Wise Woman

Chapter two

Everything happened in a blink of an eye. Fifty Men cloaked in black, stormed their way into the Sahora demon tribe. Slaughtering everyone in their path. Though the tribe was made up of hundreds of demons, they were unprepared and some untrained in the art of battle. Sealing their fate.

Terra was locked in combat with a man holding a large axe, that could slice through the toughest of metals as if it were a soft fruit or a cheap piece of linen. When the cloaked men first arrived, Terra had managed to grab her twin swords from her tent, before the battle began. Terra rolled out of the way as the mans axe connected with the ground, nearly slicing Terra in half. Terra pushed herself to her feet and angled her swords to make an x just as the cloaked mans axe came down again. Metal screeched against metal as the men pushed his axe down on her, trying to break her barrier.

Her opponent was formidable and strong. Terra's mind had been racing trying to figure out what tribe would attack her village. Terra had tried to figure out by smell but the smell of blood was too thick in the air around her. The cloaked man gave up trying to push Terra down with his axe and decided to approach a different way. He lifted his axe up in the air and that was all Terra needed. She shot her leg out kicking the cloaked man in the shin causing him to fall backwards. Before the man could stand Terra quickly stood over him and brought both of her swords down, right into his heart. The man didnt even let out a scream for the mask he had worn under his hood of his cloak prevented him from doing so. 

Making sure he was dead, Terra raced off towards her mothers tent. Bodies of her tribe mates and friends littered the ground but Terra kept a neutral expression and reined back her anger. Terra was a few feet away from her mothers tent, only to stop as she watched another cloaked man slice through his opponents and passerby's with his scythe. Then he simply stepped on them like the ground at his feet.

 Fury and anger, beyond Terra's control bubbled up inside her as Terra's control on her emotions slipped. Terra struggled to keep her mind clear but a loud and vicious snarl managed to pass through her lips, gaining the cloaked mans attention.

He was dressed the same as the other cloaked man black cloak and armor covering his body except his mask was blood red and his armor was covered in the blood of Terra's tribe mates that he had brutally murdered. The cloaked man cocked his head to the side, then shook his head. Terra's instincts were telling her that he was smiling an evil smile behind his mask only causing her anger to rise.

 Before Terra could engage in combat with the cloaked man, she heard a scream that sent shivers down her spine and caused her ears to twitch and her eyes to widen. Terra's rationality and wisdom flew out the window once she recognized the scream. Her anger turned to horror, and her fury turned to determination. The scream was her sister Kyra's and Terra was determined to get to her even if Terra had to get injured along the way.

Seeming to recognize that Terra had no intention of staying the man in the red mask attacked. Swinging his scythe at Terra, Terra ducked then bared her fangs at him while letting out a low warning growl that sent shivers of fear down the mans spine. But he didn't back down, it only made his thirst to kill her stronger.

The man wrapped the chain that connected to his scythe around his wrist then attacked Terra head on. Terra met the mans scythe with her swords, with equal force. A "Clang" filled the air and both attackers jumped back. Terra and the man began circling each other, looking for each others weaknesses. Another scream came from Kyra, distracting Terra for a moment.

The man smirked behind his mask and quickly pulled out a small knife from his armor sleeve and threw it at Terra's middle.

A piercing sound that no human could hear filled Terra's wolf ears. It sounded like metal cutting through air. Terra quickly moved to the side but the mans knife just managed to cut Terra's left side. Terra let out a cry of pain as the cut burned her like nothing ever before. Terra dropped her right sword and quickly covered the wound as blood poured from it. The smell of blood and flesh burning filled her sensitive nose.

Terra knew why the wound wasn't healing, the dagger had been coated in a poison called Waff. A poison that was harmless to humans, but deadly to demons. It burns like an acid and eats the surrounding skin from where it is applied. Then when the acid feeling fades it makes demons vision pound like a drum and their conscious foggy until the demon passes out. Unless you pour boiling water into the wound you have ten hours or less to live.

Terra clenched her teeth as the acid feeling heightened. Blood trickled from Terra's nose and mouth, the blood trailing down her chin and onto her neck like a small stream. Terra had gotten some information she needed. Only two tribes used this poison along with the humans. When this battle was over Terra would tear the mask off from this mans dead body and find out who attacked her tribe, her home.

The masked man let out a cruel laugh as Terra shot him a withering glare. Terra let go of her wound, ignoring the burning feeling and picked up her sword causing the man to stop laughing and grin from behind his mask. In a blink of an eye Terra was in front of the man and without even blinking she sliced the mans head off, silencing him forever.