”Wha...what is going on, where are we?” Odin woke up.

We were at the checkpoint under a roof that covers us from lightning and rain.

“Huh? You awake now? Finally!” Cortez had Odin over his shoulder, but quickly let him down once he woke up.

Cortez was down on his arms and knees catching his breath.

“How`s your arm feeling?” I went over to him.

His right arm was bleeding a lot.

“it looks way worse than it is, my health haven’t really dropped, guess I just have to wash it off in the rain.”

“Alright, I come with you”

“Sure”

Odin and I headed over to where the roof atop of us ended and the rain was pouring down, Odin took of his chain mail armor as he cleaned his wound.

“I wonder how they are doing…”

“Hmm?”

“My family…”

“Yeah, hope they are doing alright, we should send a letter once we get to the next questing zone.”

“Yeah! “

He took his arm back from the rain and washed himself off with a piece of cloth.

“You know, my sister and I have always been really close, I remember when our father took us out on fishing trips before the world turned to crap…”

He had dried himself up and reequipped his armor.

“We just sat there on the boat, us 3, in complete silence, waiting for a fish to take the bait, the aura was so soothing, even though we didn’t speak much on those fishing trips I feel like that was the time we got to know each other the most….I miss the times when everything was so….Easy and safe.

“Same here, I am not a religious person, but I am sure your father is in a better place now”

“Yeah you are probably right, thanks Sky.”

“If you ever need someone to talk to, come to me or Celia”

“S-s-sure, I come to you!”

What was with this overexcited reaction?

“Anyways, lets head back and keep on moving, we are soon out of Thunder plains, we only got one more checkpoint, atleast that was what Gavin said.”

“Ohh right, how did the quest go?”

“Once we came here we leveled up, even you did if you haven’t noticed”

Odin just realized.

“Ohh nice, now I can put another point in weapon handling!”

“Weapon handling”?

We started moving back to the others.

“As a Blade Master we don’t have too many abilities, but a lot of passive abilities that we can put points in. Since I prefer to wield two swords I put a point in duel wielding, others such as Bruce puts points in brass knuckles and so on.”

“I see”

“You can even put a point in armor types, to increase agility or defense”

“So that’s why I see a lot of different types of Blade masters all around, nice to know!”

We regrouped.

“Odin, how`s your arm?”

Odin blushed a bit while not making clear eye contact.

“it’s a lot better  n-now!”

So that’s what`s going on…..i see

Elisa noticed too.

“I can’t believe we have to walk even further, cant we just stay here?” Cortez was gazing upon the long road ahead.

“Are you kidding? It’s so windy and wet all the time, let’s get out of here pronto!” Elisa was rubbing her arms together since she was freezing

“Not everyone has warm fury armor”

“Give me a hug and ill warm ya”

“Don’t get on my nerve, fish eye!”

“Why are people calling me fish eye? There is nothing wrong with my eyes! See?”

Cortez took on and off his goggles, his eyes were completely fine, Elisa knew it would just upset him.

We proceeded onwards to the next and final checkpoint.

The road is long and quiet, we were all coping with the weather, it had taken its toll on us, even Celia and I felt exhausted, but there was no place to rest.

I could only grasp the nature around us, the crackling thunder, the splashy mud and rain, when I closed my eyes it was like I wasn’t in Felia anymore, it was the same as the real world…

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“Sky, how about this?”

Zane handed over a can of beans while we were scavenging a ruined home.

“Let me see.”

I took a hold of the can as Zane handed it over.

“This one is in perfect shape, nice found!”

We could hear some noise coming from upstairs, even though it was raining viciously outside.

“Was that footstep--?”

I put my finger in front of my mouth to tell Zane to be quiet.

He understood immediately as we raised our guns and moved slowly towards the living room.

The sound we heard from upstairs suddenly ceased. 

I gestured with my fingers to follow me upstairs, quietly.

There were several rooms, but the room where we heard the noise was locked, the doorknob fell off as I tried to open the door, I was forced to kick it open, then I made sure the room was safe.

There was no one here, until I got my suspicion on a certain closet.

Zane came sneaking up behind me. 

I pointed at the closet.

Zane made his way over there, then he went to the side of the closet as he reached for the knob and quickly opened it, I had a good overview of the whole thing, ready to fire.

“*Sob* *sob* Don’t hurt me please!”

There was a little girl, dirty cloths and alone.

“Ohh god, are you alright?” Zane put his rifle on his back as he went over to her.

How could a girl at her age survive so long alone? This was my first thought, her cloths are dirty, but her hair is clean, she dosent seem to have been starved or dehydrated.

Something’s not adding up.

Zane looked at me.

“Sky, should we take her with us? She probably --?!”

I felt a huge adrenalin rush pumping in my blood in a blink of an eye as I noticed she instantly stopped crying and equipped a short knife she had behind her on a belt, the knife was going for Zane’s throat.

