Sorry for the big delay, I was having some personal and college problems…
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Thanks for reading!!
P.S:I will try to make the chapters bigger from now on
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“Who… Who are you?” Said the terrified girl.
“Did they hit you in the head or something?”Said Lance, while sighting
“Like I said, I’m Lance. I was hired to kill these guys.” Said Lance while pointing to the dead slavers.
The girl was still stunned and trying to process what just had happened.
“I was about to be… and then… This boy, this boy saved me… He should not even be ten years old… ”Though the girl.
“So… What’s your name?” Said Lance while sitting in front of her .
She was scared for a moment, because she drifted away while processing all of the events until now.
She, then, said hurriedly:” My… My name is Ingrid, thank you for saving me!”
“ No problem!”Said Lance with a big smile in his face.
“My memory is a bit foggy…. My father and mother… Do you know anything about them?” Said Ingrid with a preoccupied face.
“I know what happened to your parents. Both of them are alive, but went through some horrible things.... Do you want details? ”
“No, thank you. Knowing they are alive is enough.” Said Ingrid with a face of mixed emotions, both relief and fear for her parents conditions .
“Alright, if you don’t have more questions, let’s go. I’ve already spent too much time here.”
Just when they were getting up….
“ROAAARRR!!”
“Ah! I almost forgot about you!” Said Lance
In the corner of the carriage there was a cage with a white tiger in it. He was about 1,40 meters tall and 1,80 meters large, with black stripes covering all of his body.
“You sure don’t look like a puppy, you’re taller than me!”
“Look who’s saying!!” Thought Ingrid with a complex expression
Lance was everything except normal and Ingrid was beyond surprised with that. Kids from the North are, normally, tougher than South kids, but this was way pass the point.
“I can release you, but you can’t attack us!”Said Lance while approaching and looking the tiger in the eyes.
“Uhmm… Lance… Do you think is really a good idea to release him with us here?” Said Ingrid with fear in her voice.
“it’s alright, he won’t attack us. Will you?”
“Roaar” Growled the tiger in agreement.
Lance, then, went to look for the keys. After searching the bodies of the slavers, he found it on the corpse of the taller one. He, then, opened the cage.
The tiger, immediately, tried to run from there, but it fell exhausted on the ground before even leaving the cart.
“Looks like you are still under the effect of the drugs they gave you… Ha! I think I can help you! My mom packed some potions for me, let’s see if there is something useful in here.”
Lance took the potions from his bag and started to look for some type of paralyze heal.
He found a small jar with a green liquid with a word written on the top: “Paralysis”.
“This must be it! Here, drink this and see if helps you.” Said Lance while putting the jar near the Tigers mouth.
While this was happening, Ingrid got up from the ground and approached Lance. She was still shaken with all that has happened, but was steadily returning to her normal self.
“Do you know which drug was used to make him like that?” Said Ingrid.
“No.”
“Then how do you know this medicine will work??” Asked Ingrid with a confused face.
“I don’t hehehe, but it’s better than nothing, right?
“Wha… Well… Do what you think is best…”
Ingrid remembered that Lance was a child, and, like every child, would make decisions without thinking about the consequences. Wrong medicine could kill rather than heal , even with her small knowledge she knew that.
If that Tiger died she would feel safer, because creatures like that were really aggressive and could attack at any moment, so she didn’t intervene.
The Tiger drank all of the potion and after, more or less, five minutes it started to move its paws.
Lance was overjoyed, he felt like his mother by helping this Tiger.
Ingrid seeing the Tiger getting better, got scared and ran to the outside of the cart.
“You shouldn’t run outside! You might end up luring monsters! They are attracted to movement, fire and bloo…..”
Lance stopped talking and started to cold sweat, that because he realized the big mistake that was made by him!!
“Little Tiger, If you want to live I suggest you to heal more quickly!! Monsters will probably arrive at any minute!” Said
Lance with a face with full of fear.
Both of then got out of the cart as quick as possible, only to see Ingrid knelled on the snow crying of fear.
In front of her there was a big monster with bat traces, but, at the same time, having a humanoid figure. It was a Chacreta.
Lance’s legs started to shake, he never had seen such a monstrous thing. He knew it was very powerful just by its presence!
He had two options and no time to think which was the right one.
Run and leave this girl to die, or put his life on the line to fight the beast.
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He looked to his side and saw the Tiger preparing to attack the monster.
