At first, Kani though it was a fox but then she also believed it was unusual for them to be there. Besides, the distance between the eyes looked a bit capacious comparing to those of a fox.Kani signed those fireflies and they went to the creature. Their light had fallen on its face.
At that moment Dan had gasped. Because the creature that was before them had a face similar to a human. Only the skin looked a bit green-ish but it was because of the fireflies. It had teeth large teeth like wolves. It was making growling sounds from time to time.Suddenly, strong wind started to blow and the trees that were preventing the moonlight from entering the woods, started moving. Light fell on the creature's body. Its shape was alike an alligator but it was quite large than one. It had big scales on its body and the moonlight revealed its skin color- deep blue.
"Kani, we should run.", Danachi said. Though he was shaken at first, he seemed to be taking this better than her.
"No,wait.", Kani was tried to figure out what it was. It only seemed like an evil creature and not a natural animal.
The creature started walking towards them. After it went a few steps, suddenly it sprinted at an incredible speed forward.
"Bora!! Be careful!! ", Danachi grabbed Kanibora's hand and pulled her towards him swiftly.
That creature stopped and sharply turned his direction.Kanibora was quick to glitch with Danachi from that place in oder to avoid the hit. But she couldn't go much further. They had only gone a few yards. Missing it's target the creature became angry. It roared very loudly and hit on the ground. The roar was enough to make people go deaf. Danachi had covered his ears. And as for Kani, she took the echo well but her old pain came back. That excruciating pain. She also realized then, that her powers won't work.
"It's that thing from Aya," Kanibora told Danachi.
"Why is it here?", Danachi asked.
" For some reason, it wants to hurt me. But now, I can't use my powers. We need to get away from here. RUN!!"
They started running to get away from it. But they knew it wouldn't take long for it to find them.
"Running won't be enough. We need an arm.",Danachi said while running. Because they were quite fast, Kani tripped on something. She saw that that was a branch of a tree which could serve as a spear.
"Great! This will do." Danachi took the spear from her.
At that moment, they couldn't see the creature.
" Shouldn't we get to the cave now?",Dan asked.
"We can't. We've already come quite far . We can't go to the cave without making sure that creature is gone.", Kanibora replied.
They waited for a while standing there, conscious, to spot it. Danachi felt something wet fall in his head. He looked up and what he saw, skipped the beat of his heart. That creature was hanging upside down from the tree Dan was standing under. Its face was really close to Dan, so close that it could chop his entire head if it wanted.
"DAN, GET AWAY!!", Kani screamed.
But the creature jumped on him and aimed straight for Dan's neck. But he was swift enough to dodge. The creature waited a bit and then went after him again. It hit him with its tail but he took it well. It then attacked him from behind and jumped on his shoulder. It put its teeth deep into his flesh.
"Aah-", Dan grasped his shoulder. He tried to get it off and started to shake hard. He managed to get that thing off him.
But it was determined to finish him first. That thing then jumped oh his chest. He fell to the ground. It wanted to bite off his head but Dan was stopping him with the branch. Looking at this chaos, Kanibora could do nothing. But she wanted to help. Though she had no magic working, she still wanted to save him.
Without thinking anything, she grabbed the vines that she saw hanging from a tree, tied it around the neck of the creature and tried to control it. She succeeded. She got if off from Dan but it was now trying to break free . It tried to hit Kani but it was in a difficult position. After a lot of hassle, it was slowly calming down. Kanibora decided to loosen the grip. But that was a huge mistake. It instantly turned and hit her with its tail. She got hit in her head . Kanibora fell hard on the ground. That creature now was moving towards her.
It was just about to jump on her when suddenly it let out a cry. Kanibora saw that Dan had hit it with the spear. It collapsed on the ground and was growing in pain.
Dan hurriedly went to Kani and helped her get up. They wanted to get away from there but something interrupted them . Dan was moving away first but he felt something like a wall stand between.
"Bora, there's something here.", Dan said.
Kanibora also felt something when she tried to see what was before them.
" Its a protective circle. We're trapped inside it.", Kanibora replied.
They were trying to figure how to get out when they felt something behind them.
The beast had gotten up. Its wound healed incredibly fast . The spear that had gotten inside it, came out of its body and fell to the ground.The creature roared again and it was moving closer to them. It also knew that they couldn't get away now. Now being sure that its pray is defenseless,it jumped right into them.
At that time, Kanibora's mind went blank. She closed her eyes. She thought they were going to die now.
"It can't be," she told herself that though she was gonna die, she atleast couldn't let Dan die because of her.
" I need to save him.",she thought.
But she was helpless. Now there was only one way. With all her existence, she wanted her powers.
" Please, at least now, let me save him.", she prayed so hard that she felt like losing her consciousness. Time didn't seem to pass by.
At that moment, she heard someone say," Save him, then." She felt something strong inside her. She felt that her powers had come back, she felt it in her veins.