Sunny shouted, “It's too easy! Think of a better way, fast!”
Kimarya stopped suddenly. At that moment, she heard shrill whistling noises and saw two sharp, two-foot-long black pole-like objects impale the ground where she would have been if she hadn't stopped then and there. She immediately felt a cold sensation on the back of her neck. This feeling reached her spine before she dived behind the nearest tree on her right. The unnervingly shrill whistling noise was quickly followed by the sound of the tree on her back being stabbed by more dark objects.
She got up and dashed between and around trees as she made a slightly longer but safer route, using as many obstacles as possible against that flying beast; she was within 5 meters of the gorge, and the long, dark, and sharp objects kept reaching closer and closer to their mark.
Four meters away from the gorge before it nicked her left thigh, causing a stinging gash that wasn’t particularly deep. Something was not able to slow her down just yet, but it still increased the pressure on her, and the wounds still started bubbling out in scarlet blood. She considered stopping and faking moves but felt it would not work.
So she lowered her head and ran even faster, trying not to run in a straight line.
She got within 2 meters of the gorge before she noticed the ranged attacks were less and less frequent till they seemingly stopped, but by that time, she had over ten cuts all over her body. Some were small, others way bigger. All she could smell was the scent of her blood. If anyone saw her at this moment, they would think she fell in a vat of red paint. Hardly any spot on her body was without scarlet red.
Just then, she heard the Murder Crow’s horrifying call above her. Her head grew fuzzy and heavy as fear and panic started building up right away. Kimarya felt like she was running through water as the pressure built up inside her head, every moment becoming heavier and heavier until she felt her knees and neck could not bear the weight.
She heard Sunny’s voice yelling something at her, but it sounded so far away that she couldn’t understand. She could only look up as she saw the Murder Crow hovering. Its massive wingspan blotted the sky and made the winds go wild, and its ethereal azure eyes locked onto hers. Terror and panic were rising to their peak inside of her, waiting helplessly for the first vicious peck to finally come and bursting out as a dreadful scream of pure and absolute fear originating from both her, her instincts, and Sunny.
She saw some movement in her peripheral vision before a body suddenly tackled her hard into the ground. She fully expected to hear and feel the tearing of her flesh but saw it was a young boy.
This boy seemed to be 13 years old. He had long black hair with patches of brown in random places and earrings on the top part of his left ear. He seemed in a panic, yet with alert and weary eyes he glanced at Kimarya before looking back at some gigantic shadow pushing between trees. This new creature was running on all fours. It had a wolf-like appearance and very long, mangy hair on its back, round ears, and a vicious all-black snout. A gigantic hyena suddenly burst out, thundering out of the brush. This hyena, after ambling out, immediately raised its head.
It was roughly 7 feet tall when its head was raised, and its body was over 10 feet long. It advanced slowly, making a very threatening, low growl that seemed to shake the air. So strong she could feel it in her lungs, like when the bass from a large speaker is so strong it shakes your innards. That low-frequency sound reverberated through their body and organs, followed by fierce grunting. This hyena looked at its prey and the newfound presence next to it. The hyena had several nasty cuts on its front legs and sides but still powerfully stalked closer to its prey.
It continued to do so before its low growl suddenly stopped. Its body froze before it started making a shrill, whining sound in absolute terror as it noticed the Murder Crow hovering unfazed in the sky like an uncaring king. Its eyes widened before it immediately turned its tail and bolted at a speed that didn’t match its gigantic lumbering body. It dove right back into the brush. It was almost gone before a massive body crashed on top of it—the Murder Crow.
You could hear the hyena’s muffled and miserable yelping as its head was brutally smashed into the ground by the massive force of the crow’s claws. They watched, unable to look away, as it totally and completely dominated the hyena; so smoothly was this process like its own grim art.
The Murder Crow’s head went up, its beak pointing down. The world seemed to stop momentarily before its beak fell furiously towards the soft spot of the hyena’s neck. It slammed down like an evil meteor into its bulging artery in that neck. Blood burst out like an unending stream, soaking the crow.
The hyena’s scream intensified for several seconds before it got shut off by a second peck of that beak to the base of its skull. It was like an evil hammer slamming through rotten wood. The Murder Crow turned around, brandishing its massive wing in their direction. It flicked six glinting black feathers at the two of them. Their inexperience made them unable to use the Crow’s distraction to escape while the crow butchered that gigantic hyena. They were even less capable of blocking or dodging this fearsome attack.
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The boy stepped forward with a severe expression.The air around him started vibrating, the wind picked up, and a massive shape formed around his body. A fearsome snout materialized first, followed by two burly front paws that frantically swiped at the feathers that flew toward them like furious black stars.
