Trifore: Griffin
Catundra: gyspy fighter
Mirage: Catahuman
Merback; levitation turtle
My eyes shoot open and
I am already in feline form.
I watch as our camp is attack by creatures, with sharp yellow
eyes, toad skin, and short faces. A pair of green monsters with piercing teeth
attacks Catundra and Ripple. Catundra fights back strangling the football
shaped demons with a long ribbon.
Mirage, in jaguar form rips a beast to shreds. “Difyn! There goblins. Stupid creatures, a
distraction for something bigger.” Something bigger…. Oh no.
I snarl as a trio of
goblins jump onto my back hitting me with long wooden roads. I roll onto my
side squishing a goblin between my black body and the fern coated ground. The
two other goblins jump off of me running. Merback stops them with his swinging
tail. He knocks the goblins like bowling pins as they fly through the air
crashing into a log.
I look around. The goblins have all been killed. I transform
back to human and Trifore emerges from the treetops landing in the campsite.
“The dragon queen is sending an ogre and a troll.”
I thought the “something bigger’ would be more threatening.
“So what? We can fight off a grumpy old man living under a bridge and Shrek. No
problem.” I say chuckling.
Trifore grimaces at me. “Those are children’s tales. Trolls
are fierce long body dragon-like creatures covered with stone. They are sly
like a fox and agile like a cat. And ogres, giant men crafted with wood and
stone, built for war.” He pauses “You newcomers are trouble.” He uses he’s
eagle wings to send himself into the air. I watch as he flies into the
distance.
“Don’t worry he’ll be back.” Says Merback.
“He just needed to blow off some esteem.” Adds Catundra while
cleaning her silk ribbon from goblin blood.
“What did he mean by we are trouble?” Asks Ripple.
“Well the dragon queen never really paid attention to us. But
now… ever since you have arrived.”
I finish Mirage off “She has.”
“Well drama aside we have to prepare for the troll and ogre.”
Announces Merback.
In seconds Trifore lands next to Mirage. Ripple is brought
into the brownies safety tree dome protesting but we all know she can’t fight
being human.
I stand next to my fellow fighters as the ground starts
shaking. Different then the shaking when this world was reveled. That shaking
came from all around, this shaking comes from straight deep in the earth.
A large shape reveals itself to us from behind the trees. It
is basically what Trifore described. A man about ten feet tall made with stone
and wood. Its face is formed with curved bark and dark red eyes peering down at
us.
Trifore and Catundra spring into action. Trifore launches
himself at the ogre knocking his body off balance. Catundra yelps at him
distracting the stone man. She dances around him with a ribbon twisting it
around his body leaving him tied up. The mighty monster falls to the ground.
I am about to open my mouth and laugh at the easy task but
something bursts from the earth untying the ogre with speed.
It must be the troll. The troll then penetrates back into the
earth like a bullet digging underground.
The ogre slaps at Trifore with his giant over sized hand
knocking him down. Mirage runs to fight the scary Shrek leaving Merback and me
to battle the tricky troll.
The slick body of the troll pops from out of the ground. It
shakes dirt from its rocky body. I look into its green cat eyes almost
identical to mine, I know this is going to be a fight to the death. I transform
into my panther self and slash him with my claws. From his lizard arm stones
crumble away. Green mossy liquid oozes from the cut. He hisses and jumps back
into soil.
Everything goes still, well it feels like it. Then breaking
the deafening silence the troll pounces out from under Merback. I roar in anger
as Merback spins through the air crashing against a rock.
I launch onto the troll pinning him down. He outsmarts me and
takes his dagger tail and jams it into my stomach. I growl in pain as we roll
around. I bite at his neck with razor sharp teeth. I feel pain shooting in my
jaw. A tooth falls from my mouth. I forgot I am biting rock.
The troll takes his jagged teeth and digs them into my arm,
past the fur, past the skin. Blood pours from my arm. Pain is no longer just a
short outburst it is running through every inch of my body.
He slams me to the ground holding his sharp tail to my neck.
He starts to cut into my flesh I bite my tongue and feel myself going into
shock but then it all stops. The troll collapses onto me. Mossy blood squirts
from its head.
I push him off of me and stare at his face. Right in between
his eyes is an arrow. I look toward the direction the arrow had come from.
Ripple stands holding a bow. Brownies surround her in awe.
“I’m sorry catahuman, she refused to stay in the dome.” Says
one of the brownies.
“Ripple?” I stare at her in awe.
“What? You forgot that its eyes are on the sides of its head
creating a blind spot. I just shot there.”
I look behind me as Trifore destroys the ogre by knocking his
head clean off.
“Where is Merback?’ asks Catundra. I run over to the rock
where he hit.
“His shell is destroyed! Cracked. And I think he is knocked
out.”
“It’s okay the pixies will be here soon.” Says Mirage. I look
at her puzzled. “See here they are.” She adds.
I witness about fifty small, only about half an inch naked
people, mostly ladies buzz around, and then they all stop at small triangular
bright colored flowers.
The ladies dance into the flowers, the pedals wrap around the
ladies tiny bodies making perfect fitting dresses. The males float down into
leaves that grow around their bodies creating a full body green suite.
The pixies buzz into a giant swarm. The swarm of people twists
around Merback, his shell sticks back together fixing perfectly.
Then the swarm twirls around the other members of the group
healing their scraps, cuts, and bruises.
The pixies circle around my neck. Immediately the tooth holes
relax and slowing disappear, they do the same with my arm and stomach. Then the
pixies flutter above us dropping their clothes showering us with petals and
leaves.
The natural confetti rains down on us. “Why do they even bother wearing clothes just
to take them off?”
“They do it for humans to please them take away any
awkwardness, pixies try to please everyone, that is their fault, lust. They are
one of two creatures in any world that devote their lives for other creatures.”
Say Mirage.
“What’s
the other? Fairies?”
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