Manticore (Part 1)

"Silence!" Nicola disrupted his speech and put his finger between his lips asking for Borinn's silence looking around carefully, like a mercenary with a little experience Borinn soon broke up the confusion and knew they were under attack.

"There are three, one bigger and two weaker are approaching us through the trees. We are surrounded, wake the others up while we still have time." Nicola passed the message in preparation for the attack. Everyone was ready when the first one emerged from the shadows of the trees.

He was one of the little ones, but Nicola had never seen a monster like that. It had a female human face with different colored eyes, one blue and the other brown, but it has the body of an adult lioness with muscles tensed as if it were going to jump towards the team and at the end where its lion's tail should be was a long tail and black, similar to a scorpion.

"Damn, a manticore. Be careful, they have a double elemental core of poison and fire. The scorpion's tail ejects a very powerful poison that can paralyze the opponent while it attacks with his powerful claws." the mage girl said while preparing a spell towards the monster. But before the second monster was finished, another manticore appeared.

It was the first magical monster that Nicola faced and had dual elemental power. The team went into battle against the two monsters. Nicola and Borinn knew that there was one more lurking waiting for the right moment to ambush them all, however there was nothing they could do until it appeared.