The clouds thinned as I rose higher.
Wind rushed past my ears as the castle below shrank into the distance. After fifteen minutes of raining down destructive arrows, there was nothing left for me to do, so I turned to witness the fight I knew would be epic.
The sky stretched out in all directions, gray and wide, filled with drifting clouds and flickers of golden light from the sun breaking through.
And above it all… the battles had already begun.
The first one I saw was the tiger.
He stood in the sky like it was solid ground. A towering humanoid, striped gold and white with deep black cuts across his fur. His shoulders were broad, his hands thick with claws. He wore a sharp navy-blue suit, tailored to his beast-like body, complete with a tie fluttering in the wind.
He looked… calm.
Then lightning cracked.
