I initially planned to put the entire Cheagle Woods thing into one chapter. Obviously that was not going to work.

I would love to thank my lovely editor, Carrot, who took her time out of trouble to go and read this over.

Without further adieu! Chapter 3!

Chapter 3: Cheagle Chase

"Hey, are you okay?" Luke asked Ion. Both Ion and I were on the ground by the time Luke and Tear caught up to us. Ion was on his knees panting heavily, while I was kneeling right beside him with one hand on his back.

"I-I'm fine." He responded in between his panting. "I just used a powerful Daathic arte…" Tear held out her hand so that Ion can take hold of it and helped him up. I made sure that he wasn't falling by holding out my hands near him; when he was standing up perfectly fine, I lowered my arms.

"Are you okay?" Tear asked me as she held out her hand so that she can help me up as well. I just nodded and took her hand gratefully as she helped me up. I started to brush the grass from my legs when Ion looked at Luke and Tear.

"Oh, you two were from Engeve yesterday." Ion was looking back and forth between Luke and Tear.

"I'm Luke," Luke introduced himself as he inched closer to Ion. He folded his arms when he said that. From where I was, he looked like he was more concerned with Ion's health.

Huh…so he does have a nice side with that arrogance.

Ion turned towards Luke with a smile. "Luke…that means 'light of the sacred flame' in Ancient Ispanian. That's a nice name." Luke blushed and turned his head away. I couldn't help but giggle a little bit at his expression.

"I'm Locrian Sergeant Tear Grants," Tear said with one hand on her bosom. She expressed a kind smile towards Ion. "First Platoon, Oracle Knights Intelligence Division, under Grand Maestro Moh's command."

"Ah, you're Van's younger sister," Ion noted as he turned to Tear, and smiled at her like he had at Luke. "I've heard of you. This is the first time we have met, isn't it?"

"You're Master Van's sister?" he asked completely shocked, his jaw was completely open as if someone had suddenly winded him. "Then what was with you trying to kill him?"

"Kill him…?" Ion asked in confusion.

Tear shook her head, not wanting to reveal anything. "Sorry, it's nothing. Just something between us."

"Don't try to avoid the question!" Luke shouted.

"It's…I…" Tear looked to her left sheepishly as she attempted to give an explanation.

"Hey, if she doesn't want to say why then don't interrogate her any further." I pinned Luke with a glare. He immediately backed off with a grunt and crossed his arms. Wow. I never thought that that would work on him. I sighed and took a step back. "You both may know me as Lieutenant Colonel Anh, but just call me Anh. I dislike the status that was given to me."

Luke raised an eyebrow at my last sentence. "What do you mean by that…?"

I sighed. I knew this was coming sooner or later. "Well, thing is…" There was a rusting noise behind me and I turned around to see what was there. I saw a cheagle pop its head up from behind a tree root, and then hide itself when all four of us stared at it. It then poked its head out again curiously and stared at us in turn.

The cheagle had yellow fur and big blue eyes. Its face was covered in white fur and from where we were, it looked like it has a small patch of white fur somewhere near its bottom. It has large ears that looked a bit too big for its size, and at the end of the ears it had spiky, yet puffy looking white fur. The cheagle had small forepaws and paws which indicate that it was likely a pretty fast runner. The look on its eyes was way too adorable.

I immediately squealed. "Kyaaa~! It's soo cute~!"

"What the…? What's wrong with you?" Luke demanded, covering his left ear since I was close to him. I pointed towards the cheagle and Luke sighed since I apparently misunderstood his question.

"It's a cheagle!" Ion identified the creature. I jumped up and down like a little kid with my hands near my chest.

"It's so cute~!" I repeated.

"You seriously have some issues, woman," Luke growled. I immediately stopped acting like a child and rolled my eyes at Luke. Tear had a blush on her face and she was covering her mouth with her gloved hand.

Maybe she's covering her mouth so that she won't admit how cute it was out loud.

Luke turned his attention back to the cheagle that was already running away. "So, they do live here! Come on! We're going to catch it!" Luke dashed right after the cheagle. I stared at him in pure shock.

"Don't do that!" I cried, picking up my weapon, stashed it into its pocket and ran after him. Ion and Tear didn't follow since they seemed to be discussing something. "You'll scare it even more!"

"I don't need to do that!" He shouted back at me. "Cause you're one doing that!"

