[Original] The Alchemist of Rozarre [Novel-Length] [Complete!]

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

The chimera advanced. Viola took out a syringe while Roselle got out her rapier. Cerise took out her wand, ready to fight. She won't be stuck here helpless and not contributing anything! She finally found her courage after encountering the Kraken and found it was possible to do something with her own agency and power, and she would defeat this chimera as well.

"Don't worry, Roselle," Cerise said while she stood in front of Roselle and Viola, much to the other's surprise. "I'll be the one to protect you. I think that...after fighting the Kraken, I've found out something about myself. That I can do something, that I'm capable. So now, Roselle it is your turn to watch my back!"

"What're you going to do, Cerise?" Roselle asked while Cerise tried to walk towards the chimera and tame it. "Cerise, no! It's...twisted beyond help! There's no way that you can resolve this peacefully! These chimeras are our enemies!"

"There's got to be some way to help tame it instead of mindlessly attacking it," Cerise said. "Just watch, Roselle. Remember when you got into a fight with a dragon that was merely protecting her egg? If I can figure out what this thing wants, then maybe it will go away and not attack us."

"Please, Cerise now is not the time for your humanitarian nature!" Roselle said. "Faust sent it after us, I think."

"Please, listen to me, Roselle," Cerise said with pleading eyes and Roselle looked reluctant. "If I can just get a connection with it like I did with the dragon..."

"Don't do it, Cerise!" Roselle cried, though Cerise ignored her warnings and attempted to sense the chimera's energies and what it's mood was.

Unfortunately, there was nothing but twisted and morbid thoughts inside the Chimera's mind; nothing but bloodshed and the lust for the hunt, it's prey was in front of it, it wanted to dig its teeth in its prey and rip out the jugular...

Cerise gasped, and before she knew it, the lupine Chimera was on Roselle before she knew it.

Roselle screamed. The lupine creature bit into her leg with steel vice jaws. If it weren't for Viola's intervention, which was to swipe at the creature's head with her sword, Roselle might've lost a leg. Cerise stood there, numbed, suddenly feeling a deep despair wash over her. This was her fault, she knew, and Roselle paid the price.

Out of the battle and Viola tending to Roselle's leg, Cerise decided that she would use her magic to blast at the creature for hurting Roselle. However, when she tried to concentrate her magic, she could only think of bloodlust and the hunt, of sinking her jaws into her prey's leg and—

Dark energies started to swirl around her. Cerise let out a cry, becoming corrupted from the magic that was now a foci inside her wand. She released powerful, destructive magic that defeated the chimera, but left her senseless with blind rage and bloodlust. She started to blast at the lupine creature's body with several blasts of destructive magic until none of it was left; and when Cerise came to her senses, she saw that Roselle's eyes were widened.

Roselle was afraid of her.

Cerise swallowed. It was her fault, and she didn't know how to explain herself. Something overcame her, and she couldn't help herself, and she wanted to make sure that the creature that hurt her beloved Roselle was dead...

'Well," Cerise said, trying to soothe over the fear that Roselle displayed towards her. "It's defeated, isn't it?"

"Cerise," Roselle said faintly. "Are you sure that you're well?"

"Oh yeah!" Cerise said, putting on a smile towards Roselle. "Just fine. Perfect. I mean, I should be asking you that question. How's your leg, Roselle?"