Kara crawled out of her hiding place and quickly brushed the dirt off herself, flinching at the occasional explosion in the distance that was followed by a tremor, causing dust and parts of the dilapidated building to fall. -"What on earth is going on out there."
Climbing on one of the cracked beams that lead to the ceiling, Kara pulled herself to up and onto the roof, her eyes going wide in shock as she gazed upon the devastated city.
Black smoked covered the sky, blotting out most of the sunlight and was illuminated in a sinister orange glow generated by the raging flames below. The wind carried the terrified screams of thousands as they fled the inferno that was rapidly engulfing the city.
Luckily for Kara, Mors had neglected the slums when he put his plan into motion, and as the wind was blowing in the opposite direction, she was initially safe. If not, the cheap houses of wood would be akin to a tinderbox making it nearly impossible to escape and sealing her fate.
Watching hundreds of people in the distance heading for the southern gate, Kara gathered her courage and slid down the beam. -"I don't know what's happening, but I need to get out of here. Runt...Mors, please be safe."
Making her way through the twisted alleyways, Kara managed to locate the main road by the listening for the panicked shouts of people as they raced towards the gate.
Looking around Kara noticed that people seemed to be carrying everything they could pick up, rapidly discarding anything that slowed them down haphazardly causing many people to stumble in their panic to escape.
Being swept along by the crowd, Kara suddenly spotted a frail looking woman trip and fall to the ground just ahead of her. Fearing that the she would be trampled to death, Kara darted to the woman's side and with her demonic strength lifted her up by the arm, pushing the people who were ready to walk on her away.
The woman, too panicked to think straight, struggled free from Kara's grasp and ran forward in an attempt to catch up to the group that had willingly left her behind. Kara watched with a look of utter amazement as the woman reached the side of a man, who only glanced at her in annoyance as he struggled to carry a large wooden chest on his back.
Disgusted Kara continued forward as she was pushed and shoved by the crowd. -"These people, they only care about their property and their own li..."
**BOOM**
Suddenly a building collapsed on the right side of the street as an enormous twin tailed desert scorpion burst, though, using its scythe-like pincers to obliterate anyone standing in a 10-meter radius around it, sending blood and dismembered body parts flying into the air.
Sensing that there was a larger amount of weak prey towards the centre of the city, the scorpion turned in Kara's direction and charged the people now fleeing in the opposite direction with little regard to anything else.
Watching the monster as it sliced through the screaming people, not even slowing when it hit the buildings at the side, Kara knew that she would not be able to outrun it, let alone fight.
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Sinking to her knees, Kara closed her eyes and calmly awaited the inevitable. The hopelessness she was barely keeping at bay flooding forward -"It's better if I die here, at least I will stop being a burden. I just hope Mors and Runt got out safely."
A blast of wind hit her face, and after a few moments of anticipation, Kara slowly opened her eyes before drawing back in shock. Inches from her face was that of the scorpion, carefully analysing her causing Kara to inch backwards in fear.
Slamming one of its claws into the ground behind her, stopping Kara from retreating any further, it once again approached and deeply inhaled, its beady black eyes sparkling with intelligence.
After a few seconds, its long, armoured back legs dropped, enabling it to raise its inflexible head high into the air and let out a terrifying screech, causing Kara to cover her ears and grimace.
Her ears ringing from the loud noise, Kara jumped when a monstrous roar answered the shriek and the ground shook behind her like a wall of dust, blast past.
Slowly turning her head, Kara's eyes raised upwards as she stared at a giant King's Ape as it towered above her, its long silver fur shimmering while its pure red eyes looked directly into hers. -"What is going on? Why are the monsters working together? Why am I still alive? Are they going to... share me?"
Before she could blink, the ape had scooped her up as if picking a delicate flower, making sure it did not injure her in any way and started bounding towards the city's outer walls as it placed its grasped hand close to its chest.
Realising that she was in no immediate danger, which only added to her confusion, Kara peaked out from the gaps in the giant ape's fingers that had wrapped themselves protectively around her upper body and gasped in shock as the city flew past them and incredible speeds.
Her eyes slammed shut as a piercing blue light erupted close to her and felt something slam into the ape as it faltered.
Letting out a pained, mournful roar, the giant ape fell towards the ground, twisting its body just in time so it wouldn't crush its hand and the precious cargo inside. Even though the monster knew that it had been dealt a mortal blow and did not have long to live, the fear engraved in its heart from its only meeting with the small demon with red eyes ensured that it put Kara's safety above all else. It somehow sensed that even death would not enable to escape the monster's grasp.
Although most of the impact was absorbed, Kara was still violently thrown around before rolling out of the grasp of the great apes grasp causing her a significant amount of damage.
While gasping for breath, Kara managed to raise her head slightly and spotted a giant splinter of wood, protruding from her stomach causing fresh blood to ooze out in rhythm with her heartbeat as the sound of footsteps, echoed behind her.
"Get a medic over here now and let the Lord know we have captured the Demoness and we will return shortly. Recall the other squads and avoid engaging the rioters and monsters we mu..." Kara's vision blurred as she fell into unconsciousness.