Chapter 2

Dungeon Battle

"YAH!" Valkyrie bellows as she strikes her enemy with her spear downward. The eyeball monster splits in half from her strong attack and disappears. She lands on her feet and relaxes her stance. "Whew! Another one down~!"

"Great job!" Hunter says as she fires her arrow on the last one. "Now, let's get that boss!"

"Right!" Valkyrie nods and the two sprint further and further in the dungeon until they come towards a large gate.

The gate opens with a large creaking sound. The two high leveled warriors sprint forward, and the gate closes automatically. The two warriors look around as they get into their battle positions. Just then, Hunter notices a large eye open and tentacles start to come out of it's eye, about 6 of them in total. Both of the warriors dodge it and land on their feet and face their enemy, revealing it to be a large eyeball monster, only in red color.

"Suppose it's mad about killing its babies?" Valkyrie guesses.

"I think you're theory is correct," Hunter says as she readies her bow.

All 6 tentacles start lashing at the two warriors. Valkyrie and Hunter split up and try to attack from both sides. Valkyrie starts to strike the tentacles that's coming towards her while Hunter tries to aim for the monster's eye. However, the tentacles were too fast for them and both get hit with both of them. They get back on their feet and fight once again. But the monster doesn't give them a chance as they get hit again. Both fly about 15 feet in the air and fall to the ground hard.

"This monster is tough!" Hunter groans as she recovers.

"Yes, but we're stronger!" Valkyrie says as she holds her spear. "That thing doesn't stand a chance against a high leveled warrior like us!" She charges at the monster and jumps in the air, dodging the tentacles that come her way. She raises her spear to attack its eye, but a blur of a red tentacle hits Valkyrie and crashes her into a wall, creating a huge puff of dust.

"Valkyrie!" Hunter cries.

The blonde lets go of her spear as she falls unconscious before she hits the ground again. Hunter quickly runs over to her and realizes that she's knocked out cold, plus she's received some bruises on her arms and legs.

"Valkyrie…" Hunter looks back at the monster as the tentacles start to come for the blonde. The archer whacks it with her bow, sending the tentacles back a little and carries Valkyrie far away from it as possible. She gently sets the unconscious warrior down, stares at her face a little before turning back towards the monster. She eyes the spear ahead of her and then glances back at the monster, ready to make it's next move.

She summer salts to retrieve the weapon as all 6 tentacles come together to attack her. She jumps up and slices all of them in one strike. While the monster is distracted, Hunter lands on her feet and readies her bow.

"You're dead!" she yells as she fires 3 arrows at the same time directly at the eye. The three of them hit the pupil making it bleed a little, but Hunter fires more and more arrows at the eye, making it bleed even more. After one last arrow, the eye closes as it can't take anymore sharp points. The archer then grabs Valkyrie's weapon, jumps in the air and raises it high.

"Sayanara!" And then, she strikes it down, splitting the monster in half within about 30 seconds. As the monster vanishes in to thin air, she runs over towards Valkyrie, drops down to one knee as she tries to shake her awake.

"Valkyrie…Valkyrie…Valkyrie…!" Hunter says as she shakes her a bit more.

The blonde slowly opens her eyes and lifts her head a little. "H-Hunter?"

"Oh, thank goodness you're okay."

"Wh-where's the monster?"

"I defeated it while you were unconscious," the green haired girl replies.

"That's good," Valkyrie whispers.

Hunter examines the wounds and her expression becomes worrisome. "You've been hurt pretty badly. I"m so sorry."

"What are you apologizing for?"

"I didn't come and save you when that monster was about to attack you."

Valkyrie just smiles as she caresses Hunter's cheek. "Hey, don't say that. You protected me anyways and defeated it. That's all that matters."

The archer nods and smiles. "You're right. I love you, Valkyrie."

"I love you, too, Hunter."

Both of them lean in and give each other a passionate, heartwarming kiss.

A/N: Yes, yes I know it's short, but I wanted to get to the point. Feel free to give out any suggestions, questions or concerns and don't forget to review. ;)