Chapter 1: Spirit Long Gone
"Take THAT!" A white haired woman, looking about in her twenties swung her staff menacingly at a goblin.
"Grrr!" The monster swiftly leapt into the air, and propelled itself past the traveler. She turned around to attack it again, but it swung its club violently at her side. With a bang, she fell to the ground.
"Freeze!" She gasped. Her shaky arm raised a staff high, and it began to emit a bluish glow. It then shot a beam of ice straight at the goblin, knocking it back.
"Glllrar!" The green beast regained balance and ran to the woman who was still struggling to her feet. Reaching her body, it raised its club and whacked her in the back.
"AHHH!" she screamed. "I've…got to escape…uhh…" The woman reached her hand down into a small pouch slung from her shoulder. She dug around for a few seconds. When her hand emerged, she was holding a leaf, probably from a medical herb. She then put in in her mouth and started to chew. Just then, her back was slammed with the wooden club again. "AHHH! Somebody…help!" She was about to lose consciousness when the healing plant took effect. She suddenly felt energized, and jumped to her feet in just a few seconds. No struggle at all. "I'll kill you now! Burn!" The woman raised her wooden staff and swung it at the goblin. She then raised it and chanted. Suddenly, in the sky, a cloud began to move. It then disintegrated, and a beam of hot red light shot down and crashed into the goblin, totally burning its left arm off. The goblin then fell to the ground, dead. "Ah ha ha ha! That's what you get for trying to cross me, Former Queen Anri!" She stood triumphantly and giggled a little.
"Arooooo…"
"Wha-what was that?"
"ArooOOOOOO!"
"It sounds like…no, it can't be…AH!" Suddenly, a human-sized wolf standing on two feet landed on the ground. On its hands were a set of claws, sharp as you can imagine. Dripping from one claw was blood. "Z-zylo! Is that you?"
"Arooo!" He screamed. He raised an arm and slashed at her.
"Zylo, what are you-"
"Die, you stupid bitch! Die!"
"Zylo!"
"FUCK YOU ANRI!" He stood tall, his face full of scorn an anger. "YOU FUCKING LEFT ME OUT ON THE STREETS TO ROT AWAY AND DIE! WHY DIDN'T YOU LET ME INTO THE CASTLE? WHY? WE FOUGHT ALONGSIDE EACHOTHER, HAND IN HAND. AND NOW, LOOK WHAT I'VE BECOME!"
"Zylo, no, I had to. There was no choice, we-"
"I told you Anri! I swore up and down, that wasn't me! I didn't do it. But you didn't believe me, you stupid bitch!" Zylo raised his claw again, and slashed at Anri. He cut the bottom of her left pant leg clean off. A fresh new wound was on her ankle.
"Ah! I…I will have no mercy!"
"And neither will I! AHHH!" Again, Zylo slashed at her. Fearing for her life, Anri held her staff up and began to chant a spell. "Ha!" Zylo's claw suddenly was felt by Anri. He'd shoved one of the blades through the side of her exposed left leg, and she was now bleeding terribly.
"AHH! HELP! SOMEBODY, SAVE ME!" The dark green grass of the plains turned crimson scarlet beneath Anri. The golden sun was beginning to set, and the sky was darkening, just like Anri's life. She knew that if she didn't think of something fast, her former comrade would be her end.
"STOP RIGHT THERE!" With those words, the earth below Zylo split open, and a blue light emitted, sending him back. Rocks sputtered up, hitting both the werewolf and the girl. "Ahhh chaaa!" Again, the earth split in a jagged line coming from the voice, and to where Zylo lay on the ground. An average sized man with amazing muscles stepped from the source of the quake. He looked and saw the bleeding Anri who was sitting and clutching her ankle. "Wounds disappear!" The man put his hand out in front of him, and a golden ball of energy appeared. The ball floated over to Anri. Suddenly, the gash in her leg began to close up, and the blood was disappearing. However, she'd had enough excitement. Her eyes closed, and she passed out.