Chapter 21: Heroic posture part1

after the girl who said she had an ability that could track everyone in the group spoke, everyone agreed that they would each carry a petal on them, after everyone agreed the girl who max now knew as ellen, released her ability and like a fascinating show a flower appeared out of nowhere and like a thousand flowers it bloomed with splender dazzling in the dark.

after the flower bloomed it released an intoxicating fragrance and for a moment max felt enchanted by it but quickly broke free from the state.

he looked at ellen cautiously like everyone else, it seemed as if most people were somewhat affected by the fragrance but most broke free of it a little bit faster than max.

" sorry, i did not mean too" ellen said cautiously but max was still on guard, it might looked harmless. as everyone broke free from the state within seconds but in a life and death battle being in an enchanted and dazed state for even a second can mean the difference between life and death.

after apologising ellen let the flower shade petals from it self, and quickly 174 petals were shaded and flew towards everyone.

everyone collected the petals and keep them on them but did let them touch their skin as they were weary and did not trust each other fully, after all no one knows if anyone might betray them at a critical moment.

after this the group discussed for a period of time to think of ways to increase their survival but this resulted in no effective solution being suggested.

so the group ended the talk and everyone went they own ways, some into they own tents and some huddled up in small groups and laughed.

max and the others came together in their small group.

" how does every one feel " Henry asked

" i wish if i could use my ability gamble on luck to calculate which way is the safest to go " wayne said frustrated

" you can only use your ability twice right now so you need to use it wisely, it can not be wasted here and now " Henry replied

" that's true but we should stay in the middle of the group" wayne paused for a second lowering his voice further, " being at the front we will definitely die faster and the back that was supposed to be the safest is not so safe anymore".

everyone agreed with what he said, they spoke for a while more before separating and going to their tents to rest.

max went into his tent and laid down, tents that could take a small amount of space and expand when needed were very common. so there was no need to sleep in the wild like prehistoric cavemen.

whilst every one was resting a shadow creeped through the trees, slowly and careful coming closer to the camp.

if someone looked closer it would be clear that there were more shadows behind it.

the shadows had brown fur but when ever they stopped moving it would change color allowing them to blend into their surroundings, only to turn back to brown as they moved again.

the shadows got closer and closer,

a shadow at the front stopped, it's skin changing from brown to pitch black merging into the darkness, with it the rest of the shadows stop with it as if following it's lead.

the shadow made strange hand movements and then a circular hand movement, suddenly the shadows behind it split into two directions and encircled the camp.

the shadow took a step forwards and then was about to take another step but then paused mid step and then retracted it's foot, as if it had felt something.

it paused and sniffed around, getting nothing from the air a pair of jade blue eyes appeared in the dark and shone brightly before scanning around.

it turned out the shadow had it´s eyes closed this entire time, after scanning around it looked at some strange red crystal like stars and then shifted to different places as if noticing something there.

the shadow focused on them for a few seconds then it made strange hand signals and all the shadows opened their eyes, it was as if they could feel it's hand movements allowing them to respond to them with out seeing the movements.

after all the shadows open their eyes and then were suddenly blue glowing eyes floating in the dark, if someone was on watch they would have definitely noticed this scene and alert everyone.

the shadows all scanned around then the leading shadow started to make hand signatures and signs at a fast pace as if casting something, the rest of the shadows followed the leading shadow and made similar movements.

after the hand movements were cast blue dust was released from them and spread to the surrounding areas, after this more casting movements were made but this time a brown dust was released and then spread around the surrounding areas.

when this dust spread it fell upon the red crystal like stars and then the red crystal like star suddenly dimmed and went a dull red as if sealed or nullified making it useless.

the leading shadow cast strange movements 3 more times that released different colored dust, after this the shadows around it looked a bit tired.

the shadows closed their eyes and rested.

the surrounding were back to normal as if nothing happened and every one in the camp rested peacefully.

it had been a long and stressful day, tensions were high with everyone on guard the whole time, fearful of any dangers that might appear suddenly.

but now that they had set up camp and set up defenses around the camp everyone felt safe and decided to take a good rest, relaxing their nerves as tomorrow would be a more stressful and more dangerous day but for now they were safe.

time passed peacefully

suddenly, brown shadows could be seen moving closer to the camp slowly encroaching.

the shadows moved closer and closer, the leading shadow made some hand signals and then on all the shadows it could be seen that their claws started to extent, the claws got longer and longer till the size of a short blade. the claws looked sharp and dripped a green liquid.

after this the shadows looked ready to pounce on their prey.

the leading shadow took a step then another step but this step landed on a normal looking flower.

the flower which was stepped on suddenly released a fragrance and all the other flowers like it that surrounded the camp released similar fragrances, the shadows wanted to quickly retreat but it was too late.

smelling the fragrance the shadows all froze as if intoxicated.

inside a tent there was a mystical looking flower floating on top of a girl, the flower suddenly shook at a high frequency then with a burst a high pitch wave was released sweeping over the camp.

the girl who was sleeping quickly woke up because of the sound just like everyone else, however unlike the rest who were confused she knew what it meant.

