Hi… Just a friendly reminder, Letter Bee does not belong to me. I only own my OC's… Anyway hope you like this new chapter.
Nathalia's POV
I looked around and jumped out the carriage. Staying in there won't make a difference.
"Miss, I don't think I can go any further. Rumor has it that this place is crawling with Gaichuus lately. I'm afraid you have to go on foot from here." I paid him and called Zazie, Lag and Niche out.
Zazie commanded the dingoes as we started to walk. "Wasiolka, be on the lookout for gaichuus. Niche, I know that you wouldn't listen to me but I advise you to do the same."
"You don't need to tell Niche that Niche has to protect Lag. Niche will do that even if Zazie doesn't say so." I really find Niche's third person way of speaking cute but I don't think people will take her seriously unless she attempts to skewer them. I gave a small signal to Cleora to stay on guard. We started walking and I started to hum a tune. Soon Lag joined in and after a while we started singing but Zazie told us to shut up. Kill joy much? I bet he feeds of the sadness of everyone. Yeah… that is actually possible now that I think about it. I tried to listen closely and heard a sound coming from the ground …
"****! Zazie look out!" There was a huge sinkhole that appeared when Zazie stepped on a certain area. He fell but I grabbed his jacket… **** he's heavy. Soon I was holding us both up because I fell in too. At the bottom of the hole, I saw a gaichuu Bucker and it is planning to hit us with the blade thingy, honestly, I don't know what the thing it shoots is called. I gathered all my strength and tried to pull us up. Right now Lag and Niche are distracting it, but a Bucker is smart. It knows which prey is vulnerable. It's focus went back to us. ****.
"Niche… take Zazie from me and go as far as you can! What I'm about to do won't be pretty!" Niche looked at me then took Zazie using her hair.
"Lag! Leave! Quick!" Lag stopped what he was doing and looked at Niche (who caged Zazie in her hair) and Wasiolka. I gave him a nod and they left. Good. I guess I should start now. I need to concentrate. I hear it. I touched my necklace where my spirit amber is.
"Gather and take form…" I said in a barely audible whisper and at that moment there was a bright white light, in my hands my scythe. Thank you heart. I let go and fell to the bottom but when the Bucker's heart eating tentacles tried to get me, I just slashed it away. This is no good, I can't get near it's weak spot. I have to use my chain sickle. My scythe glowed then it turned into a chain sickle. I threw one end to try and entangle its legs and tried to take it off balance even if it's just for a while. Once I managed to make one of its legs slip, I ran to look for a weak spot.
"Let me handle this!" I heard Zazie yell then he jumped in but as he was about to land the Bucker shot his blade and I guess I have to protect the idiot. I ran as fast as I could to help him. I pushed him out of the way and he didn't get a single scratch. That's good.
I suddenly felt a sharp pain. Something warm trickled down my right arm, I held my shoulder and saw that it was oozing with a dark red liquid. Pure terror was planted on Zazie's face and I just gave a smile. I made my heart take form and now I held a longbow. I pulled back the string and made 3 arrows using heart. At this rate, I won't be able to kill it but at least Zazie can be useful for a change.
"Zazie, once I shoot, wait for it to be distracted then kill it." He nodded and I released the string. Arrows made of a light green light flew into the air and hit the gaichuu. It moved the way I predicted it to and Zazie shot the gap when it was exposed. A loud screeching sound was heard and it exploded. Both of us were thrown back by the force of the explosion and for a minute the only thing visible was a white light.
I opened and closed my eyes and soon my vision returned. I saw Zazie sitting on the floor and I shook him just because. He looked at me then he spotted the gash on my right shoulder.
"It's fine… It isn't serious enough for stitches so I'll manage…" He was silent the entire time we tried to get out the damn hole. After a while we found Lag and Niche. You should've seen the look on Lag's face when he saw my bleeding shoulder…. Priceless. He fussed about me bleeding to death. Chill Lag. Chill. Then after a while he started crying, what the **** is the problem with this kid?
"It's late. We should camp here for the night." All of us agreed and Zazie started the fire while lag was in charge of food, all the dingoes were asleep and I went to the lake nearby to take a bath.
"It's dinner time!" I heard Lag scream from behind some rocks and I dressed myself then attended to my wound. I sighed as I cleaned it and covered it in bandages.
"Nathlia, here's your food." Lag handed me a small bowl with soup and an apple. ****! The smell of the soup was so extremely disgusting! I finished dressing my wound then threw the terror soup away. I looked at Zazie and he did the same to the soup but Lag ate his and by the looks of it, he was also pretty disgusted. I leaned over to Zazie and asked him something.
"What's the deal with the terror soup? Is he trying to kill us?" He looked at me with an amused expression and also leaned to me.
"It was made by Sylvette Suede. Lag and Niche lives with her and he just doesn't have the heart to tell her that her soup is more rancid than rat poison." I giggled a bit and looked at poor Lag eating. Death by deadly soup poison, is definitely not the best way to go. Zazie then moved away for no reason and I was left alone. I guess it's gonna be a long night. I have a lot of explaining to do tomorrow.
Phew… I never thought I could wright this chapter. This is my first attempt at writing an action scene. Well… have to go now.