorco manoeuvred an upward sweep, performing a gnarly trick that made the celebrant faint.“Sorry for intrusion,” Said Tom laughing.

“Tom!” Sophie laughed. “What are you doing?”

“Rescuing you from this dreadful bum. Well, hop on.” Sophie climbed onto Zorco, and flew into the distant sunset.