Violet watched from the shadows as a large group of creatures, much larger than the ones that lived here suddenly attacked the tailed ones, the attackers were much larger and had green skin and tusks similar to the wild boar. Their was also nearly 30 of them to the less than 20 tailed ones. Getting slightly spooked Violet slunk back into the shadows and ensured she was far away from the fighting as she watched on in amazement as the 2 sides fought. She was slightly saddened when she watched the previous two large ones be killed right away and noticed the distress that their child appeared to be in after witnessing their deaths.
That struck something within Violet but she didn't know why her chest suddenly hurt at seeing the small one openly weep and scream. Just as she thought that the small one was going to charge in too, another of the large tailed ones stopped it and made some noises at the small one. The small one didn't seem to register it but till the large one got loud and shouted at the small one and pushed her away before joining in on the fight itself only to be cut down in no time.
The small one ran away tears streaming down its face as anguish was written across its face, it cared not for being stealth as it blindly ran in a random direction. It also didn't notice when one of the smaller green tusked beings 'stealthily' chased after it. But Violet did notice and still feeling confused about her hurting chest decided that she didn't want to watch the small one be killed so decided to follow after the two, whilst actually being stealthy not whatever poor excuse for stealth the silly two legged ones used.
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Luna ran and ran and ran some more, the sky was beginning to get darker and she had no idea where she was anymore. She didn't really care either, her mind was replaying the scene of her parents being cut down over and over again. she realised that it wasn't only her parents that had likely fallen in that fight which only intensified the feeling of desolation that clung to her. Why did the orcs have to continue hunting them? What did her clan ever do to them?
This world was just too unfair sometimes.
Luna ran until her legs refused to run anymore. At which point she simply collapsed and wept some more. It was a small miracle that she heard the twig snap behind her which momentarily snapped her out of her stupor enough to turn around and watch in horror as a orc scout stepped out of the darkness and slowly approached her with a malicious grin on its disgusting face.
Seeing one of the creatures that killed her parents Luna felt a second wind and ran straight at the blasted creature cocking her arm back in preparation to strike it down, however, the monster lazily blocked her attacks before backhanding her and sending her stumbling away with a cut to her lip and loosing all remaining strength in her limbs.
Feeling utterly powerless and at her whits end it was all she could do to glare with all of her hatred for these disgusting creatures plain on her tear streaked face. unperturbed by her glair the smirking orc slowly walked towards her. However, to both of their surprise a spear of pink and blue energy suddenly flashed towards the orc from the side, it barely managed to twist its body slightly avoiding the spear from going into its chest and instead striking it in the shoulder.
THUD, GHHHHHH
The orc let out a bloodcurdling scream of rage at the pain of having the mana spear impale it.
BOOM! BOOM!
But before it could do anything else a ball of the same pink and blue energy zoomed out at it again this time striking it in the legs causing it to buckle over and collapse down onto its one good knee as both the new bolt and the spear in its shoulder exploded.
Then before Luna's wide open eyes that same creature that she thought she has seen earlier in the day pounced out of the shadows straight at the orcs face. The small creature was tiny hardly 1ft long with its tail adding in other foot in length, it had beautiful blue scales with pink and black accents all across its body, compared the the nearly 6ft orc it looked hopelessly outmatched.
No one seemed to have told the creature this though, as it flashed through the air.
SQUEEEK!
The most adorable battle cry Luna had ever heard was released by the creature as it landed on the orcs face and began tearing chunks out of it with its claws and jaw. The orc let out a horrific bloody scream and started swiping at its face with its remaining working arm to remove its unwanted assailant. At first the creature managed to dodge but after a couple of near misses the orc finally struck true and sent the creature flying in her direction.
CRASH. SNAP!
It crashed to the ground in front of her and an audible snap was heard as it landed heavily on its back leg. It let out a snarl of pain and glared up at the now bloody and heavily injured orc who was glaring back at it with equal ferocity. The two stared each other down for several moments until the orc charged forwards seemingly ignoring its injuries momentarily.
