Difficult Victory

Kalishar looked at his arm on the ground losing her purple blood, he felt at a disadvantage even though he got off to a good start. They killed all four alpha zerbarix without any casualties. There were setbacks and some complications, but compared to this fight, it seemed like luck had run out, they lost half of their companions, the others were down and finally Kalishar had lost a limb.

"Death, death and then ingest your flesh to become even stronger."

"I will not lose, come too far to fall as a sister's food!!!" shouted Kalishar.

The girl runs grabbing her sliced arm to put it back in place, demonstrating a high rate of healing and regeneration. The alpha is impressed because she has never met a sister with such abilities within the nest. Still, even though she had been impressed, that didn't mean she would let herself be eliminated by anyone, even if she was a dominant sister.

Kalishar throws scales and the zerbarix stands behind the girl, as was part of her plan, the zerbarix woman turns the top about 180° degrees to fire the scales again along with her scarf to hide the scales, this would prevent the zerbarix from reacting well to the attack.

"You will never win, useless sister!!!"

The insect with its tail grabs Kalishar and pulls her close to it to take the impact of the blast, also hurting her even more because of her human form. Kalishar falls to the ground face shattered with a missing eye and a skeletal jaw that was not human.

"Aff!..... af!.... Wretched sister, I find it hard to move. My damn body weighs me down!"

"Badly wounded sister. Your form makes you vulnerable to much damage compared to my form. Sturdy bodies are better, soft bodies are trash."

"Move, you can do it, you won't be anyone's food." whispered the girl.

"No more fighting, useless action when the fight is over and you're not a winner."

Kalishar uses her paws to jump again to avoid being eaten by the alpha sister, that creature is angry to have a stone in her mouth and not her sister's flesh. It let out a scream that only made the floor and the ceiling shake. Kalishar saw an opportunity to throw a concentrated flake for an explosion ten times stronger. Try to replicate the same strategy of looking vulnerable and with the wounds make it more believable to attack at the last second.

"Interesting, colors and different essence, despite not being awake, flesh have a beautiful light."

"...?!"

Kalishar turned to watch as the alpha sister looked curiously at Fenrir's unconscious body which was practically at the mercy of the powerful creature that had a good chance of winning.

"Curiosity, why doesn't zerbarix flesh light up more than us? Why does it illuminate as much as the exterminators of zerbarix?! I wish for answers before I eat your flesh and the flesh of this one."

"Sorry, I guess it's hard for a zerbarix to do anything other than snatch life."

Kalishar threw the scale toward the alpha zerbarix, expecting it to use Fenrir as a shield, once the alpha sister did that, Kalishar moved down to attack with the second concentrated scale at one of the fissures in the blast to do new damage. The alpha acts as Kalishar wants by moving Fenrir to use him as a shield.

"It's my chance to see you miserable!"

Kalishar positioned herself to attack, but before she realized what was happening her chest had been pierced for her heart. She could feel how one of his three hearts had been shattered and ripped from his chest. The zerbarix girl watched her heart shredded with her enemy's tail, hearing what sounded like a horrible laugh from her alpha sister.

"Repeat same action with your heart, this time, you explode."

After those words, the zerbarix was going to use the scale that Kalishar had thrown against her, she could catch it and would introduce it next to the heart to make it explode inside the girl and let her organs finish the job.

After those words, the zerbarix was going to use the scale that Kalishar had thrown against her, she could catch it and introduce it next to the heart to make it explode inside the girl and let her organs finish the job.

The girl ducks her head acknowledging her defeat, in the life of a zerbarix, you only fought when there was reason to fight, but recognizing that all the tactics, attacks, and plans she had made had failed, and even though she could still fight, deep down she knew she would only be wasting her time.

"I'm ready." the girl whispered.

The sound of an explosion, accompanied by a lightning bolt and zerbarix shriek, Kalishar looks up and sees Fenrir attacking the alpha again, causing an explosion that has shattered the creature's left eye. This one reacts by throwing against the ground the human, who tries to resist as best as possible the impact, but his ribs are broken thanks to the damage of the fall, Fenrir ends up spitting blood and a choked scream.

"Fenrir!"

"Cursed flesh, no zerbarix still able to fight?!"

"Now!!!" the man shouted barely.

Kalishar instinctively sensing that they were talking about her, throws her scarf again to grab the scale bury it in the alpha Zerbarix's chest, and explode it.

The alpha vomited purple blood as she felt how her insides were starting a chain reaction of explosions that only sentenced her end. If she was going to die, she would take them both with her, grabbing Fenrir's leg which could no longer move from the pain. Kalishar jumps to grab Fenrir and using one last smoke bomb throw using the knowledge she acquired, she creates a smokescreen to keep them both from being grabbed by hiding behind a rock.

"Awesome, it's raining intestines!" jokes Fenrir despite his wounds, he wants to sound funny still, but he coughs blood from the pain in his ribs. "Let's hope things turn out well, or at least we didn't screw up too badly, I'm in no condition to fight, and even with medical assistance, it'll take me a while to get back on my feet to fight at the end of the world."

