Beatitudes

Teamwork.

 The nine suns shone brightly in the sky as they radiated immense heat down to the vast earth. The two zones of the land, the untainted and tainted, represented two somewhat different extremes both in aura and presence. While the untainted zone gave off a vibrant and lively vibe, the tainted zone gave off a desolate and despondent vibe that made all things within it borne from it feel odd and dull.

In the tainted zone fairly deep into the tainted zone, just short of the true tainted zone populated by extensively wild tainted beasts, fairly loud thudding and crashing sounds could be heard constantly if one was perceptive enough and chose to listen closely. Such sound generated was obviously due to a tough battle ongoing between two parties.

If one then travelled deeper in to the source of the sound, the sight of a rough battle would be plain visible for all to see.

The scene was a fairly familiar one these days, a black haired figure with deep black eyes stood on the top of a dense black cloud that was suspended in the air as he calmly yet somewhat lazily took in the rough mannered battle currently ongoing below him.

His void like dark shaded eyes constantly swept over the entire battle as he took in Harry ’s raging war cry, Isaac’s now considerably swift willpower manipulation and Hiya calm and fluid evasive maneuvers.

It had already been close to two days since the incident with the group of twelve who were later scrubbed of the face of the earth, and their lives went on without a pause, walking deeper into the tainted zone had inevitably led them very closely to the uncleared part of the tainted zone, thus increasing the number of tainted beasts they faced. Every consequent hour of their journey now had them facing the ferocious assault of beasts, but it was still the cleared parts of the tainted zone hence the beasts they faced mostly came to them in ones and twos, a fairly weak number of beasts to them now, a single round of attacks from any one of them was enough to send the beasts off to their next lives. Only a few number of times were they pitched against a group of beasts any larger than three and only twice had they faced off against a group of beast numbering past the ten figure. Although Adam was still secretly moderating the numbers and intensities of the beasts they faced, a fact which they were still unaware of, his control had been slightly loosing up constantly over the two days. They were facing more beasts than their previous selves might have been able to handle.

That proved true for only the two male tier one fighters of course as Hiya handled every single battle with subtle yet increasingly obvious ease, a point came in which in Isaac who was the least perceptive towards matters not exactly of his concern had also noticed her effectiveness. But no one made much of a comment on it, Isaac and Harry both with slight reluctance acknowledged her amazing combat skills and efficiency while Adam used that as an incentive to egg on the two strong headed and hot blooded male who couldn’t help but feel embarrassed at not being up to a girl’s match.

An axe flashing with a faint red coating tore through the air as it smacked into the side of a five feet tall charging beast, drawing a large splutter of blood as it sunk into its flesh, a roar of pain escaped from the beast as it was tossed aside from the force of the heavy swing.

Harry paused slightly in his swinging position as he took in his little display of bloodshed with increased fervor, he wondered if it was a healthy disposition but he was beginning to thoroughly enjoy drawing blood and tearing through flesh, he shrugged at the thought since he had actually become used to the feeling anyways, as long as it was a tainted beast like the one he had just disposed of, there was nothing barring him from being ferocious.

Just as he was assessing the sanity of his mind, a gust of wind pushed hard against his back as a large figure charged at him with lightning fast speed, his previously tense body had just relaxed substantially at this point of his thinking and he was unable to react quickly to the threatening attack from behind, he only managed to swivel his body backwards to face the attack head on when the lightning fast figure charged into him head on, crashing into him hard with a heavy force. Luckily the sharp claw aimed at his chest was avoided due to the heavy force that pushed him back as he slid backwards before losing his balance completely and falling to the ground.

But the attacker didn’t seem to want to let up as it once again charged at him with a menacing growl, its blurry figure reaching Harry in the blink of an eye as it treated the little distance between the two was treated as almost inexistent.

Harry was just about getting up as quick as he could when he felt the air crash against his face preceding the large paw heading straight for him with flickering sharp metal nails at its end. He knew this was an attack he couldn’t evade, at least not without a deep wound etched in his body afterwards, so he gritted his teeth as he his red core stirred, about to unleash all the energy left within him.

 Red light flashed through his eyes as the flickering red coating on his skin grew thicker, but just as he was about to erupt fully and collide with the incoming claw, a black and blue clothed figure flashed above the two figures on the ground as it flipped gracefully, a flash of silver which was light reflecting off a sword could be seen as the creature right above Harry trembled slightly. A large head followed the laws of physics as it flew through the air in an arc following the separation from its body. Harry could only watch with slightly widened eyes as the head of the beast currently just attacking him flew through the air leaving the body to continue its last action of swiping a claw but with a lesser amount of force behind it. The head itself could only stay in the air for a little while before forever pausing in its trajectory as a flash of white whizzed over, its origin was unknown but its strength was evident as it accurately collided with the head in the air. It more accurately pierced through the head of the beast, but just as it was about to pierce all the way through the beast head and continue on a straight path into the distance, a snap was heard and the flash of white along with the beast erupted into a shower of blood.

The whole movement, starting from the black and blue clothed figure flipping overhead and slicing off the head of the beast cleanly, to the flash of white whizzing over, to it subsequently exploding after piercing through the beast head, causing both the flash of white and the head to erupt and explode, took place in less than two seconds, thus leaving the wordless Harry to only watch blankly as he was rescued from certain harm. The whole scene was reflected in his eyes as he helplessly took it in, it was only until when the shower of blood sprayed all over his face and fighter gear, and the headless body of the beast falling towards him was pushed aside by his outstretched hand still glowing with a flickering red light, did Harry snap out of his daze with a reluctant look and slowly shift his body on the ground to a sitting position.

But a voice sounded from a fair distance at this point as Isaac’s voice was heard, currently laced with sarcasm.

“Careful buddy, the beast’s about to hit you from behind…”

Harry ’s eyes twitched continuously for a while following which he shifted his gaze to his right, taking in Isaac who shrugged his shoulders with a smirk on his face when he noticed the slightly darkened gaze sent his way by the former.

“Looks like I spoke too late…”