Boom!!!
"Not yet" Reva came running from the forest and threw smoke into the female's mouth and smoke filled the entire area.
"AGH!!" The female bear panicked in anger and slammed right into the male bear causing both of them to fall. Reva in time towards Seraphina and Arya, picked each of them on each shoulder and began running.
"What is that noise?" Seraphina could hear noises, and small images, of rats. Hundreds of small grey- rays with green with blue eyes, rushing towards them and the bears. She felt attracted towards them,
"Huh?" Drops of blue fell on Seraphina's mouth, she wiped it away with the saliva on her mouth which she didn't know was there. She looked at Reva's clothes and knew that she had some of River's potions.
"What happened to him?" Reva asked while running.
"The scream, the loud one. He didn't cover his ears. He is bleeding from the year, we need to help him."
"Tch.. I have no herb or portion to give him" Reva bit her tongue and kept running, leaving behind the bears and rats in the smoke bomb. Running towards the edge of the forest, they kept moving away from the ravine and stopped at a small tree. "The mouse screams won't come this far." Reva was sure.
Reva put Seraphina and Arya on the ground and climbed the branch. Looking around to see any attackers,
"Reva, you need to help Arya, he fainted but looks in pain…" Arya's hands were slightly moving and he was like he was in an unpleasant dream. Reva saw nothing around and jumped down from the tree.
She leaned close to Arya seeing his bleeding ear, " He will have a bad time after this. I can't help it, no medical herbs, or portions to treat this."
"That portion you drank, what was that? Won't that work?"
"I carry portions of Antivenoms and energy boosters. Energy booster ounces take a huge toll on the body once it is done working. He will be more miserable after the effects end. We need to find a hiding place, Seraphina did Mercy tell you any emergency signals?"
Seraphina shook her head in response, with a frustrated look Reva got up from her position and began scouting.
"?!" Seraphina patted Arya's hair, to comfort him. He tried to cradle his head, "Ouch.." the bruises on her hands ached, and the wound on her head had stopped bleeding. Then she looked at Reva once again, looking over the cliff.
"Forest of fireflies, everywhere. The forest will be filled with corpses and fluids of the dead flies, I don't want to take the risk of jumping down and walking there." Reva thought to herself and pushed her scratched itchy neck.
"?!" Seraphina noticed it then and there on Reva's hands, her veins were popping out and her blood was going red, as her blood was boiling and finally Seraphina noticed the scar near her knee. She was a poisoned.
"Reva, drink antivenom. There is a scar on your leg, the mouse bit you." Seraphina clutched Arya's head.
"Don't worry. I already took that, What do you think I am? The effects get worse before they get better." Reva spoke with her back towards Seraphina with a thumbs up and the little girl breathed a sigh of relief. Reva was confused about what to do…
"I think your best chance is to run back." Reva turned on hearing that. "I think the rats and bears will still fight, we can spray the anti-venom on our bodies to cover our scent and escape to the bears. They won't be coming behind us." Seraphina suggested his master plan and Reva gave it a thought.
"That can work … We can do that.. cough …cough …" Reva spit blood out of her mouth and began gasping for air, her feet lost control and hit the ground. Half of her body was hanging by the cliff.
"Reva!" Seraphina gently let go of Arya and rushed towards Reva. She picked Reva from the ground, pulling her with all her strength and made it to safety, curling Reva's face and taking a look at her.
" You liar, You didn't take the anti-venom!" Reva's cheeks were half gone, the teeth beneath were visible now, and her eyes were losing light. Her hair was falling into Seraphina's hands and the blood wouldn't stop coming out of her caught.
"Why didn't you drink the antivenom? What was that blue thing?" The victim had stopped coughing and finally was taking a breath again, " Curse that, River. These drinks don't last 3 minutes." Reva jerked away from Seraphina and clung to her back pouch.
"Take your antivenom, quick!" Seraphina turned to Reva as she was searching her pouch filled with 3 blue and 7 green vials, as much as Seraphina could see.