"You're the one chasing it!" I snapped at him. Luke suddenly stopped and I had to run to the side so that I didn't bump into him. Instead, I lost my balance and fell on my butt. I winced in pain as I rubbed it. "Why did you stop?"

Luke responded with a grunt before he turned around. I looked back to see who he was staring at. At the bottom of the hill, Tear and Ion were still discussing about something. Neither of us could hear what both were talking about since we're at the top of the hill.

"Those two are going to slow us down…" Luke muttered before taking a deep breath. "Hey! It's going to get away!"

I winced as I covered both of my ears. Well…now we're even. I screamed in your ear, you screamed in mine. I sighed. Why did he spend time to tell Tear and Ion that it's going to get away? I watched Tear and Ion exchange a few more words before catching up with us.

Luke was tapping his foot on the ground impatiently when Tear and Ion caught up with us. Once we had regrouped, we continued our way to find the cheagles. The only slight difference here was that Luke was walking much faster than any of us. We just made our way up another hill before Luke looked hastily around in search of the cheagle we met before.

"Argh!" Luke shouted in frustration as he ruffled his hair. He looked past me at Tear and Ion who was taking their time catching up to us. "You see? It got away! Could you two be any slower?"

"Don't take your anger out on them for something you decided to do!" I shouted at him for barking at Tear and Ion. "Besides! If you wanted to catch that cheagle, you should have just run after it instead of telling Tear and Ion to hurry up!"

"Please calm down, the both of you!" Ion begged. He pointed to the path up ahead of us with his staff. Both Luke and I looked over our shoulders to see the direction Ion was pointing to. It was nothing but a straight path. "The nesting ground should be up ahead."

"You seem to know a lot about them," Luke commented, looking back at Ion.

"Oh, um…Actually, I was curious about the thefts in Engeve and did a little looking." Ion said. "Cheagles are intelligent and peaceful creatures. It's not like them to steal food."

Luke paused for a bit before sighing. "Well, looks like we're both headed to the same place."

Ion's brow furrowed in confusion. He looked between Luke and Tear. I would be shocked too since neither of them have much of a reason to go see the chealges. Besides catching them that is. "The two of you came here to investigate the cheagles, too?"

"I'm not gonna just let people accuse me of things I didn't do," Luke said to Ion with his arms crossed. "And you're coming with us."

"What about me?" I asked pointing to myself. Luke cast a side-glance in my direction.

"You can just leave."

"WHAT?"

"Please let her come along," Ion pleaded to Luke. "It would cause a lot of trouble is she leaves now."

Yes, Luke. It would cause me a great deal of trouble. Anise would whine about Ion's safety and both Jade and Anise would drag my ass back here if I went back to them without Ion. And he's not planning to leave any time soon.

Luke hesitated as he thought about it. "Fine, she comes along too. But only because Ion said so."

Tear frowned as she crossed her arms. "How can you think of taking Fon Master Ion somewhere so dangerous?"

"Then what do you want to do with him?" Luke snapped at Tear. "He'll just come wandering back here on his own."

I sighed. I totally agree with you, Luke. Ion would wander back here regardless.

"…I'm sorry," Ion apologized. He looked down on the ground. He cast his gaze back up at Luke. "I just have to know. Cheagles are the sacred beasts of our Order, after all."

"See?" Luke huffed. He opened his palm and directed it to Ion that told Tear to have a really good look at Ion. "Besides, we can't just leave a guy with a face so pale he looks like he's about to die with a person that can barely protect him."

I take that as an insult even though it's true. "Hey…!"

"Oh! Thank you so much, Luke!" Ion exclaimed happily as Tear realized his point. "You are so nice."

"N-No I'm not!" Luke protested. He turned around so that no one can see the blush on his face, though it was already too late. He turned around once more when it was gone. "Oh and don't use that weird arte again. You damn near passed out. We'll take care of the fighting."

Ion's face brightened. "You're going to protect me? Sir Luke, I'm so moved!"

I threw my palm towards my face with a mental groan. Ion…Don't get the wrong idea…

I lifted my face up to get a good look at Luke's face. There was a bright hue on Luke's cheeks. Again. Once more, he looked away from Ion to hide the little blush on his face. I resisted the urge to laugh at him. "T-That's not what I meant! You'll just get in the way! Don't get all worked up about it!" Luke turned back to Ion, this time without the hue. "And it's just 'Luke', got it?"

