<div align="center"><strong>Somewhere in the Dragonjaw Mountains on Toril</strong></div><br/><div align="center">(http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/stages/images/stage05/stage05_070706a-l.jpg)</div><br/>The dream is back for the third time this week it is becoming more and more frequent. The image of magnificent bridge and a castle both unlike anything he has even heard of on this world. This time there is something new a voice beckoning to him, “Come to Hyrule Castle, time is short.” Tyger wakes with a start. Hyrule Castle? He has never heard of such a place, but knows that he must find it. He has been summoned in a manner as this before, but only when things were dire indeed. “Perhaps when I complete this hunt I can find a sage who will know where this Hyrule Castle is and how I can get to.”<br/><br/>The half-elf stands and walks to opening of the small cave where he had made his camp. He looks out and sees that the sun has not yet set. He has taken to sleep during the day and hunt at night for his target also sleeps while the sun is up and its rest place is nearly impossible to find. He must find it when it too hunts. It is some sort of demonic creature preying on the mortals in the area and has become far more active in the last month. A great treasure has been offered for the beast’s destruction. It however is not the treasure that Tyger seeks. He wants the company of people again. To be accepted and treated as a hero at least for a while, until they discover the demon he keeps locked away deep inside himself and they force him to leave once again.<br/><br/>Stepping out into the dying sunlight, the rays shine off his ponytail highlighting the lighter strikes of his black hair giving just the hint of a striped pattern. While his garments seem to actually devour the light and his dark purple cloak looks like a shadow dancing in the breeze. He arches his back standing to his merger 5’7” height, but he is unconcerned by his slight frame as he learned many decades before that his size and speed give him the advantage most if not fights. Taking deep breath serves to help awaken him and brings in the scents of the world around him. He ignores the ever present smell of the trees and quickly filters through scents of all different animals and focuses on the humans he picks up. They smell of sweat and fear, have been traveling all day and are tired. They know at least some of the danger in these parts hence the fear. He hates the idea of using them as bait, but he did not bring them here. He knows the creature will smell them as well and hopes will not be able to resist such a bountiful feast. He may finally get its trail tonight or actually kill it.<br/><br/>Just as Tyger is about to move towards the humans, a new smell reaches him. He smiles it is the stench of his prey. It has sensed the humans and is anxiously waiting for the sun to set so it can come out and feast. Scanning the mountain side below him he finally spots the mouth to a cave. Perfect, if he can trap the beast within the cave before the sunsets, he will be able to kill without the humans even knowing the danger they were in. Moving quickly with the grace even a cat would envy, he stops just above the cave. Taking another deep breath confirms that beast is waiting just within for its chance to go out. Reaching into a pouch, he extracts a common stone that has been enchanted with continual light so it glows very brightly. He tosses the stone into the cave and is rewarded with a hiss of pain from within. He drops into the cave opening and spots the shadow demon just beyond the circle of light from the stone. With inhuman speed he pulls out another glowing stone and throws it past the demon affectively trapping it between the two stones. He then tosses another stone down at the creature’s feet eliminating all the natural shadows in this section of the cave.<br/><br/>The demon howls in rage as it is forced to take on a fully physical form or be destroyed simply by the enchanted light. Once the beast is purely physical Tyger moves in and draws the unadorned katana and slashes across the demon’s chest in a single precise movement. The creature roars its outrage and pain and lunges at the half elf. The katana flashes again and both sets of claws fall from the severed arms. He then leaps forward himself swinging the blade which decapitates the beast.<br/><br/>With the demon gone Tyger retrieves his glowing stones starting with the one in the mouth. After picking the one thrown at the feet of the demon, he goes to fetch the last remaining stone. Just as he is bending down to pick up the stone, the ground under his feet gives way and he starts to fall. Expecting it to just be a small sinkhole or just another chamber, he is quite surprised to still be falling. He seems to be falling for hours or even days, when he passes through some sort of magical field. The sensation is very disorienting making his head spin and his stomach lurch. Once his head starts to clear he can see that he is not in a cave anymore and the sun is shining just a little higher in the sky then before. The last thing he sees before slamming into the ground is the bridge and castle from his dream, and everything goes black as he falls unconscious.