Now is Erik eleven years old and flies to the Shadow Valley, where he and Slime arrives to the stone. Slime she walks beside him. The birds sing beautifully and the flowers are in full bloom. He takes on the stone as usual. But this time Erik has a weird feeling. He looks towards Slime and she turns red. They look at each other and Erik he gets a weird dream. He flies into a cave with Slime, at the entrance there is a big wolf that guards. They avoid narrow holes and flying near the walls. The cave is becoming less and sudden, they see a big man with a hood overhead. Erik jumps off Slime and moving slowly towards the big man and suddenly he turns towards Erik end he back off with fear. The man has glowing eyes and sharp teeth. The man has a sword that he recognizes. It is Skoguls sword and it seems to be Skogul that have received large forces. Skogul raises the sword and lots of creatures popping through walls. Suddenly Erik and Slime feel that someone drag them and they fly out backwards and come out of the cave. Erik and Slime are now at the stone and Erik and Slime opening their eyes and they look at each other with wide eyes. Erik jumps up on Slime and they fly up high in the clouds to see if they can find the cave but fail to locate it anywhere. They fly back to the Kings Village where they land outside the Kings House. The door of the house has made bigger because Slime can come inside lighter. Eva, who now lives with Erik and Lisbet that has become almost like a spare mother comes back and wonder if they want something to eat but Erik he nods yes. Eva arrives at Erik and asks: "What is Erik. You seem worried?"
Erik he replies nonchalantly: "No. I am thinking of my mother. Miss her so much."
Eva says: ”I understand that you are sad. But we'll take care of you. I promise you."
Erik he replies: "I know that. But do you think Skogul will return again?"
Eva she responds wonderingly: "We will never know. Why do you ask now? You have never asked that question before."
Erik says: "I've just got some strange feelings."
Eva, she replies: ”With your powers the feelings may mean something good.”
Erik Responds: "Well will see what it means. I want just to eat something and relax.”
Eva says: "We have made some fish to Slime and chicken with apple compote to you."
Erik Responds: "Well, thank you."
Slime went to the fireplace and spins like a cat go to bed, and Eva comes with a basket full of fish that put on the stone floor. Slime gets up and squirts a little fire on them and eats up all the fish in a flash. Erik he devours itself half a chicken and ladles into the apple compote that is mushier than compote but he does not complain because it's so good. Erik he goes to bed near Slime and she takes her long tail and attracts Erik, who has fallen asleep from exhaustion. Eva looks at them and thinks: "Erik has been through a lot. Good that he has his half-sister, even if she is a creature so will Slime always protect Erik. "
Eva cleans away all the food and washes the barrels and the cup. She walks up to Slime and she comes closer. Eva, she caresses her hand over Slime that starts purring like a cat. Eva walks away and let them rest. Slime falls asleep. The day turns into morning and they both slept hard all night. Ivar enters the King's house. Ivar, he is the King of Northland until Erik becomes eighteen. He walks slowly towards Erik and Slime, he points a bit on Erik and whispers: "Wake up Erik, Erik wake up!"
Erik he wakes up to and sees big eyes staring at him. Slime looks at Erik who has been awake for a while, but did not want to wake Erik from was in deep sleep. Erik he open his eyes and rubbed them with his hands in order to see better. Ivar says: "There something strange in Shadow Valley. It is coming smoke from there."
Erik he responds wondering: "Well, that’s strange. Somebody may make a fire there."
Ivar replies: "No, it's something strange. I have sent out some men, and they come back tonight, then we will find out what it's all about."
Erik replies: "I and Slime can fly there and see what's going on over there."
Ivar replies: "Ok but be careful and look only from the air."
Erik replies: "Yes, we are always cautious.” And he flashes with his right eye.
Erik and Slime gets up and stretches and goes against the outside toilet. He opens the door and goes inside to pee and suddenly a creature leaping over the wall with blazing speed and Slime sees it. The creature looks like humans but have only just skin and bones with bright yellow eyes and it is heading towards the outhouse. Slime shoots a beam of light and hits it. The creature being divided in two and the legs stops and the body is alive and crawling towards the outhouse. It gives out a screaming sound and tries to crawl to the outhouse. Erik rushes out and wonders what is happening. He sees the creature crawling. Erik moves and the creature crawl against Erik. Ivar arrives and cuts off the head of the creature and the ends the life. All guards want to see what it is. Ivar takes the head with the few hairs that remain and shout: "For Odin!" And throw it in the mud.
No one has seen anything like this before and wonder what that creature is. But everyone saw that it wanted Erik. Erik begins to understand what it is and says: "This must be Skoguls works!"
Ivar replies: "Yes, it may be Skoguls works and we need to explore the mountain smoke."
Erik replies: "Slime and I fly away right now and see what's going on over there."
Erik jumps up on Slime and she unfurls her wings and starts flapping and lifting up to the clouds. They fly extra low to not be seen down the ground. Erik is red all over his body and looking with Slimes eyes. They come close and see that it smokes from the mountains and there is lot of lava from the mountains. There are dead trees around the mountain. They dive a little closer to see what it is. They see nothing moving down there and turn back to King's Village. They land safely inside the king's village and Ivar will come rushing to Erik and wonder if they have seen anything. Erik, he replies: "I just saw smoke and lava coming out of the mountain. There are dead trees around the mountain."
Ivar replies: "It's weird."
Erik says: "We have to be extra cautious and send for more men."
Ivar nods yes and give the order to send some men to gather more soldiers. The men jump up on their horses and split up. They head towards the neighboring village to gather soldiers.