"Okay Luke," Ion replied happily.

"And you," Luke looked at my direction. "You can't even fight! You'll also get in the way. Try to be more useful and protect Ion like your suppose to do. Now let's go!"

"Easier said than done," I muttered. I looked ahead of me to see Luke already went ahead of us once more. This time, it's at a much slower pace, but we were still lagging behind.

"What are you guys doing?" he bellowed from that distance. "Hurry up!"

Tear and I sighed as we try to keep up with Luke's speed. Ion soon followed us, but he was keeping up to our pace instead of keeping up to Luke's. It seemed that Ion doesn't mind the pace we were at even though all of us were trying to catch up to Luke.

It wasn't until we walked a bit further that we ran into a monster. It looked like the shell of a snail but it was flying and had tentacles coming out of the hole from the bottom. And…there were two of them. Not too far away from the snail monsters, there was a wolf. Since I was near Luke, he was the first person I held onto. I pointed at the monster a bit afraid. Heck, I even let out a small high pitched whimper.

"M-M-" I stuttered as I yanked Luke's sleeve. Luke cursed a little bit, losing his footing.

"What?" he barked at me. Then followed my point and saw the monster.

"M-MONSTER!" I shrieked before running to pull Ion away from the monster that was in front of us leaving Luke and Tear to battle them. We quickly distance ourselves from the battle in case the wolf might decide to come after us instead of Luke or Tear.

Luke pulled out his sword to fight the monsters head on while Tear had already run past us to support Luke. They already go into battle formation: Luke in the front and Tear in the back. Luke quickly dispatched the first snail monster with a few slashes. It fell to the ground in pieces as the next one flew right up to Luke after the first one fell. The snail monster managed to slash Luke's arm before Tear finished singing her fonic hymn which stunned it for a while before Luke finished it off. The wolf had already joined the battle and attacked Luke before he swung his sword down on the snail monster. Luke fell back as both the snail and the wolf ganged up on him.

Tear ran to Luke's side and attacked the snail that was already weakened by her. Luke was fighting off the wolf with his arm. Fortunately for him, the wolf bit his right arm leaving his sword arm free. Luke cursed loudly before thrusting the sword into the wolf's head, killing it instantly.

I relaxed as Luke sheathed his sword. His arm was dripping with blood from the bite but Tear healed it with First Aid. Ion and I approached them when Tear gestured us to come over.

Luke frowned and looked at me. "You sure don't act like a Lieutenant Colonel."

I snorted. And he just noticed this now? "I lack battle experience! I'm a rookie that never wanted to be Lieutenant Colonel in the first place!"

"Then why are you one?"

"My case is special!"

Luke opened his mouth but then Tear gave him a look that says that he shouldn't go any further. Ion pointed to the path to our left. "We should move on in case more monsters show up."

"There's more?" I whimpered. This is so not like the game where it's just one group of monsters at a time. Since it's more like a fictional reality, the monsters shows up when they want to show up. I nearly wanted to crawl up a tree or hide in a bush and wait for them to finish their search but who knows what's lurking there!

"Enough of that attitude," Luke demanded. "Let's move on."

I stayed closer to the back of the group since I don't want to be the first to catch sight of a monster. Luckily for us, there wasn't much. Most of the monsters we ran into were by themselves, so they were taken down really quickly.

We saw another cheagle up ahead. This time, it was pink instead of yellow. And it looked smaller than the one we encountered before. Unlike the yellow one we encountered near the entrance of the Cheagle Woods, this one doesn't have a patch of white fur on its bottom.

Huh…so some cheagles have white bottoms while others don't. Interesting.

"So that's a cheagle?" he asked as the cheagle mewed at us.

"It looks like it's still a child." Ion stated.

I nodded. From the sound of it, that was the most likely conclusion.

"It's so cute~!" I commented. Tear started to approach the baby cheagle and I followed suit. It wasn't until we were both within a few feet of it that the young cheagle ran away. I groaned as Tear gave a disappointed look in the direction where the cheagle fled.

"Hey!" Luke shouted. "It ran away."

"It is a wild animal, after all." Ion mused.

Yes it was. I sighed. A very cute wild animal.

"This must be the cheagle's nesting area," Tear said, looking up the hill where the young cheagle had ran off to.

Ion walked a bit further and said, "I do hope we can find some proof they stole food from the village."

