Ano sighed in relief, feeling the walls which had previously turned transparent in her eyes regaining their cover, she could finally sit easy and drink some water.
"You saved me again, Lord!" Seilo bowed humbly.
"Keke?! Kek keke kekke kek kek?" Ferrin finally couldn't hold it in and asked her for the reason of her calling him lord.
"Hmm?!" Seilo tilted her head to the side.
'Shit! She's making me lose grip of myself!' Ferrin sighed heavily while sneaking a glance at the Guardian.
Just as he was about to return to his human form, the Guardian walked next to him and patted his shoulder, albeit with some difficulty, she might be 6 feet tall, but Ferrin's current monkey form was a whopping 7 feet tall.
"Lets go out." The Guardian peered deep into his eyes.
"Again?" Ferrin pondered for some time before speaking out his concern, "What if some monkey or that monkey again comes back?!" Ferrin frowned and said, "What if the monkeys take one of them as a hostage?"
The Guardian glanced behind him, "Then I will go out first and clear all the monkeys." The Guardian without any hesitation turned around, causing Ferrin to reach out his hand and hold her, as the hands touched one another, both of them felt as if the meaning of their life had been completed.
Ferrin gripped himself together and said with even more worry, "There are so many out there, I know you are strong but still, that's too much to just take up all alone!"
The Guardian sighed, 'What is wrong with me? This isn't me!' She gazed at Ferrin and replied, "Then I will get all of you out of the hospital, I will give you the heads and tails of the situation. Then afterwards, whatever I do will be on me."
Ferrin furrowed his brows, "No! I-I can't do that either." Ferrin himself started getting weirded out, "I came here to look for any survivor doctors, my mother is injured, I can't make this trip for nothing until I know there is truly nothing here of use."
The Guardian massaged her forehead silently, "Then lets just eliminate all the threats!" She sighed heavily. Seeing Ferrin about to speak up again, "Since you're so worried about me, you can tag along yourself. As for your concern for them, lets just go to a distant place from here and set up a loud commotion."
Ferrin blinked his eyes innocently, just as his lips parted, the Guardian cut his thoughts short, "Its the best thing we can do considering your mentality. Since you can't leave me alone, can't leave them unprotected, can't evacuate! I think this is the only thing we can do other than sitting here with out hands tied." The Guardian smiled dazzlingly.
Ferrin coughed dryly while analysing her proposal, 'If we can first evacuate them to saf-, no, there won't be a point to that. The monkeys aren't only in this place after all. I hope mom and the others are fine and haven't encountered any issues.'
Ferrin nodded his head, "Fine, lets do that!"
The Guardian stared at him in silence for a while, a small smile crept atop her face.
Ferrin felt his heart racing wildly, he wondered what she was thinking about.
Ferrin turned around his head, fearing that the two might not be okay with this plan, but contrary to his expectations, Seilo stepped right up and said, "Please do not mind us, we wouldn't even be alive if not for you, whatever you do, its our fate! Please, stay safe, Lord!"
Ferrin darted his eyes upon Ano, despite not being able to understand him, she had got the gist from the Guardian's words. She sighed and nodded her head, "She's correct. I know it's not feasible for you to leave without confirming that there are no survivors here, so please go and be safe! For us as well!"
Ferrin felt somewhat strange, their words, their actions, it was something he never knew or received from others.
The Guardian flicked her spear, causing a sharp whoosh sound to pierce Ferrin's ears, "Lets go!"
Ferrin's eyes turned hazy, without saying anything he tagged along.
"How should we create a loud sound to to attract them? I know if I screech aloud, it would be effective but can it attract every monkeys' attention? They would be scattered around now, no?" Ferrin asked the thing that was bothering him about.
"Simple, we will go to the generator room and blow up the generator!"
Ferrin blinked his eyes speechlessly, "Wouldn't that attract every last one at the same time?"
"Exactly what I desire, if what you want to do is kill them in small groups. Wouldn't your screech be all we need? But, can your mother wait till the whole day?" The Guardian asked while glancing at Ferrin.
"True." Ferrin sighed, there truly was no other way, huh?! He parted his lips, only for the Guardian to cut him short, "I know where the generator room is."
Ferrin blinked his eyes cutely, 'How does she know everything I have in mind?!'
"You're predictable!" The Guardian replied honestly.
Ferrin's body involuntarily jumped to the side, "You're a mind-reading fiend!"
"What a harsh thing to say!" The Guardian didn't seem too concerned, a small smile once again on her stern face. 'He's... similar!' The smile faded like a facade, her eyes dimmed down. Her teeth gritted together tightly, she kept walking without pause, her spear reeking off a blood-thirsty desire to kill.
Ferrin's heart tightened for some reason, there was something inside him both boiling in rage and suffocating in a mud of guilt.
It didn't take them long to get to the generator room, it was located on the first floor so they had to move down from the second floor. They did encounter a few monkeys but they were easily disposed off by the two.
Staring at the generator, "How are we even going to destroy it?!"
"Simple!" The Guardian moved towards a nearby chair and chopped off on of its legs. Without any warning, she sent it whooshing straight into the generator.
Boom!
The explosion created a loud noise but not a lot of damage.
"That should work, righ-" Ferrin paused momentarily, while blinking his eyes in bewilderment he gazed behind him at the door. His ears were twitching from time to time.
