Wolf Chasing Bunny
Part 1
I woke up sleeping in a pile of books with a soft blanket. I must've really been absorbing knowledge because of my legendary headache. Then I took a breath and smelled alcohol.
Don't blame a book just because you slept on its cover I guess?
Using my power I got rid of the headache, but I probably should avoid falling asleep in hard and flat surfaces like this.
Now, speaking of flat surfaces, where's the deer? I'm hungry.
I looked around the room. There was a mess everywhere and some papers with strange symbols. This must be one of Meg, study rooms.
As I was about to get up, I noticed my elemental ring was shining.
Hmm… looks like I left a note before getting drunk yesterday. I had the origami fly my way and opened it to find a scribbled and unreadable note with my penmanship, and on the back of the paper there was another note with a penmanship I don't recognize, which says.
"Nice try partner. As a penalty for breaking your promise, I will be deducting the deer hunter service from our agreement. Your adepti friend told us you wouldn't be needing it anyways. Come for a drink when you have the time, don't be a stranger." The note said.
How can I not be a stranger when I don't even remember who I'm talking to here? And a deer hunter…? What kind of agreement did we even reach?
Meh, the note mentioned my adepti friend, which means is either Xiao or the deer. I'll just ask them for more information later.
Having decided on resolving that issue later, I tried to move but something slid off my bed, I was covered in bills from both restaurants, books stores and other kind of stores…
"Huh?" This cost a fortune.
I quickly put on my clothes and fixed my hair before steeping out of the room.
"Deer, Meg, Xiao…. Is anybody here?" I called as I entered the living room.
It was dawn outside, seems like I was out all night.
Before me I saw a black haired head sticking over the soft lounge sofa. The very same sofa I now held a bill in the palm of my hand.
"Oh Innamorato, finally you wake up. Good morning I guess." Meg said whilst sipping some expensive tea.
I'm starting to see where all the unreasonable bills came from.
"Meg, care to explain what all these are?" I held my breath as I spoke so I wouldn't yell at her.
She barely looked back before she responded.
"Oh that, Yanfei said if you and Xiao where going to expend all day and night partying, we should too. So we went shopping. Ah, I've never thought I'll get to enjoy a nice cup of tea again after a hard day of work." She said.
It appears these two went splurging with my money while I was out drinking…
"You know Meg, I might have just woken up, but I don't think I've ever heard such an audacious, 'we are sorry before.'" I said, crackling my knuckles.
I had agreed to pay for this trip expenses, but not Megs college tuition. Then I looked better at the bills and noticed something.
"Wait a minute… some of these bills are from different dates?" I said in question.
Meg yawned from her spot on the couch.
"Oh that, well, you and Xiao didn't come home for two whole nights. Thus Yanfei said, if the party was really that good, we should take ours to the next level too…."
Oh deer. Did I really went to party under these circumstances?
"She said you got some nerve to be partying for days at a time while she has to stay at home cowering for the day Eula shows up. Just so you can have your precious boat to Inuzuma..."
Oh my deer. She's really angry now isn't she…?
"You and Xiao both arrived yesterday morning tripping over your own shadows and the stench of alcohol, before you two went to sleep…"
Even Xiao came home drunk? Damn, was the party that good? I wish I could remember for once.
"Xiao woke up yesterday evening and left with a butler guy who came to see him, and you just slept until now."
Oh my, we're assholes. We really been partying all this time instead of looking for a solution so she doesn't has to pay with her body… I need to have a word with her and apologize….
"Oh right, Yanfei said that she wants to have a word with you—"
"Wanna go grab some breakfast Meg!?" I said.
Maybe an strategic retreat is in order.
Part 2
Inside the Angel's Share tavern.
Plan for the day, run all over the place looking for a ship and claim I was partying because I was successful days ago but I just forgot to tell her. It's perfect, nothing can go wrong.
Sometimes I even amaze myself. I knew I should have applied for that Sumeru scholarship. My bragging rights would be trough the roof by now.
"You know this isn't going to end well for you, isn't it? Why don't you just go and apologize to her?" Meg asked me.
"Ahahahahaaaaa! Good one Meg, I swear if you weren't so bent on astrology you could've been a really good comedian."
Apologies? What if she doesn't wants my apologies? Can I block anvils and fireballs with apologies? I don't think so.
As I was laughing at Meg's ingenuity, a red haired waiter approached our table.
"Greetings patrons, my name is Diluc and I'll be your waiter today. May I take your orders?" The waiter introduced himself.
"Sure redhead, I want to try this Pile 'Em Up.' Heard they make it different in here."
"A Pile 'Em Up' for the samurai coming right up, and would you like a strong drink to go with it?"
"Ehm… no, thanks. I have a long day ahead of me and I need to be in peak condition." I responded, feeling a little confused.
I get it this is a tavern but what kind of waiter goes around offering strong drinks to his costumers this early in the morning? Shouldn't we be in breakfast hours right now?
"Shame then, and what would your friend have?"
"I'll take one Cream Stew, Diluc, and some tea, you have my most magnanimous gratitude. Oh, I would also like a copy of today news if you'd be so kind." Meg ordered.
Having jolted down our orders, the waiter left for the back of the store.
"What's up with that guy? He was looking at me like I was dirt on his boots."
"Don't mind him, he's the young lord of house Ragnvindr and the owner of the Dawn Winery. Is to be expected he would feel apprehensive when dealing with a brutish samurai such as yourself. I know I sympathize." Meg insulted me.
Oh, so he's nobility right, it makes so much sense now. That's perfectly normal behavior then, and I'm the problem. I gotten so used to dealing with peasants that sometimes I forget the looks of my people, and that sometimes they might not recognize me as one of their kind.
As I was thinking, Diluc returned with a cup of tea and the newspaper Meg asked him for.
"Hmm, it says here the Dark Knight seems to have gotten himself a sidekick." Meg read as she sipped from her hot tea.
"Huh?"
"Tsk." I wondered about the news and Diluc cringed.
Meg gazed attentively over the newspaper's for a second more before she addressed us.
"Seems like it's true. Witnesses reported two masked vigilantes working together to thwart a scheme by the Abyss order. 'I saw them, the trail of a red shining star followed by a green one as they battled with the Abyss mages over the roof of the cathedral.' Witness report says." Meg concluded.
"Vigilantes…? Interesting, I don't think we had any of those back in Liyue, and I haven't seen ninjas since I left Inuzuma… Huh, is something the matter Dilu?" I asked my waiter because he looked troubled.
But Diluc ignored me and left for the kitchen. Maybe I should have told him I'm no commoner, I'm sure he wouldn't feel so uncomfortable around me then.
A sipping tea Meg then looked straight at me.
"Say Innamorato, what's your plan for today? Are you going to be an adult and apologize to Yanfei or would you rather drag this on until it inevitably comes back to bite you in the ass?"
"Of course, I will find a solution to my problems before the day is up and later fool the deer into thinking I had everything under control." I explained my master plan.
"Brilliant, I say. Pffft!" Meg chortled. "I didn't need to be an illustrious Astrologer to see that one coming. But I don't really know why I'm asking when I already read your future and I know you have one arduous day ahead of you." The astrologer declares.
Hmm….
"So I'm doomed to fail today…? Interesting, I've been wanting to try changing fate for a while now. This could be excellent practice for when I'll come face to face with my goddess."
