claymore

chapter 2

2 years later

teresa

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i walked away from the town that i had just cleaned of a yoma infestation, i was walking on one of the dirt roads that led to my next destination. i had just recieved new orders from Beral to head to the town of the southern lands, i would most likely reach it in 2 days at the least.

2 days later

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i had just reached the town, and i could already feel the presence of seven yoma, i saw my chance and took it, CHOP, thud, the first yomas head rolled on the ground in front of me, still in it's human form, the screams around me told me that the civilians hadn't known that he was a yoma, well thats typical, i went forth, all you could hear was, CHOP, thud, scream, CHOP, thud, scream, and so on. until i had killed six yoma. ''hmm, how careless of me" i said out loud, all the screams stopped and the humans all looked at me with fear in their eyes. "well, lets count shall we, how many of them have i killed, 1...2...3...4...5...6" i started counting all of the bodies, "thats strange, i was certain that there was 7 yoma here, i wonder were the last one could be" i said in a playful voice, i already knew where the yoma was, but i was having to much fun with the game i was playing. i looked around the crowd that had gathered, all of them cowering back when i looked their way, then, WHOOSH, i was now standing behind the last yoma, "trying to hide behind a child are you, well, i guess that didn't work out how you planned" and when i finished saying that, the yoma fell in two pieces, i had cut it right in the middle, one side falling opposite to each other, with blood spilling out from the clean slice.

i then heard a sudden scream and looked back to the other yoma that i had killed, "ther-there.........YOMA!!!" one of the town girls screamed, the yoma that i had killed now had there true faces and bodies, the faces of seven dead yoma laid on the ground lifeless. i then started to walk towards the town border, but was stopped by the slight pull of my arm, i stopped and looked down, the girl that the yoma was using as protection was now holding onto my arm. "what" i said harshly, not liking the touch of a human. she grabbed my hand and put something in it, then closed it and walked out of the town gate, i looked down and saw that she had left a stone in my hand, the stone had some kind of symbol on it, i really wanted to chuck it on the ground, but for some reason i was compelled to keep it.

5 years later

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i was called in for an awakened being hunt. awakened beings were claymores that had reached their yoki limits, they did not transform into yoma, as most of the lower rank warriors have heard happens, but they transform into fearsome beings, monsters worse than yoma. these kind of missions were always done in groups of up to four claymores. i was the fourth one to be there. in the group that was here already, was number 6 -Miria- ,number 15 -Deneva-, number 22 -Hellen-, and me, number 1 -Teresa-. the next number arrived about 2 minutes after me, and Hellen was very aggravated and yelled at her for being late, even though she didn't yell at me for being late, that was probably because i was number 1 though. the last number to arrive was number 47 -Clare-, the lowest ranking warrior.

even if we did have the weakest fighter with us, it was strange that they sent 5 people to take out an awakened being. "well, now that were all here, lets get started" number 6, Miria said. "we have all been gathered to kill 3 awakened beings, that is why there are five of us. they would of sent more, but since we have number one, teresa, here, they thought that we could manage." she stated, she started briefing us on the mission, but i found that throughout that time, i kept glancing at number 47, Clare, it seemed that she knew that i was looking at her, because she looked at me a couple of times, the rest of the time she just ignored me. we stayed in the town for the night. it was a bit difficult finding a room, since humans were afraid of us. we soon found an inn that let us stay, but the thing was, there was only 1 bed, and five of us. we decided that the highest numbers would get the bed. but i passed my position onto hellen. now numbers 6, 15 and 22 -Miria, Deneva and Hellen- were on the bed, while myself and Clare had the floor. we stabbed our swords through the floor boards and leaned on them, this was how we claymores usually had to sleep, since we usually had to camp out.

it was the middle of the night when i sensed that someone was getting up, i opened my eyes a little and saw that clare was now jumping out the window. the other 3 were still asleep when i left, going after clare. i found her going into the forest that surrounded the town, i was following after her when i felt the presence of yoma, there were atleast 9 or 10 of them. i took one step and all of the yoma's yoki had dissapeared. i ran to were i felt they were before.

it was a blood bath, all of the yoma were dead, and in the middle of all the blood and bodies, was number 47, Clare.

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