"If I had the antivenom, I would have drank it long ago. The rats live in the flame bastard's land or in the desert caves. Why would I have prepared for that?" Reva screamed and Seraphina fliched, but not because Reva was screaming at her.
"Reva, I am not on the other side…" Reva was not even looking at Seraphina.
"I shouldn't have drunk that energy portion. I am going by- cough…" More blood came out with a cough.
"I'll suck out your venom, I have heard people do that to save each other.." Seraphina quickly moved near Reva's wound, she could feel the
"Don't try that you'll push that venom more in and poison yourself too… I don't want to die here. Give me an energy potion out of this pouch right now. We need to get out of here." Reva pushed to pouch towards Seraphina.
"You'll die even if we reach somewhere safe if you drink that. I don't want to see my friend die suffering." Seraphians pushed away the pouch.
Reva tore her falling hair with her anger, "Then what can huh?, How do you think you can save the three of us right now?" She lashed at Seraphina's face right now.
"You told me that, Evelyn and Alfyn, attack and kill so fast people die without suffering. So, I want you and Arya to die without suffering." Seraphina spoke in a straight tone.
"Die without suffering, what are you talking about?"
"Mercy told me that he can bring everything back to life for me. If you try to live, you will suffer. If you die without suffering Mercy will bring you back… I know, trust me, he never lies." Seraphina tried to rush towards Evelyn's holster, but Reva caught her arm.
"Mercy can bring people back for you, but only if you reach home. Can you guarantee me that you will reach Mercy without getting killed by any danger in the forest?"
"I... I will… " Seraphina couldn't answer, but she was interrupted in her words.
Rawrrrrr
The land below them began shaking, and the roars of the bone bears filled their ears.
"Did they really kill all those rats so fast?! Seraphina gave me the blue portion." The earth began shaking more and the trees in the far came crashing down in the far.
Seraphina scrambled through the pouch to get the potion and brought it trying to hand it to Reva.
"I'll be taking that."
"??!" In the fear of the incoming bears, the girls didn't notice Arya had awoken, he came crawling and stole the potion out of Seraphina's hands and drank the entire bottle in a single gulp and he did not feel anything for a second.
"Arya doesn't drink that… " Before Reva could speak the poison hit one more time and the price she needed to pay too.
The pain, she couldn't take the pain anymore…" Ahhhhh!!!!" she screamed as her tongue slowly melted into the mouth.
Arya on the other hand stood up straight, his feat had his strength, his heart a bit of resolve and his brain… was pushing above all limits.
"...The world is moving slower" Arya felt as he was drunk, Reva's scream, Seraphina's crying face and the Bear's shattering through the final trees, all of them were happening so slowly.
"A thrill… the power coming to me. This won't last long.." Arya rushed to pick up Reva and Seraphina, he picked them up and left the pouch roll on the floor.
He could see the male bear's eyes turning towards him as he moved… then the world was fast again.
He moved, picked the two on his shoulders and ran as fast he could, without stopping for anything.
「Power: Marsh Shield」
The mud shield broke apart the trees that stood before him, moving faster and crazier than ever, Arya jumped from tree to tree leaping from one side to another. The bear would still chase him by the scent, and their giant bodies didn't hinder their speed, but he was far faster. The rush was pulling all his smiles.
Arya thought as he bashed through the trees, " I need to jump down to the cliff there is no other way. The forest can have more rats, I don't have a fire spell to burn anything… Where is the right place… I need to save Reva-"
SMASH!!!!
Arya's back felt the weight of the world, the stone shield became half as dense, and the attack was massive and powerful.
" A claw attack?!" Arya jumped to look at the back and saw the blue eyes of the mother bear were red, her mouth had a blue energy portion in her mouth and a thousand small red scars on her fur.
"This rage… Can I throw these two away and fight this thing?"
"I think the rats ate her cubs and now she's angry." Arya enhanced his speed as much as he could, speeding across the trees. He left the female bear behind as much as he could.
"The forest ends ahead." Arya shifted the screaming Seraphina to the other side, she was speaking something, but Arya was too focused to care.
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