Bellators

Hansan island was inhabited by elves, they had white hair and long pointed ears. Some uncanny animals dwelled in that island along with the elves such as foxes which breathes fire and lions which fly!

Two brothers, Evan and Aaron were traveling in their private yacht in the vicinity of the Hansan island. They are the sons of prominent businessman Jason taylor, who owned the popular perfume company called Magnas.

Aaron taylor was in the upper deck of the yacht, he was laying in the swimming pool, clear water reaching up to his shoulder. His fingers were ruffling his damp brown hair.

He was suspended from the college previous week, but he was not bothered, because this was not the first time he is getting suspended, he gets suspension often, this time he was suspended for beating up one of his classmates.

Evan taylor helped his younger brother in the fight. Therefore he was suspended along with his brother. That's when both of them set off for an expedition in their private yacht.

Aaron turned to Evan.

"Why only we got suspended? He started it. Shouldn't he get suspended as well?" Aaron snarled.

Evan was taking a sip from his coffee.

"I will get him dismissed from the college." he said by placing his coffee back on the table.

"How?" Aaron asked curiously.

"I would..." he paused and he squinted on the table, He saw a strange silhouette on the table.

"What the hell is that?" He said and gazed upward promptly- A strange creature was flying overhead, it had an eagle's head and a lion's body and it had two enormous wings.

He peered at the creature shifting his sunglass atop his head.

"What...is...that?" he frowned at it curiously. "Look at that," he said to Aaron by pointing to the sky.

"What ?" He looked skyward. "What is that thing? " he slowly stepped outside the swimming pool fixated at the creature.

"Is it a lion?... with wings?" Evan muttered incredulously. The creature was flying to faraway.

"Where is it?" asked Aaron strolling out of the swimming pool, "There" said Evan pointing towards the sea.

"There. It descended in that island" Evan pointed. Aaron peered and saw a small island far away.

"Sir?" a voice was heard from behind. Both of them turned back

"Sir, your coffee" a servant standing behind them wearing a white uniform with a bow tie, he was holding a tray with two white cups and a small bowl. He placed the tray on the table in front of them. Vapor was raising from the hot coffee. And the ceramic bowl was filled with cookies.

Aaron again averted his gaze towards Evan ignoring the servant "Let's go to that island." he said

"Why?" Evan shrugged.

"Let's just go there and checkout. I am curious to know what that creature is."

"Alright. If you want to go then I will come with you." said Evan.

Aaron turned towards the servant "Ask helmsman to veer the yacht towards the island" he said to the servant.

"Island?...er...which island sir?" asked the servant perplexed.

Evan pointed to the island "look over there."

Servant craned his neck and saw the small island "Ok sir, I will inform the helmsman" he seemed quite bewildered with the sudden change of plan, he descended to the lower deck silently.

Evan picked up a cup of hot coffee and took a scalding sip.

Aaron got up from the sofa "I will go and get the camera. I want to capture a picture of that creature in case we see it there." Aaron went to his bedroom to grab his camera, bedroom was plush with a double bed with blue silk bed sheet laid over it, walls of the room were adorned with paintings.

He rummaged the drawer of the bedside table and took out the camera.

As he began to leave the room he noticed his pistol laying on the table, he picked it up and checked if it's loaded and then put it inside his trousers pocket. In case that creature attack them, It would come handy.

The yacht was veering towards the island, slowly island was becoming closer and closer to view. After a while yacht halted on the shore of the island. Aaron and Evan disembarked on the shore of the island.

Several short trees were strewn on the shore, they were covered with tiny blue flowers.

Sea waves lashing on the shore periodically was the only noise heard in the island.

Evan strolled towards one of the short trees and plucked a stalk of blue flower, it had a sweet pleasant aroma, while he was relishing it's aroma, he didn't notice two green eyes gazing at him from behind another tree.

Rustling of leaves grabbed his attention, he averted his gaze towards the noise, a little boy was standing there, he was about ten years old, His ears looked strange, they were too long and pointed, and it looked like two horns on either side. His long white mane was flying in the wind behind him.

