The World Beneath

The Three legged Trouble

Shambhu a little boy was playing with his dog just outside his house.
His father a Purohit in king's palace was out doing his work and his mother was cooking rice for them.
Shambhu threw the torn clothes tied together as a ball for his dog to fetch. His dog stopped midway and starting looking around. Before he could go to his dog he realised a strange sound.
Something banging along stones, some metal and the sound of water splashing. He realised the sound was coming from their well. His dog ran towards the edge of the well and started barking.
"what is it?" said Shambhu as he started walking towards the well.
Before he could take any step forward, A very large foot almost as bag as Shambhu covered in metal armour came rising out of the well.
His dog kept barking, when it looked like the whole leg was now raised out of the well. It came crashing down and squished his dog into gravy with his eye popped out on the ground and only his tail remained unscathed.
He wanted to scream but he couldn't.
He wanted to cry but he couldn't.
Hearing the loud and final squeak of the dog Shambhu's mother came running and she stood next to him completely shook her hands covered in ingredients from cooking.
But the leg wasn't the only leg after the first one out came another and ..
yes.. another.
It was a creature with just three legs.
Once the legs were out the creature stopped as if he was doing recon but it had no eyes or anything to do recon.
Once they had somewhat realised what they have witnessed, Shambhu and his mother started running like crazy holding each others hand towards the king's palace.
Their neighbours came out if their houses to find the source of screaming they couldn't figure out why they were running.
"that lady has always been trouble" said one of the neighboring woman to her husband. Everyone was jealous of Shambhu's family being close to king.
They all started humming like bees when they were interrupted by a loud whirring noise, which then stopped as of starting an engine, the voice started again and this time instead of stoping loud thuds can be heard, thuds that almost shock their houses. It was all coming from Shambhu's home before they could figure out whirring noise got louder and louder and the thuds became fast and suddenly Shambhu's house came crashing down as if a large bat was swung onto it. Along with the screams and panicking citizens running everywhere.
Out came the legs running in only direction forward killing anyone that came in their way a man drinking his hookah lost his head on one of the spikes on the ankles to the armour.
Once which was a quite town has now become a blood villa, with maimed citizens crying for help, destroyed houses, dead cattles, panic all over the streets.
"Somebody light the tower fire" said a woman before getting squished in half by the monstrous legs.
The fire was lit. The king's palace rung the bell that opened the shelter gates under the palace.
Shambhu and his mother were the first to run in joined by thousands of screaming and crying bloodied villagers.
No one in the kings palace knew what was going on.
King Subheshu called an urgent meeting and ordered his son the commandant of his army to take with him his best soldiers and take down this creature whose description seemed so ridiculous that most the royal hall laughed at Shambhu and his mother.
The brave Surya went out to follow orders from his father, he took his best men and got to the part of the destroyed city the whirring was coming from the forest end.
"what's the strange noise?" said one soldier.
"The noise! are you fucking kidding me? do you see the blood and countless limbs before you? you're fucking worried about FUCKING NOISE!" said another soldier pointing everyone's attention to how horrific the scene was.
"Worry not men! it's nothing we can't handle" said the young prince with confidence.
"My lord, I-I think we should call for backup this isn't exactly normal."
"Don't act like a little girl now. Whatever it is we'll take care of it"
In middle of there discussion of whether to call for backup or whether to call a witch crafter, the whirring came closer without anybody noticing.
"We are the fuckin army of King Subheshu there's not a single creature in the world that I'm scared of, I pledge whatever it is I'll cut his head off and put it in my father's feet before the midnight, NOW WHO'S WITH ME!" roared the young prince while marching down the street and turned to face his army.
"WE ARE!" screamed 30 angry, hyped soldiers in a unison.
"WHO'S READY FOR A FIGHT?"
"WE ARE"
"WHO'S GONNA CHOP THOSE LEGS OFF OF THIS SO CALLED DEMON SPAWN?
"WE A-"
The legs ran through all the soldiers squashing most of them into ground,
nothing but blood, some bones and somewhat of organs left of them,
while taking someone's arm or legs.
The young prince stood there, jaw dropped, sword slipped out of hand, his shield rolling down the street after slipping.
He stood there looking at whatever was left of his company, som crying for help with half their bodies, others just gone in blink of an eye. He turned his head and saw the legs circling back towards him,
he wanted to but couldn't move,
his eyes widened as he watched these legs Rolling like a tyre, a tyre with spikes killing and desmantling everything, with no head, no eyes how did it know where to go?
He wanted to run, scream but he stood there head turned towards the legs,
as they came close he started shivering and just before he was turned into a watermelon in a Gallagher concert. The brave young prince peed in his armour.