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“Like fuck,” Farren responds immediately. “We’ll help you kill it.”
“You can’t kill them. They don’t die, but you can hurt them, and with this many of us we should be able to chase it off. No creature likes pain,” she replies.
There’s no time to say anything else as the same creature that Farren fought before comes bounding out of the trees, immediately taking a swipe at one of the Others, as his sword bounces off it, not harming it at all.
“Fucking hell,” Loki curses, as he dives out of the way. His fangs have descended and look even bigger and more deadly than they usually do.
Well, that’s curious.
Honestly, it takes me a moment of staring at Loki and the creature as he lunges for it before I kick my arse into gear and jump into the attempt to make the creature flee with everyone else.
I can’t believe that Farren fought and killed one of these by herself.
Well, I can. It’s Farren, but holy hellfire.
My weapons don’t make a scratch, let alone a slice or mortal wound on the creature, not that it can die. At least the Others don’t seem to think that it can.
We know differently because Farren already killed one. There is a chance that was a fluke though, and that she won’t be able to do it again.
We spend the next ten minutes giving the Abyss creatures everything that we’ve got. There’s magic flying everywhere, and the Others are being launched and swiped at, but are fortunately all still alive. When one goes down, another one guards them until they can get up again. It’s very clear that they have all fought together for a long time.
We aren’t faring much better.
Storm and Kill are using their shadows to whip at the creature, Storm doing so from the air and distracting it while some of the others attack it from different angles. Reaper is shooting fire, but there’s too much chaos for him to transform into Ryu, and I know that he does that as a last resort anyway.
Unless, of course, Farren’s under threat, then he will loom menacingly in the darkness.
Now that I think about it, he rarely uses his dragon form when we’re in a fight. I wonder if it's because he’s worried about losing control. I know that was a problem in the past and that there is so much trauma surrounding Ryu.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s not actually aware that he doesn’t let Ryu out when we’re in a combat situation very often, or it might not even be his decision. It could be Ryu’s.
It’s something that I probably need to check in with him about, but I have no idea when I’m going to get the chance.
Hades and Khaos are fighting the Abyss creature together, their magic complementing each other, as they fight like they have been in combat together for centuries, which I guess they have.
Khaos is Hades’ right-hand man after all.
Rival charges the creature as Storm’s shadows pull its attention in the opposite direction, and he calls on his magic. Doing something that I have never seen before, Rival somehow manages to combine all of the elements at his disposal, without them fighting against each other, and then blasts a hole straight through its back leg.
Lock’s eyes go wide with shock at the display of power, and I sigh in relief knowing that they can be trusted. They were, after all, the ones in my vision who were to help us get to the castle.
Plus, my magic would tell me if they couldn’t be trusted.
It did not like the guards from the compound.
Instead of the giant hole in the Abyss creature's leg slowing it down though, it just seems to make it madder.
Which is exactly what we need.
Not.
At least we now know that we can harm it. I was starting to lose hope that it was possible to damage the creature at all, and that Farren killing one really was a fluke.
Wait.
I’m just assuming that the Abyss creatures are all one kind of creature. We couldn’t see what Farren was fighting. I just assumed that this was the same kind of creature, but I could be completelywrong. There could easily be more than one kind, and that complicates things slightly.