His startling green eyes kept gazing Evan and Aaron.

Evan and Aaron exchanged glances seeing the boy. They stood there silently, minutes passed by.

Then Evan waved at the boy hesitantly "Hey", boy gazed back at them. Evan slowly paced towards the boy, suddenly an arrow whizzed past nearby his chest. Evan jumped startled.

He turned towards the direction from where the arrow came, A sinewy man was standing there wielding a bow and arrow aiming at him scowling, his ears were also strangely long and pointed and he had long white hair like the boy.

Evan thought that the man shot arrow at him because he went near the boy. He quickly raised his hands and stepped away from the boy.

Evan's eyes were fixated on the arrow which was menacingly aiming at his chest, he stayed still without even blinking, suddenly he noticed a fox standing beside the man like a pet, but something was strange about the fox, it had nine tails, and they were wagging in the air.

It slowly walked forward and stood in front of the boy as if sheilding the boy. It growled at Evan, showing it's sharp fangs.

Aaron hastily rummaged in his pocket and took out the gun "Evan" he called out and then he tossed the gun to Evan and seeing the gun the fox's grunt grew louder and the next moment wisp of fire emanated from it's mouth.

Before Evan could realize what happened he was again shocked by seeing fire emanating from the tip of it's nine tails.

Evan and Aaron stumbled backwards horror struck. The fox just breathed fire. Both of them were stunned.

Before they were out the shock,

The man paced forward aiming the arrow at them "Who are you?" he asked in his hoarse voice to Evan.

But as Evan was stunned by seeing all these uncanny scenes, no voice came out of his mouth. After a few minutes he replied.

"er...I...am Evan.. this is my brother Aaron" he beckoned towards Aaron "We accidentally reached here during our expedition" Evan stammered he glanced sideways at the fox still thinking- "How did it breathed fire?"

"Is there anyone else with you?" the man raised his voice pointing the arrow at them.

"No....no.. Just us" Evan stammered.

"Then who is this" a voice was heard behind them, a burly man was pacing towards them, clutching helmsman and the servants of the yacht, they were trying to loosen his tight clutch by yanking.

"That's... that's our yachts helmsman" stammered Aaron

"How dare you to trespass in our island?" he shouted furiously. "We didn't knew...." Aaron began to say.

But before he finish, servant jerked forcefully and escaped the burly man's clutch and began to dash towards the yacht frantically.

But the burly man promptly dashed behind him and thrusted him fiercely to the ground and as soon as he fell, he took out a dagger from his waist and slit the servants throat within a blink of an eye.

Servant began to twitch in the ground and soon he died due to blood loss..

Evan was transfixed seeing this. His body trembled from head to toe.

These long eared people are vicious. This place is not safe.

Evan have coldly beaten up many but it's for the first time in his life he is seeing someone getting murdered.

Burly man rose to his feet, wiping the blood shrouded on the dagger in his cloth."This is what happens to the one who trespass in our island" he said menacingly.

Evan and Aaron were horror struck. One after other they were getting spate of shocks.

Aaron's heart was throbbing at a rapid pace, sweat broke out in his palms, his mouth was parched.

The man approached Evan poising the dagger "What are you here for pretty boy?" he placed the dagger on Evan's neck "Tell me" he grunted. Evan felt the coldness of the knife on his neck, he stopped breathing.

"Alfred. Stop, I don't think it's necessary" said the sinewy man by beckoning to stop.

"Why not? They could be here to loot the cascade or something" replied Alfred.

"Loot the cascade? How could we loot a cascade?" helmsman muttered to Aaron.

"Or whatever they are saying might be true" continued the sinewy man to Alfred without noticing helmsman.

"Bellators have strictly said to keep out the humans from the island Carter." said Alfred.

"Who is Bellators?" Evan whispered to Aaron.

Aaron shrugged in reply gesturing that he doesn't know.

