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We were all teleported right next to a raging river, and by that, I mean right onto the edge of its sand banks.
"What?!"
"Heck!"
"Uuuaaaah!"
Ike and I stumbled down, rolled on the sand, but we managed to grip onto some vegetation in my case, and sink his sword into the dune in Ike's case, and we avoided falling right into the river. Spruce wasn't so agile, however, and splashed into the waters, being quickly carried away. And, as if that was not enough, a dark blue creature which was laying on the river's bank on the other side noticed all the commotion and was attracted to it.
It was like a mountain lion, but instead of fur, it had blue scales, its paw had webbed fingers, and the tail was paddle-like, not that much different from an alligator. A water panther.
The creature dived into the river, and quickly swam after the despaired little person, who was only barely able to stay afloat, flouncing and half screaming, half gurgling.
"Dammit!", Ike and I cursed, and we dropped from our position on the bank, and right into the river.
We were at a great disadvantage battling in the water against the water creature, but we had no choice if we wanted to save Spruce.
My newly learned fire spells were useless, as well as the earth spells, but how about the explosions?
Swimming after the monster and keeping my head over the waterline I pointed my palm towards it but it was useless, the creature was too far away. I conjured a few pebbles and tried to shoot them too, but they greatly slowed down once they hit the water, and didn't even hurt the monster. What could I do!? The monster was about to reach Spruce!
"Ike!", I suddenly had an idea, and conjured the biggest shield I could over the water. I didn't need to scream twice: the awkward swordsman climbed onto the shield, got to its edge, and jumped off it. Right on the zenith of its parabola he pulled his sword backward, and threw it against the scaly creature which was already opening its mouth.
"Grooaoa!", the monster screamed once the black sword dug itself in its lower back, right where the tail began. It immediately started to turn to the river banks with its impeded swimming.
Ike reached the little person, hugged him from behind, and started to get out of the stream, and so did I. We got onto the earth, and Spruce immediately started to cough up water and shake. Yet, it seemed the water panther wasn't done with us yet. From the other side of the river, with blood in its eyes, the creature dived into the water again and vanished beneath the water bubbles and the white foam of the river.
"I can't fight it without, my sword. I have only learned healing spells…"
"That's fine. I'll deal with it", I said, getting up, and waiting by the shore with Ike and Spruce behind me, this last one trying to climb up the river bank with difficulties.
Then, right before me, a scaly blue head with huge bearing teeth showed up from beneath the waves… and then another one.
Two water panthers circled me, each from one side on that thin strip of land before the steep sand dune, and I threw looks to each of them, turning my head from right to left.
Then the one by my left, the one who still had Ike's sword dug in the base of its tail, opened its mouth and spit a ball of batter with great pressure behind it. Was it magic?! Either way, I surely couldn't just withstand that, so I raised my left fist, and with that a portion of the ground too. While I blocked the projectile from my left, however, the water panther from my right jumped with its long claws on my direction.
It was too close already to create another stone wall, so I covered my forearm with conjured rocks, and let the creature bite into it.
My flash wasn't pierced, but I felt great pressure on my arm, and even with my enhanced strength, I couldn't pull it off the creature's mouth; withstanding a monster's bite power was completely different from simply jumping high.
"Coyote!", Ike screamed from the sand dune behind me; the water panther whose projectile I blocked with the stone wall had started to climb the slope after the wounded prey.
I had to deal with the biting monster, and quickly. So I gritted my teeth and put the free palm against the forehead of the creature while it dug its long claws all over my unprotected limb, pulling veins and muscle fibers from it, and completely butchering my skin.
"BOOM!", I put a palm-sized hole into the monster's skull, and it fell to the ground, limp, letting my forearm go. "BOOM!", I used explosive spells again, and hurled myself upwards and after the second water panther.
Reaching it, I conjured a shield into the sand dune, gripped the sword from the base of its tail, spun around over my shield, and with my extra strength and kinetic force, with one blow, beheaded the monster.
The second corpse rolled down the sandbank, and fell back into the river, in which it disappeared.
As I didn't see any other threat nearby, I relaxed and turned back to my friends.
"It's a good sword."
"It's brittle, but it's extra sharp. Magically enchanted", he smiled back.
There was a minute of silence, as Spruce was still shaking, with eyes wide open. Finally, however, we all climbed out of the river's side banks, and into more stable ground, where he stretched, took a deep breath, and turned to us with a big smile on his face: "Well, those monsters were really lucky. I would have torn them to pieces with my own spells if I wasn't distracted by having to swim!"