Chapter 4
Then without hesitation, the creature hurtled towards them with sharpened claws ready to maul them.
"There's two!" Kagome quipped, darting towards the right to dodge. Even with her reflexes, she moved out of the way just as the BOW barreled right between them, splitting the two agents apart.
Seeing as the creature seemed fixated at her, Kagome pulled out her handgun and disengaged the safety.
"Duck!" Leon shouted as he fired his rifle towards the crawling monster. It flinched and growled in response as bullets lodged into his exposed muscles, but did not seem to deter it as it lunged at the Asian woman.
Kagome tucked and rolled out of its way, feeling the heat as it sailed over her head and braved against a pillar.
She rolled onto her back and began shooting at it from the ground, gripping the handgun tightly. The priestess pursed her lips as she hesitated in raising her purifying powers and charging the bullets.
But she did not know this Tin Man and was not sure it would be wise to expose herself to him in that way. She would have to stick with the artillery.
At least until they were desperate.
'Hit the mark,' She urged with a grimace, easily doing so as her bullets made contact. But from experience, she knew it would take a lot more before it went down.
Thankfully she was not alone.
Once her gun clicked, indicating an empty magazine, she quickly moved to reload as she jumped back onto her feet.
The Licker roared and jumped away from the man's barrage of firepower.
Once Kagome tucked back to the man's side, they instantly slid into position to cover each other's blind points.
"Where's the second?" Leon grunted, not even questioning her knowledge of said monster. At least not now.
"It's farther back beside someone else.." Kagome began as they moved into a run towards the echoing steps, "It's not moving...like it's waiting. Something else is happening here."
With tenses shoulders, they continued their assault on the Licker.
It jerked and jumped to dodge their bullets, drawing ever closer.
They kept shooting until it reached a dangerous distance from them.
The man dropped down and shot upwards.
Kagome threw herself to the side.
Foregoing her gun, Kagome drew out her bow and notched an arrow.
And waited until it's landing point was secured, it would not dodge this.
It's claws barely contacted the floor when she let her arrow fly, finding a new place in its brain.
It roared and trembled in its spot before dropping to the ground.
Kagome let out a shuddered breath.
"Nice shot," The man rumbled, an eyebrow quirked as he stared at the feathered end sticking out from the dead center of its frontal lobe.
"We're not done ye-" Kagome cut short into a brief, girly shriek as the second presence made itself known. Nearly cutting her head clean off her shoulders.
Falling hard to the ground, enough to jar her teeth, Kagome bit back a groan.
Glancing up, she took in Tin Man's looming figure beside her as he shot at the second Licker running away. Though his eyes held firmly towards the creature, their eyes briefly met.
She definitely caught the surprise and amusement in Tin Man's eyes.
How embarrassing.