FOREST GIRL

When I heard the yell, I reckon I snapped. Summoning my dagger, I sprinted towards the fog, ignoring Dimentio's yells. As I ran deeper into the fog, the sobbing grew louder. Suddenly, I tripped over a stray root, lost my grip on my dagger, and saw it slide towards a shaking figure. Its head was bent, and it was trembling uncontrollably.

"L!" I shouted, relieved and worried at the same time. Crouching low, I began to examine his injuries. A bit of blood on the shoulder, red marks around his neck, wrists and ankles, and ripped clothes. No serious harm done, though.

I gripped his shoulder and guided him up. "C'mon L, we're getting the shit outta here."

"R-Raven?" stammered L, looking up at me. I saw that his mask was gone, revealing the emerald-green eyes that, right now, portrayed nothing but fear.

Am I a sick writer or what?

Anyway, I started speaking fast, in an undertone. "L, we gotta get outta here. We're in the middle of a fear fog batch, and if we don't get outta here I'm gonna - AAAAAAAH!"

I stumbled backwards, shaking as I saw the thing that I feared above all others slowly stomp its way towards me. L turned his head and gaped. "What the freaking hell is that son of a bitch?"

It's kinda hard to describe it, but I'll try. Here goes...

Imagine a dolphin. Upright. No pupils, just white eyes. Imagine a large sails sitting on a head. Two other sails that look like wings. Killer bird talons. An eel-like tail. A green spine of fin running down from the back of the head to the tail-tip. A yellow, hooked beak.

"Why, hello," sneered Eevill.

"GO TO HELL!" screamed Thunder, running towards the Direel. Some green sparks of electricity surrounded L's hand, and his right fist was soon charged up with green lightning.

"No such luck!" taunted Eevill, before cackling madly and spinning on the spot. He vanished in a shimmer of air. L stumbled slightly, whirling around to look for him.

I dived for my dagger, but Eevill appeared behind me and slashed my back. I yelled, and dropped my dagger again. Clapping his talons together, a crack opened up in the earth, and my golden dagger fell in.

"YOU BASTARD!"

I don't know who yelled it. It could've been me. Could've been L. Doesn't matter. The point was that Mr. L was in aggro mode. He charged his Thunderhand to full power and punched Eevill with all the force of an oncoming train. I blasted him with Avian magic and the Direel staggered back.

Suddenly, a harsh screeching noise that sounded like grating metal pierced the scene, followed by a series of crow caws. Another nanosecond later, and X and Xena swooped from the sky.

X stabbed Eevill in both eyes, the Direel letting out a scream of agony. Xena attacked furiously at the sail on his head, the thing Eevill used as a third eye. I blasted his sail-like wings, and L continuously stabbed him in the chest.

But Eevill wasn't defeated that easily. His talons swiped at X and Xena, causing the two birds to retreat. He lunged madly at L, and stabbed his shoulder. Roaring, I transformed into a crow and stabbed at Eevill's chest randomly.

Grinning suddenly, he aimed at me with his beak and jabbed it into my head. Or would have, had I not moved out of the way. I hurled a gobbet of healing energy at L, who was lying on the ground, semi-conscious. Once the healing did its work, he staggered up again and charged his wings with black electricity.

Combining both green and black lightning, the Green Thunder shocked Eevill with one-kajillion bolts of electricity. Screaming with rage and pain, Eevill thrashed around in agony.

X and Xena swooped in, me leading them. We stabbed at Eevill, but he grabbed the other two birds and hurled them across the clearing. L and I yelled their names, but they lay unconscious.

"And now I shall end your games!" hissed the barely conscious Direel.

At that point, I lost it. I felt a flurry of rage and power hit my body, and I exploded into flames. When the embers and smoke cleared, a straight-backed red-gold phoenix stood as myself, twice as large as a crow and the wave of fire running from its head and out like Celestia's mane casting a shimmering fiery glow on the clearing. I shook my similar fire tail and swooped at Eevill, golden beak and talons at the ready.

I hurled a deadly stream of fire at Eevill, who screamed louder. L finished him off with a Thunderhand punch, and the Direel vanished in a puff of smoke.

Panting, I shrunk back into a crow, and then reverted back to human. L smirked.

"That was fun."