World of Natura

Spring Trailer: Child of the Forest

It was a new morning within a small town in the realm of Lympha, a young woman gets all strapped into some light weight black and green armor. She finished up with a small headband that almost looked like a pair of ears around her short curly hair. Her poofy green tail swayed back and forth as she liked how cute she was before she turned back towards her weapons. They were a pair of curved sickles with a mixture of green and black within the blades.
With a smile on her face, she picked one up and loaded a magazine into the butt end of the sickles handle before putting it to her belt. Once fully armed and armored she opened her bedroom window, being on the second floor of the house. Before leaving she looked back at a note on her desk that started with 'To Dad'. She nodded before she lept out of the window and started to move through the nearby trees.
Thanks to her squirrel features, she is able to move with great ease through the trees, seeming to feel more comfortable there than on the ground. She laughs having a bunch of fun leaping, swinging, and running throughout the trees. As the squirrel girl continues forward, she draws her sickles and use them swing around a trees trunk before stopping on a branch.
"Haha I love my life." She laughs as she looks back at the forest she went through, knowing there was a decent distance between her and her home. "Let's see Spring, how much further will you go today?" Spring asks herself with her smile before she hears a scream in the distance, catching her attention. With curiosity gripping her mind, the squirrel girl rushes through the trees in the direction of the strange noises in her forest.
To Springs surprise it was a pack of Lupins were attacking a small caravan, destroying the vehicles with their large claws and teeth. Each one stood around eight to nine feet tall with black skin that had a subtle green tinge to it. Though the phobos scared Spring a bit, she knew she couldn't just leave what was left of the caravan to die. So with a few deep breaths, she tightly gripped her sickles, and lept from her perch.
She came down, landing on the back of one of the lupins before completely cutting off its head with her curved blades. After jumping off of it she watched as its now dead body began to fall apart and turn to ash and dust. Killing one of the lupins caught the attention of the rest of the pack, making them roar at her enraged. She aimed her sickles at them before beginning to fire bullets at their monstrous bodies.
"Get out of here!" She calls out to the survivors before she begins to flee, leading the lupins away. It was particularly difficult because the phobos were pretty fast and more of them seemed to appear from the trees around her. Spring then went up into the trees and used it to leap far from the growing pack, landing within a clearing in the forest.
"This seems good enough for right now." Her eyes looked about as the lupins seemed to begin to surround her, leaving few options for escape. "Alright Spring, you've been training for this, it's now or never." Three of the lupins lept at the young woman but she disappeared before they got her, making them look up as she was in midair. As she looks down at the monsters beneath her, she combines her sickles to create a large shuriken. With surprising skill and swiftness, she throws it down, its curved blades slicing five lupins in half before it flew back.
With her weapon back in hand she lands on the ground before doing a serious of flips and jumps, spinning her shuriken around and slicing any enemies that come into range. Every slash would remove the lupins limbs, making them howl out in pain before she either cuts them in half or decapitates them. Her spins and jumps made it difficult for the rabid lupins to land a hit on her, but leaves them wide open for her shurikens blades.
'That's it Spring, just keep moving, don't allow them to hit you.' Her thoughts echo through her head before she feels something grabs her tail. She looks back in horror as an even larger lupin has a tight grip of her bushy tail before slamming her into the ground, throwing her with tremendous force across the clearing and into a tree. The double heavy impacts knocked the wind right out of her body, sending a seering pain up her back. Her vision is blurry and she coughs hard as she weakly looks up at the pack and their alpha begin to close the distance between themselves and their target.
'I-I can't allow this. I can't die here. Not like this.' Spring thinks to herself before she grabs her shuriken, using the tree trunk to help her get back to her feet. 'I need to get back to my father and sister. I need to prove to everyone that I can be a sentinel.' Her eyes start to glow an emerald green with her hand tightly gripping her weapons handle.
"I have had enough of all of you!" She cries out at the phobos around her before she crouches down with her shuriken held behind her. "This ends... now!" With a green blur, Spring moves with such blinding speeds that the lupins almost seemed to be moving in slow motion in her eyes. Her blades going through the air and slicing the lupins to bits, before she stops on the otherside of the clearing. All of the phobos aren't even able to react to her before they turn to ash.
After she turned her head towards her enemies to see them disappear, her eyes widened a bit to see the alpha still standing. She could have sworn she cut him in half like the others but all there was, was a green gash in its side. It turned to Spring and roared at her in anger before charging at her with its own set of impressive speeds. She breathed, her eyes continuing to glow green and ran towards it as well. Spring jumped into the air and began to pull the triggers on her shuriken, beginning to become a large sawblade.
The two clashed against one another, but because of her super fast spinning blades, she was able to cut right through the alphas body armor. This made the hulking beast collapse with both halves of its body separating and falling apart before turning to ash. Her eyes turn back to normal before she drops to one knee, feeling highly fatigued from using her animus to such a degree.
'You may be big and you may be strong, but against me, you minus well shouldn't be moving.' A small proud smile spreads across her face for being able to win her first fight against something like the phobos. 'Well... my family is going to flip from this story.' She chuckles before collapsing and separating her sickles, returning them to her belt. Her weak legs start to head back towards the caravan, just to see all the people who had gotten killed before she got there.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry for not getting here fast enough." She wipes away some of her tears before seeing some dragonfly ships heading her way. "Rest in peace." Spring bows to them before she used what little strength she had left to start heading back home. With the speed she had before the fight she was able to get to that part of the forest in less than a half hour. Unfortunately it took her almost two hours to get back.
"Dad! I'm home!"
"What happened?!" Her father came rushing to her, clearly worried to not only why it took her so long to get back but also from the bits of damage she had received.
"Sorry dad, I wasn't going to be out long honest, but um..."
"You heard someone in trouble, didn't you?"
"Maybe." Her answer made her father sigh as he rubbed his eyes in response.
"What happened?"
"Um weeeell." Spring sounded like a tobbler trying to keep a secret but was clearly failing when it came to hiding it. "There may have been a pack of lupins." This piece of information seemed to absolutely break something inside of her father because he freaked out from hearing his youngest child fighting a pack of phobos by herself.
"You fought a pack of lupins?!"
"Uh um... yes? They were hurting people so I couldn't just leave them."
"You could've been killed Spring! And then what would I have done? I'd be worried and then heart broken that you were gone." She just lowered her head as she listened to her fathers words, with her bushy tail lowered with its tip on the floor. "Sigh, but I know no matter what I'll say that you will do this sort of thing again. You are so much like your sister and mother, you truly are."
"Th-thank you dad."
"When you go to the academy, no matter whether you are on the same team as your sister, depend on her. She is very strong and has always watched over you. Promise me that you two will continue to look after one another, okay?"
"I promise, and trust me, I'm certain Yin will give me an earful." She said with a smile as she knew how protective Yin could be.
"As she should. Come on, you must be hungry. How does chocolate chip pancakes sound?" This question seemed to send waves of excitement throughout her exhausted body.