It blocked four of them before the remaining two pierced deeply into the not-yet-fully-formed body with shining yellow eyes. Amazingly, it looked just like a hyena!
The remaining two feathers crushed through the hyena form, making the boy fall backward. Dark blood started to escape from his mouth and nose from the backlash of the defeat of his Ancestral Spirit Guardian form!
After the hyena’s death, he finally unlocked the last barrier to conquering its essence and could materialize its form as his own ancestral spirit guardian.
The Murder Crow was already in the air as it rapidly closed on its two remaining prey. They would both make impressive additions to its cacophony of death.
The boy got up, took something out of his pouch, and, with a ferocious expression, swallowed it. The surrounding wind picked up and vibrated more fiercely than before as he made several rushed hand signs.
He was trying to do another forceful Ancestral Guardian spirit capture! He wanted to do the same thing he did to the hyena to the Murder Crow!
A booming sound came from his body, and the crow’s eyes dimmed and grew unfocused. This change only lasted a measly second before being shaken off by that vicious bird.
The boy’s face immediately showed his alarm, panic, and disappointment. He knew what he had done should have stunned it for at least a minute! It took the hyena two minutes before it recovered! He hoped to have enough time to attack it as he did to the Bestial Hyena when he injured it.
His original plan before all of this was to use this second pill to take more of the essence of the Bestial Hyena and finish it off. At least it was before he changed his mind as he saw the escaping Kimarya and tried to drag his troubles to her and get her help not to waste that precious second pill.
Unfortunately, he didn’t see that she was being hunted. Not only that, but it was a freaking Murder Crow!
Although it’s very young, he would have run the other way and taken his chances with the hyena alone if he knew what it was. At least then, he’d have a chance of winning or keeping his life!
Everyone knew that it’s a certain death if you encounter the Murder Crow. Its intelligence, strength, and speed make it something you can’t make into an Ancestral Guardian Spirit. It’s too devilishly strong, and everyone who has tried has never survived the attempt!
He muttered, “What awful luck!” as the Murder Crow came upon them.
Kimarya finally escaped entirely from the lull of its genuine attack. She knew that the gorge was her only chance. An unlikely ticket to save herself was just a meter behind her. She could jump down as the Murder Crow finished off that kid in front of her.
She paused before clenching her fist as she ran forward to fight alongside the boy when suddenly she felt some incredible pressure building in her head. Was the crow using its incapacitating call of death again?? It couldn’t be; its beak is closed!
She released a pained scream followed by a brilliant light shining from her eyes.
She blacked out; all she could see was darkness till she heard a gruff voice, as if unused to speech.
“Good job, kid; you got this far before this great one had to save you, hahahahaha.
Kimarya knew this voice was in her head, and in her shock, she asked, “Who the hell are you?!”
“I have detected a foreign entity,” said Sunny.
“Initiating expulsive and offensive measures.”
“CRITICAL FAILURE, UNABLE TO EXPULSE. AHHHHH!”
Kimarya heard Sunny scream. It was the first time she had ever heard her scream. She felt a terrible buzzing in her head. She was petrified as she realized that whatever that voice in her head was, it completely overwhelmed Sunny, her powerful, enhanced subconscious.
The voice sounded out again, “Don’t worry, huhuhuhu, yours truly is the good guy, call me... Santa.....”
“Just kidding! Everything is excellent. Sunny is fine. Isn’t that right, Sunny? I just wanted to make a cool entrance.”
Sunny said, “All systems seem to be uncompromised. We’re fine, but we have a putrid, disgusting intruder in your head, Kimarya. THIS IS UNNACCEPTABLE!”
Kimarya could hear Sunny’s anger. She ignored the mysterious voice and didn’t respond directly.
Sunny said, ”It, for some unknown reason, has as much authority in this body as we do, Kimarya. It’s certainly not Draenoy. Foreign entity, please leave immediately!”
“Can’t do that, Bud. The only reason you reincarnated together is because of me, so let’s all calm down and let your great one handle this!”
“First, I’m not Santa. I am known as Sasquatch or Big Foot. You may be asking yourself why this great one saved you. I did it because I could tell you were a big fan. Two, you were dying and, three, other reasons... but yeah, I chose you, Pikachu, to make my escape, huhuhuhu.”
Kimarya interrupted, “That was incredibly lame. Now I definitely know you’re a harmless idiot. Where is the Murder Crow and that other kid? Are you really a Sasquatch? Why are you in my head? What did you escape and why with me?”
“Lame? I thought it would be cute, anyway. You and that boy are really about to get shredded by that nasty bird, but I took you into this separate space outside of the holds of time to chat! So, for a short while, you’re safe enough to dare call this great sir lame! Relax as I explain some things before dealing with that interesting bird.”