The Guardians Of Zion

CHAPTER 5 - ACTION PACK

          ***Ryoll's Point of View***

Sweat dropped from my forehead as I continued to fight off the dogs around me. I could feel the heat of the flames from the earlier explosives overtaking the wilderness. The fog was fading and giving us better vision of our area, but we were not prepared to witness how great a challenge we had before us.

I looked over to see Zack shooting 2 and 3 arrows at a time trying to keep the packs at bay, but more dirt dogs had showed up that weren't there originally. On all the missions I had been on, I have never seen so many packs of dirt dogs at once. They were over crowding us.

Ryoll - "Zack, rush over here! Come on!"

I called out for him to join me so that we could watch each other's backs. We didn't have the luxury or experience fighting together  to be separated with such a massive enemy. I started throwing metallic darts at dogs in front of me while Zack continued to fire arrows aside from me and collecting them as he proceeded forward.

Zack - "I'm almost out of arrows! Do you have anything I could use to fight close with?"

Ryoll - "I'm not exactly sure if fighting close with these guys is what you want. Here, take my beam rifle. Give it two seconds after every shot to recharge."

Zack - "Thanks! I'll cover you!"

I rushed forward again to multiple faces of angry dogs. A flood of them had arrived. I pulled out my steel blade and began to slither around through the crowded beasts. Slashing limbs and heads off, countering poisonous bites as I continued to cut down whole sections of them.

Galiera - "Ahhhhh!!!"

SLASH!!!

Galiera fell from the sky. She came down with her fire blade in hand. She had an affinity with fire and could somehow create it or apply it to whatever she used. Either way, it was an awesome talent and a valuable gift. She joined me as we both glided through the masses, leaving blood and fur behind us in the fading fog of the dark forest.

We could see over our heads and to the side beams of light sniping out dogs attempting to catch us by surprise. Zack was doing his part fairly well. The dogs had got me and Galiera a few times with scratches and bites to our legs. The dirt dogs have poisonous venom in their mouths so if we got bit we could possibly have gotten poisoned.

Ryoll - "Galiera, there is too many of them! We have to retreat somehow."

Galiera - "I don't see an opening to escape. They have us surrounded now."

Zack was now up a tree trying to snipe as effective as he could, but the recharge speed of the rifle slowed him down from being effective enough. It was like every dirt dog in the entire area came to this one spot. Galiera and I were literally back to back with our blades out holding the dogs at a distance but not able to actually do anything at this point.

Ryoll - "Galiera, were gonna have to try to create an opening somehow. We can't see how far the dogs are because of the fog, but it's our only option..."

But then suddenly, a huge twirling gust of wind came and tore through the dogs. A white skeleton blade appeared from the gust, spinning at a high velocity, chopping multiple dogs in its path. Then Derxus appeared with another blade in hand while flipping in mid-air grabbing his other skeleton blade.

Derxus began elbowing and kneeing dirt dogs while stabbing and slashing all around him in a spinning motion. His elegant and fluid movement created small whirlwind twisters that snatched up dirt dogs, as well as other things, and left them airborne.

Derxus - "WHAT ARE YOU GUYS STARING AT???!!! GET YOUR BLADES OUT AND START FIGHTING!!! WE STILL HAVE A MISSION TO COMPLETE!"

Derxus was serious! We all gathered together and started slashing our way through the wall of wolves. Galiera gave Zack one of her blades so he could help as well.

Ryoll - "Look, they are falling back!"

The dogs were taking heavy damage and you could see that a huge majority of them were terrified by the affinity of Derxus. Many of them fled immediately, but some tried to stick around because their pride for the pack wouldn't allow them to just run.

But with one word Derxus ended all that remained.

Derxus - "Windwheel!"

An enormous cloud funneled down and engulfed all that was in its path. It spun at such a speed that we all had to drop to the ground an hold on to a tree trunk. Derxus stood there and orchestrated the movement of his wind demon twister! The monster he created swallowed all that was left of the dirt dogs that stood up to us. And as the twister began to return back into the clouds, and the wind and fog began to clear, several acres of trees and brush were gone. Nothing but a cleared open area was there.

Zack - "Wow."

Derxus - "Ok. Now let's finished the mission. Find the emblem and after that lets collect as many dirt dog carcasses as possible. We can sell the meat and the fur for extra merits. Move out."