By morning everyone was ready. The people were in a good mood, they will finally escape this hellhole named Havel. A city of monster, that's what they call it, but the real monsters are about to leave, the humans.
They call those being, that Evolved unnaturally monsters, but are the humans better. If you look at The Hold now you will know the answer.
In the world no matter if it's Evolved or not, humans perfected the way of destroying themselves. They always find a reason to kill each other. But this doesn't matter now, this only happened because of this uncivilized city. At least that's the lie they tell themselves.
They began their journey Northwest, following the path of the river. In the sky flew multiple scouts and even a figure with angelic wings, holding a little girl.
This girl was especially happy, she never saw a forest or at least she doesn't remember it. Her memories before Nightmare are inaccessible, probably because of the torture.
Bea watched from the ground with a smile as Sera flew. They were out of the Pet's territory finally, which meant the scouts could do their job with higher efficiency.
"It's nice to see them happy isn't it?" Asked Faith with a bright smile on her face.
"Yes, but I wish we would be as close as before..." Bea looked sad, but Faith just smiled and squeezed her shoulder.
"You know you have to give her time, a lot changed and not just because of Victoria."
"Haa... I know, I know... Anyway, did you discover anything?"
Faith's smile disappeared. "I have, continuing this direction will lead us into a large group of Rotten. And before you ask, no we can't go around it."
Bea stayed silent for a minute, then looked up at the sky again.
"Seems like the fun is over." With that she called back every scout and Sera. The fighting is about to start and it won't be easy.
Sera waited for the monster in the air, Faith said there are about 40, all of them Rotten. Victoria was currently guarded by Faith, she is the only one whom Sera trusted enough.
The monsters were about 150 meters away still, rushing towards the Evolved defensive line. There were three kinds that Sera could make out.
The first a beast that looked humanoid, it stood on two legs, but that's where the similarities ended. Its upper body split into two parts, there were some plant blooming inside its body. As it ran pollen fell on the ground. The creature also had three arms growing out of his body at random places.
'We probably shouldn't go near those, the pollen could be toxic.'
"Aim for the plant ones!" Shouted Sera from above everyone.
Soon enough they began to shoot those, but their weapons weren't too strong and a lot of them made it too close. They hit the line of Evolved and soon, they began to cough. Sera's eyes were on something else though.
Sera didn't know where the armor came from or what's its name. She had a suspicion, but no clear answer.
The monster kept trying, but all the force dissipated. It still hurt quite bad, but it's better than getting cut in half. Her arms were still free so Sera summoned her trusty sword and sent it to the centipede's skull.
It too fell over dead, but this time Sera wasn't so lucky. The monster still held her in its mandibles and she couldn't get out of them. She was stuck and worst of all, one of the plant creature was running right for her.
'This is really bad, I can't even sit up! How the fuck do I kill this thing?'
In the end she decided, that it was time to see how long her weapon could get. The monster ran at her, but suddenly it was pierced by a 10 meter long lance.
'10 meters, not bad...'
But suddenly another complication appeared, in the form of those cat monsters. Two climbed on the centipede corpse and jumped on Sera. She summoned her sword impaling one, but the other managed to attack her.
The creature leaned down and its mouth tried to close on her throat. Sera reacted quickly, she dismissed her sword and summoned a dagger in her other hand. The creature stopped only a few millimeters before her throat and fell on her, dead. Now she was totally buried in corpses.
After the battle while the others counted the dead, Bea looked for Sera. Last time, she saw her fighting two centipede monsters. She went to the first one, but Sera was nowhere to be found.
She began to feel anxious and ran to the other one, but Sera wasn't there either. Only a couple more monster corpses. In wild panic and against her better judgement she shouted.
"SERA!"
There was nothing for a second and her anxiety spiked. But suddenly there was a muffled noise coming from the monster pile. Bea quickly moved them and began to roll on the ground, laughing.
Below the monster pile was Sera stuck in the centipede's mandible.
"Ha-ha, very funny... Could you please help me get out of here?" Sera seemed very angry, but Bea knew she was faking it.
"Sure, but tell me first. How the fuck did you end up here?" Looking down at her she laughed again, but seeing Sera was getting more annoyed, so she stopped.
"You know, just the usual. You fight a big fucking bug, then after you kill it another grabs you, then after you kill that some other monsters appear. Now get me out!"
Bea smiled and said. "Fine, fine no need to shout, it might attract monsters."
Even Sera couldn't keep a straight face after that. They both laughed and Bea helped her out of the monsters mouth. Her hands lingered on Sera, their faces were quite close. Suddenly Sera turned away, her hand was trembling from fear.
'Haaa... Small steps, small steps. It will take time for her to get through that trauma.'
They both went back to the others in silence.