"Those stupid things probably left food all over the place," Luke said. He looked around to see if there was any food dropped on the ground. There wasn't any.

"Let's explore a little!" Ion said.

We wandered a little bit further that we found a gigantic tree with a river bed right beside it. The tree has a large hole at the front; the hole looked to be big enough for a person as tall as Jade to enter it. We walked a bit further to find a bunch of apples in front of the tree. Some of the apples were floating in the riverbed but a small few were lying right there in front of the tree.

So this might be the cheagle's nest.

Ion picked up an apple that was left at the entrance of the tree and looked at it. He showed each of us the apple. The apples had some mark on them that might indicate that the apples were grown in a certain area. "These apples have the mark of Engeve on them."

I nodded in agreement. There weren't any apples seen growing on trees along the way, so these apples must have been stolen.

"So these guys did do it!" Luke said.

"I think I hear something inside this tree." Tear stated. I stopped to listen and nodded once I heard something as well. From what I heard, it sounds like little mews echoing from inside the tree.

"Cheagles lives inside tree trunks," Ion explained as he pointed to the entrance of the tree. He started walking towards entrance.

"Eh? Fon Master!" I cried as I followed him inside of the tree. I ignore the pool of water that drenched a small portion of my leggings as I ran after Ion.

"Fon Master! That's way too dangerous!" Tear cried as well. She, too, followed Ion into the tree.

"Please let me through," Ion begged the herd of cheagles that was in front of us when Tear and I reached Ion. I looked down at them and held back another squeal. I heard Luke joining the three of us as Ion continued to try to persuade the cheagles to allow him to meet their leader. Instead, he received a lot of 'meiu's from them.

That might be a warning sound.

"Like the monster's going to understand you." Luke frowned since they were still 'meiu'ing at them.

"The Order's founder, Yulia Jue, made a pact with the cheagles and gained their aid…" Ion explained to Luke. He turned his attention back to the cheagles. None of them seems to want to move out of the way. "…Or so I've been told."

"…Are you of relation to Yulia Jue?" an old voice asked us. The cheagles that was in front of us backed away and made a path for an older cheagle carrying a ring to make its way to us. Unlike most of the cheagles mieuing at us who were on all fours, this cheagle was standing on two legs while it was carrying the ring with its two arms. The elder cheagle had purple fur with drooping ears. The eyes of the cheagle elder were covered by fur giving it an elderly look.

All of us were shocked when the cheagle spoke our language.

"Whoa! That monster talked!" Luke exclaimed.

"It is the power of the ring we were granted as part of our pact with Yulia," the older cheagle said. "Are you of relation to Yulia?"

Ion answered the older cheagle. "Yes. I am Ion. Fon Master of the Order of Lorelei. Am I correct in assuming you are the cheagle elder?"

The cheagle elder nodded. "Indeed I am."

Luke took a step closer to the elder. "Hey, monster-"

"It's a cheagle, Luke," I corrected him. He glared at me once more and I cast a glare of my own as we stared each other down.

"Whatever," Luke huffed; he broke off contact and waved a hand between us. He turned his attention back to the Cheagle elder. I crossed my arms and looked at the cheagle elder with a much softer expression than the one I gave to Luke. "You guys stole food from Engeve, right?"

"I see now, you are here to exterminate us…" the Cheagle Elder said.

"Humph, so you don't deny it."

Ion held his arm out so that Luke doesn't advance on the Cheagle elder any further. He gave a look to Luke to let him deal with the cheagles. He looked back at the Cheagle elder. "Cheagles are herbivores. Why do you need to steal human food?"

The Cheagle elder hesitated. "…To preserve the cheagle tribe."

"It doesn't look like you lack food. There's plenty of vegetation in this forest." Tear said as her brow furrowed in puzzlement.

The Cheagle elder exhaled. "One of our members caused a fire in the northern region. As a result, the ligers that lived there moved down here to this forest," he explained. "…In order to prey on us."

"Then, the reason you stole the food was so that your people wouldn't get eaten," Ion concluded. I nodded as I also came up with the same conclusion.

"Correct." The Cheagle elder nodded. "If they aren't sent food periodically, we cheagles are captured and eaten."

"That's horrible…"

Luke huffed. "And totally not our problem. If you are weak, then you're food. That's how it works."

