"You, beating me? Impossible!"
"Me beating you ain't impossible. Everything that you see here is within the realms of possibility, and yet what you see isn't true. So when what you see isn't what it is, then how is it that you shall claim what's possible and what's not possible?"
He scratched the back of his head for a couple of minutes unable to grasp what I just told him. To be honest, even I can't understand what I told myself. So much for trying to be the main protagonist. Pfft! "I'm not good with words. So, I'll answer your question by showing you how it's done!" He pulled out a gigantic axe!
"Well, may I know who's the blacksmith of your weapon? I would like to file a complaint and let him know that such a thing is illegal!"
"Prepare yourself!" He lifted his giant ace and started to swing it around before targeting me. He locked me dead in his sight! Mind you, he's not a vampire. Well, I did mention at the start that there were more mythical beasts from the gothic era than just the vampires and werewolves. And right now, I was facing one amongst them.
I would have liked to have given a brief description about all of it but sadly, I am aware of this right now. I just limited myself to the here and now. I'll brief it up once everything is well set.
He swung his axe in my direction, and a gust of wind blew towards me at a fast rate that I fell from the roof my feet rested a couple of seconds ago. I deliberately stuck close to the walls and kicked myself towards the piled snow on the other end of the roof. I hit hard and blacked out for a few seconds.
"Arrrrrgggggggg!" A roar woke me up. It was the roar of that barbarian! I opened my eyes to see that he jumped from the rooftop with the axe over his head, ready to swing it and chop me in one go!
"I got you now! Arggggggg!"...[The swing of the blade pierced through the flesh that was now pouring out the scarlet red blood it withheld. In just one strike, everything came to a halt]. "Looks like that wasn't hard, was it? In the ned, you were all talk and nothing else! I pray that hell shall take you in kindly, and offer you shelter and protection than this place ever could!"
"Where are you looking at?" SLASH!..."I told you not to underestimate me!"
"Argh!" He wailed in agony, as he lost his eye, in a sudden change of events, where he could barely respond to the conniving action his challenger pulled out. He raised his voice in despair until he was no longer able to feel his own eye. " You will...You will pay for this!" He put out a whistle, and there came all the members that were tailing up me a few seconds ago. So he finally decided to summon them all together in one place. "I don't know what it is that you did to me but you shall now suffer a lot more than I did!"
"Fine by me. Just be careful. You might not be left with anything to see after I end this useless fight that we're having now."
"Attack!" All the soldiers suddenly ran towards me but they didn't have any intention to fight me. In fact, they charged recklessly in order to immobilize me and take me by surprise.
"Tsk! So much firepower and all they decide to do is just stop me from moving. You got to be joking."
"Is that so? I'm sorry to say but you aren't looking carefully!" It felt strange, the way he phrased those words. I had a bad feeling about this. I looked at them all closely. At first, it wasn't vividly visible. But the more I looked at them, the more it was apparent that they weren't any humans whatsoever. They began to change their shape midway and ended up taking a form that consisted of them retaining their human outline, but were more like animals than humans. I remember there was a name for them.
Some of them looked like wild-boar-faced humans, and some of them had the upper torso of a lion and the lower torso of a human!"
"Chimeras! We are known as Chimeras!"
Yes, now I remember. Marcus briefed me about this topic during one of the many ill-fated times we had to be stuck together with each other. "Wait, weren't you supposed to be hideous and out of proportion. Why do you guys look like you're from some Hollywood action movie?" I moved out of my way, and took the high ground, with my back against the wall, so that I could react to any unnecessary threat!
"We are not the chimeras from the mythology that everyone refers to just like you're not the vampire everyone remains terrified of, right?" He shot a look at me, and then confirming from my reactions, he carried on. "All of us here, including you, are all the same. We are all but humans!"
"I beg to differ but I ain't one of you. I am a human through and through."
"You say that but is that really the truth?"
"Why? Is it hard to believe that a human was able to gift you such a beautiful scar, and make your ugly face more graceful than it was moments ago?"
"You seem to be enjoying this very well."
"Well, you are quite the entertainer yourself, and it would be anything but rude if I didn't enjoy myself to the fullest."
"Is that so? Then, as the so-called "entertainer", I shall feast you to a treat! Behold, my true form! Arhhhhhh...." He began to switch his shape, and soon, I could clearly see the changes he was undergoing, compared to everyone else here! He grew out of multiple arms, legs accompanied with limbs like that of tarantula, and finally, his face had 8 eyes, 4 on each end, in asymmetric order. He was a spider barbarian! "Now, let's enjoy ourselves!"