"Huff..puff, huff..puff"
Struggling to grasp as much air as he could, Alex fenced off as many attacks from the imps as he could.
His armor was already covered in an unknown amount of scratches from the small imps blows.
His abody was mostly fine since it was protected, but his legs and mid arms were full of scratches from either the sharp nails or fangs that pierced and slashed his kin.
Blood, although in small quantity, was gushing out from the many wounds, slowly staining the leather pants in a deep red color.
"Screeech"
Another Imp jumped from his left side, it's mouth opened in an attempt to bite its neck off.
Alex move his left feet backwards, and turning his upper body to the incoming attack, he gave a powerful blow with the sword in his right arm, decapitating the monster, who lifeless fell on the ground, joining the many others around him.
"It's hard but still doable"
The only silver line to his crisis was the lack of intelligence of the creatures, their attacks were always either biting or scratching with its sharp nails, making them predictable.
At first he struggled quite a bit, getting wounded a lot, but as the fight progressed he became used to their attack patterns and began using his different armor parts to block the attacks, before giving them a final blow, reducing their number by almost two dozen, but it couldn't keep this way.
He was getting tired really fast, and his body won't be able to keep taking damage for long, but the most worrisome thing was the huge monster that stared at him from behind the groups of imp.
Alex always kept it in his sight, ready to fight the moment it charged at him, if he could kill the boss like monster, maybe the smaller ones would go away.
It was his plan from the start, one of the reasons he gave such a war cry when he heard the monster roar at him, trying to rouse him to a 1v1, but the bastard decided to watch the show from the sideline.
"The fucker is trying to tired me out first"
He knew that since a while ago, but there was nothing he could do, the imps blocked every other path out of here, and his last option was the river, which was not an ideal solution, he don't know what was inside the water, nor on the other side of the forest, also it's quite wide so it would make me tired just to get there with my armor on, also I'm already exhausted from fighting.
Gritting his teeth Alex evaded another slash from a imp, stabbing it in the chest with the sword, then doing a 180 degree turn, he pierce another incoming imp throat, But.
Crack
As he dealt the blow, the dagger, already wore out from creating the fire camp, and repeatedly fighting, broke before it could pierce the imps throat completely, it was a crappy dagger in the first place.
And with a dying struggle the imp jumped and bite Alex shoulder.
"Argh!"
Pain assaulted his entire arm, his shoulder felt as if it was on fire.
"God damn it"
Cursing the small bastard, Alex grabbed his thin neck and throw it at the upcoming imps, nocking them back like if they were dominoes.
"Huff Haaa… hufff Haa.
Trying to get as most oxygen as possible, Alex tried to focus on the battle but the pain was beginning to cloud his mind, his shoulder was now bleeding in large quantity, adding the numerous wounds on his body he was loosing a lot of blood, making his vision blurry, his head pounding as if someone was hitting it with a hammer.
But even a second of distraction in a fight can be disastrous.
"RRRHGGRR"
"Oh sh-"
PAMM
Just as he was trying to recover his breathing, Alex heard a growling from his back, noticing the giant monster was gone, he tried to raise his sword to protect himself, but the difference in strength simply too big.
With a single swing, the monster hit Alex in the chest, who barely managed to place his sword in between them, but the blow was too strong, it knocked him out of his feet and throw him a good 10 feet away, landing on his back.
Blood fell from his mouth, his chest was in pain, he felt as if it got hit by a car, his body didn't listen to him no matter how much he tried to move or stand up as if it knew it was the end.
His vision was cloudy, he tried to keep himself awake, but it slowly drifter around.
Old memories began to resurface one after another, happy ones where all the family was laughing.
The sad ones when his pet died of old age.
Boring ones when he went to his everyday life, no purpose of meaning, just eat, sleep and work.
And finally the memory of his fight in high school.
Alex was not moving an inch, slowly the imps began walking closer to him, ready to tear him limb by limb, ready to tear the flesh of its kin enemy.
Death was imminent.
"Why am I remembering such shit before my death"
Cursing his mind for showing him such pathetic memory in his last moments, but no matter how much he hates it he couldn't stop watching.
He watch how he broke the guy elbow and nose.
He watched how he hit the other one in the jaw, KO him in one blow.
But what surprise him was the last one, the look the bully had in his eyes when I was holding him by the throat.
His eyes full of terror.
It was hard to explain his expression, it looked as if a person meet face to face with all his phobias and traumas at the same time.
His eyes were wide open and his pupil slightly shook, tears were beginning to fall down his cheeks.
Then, turning my vision away from him, He looked at himself, who was holding the bully, pure hostility could be felt pouring from his body.
But Alex didn't press attention to that, he was focus on his own face, he could believe what was he seeing.
"KU kuku, no wonder he was so scared"
As he quietly spoke those words a imp finally managed to reach him, standing next to his neck, looking at the bloodied person in front of him.
Giving a long screech, it opened his mouth, reveling the set of sharp teeth, and launch itself for the throat, to finally finish its enemy,
"Splshhh"
"ku kukuku HAHAHA HaAHA"
Just before he could give the final blow, something stopped him in its tracks, looking down, he noticed something piercing it's stomach, leaving him suspended in mid air, it's blood falling on the prey face which continue to laugh as if it had lost its mind.
"HAHAHAHA HAHS HAHA HAHAHS HA"
"That right! I was never the type of person fit for that type of live anyways, but still stupidly tried, just to make my relative happy and proud"
Slowly Alex begun to stand up, his bones cracked as if they were about to break at any moment, blood covers him not knowing if it was his, or his enemies anymore, his whole body was screaming in pain, but Alex continued to laugh heartily, as if he don't felt a thing.
For the first time in who knows how many years he felt as if his heart had began beating again, as if pure joy had managed to find him for the first time in years, as if the emptiness inside him was beginning to fill up after who knows how long.
"HAHAH HAHA"
His laugh couldn't stop as he finally remembered why that person was so scared by them, it was not that his friend were bested, not the wound inflicted to them, nor the punishment that would follow.
It was his expression, Alex was laughing as he held the kid by the throat, it was a maniacal laugh that would made even the scariest serial killers run in fear.
"HAHA HA"
Looking at Alex laughing, the monster didn't know first how to react, had he lost his mind?
But seeing Alex standing made them charge at him, whatever it was instinct or intelligence they couldn't let him recover, but immediately stopped, barely taking a few steps,
Their bodies began to shake, although not much they still felt a deep fear in the hearts, a pressure began building that made it hard to breathe, even the giant monster felt uncomfortable, his hand began to slightly shake, amazing him, he had not felt fear in a long, long time.
Raising his head he looked toward Alex who was now standing in front of him and it's kin, by now the sun had long gone, replace by a calm moonlight, which albeit hard, it was possible to see the entire place with relative ease.
But looking at the creature in front of him, his instinct screamed to kill it as fast as possible, to not let it live, but no matter what he couldn't move.
The giant beast and the imps could only stand still and observe as Alex walked towards them, madly laughing without stop as if he been enlightened.
His face was now hidden by the darkness, moonlight shining on his back, bloodlust combined with his bloodied appearance sends shivers down the monsters spines.
Looking at his face, hidden by darkness, they could noticed one thing it wasn't there before, it's eyes, now shone with an intense purple light, staring at them, as if a hungry beast had spotted his next meal.
Then a single voice woke them from the trance, just before the fight broke once again.
"ROUND TWO BITCHES!"