Lost

Chapter 25

This chapter contains descriptions of violent and graphic acts.

×~ The Fight ~×

- Techno's POV -

I threw myself forward in a jumping lunge and swung my sword through the creature. It let out a painfully loud growling screech as I stopped a few feet away from it. I quickly turned around and promptly threw up Orphan Obliterator to block the creature's first attack.

I pulled back the sword and jabbed it forward through the thing's torso, I'm pretty sure that was Philza's favorite move, he was really excited to show it to Willbur. While I was distracted the beast lunged forward and threw me into a tree that was almost on the other side of the small clearing, knocking the air out of me while doing so. I looked up at where the creature was standing expecting it to be keeling over due to its injuries, but I was instead greeted by the damned thing charging towards me at full speed, sword still lodged in its chest and all.

I hastily rolled away from the place I was sitting and drew my crossbow. I promptly turned to face the monster and pointed the crossbow in the direction of its head and fired the arrow I had preloaded inside of it. It hit its mark and stabbed deeply into the thing's skull.

The fucker barely flinched, and just looked mildly annoyed as it ripped the arrow straight out of its face. I quickly stood up and started to back away from the beast while I reload my crossbow. The thing brought one of its hands to the handle of Orphan Obliterator and dragged it out of its chest as it started to walk towards me, ready to attack me with my own sword.

Okay, what the fuck, this thing should be very dead, but I guess it just doesn't want to die right now, that's fine, I know the feeling, it can't take that much longer to kill the damned thing. I swiftly brought up my crossbow, aimed it at the beast, and fired. It simply just slashed the arrow out of the air with one swift motion from Orphan Obliterator and rested the sword on its shoulder in a menacing pose.

We circled around the clearing for several more painfully long seconds, waiting for the other to make a play before making our own move to strike. That was all until I made a slow move to reload my crossbow. The pulling back of the arrow took away enough of my attention for the creature to decide that it should make its move.

It made a motion like it was going to run forward and start swinging at me. I started to move away from the direction it looked like it was going, but it expected that and shifted its weight to put all of its strength into throwing the sword directly at me. I managed to move out of the way of the blade that had been hurled at me, but just barely. I felt the sword tear through part of my ear and graze the side of my neck. The freshly cut wounds started to sting as they proceeded to drip warm scarlet blood onto my shoulder. I swiftly finished loading my crossbow and laughed to myself. It's been a while since I've had a real challenge.

- Ranboo's POV - 

I continued to run through the darkening woods, it would soon be completely dark out, the sun was just barely above the horizon. I noticed that mobs had started spawning, but didn't pay much attention to them. I don't think Smiles is as close by as it was before so I decided to take the time to be more careful and try not to give myself more injuries than I already had.

I was almost thankful for biting cold because a combination of that and the adrenaline pumping through my veins, I couldn't even feel the injuries on my legs. They'd probably be stinging and burning so much right now, like rolling through a burning pile of pins and needles. I wish I was with Techno right now, I don't think they went this way, hopefully, they're fine and not too worried about where I'm at.