Deep blow the slowing sands of the great desert, a pair of looming amber eyes glowing, a trembling grumbling shaking the earth around the being as it stretched and moved its rocky body.
Far across the oceans a serpent-like body shot through the currents, its pulsing roar shaking the deep waters that the sea bishops called home, disappearing into the depths with a flick of its powerful tail.
High above the mountain, a raging tornado hid a cruel sly smile, sharpened wings and even sharper talons grasping the mountain's rock as a beautiful laugh sent chills down all the spines of all that could hear the whispering laugh.
In the forest of the fairies, a long white beard was softly stroked, a sparkle of purple lightning crackling across the old weathered fingers as the fairies and smaller monster girls looked in awe at the old being floating contently in the trees above their home.
Across the skies, a white monster swam through the clouds like it was water, diving in and out of view of the aviens monster watched in awe and fear as this titanic monster swallowed part of a mountain whole. Its massive maw crunching down on the rock like it was soft bread.
Deep under the ground, a pair of glowing orange blades cut through the rock, as a deep cruel chuckle sent the insect-like monster girls into a panic. The towering incest like being grinning crueling behind its carpirice like visor.
Across the great draconic city of dragons, a tremor shook the grating beneough the dragons girls feet, sending them into a panic as the monster girls rallied their armies for an attack.
Only to see a large, titanic pair of dragon-like wings unfolding beyond the ash cloud of the volcano in the distance, another roar shaking the women and their husbands to their core as they felt a primal fear of what had taken up residence near their home.
Barabtos, could only gorna softly, feeling like he went 20 rounds with no breaks with tian itself. And only a small stick to defend himself with.
Trying to sit up, the man was gently pushed back down by a pair of soft paws, his blurry vision turning to see a familiar grey shape looming over him. "...atos, just rest..." he could barely hear the women's words, feeling himself lose consciousness again as a faint glow overtook him.
Feeling himself waking again, the white haired man slowly opened his eyes, staring at the wooden ceiling above him as a wave of nausea hit him in full force. Scrunching his eyes shut, the gunbreaker barely kept himself from vomiting over the white sheets of the bed he was laying in.
"Syr! He's awake!" a familiar voice called as the man slowly sat up, a pair of paw gently easing him against the backboard of the bed.
"Huh...what?" he grumbled, grabbing his head as he felt the memories of his last fight flood back in full force. "Shit Ifrit!" he groaned, shaking his head as he caught sight of a grey blur waving in front of him.
"Come on Barbatos eat, you need something" Lyras voice made the mna blink as he glanced up to see the werewolf holding a bowl of some kind of stew on her paws, a spoon full of the good held out to him to take.
"Don't force him Lyra, the mans just been awake from a healing coma...which should have kept him under longer" Syr's voice made the man look away from the werewolf, spotting the elf at the door to the room, holding a bundle of something in her arms as she entered.
"How are you feeling?" she asked gently, sitting the bundle down at the end of the bed as she stood beside Lyra, the werewolf still holding out the food to him as she shot the elf a mild glare.
"Like I've been run over by a behemoth" Barabtos grumbled, accepting the spoonful of food from Lyra as her eyes lit up happily, her tail wagging behind her as she helped Varvatos have some more of the stew.
"How is the village, where can I help?" Barbatos asked, looking towards Syr as Lyra placed the bowl on the side table, both of the girls looking at the man like he was crazy.
"You...just barely survived fighting that, that thing and you want to help?" Syr asked slowly, looking at the man like he was insane.
"Just had me my gunblade and I'll be as good as new, actually where's my stuff?" he asked as Lyra looked at the dumble beside her.
"Your coat is being repaired by some of the Archanie that offered to help the hero of my village" another voice spoke as the three turned to see Mileena walking into the room, her hands gently holding the man's weapon as it glinted in the light, showing that someone had given it a good cleaning while he was out.
"The rest of your equipment is here" she added, looking towards the bundle Lyra was holding in her paws. "And for wanting to help, while I appreciate the offer lad, you've done more than enough already" the succubus explained, looking knowing at the man as he grinned sheepishly.
"Ha, caught on to that did you?" Barabtos chuckled as the mayor gave him a sly smirk in return.
"You did throw yourself and that thing as far away from my village as possible, kept its attention on you at all times and even stopped it from destroying omreo of our homes, I think the hero deserves some rest don't you girls?" she said looking towards the two as a faint blush bloomed across the monster girl's cheeks.
"We will talk about all of this in my office, for now test and get some more food in you, for someone so strong you sure are skinny" Mileena added winking at the man as she sauntered out of the room, leaving the two girls as Lyra snarled at the closing door.
