CW: blood, gore, torture, trauma, death, dismemberment and more gory stuff, also animals getting hurt :( (don't worry they healed back instantly)
I snuck out of my tent and went through the forest looking out for any villagers that might try to stop me, I made sure the coast was clear and I left the village, I walked through the trees dragging my hand across them as I passed them, I'm only going to be gone for an hour at most, no one will notice. It started getting colder so I activated a heat spell to keep myself warm but still I trudged onwards until I saw a clearing in the trees, I headed through and there I was, standing outside of Amanda's house, I opened the door and walked in activating the light runes, I walked into Amanda's roof and the second I came in floofy and snowy came over to me. I walked over to Amanda's bed and crawled in and hugged her. I whisper into her ear,
"Hey Amanda I'm scared, I'm scared that I did something and went too far and now I can't go back, I'm scared that if I try to go back everyone will see me as a villain, I'm scared that people will think I killed Emily, I'm scared that I'm a different person, I'm scared that I lost all my friends and I'm scared above all that I lost you."
"you idiot, you haven't lost me, I'm right here."
she gave me a hug back and I lied there for a few minutes before falling asleep.
The next day I woke up and Amanda was holding me tight to her chest, she was trembling. "Amanda what's going on?" at that moment a blade sliced down cutting Amanda.
"now that the fox is finally awake I think it's time for a meal." I looked up and saw the wolf.
"get the fuck away from my girlfriend." my eyes started to glow and I lost consciousness and when I woke up the wolf was sitting on the floor trying to back away whilst begging for her life, I walked towards her, "fine but leave and never ever bother me or my girlfriend ever again" the wolf continued to back away
"o-of course! I won't even think of bothering you nevermind actually doing it"
I aimed a fireball spell at her and she ran.
"babe are you ok?"
I turned around and her body was covered in scars and cuts.
"Mani what happened?"
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"Mani?"
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"Amanda can you talk to me?"
"..."
She wouldn't talk, what could it be that it made Amanda like this.
"Come on Amanda, you're the toughest girl I know so it must be something really bad to make you this upset" She pointed at a piece of paper so I grabbed it and gave it to her, she then started to write: as soon as you fell asleep she and the rabbit came in so I tried to fight back and I managed to kill the rabbit but she was too strong and she was going for you so I grabbed you and kept a tight hold of you casting a shielding spell which mean that any damage that would have been done to you was done to me so she kept attacking me and when I asked her to stop she just did it even worse so I decided to not talk so you wouldn't get hurt anymore, it feels as though she's just going to come out from any corner and attack us.
"Amanda why did you risk your safety for me? I've killed people, I've nearly killed you twice, I work with the person who did this to you, so why?" I wrapped my arms around Amanda and started to cry. "I'm not worth all of this pain and misery, why can't you let me suffer instead of you!" Amanda started shaking "I'm sorr-"
"I love you."
she whispered it very quietly so quiet that I almost didn't hear it.
"even so you're risking your own happiness for me, I don't deserve this, you deserve to be happy, I don't, I'm the one who should suffer, not you! so just let me suffer next time instead of you because I'm the one who is meant to suffer" she started to write on her paper again, you don't deserve to suffer, she then hugged me and wouldn't let go so I embraced her hug and hugged her back, we sat like this for maybe hours before finally letting go.
"I'm never going to leave your side, I never want this to happen to you again, you're too important to me." I looked at her, "we should clean you up, if you go to school looking like that they'll know something is up and then they'll investigate you and then I don't know what will happen but they probably won't let you just walk around freely after this" I created a spell circle which would change her look to what it was before the wolf had come and it worked, I hugged her. "if you get in anymore trouble I might die from all the stress so try not get in anymore trouble, so I can live at least." I got small giggle from her but as soon as she did she covered her mouth and started trembling. "it's ok the wolf is gone, she won't hurt you anymore, I'll make sure of it" I gave her a kiss and then hugged her. "I love you Mani." I went to the wall and hung up my fox mask, "this mask has caused nothing but pain and suffering and it's about time that ended."
———————————————————————— I was lying in bed worried about Liv, will she be ok? is she hurt? if she is hurt then I will kill the person or people who hurt her, all of a sudden floofy and snowball jumped off of my bed and walked over to the door, my ring started glowing, it was Liv. seconds later she lifted the cover and got into bed with me and started cuddling me, she then whispered into my ear,"Hey Amanda I'm scared, I'm scared that I did something and went too far and now I can't go back, I'm scared that if I try to go back everyone will see me as a villain, I'm scared that people will think I killed Emily, I'm scared that I'm a different person, I'm scared that I lost all my friends and I'm scared above all that I lost you."
I turned to her, "you idiot, you haven't lost me, I'm right here."
I started to hug her back and before long she fell asleep in my arms.
"My my, so touching isn't it? The fox and her girlfriend are finally together again, you know I'm not a terrible person so I'm going to let you two be together forever."
"can't you just leave us alone, we've done nothing to you."
"you seriously think you've done nothing to me, well of course a wretch like you would think of herself as someone who can do no harm."
The bunny removed her mask.
"I haven't forgotten what you did to me Amanda and I certainly haven't forgotten about Olivia."
"Emma, I'm sorry for that but that's in the past and I'm trying to be a better person so please, just let me be a better person."
"you've had plenty of chances to be a better person so I'm not going to give you anymore chances, you're going to die, right here, right now."
"I don't want to hurt you Emma so please just leave."
"you don't want to hurt me? are you serious? you've already hurt me Amanda and I'm not going to forgive you for that"
Emma created a scythe entirely out of ice.
"well that's new, aren't you going to turn the whole room into ice?"
