Seeing his lunges and jabs, having never severed the mind linking, the guys quickened their pace. Rushing to reach my side they feared for the worse. I held my own blocking and jabbing. Kicking hard at his head, he grabs my ankle as he yanks me to him. Licking up the side of my neck, sending disgusted shivers down my spine. I catch him off guard as I head butt and he releases me. “I see why my son likes you, you may not be so useless after all.” He smiles a disgustingly, wicked smile. He charges me again, attacks relentless, blocking all I could. One landed and sent me sliding backwards in the mud. I search for any weakness, vines whip at him, the woodlands giving me some back up as the others left behind come to my aid. Blow after blow he blocks and slings the others into surrounding

