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Chapter 28: Battle with the Humanoids

“s**t!” I cursed unraveling the chain scythe from around me. “Let’s do our job ladies!”

“Right!” Ashley said as fire swirled around her arms.

“We’ll cover you, Dyron!” Star informed me. She was creating a massive fireball as I took off with my chain scythe swinging above my head.

To an Earthling, Humanoids closely resemble what they might call goblins or trolls if you prefer. They are short in stature, yet very powerful for their size. They have pointed ears and jagged teeth. Depending on where they live, usually determines how much hair they have. The ones we were fighting had some due to the freezing winters on the Plains.

I attacked, swinging my chain scythe in wide circles slashing slaughtering one after another. Magic whizzed past me, killing more the warriors off. Their numbers seemed to be endless as they came in waves.

“Dyron, fall back! You can’t keep up much longer!” Ashley shouted after we’d been fighting a while. She knew my limits and I knew when to listen. She was going to give me a chance to recover.

“Right! You and Star keep up while I snipe and recover!” I told her. She nodded and boosted herself forward and rushing through the masses continuing her massacre. Star stayed close and healed me with one hand while launching fireballs with the other. As she did so, I fired two and three arrows at a time, most resulting head shots. “Get back in there, Dyron! I’ll be here!” she ordered dropping lightning on our foes. Feeling thoroughly refreshed, I was bold enough to return to battle with my katana. Quick random strikes were my strategy and I could depend on the ladies to finish the job.

Then unexpectedly, opposing arrows were fired! Last I checked these guys stuck to clubs and spears, and things like that. But I as I looked towards the back of the army and sure enough, there were at least ten of them firing upon us.

More Humanoids joined the front lines and dodging their frontal attacks and their ranged ones was proving to be quite annoying. I’d just taken the head of about three at once when an arrow came sailing and hit me, lodging itself into my left thigh.

“Dyron!!” Ashley screamed seeing the whole thing. She dashed towards me taking out more enemies that had begun to flock in her direction. I did my best to keep stationary but it just wasn’t working out. I needed to move but there was just too much pain. I couldn’t pull it out myself. Not without one of the girls there.

I scanned the area to see that the enemy numbers were dwindling, and so was my energy. I was in so much pain and motion at the same time, that I feared that consciousness would turn to its opposite.

The Humanoids saw this and took their chance to destroy me. They focused their frontal attacks on me; the archers, now few, on the girls. Star and Ashley teamed up to put an end to the archers once and for all. They sent a massive wave over my head and crashing down on them. The wave came down with us with such force, that it was the equivalent of diving 50,000 feet underwater.

The remaining few Humanoids began to come after them. The two only smiled at each other and rapid-fired random spells and sent them to their graves in a matter of minutes. “Nice aim!” Ashley complimented Star.

“Same aim that kicked your a**!” she replied.

“True. Now let’s get Dyron! He’s injured,” said Ashley. They ran over to me, now laying on the ground surrounded the dismembered corpses of the Humanoids.

They sat on each side of me, Ashley beside the crude arrow. She grasped it and broke off the shaft first. “Now for the head!” she whispered. Ashley raised my pants leg to see that it hadn’t gone in too far, only about an inch and a half. My pads saved me. If not for them, it would’ve went straight through.

“There it is! Now Ashley heal it slowly while I pull it out. It should act as an anesthetic,” Star explained. Ashley did as instructed and she nodded after starting her job. Star then gripped the bloody arrowhead and slowly pulled it out. I felt nothing but the point wiggling and being pulled out by Star. Ashley then went ahead and finished the job by closing up my wound and wrapped it in gauze just to be sure. I stood shakily and they helped support me as we walked back to the horses.

The horses had sense enough to take cover behind a hill one Star’s still had the dead deer sitting next to it. After cooking it, we sat down for dinner. “How’s your leg?” Ashley asked as we ate.

“Fine, I guess.”

“You guess?” Star giggled.

“He’s fine!” Ashley laughed. After dinner, we passed out where we were from pure exhaustion. Especially me.