I wasn't sure if I was ready or not, but I didn't have a choice. The destroyers let out ground shaking cries and charged. Adrasta dropped to a crouch and punched her hand into the ground. The trembling earth spewed up rocks and chunks of dirt which Adrasta immediately sent forward. They hurtled at lightning speed towards the charging destroyers taking chunks of flesh and chips of bone with them until losing momentum and coming to rest within the chests and heads of our enemies. The first wave was demolished and the second scrambled over the bodies of their own completely unaffected and uncaring abouit the slaughter that was occurring. They surged and shrieked like angry insects hell bent upon killing us.
Adrasta began firing arrows in rapid succession into the swarm. One after the other fell until she had no more arrows. I looked at her as I unsheathed my sword.
"You don't even need me here, do you?"
She shook her head and dropped her bow to the ground along with her empty quill.
"It isn't a matter of necessity though."
She ran to meet the destroyers. I watched her with a new sense of camaraderie and realized that I should be out there fighting with her. I ran blindly into the mindless throng and slashed left to right, up and down with the sword in my hand. As attacker after attacker fell to my blade I was renewed. The weapon was so comfortable in my hand and the glint of blood coated metal sparked a feeling of bloodlust in me. It pulsed through me and seemed to elevate my entire being. I remember myself now. I'm one of the best fighters in existence. I destroy anything that gets in my way! Everything falls to me!
I cut downward with my sword and sliced a destroyer completely in two. Yes! I am invincible! A true master of all! Nothing can stand in my way!
I turned around and a huge trunk like appendage collided with my ribs and knocked me backwards. As I flew into a cluster of destroyers I realized I was being a little too cocky. I haven't fought a battle like this in a while and I'm a little rusty. A mouth came down on my shoulder and I screamed. I kicked my foot out and it connected hard with the face of another destroyer that was trying to attend the buffet. I rammed my sword up through the destroyers neck and with a slight twist of my wrist I decapitated it. I threw the head into an oncoming destroyer and it batted it away.
A few seconds of quick slashing with the sword and the area around me was littered with bodies and pieces of destroyers piled up to my knees. I scrambled over the small mountain of bleeding, slippery, corpses. My clothes were so soaked in blood that they now had to weigh an additional three pounds.
I went on my search for Adrasta. It was hard to see through all the dirt and the haze of evaporating blood, but finally I spotted her. She was swinging around a huge sword that had to be at least twice her size if not larger. The way she was wielding it, it might as well weigh nothing. The thing that was confusing me was where the sword had come from. I'm pretty sure I would have noticed her carrying a huge sword into the battle field.
I saw a huge destroyer leap straight at Adrasta's back.
"No!"
She was in mid turn when huge spines shot out of her back. As they impaled the destroyer it exploded and rained intestines, blood, flesh and other organs down. I decided that it would be best to not stand there gaping in wonderment and that I should kill the destroyers that were now focused on me. I was about to attack when there was a huge boom and Adrasta was right next to me with her arm around my shoulder. She pulled me down to my knees and held up the hand she wasn't restraining me with. There was a massive explosion and the ground shook around us. All I could see was fire and smoke and flash charred bodies around us. There were three more loud booms and I braced myself, held my hand up and closed my eyes.
"What's happening?"
"Air strike."
"Isn't that kind of overkill?"
"They have to kill the destroyers they send to battle. They become too dangerous after smelling blood for the first time."
The explosions stopped and the ground became still once more. Adrasta and I chanced a look around. Nothing was moving except for the flickering flames feeding off of the bodies of our fallen enemies.
"That was crazy."
"At least you know how to put up a barrier now."
"What?"
"You put up a barrier."
"You did that."
Adrasta looked at me as she picked up her sword. It turned to black liquid and was sucked into her wrist. I really have to learn to use my powers. Everything I've seen her do so far is awesome. She began to walk through the battlefield in the direction I thought to be wrong.
"Where are you going?"
"A few of the remaining members of the Unifaction should be over that next ridge. Most likely headed home since they think they've gotten rid of me."
"So I really put up a barrier?"
"Yeah, if you had been looking you would have seen yours overlap mine."
"I couldn't see yours. All I saw was the affect it had on the bomb and the debris."
"It isn't visible if you aren't looking for it."
"That makes sense, I suppose."
"It isn't really a physical barrier. . .it's mostly your mind causing things to only come so close to you."
"You went through some sort of training. . .didn't you?"
Adrasta shrugged.
"If you can call it that. Come on, we don't want our prey to get away."
We traveled through the rubble of corpses at a trot.
"We go in high."
"What?"
"As soon as we get to the top of the hill, we're going to jump straight up into the air and hide in the sun."
"Uh. . .all right."
We got to the top of the hill and I followed her instructions. I jumped up as high as I could and quickly surveyed the ground. There were about 30 men standing around with guns. I have to assume they are guarding the 5 men in business suits that were sitting at a coffee table drinking tea. I pulled out my sword and as soon as I landed, I unleashed hell.
