Penumbral

Chapter 25: Lost Memories

Rosaria peacefully ate dinner, and a few minutes later after bathing herself she read a book, the sounds of trees being broken alerted the Scaleborn but before she could do anything a massive grey tail smashed through the walls and threw her against a tree, she shook her head and summoned her armor and scythe, Rosaria looked up to see her assailant and tried to recover from the shock, she looked back at her home and gritted her teeth.

A colossal grey skinned creature stared down the Scaleborn with its singular dreadful red eye, its great white horns brushed against the canopy, its hooves crushed Rosaria's home, the Seles took flight to face the creature as it used one of its massive four arms to pick up a wall from the broken house, Rosaria narrowly dodged the piece of rubble throw at her and the creature opened its snouted mouth full of crooked teeth and let out an earth shattering roar the noise was so strong it pushed the Scaleborn into ground.

Rosaria shook her head, death took over her mind and she shouted in pure anger, the Scaleborn extended her scythe behind her and flew at the monster, with precision and speed she dodged each swipe and punch, reaching the beast's head she dug her scythe at the base of its horn and pulled it out violently, a chunk of bloody bone flew out and the Scaleborn continued her violent onslaught, but during her blind rage the creature grabbed her with one hand and threw her against the ground then used its roar to dig her further into the dirt.

The Seles dug herself out of the dirt, fought against the roar and roared back, in the blink of an eye she was behind the creature's ankle and had already tore out a chunk of it with a strong slash, the monster was forced to kneel yet even in a weak moment it punched Rosaria away, the Scaleborn quickly regained her composure and rushed back into the fight, her scythe grew multiple times its usual size and she locked the blade on the left lower arm of the creature, with a bloodlusted roar she violently ripped off the beast's arm, the creature growled in pain and swatted Rosaria with its remaining left arm.

Aurora saw the scene, summoned her armor and weapon and dived from the canopy spear raised, aiming for the beast's eye, despite its size the monster was fast and put up one of its hands to block the stab, it almost caught the Demi-Human but she was fast enough to avoid its palm closing, Kalige and Tuinn arrived seconds later and saw the colossal creature trying to hit the Scaleborn duo, the Telfan let out a heavy breath and started pulling the flow from around her to create a massive sphere of fire, the Darkan rushed to the creature's ankles, dug her blade deeply into one of them and began sawing off all the meat she could.

The young Seles backs away from the fight and begins forming a large sharp pillar, her mother looks at her daughter and smiles, the Scaleborn dodges a swipe from the monster and rushes to its chest, with the palm of her hand she touches the creature and highlights the middle of its chest using a translucent light, the beast grabs Rosaria and throws her against the ground but she is caught by Kalige which smiles and lets go of the Scaleborn.

The creature tries to stand up but both its ankles give away and it falls backwards, Aurora had finished building her massive weapon and plunged it into the spot her mother marked, the weapon fades and a large open hole now stood in the creature's chest, its heart was still beating, thunder could be heard echoing through the trees.

-Everyone get back!- Tuinn shouted, the massive orb of fire she held compressed into a small ball and the Telfan rushed to the downed monster.

-Here Aurora! Come here and follow my lead!- Kalige commanded and formed a shadow wall facing the monster.

Aurora sloppilly landed land beside the Darkan alongside her mother and the two form walls of solid light, Tuinn dodges the downed creatures attacks with grace, she jumps a sweep from the beast's arm and plunges her flaming arm that held the fireball into its heart, a large fire explosion engulfed the area in tandem with a thunder strike, the light from the fire fades and rain pours down, the Telfan fell into the ashes of the monster with heavy breaths.