Chapter 17: 17***Last Minute Rescue
Nylon
"Ugh, damn it." I said after stirring in my sleep only to receive a sharp jolt of pain all over my body. It lasted all of less than half a second but It woke me up anyway. I take a minute to gather my bearings, only to find myself rendered confused as I take in my surroundings.
Right now, I was sitting in a pile of meat, skins, hides, bones and other random stuff. I scratch my head as I get up, picking through my memory to see what the heck landed me here. I take a moment to spin around, looking to see if something around here can remind me.
*thump!*
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!" About 2 seconds into my memory search I hear a sick thump followed by the scream of a girl's voice when she's in pain. Wait.... that girl sounds familiar. Hold on its.....
"Angus!" I whisper in alarm. At that my memory came back to me.
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The mace wielder's mace connected into my side, sending me flying. I came crashing down into the cart, my hp bar dropping fast. I only saw the smug look on his face when he caught me before I lost consciousness.
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Oh crap I died.....or at least I should have died but I'm alive right now..... How the heck am I alive exactly?
At that I took a look at my hp to find it at 1, again. My perk must have kicked in again. Wait, what the heck am I doing! Angus is in trouble and I'm here spacing out!
I take up two handfuls of meat and downed them like my life depended on it, as it pretty much did. I keep on eating until my hp is back in the green. I take a break from my mini feast to check up on Angus, and she was about to get smashed! I need to get to her now!
Without really thinking about it I let my explosive essence run through my feet.
*JET BOOSTERS!!!*
"Eh?..... Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!" Two explosions went off at my feet and I went flying... only, instead of flying forward as I intended, I was blasted up into the air! And that move took a lot of essence. What a waste!
"Uh?! What was that?" I heard one of the thugs say. It looks like I managed to distract them from Angus with that move, plus I was falling in their direction, so....not a total waste I guess?
"I'ld pay attention if I were you." I rolled myself into a ball, keeping on foot outstretched, and I started rolling in mind air, using Body Reinforcement on my outstretched leg. My voice caught everyone off guard and using this chance, my attack caught the mace dude in the face! The added momentum from the fall and the roll combination increased my attack power so much, the guy's head was slammed and lodged into the ground!
*SLEDGE HAMMER!!!*
"What! Screw you ya damn runt! What are you useless grannies doing?! Get him!!!" Zord shouted after his minions. This wimp! He shoves the fight to his goons and then has the audacity to act like he's a king or something. Well guess what, your in trouble now pal! This is the last straw!!!
*FULL COIL!!!* Without wasting even a moment I used Body Reinforcement on my entire body, resulting in my attack, defense and speed to increase, the perfect move for close combat.
New Section Unlocked: Mastery Series
Mastery Series:
(unlocked through the creation of five or more moves of similar structure)
Reinforced Combat Series: A close combat, weaponless fighting style that incorporates the infusion of Body Reinforcement in certain attacks. Activating this Series slows for the automatic activation of moves categorized under it.
What?!! I got a Series already!!!
Sadly, I couldn't really check it out as I still had business to do.
Before anyone could make a move I dashed through all of them, dealing a punch to one, two kicks to the next, and an elbow jab to the last one. All of their hp bars dropped at the same time, though not low enough. Ah well, beggars can't be choosers now can they?
"Ah!!! That little brat! Just wait pipsqueak, you'll pay for that!" One of them hollered after the pain subsided. Hey, that rhymed just now. I didn't know they had it in them.
Without answering I dove back in and delivered another barrage. This time, however, I was stopped mid way by a slash coming from above that almost cut me in half! I got away in time but the suddenness of it made me loose concentration and jump out of Full Coil afterwards. I take a second to check my essence bar and found that it was past the three quarter mark! Looks like Full Coil sucks up a lot of essence. By the looks of things I can still use it for another 20 seconds at most. I started channeling essence while thinking that.
They came after me, screaming their lungs out with what I'm assuming is a battle cry. I reactivated Full Coil as the swordsman brought his sword down on my head.
*SWOOSH*
*THUD*
"Eh!" His sword connected with the ground, however, as I leaned back as fast as possible, the blade putting a scratch on my forehead! He stumbled a little due to the unexpected momentum of his continued swing and, taking advantage of this, I brought my torso forward so fast I could have gotten whiplash, and I gave him a staggering head butt.
He was stunned by the attack and I landed my fist into his face, planting it down on the ground.
