'What was that thing, that was no human' The goblin overseer Sharak thought to himself, limping away from the clearing. He had been heavily injured by that... Thing. His thoughts returned once again to the battle that had seemed simple. 'Oh how wrong we were'
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'This is the thing we thought was the King? It's just a puny human.' Sharak was suprised, while he had never personally seen a human before, the Chieftain told stories. He said that while humans were dangerous in numbers, no groups ever made it this far into the forrest. The ones who did were all weak and lost, making them easy prey. Still, he did not become overseer by underestimating his enemies. Sharak had his squad surround the human in stealth. He then had one of them walk out of the bush, grabing the humans attention.
The young human lunged at the warrior with supprising speed, luckily the warrior was well trained and dodged in time. The human seems suprised at the dodge, what did he think the warrior was going to stand there and take it? Sharak and the rest of them step out of the clearing. The overseer sneers at the fast human, "You thought your killing would go unnoticed?" The human clearly didn't understand, and attacked the warrior who dodged him earlier. Suprisingly he hit, but the worn dagger only drew a small amount of blood.
The warrior then attacked, swinging his club, heavily injuring the human. The weakling decided to run, and used his suprising speed to escape. However, he was stopped by a simple rock thrown by Sharak. 'A simple human thought he could beat a well trained goblin squad while he had no fighting skill? Pathetic.'
Suddenly the body stirred, and a low groweling could be heard from it. 'Oh, it's alive?' Sharak wasn't afraid in the least. He should have been.
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The sound of cracking bones soon filled the air, and the body started to change. Claws sprouted from its hands, black catlike ears grew from its head, and a long cat tail came from the base of its spine breaking through its pants.
'Wha- What is this?!' Sharak thought suprised, he had never heard of humans growing animal features like this. What was even more suprising was that it seemed to be healing rapidly. The body slowly got to its feet, and the groweling grew louder as it glared at them. Its eyes. 'Oh god its eyes' The whites were replaced by pitch black, and the catlike pupil was a glowing silver. The beast took no time as it pounced on the slightly injured warrior, its claws tearing away the armour like it wasn't there.
One of the closer goblins tried to save their comrade and attacked the creature, which dodged effortlessly. It moved gracefully, and sliced the throat of the attacker, killing him instantly. Just like that, two warriors died, they couldn't even fight back. Sharak knew he couldn't win this battle, so, like the coward he really was, he ran.
The dying screams of his squad echoed behind him as he tried to get as far away from that beast as possible. Soon the screams stopped, and he didn't think it was because the beast was killed. Suddenly claws ripped apart his back, but when he turned, there was nothing there.
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'I did it, I escaped.' Sharak breathed a sigh of relief, then he heard a rustling and his blood ran cold. He now realized that he never got away, the beast was toying with him, and it wouldn't be long until it got bored and ended him. Suddenly he began to chuckle at his misfortune, and the chuckle turned into a full blown laugh. Tears ran down his face as his mind broke under the pressure. The laughing was abruptly cut off as the beast grew tired of the noise and attacked. The echos soon turned silent as the last goblin in the squad was cut down. The beast soon found a suitable place to lie down and rest, its belly was full of goblin meat from the first few victims.
Sleep soon claimed it as the smaller critters began to come out of the brush, enticed by the smell of fresh meat.