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waiting for the storm to pass
I will be outside dancing in the rain
From what the council members had said there appeared to be massive groups of monsters escaping the confinement of the Fat Monster Lands and leaking out into the rest of Fiore, causing havoc and mischief across the nation. Most monsters were already being detained by other wizards. Given that this could potentially be a catastrophic event to not only Fiore but the rest of the world if the monsters were not dealt with most of the country's forces had already been deployed to deal with the problem. At least on the surrounding lands. But the Fat Monster Lands were still littered with rouge monsters, and they were coming out faster than the forces could deal with. Which is where she came in. She, along with other wizards, were being drafted to help contain the monsters and hopefully push them back deep into the land where they belonged.
Killing them was a given, due to their bloodthirsty and non negotiable, which bothered Astrid a bit. She was against killing for the most part, but not completely against it when necessary. And with how many monsters they still had to take care of it looked as though she wouldn't have any choice but to get her hands dirty.
The blonde currently stood in her spirit form atop one of the many rock formations scattered about the area, scanning over the dreary and overall gloomy landscape. No wonder the monsters wanted to get out of here so bad. If she had to live here for all of eternity she too would do anything to escape. It was a depressing place that no sunlight would ever touch. It was no life to live, even for a monster.
She leaned upon her blue scythe, blade-side down and arm resting upon the end of the steel pole. Yellow eyes framed behind silver glasses stared dully out into the fog-covered distance, her facial features only distorting when she let out a loud yawn. She probably should have slept more the night before, but with all the changes happening in the guild currently her sleeping schedule was once again disturbed. Not that she had much of sleeping schedule much anyway, as she liked to make the most of her time and sleep generally took up more of her time than she would like. But now especially with these huge changes she found herself resting less and less. Probably not a good thing due to her deteriorating health, but the slayer found that as more of an excuse to push herself further, to ignore the fact that she was pretty much dying slowly. She didn't know how much time before the cursed Foss curse got her too, but dammit she was determined to do as much as she could before then.
A single, deep roar sounding from below her caught the girl's attention, causing her to straighten her posture and ready her scythe, twirling it around once to make sure she had a good grip. Cutting through the white smog appeared one cyclops rising up from beneath the rock structure, it's one single red eye popping up and glowing as it looked around before settling on the girl.
This one appeared to be alone, which was strange given that all the ones she had fought so far had been in groups. But she could not sense any others, so she doubted this was some kind of sneak attack or something. Not that these monsters were really smart enough to think of such a thing anyway. They just mostly ran around and smashed everything and anything. There was no logic to their actions.
Spotting her the monster let out another dissatisfied grumble, rising a fist into the air to smash down onto her. But when the creature did so all it was met with was the rock structure crumbling beneath its force. Large pieces of rock and stone spread out into the air, allowing Astrid to climb onto them and jump from falling debris to falling debris with the utmost ease. Eventually climbing up all the way to the top Astrid lunged herself off and landed upon the monster's head. In an attempt to shake the woman off the cyclops moaned and shook his head violently. But in the end all it would cause him was more pain as the guild master inserted the blade of the scythe through his head and probably a bit of its skull also, causing the beast to cry out in pain. Astrid clung onto the pole as she was shaken about like a rag doll, her senses becoming jumbled due to all the ways her body was being thrown about. At one point, the slayer even began to feel slightly motion sick, but managed to swallow it down so it would not interfere with her battle.
Feeling the beast fall down through another rocky structure Astrid used the forward motion to throw herself off the cyclops' head and jump down onto the surface. She landed full force onto the ground, making her lean forward to catch herself in order to stop the force fully and not take any of the painful fall damage she would have gotten had she not. She rose up from her knees, looking over her shoulder to see the beast in great agony. Poor thing. If the fact its skull was not bad enough it was probably going through the painful process of the scythe's burning exorcism magic. Being a beast of darkness, it would automatically have its damage doubled. It was time to put it out of its misery.
The slayer faced towards the giant, summoning a bar of light. She would take the bar mid air and peel half of it back, allowing for one half to bend freely while the other stood stiff to take the shape of a bow. A magic arrow produced itself and formed into the middle in a twinkle of light. She rose the bow, taking aim at the blue scythe that was still atop the beasts head. She had to readjust a few times, due to how much it was moving. But eventually she saw a clear shot.
"With this arrow i will end your suffering. May you find happiness in another life."
In a swift movement, she released the light arrow. The arrow shot off at blinding speeds, instantly making contact with the blue scythe. Upon contact the scythe exploded in a ball of blue hellfire and consumed the monster whole. In a mere split second, there was no trace left of him. he simply sizzled up into nothingness. Other than the trail of rocks it had left behind from flailing around no one would have ever known there was anything there.
Astrid's bow flickered out of existence, and her arms lowered back down to her sides.
The girl stared up at where the cyclops used to be, only to hear another roar in the distance.
As they say, there really is no rest for the wicked. There was a lot more where that came from, and it was sure to be a while before she could say she was done.
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