The other ones came immediately after and started combo attacking me. In response I bobbed, ducked and weaved around their attacks, dealing damage to their weak points and openings any chance I could get. I was doing okay until the guy I grounded got back into the fight.
"Damn I won't get anywhere like this!" I muttered after dodging another stab from the spear guy and having my hp drop as the darn thing scratched my shoulder. At this point, I have about 3 or 4 seconds left before my essence is completely depleted. I need to kill one of them now and fast! And I have just the move to do so!
Choosing the swordsman as my target, as I brought his life down into the red zone at last, I dashed into the fray.
"Where do you think you're going you little shri.....Ahhhh!!!" The other two stop me but I slide tackled them, sending them flying. I stood up quickly and jumped into the air. While airborne, I concentrated my Body Reinforcement Mastery into my arm and used the rest of my essence to my Explosion Mastery. I then collected explosion essence into the palm of my reinforced hand. The poor guy held his sword up to block my attack but I have a feeling that it will be futile.
*HEAVY EXPLOSIVE PALM!!!*
I slapped him in the face and an explosion occurred upon contact, the force of which sent him flying right through the trunk of a tree! His hp hit 0 the moment his head hit the tree behind that one. I would have probably done a victory dance but that attack took stamina away as I didn't have enough e.p., and the fatigue along with the recoil from that attack had me falling on my knees in exhaustion. Dang it! I can't be weak now! I still have two other dimwits to kill!
"Finally ran out of steam huh noob?" Speaking of which....
I struggled to stand, the Fatigue making my knees buckle in protest. I probably should have remembered that the Body Reinforcement Mastery came from overusing Shield Bash so of course it would use up stamina as well. They broke into a dash, weapons drawn and aimed for my head. Seems that they're not taking any chances this time. They don't know about my Sturdy perk so I can't really blame them. Wait, what am I doing?! I'm about to die yet I'm standing here like I'm contemplating the freaking weather! I need to get my head examined after I die.
*SLASH*
*DODGE*
The sword guy swung first but I ducked in time, loosing only a few strands of hair in the process. I sensed the mace dude's attack coming and made to dodge it....only, I couldn't move! That dodge only happened because I got a slight breather to get my stamina out of red but since I did such a dodge my stamina got completely burned out!
"You're mine now son of a b*tch" Hey, family friendly ya brick! The mace came around and.... connected with thin air! My body didn't stop moving after I dodged the first attack so I face planted, causing the mace to fly harmlessly over my head. As lucky as I am now, I seriously can't move a muscle right now.
"Looks like you're out of luck pipsqueak." The mace dude said with a smirk. Yeah, it looks that way. Man, I can't believe I'm gonna die agai....
*SLICE* "Ahhhhhh!!!" *THUMP* Wait what?! I heard a blade slice through the air and something (and someone) fall! I slowly and painfully turned my face to my savior.
"Angus!" I cried out in surprise and relief. It looks like I managed to keep them occupied long enough for her paralysis to wear off. I took a look at the now fallen bandit to find him in bad shape. His leg was chopped off and it was bleeding! By the looks of things he was still feeling pain because he wouldn't stop screaming..... Well, at least until she threw a bone dagger to his head and it buried itself deep into his skull, instantly killing him.
"Well losers," she started, looking at the last goon with her daggers raised to attack, "you have really pissed me off!"
*DAGGER STRAIGHT!!!*
She rushed up to the swordsman with insane speed, three of her flint daggers lining her arm with the blades pointing out, a fist forming at the end with another dagger in it. Seems like she plans on finishing this with one strike! She reached to him with her hand pulled back for a punch when.....
*EARTH SPIKE!!!*
"Eh!!!" Before Angus could release the punch a huge spike of dirt shot out at her, hitting her straight in the stomach! She went flying, a huge amount of her hp gone after that attack! How was that move so fast, it surpassed Angus' speed?!
"I think it's now time for me to join the fun." Zord, that coward! He used his men to weaken us and now he's gonna kill us like this! But I wasn't going down like this! Not in a lifetime!
I stood up and started walking towards him. My fatigue didn't have a chance to go down so I was basically stumbling towards him, but a little of my essence and stamina had returned, so I did the obvious. I readied another Bash. He saw my futile attempts and laughed at me.
"If you think you call defeat me with your power, your delusional! Those small fry were nothing compared to me!" I sent him a stare filled with enough murderous intent to kill a rhino. He saw this and faltered a little, but continued to taunt me anyway. "Oh no! I'm scared now! Do you really think you can stop me?!" I continued to walk to him. "Who do you think you are?!!! Your nothing, that's what! A dumb little noob!!!" I continued advancing, the death glare only intensifying with every step.
