This thing was huge, I mean it was enormous. I know I'm not like the tallest guy but this thing was easily as tall as the giant moth. It was inky and stinky and slinky and it slid from shadow to shadow sniffing the air and looking for the source of the smell.
But we had been waiting, or at least I had been. I ran forward swinging my war hammer, the beast looked towards me with a growl just in time for me to blindside it.
Caspian came in with a bow and arrow to the eye of the beast and it reared back claws out and swinging wildly at us as Felicity's spell dropped and she came in with a dark purple streak of energy hitting the side of the panther as its three tails rose up into the air striking wildly towards us as daggers.
Bel held back trying to analyze the situation, he dropped the manacles he was holding and marched a step forward with shaking hands conjuring a misty orb of ice and swinging it at the great panther.
Half bloody from our surprise we started into the real fight. Paws jumped onto the back of the beast and drove daggers into the meaty flesh of its back.
Caspian dropped her bow and pulled out a blade rushing forward she sliced one of the tails. Severing it from the black inky body it dropped with a thud onto the ground. As blood gushed out in a torrent of black... blood and the creature howeled in pain striking out at her it clawed her across the chest.
She totally almost fainted but then Bel was their with his like glowing hands and his spells and he used cool magic to make the claw marks fade away and her wounds were healed! IT WAS AWESOME!!
BUT THE FIGHT WASN'T DONE! I came in swinging! My war hammer crashed down on it's tiny head and totally did some bad ass damage and it started crying in pain.
Then Felicity brought a second Erdrich energy out pulling on her patrons energy she fling purple energy at the creature in a dope ass fire ball type move and it hit the panther twice in the chest.
It was so scared of us now that, this time it didn't even attack just taking a opportunity to drift into the shadows and appear in the darkness of the jungle beyond. But forgetting paws was on its back, he appeared with it. Paws sank a dagger into its chest once twice, THREE times more and it collapsed on the forest floor.
IT WAS A CRAZY BATTLE
Okay, okay, I have to clam down, it was so intense, anyways. We let up a cheer and I smiled around at them, I think that is really how we became a team, we fought along side one another and all of a sudden we were friends. I knew I wanted to protect them with my life.
"We celebrate with ale!" I say "to the tavern!" I start marching back towards town and a hand touches my shoulder I turn and look at Bel he looks towards the panther and I look at the panther then at him.
"What?"
"We have to get our reward first"
"Oh, right" I nod then say.
"Do you think we can sell the meat to that nice cook?" Caspian asks
"That is a capital idea Caspian, his sign did say exotic meats" Bell says
Paws is trapped under the beast and he calls "can someone help get this things off of me." A small monkey purple and blue climbs from the trees seams to poke at the dead thing on the ground before lifting it and helping paws up.
"Oh thanks monkey. Oh are you. Uh I guess your mine?"
"What you got a monkey cool!" I say and give it a high five it taps my hand and I nod grinning at Mr. Monkey, Mr. Monkey is cool he's like my best friend already.
"Where did he come from?" Said Felicity looking up into the trees
"The fay wild" said paws with a shrug.
Meanwhile bell and Caspian were trying to pull the really fucking heavy dead monster though the forest. They had gotten it no where.
"Pull" said Caspian using all of her strength.
"I am pulling" said Bel but his strength equaled maybe a chipmunk. Hehe a chipmunk monk wouldn't that be fun he could sit on my sholder and use mon-chucks moon-chuck wood-chuck what are those things called?
Paws tried to use levitate hand thing but it didn't work and then his monkey got it kind of far before I took up and started pulling it though the forest with my awesome strength. Why was I the strongest of the group. No idea.
By the time we got back to town we had lost the bunny and his monkey.
Bel started talking to the sizzler guy and telling him about the meat and asking what he could do for us and our meat sack. Mmm delicious meat.
He took it in one toss over the shoulder and started cutting off the skin and cutting up the meat then he opened the skull and pulled out a gem from the brain. We starred at it in both disgust and interest. He pulled out a crystal and placed it down as he cut up the meat. I tried to steal it but I just took some meat instead and started eating raw meat it was pretty good. Then Caspian tried to steal the crystal but I think he saw her and she just like slinked away.
Once he was done he gave us the wet sloping skin and told us we had to tan it or something. Then that we should take the crystal and go see Amia
"Its called a shard of essence" he said thoughtfully, but he didn't have any more knowledge about it then that.
He counted out the sale of the meat for us and we each got 125 gold for the meat because Caspian convinced him we almost died. To help the matter just then paws stumbled out of the forest then held up by Mr. Monkey and collapsed at our feet looking half dead.
"Where has be been?" Felicity asked looking down at him.
The rest of us shrugged as Mr. Monkey climbed up onto her sholder and paws lay on the ground motionless.
"Is he dead?" Asked Bel nudging his body with a toe and paws let out a snore.
"Suppose we should carry him, we need to get a move on to get our reward from the hunters guild" Bel continued and we all agreed and went on our way back though the city and across the river up the hill and towards the guild.
The same gnomish man met us at the counter with large glasses on his tiny face and his curled toe boots, his fine clothing and armorer atop that. This guy wasn't a fighter he was a secretary.
Mostly it was paperwork that I didn't understand and when he asked for our signature I signed with an X for my name, because who writes? Apparently Caspian and Felicity because Paws used his paw but he was half asleep so idk maybe that was just because he was being lazy and Bel used his antennae.
Anyways after that Bel took Paws and went to visit the mean guild master lady so boo to them. Their no fun anyways, we took the party monkey and went day drinking with all our gold!
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My Band of Idiots
FantasyThr'bel a moth folk Bard who is on a diplomatic mission to unite his country with other country's around the world of Sivona. What he wasn't expecting was a bartender named Luck to sweep him off his feet. Paws is a rouge and Druid by day and a broth...