"Where does that hussy get at flirting with my hubby? '' she grumbled, leaning over the bed and resting her body on Barabatos's legs. "He only has eyes for me, right darling" she said, batting her eyes at the gunbreaker as he looked away with a shy chuckle.
"Leave him alone Lyura, the man needs rest before you try corrupting him, he did almost get incinerated" Syr reprimed the werewolf as he words caught up to Barabtos.
"My photos!" he exclaimed, grabbing the bundle of equipment from Lyra as he fumbled to grab something from one of the harness bags. The two girls looked at him with interest as he pulled out a number of small white pieces of paper, looking at them with relief as he checked to see if they had been damaged at all in the fight.
Syr glanced over the man's shoulder, spotting a collection of small pictures, each one having the gunbreaker standing with someone else or even a group of people unknown to her.
"Ohhhh, who are these people?" Lyra asked, sitting herself down on the other side of Barabatos, looking over the photos and narrowing her eyes as she spotted two white haired women in some of them with her husband.
She wasn't jealous...just, protective of her mate thats all!
"These are my friends, I keep these photos for when I'm away from them for months on end, reminding me that I have people to go back to, '' he said slowly shifting through the photos, each one showing the gunbreaker smiling or goofing off with someone new to the two young women.
"Is that an elf?" Syr asked, looking at the blue clad elf boy laughing in one of the photos, as barbatos was stuffing his face by a campfire with another white haired man in a similar outfit to his.
"Thats Alphinanou, he's been one of my closest friends sense I started out as a scion and fighting primals" Barabtos said fondly remembering that Thancred had challenged him to an eating contest while alphinadou laughed at how silly the two of them were acting on their scouting mission.
Good times.
"Who is this?" Lyra asked, glaring down at a photo in the man's hands. Barabtos blinked, following her line of sight to see a photo of Barbatos with Y'shtola herself sitting in his lap, the cat girl smiling coily as Barabtos was awkwardly holding her waist, trying to keepi her tail from tickling his nose.
"Hahaha, thats Y'shtola, he's one of the best mages I have ever met, and one of the sassiest cats to ever turn down a leader of a dragon tribe" he said, smiling at the photo as Lyra was tempted to rip it to pieces to get his mind off of the cat girl.
He should only have eyes for her!
"You've all must have been through alot together" Syr spoke up as the gunbreakered placed the photos back into his bag, smiling at the elf as he leaned back with a content sigh.
"Yeah, we've done some crazy stuff, I'll tell you about it some time" he replied as Syr lost her smile at his words. "What's wrong?" he asked, making the elf blink as both Barabatos and Lyra looked at her with concern.
"I just, I won't be seeing either of you after my captain and our team leave back for our village, elves are,a tight knitted group, we don't, interact with outsiders all that much and isn't heavily looked down on when you do" she explained softly as Lyra's ears folding back against her head sadly.
She had taken a liking to the elf while they waited for Barabtos to wake up, Lyra finding all the ways Syr had hunted for her village so interesting and in turen Syr was quite awed in how Lyra survived without her pack until she met Barabatos.
"Could always take some time to travel, meet new people and the like, there's no rules against learning about the world and having an adventure, is there" Barabtos spoke up as Syr looked at him in surprise.
"But I, I have responsibilities to my village" she stammered as Barabtos gave her a one eyed smile, making her blush and look away from him.
"Just think about it, if anything I could use a guide over to the adventurers college in Visorhold, I don't think this muts nose will get us all the way" he said, ducking his head with a cheeky smile as Lyra took a swipe at the back of his head, giving him a cute girl as she crossed her arms and pouted at him.
"I'll….think about it" Syr said quietly as she looked between the two. Even if they had only met a short time agop, the two got along so well she thought they had been friends for years.
Before long, the three found themselves within Mileena's office, standing across from the succubus as the elf captain stood beside her, pinching the bridge of her nose at the noise outside the window.
"I didn't think beating ifrit would get that kind of reaction" Barabtos mumbled as Mileena smirked at the man.
Outside the window, almost every single monster girl was shouting and yelling for the white haired man to come out. Most of them promising to show him how much they appreciate him saving their village.
Others are yelling about how he should be protected against those demons and should be working as a house husband for them.
What a strange world indeed.
"Shut that window please, I have enough of a headache already" the elf grumbled as Mileena waved her hand, shutting the window with a simple display of demonic magic. Turning their attention back to Barbatos, Mileena narrowed her eyes as she thought about what to ask first.
"First, I want to thank you, from the bottom of my heart for saving my village and everyone in it, we would have never survived that monster without you" she started as the man smiled humbly at her words.
"But I need to know, what was that thing?" she asked as the room became tense.
"That was ifrit" Barabtos spoke as the gathered monster looked at him with their full attention. "Ifrit is the fire primal of my world, a literal god of the flames if you will," he said as the women blinked in surprise.
