Mini-Chapter: Enjoyment
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After crawling for what must have been an entire day, Wyald was now able to limp forwards on one leg. His other foot dragged behind him, and his broken wrist hung limply at his side. In the snow, his large body was at least obscured. Alone, and with few other creatures around this early in the morning, he only had his thoughts. As steam began to rise from the half of his face that had been shattered under that…..monsters fist, his unmarred side sneered in contemplation. He spat out a broken tooth as new teeth began to grow.
"Stupid….I forgot the importance of the performance. When trying to make an impact, I should have probably tried to be more creative..fuck, charging in like that is how I got my ass broken in the first place."
Wyald soon came to the edge of a cliff, overlooking numerous snowy slopes. In the very far distance, he could see a hint of green. "Alright then, I need to start acting more like a solider and less like a warrior. Still, I haven't trained a day in my life."
"But now's the time to try." Wyald said aloud to himself, his face having begun to near the end of it's regeneration. Raising his fist back, Wyald dove it into the ground. At the same time, an explosion of steam burst from his body.
"Ah…it's good to be back." When the smoke cleared away, Wyald was now three meters in size. White hair covered his body as an eye grew on his left and right shoulder, and his chest respectively. His now white haired human form lay on top of a large, fur-covered body with a massive mouth in the middle of it.
For the first time in weeks, Wyald transformed into his Apostle form.
Pulling his fist out of the ground, Wyald held a large chunk of stone in his hand. Rearing back, he threw it as far into the distance as he could. The stone sailed through the air before skidding across the snow, sending up large plumes of white before it stopped. "So my archery skills could use some improvement." Wyald mused as he tossed another stone, this one skidding further into a nearby clearing covered in snowcapped trees. The tree's were knocked to the side, sticking out in left and right leaning positions as the stone rolled to a stop. Standing back, Wyald tore a particularly large piece out of the edge before him. This one looked big enough to fit in his giant mouth.
"Wait a minute." Quickly thinking, he tossed it in. His large lower mouth chewed and crunched up the stone, and then with a quick contraction of his muscles, a barrage of rock burst from his maw. Like a storm of artillery fire, the rocks rained down onto the tree's, ripping them into two and fully knocking them down. Wyald laughed as he scratched his head.
"I didn't know I could do that! This could come in handy…."
One last thing to try. Backtracking twenty feet from the edge, Wyald suddenly ran forwards.
Laughing manically, he jumped from the edge. "Wyald Jump!"
As he slammed down onto the earth below, sending a flurry of frost and branches into the air, Wyald knew that there was something he would need. "I'm gonna need an army…it doesn't matter if they aren't willing. I can rule by fear." He sighed nostalgically as a crack of steam heralded his return to human form, remembering the Black Dog Knights.
"But if all goes according to plan, I won't have to worry much about keeping everyone in line."
After all, that freak never had any problems with making an army, so why should I?
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Elsewhere
"Guts...I remember everything..the Hawks...Griffith...the l-lake!"
The sound of someone falling, then armor clanking.
"I'm right here, Casca. I'm..so sorry that he-"
"Don't blame yourself Guts. Because I'm going to kill him."
I'm going to kill Griffith.
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"Guts, don't let go of me. Let's stay like this for a while."
Minutes passed, only the rustling of the wind around them.
"..I've been waiting so long for this."
"Me too, Guts. Thank you for taking of her for so long."
"Thank you for taking care of Elaine."
"Farnese, let's stay back. This is their moment, not ours."
"I couldn't agree more, Master."
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Work on the next full chapter begins now. A new side story called "Gnome Fortress" is up in the MGQ/Dwarf Fortress crossover section.
