Onward: Don't Hold Back

This is Unexpected

In the Manticore's Tavern, the Lightfoot brothers and the Manticore herself looks over the unconscious peculiar being.

Ian was bothered. "Barley, I don't think it's waking up." The blue skinny elf said.

Barley ponders for a moment. The blue burly elf was serious. "I think you should slap it, Ian." Barley suggested.

The wizard faced his elder brother alarmingly. "What?!" The blue skinny elf added, exclaiming. Ian gestures at the Manticore. "Why can't SHE do it?!" The blue skinny elf inquired loudly.

The Manticore was awkward yet happy. "Actually, Ian...I can't slap it..." she added, showing her paws. "I have claws, kid..." The Manticore reasoned.

The blue skinny elf was horrified at the Manticore. "Well, I can't just slap its face to wake up! We don't know if it's friendly or not!" Ian argued.

The blue burly elf grunts. Barley prepares his left hand. The blue burly elf was irritated. "Okay, I'll do it." Barley volunteered. The blue burly elf raises his left hand in the air.

The blue skinny elf was nervous. "Barley, not so hard! Not so hard!" Ian exclaims.

The Manticore was nervous too. "Lower your arm down a bit! We don't want to give it a scare!" She shouted in her alert.

The blue burly elf narrowed his left hand downward a little bit. Barley faced his youngest brother. "Ian, I'm not gonna hurt a thing. I'm trying to wake it up." The blue burly elf vented.

The wizard was argumentative. "Barley, it's going to be mad if it finds out what you did to it!" The blue skinny elf vents back.

The blue burly elf growls. Barley faces his youngest brother. "Ian, I was trying to HELP!" The blue burly elf shouts.

Barley smacked its left cheek.

The right arm of the living being countered hit the blue burly elf.

Barley was being punched in the face by its right fist. The blue burly elf was shocked. "OW!" Barley screamed.

The wizard and the Manticore are astonished.

The blue burly elf rubbed his right cheek.

The redhead gets up suddenly in her awakening. It was perplexed. "What just happened?!" The woman's voice inquired in exclamation.

Barley looked at the red-headed thing at first. He was angry. "You hit me at my-" The blue burly elf added, trying to finish his sentence. Barley was astounded. "AAAH! Oh my GODS!" He shrieked.

The redhead woman looks bewildered at the blue burly elf at first. She blinked her eyes twice. The red-headed woman rotated her head. She sees two more odd things.

The redhead woman saw another blue elf and the winged beast.

She has her eyes widened. The red-headed woman was horror-struck. "Aaaaah!" She shrieks.

Ian and the Manticore are alarmed. "AAAAAAAAH-!" They cried out in fear.

The redhead woman cries in terror again. "Aaaaaaaaaaah-!" She waved her arms frantically.

Barley, Ian and the Manticore freaks out hectically. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-!" The threesome screams their heads off.

The red-headed woman breathes in and out scarcely. Then, she was baffled. "This is unexpected." The redhead woman comments in her utterance.

Barley, Ian and the Manticore are panting anxiously. Barley was the first to speak. He was confused. "You-you good now?" Barley wondered.

The woman in her dark blue dress nodded her head twice. She was unsure what's going on for a moment.

Things are going to be hectic.