Boom!

Zane jumped backwards, rubbing his neck.

“That was close, thank you”

I was speechless for a few seconds.

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“Yeah, right, ehm, let’s get out of here!”

I took a look outside the window, the rain was pouring.

*Lightning flash with loud crackle*

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“Sky? You listening?”

I didn’t noticed that Elisa had snuck up on me.

“What

“What?  I didn’t pay attention sorry, I was spacing out a bit”

She got a bit curious, but she didn’t ask me what I was thinking about.

“Cortez wanted to speak with you”

I lowered my walking pace and caught up with Cortez.

“What up?”

“I have a bad feeling, I could swear i saw someone, I have had this feeling of being watched over for quite a bit now”

“Have you checked with your tracking gear?”

“Yes, but the area it covers is not large enough, in a situation like this I trust my gut, im telling you man, something or someone is following us, keep your eyes and ears open, I will have my tracking gear equipped for the time being”

“You do that, don’t tell anyone else, we don’t need to get all paranoid!”

“Gottcha”

I headed back to the front with Elisa.

“Sky, look up there, I think we are getting close!”

We could see a piece of a building in the distance, it was hard to see from all the rain, but it was definitely something.

“is that a man coming towards us?” 

I didn’t notice a figure until Elisa pointed it out.

“Yes, someone is coming towards us”

“You think it’s a Player or NPC?”

“Don’t know, but we will find out soon!”

The person was coming closer, then he suddenly drew both his swords!

We drew our weapons as well.

Once it got closer we noticed it was not a player, it was a RARE Monster!

In this case a Shadow like Humanoid, kind of like the knights we meet at the beginning of the Thunder Plains.

“Everyone watch out!” It started running towards us!

“Celia , Odin, On me!” We headed out first, Celia and I appeared behind him and struck him with our first attack that deals massive damage, but even so it was like his health bar didn’t drop.

“ugh!” We tried to fight it up close but he was so powerful he elbowed me in the face and kicked Celia away.

He was coming right for me!

“I handle him! Endless rage!”

Odin caught up and used his ability!

“What what is going on? Endless rage go!”

Nothing happened, was he still tierd? His cooldown should have been off a long time ago.

“Die” The Rare mob turned into a pure black fog that moved quickly towards Odin as it manifested itself back to his original state and cut Odin`s Torso!

He was knocked backwards!

“Odin!”

Elisa ran over to help him.

Cortez was firing arrows, but he dodged them as he was floating his way over to him.

“Get away!” Cortez began running away and around the monster, over to us.

“How are we going to fight a guy like that? Doesn’t it take a strategic raid group to kill guys like him?

“I don’t know if this is the same type or rare Monster, but there is not easy way out of this!”

“How the hell are we going to fight it? I can`t even hit him!”

It was coming towards us again.

“When I say fire, fire on me AT me Cortez!”

“At you?”

“Trust me!”

I ran towards the rare mob, but not with the intent to deal damage, just to hold him in place!

Once I got close I manged to dodge some sword attacks from him, then when I saw the oppernunity I stuck his arms with my daggers, then I let go off the daggers and put my hands around his body!

“Cortez now!”

Cortez shot a fire arrow right at my back! Just before it hit I used my cooldown ability to enter stealth again as the arrow went right through my body and into his!

I was unscratched!

Once the arrow hit, I took a hold of my daggers again, reappeared behind him, struck both of the daggers down his neck as I jumped off.

“Nice work guys!”

Even thought we did all that his health was still high, the monster turned around, facing me.

He quickly started swinging his swords at me!

“Ugh, argh!” I couldn’t get him off!

He knocked my right dagger out of my hand, then punched me in the face while disarming my left hand!

I fell on the ground!

The Monster was just about the pierce my torso as he got a fire arrow through his head!

The arrow just dazed him a bit, I managed to get on my knees, but it was no use, the sword was coming right at me!

“Sky!” Celia was running towards me to help me out, but she was out of reappear range!

I could feel my left arm tighten!

*Shing!*

Before I knew it I managed to block of the attack with my left underarm!

“Let me help you with this mongrel!” I could hear a voice in my head...

“Z-z-zane!” My exhaustion was fading, the dark veins had completely covered my whole left arm and was spreading to the left side of me face. My left eye turned Black and red.

Sparks flied as the sword hit my arm just as it was made of iron!

With incredible force I managed to push myself up even when the Monster had both his swords on my hand using all his force to push me down.

“Get off me you piece of shit!” 

With my one arm I managed to knock his hands up in the air, during this time I shoved one of my daggers that I picked up while I was on the ground through his head, then I used my left dark hand to grip his throat with amazing force and slam him to the ground!

I couldn’t stop smiling as I was squeezing his throat!

Even some laughter came out!

Next chapter: How will this fight end? What will happen to Sky?

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