"Ugh guhug cough cough cough!" Meg choked, spat her tea and began having a coughing fit.
Did I offend her or something? What's so choking?
"Change Fate? How many times are we going to have this conversation Innamorato? I told you there's nothing you can do to change your destiny, as you're about to expend the rest of the day finding out."
"Meg please. Fate, destiny or the very stars mean nothing before a humble and honorable samurai such as myself."
"Ha! Yeah right, would you like orange or striped white to go today?" Meg joked.
"My, you don't seem to believe a word I say do you? Would you like a demonstration then?" I said before pulling a stack of paper sheets out of my haori.
With technique and finesse, I folded a few sheets until I made myself a seer hat and cropped the others into a ball so I could use them as my crystal ball imitation.
"W-what are you doing there? I-I'm going to warn you I won't tolerate you making a mockery out of my Astrology." A slightly on edge Meg said.
Having completed the preparations for my equipment, all I needed now was to let the honor do the talking.
"I'm Simp Bad, the illustrious Great Paper Seer. And I shall dictate your destiny now, economically challenged magician…"
"What the heck did you just called me—"
"Thou shall leave this tavern, uneaten." I predicted.
My, this is actually kind of fun. I should try speaking like this more often.
"What…? Leave this tavern— what kind of prediction is even that? Besides we already ordered didn't we?" A flustered Meg questioned me.
As she did, Diluc finally arrived with our dishes.
"One Cream Stew for the Astrologer and one specialty of the house for the samurai, 'Once Upon A Time In Mondstadh.'" Diluc was about to place our meals on the table, but then I grabbed the dish meant for Meg and brought it to my side.
"I'm afraid my friend here won't be having anything, as she lacks the Mora to pay for her meal. I shall have her dish instead." I said and smiled.
"What!? Why you insufferable…! I know what you're trying to do and this isn't how destiny works at all! And besides, you paid me my weekly salary already remember? I can pay for this if I want!" Meg said, snatching the Cream Stew plate from my hands and digging at her pockets.
She found nothing there.
"You left your coin pouch on the sofa. I saw you walking out whiteout it when we where leaving the house. I don't blame you though, you must be so used to having nothing in there that you probably forgot to bring along."
"You saw what!? Then why didn't you said anything!?"
"Because I intended to pay for your meal anyways, that is until I felt like playing with fate of course."
"You arrogant simplistic simpleton! You think you won just because you made a spiteful prediction that you yourself played a part in doing!?"
"Yes, that is exactly what it means to carve your own fate. I wanted to screw with you, and I made it happen. Thus I controlled your destiny to fit my will, just as I intended. Nobody but I gets to decide what my destiny should be."
"That is not…. Ugh! Fine! Have your stupid Cream Stew I'll just go make something at home. But just so you know, this means nothing! No matter how smarty pants you think you are, the fate that's written in the stars is something that's beyond even you!"
"Oh really, would you like me to demonstrate again?"
"Eh…?" Meg froze in place.
With might and serenity I peered into my paper seer ball and the antics just flowed in like a river.
"Humba bin ban bun! When in matters of love, thou sorry ass shall be rejected by three boys before this afternoon."
"Like that'll ever happen! Enjoy rotting in jail and Yanfei wrath for the rest of the day you con artist of a seer!" Meg spat bad omens at me and left trough the door, steaming.
She left me me and Diluc just sitting there, silently looking at each other's.
"Intriguing development. Would you like a drink to go with your meal then dear patron?"
"No, Dilu. I would not like a drink right now. This is a matter of life and death and until I can guaranteed my survival I'm going to at least try to take this very seriously... Why do you even want me to drink so much anyways?"
"This is a tavern dear patron, would you kindly order a drink with your food?" He responded.
Damn this waiter sure is insistent with serving drinks to his costumers. No wonder he leads the Wine Industry around here.
"Alright, I'll have some grape juice— woah!" Diluc grabbed me by the collar.
"We don't serve that… that joke of a drink here in this tavern dear patron. Order a real drink please." Diluc said trough gritted teeth, like he just now had to swallow something that starts with pride and ends with irony.
I pushed him away and ran the hell out of there. Those eyes, those are the same eyes the deer makes when she wants to kidnap me and take advantage of me.
Part 3
Amongst the breezy roads of Mondstadh, a familiar astrologer was approached by a gallant young man with wild blond hair.
"By Barbatos girly, you sure look like a snack. Too bad I'm a boobs man." The blond guy said after it was him who had approached her himself and left Meg just standing there in shock.
He then proceeded to walk out on her without a care in the world and juggling a coin pouch in his hand.
"This… this can't be right…?" Meg was starting to sweat a little.
Two blocks later and our fabled astrologer encounters a little kid.
"Big sis, you're so pretty! Would you like to marry me when I grow older?" The kid confessed with starry eyes.
"Hehe. How impertinent and at such a young age too. Very well, if you can promise to become a kindhearted and glamorous young adult with a bright future ahead. Then I'll allow you to snatch the heart of this renowned astrolo—"
"Ehh that sounds like kind of a drag big sis. Never mind, I'll find someone less demanding to marry." The kid shot down Meg on the spot and left juggling a coin pouch in his little hand.
I could see the fabled astrologer holding a finger into the air as she was dumped by a little kid on the spot. She held her hat down in panic as she started to murmur.
"This can't be right, this can't be right, this cannot be right at all! That clown doesn't have these powers… no…" She shudders just thinking about it.
If I remember correctly, she's not allowed to predict her own fate, meaning her powers are useless under this predicament.
How convenient.
"Hey pretty sis, would you like to—" A young effeminate bard approached Meg, only to find her sprinting away. "Wait why are you running! Why are you running!?" He nervously questioned.
"Like heck I'm going to let this happen a third time! Stay away from me!" A desperate Meg yelled.
"But I just… I just wanted to tell you how pretty you are… and how much I admire you and all the work you do as an Astrologer..." The young bard confessed, while coming to a stop.
The words of his heartfelt confession had reached Meg, who stopped right on her tracks. Holding a hand to her heart as she turned around.
"Do you… mean it…?" She said, before approaching the innocent young bard.
Guess the poor thing doesn't have that many fans, given her career and the news she usually has to break up to people… I'm starting to feel kind of bad for her but…
"Nah, I just made that up. A kind samurai guy saw my performance on the plaza and said he would pay me good Mora to play with your heart. Please forgive me and don't take it seriously alright, it was just a light hearted prank." That bard femboy snitched out on me!
He then looked my way as I was hiding behind the corner of a house, and stuck his tongue out, acting all cute and juggling the Mora pouch I paid him, before he fled from the scene.
I was left making eye contact with a red like a volcano, Meg.
"INNAMORATOOOOOO!" She roared.
I tried to flee the scene but a jet's stream passed right under my feet and out of it came a pissed Meg who strangled me.
"You really have some nerve even among con artists! Haven't I told you before that this just isn't the way destiny works!!?"
"Oh really? Have I been wrong in any of my predictions so far?" I resisted.
"The arrogance to even ask! Yes you have, because you haven't predicted anything at all! The only thing you've been doing is scheming to have your way and that does not constitutes the work of fate! Before destiny men should be powerless! That is the way it works! You literally had to pay three rascals to carry on your work for you, do you seriously think that means you hold any power over destiny!?"