"I would but the dragon sealed away most of my magic after my fight with your girlfriend, something about causing too much trouble. well the only trouble now is the trouble that you're in now that I'm going to kill you."
I quickly created a rapier out of steel and charged at her but the blocked with her scythe, I continued to thrust it at her but the kept dodging whilst I was having troubles dodging her attacks, I switched out my rapier for a sword and shield and I started to slash at her, she grabbed my shield and then froze my arm, I couldn't move it at all, I was at a disadvantage but I continued slashing at her until she knocked me to the floor.
"Goodbye Amanda." She raised scythe to the sky ready to kill me, this was it, I've only just reunited with Liv and I'm going to die. I only wish that that moment could have lasted just a tiny bit longer. I looked up at the scythe and just as it was about to cut through me floofy and snowy ran in and bit Emma causing her to stumble backwards therefore lowering her guard so I took the opportunity and struck her in the heart killing her, finally, Liv was safe. all of a sudden my sword disappeared, that's weird my magic shouldn't be that exhausted, it was only a short fight.
"Well done Amanda, you killed Emma, you know if those foxes didn't help you you would probably be dead now, well anyways I've got a job to do so if you would move aside so I can kill Olivia that would be wonderful, after all she did try leaving the village and the dragon really doesn't like it when people try to do that, you know you could be the new fox actually, you're just as strong if not a bit stronger than Olivia and I doubt you'll stay sane after we brutally torture and kill her so you would be the perfect candidate."
"I'm not letting you lay a single finger on her."
"oh really? and what makes you think that you can stop me, you have no weapon after all so you wouldn't even be able to hurt me."
I tried to summon a weapon but it failed, she was right I couldn't defeat her but I could keep Liv safe, I rushed over to and cast a damage reflection spell so that any damage that would have been applied to her would be applied to me, the person who was talking to me stepped out of the shadows, she was wearing a wolf mask, she was a part of the same cult as the bunny. "well since you're so adamant on protecting Olivia I guess you'll have to endure her torture as well, and it isn't nice."
She started slicing at me and Liv each time that she would have hurt Liv it hurt me instead resulting in hundreds of sword wounds. "please stop, I only killed the rabbit in self defence I'm sorry!" she started to slice faster after I said that. "Please, I didn't want to kill her I'm telling you." she sliced even faster, I get it, every time I talked she would go faster, I should just not talk so Liv can stay safe until she wakes up. This went on for hours, I tried several more times to get her to stop but every time that I did she would just make an even deeper wound on my body, I help Liv tight into my chest so she wouldn't see this when she woke up, I don't to worry her. "well I'm getting tired of playing around with you so I'm going to slice you, let's see. five more times and on the sixth I'm going to kill you." my whole body was covered in blood and it hurt like hell but as long as liv is safe I don't care, the first slice came down, "one!", and then the second, "Two!", then the third, "three!", the fourth came next,"four!" here comes the last one, goodbye Liv. "Five!", she had a sadistic smile on her face, "Goodbye Amanda," she sliced down to kill me but I moved my body causing the wolf to leave a deep scar trailing all the way down my back. Liv has just woken up as well.
"well well, now that the fox is a wake I think it's about time for the wolf to eat her meal."
Liv looked at the fox, "get the fuck away from my girlfriend." her eyes started to glow and she grew a fox tail and ears, then snowy and fluffy started glowing and they went to Livs side, she then charged at the wolf knocking her mask off, the wolf tried to slice floofy and snowball in half but they just healed and continued to help Liv fight against the wolf, Isabella. Isabella tried to fight back but was powerless against Liv who bit off one of her arms, she then dragged the wolf across the room and continued to attack until I cast a calming spell which managed to snap Liv out of her frenzy, the wolf raised her arm to try to defend herself, it was obvious that Liv didn't know what was happening but Isabella was too scared to realise that so she begged for her life, to which Liv agreed to under the condition that she or any of the other members of the cult would never bother us again, which Isabella agreed to clearly in fear of her life, Liv then came over to me and noticed all of the scars.
"Mani, what happened?"
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"Mani?"
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"Amanda can you tell me what happened?"
I couldn't speak, I started trembling and my eyes welled up with tears, if I spoke would Isabella come back and attack us? I sat trembling for a while, too scared to answer.
"come on Amanda, you're the toughest girl I know, it must have been something pretty bad if it made you this upset." I pointed towards a piece of paper and Liv brought it over so I wrote down everything that happened.
"Amanda why did you risk your safety for me? I've killed people, I've nearly killed you twice, I work with the person who did this to you, so why?" she wrapped her arms around me and started to cry. "I'm not worth all of this pain and misery, why can't you let me suffer instead of you!" I started to shake, I was going to talk but I'm scared that Isabella's going to come back and kill Liv. "I'm sorr-" I took a gulp,
"I love you" it was a whisper, so quiet that she might not have even heard it.
"even so you're risking your own happiness for me, I don't deserve this, you deserve to be happy, I don't, I'm the one who should suffer, not you! so just let me suffer next time instead of you because I'm the one who is meant to suffer" I started to write on my paper again, you don't deserve to suffer, I then hugged her not letting her get out of it so she hugged me back, we sat like this for what felt like forever. "I'm never going to leave your side, I never want this to happen to you again, you're too important to me." she looked at me, "we should clean you up, if you go to school looking like that they'll know something is up and then they'll investigate you and then I don't know what will happen but they probably won't let you just walk around freely after this" she then cast a spell circle which changed my looks to what they were before the fight with the bunny. "if you get in anymore trouble I might die from all the stress so try not get in anymore trouble, so I can live at least." I let out a small giggle but I instantly covered my mouth, started trembling and looked around.
"it's ok the wolf is gone, she won't hurt you any more." she then gave me a hug and kissed me for the first time.