Mina found herself in darkness, not the one you can find youself in nightmares but a warmer kind. Drowsly she opened her dark brown eyes, not remebering how she got here she slowely looks around.

Blackness and darkness and night everywhere she turns until her eyes widen in shock, mouth open in suprise. Now infront of her stands a being clad in a forest. The beings body seems to be made of trees and red berry bushes, bark of great oaks and leaves of birch, the ready to harvest nuts and rosehip berries making her mouth water.

As her gaze finds it´s head she can not belive her eys. The great entity´s head was constantly shifting , sometimes a white furred mandrill mouth wide open and showing it´s black gums and withe teeth ready to kill her at whim, sometimes a lion with dark and red fur and a sorrowful gaze that made Mina wanna cry, and some times a golden haird elf with a mischevious smile and blue eys bound to have made many a maiden heartbroken.

Mina unconsciusly reached for the pendant around her neck, describing the same faces on it as she saw before her. Instead she found only emptyness and the warm darkness around her, looking down in distress she found the she was naked, a short and shrill left her lips as she quickly tried to cover herself, her smooth and dark mahogany brown hair spilling down to her collarbones and not up in the thick braid it should be.

"W-where am I" Mina asks with quivering voice.

"You are safe" Azha, the lion answers with a calm and strong voice, staring into Mina´s eyes making her understand the truth in the statment.

"At a crossrodes, altough the road you will take is pretty much predetermied" Riazh, the elf says giving her a wink with one blue eye, his long blone hair seemingly caressing his godly leaf covered shoulders, or maybe the shoulders were made of leaves Mina tought to her self.

"YOU´RE DEAD" Muzh, the mandrill shrikes. Her red eyes, blu streaked red nose and black gums creating a terrfying contrast agins her snow white fur. Mina was sure that only male mandrill´s hade those blue markings but she can not devote anymore tought to that as the furius shrike sends a chill down Minas spine making every hair on her body try to flee their elven prison as her heart tries to pulverise her ribbcage.

"W-ha..."Paniced breaths is all that escapes her mouth as she reals from shock.

"You fought an adversary of our´s and beat him, howerver not without a cost" Azha sadly says.

"It´s not often a mortal kills a demigod and what a FIGHT, we are so proud of you our little hunter" Riazh continues his eyes full of admiration.

Muzh simply baring her teeth and stares silently at Mina while she treis to remember what happend. Mina had left her village to explore the wolrd, received presents and wellwishes from her family and freinds hugged her parents and little brother goodbay and taken of out into the world. A few months later several forests away from home she had been hunting something. Deer, yes she had been hunting deer and shoot one in the leg when a great moose had rushed out from the forest foliage. Two times as big as the doe she shot and that was without counting his great antlers, pristine and bone white with red swirling marks. The same marks addorned not only his antlers but his gray pelted body too.

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Mina had tought him only a nature spirit pissed of over injuring one of his mates but maybe he was angry becuse she belonged to another god instead, or most likley a combination of both. Their fight had taken half of the day, she jumping up in trees and firing arrows and him felling said tree and sometimes a few more with a swing of his mikghty antlers. She had almost gotten trampled by his obsidian like hooves a few times when she fell but the arrow she shot him with under his stomach was probably another reason he was furius. She had gotten up and turned around to see the godling charge her yet again but this time he was alot closer, she had drawn her dads sword he gave her when she left the village.

She could not remember how it all ended, only that the sun was setting.

"A-are s-s-souls not s-supposed to get t-taken by Yvonne t-to the dark f-f-forest"  Mina had hardly finished the sentence before Muzh frowned and bellowed.

"YOU´RE OURS" Muzh screamed into Minas face, her spit flying all over the warm blackness and Minas face.

"And we are yours" Azha said, brinning in Mina in a warm embrace . She could smell something sweet ,not strong smell, emminating from the rosehip flowers in his bradied mane. The calming hug ended to fast for Mina liking as the threeheaded god changed to Riazh whom gave her a frendly kiss on her brow, like her father used to when she was younger.

"You have earned out blessing little hunter, as you helped us we will help you. When you awake Do Not panic, you will be alright even if it does not seem like it and we will be with you, both in your heart and soul" As he spoke the last words he started to fade.

As her god started to fade so did the warm blackness, it started to get muddy gray as if underwater, bothe brighter and darker at the same time less unclear. She reched for them, and in her mined begged them not to leave. 

"Thank you Mina, our little huntress, thank you..." the god said in its three voices, the last thing she heard before she woke up.

As she awoke the first thing she noticed was the cold. This was colder than even the cold of nightmares, nothing like the warm darkness in the god´s domain. It was night and dark and she could feel and hear a cold wind blowing through some leaves . Mina realised she had her back against a tree and was looking at its crown of leaves, as she brought her gaze downwards she saw her battlefied, trees and leaves and bushes strewn all around. Some upproteed and some simply broken, as her eyes travled even lower she saw the corpse of the grey demigod.

Her fathers sword, her sword stuck its throat and the godlings white and beautiful antlers, staind a black red by her blood, stuck in her guts a bit of her red intestines slowely making its way towards the ground.

"Fuck" she swore.

"Fuck indeed little hunter" Riazh agreed

"Just rip it out" Muzh said in a irritated voice, but thankfully not as loud as usual.

"Maybe take it out slowely atleast" Azha tried helpfully.

"Fuck" Mina swore again.