After resting and circulating all the essence within her till it dried up completely, Arya felt herself on the verge of full recuperation. One more strong beast or monster, and she would be back to her peak, of course its now the peak of her mortal self.
BOOM!
"Oh, what's going on? Sounds like quite the fun!" Arya remarked after hearing the loud scuffles of a fight in the near distance.
After hearing the sounds of battle, Arya left her cave, sprinting in the direction of the current sounds. Doing her best to be stealthy after reaching her destination, despite the silvery dragon tail wagging within the bushes she was creeping behind, she stumbled upon two monsters she hadn't seen before.
One seemed to be an abomination of sorts, the size of a small van, with a grotesque black rat head, a massive short haired grey torso, two long front legs that looked almost sickening due to their over sized proportions, with normal lion-like hind legs, and a long spiky green tail.
'Ewwww.'
The other monster, almost looked cute too be honest.
A small human-like monster, with a winged, blue feathered, almost fairy-like body with the proportions of a small child, ending with two lengthy humanoid legs with massive brutal white claws that did not match its small delicate body. The main turn-off was the wickedly enlarged sadistic grin that showed its sawed pointed teeth, with its grin almost falling off the sides of its fairy-like face.
'Damn both of those opponents seem strong, especially that bird due to its high speed, intelligence, and wings, unlike the dumb rat abomination who only has lots of strength going for it.'
'I feel bad for whatever's their opponent..., Wait, what! That's a human, no.., a fox?'
'Sooo, cute!' Thought Arya, with her tail wagging back and forth within the bushes.
The fox-girl was approximately Arya's height but slightly smaller, with clean slightly tanned skin, two orange fluffy ears sprouted from the top of her head, with orange hair, green eyes, and an orange fluffy tail.
Her face was oval shaped with a slightly pointed chin and thin sharp eyebrows. Unlike Aryas more narrow face with pointy ears and black horns sprouting from her hairline.
Rustle, Rustle
Suddenly all three beings snapped their heads in Arya's direction, which would've usually looked comedic, although the only thing going through Arya's head was.....
'Ah, .....Fuck.'
"Hey, you, a little help please?" A melodic voice echoed towards Arya
'Hmm, what to do, what to do? Should I trust her or not?' Arya wondered.
"Ahh, whatever, sure. But you owe me one." Arya shouted taking a gamble, definitely not because she's cute.
"I appreciate It....., but, could you help me out? I'm not in the best of positions right now." Said the fox girl while being pushed backed, while on the defense.
Thus, Arya left the 'safety' of the bushes and joined up with the little fox, standing side by side, facing the 'abomination and bird'. A strange matchup. As both opponents moved back, feeling the strange aura of the undead dragon girl.
"Sooo, what's the plan?" Arya questioned.
"...What plan?" The fox girl questioned with a small head tilt.
"The fuck! How are you still alive?" Arya exclaimed.
"Hmph."
"Haaa, anyway I'll take the abomination, and you take the bird."
"Its a chimera and harpy." The fox girl stated.
"Whatever... What do I call you anyway? Arya probed.
"Tara, its Tara, ....I think?" Tara answered.
"You think? Ahh, ..whatever."
After delegating opponents within only a couple seconds of quick back and forth, they both split up and each faced their own opponent. Arya decided it best for Tara to take on the harpy, even though Arya has wings, due to the chimeras high defense, that Tara was struggling with earlier.
Tara dashed and leapt towards the harpy with great speed, while Arya kept her ground. The harpy and Tara were both tussling, while Arya slowly inched towards the chimera, that made wild, uncoordinated movements as it bounded towards her.
"You really do have muscle for brains don't you?" Arya murmured.
The chimera dove mere inches from Arya while she kept lithely shuffling around it, like a boxer would. After a minute of measuring her opponents strength, she whipped her tail at its side with a whistling of wind, after shifting her hips.
Boom!
Was what she thought would happen, but reality differs.
'Damn this thing is really heavy, it barely budged.'
After a successful hit, that did barely anything but anger her enemy, it smashed the ground between them, as Arya leapt back a few steps.
The hit was so strong that the ground rumbled, and dust blew up, creating a smokescreen of sorts.
Witnessing the perfect opportunity to attack its opponent, the chimera launched forwards, snapping its razor sharp jaw, at Arya's neck as it moved past the cloud of dust.
Met with two rage filled black eyes just beyond the dust cloud, Arya attempted to move her head and neck to the opposite side as its razor teeth clamped down towards her neck. After making some distance, she was met with the sensation of a piece of her shoulder being ripped outwards and crunched between the chimera's sharp teeth.
The chimera ended up spitting her neck out in pieces, in disgust, as it moved its gaze back to Arya's weakened shoulder, that was barely holding her swinging right arm together.
With swift thinking, Arya turned her head to the right, unleashing a stream of fire aimed right for its eyes, and quickly moved out of the way of the flailing arms and tail of the chimera, scrutinising it for weaknesses as it finally put out the fire and furiously bounded in circles in search of the assailant that robbed it of sight.
After a couple of seconds Arya made her move when the chimera had its back to her. From what she analysed, the chimeras weak spots are its neck and underside, due to its thinner hide.
With a flap of her wings, Arya propelled herself up and forwards in steady incline, towards the chimeras back as it stumbled blindly towards Tara's fight, twenty or so metres away. After gaining an altitude of approximately ten metres, Arya with a large flap of wings sped downwards diagonally with her left claw outstretched, and within seconds pierced the chimeras neck at great speeds, with her claws sinking halfway through its neck, as a cry of shock left the chimeras mouth, with it staggering and struggling for breath, as blood surged outwards, for it to collapse within seconds.
"Hoo, that wasn't easy" Sighed Arya in relief.
After making sure the chimera was down for the count, Arya turned to Tara as she fought the harpy with a higher base speed than the harpy. Tara was having some difficulty due to the harpy keeping its distance within the air and constantly circling and swooping Tara with its legs and claws outstretched, while using some kind of movement technique with wind essence to boost its speed. From what Arya could see Tara had accumulated mostly shallow scratches with a couple deep skin cuts, while the harpy had lost an entire clawed off foot and was running low on blood and stamina.
After a couple more minutes, Tara and the harpy were mostly in a stalemate, with Tara dripping with sweat and the harpy also the same except for its pale appearance and shaky movements, as it started drooping and passed out, hitting the ground with a thud, allowing Tara to get close up and swipe her claws across its neck, ending its life.
"Are you alright Tara?" Arya questioned.
"Haah, ...I'm fine, just... exhausted" Tara said within gasps.
"Hm, what about your cuts, do you need to patch those up?" Arya asked.
"They should heal if I eat that harpy, since they're mostly shallow" Said Tara after a few minutes of gathering her breath.
Arya walked back to the chimeras body, while Tara did the the same with the harpy. Arya started cutting hers up and cooking it with her fire breath.
"Woah, are you a dragon?" Tara inquired.
"Yes" Arya replied.
"Can you cook the harpy for me?
Arya cooked both chimera and harpy together while they munched on them to heal, and for Arya to finally fully recuperate.
'Finally'
'Hm, what the hell' Arya thought as she felt a soreness within her mind, and when it finally disappeared something that completely confused her happened.
Within her soul sea, unknown to Arya a seal was released and information flooded her mind.
'Fallen Dragons Supremacy, Cultivation Manual'
'What the fuck!' Exclaimed Arya inwardly as she sorted through all the information she received, confusing her further.
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