"Of course I do, I had my way with you didn't I? For you see Meg, the problem with destiny is not that men are powerless to do anything about it, is that poor penny-less peasants are powerless to do something and they want to make you believe is the same case for everyone. But I'm no commoner, I'm a samurai, and a very rich and powerful one at that. I have the power of hard cash, aristocratic and honor on my side and I'm no afraid to use it, which is why I can control destiny." I rectified my commoner friend.
"Ugh! Forget it… Is just a lost cause! How can a man with crippling memory loss carry this much hubris!? How do you even get trough the day to begin with!?"
"Well you see, it all starts in the morning when everything is going according to plan, then stuff happens and I'll end the day singing like, 'No matter what, no matter how. I know I'll make it through somehow.'" I sang.
Meg then pushed me and began walking away.
"I'm done here. If you want to play fool then by all means, be arrested. But I will stress this is definitely not how fate works."
"Ohh my powers have awakened once more. Thou anger management magician shall meet a winged pink hippopotamus today whiteout fail." I read Meg's fate once again.
This seemed to get her attention as she stopped right on her tracks.
Snort* "A what now…? Hahahaha, like that could ever—Eeek!" Meg shrieked as a winged, pink hippopotamus flied right over our heads.
The pink hippopotamus then dispersed in a band of origamis that I had used to generate this illusion with the power of my Vision.
She nearly had a heart attack from the sheer bizarreness of the encounter. Then she turned to look my way.
"Written in the starts." I said.
"B-b-but you…."
"I made it happen? Yes I did, once again, I controlled your destiny. Hahahahahahahahaha—"
Clink, Clink. Sounds where made behind my back.
I was resting my hands by my nape when I heard something going clickity and now I can't seem to free my hands.
Before me, Meg had crossed her arms all smug, stealing a glance behind my back.
"Decided by destiny." She mocked.
Behind me was…
"Hello there, Fatui. Remember me? Nobody escapes the greatest Outrider of Mondstadh. The great Amb—"
Part 4
Oh feet, what I want you for.
"You can run all you want Fatui, but you won't escape!" The bunny shouted, as she aimed a Pyro arrow behind my back.
She handcuffed me trough a sneak attack, but I used a swarm of origamis to get her off me before she could take away my Vision.
I have no intention of getting caught here, or better said, I cannot get caught here under any circumstances.
Normally the one who gets me out of jail, would be the deer, but given how pissy she's at me right now, and the fact this girl knows what I am. I'm likely going to get the Eternity Sentence for sure.
And here we are, running all over the streets of Mondstadh.
I ran past the blacksmith, heading for Meg's house. With Meg being out right now, I'll have this bunny girl follow me inside my lair and then I'll catch her, gag and tie her to a chair in Megs basement. Then I'll pay my astrologer friend a healthy sum to stay out of her basement until the last day I stay on this city.
I don't know how this girl I know nothing about, found out I'm a Fatui, but I can't allow her to make a scene. My freedom is at stake here.
As I ran for my destination, I noticed a red haired girl pleasantly looking out the window—
Sharp right turn.
I think a new plan is in order. If I tried to kidnap this bunny inside the house right now, I'm sure I'll get a reversal and become the one whose ending in a dungeon.
I found myself running trough a long set of stairs after I had changed my course.
As I looked behind my back, the bunny shot a Pyro arrow at me and I had to dodge… I was pathetically forced to dodge out of the way.
Normally I'll be able to deflect that arrow with but a flick of my fingers, but for some reason I haven't adapted yet to this girl elemental energy.
This is unbelievable, how is she this bizarrely weak? Even the deer is stronger than her and I'm not praising any one of the two.
The burning arrow flew over my head just as I crouched on the last second, but then I hit a step of the stairs as I was running forward on my momentum, causing me to stumble and fall. I bluntly hit the stairs with my forehead, drawing blood. Behind me the bunny girl launched herself and landed painfully on my back.
"Surrender is still an option you—OWOWOWOWOWO!!!" The bunny cried as I tazed her with my Electro power.
I could see her skeleton glowing through the skin as she sat on my back. Then I felt the grip of her hand land on my head.
"HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT!! My hair!! You're going to ruin my hair!!" I screamed as her hand caught fire and set my lustrous hair alight.
Does she have any idea how much gel products and time it takes to fix burned hair?
With all the strength I had, I jerked back my head and drove it straight on the bridge of her nose.
"Ouch!" She cried as she finally let go of me and rolled a set of stairs down.
I quickly shook the flames off and spun on my heels, before I launched myself in a dropkick straight at her.
I'll put an end to this before it has any chance to escalate.
The bunny regained her bearings faster than I thought, and launched herself on the air to meet my dropkick. She split her legs open and supported both hands on my kick, before she rammed her head against my face.
I saw stars, deers and Electro goddesses for a second before we both fell and painfully rolled down all the way to the bottom of the stairs, where we began to throw hands and slap each other's silly.
"Hya, sah, hah, take that you Fatui scum!" The girl cried as we fought.
I had my hands still held by handcuffs, I was completely out of origamis and this girl Vision is so pathetically weak I can't even begin to control her yet.
She drove a kick to my flank, I drove one to her guts. She landed an uppercut on me chin, I bonked her head with the handcuffs on my wrists. She swiped my legs off the ground, I socked her one before I fell. She curb stomped me on the stairs, I ran an electric current through her bones.
With smoke coming out of her body, the bunny finally fell and I managed to run upstairs.
"This isn't over just yet you jerk!!" I heard and found the smoking bunny, fresh on my tail not five seconds later.
I saw a street vendor selling fruit ahead and I took over his car and ran it downstairs.
The bunny hopped the car and rolled over the fruit, as he picked a pumpkin and pitched it aflame at me.
"Aaah! Gah! Curse this rabbit!" I felt the burning flames ruining my clothes and hair.
The bunny then hopped down the fruit stand and launched at high kick to my head, it landed on my ear and knocked me off balance. She spun on her heel and continued the combo with a roundhouse. I regained my bearings in time and crouched, then pushed to throw off her balance, afterwards I ringed my handcuffed arms over her head and grabbed her from behind in German Suplex motion, then dunked her head first on an apple barrel nearby.
"Hhmm!!" Sounds came out of the barrel.
I rolled on my back and landed on my feet, then launched myself in summersault trough the air before I drove an axe kick down on the bunny bum.
"Hmmm!!!" Noises and apple bits flew out the barrel as my sworn enemy dug from head to knees inside the thing.
Then I kicked the barrel and sent it rolling downstairs.
"Hey, what the abyss do you think you're doing to Amber you crazy bastard!? And you just wrecked my business too!" Screamed the angry fruit vendor.
I handed him a generous bag of Mora.
"You saw nothing."
"If I saw something? I don't remember getting out of bed this morning!" The vendor seems to have taken kindly to my incentive. "Just one more thing my guy, I don't know what you did to piss off Amber so much, but I would be running if I where you." The vendor said, pointing downstairs.
A rabbit full of bruises, covered in apple bits and juices was sprinting this way.
I don't think I'll ever get tired of saying it, fricking Pyros and their persistence!
"Ohhhhhh I'm soooo going to lock you down now, Fatui!" The bunny growls.
I set running upstairs with all my might, I know a way to lose her.
Like cat and mouse, or bunny and samurai, we ran all over the place until we arrived at the adventurers guild, there I went around the building while headed for the wall on the back.
