Marianne pointed her wand at the Giant Boar and began to mutter the words to a spell under her breath. As she chanted, glowing runes made of mana began to materialize in a circle around her wand's tip.
[Fire bolt!]
With a flick of her wrist, a ball of fire the size of a baseball went flying from the wand and impacted the Giant Boar's flank. Smoke and ember exploded from the wound.
"Squee?!"
"Direct hit!"
A magnificent sight to be had...if it had managed to kill the thing.
When the smoke cleared, it became evident that Marianne's fire bolt had only superficially burned the Giant Boar's rather thick hide. As well as pissed it off, judging by the look of pure hate and rage directed in Jordie's and Marianne's direction.
The Giant Boar turned towards the duo and began to stomp it's front hoof and drag it back, repeating this action a few times.
"Well crap, I don't think I put enough mana into that shot," Marianne muttered as she stared at her wand.
"Yeah, I think it's about to charge at us," Jordie commented, "It looks like it has murder in it's eyes."
"Oh it most definitely is going to charge at us."
"Should we run?"
"Yes."
Marianne and Jordie proceeded to bolt from their former crouching spot and ran towards their monsters as fast as possible. The Giant Boar let out a nasty squeal moments before chasing after the two of them.
"AAAHHHHHHHHH!"
"REEEEEEE!"
The two ran as fast and hard as they could, their feet pounding the ground in rhythm with each other. The Giant Boar was getting closer and closer by the second despite their best efforts to run.
Luckily, their monsters picked up their master's signs of distress and came running towards them in response.
"Moo!"
"Growr!"
"Duck!"
Marianne and Jordie both jumped to their left and right respectively, giving Molly and Bessie a clear line of sight of the charging Giant Boar.
Molly proceeded to jump to the left, Bessie picked up speed and charged straight at the Giant Boar at ramming speed.
*GRRRRREEEE*
A horrible grinding noise echoed through the open field as horn and tusk collided with one another. The massive hulks of flesh and sinew behind them grunting and squealing in an attempt to overpower each other. The two were surprisingly evenly matched in terms of raw strength.
However, Bessie had one distinct advantage over the big pig: fire power.
As the khalkotauroi and giant boar pushed against each other, Bessie began to condense Bronze Bull flame in her throat.
Bessie pulled back a bit, pretending to give the Giant Boar an edge it eagerly took. The moment the Giant Boar lunged forward, Bessie let out a breath of bronze colored fire directly into the Giant Boar's face.
"Squee?!"
The Giant Boar took a few heavy steps back as the bronze fire burned it's face. It didn't expect to get blasted in the face so brutally after overpowering the cow.
Taking advantage of the Giant Boar's moment of weakness, Molly the Holstiger proceeded to pounce onto the Giant Boar's back and use her claws to lock herself into place. Once she was firmly latched into place, Molly began to bite down hard on the Giant Boar's back.
"That's it girl! Get 'im!"
The Giant Boar thrashed about in attempt to throw off Molly the Holstiger, but the cow-patterned tiger was surprisingly strong and very determined to keep her teeth locked into it's flesh.
Sensing that it was a clear disadvantage, the Giant Boar turned towards the direction where a sounder of boars were congregating and began to run. It needed help removing it's unwanted passenger.
"Crap! it's getting away!"
"Not on my watch!"
Jordie ran to the front of the Giant Boar and took on a fighting stance.
"What's this crazy cowsitter doing?!," Marianne thought to herself as she watched Jordie's reckless action.
Jordie didn't draw his club nor had a spear in his hand, so Marianne was thoroughly confused as to why he was standing in the Giant Boar's path of destruction. Her confusion was made even greater when she saw Jordie just standing there and taking in a huge breath.
'Not yet, not yet...', Jordie thought to himself as he felt the bronze flames building up in the back of his throat.
"Not yet...Now!"
Once the Giant Boar got close enough, Jordie let loose his own torrent of flames and spooked the charging pig. Needless to say, Marianne was rather shocked at Jordie's sudden display.
"When could you do that?!"
"REEEEE!"
The Giant Boar reared back at the sudden jet of flames, afraid of getting close to the thing that had just burned it's face quite badly. While this was happening, Jordie drew his club and charged through the flames.
"HYA!"
With a mighty shout, Jordie jumped up and brought his club down on the Giant Boar's head like a baseball bat to a watermelon. Normally this wouldn't do much damage, but having a large tiger-like monster biting on your target's spine/neck definitely helps.
*CRACK!*
"Reee..."
A sickening crunch sounded out as Jordie's sudden impact dislodged something inside of the Giant Boar, ending it's life posthaste. At the same time, Molly extracted a bloody piece of bone from the Giant Boar's back and began to chew on it with joy.
Marianne, Jordie and Bessie all stared at each other, surprised at the amount of success they had in taking the big pig down.
"Well that was-"
"What?" A look of visible concern appeared on Jordie's face as he felt something was wrong through his bond with Minos.
"You okay?," Marianne asked once she saw the look on Jordie's face.
Instead of immediately answering, Jordie ran towards Bessie and mounted up on her back. Bessie began to ran back towards the direction of the camp once she learned why Jordie was acting up.
"Huh? Where're you going?"
"SOMEONE OR SOMETHING IS HURTING MY KID!"