6

It was thinner, and smaller then the one I fought a few days ago, but it had hard armored plates instead of fur like the others I'd fought. The tentacles turned toward me all at once. I nocked an arrow, and fired on it. The arrow bounced off. The blood drained from my face. 

I jumped off the wall with zero hesitation. I rolled, and fired an arrow at the monster as soon as I was stable. I fired a few more arrows at the monster as it watched me with it's head cocked. It stepped down from the wall onto the roof of the nearest building. It clicked a bit more as it walked along the roof. 

The camp had sprung into chaos. Everyone was moving, but this thing was locked in on me. I charged the next arrow with fire. I launched the fully charged fire arrow at the monster, and it knocked the arrow up into the air with one of it's tentacles. This was the first arrow he'd knocked away.

That meant he probably thought of that one was a threat. If that arrow was a threat then I could hurt the damn thing with fire. I dropped my bow, and pulled the unicorn horn. The dagger felt good in my grip as the blade caught fire. I used my high jump skill combined with my enhanced speed to launch myself at the monster. 

The creature squealed as the distance between us disappeared. My dagger bit into the tentacles it tried to lash out at me with. I threw the attack off while activating my high jump skill again mid air. I'd never tried this before so I didn't know if it would work. It worked!

I bounded off the air, and slammed into the unsuspecting creature. The unicorn horn bit into it's flank, and it screamed. It's mouth was hinged in three places unlike the other monster. It's cry was deafening from this close. I felt the tentacle wrapping around my my waist. 

I freed the unicorn horn, and cut through the tentacle with the flaming blade. Then I was in free fall. I used high jump again. Slamming into the monster blade first once again. The monster opened it's mouth to bite at me. 

I turned the small flame on the blade into a small inferno. The flame turned white, and seared into the monster's mouth area. It's teeth slammed into my flesh. They weren't very long or very many, but the white hot flames of my unicorn horn were also in his mouth. The monster stubbornly tried to pull more of me into it's mouth anyway. 

I gave the flames more fuel, and I could feel the temperature of it's mouth soaring. It grunted then screeched before releasing my arm. Flames erupted from it's mouth as the flesh in it's mouth flashed over when oxygen was exposed to the incredibly hot, and burnt flesh deep in the creatures mouth. My own arm was burned in the process. The monster tossed it's head in pain. 

It's mouth still on fire. My skin felt tight, and hot. Probably second degree burns across my entire arm. My muscles were stiff from all the working out. I didn't worry about it. 

I was only a few hours away from the seven o'clock healing anyway. I could only use high jump a few more times before I ran out of mana. I chained two jumps together so I could hit the monster from behind. I slammed the unicorn horn into the center of the monster's back. The unicorn horn snapped under the heat, and force of the blow. 

I was a bit stunned, but right now I was on the back of a monster, and the only weapon I had was the arrows on my hip. I didn't hesitate. Now that I was close I could see the gaps in the monster armor. I grabbed an arrow, and dug it into a gap. Then using that as a handhold I started grabbing arrow after arrow. 

Jamming each, and every one into gaps in it's armor as it tried to throw me off. It's damaged tenacles slammed into my back as I clung to it. I could feel my flesh splitting as my back was whipped. After some time I realized that I was out of arrows. I grabbed two tentacles, and stood up. 

Slamming the heel of my boot into the unicorn horn. That was the last little push the blade needed. It cracked through the beasts armor. Squelching slightly as the unicorn horn bit into the flesh beyond the armor. The monster bucked a bit, and then fell off the roof of the building. 

Slamming into the ground, and dying. I'd jumped off the monster's back, and stumbled a bit. I rolled my shoulders, and started taking my arrows back. Many of them broke when I tried to collect them. Leaving me with only twelve arrows. 

It wasn't enough, but it was all I had. I rushed into action. Nocking arrow after arrow as I shot them at the monsters that were coming over the walls. I kept having to stop, and find more arrows. Then there was the fact that I desperately needed to pee. 

Fighting while needing to piss wasn't exactly fun. I kept on finding, and firing arrows. I managed to find another dagger, and I put it to use right away. I was glad that the dagger didn't need ammunition, but didn't like how close I had to be to put it to use. I felt the ease as the seven o'clock healing came, and went. 

The fight wasn't over yet. The monsters kept crawling over the walls for hours. It felt like a never ending nightmare, but it didn't bother me. I started laughing like a maniac after I killed the third monster. Taking full advantage of my new stats. 

The added speed, and strength wasn't much, but the blade bit in more easily. It was noticeably easier to fight monsters. I didn't need mana or fire as much, and there was some psychotic part of me that loved the bloodshed. My laughter, and enjoyment of this fight was disturbing to those watching, but I was having too much fun to care. I was a little disappointed when no more monsters came to attack me.