“That is no chicken…” Cindy whispered as she looked at the monster before them.
Turns out the Chickeedo was a large monster and not a medium one. It towered a little taller than the stone ape. Its neck was sheathed in thick heavy scales the color of the red sky. Its beak was hooked and lined with razor sharp peaks reaching down. Feathers the color of brown mud lined its body. The legs though, they were truly monstrous. From the bottom of its body it looked like it was lined with barbed wire thorns. Great large talons stretched from each of its toes that carved into the ground it walked on.
“Yeah, do we know anything about this monster?” Dad asked as they looked on in obvious trepidation.
“No, I didn’t bother asking around. I thought that it was going to be some medium sized monster. That thing looks terrifying. Let’s just do what we normally do and pull it with a ranged attack. Just be careful of what kind of things it might do afterwards.” Cindy stood and took a stance to channel a large attack. Dad prepared a boulder toss as well.
I grand fireball rushed out towards the Chickeedo and when it slammed home the mighty rooster let out a call flapping its wings hard enough to put out the flames still licking its body. Its beady eyes landed out the two and then it screamed.
And promptly ran away.
The thing tore away from the pair like a rabbit being chased by a dog. The ground flew up behind it like a fantail. Both Cindy and Dad stood there stunned as the monster ran around a half dozen turtles. It was easily on the edge of their vision before it stopped and calmed down. Slowly pecking at the ground once more.
Cindy looked at her father and quirked an eyebrow. “I think this is going to be harder than we thought it would be.” She stood with her staff tapping the ground. “Lets try this but I’ll lay traps this time and when it runs them over you can close the distance and hold on to it.”
They walked around the plains until they were nearby the giant chicken once more. It stood there pecking and pulling out giant grubs and worms before swallowing them down with hardy gulps. Cindy started sneaking around the area laying her trap spells for all sorts of energy types and even down a couple of potions in order to have the entire thing be a minefield.
Standing next to her Dad both of them glared daggers at the giant overgrown bird. “Ok, let’s do this.” Cindy and Dad whipped out their ranged attacks nailing the bird once more sending spiraling cracks throughout its body. Again it screamed and hopped up and down like eat had too much sugar and quickly turned around and started sprinting away. It moved so erratically and quickly that the trap spells. They exploded behind it as the darn bird flapped its wings shedding feathers like it was a husky in the spring. The madness in its eyes was almost comedic as the two stared at the creature run away.
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Both of them stood stunned as the ground fixed itself as the Chickeedo snaked through the turtles and the cracks on its body healed, disappearing and resetting the beast. Cindy started to stomp and grunt in frustration as her temper flared high. “Gosh darn! Stupid bird!” Then she let out a scream into the air causing the turtles around them to look passively at the pair.
Dad and her stood there looking across the plains at the now calm placid bird picking away at the ground as if nothing had ever happened. The complete scene of an empty headed creature standing there.
Cindy fumed, keeping her shoulders hunched as she huffed. “What do we try next!?”
Dad looked like he was trying not to laugh causing Cindy to narrow her eyes. “Urggh ummm,” Clearing his throat he took a deep breath and looked down. “Well, I’ll try ape leap and close the distance. See if I can get a hold of the creature before it freaks out and runs off. How does that sound?”
Cindy threw up her hands, “I wasted potions! Let’s try again!”
The turtles seemed to crowd around the Chickeedo this time. Making the plan even harder to accomplish than they first desired. Cindy screwed up her face in focus and a tinge of anger as she began to prepare a spell.
After a moment of preparation. Dad got ready and activated ape leap and soared through the air towards the giant chicken monster and slammed into it hard knocking it silly for a moment as another spell slammed into the beast. Once more it began to call, scream, and hop in place real quick. Just as it turned to flee Dad unleashed quake stomp making the monster stumble as he unleashed a combo of attacks on the monster trying to keep it stunned.
Spells unleashed themselves trying to damage the bird enough for it to be ready for capture. After a few moments of it being unable to run away it whirled on Dad and started to unleash a flurry of attacks. Its talons raked lightning fast carving rents of light into his forearms. The pecks were intense and as soon as Dad relented in his assault and the spells couldn’t find their mark the beast turned and started to run away for all of its worth.
“Oh no you don’t!” Called Cindy as she threw some sort of item out. It was a ruse. The Chickeedo swerved out of the way of the item and straight into the pit trap she had laid ahead of time. The ground gave out under it in a sudden whoosh and the chicken screamed out loud in a squawk of fear.
Cindy sprinted at the beast and threw several sleep bombs into the face of the monster. Its head lolled and flailed as the medicine started to take effect. Before the sleep bombs took full effect the trap gave way and the monster sprang forth from the pit.
It must have realized that running was not an option and turned to unleash its attacks onto Cindy. The beak flew like a bolt of lightning at Cindy’s head and she tried to dodge. It crashed into her leg, nearly shattering it into a thousand motes of light. She called out in sudden fear as her health points dipped thirty points in an instant. Rolling out of the way of the follow up attack she downed a potion.
Dad was on top of the monster before the third strike and he rained blows down on it with the fury of a hurricane. His stamina bar was showing the infinite symbol as he unleashed himself on the chicken monster. Trying to get to her feet she opened up with a torrent of spells and after six seconds the hit points of the monster must have dropped enough because it swirled and collapsed into a deep sleep. An anime style snot bubble started to pour out of its nose as Cindy grabbed her knees and huffed. Her heart was hammering like a rabbit’s.
The great monster turned into a giant mote of light with the image of the full monster inside it. Slowly it made its way into Dad’s chest and his eyes glazed over. “Finally. I don’t want to fight a monster like that ever again.”
“I’m totally checking its gear. It might be worth farming?” Cindy smiled up at her dad with a grin that fooled no one.
“Yeah, right.”