When I got there I climbed atop and jumped off the wall, before I put out my glider.
Even that random street vendor knew her name, if I had tried to lose her inside the city, it was only a matter of time before she gathered backup, but here is different.
Not only would she have to have her glider at the ready, she would also need to follow me into the wild.
As I was breathing the winds of freedom, a flaming arrow whistles past me, and set my glider wing alight.
"What in abyss, rabbit!!?" I yelled astounded.
"Ha ha ha ha! You are now dealing with the three times Gliding Champion in her element! Villain!"
Soaring across the air with a pair of googles and an arrow-knocked bow at the ready, was none other than the bunny girl.
Not only had she followed me, it would seem she had much higher altitude too, she must have jumped from one of the towers while I got off the walls.
"This is the land of freedom damnit! Why can't you just let me go!?"
"It isn't the land of freedom for you! Or people like you, criminal!" She declared and set the arrow alight.
My chance.
Before she could fire it, I aimed my handcuffed hands over my shoulder and shot a diminutive spark. It ticked on her burning arrow and triggered an overload reaction.
"W-w-wait time out—"
BOOOM!!! The rabbit exploded.
After the bright light of the reaction passed, I could see a blinking and completely black rabbit, as she was covered in soot from head to toes. And her glider wings disintegrated with a puff.
It was my victory. I finally defeated the vicious bunny.
As I began to taste freedom, I noticed the bunny fall wasn't as vertical as I was hoping for because of the overload reaction, and she was headed my way.
"Aaaaaahhhhhh!"
"You're mine Fatui! Haaaaaaaah!"
She drove a dropkick to the very center of my spine, knocking the air out of my lungs and causing me to see lights, then she latched onto my back and sank her bunny incisors on my cranium.
"Eaaaaaahhh!! Let go you vicious rabbit!"
"Hmm hmmm hmmmm!" She responded by grunting some noises and doubling her bite force.
We kept losing altitude as the weight of two people was too much for just one damaged glider. I performed a barrel roll and caused the bunny to lose her grip, but she managed to catch onto my haori before falling.
I could hear the seam tearing before she caught my leg and began climbing.
"I got you now Fatui! You won't escape this time!" She declared as she hanged from my waist.
I, whiteout a second thought, bonked her head full-force.
"Ouch's! Yeouch! Stop—Ugh!" The bunny went, bonk, bonk, bonk and some other manner of anguished noises.
"Let go if you want me to stop you accursed rodent! Or else!" I threatened, bringing my handcuffed fists up to show her I wasn't playing around.
Then I noticed something funny was going on with the rabbit. She had this big round pout and tears rolling down her puffy cheeks. And to my horror, she opened her mouth wide, with a shine to her fangs.
Then she bites down on my Lightning Splitter.
"EAAAAAAAHHHH!!! AAAAAHHHH!!! LET GO YOU CRAZY RABBIT!!!" I yelled in pain.
Then I brought down my fist on her head and bonked the living—
"LAAAAAAAAAA VITA NOVA!!!" The pain got even worse.
Bonking her head as she's biting meant the equivalent of crushing a nut inside a Nutcracker. I couldn't fight back, but she wasn't stopping for some unholy reason.
"For all the Archons love stop! I'm sorry!! Gaaaaaahhhh!!!!" I cried.
The bunny was taking advantage of my situation to chew at her heart content. I feared she wouldn't stop until she ripped it off.
"Grrrrr, grrrrrr!" Seems she wanted to be sure it came off for real, as she growled like a wild animal and bites like one too.
But then my glider wings burned beyond repair and we fell, hitting the lake and she finally let go.
Inside the lake, a few seconds passed in tranquil relief before my honor demanded blood, and I swam back to the surface.
"Now you done it, you stupid rabbit! I'm going to sock the ever-living shit out of you!"
"Hah! You think I'm afraid of you!? Bring it on pal!"
Like two raging Kaiyus, we clashed and began throwing hands atop the water surface.
I drove a haymaker down on her head, she shook my jaw with a kick coming from underwater. She smacked me with her bow, I later sliced it to ribbons with my sword. I shoved her head underwater, she sank her jaws on my sausage for a second time. I knocked the air out of her with a knee to the chest, she resurfaced with a flaming dragon fist to my jaw, then followed the dragon fist with a falcon punch, and I let lose my electro vision.
""OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!"" We hugged each other's and cried as I forgot about the lake and got us both electrocuted.
Lights flashed before my eyes as I felt every inch of my body stinging in agony.
I stopped my vision as soon as I could, but still felt the electric currents dancing on the water.
When I regained my eyesight, before me I saw a bunny bum floating.
It brought a smile to my face.
"Keh, serves you right, vicious rabbit." I flipped the bird before the bunny bum and turned her on her back.
The whites of her eyes where showing, but it seemed like she was breathing just fine.
I left her floating on the lake and began swimming back to shore.
That was a serious beat down I took just now. I can see blood and several abrasions and blisters showing on my face by the water reflection. Not that the bunny was doing any better but still. This was a colossal hassle just to get away from one simple guard.
I finally made it to shore and began catching my breath. Now that I managed to escape, I have to find a way back into the city and resume my previous objective. One pissed off Pyro girl for the day is more than enough.
I began squeezing my clothes to drain the water, then I set my sights back on the city of wind.
I must admit it does makes for a magnificent view no matter what angle you look at it.
And then I caught sight of a shark fin swimming in the water…
Oh no, the bunny is still there. I didn't know there where sharks in these waters when I left her there.
Just as I was about to dive back in the water, I noticed a peculiarity to the shark fin.
It was fins, in plural, because there where two of them swimming side by side. They where also red fins… Hey wait a minute.
"N-no way…!"
The shark stuck her head out the waters with a pout and a black ring around the eye. It was the bunny and what I thought was a shark fin was her ribbon.
"This is too ridiculous you fricking rabbit!!"
"Like you're one to talk! Surrender yourself now and I promise I'm only kicking your butt all the way to Headquarters!!" The shark bunny threatens me to surrender.
I turned on my heels and set running. How could I ever face my goddess if I got caught here by this stupid bunny?
Surrender myself, does she thinks I'm playing around here? If this bunny gets to lock me up today, then the deer will show up to throw away my key for Eternity later, and that'll be the end of me.
What kind of samurai gets taken down by two bottoms of the food tiers?
Running with all my might, I disappeared inside the forest of Wolfvendom.
Part 5
The bunny got down as she followed on a trail.
"No escape!" She declares as she inspected a set of foot prints.
I had hoped to lose her inside the thick foliage of the forest, where even the sunlight has trouble reaching, but it would seem she specializes in tracking.
"Here he applied Wolfhook to his wounds." She said, inspecting the pulp of some fruit I used just moments ago.
Wolfhooks can be applied to wounds and the pain was killing me… How is she still holding up when she isn't any better?
"Here he squeezed his clothes dry." She examined the mud where I dried my clothes.
You should try it too bunny, you look like you're soaking wet.
"Here he marked his territory." She found a tree where I took a piss.
Is this stupid rabbit treating me like a wild animal or something? I just had to go.
"And here ends his trail. But because he's wounded, he couldn't have gotten too far..."
You're wounded too you stupid rabbit. Let, me, go!
