New Life Online Fanfiction: Gun Meets Sword

Chapter 4: The Reaper

I stood back up, this time being careful and dodging the next attack with a roll. I then jumped up, and charged back.

"OVERHEAD SLASH!" I jumped into the air and slashed down, she prepared to dodge, but then I faked out and threw my shield in the direction she was moving. It hit her in the face, and she fell to the ground. "Ting! Throwing weapons mastery learned! Fake-out mastery learned!" She jumped back up quickly, and I pulled out my gun and shot. This time she side-stepped to the left and the bullet wizzed past her head. I shot two more times and they all ended in misses. She then charged and slashed sideways.

"..." This time, I was used to her attacks and barely dodged, but then she landed a combo move.

"..." She then slashed downward and hit me in the head.

"..." She then stabbed me in the gut and pinned me to the ground. I pointed my gun and shot her away from me. She stumbled back, and then I charged with my sword and shield. The side of my shield bashed into her head, causing disorientation and then I slashed downwards upon her head.

"OVERHEAD SLASH!" She fell to the ground, but then rolled to the side and avoided my sword slash.

"..." She reached for her belt and threw a tomohawk into my side. I pulled it out and looked back up. She was gone again. I turned around, and surely enough she was behind me. I stepped back as she slashed and missed. She slashed many more times but missed.

"..." She then stopped for a second and pointed her sword at the sky. She looked directly at me, her eyes glaring at me from inside her hood.

"..." She sheathed her sword and drew twin Tomohawks. She howled at the moon- wait, moon? No doubt about it. It turned night time. She must be using her monster soul! She charged with less speed, but more fury. The little axes in her hand striking with the force of werewolf teeth and claws.

"!!!" She kept throwing attack after attack. I dodged most of them, mainly cause my health is low and I couldn't risk attacking and getting hit. But I can't find an opening! Finally, she threw one of the tomohawks she was holding, and it hit my shoulder. I fell to the ground, but couldn't get up because my arm hurt so bad. She jumped on top of me and started slashing with the tomohawks over and over again. I tried my best to block with my arms, but the attacks were too furious. My health was draining so fast! 23%.....19%........17%.....13%. I felt woozy from the blood loss. I would die here. I then remembered.

"CRYSTAL SHIELD!" I turned my arm into strong crystals and blocked the next attack, causing her body to recoil back. I then turned my other arm into a crystal sword and stabbed her in the gut.

"RAPID SHOTS!" I shot crystals out of my other arm to launch her away from me. She was knocked back far, and I could tell she was hurt. 

"SNIPE SHOT!" I then ended it by throwing one large crystal into her chest. It went into her and impaled her into a tree. She was now stuck hanging in a tree. How could she still be alive? She looked up slowly, and painfully. Her monster soul weakened. Blood was covering most of her body. I returned my arms to normal and retrieved my weapons from the ground. I pointed my pistol at her face, ready to end this. But then, she coughed more blood, as her arm slowly raised a white cloth. She surrendered.

I called the crystal back into my body and let her fall off the tree. I then holstered my pistol and watched her to make sure she wouldn't try a surprise attack. She looked up at me, and looked away. And then started to stand up to limp away. I then remembered something. Red hood....didn't talk....werewolf soul stone...MAISIE!

"Are you.....Maisie? The one from the tournament?" She looked back at me, and slowly nodded. "So I guess that explains a lot. So I guess you attacked me because this is your territory. And the reason you go after wolves is so you could get a giant wolf soul stone." She once again nodded. "Well, I guess I'll leave then. It was a great battle. Goodbye." She waved goodbye and I walked out of the forest.

Maisie was a person from the player battle tournament a few years ago. She got third place even. Her nickname is the reaper. Not like Scythus, because she just hates wolves. She is also incredibly territorial of her hunting grounds, so I guess I was intruding. Well, anyways, I went on. I healed myself up and used a lot of my food and mana. 

I eventually got back to town and bought more ammo. I then tried something. I used my crystal growing powers to make valuable crystals which I traded for money and ammo. This soul stone is so broken! I then went to the tavern to see some old friends. Sure enough, my roomate and his girlfriend showed up. 

My roomate's name is Denis. Both in real life and in-game. His girlfriend's name is Awakenedevil. Denis is a battlemage who wields dual rapiers and uses magic to boost his powers in physical combat, but he does have a few offensive spells too. His soul stone is a baby phoenix which is an incredibly rare boss that is hard to find and kill. Don't tell me how he got it.

Awakenedevil has sorta a goth personality which is quite fitting for her soul stone. She doesn't have many spells, preferring to rely on physical prowess. She is a tank with a lot of health and a giant spiked ball and chain as a weapon. Her soul stone is a zombie king, which gives her a damage reduction when receiving slashing and piercing weapons and makes her immune to dark magic. In-game, she actually looks pretty scary. She's an example of a high-charisma that is intimidating instead of good-looking. We normally travel together, but Denis had work at the time I went after my soul stone and awakened evil wouldn't go on without him. So usually I'm by myself. 

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