Tigers are proud creatures, they rarely back down from a fight.
“Maybe together we can do this!” Though Lance
Seeing this, Lance made his decision. He started to wrap his arms with lightning.
Lance would wait for the Tiger to make his move and when the monster gets distracted he would strike!
But before anything could happen the Chacreta disappeared from his vision.
“Where… He was ther..”
SLAP!
The Chacreta appeared next to Lance and gave him a merciless strike.
Lance flew to his left side while hitting the Tiger. They flew together until being stopped by a tree.
The Tiger promptly got up and roared towards the monster. Lance, having being directly hit, spat a mouthful of blood and knelled while looking at the monster. The beast was smiling at him.
“This… This guy is way too powerful! He is just playing with us!” Though Lance with a face full of fear.
“I… I can’t directly attack him. I need something for my advantage!”
While Lance was thinking, the Tiger started his attack on the Chacreta. He was pretty fast, being able to compete with the beast in speed.
The tiger was giving his all to dodge and promptly strike back with his fierce claws at the Chacreta.
After dodging six attacks, the tiger got a strike in! His claws penetrated the arm of the beast, causing a deep cut.
Lance was getting hopeful, maybe he didn’t need to do a thing!
But this thought was instantly crushed. After being hit, the Chacreta eyes got blood red. It was angry.
It gave the tiger no time to think, making a fast swing with its arm. The Tiger barely dodged by jumping outside of its
range. Nevertheless, is up torso was with a deep wound and he was losing blood fast.
Lance, seeing this, woke up from dreamland and though:” Maybe now this monster will be distracted, from little tiger attacks, and I will be able to kill it!”
When he got up, Lance realized he had broken ribs.
Lance was stupefied, that was from a single slap! He knew it was broken, because this happened to him during training.
Lance was doing his agility training up in trees, he lost his balance and fell 15 meters with his side on a rock. And this pain he was feeling, right now, was worst than then, that means that a single attack from this monster could be fatal for him.
“I can´t be hasty…. What would father do in these situations..”
While Lance was thinking, the Tiger was giving his all just to evade the Chacreta.
Its wound was already healed( Being a lesser vampire, The Chacretas have the ability to regenerate, it is not as strong and quick as a real vampire, but, nevertheless, still is a powerful perk) and now was back to its sadist self. Trying just to injure the tiger and not kill him, to “play with its food”.
Lance saw the tiger struggling and thought:” If we could restrain its movements a little…”
Suddenly a though passed across his mind, the slavers had paralyzed the Tiger. That means they must have some king of strong drug with them!
He, then, went as fast as possible to loot the captain of the slavers. Lance figured that the precious things would be with the leader, and he was right. Inside his bag there was 6 bottles with different liquids.
“AHRRG! Which is the one I want!!!”
BOOM!
The Chacreta had launched the tiger at a tree. Lance saw that the tiger was nearing his limit, he had to act quickly! So he did the only thing that could make him know the contents of the bottles, Lance tasted every single one.
After being put to a training that could be called torture, Lance was beginning to feel immune to poisons and such, but he would still feel some of the effects!
The first one tasted like a oil, didn’t seem to have any effect. The second was a transparent liquid, had minimum taste and when was drank gave Lance a set back. It was a strong poison, luckily he threw up before any consequences were made. That poison was too strong, even for him!
The third one was a yellow liquid, immediately after Lance tasted it, he felt his limbs go numb for a moment.
That was the one!!
Lance didn’t waste time, he quickly headed to a tree at his side and broke one of its branches, after giving it a sharp edge,
Lance poured the liquid on it and threw with all of his might at the Chacreta.
The monster, with its ridiculous reflexes, caught it while giving Lance a sneer. It thought that this was his desperate attack!
But , The monster saw that the human kid wasn’t with despair in his face, he had a big smile on it.
The Chacreta dropped the branch, after that it couldn’t move its arm.
The beast was struggling to move it, but it was in vain.
KEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
The Chacreta gave a loud shriek, it was confused and angry. But before it could do anything, The tiger, seeing it struggle, bitted, with his strong fangs, its neck.
The Chacreta was in disbelief, its food was killing it! The Chacreta tried to bite back, but was stopped by a fierce pain on its back.
Lance took opportunity on the commotion and struck with all of his might at the monsters back, hitting its heart!
The Chacreta fell on the ground, it was dead!