"Which means… he must've climbed atop the trees…! Aha! Another target tracked down by Outrider Amber!" The rabbit jerked a finger in my general direction.
I jumped from branch to branch as I tried to make a run for it.
"No one escapes my sights!" My pursuer had no issue climbing and following me through the trees.
I felt a sharp pain on the back of my noggin, followed by the smell of something burning.
"Aaahhhhh! Fire— you! Stop setting my head on fire!" Having had her bow destroyed. The bunny resorted to trowing fiery stones.
"Stop running and fight like a man, aren't you a Fatui!? Have some Honor!"
I stoped right on my tracks.
"Huh!!? Excuse me, what— Uff!" I couldn't get a sentence edgewise when I felt a heel land on my solar plexus.
The blow sent me falling and I smashed on my back with a lower branch of the tree I was standing. But the blows where the least of my worries now.
What is this strange sensation I'm feeling?
"Heh, that's more like it." The bunny dusted her hands with a satisfied smirk.
This feeling… Is like the very Honor is cursing through my veins… Pumping, boiling and rushing all over my body.
"You sure didn't make this easy for any of us. When we get back I'll have you charged for every 'resist arrest' crime in history."
Ah… I know what this feeling is now. This must be that thing they call, 'Honor at first sight.'
"To the Abyss with running! I'm going to use your body to let off some steam now!" I stood tall flexing my muscles.
With the honor now cursing through my veins, I applied force and snapped the chains of my handcuffs, freeing my hands at last.
"Oh bring it on Fatui! Screw your arrest, I'm getting you some well deserved payback!"
It would seem none of us cared about anything else but beating the ever-loving shit out each other's by this point.
I dropped on the dragon stance and she adopted the crane kick and inflated her cheeks in a pout. With our other objectives aside, we let everything else in the world behind and set on what was really important.
Slapping each other's silly.
And so we jumped from our respective tree branches in flying kick motion.
My kick landed because my legs where longer, and her pout released a fire breath which swallowed me whole. We both landed on the same tree branch where I put the flames out with my Vision.
I blocked a high kick with my now free arms and countered with an overhand punch, grazing at her ribbon. She resumes her stance bringing up a hook, which I blocked with one hand before I grabbed her arm with my other hand, launching a shoulder throw. Only for her to support herself on the tree branch overhead and break momentum, before falling down and sinking her sharp incisors on my cranium for the second time.
"Gyaaaaaa!! Stop— are you a rabbit or a zombie!!?" I questioned as I fired Lightning, forcing her to jump off my head.
She landed with a spring to her feet and charged at me with her guard up.
She kicked me in the nuts, I elbowed her in the boobs. She stepped on my foot, I punched her on the head. She roundhouse kicked me, I roundhouse slapped her. She threw a fake-out punch at me, I threw a real one. She began tossing flaming rocks, I fired lightning in return.
Out the corner of my eye I caught a family of squirrels eating nuts, as they where absorbed watching the show going on the tree next door.
"Your guard is down Fatui, you're mine!" The bunny performs a Dempsey roll as she dodges my punch, and returned with a straight right.
And then I felt it, the moment I had been waiting for since this madness began. I finally adapted to her pathetic elemental energy.
"Eh…?!"
The bunny watched in seemingly slow motion as I jerked a middle finger, and then her Pyro Vision pulled down her shorts with it.
Alabaster white panties. Still wet from the lake and sticking closely to the skin in a verish transparent manner.
"Kyaaaa!!! P-pervert! You degenerate Fatui—"
Before she could finish, I traced a loop with my middle finger and pointed it up.
Her vision flew around her legs, binding them together with her booty shorts and later lifted her up, before I made her Vision stick her shorts on a tree branch, which left her hanging upside down.
"Hey! That's cheating!" I was accused of foul play.
Her pouch hanged open and a handful of rocks fell down the trees. Now she's completely helpless to fight back.
Finally, I can see my freedom rising over the horizon. The bunny hangs harmless at last and handfuls covering her panties to cause me anymore trouble.
I can finally walk out of here a free man… and she won't follow me… she kinda looks like a punching bag… hanging upside down like that…
In the name of honor, I decided to have a few words with the bunny before leaving.
"Ugh… You got me…" She mopped.
With all the elegance of an aristocrat, I slapped her across the cheek.
"Ouch! Meanie!"
Then I slapped her again.
"Ugh, not so hard!"
"Ho ho ho, what now ya stupid wabbit? Teach ya to mess with the Mighty Samurai eh? Ahh ha ha ha ha!" And I slapped the bunny silly.
Samurai code number 1, honor your honor. Samurai code number 2, all honorable samurais must pay back their debts of honor with interest.
She couldn't lift a hand to block or fight back lest she shows me her panties. Now I understand why she wouldn't let go of my Lightning Splitter back when she had the edge.
The rabbit cheeks where left a bright red with salty tears running down to her forehead.
As I was delighting in my feelings of schadenfreude and trying to pull the bunny panties off for bullying purposes, I smelled something burning.
With a sense of dread I looked up to see her Pyro vision had activated and set her shorts aflame.
I met eyes with the rabbit who was giving a look that told me to prepare myself for some retribution.
Soon the shorts snapped and the rabbit legs and she was released from the branch she was hanging.
I watched in plain silence as she landed headfirst and with loud BONK, on the branch I was standing.
"OUCH!!!" She cried upon impact.
Seriously I don't know what the dumbass was expecting was going to happen, of course she was going to—
SPRAKK.
The branch I was standing, snapped from the force of the headblow.
""AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"" We fell down, going through several tree branches on the way to the ground.
The rabbit landed comfily in a pile of bushes.
"PFFHACK!!! Aaaahhggg!!" I landed painfully on my back, right in the only rock in hundreds of meters radius.
I felt the lights shut down and a sharp pain on my back that told me I might need to order a new spine and ribs.
The pain was almost unbearable that I felt myself slipping away into coma. I need someone I can call for help…
"Xiao!" I weakly shouted, but nobody came.
Then… who can I… Meg…
"Fuck you very much, Innamorato." My memory said.
Oh right, I still remember what she told me before I ran away.
Maybe I should honor her a little more damn often!
With the last hint of my consciousness, I used my Vision power to kick myself awake, causing it's painful sparks to dance over my body.
I cannot allow myself to fall here just yet. And I could swear I saw that rock move just so I would land on her.
Then I felt an earthquake and the rock pushed me off. It was a Geo slime, who gave me a ridiculously look of superiority before she went bouncing away looking satisfied with her day.
I'll write a note to exterminate Geo slimes when I have the time.
I stood up in pain at the same time as the rabbit did.
Heavy panting* "Huff, huff, uff…"
Exhausted panting* "Huff, huff, y-you… You'll pay for that… I'll never… surrender!" The bunny recovered and took a stance, completely neglecting to cover her panties anymore.
Seems like she's really pissed at me right now.
"Ah ha ha ha ha! Ahhh ha ha ha haaa!" I felt a rush of honor mixed with insanity overcome me.
This girl won't quit unless she's taught a lesson, won't she?
I dropped my haori and opened my kimono, baring completely from the waist up.
My biceps and triceps where swollen. I could see more abrasions over my body than I would find spots on a Dalmatian, but I was still hot for the game.
And then.
"FATUI!! HAAAAAAAAA!!!"
"RABBIT!!! HOOOOOOOO!!!"
"FOR ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD!!!"
