Elise shot forward at several charging wolves, her katana unsheathed as they came snarling along, one leaping with a howl. Her feet skidded to a halt, a step taken aback, the katana swung forward plunging into the right leg of the wolf. The wolf flew by with a snarl as its own blood flowed along the edge of the sword and onto the ground. Down it crashed behind, already struggling to move at first.
Up it rose with a slow turn, leaping up at Elise with a howl. To the left she stepped again and swung high to gash at its flank. Down the wolf crashed again with a wail of pain as it once more struggled to move. Slowly the fur began to fall as the form of the wolf stretched, slowly bit by bit becoming longer all around as it took on its natural humanoid form yet again.
Medontei’s eyes opened more as the smirk he had prior faded, “That blow was nothing major yet Melvax reverted to human form after just two hits? What devilry?”
“It’s not magic Medontei if that’s what you’re thinking,” Elise replied.
Medontei looked at her, then to her weapon, smirking, “Ah yes, yes I remember. Hemlock right? Abbot told me about that.”
“Partially that and partially a little Wolfsbane since it cancels out transformative powers on top of poisoning most Zaherian and Vampiric.”
“So a poisoned blade that blocks transformations and can paralyze, how tactical. You’ve no doubt done a fair bit to make it act that fast though.”
“Not really. When a Zaherian transforms their heart tends to pump blood at a more rapid rate to keep up with the change.”
“And getting that into their blood, it takes root quicker. Impressive for such a little girl.”
David crossed his arms as Milly got low to the ground with a scowl. Behind them one of the victims looked forward, their neck shaking ready to give out. With twitching eyes, their head dropped as the other three looked on, the beasts and wolves behind moving from them towards Elise, ready to engage.
They leaped with snarls. Elise drifted back and turned clockwise, spinning quickly. With a simple duck she dodged them, a smile spreading as her eyes shot from left to right and left again. Once more the three returned and launched themselves, with a simple step to the right one was dodged. With a step to the left another was dodged. As the third flew forward her katana was then raised and swung with a final step to the right. Right behind the left shoulder the katana connected, cutting in enough to draw blood once more.
As their comrade was cut the other two whirled back around and leaped at the same time for Elise. The katana flipped around and was quickly stabbed into the ground as the two came at her.
CRACK
Both flew back three meters as Elise’s arms flew, fists connected with their snouts. At once the katana was pulled from the ground and she dashed ahead after the tumbling Wulfn. Two swings forward, two slashes given, blood flying out as one was cut on the leg and the other on the forehead. They howled as she flipped backwards again with her body twisting, landing to witness the others as the three began to turn back to human form.
“Come on Medontei!” she yelled out holding her weapon ready.
Medontei looked on, eye raised, “My you’ve improved considerably from being a spineless sack of garbage. I won’t lie, that’s really tempting however we have what we came here for. I’ll let you off with a warning little lass. If I didn’t have bigger fish to fry, quite literally, I’d tend to you right here and now. David, pull back for now.”
Medontei flipped around and began to charge away, while Milly and David slowly backed away, the rest of their forces moving with them. A sigh was let out, her katana slowly being sheathed once more as she approached the four in front of her, “You guys alright?”
Slowly one of them rose up with a cough, looking up to her as he did, “Y-yeah.”
Blood dripped from his right arm as one of his sleeves fell off, drifting away in the wind. Two of the others stood, both female while on the ground lied a male. Both of the two were in similar shape with many cuts and bruises covering them. Elise glanced at the last one who appeared to be passed out, “What exactly did you guys do to get on their hate list?”
“Might’ve maybe stolen something of theirs, not exactly sure what it was.”
“Yet you stole it?”
“We needed some money real bad and it looked valuable. They didn’t even give us a chance to hand it over before jumping us. I mean, they kinda did then that fire guy ordered the Wulfn to attack us.”
“Stealing from a supernatural douche bag. Brilliant.”
“Yeah, I know. Urk. Thanks for the save uh-”
“Elise.”
“Elise, yeah thanks. Oh uh, I’m Sora by the way. This is Anna, Chelsea, and Jimmy.”
“Hey,” said one of the girls.
“Hi,” said the other.
“Thanks for helping us out there Elise. If you hadn’t come along and distracted that one guy we probably would’ve been killed.”
“You’re still at risk though if you keep bleeding, you should get somewhere and get it taken care of quick.”
“Yeah that’s a good point. Chelsea, Anna, load up Jimmy quick. We’ll get to Emerton real quick and have Dewy patch him up.”
“Gotcha,” both said as they got down beside the last man, both slowly picking him up. Once they had him up they began to walk away as Sora turned back to face Elise.
“I can’t thank you enough for this.”
“Don’t worry about it. Take care of yourselves and maybe we’ll meet again sometime.”
“Right,” he said bowing, turning back towards his friends to dash off with a quick sprint.
Her head turned back slightly once Sora disappeared, her eyes gazing back to the sight of the treeline.539Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLgTAN1sYQ
