Seeing how the girl in question was easily maltreated by the demon didn't come as a surprise to the two mixed beasts. To be very fair, even they felt whether they were in their right senses or not, they wouldn't want to pick a fight with the demon. What might be all too new to Rodney and the legion wasn't to them at all. For one, they had quite the history with the demon.
"Do you think he will be okay Luke?" One of the beasts spoke to the other. Right now they both walked through the forest with Mia on the back of the beast with the red eye. The one who had asked the question.
"I don't know if for certain he will be okay. But seeing how he is able to snap them out of this state...." The one with the red eye carrying Mia paused and looked at Mia on his shoulders before continuing..." I think...I think he is special... And I don't know about you but I wish he was there when ..."... The beast with the red eye was going to say before being interrupted mid sentence.
"Don't...please...please...don't say it. I do not want to be reminded about that horrible day" the one with the blue eye said. And with that said, they continued walking on in silence until they had gotten to a huge tree with large long branches on it. They found it to be a comfortable spot and there they laid Mia who looked to be passed out. But still something was off about her. And that was the fact that she had still not returned back to her normal state like the others as her hair still remained grey and not to talk of the black substance oozing from her eye and stopping just at the point of her nose.
"Hey shaw, did you notice anything while we were fighting alongside that guy?" The one with the red eyes said.
"Yeah, I thought it was weird too. Why would we suddenly just get the rewards there. Is he the one?" The one with the blue eyes said.
"I mean he could be. Why else did we get the reward?" The one with the red eyes said.
"We will just find out when the whole thing's over...right now I don't know if it's just me but are you also seeing this?" The one with the red eyes said.
"It's probably happening because we stayed quite longer than usual in this form. You know, it's not like we have an infinite amount of ep you know?" The one with the blue eyes said.
"Yeah, we might need those energy points for later. We should change back quickly"The one with the red eyes replied.
And as this was concluded, looking over at Mia one more time, the two turned around and went to the bark of the huge tree. And as they got there, they had something in mind to do. They both placed one hand on each other's shoulders and took a quick glance at each other one more time.
"You ready?" The one with the blue eyes asked.
"Ready?.. I am never ready for this thing" the one with the red eye replied shortly and they both looked like they were chuckling for a moment when suddenly the cheerful look on their faces disappeared and they got more serious "completely" they both said in unison.
Then just as these two words were said, their bodies lit up. The two beasts now stood with lit up bodies that had different marks on it. From the claws that looked like they belonged to a fearsome tiger to large teeth on their backs. They basically had all sorts of different animal parts tattooed on their bodies. Only it wasn't just any kind of tattoo as theirs had appeared out of no where and appeared to be glowing.
With the beast who had red eyes seemingly having red glowing markings on its body and the ones with the blue eyes having blue glowing markings on its body as well. Then the next thing that began to happen was their different beasts part began to go inside one after the other. This had begun with their bat like ears and each time a beast part left them, they almost like they were in pain.
"Arrrgh" the groaned softly
And this continued on as their feet followed suit and slowly it began to reform. Finally it had changed from a horse's hooves to that of a human having five digits on each foot. Their claws also retracted and their oddly shaped hand that looked bigger from the elbow region had also come down in size realigning itself to fit just where it should be. The fur patches started to fall off and the one with the hard scaled stomach also started to lose signs of it.
After a minute or two, they had completely transformed and now looked completely different from their former look. Right now, standing behind the huge tree were two naked boys. But that wasn't the peculiar thing about these boys. What stood out the most was the fact that they both looked the same.
"This is why I hate having to take this form. Each time I have to look at a raw image of you naked!" one of the boys said.
"You do know we are twins right?. And I basically look like a photograph of you. Quit your nagging and change into something will you?" the second boy demanded. Now it was basically almost impossible to tell them apart. The one thing that could be used to differentiate them though was their hair colour.
Not that they had different hair colours all together. They both shared similar black hair colour but just on the side of their head there was a mark that would set them both apart. A red line that went from the front of his hair all the way to the back. And the second one had something almost similar but with different colour. His was a blue line that went from the front of his head straight to the back
"Equip".. They both said and immediately clothes appeared on their bodies.
"Good thing we always carried extra clothes am i right or what shaw?" The one with the red single line pattern on his hair inquired from the boy with the blue single line pattern on his hair.