"FOR HONOR!!!"
With complete abandon we charged at each other's, ready to throw hands out of pure principle.
She pulled my hair, I pulled hers. She kicked, I punched. She pushed me down, I took her with me. She felt enraged, I felt honored. She bites my meat for the third time, I chew her ass…
"What are you humans doing…?" A deep and profound voice asked us.
The sudden callout made me and the rabbit stop our chewing contest to spot the Humungous wolf standing besides us.
"B-B-Boreas!!!" The bunny freaked out.
It was white with blue spots going over his body, and eyes flaring in cobalt flames.
"I am Lupus Boreas, guardian of this forest. Humans, you dare come into my kin territory to desecrate the land with your acts of fornication!" The wolf growled in a severe tone.
To his accusations, I found myself looking over a bum to make eye contact with the rabbit laying atop me.
The both of us paled as we realized we where so into beating each other's silly, that we wound up half naked and caught in the 69 pose by the guardian of the land no less.
We jumped a solid 6 ft away from each other's.
"W-wait mighty Boreas! This isn't what it looks like— I can explain!"
"Yes milord wolf, have this stupid rabbit as an offering and please let me go!"
"Huh!? You traitor!! Lord Boreas please have this treacherous villain in my place! Wolves don't actually like rabbits that much anyways—"
"SILENCE!!! I will decide who gets to live and who doesn't on a simple principle." The wolf lord snapped his maw at us.
He was giving the bunny and I a look that made us hug each other's trembling on instinct.
And the trial he settled on was…
"Show me your worth. Fight for your lives, humans."
Part 6
I sprinted away like the wind. I can feel this thing elemental energy and is off the charts.
"Kyaaaaa! R-run faster Fatui! He's catching up!" Hurried the bunny.
By my neck, choking me as I sprint away, held the bunny like she was some sort of sophisticated girl cape.
"Waaahhh! I don't want to die here! I still haven't won my fourth Gliding Championship and the world couldn't live whiteout me!" The narcissistic rabbit cried on my shoulder.
"Then do something! If you know this wolf then why don't you just tell him to calm down already!?"
"I can't! He takes transgressions on his territory as a challenge and the only reason I managed last time was because I had friends who helped deal with him!" Bunny explained.
I see, so basically, she pissed him off before, but had someone powerful around to save her dumbass.
"This is all your fault you stupid rabbit! How dare you show your long ears around here again after he left you off with a warning!? Don't get me caught up in your mess!" I accused as I ran with all my might.
"This isn't my fault! It yours for pulling my shorts down that he won't believe us now!" Bunny yaps.
On one hand, I adapted to Boreas powerful elemental energy within a matter of seconds. On the other hand I can't use most of my arsenal whiteout my origamis, which I got none at the moment.
"You have something corrupt in you human, I can smell it in the air. Show me your true nature!" The wolf howled as he gave chase.
Eh…? Is he talking about my Delusion…?
"Aha! So it wasn't a misunderstanding that offended him, it was you!! I knew Lupus Boreas was too noble a spirit to get angry over a little misunderstanding, now put me down you evil Fatui! Lord Boreas, I've nothing to do with this criminal!" The choke on my neck began to loosen.
The treacherous bunny intended to desert me right there.
"I don't believe you, so I will simply devour you both."
"Kyaaaaa!!! R-r-run faster F-Fatui!! He won't be able to chase us once we're out of this forest!" The arms around my neck, choked me even harder.
The wolf giving chase swung his claw, and sent four wind blades after us.
The bunny pulled her legs close as I avoided the attack by sidestepping right in the middle of the wind blades. As I did so my foothold slipped, the ground below had turned icy slippery.
The wolf eyes glint at the opportunity, and his chase becomes a gelid charge. Boreas readied his fangs as he was about to bulldoze right through us.
I gathered my power on the icy soil below, launching part of it along with the bunny and I, as if it where a platform.
"Aaaaaahh!!!" The rabbit cried from the sudden jump we made, while we went twice the height of the tree tops.
I had forgotten which way we came when I was throwing hands with the rabbit, but if what she's telling is true, then I need to get my bearings and find the fastest way out of this forest.
Boreas missed his charge, and the icy platform that sent us up, began to lose altitude.
The wolf lord skied on the ice and turns around, before he opened his snout and fires a hail storm.
The attack spread covered a full twenty meters diameter, and up here in the air there wasn't any way to dodge.
Before I had time to blink, I drew my sword first and fired a spark to the incoming ice pellets.
The bunny ducked her head behind mine and took fetal position on my back, trying to make herself as small as possible behind her meat-shield.
The spark I shot out, bounced all over the hail rain, leaving a magnetic charge in each and when it came time to block, my sword arm moved on it's own. Crushing every piece of the hail that was aimed at us and leaving the rest to go on their way.
As I finished blocking, our momentum ended and we began to fall down to the ground. Boreas ran up to get us right as we where about to land. But just as we where about to get mauled, was when we vanished completely from his sight.
Far away from where we last saw each Boreas, the hail rain had lost it's momentum and began to fall in some place else of the forest. There I transported the rabbit and myself in the blink of an eye, by pulling us at high speed to where the hail was heading.
Next we began to lose altitude and landed along with the hail.
"Huh…? Wait what happened? Where's Boreas?"
"I think we lost him for now." I said.
I can move at high speeds by magnetizing a target and removing friction between said target destination and my starting point.
I could've probably lost the rabbit a long time ago. If she had the elemental energy for me to use stuff like this!
I made it seem like I just blocked that hail storm to conceal my true intentions. That I intended to escape with it. Now Boreas shouldn't think to look where his own attack had fell if he tries to find us.
We likely went deeper into the forest because of this, but at least the wolf lord has lost our trail.
"We don't have much time, you're the expert in tracking and you've been here before. Which way do we go to get out of this forest as fast as possible while avoiding another encounter with that wolf?" I asked.
"Look at my ribbon, which way is it moving?" She asked.
I looked behind my back to see her hairpiece flowing to the side.
"That's the opposite way which we want to go. Boreas represents the North Wind and that's the only wind that blows around Wolfvendom." She told.
I lost not a second more and set off running in the opposite direction. This forest didn't seem too large when I was looking over it a moment ago. So long as I keep running we will escape to safety for sure.
Speaking of we.
"Hey, that wolf isn't here anymore so get off me and start running by yourself. I'm wounded and you're heavy!" I spoke nothing but the honest truth.
"You're about to get even more hurt if you don't shut your mouth pal! I sprained my ankle when we fell from that tree. If I let go now I'm dead meat!" Bunny yap's.
.….
"H-hey what where you thinking just now!? Don't you dare try to leave me behind!" She said, tightening her choke on my neck and affirming her sweaty hips around my waist.
"Tentative I must say, but from what I've seen you'll probably haunt me for the rest of my life if I did something like that."
"Damn right I will!" And she confirms my fears and suspicions.
I continued running with the bunny on my back. The dense forest had started to turn dark, darker than it was before. The sun must have set under a cloud in the sky, that I could see a white like mist spreading over the tree tops.
The howls of an enraged wolf reached our ears.
As I ran, something caught my attention from the corner of my eye. I quickly reached for the sword on my waist, when I caught sight of a kid running ahead.
"Razor…?! Is Razor! Quick Fatui, catch up to him, I'm sure he could helps us with Boreas!" The bunny agitated when she spotted the kid.
