Four days ago, the fight for their lifes was right before a conclusion. Arianta fell towards the Nightwalker, who was smiling and beaming with confidence. His bulge inside his pants has risen to the limit. His hand stretched out mockingly, as Arianta couldn't hold on, only her right arm with the bone blade extended, pointed at the Nightwalker's heart.
Behind these two, a completely other scene was taking place.
"ROSCH..", Suz was still crying. Tears, snot and saliva was dripping on Roschar's face. She couldn't hold anything back anymore and was shouting as her hand with the dagger pierced the first layer of her skin and a little bit of blood was dripping. But weirdly enough she still sobbed and the pain she thought she would feel never came, only a small prick. Instead she felt pressure on her wrist and as she opened her eyes new tears formed, just that now she cried from happiness.
Rosch was gripping her hand and looked angrily at her.
"Listen Suz, just cry louder and don't hold anything back this is our only chance.", he said to Suz as he jumped up and sprinted. He tried to ran as silently as he could, towards the Nightwalker. Suz was completely baffled, but as Rosch said she should cry and scream she just let go and went for it. She cried so loud that Rosch managed to sneak up on the Nightwalker and was now only 5 meters away from the Nightwalker. The Nightwalker felt that something was off. He turned his head to look, but it was to late already. Rosch accelerated so fast that his attack with his right bone blade pierced the right shoulder of the Nightwalker, before he could turn his head completely.
Rosch didn't stop and pierced, with a dagger that he took from Suz, the left armpit of the Nightwalker.
The Nightwalker screamed and trashed a bit, as he forgot about the falling Arianta, who pierced right through the Nightwalker's stomach even piercing Rosch who clung at the back of the Nightwalker.
"FUCCKKKK, I WILL KILL YOU THREE SHITS.", the Nightwalker screamed, as he tried to cut Arianta into pieces with his bone blades that were extending from his legs. Rosch, who made the Nightwalker's arms useless felt what was inside that guy's mind and kicked Arianta away from them. But had to separate from the Nightwalker's back and make him able to fight again.
"How are you still alive you little monster?", the Nightwalker asked a bit confused and in disbelief. The blood loss woke the Nightwalker up and made him realize his situation, if he does not flee now he will die.
"Why should I tell you my trump cards.", Rosch said bluffing, because he didn't knew how he survived and even though his wound vanished, all the blood loss and fatigue stayed. He needed to kill him fast or run for it.
Both were looking for the kill. The first to move could be the loser, but for both of them time was running short. After a minute the pressure got to strong, even though the Nightwalker was the one with more experience, he choose to run. Today he got surprised twice by that child and that confused the apex predator of this region to the limits. He almost forgot what fear was, but today he almost died twice and now his survival instinct screamed "Fucking run already" .
Rosch saw the Nightwalker move a bit, which made him tense up and ready to block an attack, but what surprised him was that the Nightwalker started to run away. Rosch was shocked and reacted late, which helped the Nightwalker but not entirely. Rosch used his last magic reserves and accelerated to top speed in a second appearing right behind the Nightwalker. Slashing downwards with all his might and speed without decreasing any momentum. Rosch wanted it to end, but the Nightwalker knew something was coming and without looking back he slashed at Rosch. The attack cut a deep wound on the chest of Rosch, but right after that the downward slash from Rosch came. It didn't hit the head, because of the attack from the Nightwalker, but from the left shoulder downwards the entire arm was cut off. Blood was splashing outwards blinding Rosch.
"GYAAAAAHHHHHH BASSTTARRRDS. I WILL COME BACK AND MURDER YOU ALLLL.", the Nightwalker shouted without turning back or stopping to run.
Rosch crushed into a bush being to fast. He crawled out grabbing the arm of the Nightwalker and than walking towards Arianta. He was exhausted, hurt and his magic was running low too, but he couldn't stop moving now. Or else he would fall asleep and everything would be for naught. As he reached Arianta, he looked already at Suz. She was still sobbing a bit, but with a huge smile on her face now. Rosch took Arianta and threw her over his shoulder. It was a funny scene since she is 2 meters big. Her arms and legs were dragging on the ground.
Suz crawled towards Rosch, but didn't say anything to him after reaching him. He was on autopilot, only reacting not thinking. She went on his bag and just cuddled and enjoyed that they were still together.
After reaching their little camp inside the huge tree, Rosch just dropped to the ground and blacked out.
Suz could do some healing magic and some first aid, but nothing that could heal wounds that horrible. She took care of them both, the entire night and as the morning sun rised, Rosch's eyelids did too.
Suz was by the fireplace cooking some stew from the two-headed-boar. She walked awkwardly because of her wounds on her legs.
"Suz your legs! How bad are they, we need to heal them." Rosch said in pain not from his wounds, but from the pain in seeing his Suz like that.
"ROSCH you are awake. I'm so happy.", Suz said trying to get as fast as she could over to Rosch cuddling and kissing him. You could see that she would never want to let go again. She ignored Roschar and just cuddled. Everything else wasn't important right now.
" Suz don't ignore me. Say, how did you heal me. Maybe we can heal your tendons. We need to try.", Rosch said grabbing her face, making her look into his eyes.
"It's okay, I think my mom can heal me. She teaches me. She knows much more then me. And about how I saved you I am not so sure myself.", she told Rosch, while taking her necklace off showing it to Rosch. "That is a Necklace my mother gave me. She told me it could save my life once and it seemed it saved yours. Look it has lost it's bright shine, looking more ordinary now.", she said, while both of them looked fascinatingly at the necklace.
Bags were piled up with trophies of there one week long adventure, the head of the Saberlion, the arm of the Nightwalker and the meat of the two-headed-boar. Suz didn't forget anything and made it so that Rosch could carry her perfectly, while still carrying the luggage.
"Let's go. We need to go back and win the hunting competition.", she beamed while talking about the hunting competition. She knew no one had better stuff then them.
"But w...", Rosch tried to say as he was interrupted by Suz, who said, " Without mother, Arianta nor myself will be healed. We go back, win the competition, I take mom, come back here, you take the prize and come right after us. Okay. I planned everything already just believe in me." She puffed out her cheeks, while looking with a stern gaze at Rosch.
Rosch himself could only laugh at that, while getting up and ready for the way back.
They walked for 6 hours. At first they could only see the huge trees, but after half the way was made the normal trees appeared with small bushes growing everywhere. And as noon approached, the mountainside of there tribe were seen by them and they knew the hunting competition would come to an end soon.