《Raven's Tale》Chapter 10 - Bloody Battle
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Chapter 10 - Bloody Battle
The beasts horde was rapidly approaching,
Wanting to move the place of the eventual battle, everyone that could still fight rushed in the thick forest .
“You two be careful they may be lower-grade beasts without much intelligence, but with this many of them, they could swarm you and kill you with ease”
Kurt , who was a bit worried warned Raven and Yaira
The horde coming towards them had many beasts, there was a pack of huge wolves with razor sharp claws, many gigantic bears with deer like horns and jagged teeth with deadly claws.
The beasts scattered around, and attacked anyone they caught sight of, three horned bears charged towards Raven, Raven quickly unsheathed his katana, jumped and slashed one of the bears, cutting its face, it quickly fell dead with it’s blood spattering everywhere, the others two horned bears didn't even flinch and kept charging aiming their horns at raven, the horned bears were fast, but Raven smartly jumped out of the way and both the bears missed him, and hit themselves piercing each others heads in the process.
Silvio was surrounded by wolves, the wolves were weak alone but when in a pack they were formidable, Silvio in this seemingly desperate situation smiled briefly, and swang his big sword around like it weighed as much a feather to him, every time it struck a wolf it quickly tore it in half, Silvio only stopped swinging after a few minutes, all the wolves that had once surrounded him had been slaughtered.
Yaira was sneaking in through the trees and taking the beasts by surprise before swiftly cutting their heads off, Yaira was amazed at the dagger sharpness it could easily cut a horned bear’s head.
Kurt was rushing through swinging his huge axe, killing the oncoming beast that appeared in his path, leaving behind only a trail of beasts corpses.
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“It’s finally their turn”
Silvio who was soaked in blood stared emptily at the sky.
Big flying lizards were coming at terrifying pace shooting out a green slimy liquid from their mouth, one of the flying lizards shot it green slimy liquid towards Kurt, Kurt immediately jumped back to avoid it, the place where the green liquid landed had instantly melted and all that was left was a deep hole.
“That’s dangerous”
“We have to kill these flying lizards”
Kurt hurriedly shouted, the guards that were fighting quickly understood, finishing their battles, they immediately climbed big trees and jumped from them aiming their swords at the lizards that were currently flying low.
Raven, while swiftly dodging the acid being shot out by the flying lizards, was quickly slashing the horned bears that had been hit by the acid, with raven getting all the attention from the lizards Yaira sneaked from the trees and silently slashed the lizards neck.
These beasts really are dumb, they are making it easier for us
Without many casualties they were slowly but surely holding off the beasts, with the beasts uncoordinated attack, which they took full advantage of, they had the flying lizards throw acid at the others beasts, and have the horned bears hit each other,due to their inability to stop once they started charging.
“There’s no end to this”
They kept killing the beasts that were coming nonstop,but there was no end to them, it looked like the more they killed the more beasts appeared.
“Let’s separate into three groups, I will go with silvio, girl you go with the guards, boy you’re strong enough to be on your own, we will each cover one area”
"I will the take the beast coming for the north , girl you and the guards take the ones coming from the east , Boy you take the ones coming from the west, understood"
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Kurt ordered without wasting a second
“Okay”Everyone agreed, Yaira was reluctant to leave Raven alone but she decided to follow the orders.
Raven,who was alone in his area was rapidly slashing the beasts that came his way, until a enormous boulder was thrown towards him, Raven was taken aback, at the massive boulder coming at him with astonishing speed, Raven skipped rapidly and barely escaped being crushed by the boulder.
What the hell was that?
Raven glanced at the direction that the immense boulder was thrown from, and there he saw a huge ogre, it’s hideous face and it colossal size of about 4 meters, the enormous boulder it had thrown looked like a pebble when compared to him, the grotesque ogre was also carrying a massive hammer, the ogre looked at raven then smashed his massive hammer down with tremendous strength, the ground trembled, Raven broke into a cold sweat and faintly smiled, he knew this was going to be a hard battle to win.
Kurt with Silvio were still cutting down horned bears, they soon noticed that the remaining horned bears and wolves were rapidly running away whimpering, that when they felt an eerie feeling coming over them.
*Thud* *Thud*
Both Kurt and Silvio nervously looked back after hearing thundering footsteps, they stared in awe at the a unusually large horned bear with lizards wings, the aberration that looked like a mix between the horned bear and the flying lizard, it was drooling, where the saliva fell the ground melted, it deadly sharp teeth showing, its eyes filled with rage gave off a feeling of terror so great that even Kurt and Silvio who were veteran warriors trembled.
What in the name of??
Kurt in an extreme state of confusion could only utter such words.
“Looks like we will have to go all out”
Silvio still trembling tightly held his giant sword
Yaira with the remaining guards, had killed the remaining flying lizards, having cleaned most of their area, they promptly left towards Kurt’s and Silvio’s area.
“They should have cleaned their area too”
“Yes they are both very strong”
“Things are going better than expected”
The guards following Yaira, had regained determination and hope.
However, when they encountered Kurt and Silvio heavily injured and struggling to stand, they caught a glimpse of the horned flying bear, that was uninjured, the area around them was completely destroyed with holes everywhere as a result of the acid, the guards that had regained hope were utterly devastated.
Kurt with a pained expression and struggling greatly finally stood up and picking up his huge axe shouted.
“Don’t lose hope”
“Now that we have more people we can challenge it”
Silvio also stood up grabbed his sword, as Yaira and the guards who had regained some spirit prepared to fight.
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Note
Any mistakes please, inform me
Suggestions on what I can change or improve are always welcome
In this chapter , I alternated between fights what did you think about it?
First time doing prolonged action scenes , don't think its perfect but i strive to improve chapter after chapter
I will also rewrite chapter 1 check it out tomorrow if you want.
:D
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