Aarius ran throughout the day and far into the night before exhaustion finally kicked in; she had been so deep in her own thoughts that she hadn't even known the sun had set until she had run head on into a tree. She now sat rubbing furiously at a small bump that had formed on her head, "Ouch!" She cried furiously, "Stupid tree."
Tears burned in her eyes at the thought of what lay ahead on her path, "I will save you both." She promised herself, "Only death can hinder me..."
Aarius stopped in a small clearing. She was in the center of the wood and planned to be out by noon the next day, she then built a small fire for warmth. She built it small so as not to lose her night vision, she brought out a small piece of dried meat and began to munch on it thoughtfully, "Who has taken you guys?" She asked quietly to herself, "Who has doomed themselves unwittingly to death by kidnapping my family?"
She heard the sound of a snapping twig nearby and tensed, instantly she had her sword drawn, "Who's there!" She cried into the darkness that surrounded her on all sides, "Show yourself!"
Laughter floated around her, voices soon following, "Look at the poor child, wallowing in her anguish... she doesn't know the way... what a strange sword though... filled with magic that she'll never even understand, such power it holds... it is not meant for a child to wield it... we should take it for our own..."
Dark figures shot out of the shadows, surrounding Aarius, "Who are you!" She exclaimed.
One of the shadowed figures moved forward, sword drawn, "Give us the sword like a good little girl and we won't have to kill you."
"B-back off, this was my father's sword, he gave it to me more than two years ago and it'll never reach the hands of the likes of you!" Aarius cried, blocking his blow with the sword she swung then, slicing his sword in half.
"How dare you!" The man cried angrily, "This was the sword of a great wizard... it should never have broken at the hands of a child!"
He threw the sword and signaled to the others, who in turn drew their own, tightening the circle around her. Aarius's hand shook slightly, stop it! She told herself, I've been in way worse odds than this before, they can't scare me! And with that final reassurance Aarius leapt forward, her blade making contact with another, she did a back flip, warding off another blow. Aarius backed herself out of the circle and let out a vicious cry, "You shall not hinder me from my quest!" She growled.
While she had been speaking another one of the ghostly men had snuck up behind her he raised his sword and plunged it deep into her lower right leg. She let out an exclamation of pain and anger, they should not have made such a dishonorable move, she thought as an unknown power burst from her body, glowing hotly in a mixture of two colors, one was orange the other white, several wings appeared on her back, half of them a glowing orange, the other half a pure white, her eyes shown more brightly and angrily, "Leave now or your ignorance shall cost you all you lives!"
There was laughter, "The child thinks that she can defeat us! The great clan of the Elam forest!"
She clenched the glowing sword in her hand, "Just so that the lot of you understands... you have chosen your own fate and thus have no chance of survival!" with that she leapt forward, attacking the shadowy figures.
She was locked in combat with one, the others looked on in horror as her sword cut him in half and she leapt at another, backing away as the blood flowed from his severed head, splattering the others with his precious life blood, "I warned you of the imminent doom that would befall you if you did not leave!" She screeched before attacking another.
She grabbed his sword from his hand and shoved it through his throat, he couldn't fall as to the fact that he was attached to a tree, the others heard him gurgling on his blood and saw him grasp the sword before his hands fell. She killed the several more with swift blows before closing in upon the leader as his men tore off into the trees "Please have mercy!" he cried, trembling fiercely, secretly he had a dagger hidden behind his back, hoping to deal the death blow on the girl who dared to attack his army.
"And, pray tell, why should I have mercy on you when it was you that attacked me?" Aarius said to the man, "This could have been avoided but you kept your men coming, your death is imminent, you have no chance!"
His eyes widened in mock terror, he let out a war cry and threw the dagger, it incinerated the moment it pierced flesh, but pierce the flesh it did, wounding her, just above her elbow. Her sword shook violently in her hand before slipping to the ground. Aarius' blood flowed freely mixing with the black dirt and the blood of her foes, "Bastard!" She cried, attacking with her bare hands, she struck him full on in the chest, but her hand didn't just simply stop when it struck, it went clear through and exited between the shoulder blades, she pulled back and his body crumbled to the ground. Aarius stood, looking at what she had done, "Oh, my god!" She breathed in shock at the bloody mess, "Oh my god! There's so much b-blood!" Her body became normal once more as she stared in wide-eyed terror.
She fled from the scene instantly, traveling sack and weapons in hand. The woods, shadowed in death... death that she had created... she ran across the grassy fields that followed the woods. Eventually she grew weaker as her blood still flowed, her face began to pale. She caught a glimpse of the town she was headed for before collapsing in an exhausted heap, "I-I can't go on!" She gasped as the blackness took hold.
She wasn't even 1 mile away from the town, but her body was weak from all the blood that she had lost... she needed medical attention and couldn't reach Lohan... it was so close and yet so far away from her...
A/N Well, there's chapter two,I've sortta rewritten it so that the battle scene is a little longer and whatnot... I hope you all enjoy it, chapter three aught a be up soon... so R&R plz...