"Yeah, you know what would have made it better Luke?" The one with the blue pattern on his hair that was being referred to as shaw asked.
"No, what?" The red hair pattern one that was referred to as Luke replied.
"If you hadn't used almost all our money to buy clothes!!!" Shaw said showing his frustration.
"Come on bro, we've been needing to transform more than usual lately. Or would you rather prefer we experience what happened..." Luke was going to say but had his mouth quickly covered by shaw. But in the midst of these, he still managed to get a few words out.
"Ok..OK...I wasn't going to say it anyway...chill bro" Luke said. But Shaw would shake his head in response and after removing his hand from his twin brother's mouth would he finally say.
"Not that!..." Shaw would say and then pause for a second as it looked like he was trying to listen in on something.
"Can you feel that?" Shaw would then ask his brother Luke.
"Yeah, it's getting quite windy. We should have thought probably try to check on that guy. He might need our help" Luke answered.
"Well, have you thought of why it's windy?" Shaw asked and almost immediately Luke's eyes widened and without saying anything they both dashed to the front of the large tree where they had initially placed Mia at the bottom. But on getting there, they couldn't find Mia where they had left her anymore.
"Shouldn't she have been drained up by now?. I mean I get that we are freaks but what would you say about her?. How is she still managing to remain in this form?" Luke fired off a barrage of questions.
"No, something is keeping her from turning back. I don't know what but if she continues in this state it means she's basically using borrowed energy. And you know how that works" Shaw said. Right now they were staring at the same Mia they thought had been knocked out floating in the air. But with no wings just the wind around her seemingly carrying her.
"What is keeping her though?" Luke asked.
"The question should be why is she staring at us that way...you don't think she..." Shaw was about to finish when he saw Mia raise her two hands with open palms pointed at them. Not even thinking for a minute, he jumped and pushed his brother Luke aside and immediately all they heard was a fairly loud bang and dust clouding the area.
"About that energy, I think she sees us as energy" Luke said as he backed away slowly from a fierce looking Mia. And just like before, she opened her palms yet again and as the twins prepared to jump out of the way expecting a similar attack, they were blown away by a strong gust of wind. Landing hard their backs hit a tree.
"Okay, I've had just about enough!!" Shaw said and his hands started to shake quite intensely.
"You have to calm down. She's clearly out of it. Remember how we once acted?" Luke tried to calm his twin brother down. But it clearly wasn't working as now part of his newly worn clothes had begun to rip again. Particularly his trousers where his laps had widened and his hands growing a little bigger with air and claws extending out of it.
"She sees us as targets. We can't just watch, we have to get her under control" Shaw said and as these words hit the ears of Luke, he only shook his head and the next second he began to initiate the same process as his brother had done. And before long, he had grown claws and his legs had gotten bigger as well.
*Scrooff!!!*
A disturbing sound was made as they both kicked off from the ground with impressive speed leaping and getting to the height Mia stood floating in the air. And with their claws elongated, they opened them wide with their hands swung back ready to strike but that's when something happened.
"Please...don't hurt me!!!" Mia blurted out.
Mid air the boys withdrew their hands as they were sure they had heard her right even amongst the loud wind noise and the tree branches it shook along with it. But this sudden choice to hesitate had turned out to bite them back hard. As just before they could begin their descent to the ground, Mia had assisted gravity in sending them down nicely as she swung her leg and a powerful slash of air came out of it hitting the boys dead on.
There was no way they could have avoided such move while in the air. So the best they could do was to block it and it had paid off. As now they were sent crashing down to the ground but surprisingly on their feet with their arms crossed in a x shape while their legs skidded across the bare ground.
And just as they had caught themselves and taken control of their own movements, they kicked off again running at impressive speeds towards Mia. And this time it didn't need to be told as they didn't look like they were holding anything back. But oddly, Mia turned the opposite way and bolted in the air with the wind acting as support increasing her speed making her a little faster than the twins.
But they hadn't chased her down immediately as they stopped to think of just what was happening.
"Wait, I heard her talk right?" Luke asked his brother Shaw.
"That's not what's bothering me. Look at where she's headed" Shaw said to his brother.
"Back to the demon" Luke muttered.
"Yeah, but look!" Shaw pointed in the air a little above the trees ahead of them.
"What is that?" Luke asked.
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