Chapter 4: The Tenebris Ultors
I wake to complete darkness. [ ugghhhh…. that's right i sealed the cave behind me last night.] I say realizing where i am. i use earth raise to unblock the cave in front of me and float outside.Now as i decided yesterday, I must see the changes time has brought upon this place. I rapidly float towards the edge of spirits abode and the first thing i see is ……..red.
I stand in front of a mass of red fur and flesh 15 ft tall. It’s a rabbit a 15 ft tall dual- horned blood rabbit. [ No...it can’t be, Hera was serious about the rabbit king?!] [ also it looks a lot more dangerous than i thought.] As i’m talking to myself the blood rabbit whirls around and it stares at me, its eyes burning like two dark red coals. Al of a sudden it leaps at me its two hind legs pushing off the ground powerfully. i fly away at max speed, with the rabbit bounding away behind me. I’m just not fast enough to outrun him! i growl to myself. thinking quickly i use earth raise and lower terrakinesis to start forming pits and traps to try to slow it down. Suddenly we come upon a cave. A five meter opening lit with torches and guarded by two men in black leather armor. Not having the time to wonder what men in armor were doing guarding a cave i led the rabbit king towards them. As i came towards them the men ignored me, drew their blades and ran to confront the rabbit king. Unfortunately for them the rabbit king was no push-over, before you could blink the rabbit king had one of them in his mouth and was biting down.
with a tearing sound the rabbit bit all the way through him and swallowed the upper half allowing the lower half to fall to the ground. For a second the other man stared in horror at his partner before raising the alarm. { help! there’s a strong mana beast here!} he called for backup. After a couple of seconds a dozen people came out of the cave but only one of them was female, holding a great sword, presumably the leader. By the way she carried herself she knew her way around combat. But no amount of knowledge could save her this time, in seconds it was slaughter with body parts and limbs flying everywhere. After a few minutes had passed all the meat shields were dead, and only the female and the rabbit king remained.
They were both breathing heavy, but the female was the disadvantaged one, with blood running down her arm from a large gash on her shoulder. After a few seconds she raised her head, and for the first time she spoke.{ I as the captain of the 11th squad of *Tenebris Ultors, luise vangeforth, SHALL NOT FALL!!} with a determined gaze she charged forth and released a crimson slash,with the power to shake the ground. The crimson slash reached the rabbit king and smashed him back tens of meters, releasing a huge amount of dust. [ wow.] i yelled startled, it's amazing that a human is capable of reaching that level of power, I have to give her some props. But it wasn’t enough, with a rattling of rocks the rabbit king stood up again, albeit with a large gash going from shoulder to waist. With a slightly apprehensive gabze the rabbit king stared at her before turning around and bounding away. With a relieved smile the woman watched him go before limping back into the cave to tend her wounds.
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[ Now it’s time to see what this interesting group of people are doing guarding this cave.]
with that in mind i head into the cave.
This cave is actually a lot less rough than it looks from the outside, the walls are made of smooth glossy sandstone and the torches are in metal brackets. When i first enter the caves there is a series of rooms on either side of the cave with one large one in the back. the first few rooms are bedrooms while a couple are store rooms for food and weapons, nothing of use to me being that as an energy being i can’t eat or pick up weapons. But in the back near the large room there is another slightly smaller room with a guard on the door. A youth 17 or 18 yrs old, his eyes go wide when he sees me, without hesitation i attack him.
[ Earth Raise]
A small block of dit comes up under his foot tripping him, and on the way down i raise an earth spike impaling him through the forehead. Using lower terrakinesis I dug a pit and buried the body and mixed the spattered blood and brain matter into the dirt.
[ Now lets see whats behind door number one.] i mumble to myself, then i shred the door using an earth spike and look inside.
On the inside of the room sits a teenage girl with blonde hair and green eyes which would be quite cute if she wasn’t covered in dirt and a little dried blood.
[ Girl, you are free to go, I took care of your captors.] I say to her.
{ W-who are you?} she asks meekly
[ Not your babysitter, now you had better get out of here before the woman next door finds that your guard is dead.] I say as i turn around and begin to float out of the cave not caring the slightest what she does.
I am almost back into the spirit’s abode before i realize that someone is following me trying to be stealthy. I turn around and ask [ What are you doing?]
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*Tenebris Ultors means dark avengers