𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 || 𝐙𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐱 𝐅! 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

𝐂𝟏𝟑

➨You're pretty sure you screamed.

Or maybe you didn't, because you didn't hear anything. Just the sound of your thoughts racing and merging together into a jumbled mess that made no sense. Your heart was pounding too loudly in your ears.

You felt sick.

A few seconds ago you were in pain from just being skewered by his attack, but now that pain is irrelvent to you. You looked down at your hands, and there was his blood staining your skin. Even further, it was splattered across your cape.

That attack should never do any damage. It never has, because it's all in the head. Or at least that's what you gathered from your grimoire. Wherever you strike, is where your opponent will feel pain, and see it for a small period of time. Nothing actually happens.

Stepping back, you backed into the wall of the fissure he had opened up. You took deep breaths trying to figure out what to do. Are you supposed to tell someone what happened?

Maybe. Or perhaps that'll put more accusations on your head. Nozel was the only captain around at the moment, and after earlier, you really didn't want to tell him something like this. Especially since you just decaptiated one of the members of his squad.

What you needed to do was get the hell out of that hole.

You brought Aegis down with you, he landed with a heavy thud right behind you. Carefully he lifted you up as far as he could, just high enough for you to reach the ledge and pull yourself up. With one good arm, it made the movement even more difficult.

"Wow, what the hell happened to you?" Zora's voice came from one of the hallways. He pushed over what appeared to be a part of the ceiling that had fallen and made his way over. Behind him, was that servant from earlier.

You couldn't even find the right words to say, and he wasn't someone that you wanted to tell that you killed a man. Instead, you just rolled over onto your back and shut your eyes. Trying to ignore the image of the severed head in the darkness.

The ground was shaking and you opened your eyes again, the power levels increased. There was a battle happening somewhere not far away. At this rate, you didn't even want to engage and see who it was or what was going on.

"Puppeteer." He calls you again, standing over you now. "You're bleeding all over their nice carpets."

Like he would care about that. You pushed yourself to a seated position and looked up at him. "I'll live."

He twisted his head to the scared young man that he chased down. "Aren't you a healer?"

The servant stiffened up and quickly nodded. "I am! Sorry, I should've gotten on that a lot sooner, miss." He came over and bent down next to you, lifting his hand up to your shoulder. A faint blue glow surrounded his body and he used bubble magic, as he called it.

While he did that Zora scoped out the area avoiding the giant crater in the ground. "Where's the guy you were fighting?"

"He ran." You hopefully didn't say it too quickly. "I had him cornered, he took the cowardly way out."

That healing magic was doing wonders on you. The pain wasn't nearly as bad, and actually was nearly gone now. However, you were still bleeding and there was a gash in your shoulder. It just didn't hurt.

You watched him carefully, and just when he was about to get too close to where the accidental murder scene took place, you reached your working arm forward. A string appeared on his right arm and you pulled him backwards immediately.