Disclaimer: I don't own Rokka no Yuusha. Some lines in this story were copied directly from NanoDesu LN translation.
2. Rolonia Manchetta
A short-statured girl was running through the forest, her thick iron armor making a lot of noise as she moved. Her polka-dotted clothes made her look strangely like a cow...a cow with glasses.
Her name was Rolonia Manchetta and she had been chosen as one of the six heroes.
"I have to...quickly..." Rolonia said in between heavy intakes of breath, her hand constantly pushing up the glasses that's sliding off of her face. She was lucky that she hadn't met any fiends or wounded people on her way to the Wailing Demon Territory, because otherwise she'd have to spent time fighting and healing, due to her being the Saint of Blood and has the power to manipulate blood to speed up the body's healing mechanism. Nevertheless, she still couldn't help but worry whether all the other heroes have assembled yet. Being late on the quest to fight the Majin wouldn't make a good first impression.
As she got closer to the temple, the bombing sound turned louder and began hurting her eardrums, but Rolonia didn't stop. Swapping away a branch that's blocking her way, Rolonia hurried her way to the temple that's getting closer in sight. Finally, she let out a sigh of relief as she reached one of the salt pillars.
"Hopefully, I'm not too late-"
A huge explosion cut off her speech. The blast knocked her off her feet and threw her into the air, causing her to hit her back painfully on a nearby salt pillar.
"Aw!"
A painful cry emitted from an injured woman lying beside her. Rolonia quickly moved her arm away from the woman's injured back.
"I-I'm so sorry! Are you alright?"
"Qui-ckly..." The woman said, pointing at the temple.
"B-but your wound..." Rolonia examined the terrible burn. She couldn't do anything about it.
"Hu-rry...you won't make it...please..."
"Alright. Please don't move. It will worsen your injury."
Rolonia stepped away from the injured woman and turned towards the temple. Bombs were still being dropped at a rate of ten per minute. Clumsily jumping around to avoid the bombs, while making lots of jingling metallic sound along the way, Rolonia managed to reach the temple unscathed.
The temple door was closed with a strong lock. Rolonia took out her whip, and realized it had no use against a lock like this.
"What should I do..."
Her hesitation made her overlook the bombing. When one of the bombs was about to hit her, Rolonia slashed her whip at the bomb in self defense and, as if on instinct, snatched it from the air and threw it at the lock, jumping away from the temple simoutaneously.
The lock flew open with an explosion and out came two soldiers clad from head to toe in armor. Rolonia quickly rolled back onto her feet and slashed her whip at the soldiers, only to create a thin scrape on their body armors. Seeing it's no use, Rolonia twisted her whip to snap at their head, this time knocking their helmets off. She emitted a strange cry when the helmets, along with the soldiers, fell to the ground lifelessly, revealing the inside to be empty.
"No way!"
At that moment, a mad cackling sounded behind her.
AN: I will be writing this story parts by parts. Not chapter by chapter, because I just couldn't figure out where a chapter should end in a story like this.