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Here is a recap of what happened in the last chapter:
I saw several arrows headed straight at Emily. She would’ve died had it not been for her quick reflexes. She quickly dodged the attack at the last second and threw some steelies in the direction the arrows had come from.
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“OW!!!” yelped an unknown voice.
“WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? DO YOU REALIZE YOU ALMOST KILLED ME?” screamed an enraged Emily who looked so angry that I could almost see daggers in her eyes. The leaves rustled and out stepped Hasha, the evil warrior with no respect at all for girls. He had the injured bowman at his side. The bowman had two Steelies stuck in his thigh and blood was slowly oozing out of his wounds. Red marks stained the clean, crisp snow.
“Who am I? I am the almighty, the invincible Mushu!” yelled the bowman, ” and I was trying to kill you, smart one..”
“Almighty? Invincible? You noob! I just evaded your attacks and wounded you!” yelled Emily.
Mushu looked at his thigh sheepishly and said, “I wasn’t ready that time. I could pwn you anyday, anytime!” Emily rolled her eyes and clutched her steelies tightly.
Hasha glanced at his friend’s injuries and said in a low voice, ” Mushu, you have to pull those out or else you’ll die. Stop talking to those girls and heal yourself first!” With that said, Mushu grabbed the end of one and pulled. Out came an agonizing scream that everyone within earshot of it winced. Blood started gushing out of his wound like a fountain and I saw Paige hesitantly take a step closer to him with a worried look on her face. The scream that came out of Mushu when the second steely was pulled out by Hasha made my ears feel like they were bleeding. Even more blood poured out onto the snow. The area around Mushu was completely red now. I sorta felt sorry for this guy, even though he had tried to kill Emily. I looked over at Emily and saw that she had a blank look on her face. I was about to continue training with Emily and leave those two sexists when I realized that Paige wasn’t behind us.
I turned around and I saw a series of blue flashes going towards Mushu and Hasha. What happened next left Emily and I with our jaws hanging open. Green sparks engulfed Paige and Mushu’s wounds were all gone! “PAIGE! Tell me you did not just do what I think you did” I yelled.
Paige sighed and explained, ” I’m really sorry Marie. I know he tried to kill Emily but I was trained to heal and help injured people. No matter who they are.” She looked down at her shoes, afraid to look at our faces.
Mushu stared at her in astonishment and said, ” Wow, you are truly a great cleric. You saved my life, and I was trying to harm one of your friends. I’m sorry for what I did to Emily, forgive me please?”
Emily and Paige said in unison, “I forgive you..”
Hasha stared at his friend and then whacked him on the head. ” Are you serious?! You’re going to be friends with those girls after SHE almost killed me?” yelled Hasha while pointing his dirty finger at me.
“YOU provoked me!Did you expect me to just stand there and take that crap from you?!” I snapped back at him. Before our argument could develop any further, a flaming arrow hit my arm and knocked me to the ground. It charred my armor a bit but wasn’t strong enough to penetrate it. Suddenly, a few more arrows were fired at me. Some stronger arrows managed to penetrate my armor and I started to bleed. Before anyone could react, flaming arrows were shot at us from all directions but we didn’t know who our attackers were since they were behind bushes and trees.
“TAKE COVER!” yelled Emily. Even with her haste, she could barely dodge the arrows and a few hit her.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” I screamed as I saw her body go limp and fall from the tree. There were too many of them! Mushu shot arrows into the bushes but I saw a blue flashes and the unmistakeable ‘whoosh’ sound of mages teleporting. While Paige teleported around to avoid being hit and shot a few arrows back herself, Hasha picked me up and ran behind a huge boulder. Scared for what he was going to do to me, I took my Sparta and slashed it across his chest. “You jerk! Put me down!” I yelled with what little energy I had left. I was losing blood fast and the thought of death actually crossed my mind. Hasha stared at me and dropped me onto the ground.
Clutching his chest that was barely bleeding, he said, ” Good thing you’re even weaker then before, or that might’ve been a fatal blow.” He chuckled and quickly shielded us against the arrows that were bombarding us. I gave him a look to show that I was clearly displeased with his so called joke. “I’ll be back.” he said and then rushed out into the bushes to attack the mages who were trying to kill us for no reason. As I looked out onto the battlefield I saw that Mushu and Paige had burn marks all over them but they kept fighting back.
“Mushu, Hasha! hold them back while I go get Emily to a safe area.” Paige ordered and in a few teleports, she was by Emily’s side. A few stray arrows had gotten to Emily and her clothes were starting to burn. ” Oh great..” muttered paige as she attempted to smother the fire with snow. After the fire had been put out, Paige had difficulty lifting Emily up. Being a Cleric, she never had to do much physical training. All she ever had to do was study to become smarter.
“Paige get back over here! I’ll rescue Emily!” yelled Mushu and he lay her down next to me. The battle raged on and I could tell we weren’t really winning.
I turned my head and stared at Emily. She had been knocked out and a few arrows still potruded from her body. As a fighter, I naturally had better health then other classes but the burns and arrows were taking effect on me. Before I passed out I heard Paige, Hasha and Mushu talk to this guild leader….about..territory……..A few seconds later, I took one last look around me and passed out. read more