#alchor

Alchor fell (like yknow how when skykids are “born” they fall from the sky) into Treasure Reef and was found by a small village of spirits, and since he was a child of the light they saw his arrival as a blessing immediately embraced him, raising him like one of their own

Now, these spirits had already lived and died, but they weren’t the ancient inhabitants of the reef. As long as Alchor had lived there there had always been ruins scattered around, sunk below the waves, but he was always cautioned not to go near them by the spirits because none of them knew what they were for or what they might hold, and they didn’t want anything to happen to their precious child of the light

But one day, Alchor saw a light shining at the top of the biggest ruin tower, the one he was especially told never to approach

And Alchor, at the time being an adventurous teenage boy who was getting tired of his spirit family’s overprotectivness, decided he needed to go and investigate

Since he had never left the reef, he had no winged light and instead had to climb up the side of the tower slowly but surely, and when he reached the top, he was met with the sight of a winged light, the ghost of a fellow skykid now passed, standing in the center of the tower, holding a mask out like it was waiting for someone to take it

He was nervous but he felt a strong pull towards it, a feeling that the winged light wanted him to take the mask

So he tentatively stepped forward, and picked up the mask from the winged light’s hands, and as he did, he swore he saw a smile appear on it’s expressionless face, before it faded out and suddenly flew into his chest, giving him his first wings

But then suddenly, he felt the ground rumble under his feet, and the place he was standing was revealed to be a door that opened underneath him. Alchor had received his wings but he didn’t know how to fly, so as he saw the approaching dark water down below he put the strange mask on his face and let himself fall in, for what he did know how to do was swim

When the bubbles cleared and he opened his eyes under the water, he found that the mask had given him the ability to breathe under the water! But his excitement at this discovery was cut short by a loud rumbling call below him, and when he looked down, he saw dozens of red eyes deep down below him, seeming watching his slow descent. Then, the eyes started to move, getting bigger until Alchor suddenly realized that whatever they belonged to was coming up towards him, as another deep call echoed through the underwater chamber

Terror struck him and he backpedaled away from the creature, looking around wildly for any sort of exit as he knew he could not come back up the same way he came, and he saw to the side of him what looked like an observatory deck with some sort of mechanism in the center of it

He quickly swam towards it, fear stabbing through he heart as he knew that creature was still coming towards him, and hit the strange mechanism, it rumbled then suddenly started to glow and turn, and a shaft of light came from the ceiling above him which he saw was from a new passage way that had opened up, relief flooded him instantly and he frantically swam up the passage, hearing that haunting call of the creature echoing below him

When he exited the passage, he found himself overlooking what looked like a great hall, submerged deep under the wall

And to his horror, he saw two great doors at the bottom of it, slowly sliding open. And he realized that in releasing himself from that chamber, he had in turn released whatever that beast was that had lurked within it too

Just a guy and the massive fish that he’s totally normal about (lie)

Close up on his face because it’s kinda hard to see his expression