As he turned towards the direction it was in. Sven could see a silhouette slowly forming at a distance. A tan-skinned man with a Mohawk was heading his way. He had on nothing but pants made of animal hide on. When he saw Sven a smile went across his face.
"I thought I was gonna be hungry tonight. Didn't expect to have food waiting at home." The man said while leaping towards Sven.
Sven saw him closing in, and brandished his claws. The stranger saw this, raised his arms to block his face as a deep cut went across his forearms. Sven immediately pushed him back with a barrage of swipes. After realizing how sharp his claws were the man began dodging instead of defending. The wounds on his arms already began to close. Sven took notice of this and was amazed at how fast it was. Sven's regeneration was still superior, but it was his first opponent with strong regeneration. He gave a heavy push kick to create some distance. Quickly focusing his body taking a deep breath, and launching a massive fireball towards the man. The man had a smirk on his face as he opened his mouth shooting a high-pressured beam of water from his mouth that evaporated the fireball. Steam followed after the attacks canceled out.
His vision obscured by the steam he had to focus his hearing to guess where the enemy was. Hearing movement circling to get his back. He attempted to turn around to engage the enemy. As soon as he turned around another blast was shot into his stomach launching him back encasing him in the ground. He looked down noticing his stomach had a hole in it. Focusing his healing it started to close rapidly. The man saw this and closed the distance. He expected Sven to be close to death, or at the very least he could finish him before he recovered. Stunned by how fast he was healing he had no choice but to charge in. Sven was trying to get up, he was almost finished healing but he was closing in to fast. Something speed in so fast it was barely noticeable. The man's arm was swiftly snatched off. He yelled in pain as he jumped back creating distance. Sven looked over noticing Astrid with the arm in her hand.
"I was planning on circling back as soon as she was gone, so we could have some quality time together. Since that vulgar woman won't let me get close to you when she's around. I guess this could be fun too." Astrid said while holding the arm up to drip some blood in her mouth before dropping it.
"Thanks for the assist. Wasn't sure I could get up fast enough. I owe you one." Sven said while standing up as his wounds closed.
"Oh, I know just how you can make it up to me to. " Astrid proclaimed while licking the blood from her fingers.
The man was trying to heal his arm, but it was taking to long. While seeing the two slowly coming his way he began to panic. Like a wild animal who was cornered. He let out a roar as a strong aura was being released. His skin became to change into dark green scales, that covered his body like armor, and a long tail rapidly grew out. He has a large spike-like fin trailing down from his head, down his spine, and all the way down his tail. The arm stopped bleeding as soon as he transformed. Sven saw this but charged in regardless. He swiped his claws across the man's chest before being whipped away with immense force by the tail. After recovering from being hit Sven noticed several of his ribs were shattered. Sven's claws had barely managed to cut through the man's scales. The wound swiftly healed over. The man's skin had become extremely durable.
Astrid was getting ready to move in to attack, but the man started a barrage of water blasts. Not as big as the attack used earlier on Sven. Yet it still had the same destructive force, but just covered a smaller surface area. They began dodging the blast and trying to find a way to move in. Sven and Astrid could barely dodge let alone move in though. Even if they closed the distance the tail could still knock them back, or even wrap them up to be blasted.
Helga at a distance could hear the barrage of attacks going off. She quickly started running back for camp. Hoping to make it in time. She knew Sven was very strong, but still feared for his safety. The only tera he ever fought with is her. He could easily be caught off guard by an attack. Maybe Astrid was bad after all and was waiting for them to be separated. If he was gone she would have no one left. So immediately released, and began flying as fast as she could.
The man was trying to catch is breath, and look like he was tiring from the continuous attacks. If they were to counter it had to be now. Astrid saw this and quickly formulated a plan.
"I'll create an opening. Then focus all your strength in taking off his head. No matter what you see make sure you strike true. We will only have one chance at this. " Astrid yelled as she quickly dashed in.
Sven nodded his head in agreement. He had no idea what she was gonna do. All he could do was trust her. So he focused on gathering all the energy he can to strengthen his claws. Astrid closed in with immense speed and began exchanging blows with him. Trying to overwhelm him. Sven took off around the side ready to get in a flanking position to charge in. The man finally recovered his breath and was now ready to take action instead of defending. He swung for Astrid's head, but she dodged. His goal was to distract her with the punch as his tail tripped her up by the leg.
"Now!" She yelled.
With her on the floor, he stomped on her stomach to make sure he didn't miss. Sven was already closing in as fast as he could, but as he was in position the attack launched. He could see the blast hit her at point-blank range. In a rage, he swung with immense force cleaving through his scales with little effort. As his head rolled to the ground. Even after decapitation the man was still reaching around, and whipping his tail about. After a few seconds, his body crashed to the ground. He didn't know Astrid for long, but she was still a comrade. He began tearing up the man's body in a rage. Splattering blood all over his body, and face.
"Are you looking for me?"
Sven quickly turned around and saw Astrid. She was unharmed but how. Confused he looked down where her body was as it quickly dissipated into mist. He wasn't sure what just happened. He got up went over, and hugged her.
"How did you do that?" Sven asked while embracing her.
"Oh, it was merely an illusion. I tend to only do them on humans in order to get out of a rough spot. It's not easy to use on other tera, but ever since I tasted your blood things are changing. My powers have been growing rapidly. Didn't expect you get so worked up over me though. You look so good soaked in blood. It's making me wet." She whispered while embracing him back, and licking the blood off his face.
"Now for that reward." She said while attempting to reach down his trousers.
"Just what the hell is going on here!" Helga yelled seeing the two of them.