"BANG BANG BANG!"
"STOP MOVING!"
"BANG BANG!"
"AUGH!"
"BANG click click click..." Jade cursed, captchaloging her gun and checking her Pistol Kind Bullet Card. Empty. Cursing again, she glanced up, hoping the beast didn't notice her lack of a weapon...
It noticed. It was barrelling toward her at full speed, its teeth bared. Once it was in range, it pounced. Panicking, she stepped backward, catching her foot on a root, twisting it, and plummeting to the ground. The beast flew over her, its claws just barely grazing her face as she fell, and slammed into a rock, its head making a loud crunching noise. Jade didn't hesitate, and quickly stood. Pain shot through her foot, and she almost collapsed, balancing herself on the tree beside her. A small trickle of blood dripped down her cheek. The beast behind her groaned, and backed up a few inches, shaking its head left and right. Jade glanced over her shoulder, and began to hobble away, trying to get some distance between her and the beast.
If I only get far enough... a little further... a little further... She kept hobbling, and finally, deciding she was far enough away, pulled out her rifle. she whipped around, expecting to see the beast 30 feet away, just as she had calculated. Far enough for her to snipe without it clawing her. She could survive if-
The beast was 10 feet away, and closing in, it's white teeth bared, its claws tinged with the green of her blood. Whatever reserves of adrenaline she had left released into her bloodstream. She hefted the rifle up to her shoulder, and, without wasting time aiming, shot. The bullet hit its target, and the creature let out an ear splitting screech, standing on its back legs, and swinging its arms through the air. She pulled out another bullet from her Rifle Kind Bullet Card, and began to clumsily reload her gun, her fingers shaking. The bullet fell through her fingers, tumbling to the ground, bouncing away. She stared at it for a millisecond, cursed, and tried to pull out another bullet.
Empty.
"FUCK!" she cursed.
"SHUUUUUUUUUUOOOOAAHHH!" the beast responded. She looked up, face pale, and flipped her rifle over, now holding it like a club, and waited. She didn't have to wait long for the beast to recover, as the shot grazed its shoulder. It stared down at her, deep brown blood soaking its white fur, crazed eyes threatening death. It swung its paw at her, the paw flying through the air like a wrecking ball. She held the rifle like a bat, and twisted her feet, cringing at the pain, swinging the rifle through the air in retaliation. It slammed into the creature's paw, but bounced off painlessly. The paw kept coming, bashing into her side, and sending her flying. She hit a tree, her head snapping back, and then fell to the floor below her. Unable to move, unable to breath, she lay there, paralyzed, letting her eyesight slowly go green as the creature bounded toward her. It was so white.
Why were wild Lusus' always white? So you could see how little damage you did before it claws you to death?
She only had a few more moments to stare at the white of the lusus as it charged. It was feet from her, taking its sweet time now that she wasn't moving. It seemed to smile at her, its nose twitching. Her eyesight slowly faded from green to black as the lusus whipped its head to the left. The last thing she saw was purple. The last thing she heard was a quiet Crunch. Was it quiet? Or was it just her inability to hear?
She didn't know. Maybe it was the sound of her own skull being crushed. Maybe she's dead now. She played with those thoughts for the last few moments of her consciousness, and then it all slipped away.