"Why are you asking me? How could I know?" he said to Evan.

"Request to that man to let us go" Aaron whispered in Evan's ears and he nodding towards Carter.

"Sir, we are not here to loot anything, we saw a strange creature- ...er...a...a lion with wings flying towards this island and we followed it. We don't even know about any cascade. Please let us go" Aaron implored to Carter.

Carter mulled for a while then said "Alfred, leave him"

Alfred glared at Carter in response.

"I said leave him" Carter raised his voice.

Alfred still stood adamant, holding the dagger close to Evan's neck.

Carter snatched the dagger from Alfreds hand forcefully.

"Bellators also do not like to hurt innocent people" he said.

"Then let's inform the Bellators. Let them decide what to do with them." said Alfred.

"all right." Carter agreed .

Alfred turned his gaze to the amidst of the island and called out loudly "Laia.."

"Laia..." he repeated in his guttural voice. Aaron expected a lady, but what he saw was the cluster of trees shaking as an enormous creature flew past above the trees.

It was that strange creature which they saw in the yacht - lion with wings.

This time it was close and he could see it clearly.

It's enormous wings were waving in the midair and it had two claws in front and two legs in the back. It had an eagle's head, it was half lion and half eagle.

It descended on the ground beside them, it's flailing enormous wings created wind which brushed past everyone ruffling their hair and clothes.

Aaron covered his eyes from the dusty wind blew towards him with his palm.

Immense creature craned it's neck and let out a screech, which made Evan recoil.

It once again flapped it's enormous wings and paced towards Alfred and stood beside him like an obedient pet. "Good girl" Alfred said by ruffling it's enormous brown feather.

Then Alfred strolled towards a tall tree and then ripped off a long vine clambering on it and cut them into three pieces then he tethered the hands of three of the trespassers with it. Vine was pretty strong and unbreakable and it clamped their hands so tightly when Evan tried to wiggle his hands and break the vine, he failed.

Alfred glared at Evan and said "Mount on the griffin." by beckoning menacingly with his dagger.

"Mount on what?" Aaron asked perplexed.

"GRIFFIN." Alfred said by nodding towards the creature.

Aaron gazed at the creature and then he walked stealthily towards the griffin, he halted beside it.

"Bow " Alfred ordered to the griffin.

Mighty creature lowered it's head promptly at his behest.

Aaron clambered over the creature stealthily by stepping on it's claw and clutching it's immense feather using his clamped hands.

Then Alfred beckoned to helmsman and Evan to mount on the creature after Aaron.

Promptly both of them clambered over it. After them Alfred clambered on the griffin and sat on the griffin.

"Fly Laia.." he said to the griffin by slightly tugging the plumage on it's neck.

Soon the griffin waved it's enormous wings and soared to the sky carrying four men.

Alfred was veering the griffin by tugging it's feather to left and right occasionally.

Carter was standing on the ground he gazed upward at the griffin as it soared high. Then he walked towards the fox

"Come on Blake " he called the little boy by mounting on the fox.

But Blake was nowhere around. "Blake..." Carter looked around and called again. He was nowhere to be found. Carter scoured the surrounding for his little brother.

Blake was standing beside a tree trying to pluck some fruits dangling on the branch overhead, he was standing on his toes and streching his hands.

He somehow managed to pluck one fruit and took a bite hastily.

"Blake. no...don't eat it" Carter bellowed from behind. "They are poisonous" he strode to Blake and swatted on his hand frantically, fruits fell down from his hands.

But it was too late, Blake's face began to swell up and his mouth started to burn. Tears welled up in his eyes and he started to bawl in anguish.

"It's okay" Carter said. "I have told you to not to swallow every fruit you see." he wiped the boys tears with his palm.

"We will get home soon and Emily will get you some medicine for this. don't worry. . Come and mount on kitsune." he said by climbing on the fox.

Blake walked towards the fox sobbing and wiping his tears and then mounted on the fox after him . Fox waved it's nine tails and then dashed to the amidst of the island like an arrow.