"Luke!" I gasped. That was horrible to say even if it was to monsters. Doesn't he care about what happens to the cheagles that were a part of the symbol of the Order of Lorelei?

Oh wait, it's long haired Luke. Of course he doesn't care.

"Besides," he continued. "I would be mad too, if you torched my land."

"It may be true," Ion nodded, "But this is hardly a normal food chain."

Tear turned to the side to face Luke. "Luke, we've confirmed that the thieves are cheagles. What do you want to do now?"

"What else?" Luke asked. "We're gonna drag these guys down to Engeve and-"

"But if we do that, the ligers will likely attack Engeve next in search of food." Tear interrupted.

Luke snorted. "I don't care what happens to that stupid village."

"That's not acceptable," Ion cut in. "Food from Engeve is shipped throughout the entire world—not just the Malkuth Empire."

Luke's eyes widened. "Then what do we do?"

Ion looked at the three of us with a very serious look. "Let's negotiate with the ligers."

Tear looked at me who turned pale at Ion's suggestion and sighed. Of course she knew I don't have a lot of courage when it comes to dealing with real creatures…unless they are cute. She looked at Ion. "With the monsters?"

Luke scratched his head. "Can those ligers things talk too?"

Ion shook his head. "We can't talk to them directly, but if we take one of the cheagles with us as a translator…"

The cheagle elder nodded. "Then, I shall lend this sorcerer's ring to the one who will be your interpreter." It turned its head over to the side and started to mumble something in its own language. At that time, a small cheagle, in blue fur with a white fur bottom, stepped shyly towards the elder. It had a shy look on its face as it stared at the four of us.

Luke frowned at the sight of it. "What the…?"

"This child is the one who caused the fire in the north," the cheagle elder explained. The young cheagle nodded sheepishly. "I want you to take him with you."

"This small cheagle?" Tear asked, surprised.

The cheagle elder nodded as it proceeded to put the sorcerer's ring onto the young cheagle. He lifted the ring with much difficulty since the ring must be heavy. He intended to slip the ring through the young cheagle's head, but the young cheagle's head was far too large for the ring to just slide on. The older and the younger cheagle's heads collided and both fell to the floor as the ring landed right in between the two cheagles. They quickly collected themselves and jumped back onto their feet. The cheagle elder tried a different approach and pointed to the ring that was left on the floor. He was muttering something to the other cheagle who nodded as he stepped over the ring so that he was in the middle of the ring. He pulled the ring up to his belly and gave a glance towards the elder who gave an approving nod towards the younger cheagle. Still clutching the ring around its body it turned over to us to give each of us a good look before returning his gaze to Luke who was bent down to get a closer look at our new companion.

Ion, Tear and I followed suit just before the cheagle introduced himself. "My name is Mieu. Pleased to meet you."

"…Something about this thing is really annoying." Luke said

"Mieu…I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Mieu apologized.

Luke shouted, "Argh! You're gonna drive me nuts! I should just roast you and eat you right now!" He ruffled his hair in distraught as Tear looked away and sighed.

"I don't think he's going to be edible…" I murmured. I picked up Mieu as everybody stood up straight and headed out of the tree. Our next goal is to negotiate with the ligers (in this case with the liger queen), who would be nesting at the edge of the forest. Since we don't know the path really well, Mieu agreed to be our guide.

Once we made our way out of the tree, Mieu hopped out of my arms and ran just ahead of the group. "Everyone! Watch this!"

He turned around and inhaled, soon after Mieu exhaled and a small line of fire came out of his mouth. It shocked the entire group.

"Whoa!" Luke shouted. "He breathed fire!"

Mieu's face beamed. "Neat, huh?"

"What was that?" Tear asked the young cheagle.

"I can breathe fire, so I'm useful for more than just interpreting!" Mieu chirped. "I'm going to work extra hard to make up for all the trouble I caused my friends." His ears drooped after that.

Ion nodded. "That's right; I'd forgotten that cheaggles were a fire-breathing species."

Mieu's face brightened once more as he gave Ion a nod. "Yes, we are! But mine is special!"

"Special?" Tear repeated as she cocked her head to the right.

"I'm still a child," the young cheagle explained. "So I can't actually breathe fire."

"And yet you manage to set an entire forest on fire…" I mumbled with a sigh. Ion looked over his shoulder to give me a stern look. I bit my lower lip so that I wouldn't say anything else to hurt Mieu's feelings.

"But!" The cheagle continued.

