Chapter 7
Leon wakes up to the sun already rising; he already hears the people starting to work, opening shops.
Leon sits up in his sleeping bag, pulling his backpack from under his sleeping bag/next to his feet, as he gets out of the sleeping bag, and starts packing everything up.
Leon walks out of the alleyway, and as he walks back over to the site of the burrow wyrm, though Leon can see it's not there anymore, assuming it was transported shortly after he went to sleep, the destruction is still there.
Leon turns around as he walks through the road to one of the scrap boxes that go up. Leon enters the box. He puts his hand on the murky white pole that's made from something that feels sharp like broken glass but flexible like plastic. He forces magic through the pole as the scrapbox starts to ascend.
Leon continues to ascend, before the box stops at the top, Leon keeps his hand on the pole, the mana still forcing the scrapbox to not fall, he takes a leap off of it, the lid of the scrapbox nearly catching the back of his shoe, Leon turns around, looking down from the cliff edge, as the scrapbox plummets towards the ground.
Leon turns around as the sound reaches his ears, heavy metal striking dirt.
He starts walking, heading north back towards his home, Hackensack.
The sun rises, then it starts to set. Leon walked all day, only stopping to drink or eat for a couple of minutes.
The light stayed golden, tinged faintly with pink as the sun continued its descent, and yet, Leon stopped. As Leon looked up at a massive shape that blocked the path and shadow, low and wide, supported by four legs planted deep into the dirt.
The air around Leon chills, the light starting to scatter in the beautiful white fur.
"A Amarok? Here? This isn't a cold region… Not to mention it's so massive up close…"
"Not to mention how close we are to the village…"
Leon looks past the Amarok, seeing distant lights.
Leon puts his backpack down on the ground, the massive Beast growling as it stares him down. It studies Leon as Leon studies it.
The beast's claws dig into the ground as it rushes Leon down. Leon dodges to the right, his backpack getting trampled as the wolf skids to a stop, turning to stare Leon down once more.
Leon rushes towards the Beast, jumping into a dive and rolling under the Beast, grabbing his backpack, but it's stuck on one of the Beast's legs. The Beast turns to Leon, swiping a massive paw at him.
Leon's clothes rip. Leon feels a ripping and grating sensation as blood starts to pool on his chest. Leon's body jerks back as he falls to the ground, the air knocked out of him.
The Beast stands a few feet away from Leon as he recovers, though that isn't for long. The Beast snaps towards Leon, and Leon jerks back, rolling on his back, as he manages to dodge the jaws.
Leon stands up, turning on body enhancement; the fog forces the blood to slow from bleeding out.
The beast snaps at him again, Leon manages to recover from the forced roll and slams his fist into the lower jaw of the Beast, the Beast shakes its head and backs up.
Leon rushes forward, slamming his fist into the beast's lower jaw with a devastating uppercut that makes the ground shake.
The Beast recovers faster than Leon can expect, though. As it swipes at Leon's side, Leon manages to put his arm up to block it, but his right arm gets absolutely shredded by its massive claws.
The stacking damage from the claws forces Leon out of physical enhancement, focusing more on stopping the bleeding.
Leon backs up, ripping his shirt off as he applies bandages to his right arm and chest.
The Beast recognizes this weakness and snaps at Leon, just barely catching Leon on his finger. The Beast jerks away, ripping his finger from his hand, in a messy, bloody display.
Leon jerks back before lunging at the Beast. He slams into the Beast's furry chest, wrapping his arms around the scapula region, as he slams against the wolf, before pushing the beast off of its hind legs and slamming it onto its back.
The Beast claws at Leon as it slams into the ground, and it gets the air knocked out of it, going limp for a split second before tearing at Leon once more.
Leon holds the Beast's front legs down with his legs as he sits on its chest, and starts beating its snout. Leon turns body enhancement back on as bones crunch and deform under the repeated assault on a vulnerable area.
The Beast shakes on the ground, shaking his tailbone back and forth as the Beast forces Leon to the ground, the Beast rolls over, picking himself back up, Leon's bitten finger ripped off and on the dirty soil.
The Beast still stands tall, though now slightly bent and obviously tired.
Leon gets ready to wrestle for his life.
The Beast moves first, snapping at the air, feinting a bite before the Beast swipes at Leon. The strike sends Leon tumbling to the ground, dust kicking up in his wake.
Leon starts to bleed; the strike was directly on his shoulder, the body enhancement turns off, and he once more focuses on stopping the bleeding.
Leon pushes himself from the ground, standing up.
Leon gets ready, the Beast attacks first once again, Leon dodges to the side, activating Body enhancement for just a second as he slams his fist into the side of the Beast's head.
The ground shakes again, the Beast is knocked onto its side, and the air is knocked out of the Beast.
Leon runs away from the beast and towards his backpack. Maybe he would still have a weapon?
Leon digs through his backpack fast. He already hears the Beast getting back up, and then… He finds a machete, which was strapped to his backpack; he doesn't remember bringing it, but he assumes his parents did it.
Leon is about to turn around before the beast's mouth snaps around part of Leon's already wounded chest and arm.
The Beast picks Leon up from the ground, still in his mouth as he shakes his head back and forth, the Beast's teeth digging in deeper, the saliva going into Leon's wounds.
Leon uses his free left arm to slam his fist repeatedly into the Beast's snout and head.
The Beasts release slightly before biting down even harder due to the pain. Leon slams his finger into the Beast's eyes; the Beast lets out a loud whine, releasing him. Leon drops to the ground, dust kicking up slightly, as Leon hears two sets of footsteps.
Leon crawls away, trying to get his bearings again. Leon takes a deep breath as he stands back up with the machete still in his hand. The Beast runs towards Leon, leaping in the air and slamming into Leon.
Leon hits the ground hard, the machete remaining in his hand as the Beast Towers above him. Leon slashes its chest, 1 time, then twice, then a thrust, it goes in mostly cleanly, but blood drips down, it hits the beast in a vital spot, and it collapses onto Leon.
The handle of the machete drives in nearly to the hilt.
The Beast collapses onto Leon's chest. Leon tries to push him off, over and over, before he finally feels something change about the Beast, like fog escaping… or entering?
Leon then easily pushes the Beast off of himself as he sits up and takes a deep breath.