"What do you think?!" The Guardian asked while raising her brow.
"We're dead meat." Ferrin glanced at her, his sweaty palms clenched together into a fist.
The Guardian giggled sarcastically, an ominous desire flashing in her eyes, "You should say, they are the dead meat."
Without a moment of hesitation, she lowered her back slightly before whooshing forward and slamming the door wide open. Her eyes fell atop the monkeys who were walking through the corridors towards her direction.
"Now then," She cracked her neck to the side, her eyes began to ooze of a suffocating thirst for blood. "Scum of nightmares, die to my hands!"
Her figure turned into a blur, Ferrin only saw her flickering from one place to another, leaving after-images of her slaughter. It was a barbaric and unrestrained slaughter, the hundreds of monkeys that were here or on their way were nothing to her but cockroaches, ones she had a serious disgust and hate for.
She killed and killed and killed and killed, her hands didn't tire, her spear never faltered, her feet never stopped, for a second, Ferrin wondered, 'Truly, this is indeed a... Nightmare!'
But no matter how much of a slaughter machine she considered herself to be, after all the hundreds of monkeys gathered together and came at her with a variety of moves, her unrestrained killing spree turned into a defensive play.
She wasn't being over-powered, she merely choose to defend. Maybe if things kept going on like this, she would've been crippled and crushed but, things couldn't go like that.
Ferrin finally regained his wits when the monkeys started coming for him. he could sense it as well, admits the monkeys that blocked his vision of the Guardian, she was in grave danger.
He ignored the many monkeys coming at him and flickered away.
All the monkeys in his path were hurled to the side until he finally spotted her. Seeing her spear moving around, protecting her from the many attacks, he felt that it was all surreal. 'Ho! Even her spear can defend, huh?!'
Seeing a tail about to crash into her back, Ferrin flickered behind her and used his tail to smash the tail away. As he was doing so, his gaze fell upon the path he had supposedly teleported through to get here, 'Strange! If this power is teleportation, I shouldn't have bumped into them. This power is something else!'
"You should've stayed back! Its dangerous here!" The Guardian retreated next to him and joined backs with him.
"Hehe!" Ferrin coughed dryly, his body flickered, the monkeys hadn't stopped after all.
After throwing off one volley of their attacks, the duo protected each other's back once again, "I am already embarrassed of having lost myself in your dazzling performance earlier," Ferrin spun in the air, using his bushy tail to throw away the monkeys that had just pounced on them. "Don't make me feel even more embarrassed."
"Sigh!" The Guardian raised her spear and plunged it through a monkey's head, 'How many years has it been, since I last could leave my back so open?' A strange glint flickered across her eyes.
"Alright then, just don't... die on me!" The Guardian zoomed towards the monkey about to attack Ferrin from behind and used her spear to sever it into two from its waist.
"Hey, hey! Haven't our roles switched from earlier?!" Ferrin chuckled, feeling his back resting with her's. He felt as if a towering mountain was shielding him from behind and he could be totally carefree about it.
As the battle continued on, Ferrin and the Guardian both realised that they would be crushed like this, 'Something tells me, this will work!'
He hurried to her side and used his claws to block the monkey attacking her from the side while saying, "Listen, let's fight together."
"We are doing that right now!" The Guardian felt speechless at his words.
"No, no! Lets not fight two separate monkeys, lets fight one together and lets fight at the same time! Flow with me! Join my thoughts! Become a part of me!"
The Guardian blanked out, dropping her guard and letting a monkey get near her.
"GET YOURSELF TOGETHER!" Ferrin flickered to her side while reprimanding her.
"What the heck are you saying in the middle of a fight? Are you insane? Do you know what kind of trust and the amount of faith you need to do that?"
"You're speaking from experience." Ferrin pushed back the monkey and flickered in front of her. "Didn't someone say earlier that I was rather predictable?!" Ferrin chuckled while staring straight into her bewildered eyes.
The Guardian's mouth spasmed in disbelief, "Damn me!"
"Hehehe!"
The two stared at each other in silence, not moving in the least despite the monkeys still coming at them.
If anyone else was looking at them, he would've called them psychos looking for dead.
Ba-dump!
Ba-dump!
Their hearts beat calmly yet strongly, each one moving at its own pace.
Time seemed to slow down as the two started losing themselves into one another.
Ferrin's tense eyes slowly turned into his characteristics hazy green.
The Guardian's bewildered eyes morphed into a fiery red.
The monkeys moved rapidly, closing the distance in a short time, but the two remained unmoved.
In their serene and peaceful tiny world, the monkey's presence stirred up cold storms.
Without breaking eye-contact, both of them said in unison, "Now!"
Whoosh! They didn't say ask who to attack, but they naturally came together again. The spear moved forward, unconcerned of the monkey's out-stretched claws and to fulfil the faith placed in them, Ferrin's tail came from behind the monkey and slammed fiercely into its head, causing its trajectory to change.
The spear drilled straight into the monkey's head without any resistance, it was a wonder just how sharp it was.
One took a step and one moved forward. One moved with no concern and one moved wearily. One took in air and one's heart pumped it. One moved to kill and one moved to ensure it. One thought it had four hands and one thought it had four legs.
Maybe, all that was needed to ensure their victory today wasn't for 1 and 1 to make 11 but for 1 and 1... to just become 1!
Ba-dump! Ba-dump!