Ion turned his attention back to Mieu. "But?"

"The Sorcerer's Ring! Thanks to that, I can breathe fire!"

So…Mieu somehow stole the Sorcerer's Ring, ran all the way to the northern forest and set it on fire…? I liked the idea where Mieu knew how to breathe fire without the Sorcerer's Ring; the cheagle elder wouldn't be that careless to lose the Sorcerer's Ring that easily. Yeah, I would stick to the anime's idea. Mieu knowing how to breathe fire even at his age makes a crap load more sense than the one in the game.

"And no matter how much fire I breathe out, I never get tired!" Mieu beamed. He turned around to face another direction where there weren't any plants nearby and shot two consecutive flames. He can shoot out consecutive flames and hold a flame. Neat. He was more useful than a certain snobby, red-haire-

Er…Actually. Mieu was more useful than me. Heck! I can't even fire a gun properly. Damn my uselessness.

"So the Sorcerer's Ring is good for more than just translation, huh?" Luke asked.

"It was originally made to amplify fonic artes. It's a type of capacity core." Ion explained.

"But a flame of that size isn't going to be of much use in battle…" Tear pointed out.

Mieu's ears drooped. "Mieuuuu…"

I knelt down to lightly rub the cheagle's head. "Don't worry, Mieu, you're not the only one that isn't of use in battle!"

Like me…

"Yeah, but come on. Breathing fire! That'll be fun!" Luke crossed his arms. "Hey, you! Thing!"

And just when I thought he wouldn't call Mieu that…I rubbed my forehead as Tear gave him a frown.

"Luke! That's horrible!"

Luke shrugged it off. "Oh, shut up! It's fine for this little freak!"

"How about I call you a prick?" I muttered under my breath.

"Listen up, Thing. When I give the order, you spit fire. Got it?" Luke instructed.

Mieu's ears drooped as he reluctantly agreed. "…Mieuu~…Yes, sir…"

Poor Mieu. Seriously.

We returned to the area where we faced the floating snails and the wolf. I just found out from Tear that they were called Linails. Mieu's Fire was more convenient than Luke thought it would be. Every time we encountered a monster, I had Mieu breathe fire on them to distract them (a small flame didn't do much harm to the monsters) so that we can make a quick getaway.

Actually…it was more like a chance to attack from the party.

"Man, isn't there another way to battle these monsters?" Luke whined when he had finished off a Linail. When battling the monsters that we had burned, the monsters were running wildly around the place to put the flame out. There was no room for a sneak attack since the monster would have seen us by the time the small flame was extinguished. He sheathed his sword as Ion, Mieu and I joined him and Tear.

"Luke…This would be the best way. Anh and Ion would be able to run to safety while we go face the monsters." Tear pointed out. "Besides, what would happen to Fon Master Ion if a rogue monster were to find them?"

"That would be Anh's problem then." Luke said as he walked past us towards the next area.

"Should I ask Mieu to burn you instead?" I asked Luke in a hush tone. Luke tsked before looking at a series of vines hanging from a branch. It was clearly in the way since there was another path right behind the vines but it was too thick for anybody to go through it. Clearly, Luke wanted to burn that down.

"Mieu," I called the young cheagle. Mieu looked up at me as I walked over to him and picked him up. I walked past Luke and held Mieu out to burn the vines. "Fire, please."

Mieu breathed fire as I instructed, the vines were set in flames and fell to the ground as ashes. The branches were unharmed; however, it seemed that the vines broke off before it reached the branches itself. Although a tree was slightly scorched by the burnt vines, just slightly so it would be fine.

"Alright," I said happily as I turned around to face the entire group. There was a rumbling sound that caught our attention. It felt like something big was moving, and I watched as everybody's expressions paled while I stood there in confusion. I cocked my head to the side. "Did…something happened…?"

All three of them pointed behind me to show why they paled. I turned around to see a tree moving and I, too, paled. It looked just like a tree from behind since it had brown bark covered in green moss. Although, this tree had two rather large bark-like arms and legs with yellow gleaming eyes from a hollow. The tree started to walk towards us as I realized that I didn't just hit any kind of tree with Mieu's fire.

What I accidently scorched was actually a monster.

"EYAAAHHH!"

"HOW CAN YOU SCREAM THAT LOUD?"

I'll just leave it at that. Oh and that was Luke that shouted last. XD

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