Note:

Been a sleepy week, writing tiny bits of this a day, kinda hope it puts off the right feel I was going for. Which for the record is to make Kiel a bit of the hero this time. Not too hard to do with enough creativity and caffeine!


The landing wasn't quite as hard as Kiel thought it would be, luckily landing on his feet somehow not breaking his legs. He heard an echoed roar in the near distance along with light so he headed towards it. Though he mostly felt worried that he didn't find Aleha anywhere when he fell, so he couldn't help but panic at the prospect of the cave being a monster den. When he came into the strangely lit cavern Kiel saw the very thing he had feared.

A large skeletal monster cornered Aleha against a wall, as a wound caused her to hold one arm she did her best to dodge attacks. She rolled out of the way narrowly dodging as the creature swung its tail causing it to send rocks falling from the ceiling. The princess cursed at herself for not bringing her healing magic as she noticed Kiel – the monster did as well.

It charged straight at him, causing her heart to stop but before she could react her feet carried her and took the blow for him. A pain filled cry filled the cavern echoing off the walls as Kiel stared in horror, unsure on what to do. One of her swords skidded in front of him and the young man felt a sort of fire burn inside him – was it rage or determination he wasn't sure, all he knew was the monster was going down.

Aleha slowly propped herself up, grimacing as she held her shoulder, "K-Kiel, just run!"

Wincing, she picked up her other sword and tried to stand, and found it a trying task. Kiel knew if the creature kept rampaging they could potentially be sealed in that cavern or Aleha could take a more fatal wound. He called out to it, taking its attention as the princess struggled to recover. The young man recovered a tome he had within the pack on his hip thankful he had forgotten it there. As he cast the spell 'Sonic Wind' he found that slowly the bones would fall from the body – and then he noticed there was a strangely glowing core. As he struck it the creature grew angry and attempted to strike him with its tail.

Kiel rolled out of the way before casting another spell, finding the creature slowly exposing its weakness but the skeletal beast was not going to give up easily. Somehow the core seemed to be charged with rune energy so strong it could cast magic without any limbs. It charged a spell that seemed to follow him as he ran behind cover where Aleha was dressing her wounded arm.

"I can't get close enough to hit it," He panted as he took a quick rest, "It charges too quickly."

The princess nodded, silently taking a deep breath as she looked up over their cover and frowned, "That's not good."

Joining her, Kiel saw the creature slowly gathering the bones around the core once more – Aleha called out that this would be their last chance and ran to distract it. She called out before attacking but the core discharged some left over energy and sent her flying into a cave wall. The princess hit the wall with a sickening crack and fell silently to the ground, still as the air in the very cavern.

What was he supposed to do? He couldn't take his eyes away from the still princess, terrified of the worst but somehow… enraged. This was the first time he had felt such anger – being the young man who usually took everything with a smile or a light hearted attitude. He took a deep breath, knowing the beast would have to fall for them to escape.

Quickly recovering, he launched another spell to distract the animal and dodged the attack it launched – rolling beneath the spell and throwing all of his weight into an attack. The core cracked, showing light before erupting and disappearing into dust. Kiel rushed back to the princess finding she was still breathing but now bleeding from her head. She groaned making a pained face as he picked her up and looked for a way out, praying to the divine dragons that she would be okay.


Ending Note:

Sorry for the long update? Not sure because I didn't check before writing this but glad it's finally done! I'm bad at fighting scenes but I tried my best, the image-maker in my head just couldn't compute and nothing looked good so it took a while! Still, hope it's okay - don't worry, we'll check on Aleha a little later ;)