BOOM, BOOM
Only to be hit face first with 2 quickly summoned balls of the pink and blue energy balls. However this only halted the orcs advance and whilst it stumbled back it still looked to be alive only now even more furious. The small creature seemed to not care as it began creating a larger and longer construct of the pink and blue energy.
ROOARR!
The orc let out another battle cry and dove at the creature however whilst blinded in its rage it failed to dodge the spear of mana that landed right between its eyes. the orc stopped moving for a moment before the spear exploded sending chunks of brain matter flying in all direction. And just like that the orc was dead.
Eyes wide open in surprise Luna turned to look more closely at the small creature only to gasp as she truly took it in properly. It was no random creature but it was a dragon! A infant dragon by the looks of things but a true dragon. And based on its ferocity and magics this was not one of the nurtured tame dragons that she had heard the kingdom to the East holds, no this right here was likely a true Wild Dragon that was spoken off in only the myths and legends of her clan.
Staring at the baby dragon in both fear and awe she didn't know what to do in this situation. She knew that whilst it was injured it could probably still kill her with its magics if the fate of the orc was anything to go by but hadn't it protected her? It had saved her from the orc right? However, all thought were lost when the dragon slowly and with a limp turned to regard her. Its beautiful violet eyes regarded her with clear intelligence and Luna froze for a moment, "Umm t-thank y-you for s-saving me" she managed to squeak out still in a state of disbelief.
In response the Baby Dragon tilted its head in apparent confusion and let out a little cherp. Ahh it's too cute!
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Violet panted after the fight absolutely exhausted and in quite a lot of pain after breaking her leg when the green thing struck her, but all hard fought battles come with a reward.
[You have defeated Orc Scout lvl 18 exp rewarded]
[Congratulations you have leveled up]
Lvl 3->5
Agility - 12->14
Strength - 13->14
Constitution - 13->15
Intelligence - 18->22
Wisdom - 14->17
[New skill unlocked - Dragons Aura lvl 1]
[Status]
Name - Violet
Species - Infant Arcane Shadow Dragon
Speciality - Arcane Shadows
Class - Novice Arcane shadow Manipulator
Level - 5/10
HP - 150
Mana - 220
Agility - 14
Strength - 14
Constitution - 15
Intelligence - 22
Wisdom - 17
Skills / abilities
Stealth lvl 3->4
Pounce lvl 2
Tail Whip lvl1
Arcane Bolt lvl 3->4
Arcane Manipulation lvl 2->3
Shadow Manipulation lvl 2
Arcane Spear lvl 1->2
Shadow Bolt lvl 1
Dragon Aura lvl 1
After looking over her gains she turned to regard the small one she had saved, she also realised after getting a better scent of her that the small one was female. When the small one made some sounds towards her she titled her head in confusion not quite understanding what it meant but seeing as she made no hostile movements, Violet decided that it was time for her victory snack and so she limped away from the small girl and began to make good on her meal.
Violet also completely ignored the fact that the 'small one' was nearly 4ft tall so was in actuality considerably larger than Violet was right now.
Regardless of this today Violet had learnt 2 things, first was that orcs are very strong and given that this one was the weakest in that previous group by far she didn't fancy running into them any time soon. The second however, was that orcs taste delicious, even better than wild boars! maybe she would have to have another go at hunting orcs once she had grown stronger?
After eating her fill for a few minutes she unfortunately couldn't get to its heart as the ribs of the beast were too tough to easily get through. Violet turned back around to see the small one staring at her with a mix of fear and awe. Snorting at this she turned away with the intention to return to her cave. Thankful that they had actually ran in the direction of the cave it shouldn't take Violet more than half an hour to limp her way back.
As she stepped away she heard the small one make a noise of some kind and heard her stand up and start coming towards her. Turning to look at the small one Violet tilted her head and stared at her. The small one made some more noises which made no sense to Violet, sensing that Violet couldn't understand her the girl gestured at herself then pointed at Violet and then moved closer. Violet blinked several times before the girl repeated her actions, oohhh thought Violet she wants to follow me!
Not seeing any harm in that she bobbed her head and turned back away and started heading back to her cave with the small sad one following along behind her.