"Your...world?" the elf captain asked slowly as Barbatos nodded.
"Yes, My world, Erozera is home to the primals and the many beast tribes that worship them, and if they gather enough aether and sacrifices, they can summon the monsters to the mortal realm," he explained, causing the women to stare in shock.
People actually summoned something like that to worship them!
"What can we do?" Mileena asked, leaning forward as she stared at Barbatos intensely.
"You? You don't do anything" he said, making everyone look at the man in surprise. "The primals our my problem and always have been, without..." he paused in thought as the girls all stared at him, waiting for him to continue.
With a sigh he continued. "I've beaten every primal from my world, ifrit I've gone 3 for 3 at this point" crossing his arms, the man nodded to himself as he looked towards the window. "I don't know how ifrit got here, there isn't a connection to the void here and that means something or someone is bringing the primals here, but unable to control them" shaking his head the man turned towards the door with a narrowed eyed glare.
"I need to find out what's going on, the best way to do that is to travel, I know roughly where the either primals could be, they like to keep to their familiar elements as much as possible" the gunbreaker spoke, glancing around the room before making his way towards the exit.
"But how can I defend my village?" Mileena spoke up as she glared at the back of the gunbreakers head. "You barely survived that thing and now you would leave us defenseless" he added, making the elf captain look at her in surprise.
She didn't think the succubus would try to guilt the young man into helping her.
"Ifrit won't reform for a long time, it takes a lot of energy to be gathered into a single point to make the primal, any of them gain a mortal shell," Barabatos explained slowly. "What I need to do is find the rest of them, the longer they stay alive the more power they can amass, and if this world is a free as I feel it is, I need to hurry" he finished with a growl, thinking about how much damage even titan or ravana could do if they stayed summoned for more than a weak.
He had a lot of ground to cover.
"And how will you fight them? If they keep getting stronger you'll end up getting killed when you find another one" the elf captain challenged as Barabtos raised an eyebrow at her.
"I've got a few tricks up my sleeve" he replied with a smirk as Mileena sighed loud enough to get the man's attention.
"I'm not happy about this, what you've done and what that thing did has given everyone in my village a fright" she said, shaking her head sadly. "Tell me what I can do to help keep these primals away from my village, and what I can do to inform my leaders abo0ut the threat" he asked as Barabtos smiled at the succubus.
"If you find a primal, send for me, don't interact with them,they have ways to make mortals worship them for life" Barabtos said, his expression as serious as his words. "I've had to travel for miles on end when even a rumor of a primal was talked about, my duty is to keep the world safe from them and I'll be damned if I start getting sloppy now" he added softly.
"I wouldn't mind you getting sloppy with me" Lyra muttered to herself as Syr elbowed the werewolf to get her to shush.
"You need people to help you" the elf captain spoke, glaring at the man as he blinked at her in reply. "I don't like this, and I'll be damned if we don't get as much information on this threat as possible" he explained as she looked towards Mileena.
"I'll be speaking with my queen when we arrive home, there will be more trades and joint defensives between our villages as soon as I am able to get the council of idiots to agree" she said surprising the succubus as the found herself smiling at the elf.
"In the meantime, I'll be sending Syr to accompany you and learn everything she can about these beasts and how to fight them" . It was Syr's turn to look surprised as she glanced between the captain and Baraabtos. "You were going to ask for some leave anyway dear, I know you to well by now" the elf said cheekily as Syr failed to fight down a blush of embarrassment.
"Well that settles is, Barabtos I will be supplying you with a map and supplies for your granary to Visorhold" Mileena said as the man nodded to her in thanks. "I'll have a message sent ahead of you to the colleges headmistress, she will be able to assist you further in getting into the college, from there I'll have some letters sent out to contact various villages and see what they know of the primals" he finished with a smirk as Barabtos smiled widely at her.
"You three are going to get into so much trouble in Visaorhold, so Lyra" the succubus said looking pointedly at the werewolf. "Keep that man safe and if I don't find you two married by the time I see you again I will make it happen myself" she said, making the werewolf jump in surprise at her words.
Opposite her, Syr glared between the werewolf and the succubus, was all these monster girls thought about was zsex and husbands!
"Ignoring all of that" barbatos muttered as he looked between Syr and Lyra, his smile going a bit wider as he realised he had another adventure ahead of him.
"Let's get ready, and you two" he said looking pointedly at the two girls. "I've got some stuff you'll need if you're going to come with me. Let's hope you both learn fast, I'm thinking you'll enjoy the monk's weapons most, Lyra" making the werewolf smile as he tail wagged happily behind her. "And I know I've got a nice bow that you could use" he finished as Syr raised an eyebrow at him.
Where was he hiding a bow of all things?