She began calling for him, but he wasn't stopping or turning around.
From where I was coming, his run looked agitated. Like he had something on his mind that was stressing him.
The boy passed under one of the last spots of light that could pierce inside the forest, something was shining on his hand as he ran.
It was a vodka bottle that had a message stuck inside.
"Razor! Hey Razor, over here!" The bunny continues calling up to him, but he didn't look like he was in any state to hear the voices around him.
The kid was fast despite his appearance, and I was too wounded to keep up.
I shouldn't have fooled around with this stupid rabbit for so long.
The howl of a wolf sounded over the distance. The forest became even darker under it's foliage, as if we where running around during nighttime.
This isn't normal anymore, something bad is going on.
It might hurt the kid a little, but if it'll get his attention, I'm hitting him with a small spark.
However as I aimed a finger ahead, I felt it coming down, Boreas elemental energy.
Looking up I noticed the reason why the forest had turned so dark all of a sudden. A thick mist was running over the tree tops, and had begun to descend in columns of bellowing fog.
I rolled to the side as one of the mist columns descended where I was once standing.
"Kya! Hey watch it you Fatui!" The bunny whines after she cushioned my roll with her body.
I forgot I had her on my back, but about a dozen more billowing fogs where coming down next…
"Kya! Ayaah! Ugh! Eek! Wha! Ouch! Guh!" She cried as I started rolling all over the place to dodge the incoming attacks.
I don't think I'll get too hurt if a mass of fog touched me, but I can sense Boreas energy attached to it. Whatever it is, is bad news.
And it feels nice to have someone cushioning your rolls.
Hearing the howl of a wolf once again, the fog impacted on the ground, sending hundreds of dead leaves and branches flying about, before it began to spread in order to cover more ground.
I looked ahead and noticed I had lost sight of the kid. Nevertheless, it was time to start running again.
"W-what is up with this fog!? Where is it coming from!?" The bunny on my back had started to panic.
I ran left and right, dodging the incoming columns of smoke that descended while shielding myself against the leaves and branches that flew everywhere upon impact.
"Ouch! Gee! Ouchy!" The bunny did a marvelous job at using her defenseless body to involuntarily protect me from all the stones and branches that where shooting about.
Now that's what I call teamwork.
Ahead the mist had began to spread and form walls, I drew my sword out and cut a path through with my Electro Vision.
"Ugh… this is going to be a pain to clean up." The bunny whines as her hair got full of fallen leaves and branches.
The mist stopped descending all together, now it just seems to be moving like it's searching.
I continued running while dodging and cutting the mist with my Vision. If I could keep this up we'll be able to escape the forest whiteout having to face Boreas again.
Then I went and stepped on a hunters snare.
"Archons damnit all!!!!!!!"
"Kya!"
The bunny fell off as my foot got caught in a rope that pulled me over, until I was left hanging upside down by a tree.
And the mist shows no intention to slow down for us.
"Get me outa here, hurry!" I cried after noticing I had dropped my katana.
"R-right!" The bunny nodded and limped to cut the rope.
She creates a small ember to burn away my snare.
As she was doing so however, the mist positioned below me.
The rope snapped, and I began to fall. Using my elemental energy I cut myself a path to land safely from the mist.
I broke down my fall as best as I could and tried to stand up in a hurry.
Just a I thought we where safe, I noticed the mist was dancing circles around the bunny.
"Eh… why are you looking at me like that?" She asked, wondering why I looked so pale.
Guess I never told her that she should try to avoid that mist.
To my horror, two blue eyes glinted near the bunny. She stiffened as the air turned cold behind her.
"He's behind me isn't he?" She asked with her ribbon down.
I nodded, as a row of sharp canines where coming. I fired a small spark at her.
"Owowowowowo!" The bunny cried as the spark hits and she disappeared right in between Boreas maw and re-appears again in my arms.
I managed to transport her just in time.
"That hurt you Fatui!" She whines as she hurries to climb on my back
"That's just the way my power works." I simply said.
Boreas approached with each step freezing the ground as he moved.
"You have quite the scurry-rat skills, human. Do you intend to fight for your lives, or will we keep playing this game of prey and predator?" The wolf lord inquires.
How could I run from this thing now? The forest is fully covered by his mist. And I can't go back to where the hail rain landed because we would crash on the first tree we could find…
I'll have to fight it… it doesn't seem like I'm left with any other choice.
I took a breath to calm my nerves, and adopted a stance with my katana.
"Are you crazy!? You could barely keep up with me before! B-but if you're going to fight… then don't worry, I go your back!" She said, pressing and holding harder onto me, her arms and legs squeezing against my skin.
My back feels softer— I mean safer already.
The wolf before us lowered into a predatory stance.
"Seems you made your choice. Then, have at you!" And charges.
I fired a spark from my left arm to electro charge the wolf completely with my Vision. The moment his claw came down on us we blitzed and I struck his hind legs like the lightning.
A loud crack boomed besides my ear, I had hit a block of ice that formed around the wolf body like armor.
Next his giant tail wiped against my stomach, knocking out the air and sending me flying with the bunny.
"Eaaaahhhh! Be more careful Fatui!" The bunny cried as the blow sent us sliding trough the dirt.
I knew she would keep her promise and defend my back at all cost.
When we came to a stop the wolf was already coming down on us with sharp claws and long canines.
Lightning exploded around my body and we blitzed, striking the wolf on his snout as we kept ascending from the momentum.
Shards of ice flew besides us, a part of Boreas face was covered in shattered ice. He blocked my strike again.
There's no way he's seeing my attacks once I blitz. He must be feeling the parts of his body where the magnetic currents intensify before drawing my blow towards them.
With the bunny hanging from my back we reached the tree tops height, and began our descent again. Boreas launched himself into the air to catch us.
I prepared my katana and we blitzed again, trading blows with his frozen armor once more.
Seems I won't get a clean hit this way no matter how fast I go or how many times I try.
I landed with my legs digging into the soil and set running.
"Could you at least shoot him an arrow or something!?" I complained to the slacker on my back.
"You think I wouldn't have done that already if I could!? You broke my bow remember!?" She snaps back.
Oh right, back when we where trowing hands inside the lake.
Behind us, Boreas landed and lost not a second to set off chasing.
"Wait! Now that you mention it I can still do this!" The bunny affirmed her legs around my waist and let go of my neck. "Go, go Baron Bunny!" She dropped a strange bunny plushy.
The thing began to dance as the towering wolf lord approached.
Boreas face looked in disgust before he simply jumped over the thing and kept chasing.
"Aw… that always gets their attention." She felt disappointed her diversion plan didn't work.
But something caught my attention instead, something about that weird plushy. It had elemental energy attached to it.
"Your Vision! Rabbit where's your Vision!?"
"M-my Vision…? Ah it's right here!" She said, reaching into her cleavage window, and pulling out a red gem.
As I tried to look behind, I tripped and fell together with her.
The vision flew out of her hands and landed on a mound of dirt ahead.
"Inattention shall be your undoing." The wolf lunged over us.
I pulled over her Vision using mine, and caught it. We blitzed right under the wolf, but a second thing passed over.
In the blink of an eye, we traded places with the strange plushy, which detonated right as Boreas snapped his maw at it.
An overload reaction boomed in the distance before I got up and set running again.