"Even if those insects wanted to go crazy to get out, fear the exterminating light of the sun. Sisters suffer terror all the way inside for light."

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, you talk funny... it'll be that or... I'm f... f... fading away."

"These beings sure like to swoon over so little." Thought the girl.

Kalishar looks at the scene and sees the dead alpha, what little had remained of that terrifying superior creature was its pincers and blades. The other knights began to wake up after the terrible headache before they fell prey to the scent again along with the acid, Kalishar shouted for all present to hold their noses or it would be their doom.

The knights listened to the girl's request and moved away from the area to avoid the dangerous aroma, after a glance at the scene they had strange feelings. At first, a bit indifferent because death in the clutches of those creatures had made them lose part of their life and made them feel something when it came to the death scenes. On the other hand, there was a bit of pride and hope, if the plan went well, the other zerbarix would start a violent fight amongst themselves to determine the new leaders, they would not have to participate except in eliminating stragglers and those that tried to flee.

"At last there will be changes?" asked Ahori to Tuck.

"Well I'd say...!"

Tuck's head falls to the ground his eyes watching in horror as his head is level with the feet of his own body. A group of angry zerbarix as ravenous as hungry upon noticing the fall of the strongest dominant alpha desperately sought to eat the flesh of the dead insects to become strong. Unfortunately, as the survivors were in the area, they too would be brutally torn apart and gobbled up as extra snacks.

"Run!!!" shouted Zamzalien alerting the others.

The skunk grabbed shields and passed them to the others so they could take cover as best they could from the attacks as they fled.

"Eliminate, eat, become dominant!"

Kalishar moves quickly to grab Fenrir and take him with her, she could hear the terrible crunch of broken bones inside him and how her rough actions only worsened the man's condition. Ahori and Tryforn attacked to keep their distance with bows and arrows impregnated with explosive liquids, Ahori recited fire spells so that the arrows would explode at the right moment.

A zerbarix that appeared in front of the knights blocking the escape route prepares to open its mouth to eat the unfortunate ones, luckily Zanzalien has already learned the most effective moves to eliminate the creatures, and knowing beforehand that they did not know about those fatal tactics they counted against them. He moves with speed drawing his sword and grabbing a rock, with quick movements he causes a spark igniting in flames the sword that already had the flammable liquid.

"If you're so hungry eat this damn thing!"

The skunk man pierces the zerbarix causing it to explode, however, he suffers major injuries the sharp sword-like scales rip his side and neck.

"Zanzalien!"

"Don't waste time, I can still move." He covers the wound on his neck with one hand and the other on his abdomen. "Run and don't worry about me, if I don't make it, don't waste time on me."

"But..."

"We must go now, Ahori, not even Fenrir or Kalishar are following us!"

"What?!"

The girl looks behind her shoulder as the girl carries Fenrir unconscious, but seems to be having difficulty. The elf didn't know what had happened since she had passed out. She only knew that the man must be in critical condition if he had not yet regained consciousness, and if she with Tryfonr tried to take Zanzalien with them to flee, they would lose mobility to escape by worrying about his external or internal injuries.

"It's not fair!"

"I know, heh. " Smiles the skunk man weakly. "Many times that's how our life is, unfair and bitter. But if you two get out of here alive, at least for us fallen ones, it will have been a beautiful life until our end. Now run away. We two will try to buy some time for you!"

The elf hugs the skunk man as she waves goodbye with a fist at Tryforn. Both knights run to get away while Zanzalien turns around, he still has one last trick. He had in a flask the flammable substance and would use it to explode along with the zerbarix. He planned to use something that would detonate the explosion inside those creatures. Zanzalien watches Kalishar approach, maybe if she played her last card right, she and Fenrir could make it out of the nest alive as well.

"What are you doing? Why don't you run away?" asked Kalishar watching the dying man.

"You just keep running, I'll take care of distracting these shits."

"They'll kill you!"

"Look." Points out the man. "The vast majority of those things started fighting over the corpses like vultures. The few that follow us will fight when I explode inside one, with the blood and organs that didn't shred will be too tempting that they'll fight each other too. I will die, but at least you guys will still be alive."

"Good idea, it's good to know that there are people like you who recognize their worth even in the last moments of life!"

Zanzalien sees how the girl indifferently left while carrying Fenrir on her shoulders. The man cries out furious at the horrible indifference the girl had treated him; at least a tear would have been enough to make him feel that his sacrifice had a valuable emotional impact.

"Help him, don't let him die." whispered Fenrir weakly.

"You're mad about the wounds; besides, he's a knight, you don't give a damn what happens to them!"

"Please..."

Kalishar looks between her companion and the skunk knight who had already accepted his end by lighting a cigarette as the last pleasure of his miserable life. She after some thought and observing Fenrir, places Fenrir gently on the ground and runs to the man's aid wishing that would be the last unnecessary good deed of the day.