" we are being attacked " ellen shouted

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max who was resting suddenly heard a high pitch sound, he was confused for a second but then he heard a loud shout.

" we are being attacked "

seriously? can i not just have one peaceful sleep in this place or is that too much to ask for max thought to himself, he recognized ellen´s voice.

he quickly got up stepping though the void he appeared on top of his tent.

too be honest it was kind of too dark, he could not see anything at all.

suddenly out of Henry's tent a red crystal like star broke through the roof into the air and exploded.

with this explosion the surroundings were bright for a moment and max could see black huminoid figures very close around the camp.

" flowers, fucking flowers" he said to him self noticing how they had been surrounded

" we were surrounded and were saved by fucking flowers ??" max was really dumbfounded, what happened to all the other defenses everyone else set up max thought.

everyone else got out of their tents, someone had a fire ability and released flames around the surrounding trees setting them on fire and making everything visible.

this is when everyone who rushed out of their tents noticed how dangerous their situation was ,on all sides the camp was surrounded by black figures.

the figures quickly adjusted somehow slowly blending into their surrounding but they were still slightly visible.

" attack !!!!"

" everyone attack"

" kill these bastards " shouts could be heard as everyone rushed to attack making the scene that was calm moments ago chaotic.

Henry released his star field and floated in the air whilst his stars shot forwards at the shadows,

Sir alex levitating swords wizzed at the shadows slicing through the air.

with an unlocking sound sophie unlocked two duel wield pistols and started to fire,

others also released their abilities and attacked.

the shadows that were frozen and intoxicated only broke free after everyone launch their attacks, with little time the leading shadow did a back flip it's body spinning in mid air dodging Sophie's bullets and some other random attacks.

however as it dodged Henry's attack successfully the red star suddenly exploded, it was send flying away hitting onto a tree and sir James's levitating swords quickly chased after it, one of the sword pierced through it nailing it to the trunk.

as other swords chased after it, the shadow now brown quickly twisted around the tree and it's legs bent as it landed on the trunk sideways and bounced off, shooting to a different tree and escaping as the levitating swords chased after it.

the other shadows were not as strong as the leading shadow and tried to dodge the attacks after being freed of the state but were hit by the many attacks thrown at them.

some shadows were heavy injured and a few died but there were lucky ones who escaped with light injuries.

max step through the void and clutched on his sword as he was in the void and swung it down, half way through the swing he burst out of the void onto a lightly injured shadow and cut it in half with his sword caliburn.

sophie fired shots at the shadows and some of them hit but the shadows were too good at evading and dodged critical areas only one or two were killed.

seeing that the pistol were too ineffective as they were for close range and couldn't hit critical areas she span the pistols in the air caughting them and slip them into her waist locking them away. the whole action looked cool.

she reached to a different side of her shoulder than the one she had reached to when the group were showing their abilities, reaching to her left side with both hands she brought out a gun that looked like an M134 Mini-gun.

standing in a heroic posture she unlocked her mini gun and pull it out before spraying out rapid bullet fire.

max who was busy killing just heard a quick rapid firing sound,

Dadadadadaddadadadadad*

he just thought which lunatic has a machine gun ? looking back he saw sophie standing in a heroic posture holding a mini gun and spraying at everything.

his mind was offline for a moment like what the hell is happening.

most people also looked at sophie, it was uncommon for guns to be used in battle after the spark, after all things like enchanted weapons like swords and spears, cold weapons were used more than hot weapons.

for a second most people paused just to look at her heroic posture as she sprayed at everything in her line of sight.

bullets sprayed at everything,

" focus!!!! don't let them breathe" Sir james shouted getting everyone´s attention back from sophie but he had to admit she looked very heroic.

everyone quickly got back to attacking, Henry's stars could be seen exploding then and there killing the shadows,

grey and white had released their own shadows and were in fierce combat with the other shadows, exchanging blows.

wayne had a short blade that was steaming as he attacked, max guessed it was an enchanted blade.

the leading shadow was still jumping from tree to tree quickly escaping the the chasing swords and every so often sparks would fly when it's claws clashed with the swords as it hit them away when they caught up.

as he dodged and escaped he made hand gestures at the surrounding shadows before making quick casting movements black mist released outwards, the other shadows stopped defending and made quick casting hand movements as they dodged and black mist was released all around them.

quickly the whole surroundings were covered in black mist.

( this the first part, i will update again today. releasing twice today as we are back to normal updates, i know you were sick of semi chapters lol, i needed to rest. anyway 2000 words now and another chapter later today but this will be like at 11pm, im using united kingdom British time by the way,

power stones please, we need to rank higher!!! lets goo )