We managed to lose sight of Boreas for a second time.
As I ran, the howls of an enraged wolf reached my ears, and with it an Anemo wave that washed away the mist and the dead leaves throughout the forest.
Immediately next, something jumped at us from behind one of the trees.
I sliced it half with my katana. It was a fox, one made out of Anemo energy.
"Something's coming from above!" The bunny let's me know.
It was a hawk of Anemo energy. I brought my sword up and split it in two with an ascending slash.
"From the side!" My attention was brought up again.
A boar charged at us. I jumped over it and plunged my sword on its back, causing it to disperse like the wind.
"There's more ahead! A-and some coming from behind!" And above the tree tops… There's enemies everywhere!" The bunny girl freaks up.
Dozens of eyes shined from every corner of the forest. Running besides us, jumping over the tree branches ahead of us, charging from the front against us.
The Anemo animals closed in from every angle.
I cut down a wolf that had gone for my ankle. I zapped the monkeys running trough the tree branches. I jumped over the alligator that lay in wait ahead. I slid under the moose legs as it charged. I blitzed trough the bear that attacked us.
I tore to pieces every Anemo animal that came for us, yet the numbers felt endless.
"Look out!" I heard.
A hail piece as big as us dropped where I was running, forcing me to roll aside.
Now it was raining ice too. And I could feel a wave of energy coming from behind. Boreas was catching up, but something else had my attention.
"That's it! It's the forest threshold! The dandelion field is right up ahead!" The bunny got excited all of a sudden.
A swarm of Anemo bats flew overhead. I fired a spark of Electro that bounced trough every single one, and then I sidestepped a hail falling from the sky.
A loud thundering howl was heard coming from behind us. Looking around I found Boreas was starting to catch up with us.
"You won't escape." He declares.
A wind vortex gathered around the chasing wolf lord. It became a giant tornado that towered over the tree tops.
It soon dragged a million fallen leaves and began to outrun its maker speed. It was going to catch up before we could leave the forest.
I tried to force its movement to a hold with all the power in my Vision, but in doing so I neglected the animals coming for us.
An Anemo bunny saw it's opening, hopped and bounced over my head with a boing. It didn't do any damage but it made me fail my concentration, and I let go of the tornado.
"Are you kidding me— Aaaahhhhh!" The other bunny cried as we took fly with the tornado.
The dead leaves spinning with the winds felt like getting slapped from every side. I could barely see a thing around me when I spotted the bunny trying to swim her way back to me trough the air.
I dragged her closer with the power of my vision. She outstretched her hand at me. Our fingers just an inch away when the wind and leaves curtain opens high above.
Boreas had launched against the tornado, and began to descend on us.
Time felt like it came to a halt. I had nowhere to run anymore, and I couldn't block for the two of us like this.
My hesitation gave away and my Vision released a portion of the hair I had stored on it.
Countless locks of hair spread trough the vortex like golden dust. A simple wave of electro got then to stick with the dead leaves dancing along us.
I had my origamis.
I caught the bunny hand and pulled her into my embrace, the leaves enveloped us like a shield as Boreas brought his claws down.
The claws dug their way trough a 3 ft thick layer of leaves and clashed against the steel of my katana.
The power behind the attack was so strong it sent us shooting out of the tornado and the forest itself.
The leaves protected us as we went crash landing in a green meadow surrounded by dandelions.
Part 7
The leaves shield fell off as I was knocked out for a second there.
"Ugh…"
"Guh… I'm feeling dizzy…"
We both did our best to stand up as fast as we could to prepare for more. But all we saw was the tornado dispersing right at the forest threshold.
"We… we did it! We escaped from Boreas! Haha! That was amazing!" The bunny began doing hops in place.
Around us the sun was high noon and not a tree to darken the moment like inside the forest. We really made it out.
"Heh…" I couldn't help but smile a little.
That was one crazy morning if I've ever seen one… This still doesn't means Meg was right though. I still have half a day to go and there's no reason why it couldn't be pleasant!
"We did it! I never thought the two of us could make, but here we— Eek!" The bunny jumped in place when she looked my way.
I felt a cold shill coming from my back.
"He's behind me isn't he?"
"Yes indeed." A deep voice replied.
I tried picking up my katana but found it laying under the claw of the Dominator of Wolves.
"I commend you. You ran when I commanded you to fight for your lives, and you managed to evade me in the end." Boreas said.
I noticed his figure was starting to dissolve into ethereal energy.
Was he a ghost, or some sort of spirit?
"I must return to my land now, and you must yours… Human, I've face many challenges before, but I shall cherish this one... It made me feel an unique thrill, one I had long forgotten." He began to walk.
His giant frame casted a shadow over myself and the bunny as he walked past.
"Next time, show me what was that corrupt power you where hiding. I won't allow myself to be underestimated a second time."
Like a shill breeze, the guardian spirit of Wolvendoom vanished with the wind of the plains.
All that was left was me, the bunny, grass and the dandelions.
After finally allowing myself to breath in the peace of the moment, I picked up my sword, and tiredly put it back on it's sheath.
"Hey uhm… thanks for saving me too..." The girl besides me said.
She stood covering her panties with one hand and a closed fist near her heartbeats with the other.
A gust washed over us, blowing her ribbon to the side and taking some of the dandelions seeds with the wind.
It was a sunny day today.
"I know you could've left me behind if you wanted to, but you didn't… and I can tell now that you where going easy on me before… so…" She seemed at a lost for words.
The hand on her chest, reaches out asking for mine.
"I'll let you off the hook this time, but just this time alright…?"
Today was a sunny day, but not as sunny as the cheeky smile she gave me.
"Friends?" She asked.
Sunny days are always the best days, the brightest days. At least that's what everyone says.
I decided to shake hands with her. And I was immediately reminded why I hate sunny days.
"IN YOUR DREAMS!!!"
"THAT'S WHAT I FUCKING THOUGHT!!!"
The rabbit launched a flaming knee-check to my chin.
I sidestepped it and pulled on the hand I was grabbing. I spun on my heels and performed a shoulder throw, sending the bunny airborne.
The sky turned purple, as I began to let out every ounce of my elemental power.
Next I encased the bunny in a cocoon made of fallen leaves, to protect her.
But protect her from what exactly?
From me of course, because I'm about to hit with intent to launch her out of orbit!
A force wave exploded around me and implodes gathering in the palm of my two hands.
"Ask where it drops. Pēpāburasuto"
The sound barrier boomed trough the dandelion plains.
"I'LL ARREST YOU SOME DAY FATUI AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!" The bunny became the speck of a star in the sunny sky.
"May we never have to cross paths again, rabbit." I spat.
The wind blew fiercely from my shockwave. The dandelions seeds flew everywhere around me.
A red haori came flying from the forest in the distance. I caught it and tossed it over my bare shoulder.
Here under this sunny sky, I felt the breeze of the wind wash over me, and witnessed the spectacle that only the thousands of dancing dandelions seeds could present.
A pair of white panties floated in the air.
I caught it with a hand, holding it high to the noon sky.
The spoils of war. The trophy of finally having escaped my arch-nemesis.
I see now, why people call this place the land of freedom.
This moment right here. Where I step on this grass, where I bathe under this sunlight, where I feel this wind caress my skin, where I see the dandelions dance for me, and I hold this panties up high.
"I finally feel, like a free man."