The big horned ape smelled the blood of his minions and was furious. It was older, wiser and more intelligent as its minions. While Rosch killed one ape after the other from the back, the apes in the front didn't realize what was happening. They had the same sense of smell as their leader, but not as much experience and wisdom. After hunting Roschar's females for such a long time, they apes got into a frenzy, which blended almost every reasons they had out.
Rosch on the other hand was like a shadow. Fast and invisible, without making a sound.
"Fuck 8 more to go and we are almost at the cave. The females may be there already.", Rosch told himself. He knew he needed to be faster.
At the front, Galia could see the forest glade, were the cave under the waterfall was. She dragged Thulpina further, as she was grasping for air.
" Galia let me go, haaah hhaaahhhhh, I can't go on, haaah haaah haaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh, at least you may survive.", Thulpina said with her last power, but Galia didn't let go, she even pressed her hand stronger together, showing she won't let go.
"Stupid, look ahead, the cave is already in sight. We can do that. Rosch will come, he promised.", Galia didn't look back, as she said that, only dashing further ahead with Thulpina.
They both reached the cave and their first impulse was to go inside, but Galia knew that they would be trapped if they did go inside.
They took gasps of air. Trying to calm down a bit, but after a minute the first apes were heard already.
"Thulpina take your weapon out. We need to fight them it seems.", Galia said darkly.
"I don't have my weapon. When I wanted to take my stuff, Roschar screamed to let all the bags there and because of that I forgot the weapon.", Thulpina said silently. She felt like a burden to Galia and was almost on the verge of crying.
Galia stood in front of Thulpina shielding her.
" Lesson number one. Never leave your weapon. Stay behind me. I will protect you. ", Galia said with a light smile, that shocked Thulpina. Galia tried to calm her, talking like Rosch would when they trained together.
" I am so sorry. I am just a burden. I...", Thulpina wanted to say in tears, as Galia became angry and became a bit loud saying,
" Don't say burden or anything like that. You are my little sister, didn't I tell you that. When I was down and questioning myself, it was you that helped me getting closer to Rosch. We are proud females of Roschar Moonwalker. You understand me."
She knew it would be over if they didn't get it together. She had to mention Rosch somehow, hoping it calmed Thulpina some more, because right now they needed time and not panic. And right after that three apes came out the forest.
One of them was bigger than Galia, the other two were smaller. They started to run, as Galia took her dual-swords out. She held both with a strong grip and waited. She wasn't a warrior. She was an assassin. She had to hunt sometimes or fight, but most of it was one on one. The rest were sneak attacks So getting attacked by three opponents at the same time would be hard.
The two smaller apes jumped at one hand each. She stabbed forward and hit both of them, but to her shock it seems the apes wanted that to happen. They let themselves get pierced around there shoulder were they would survive and then grabbed the arms of Galia. She couldn't move anymore and as she looked to the side, she saw the bigger ape with a huge stone jumping up trying to smash her head.
"So that's it. Should have trained a bit with Rosch, but even then. What could I have done with two or three weeks of training. Even when I fought against Rosch I could only defend. Against more beings it was already a lost battle from the start. Rosch I hope you won't forget us. Haha weird why do I care more about him remembering me, than dying. Those feelings that Thulpina always speaks about are so weird.", Galia thought in her last moments.
" NOOOOOOOOOO", Thulpina screamed with tears in her eyes running face down into the bigger ape. Her horns were big and long and as the right horn penetrated the ape from the right ribcage side almost the entire way out to the left ribcage side. The ape only coughed once before dying.
Galia was shocked, but smiled instantly kicking the left ape away, right after that, with the free left hand, she killed the right ape that still stuck on her right sword, by decapitation. She didn't hesitated, with the last ape, too. She jumped on it, piercing its head with the second sword.
It all went down so fast, but for those two it was an eternity.
And right after feeling relieved to have survived, a group of 5 apes came through the woods.
Both, Galia and Thulpina went pale.
"Rosch won't come right? Why should he. We are just females that he got to know for about a month and we can get replaced after getting killed. His real family is out there.", Thulpina said almost crying. For her it was the best month of her life, but she knew how the outside world functioned. A female isn't worth as much as a male and that's the reason males wouldn't dare to risk their lives for a female.
" Don't be like that. Rosch isn't like that. If he couldn't come that means something happened to him.", Galia said to Thulpina, who shouldn't be heart broken at her last moments, but she herself thought a bit like Thulpina, too. Rosch probably saved himself, like every male would do.
Galia held the kneeling and crying Thulpina in her hands, as the 5 apes approached them at a slow rate. They were careful, because of the 3 dead apes lying around. Galia looked into the group of apes, as she didn't want to die without a fight. She picked up her swords and went in front of Thulpina and as the apes started to run at them something unexpected happened.
Like the shadow of death himself, Rosch flew into the group of apes decapitating four of the five apes with his arms and legs like a tornado, in an instant. He looked chillingly at the last ape as he walked slowly at it. The ape was terrified and couldn't move. It smelled all the dead brethren on Rosch and was almost to terrified to breath. As the ape took his first wisp of air, its head, too wisped off its body.
Both females looked in shock at Rosch. They didn't believe it, but Rosch didn't run without them. Both of them run towards Rosch and jumped at him.
" We are sorry. We didn't believe that you would come.", Galia and Thulpina said embracing Rosch completely, while crying. You couldn't even see him sandwiched between those two.
"I am sorry, too. I promised that everything would be good as long as you reached the cave, but you had to fight yourselves, too. But never doubt me. I am very possessive. Once you wanted to be mine, you will be forever, I rarely let go." Rosch said a bit apologetic, but switched to his old self really fast. Galia and Thulpina just smiled and were happy that they weren't left to die.
" Let's go we need to run. There are more and we don't know how many more will smell all this blood of there own." Rosch said hurriedly, as a voice appeared from above.
"Everyone listen, you shouldn't have left the
ruins, because no wild animal or monster could enter that. And only those Goblins, who will be at the ruins tomorrow morning, will be send back. Otherwise they have to stay an entire year in this dimension. Oh no more like 7 years inside that dimension from your view point. Hahaha. "
Everybody was shocked, but the most anger was on Roschar's face. That voice was Randan and he was scheming something again.
" WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T HE TELL US TO STAY THERE. ", Rosch shouted angry.