"Y-your weak! You c-can't do anything! My level is way higher than yours! You wouldn't be able to kill me even if you tried!!!" He was getting delirious now, and started to back away slowly, fear now fully evident in his eyes. I stopped at his statement and took a glance at Angus' unconscious form, her hp. bar bleeping in the red zone. Seeing me stop, Zord visibly relaxed and a cocky smirk graced his lips once again. It seemed out of place on his body seeing as his character apparently lost some weight during me scaring him. He was about to say something smart *ssed when I interrupted him.
"You almost killed my squad member." I started, "Don't think for even a moment that the difference in our levels is enough to save you now!" With that I looked into his eyes with my death filled ones, and the result was priceless. He fell on his rump in alarm, shaking like a leaf. His eyes were shot through and through with fear, a good sign that anything he decides to do now would be rash and inefficient.
It's a shame I was too pissed to enjoy it.
"Well what are you standing there for Arwen! Kill him now!" He shouted. The swordsman, Arwen apparently, was shocked into action and came after me. And I dashed to him with equal vigor.
"Aaaahhhhhh!!!"
"AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOH"
"Eh!!!" I yelled a battle cry and simultaneously, a loud howl echoed over us! The howl caught the goon off guard and he faltered. I, however, didn't register that and therefore landed a solid , yet very weak, punch on his jaw, which sent him staggering back anyway.
I was preparing for their next attack, adrenaline keeping me alert, but I took a look at the fear in their eyes, fear that paralyzed them. I was gonna chalk it up to my new found intimidation, but then I heard what sounded like heavy panting behind me and felt the ground shake beneath me. It was then that I finally realized that we had another guest.
"I-its an.... al-al-ALPHA WOLF!!!" Zord belted out at the top of his voice at the sight of a five meter high, eleven meter long, disheveled red wolf. Damn, we didn't find the Alpha Wolf when we were rampaging through Area2 so of course he was still alive! Oh and by the way, if you think you can beat an area boss just because you defeated all of its minions, you're sorely mistaken.
"Well it's been nice playing with you children, but we're needed else where. Have fun!" Zord said in a failed sinister voice before he dashed off with the swordsman in tow, leaving the dead corpses of their comrades behind. Damn cowards!
"Nylon, are you ok?" Angus asked weakly shortly after they left.
Angus! She's awake! Good cause now we've got to move it now! With that in mind I made to move in her direction.
"Angus! Come on, we need to ge..... Eh?!" I started to walk towards her only to fall flat on my face. My limbs felt like rocks and my breath felt laboured. Crap, my stamina must be at zero right now if not below. I don't even want to see my fatigue levels either. The Alpha Wolf crouched low and looked ready to attack!
"Angus, can you move?" I called out. If she can move she might be able to get us out of there.
"Sorry Nylon, but no." She replied, sounding pissed. Well looks like I'm gonna die again. Jeez, two deaths in less than twenty-four hours. I deserve a medal for this.
I felt more than saw the Alpha Wolf bound after us, the gap between us rapidly getting smaller and smaller by the second. By this time I could practically feel the jaws of the monster closing in on me, crushing my virtual bones while draining my blood....
*SWOOSH* "ARRRRR!!!" I slowly opened my eyes to see my final moments, when instead I was met with the sight of the monster falling onto its side, its hp bar, which was full upon arrival, now at zero. An arrow protruded out of the side of its neck.
"Who shot that arrow?" I mumbled as my started to regain the movement in my limbs, "Well whoever did managed to kill it with one shot!" I attempted to get up but my legs gave out and I fell on my behind.
"Now now don't push yourself." A new voice from no where.
"Who are you?" I tried, attempting to get the most obvious questions out of the way. At that a cloaked form appeared from above, startling me in the process. The cloak covered the person's identity but it displayed emerald green eyes that were laced with amusement. In his hand was a high level bow and on his back, a quiver loaded with arrows.
"My name is Mark." He replied, "And that," he continued and pointed to a spot behind us, "is Eleora."
Angus
Status / 9
Other:
Str: 28
Spd: 35
Agi: 33
Tgh: 12
Con: 22
Iq: 15
Rsp: 25
Masteries:
Light Weapon
Light Armor
Multi-weild
Weapon Throwing
Alpha Wolf: A2
Class: R Agi: 19
A.A.L.: 15 Tgh: 23
Str: 24. Iq: 5
Spd: 27. Crit: 12
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