Tales of a floating City

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Time had ruined Him.

Time had aged Him.

Time had trapped Him within his slumber.

Time had aged them all, in the entire Floating City.

Rust covered half of the creatures visible body, Vines had creeped alone the other half of his body, flowers sprouting along the vines. This made the creature look like a strange mix of both Metal and plant, but underneath the Plants, underneath the metal the creatures centre, lays a stone, a green stone connected to the outer body. It was connected by wires That latched into the very crystal itself, it had seemingly lost all of its glow and was now a Dark green colour.

The Creatures face was etched in a look of surprise inside its head was a complex maze of gears and wires and other systems. It's body bore signs of dents and battle scars, barely visible beneath the roots and vines.

The crystal began to glow, for the first time in century's the creatures huge metal fingers began to move ever so slowly. The creatures eyes lit up a bright red colour, it's head turned from side to side and with a sound of an metal closing slowly the creature took a step forward.

Its head turned slowly from side to side, getting used to moving as it Examined the ruins of the floating City. The whole place was in ruins, sighns of battle scars lined the inner walls and the outside showed sighns of erosion. The whole city was rusted doors lay ripped from there hinges and the metal creatures own body showed signs of battle scars as though a creature of some kind had slashed across his chest piercing the armour.

The city was made entirely of metal, exept the ground beneath it, that was the only organic part of the city, that and the trees and the grass. No one knows why the island remains floating in the air. Or where it is even, it just seems to blink in and out of existance.

The metal man looked out across the skyline, it apeared to blink as a pair of robins flew around the Man's head. It raised its hand, tilting its head slowly, watching as the robins landed casually upon one of the creatures fingers.

With a soft cheerfull chirp, the birds set off again circling the metal creature before flying off back to there nest on one of the floating Citys many trees.

The creature stood tall unwavering, awakened from its years of slumber, awakened to watch over the floating ciy and its residents, protecting them from all who would seek to harm them. The other Metal stood there remaining still in there slumber waiting for the day they would be awakened.

On Dark nights, when the moons are full, the residents of Felarya claim to have seen a floating City, with its metal protector floating above the Ascarlin mountains.

This is the first of a series of short stories set in my as of yet unnamed floating city.

It's an intriguing start
Somehow it reminds me of the Flying castle from Miyazaki, which is one of my favorite movies ^^

I like the start of the story, reminds me of Final Fantasy 1's floating castle for some reason.

Bugs

The halls are dark.

The halls are lonely.

The halls are as silent as the grave.

The walls of the halls are made of metal.

If you were to walk down the halls you would be amazed by the architecture. You would be amazed by the fact that if you were to walk through the halls the floor would light beneath you, then fade as though it were never there in the first place.You would be amazed by the plants that have laid claim to the outer halls and even the inner colliseum.

You would hear the scuttling of a many legged creature, feel something on your shoulder, feel something on your stomach. You would feel an unseen creature Leap from your shoulders and hear it as it runs down the Hall.

The creature, resembles a furry woman at 15ft in height, it walks on its feet and knuckles. It has huge bat like ears that can hear anything up to 5 miles away.It has fur on every inch of its body, the tips of its hands are razor sharp claws, It has teeth that would impress a shark and two large amber eyes.

It moves in groups of three usually two females and one male,it can crawl on the wall and it also has the ability to camaflage with whatever material or materials it touches making it almost invisible to the naked eye. It's skin is Tough and bullets would have a hard Time penatrating it, the furr is usally a dark green colour on males but a light green colour on Females.

The creatures are meat eaters, they would do anything to have the sweet taste of meet in there mouths, they would even turn on each other when food is scarce. Usually they eat a 10ft wasp like creature.

The wasp creature, has green and red stripes, and huge silver wings. It has a scorpian like poisonous stinger, that doubles as an apendage that sprays spider like silk over there prey.The silk they produce is as hard as Diamonds and near impossible to break. They have two large Red eyes and it's mouth is a serious of three tentacles with mouths on the end that both chew there prey and drain its Blood.

You would hear the beating of huge wings, you would smell the putrid stench of rotting bodies, hear the squelch beneath your feet as you travel through pools of blood. You would be amazed at the labaoratory where a lone woman hangs, sleeping in a test tube.

On the outside of the city, the metal man staring at a tower before the moon. Ontop of the tower is what apears to be a woman wearing a blood red dress, a ointy hat and a scarf wrapped around her neck and mouth the end of which flaps in the wings.

But the metal men, nor the creatures would know just how dangerous this woman would turn out to be.....