Can we go back to bed now?

Advent was in the middle of a field in a restful sleep, this was nothing unusual for the youth given that he was constantly on the move and found shelter within nature. He had no idea why but he felt increasingly drained that day but he couldn't put his finger on it no matter how hard he tried, he found himself lucky that the there was an elder great wood that was willing to give him shelter and protection from the elements and animals around him; last thing he wanted was to become dinner for a bear or something worse. None of that mattered however as he rested, before long his eye opened as he heard something he wasn't accustomed to "Hng... please, for a night... please let me sleep... I-I've done what's been needed without sleep or argument... please... just tonight..." the youth begged in a somewhat pitiful voice, but he had just woken and was exhausted but it seemed like his pleads fell on deaf ears.

"Yeah, yeah I get it... I know, I know..." he was clearly annoyed as he stood up covering his mouth as he yawned. "Yuui, you don't need to remind me, I know what I done... I know the penance so shut up for once." he knew he would regret his words later but he was sick and tired of hearing the same lecture over and over again his hands gripping tightly "I didn't ask for this magic and I didn't ask for it to entwine and do such a horrible thing but it did and I have to live with the unforgivable thing I done when I was small" he was crying a little as he followed the small ball of light to an arch of a portal, he was weary of going into it but knew he had little choice so sighed and walked through "So did you bother anyone else or am I it because seriously I don't think I can do this on my own." he might have been chaotic but he for now was lucid and knew that things didn't seem overly bright.

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x10 Starved Wolves
x70 Hungry Wolves (45 to go)
x2 female wolves, x8 other wolves (4 per female wolf)
x1 male wolf, x20 other wolves

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'Monster Dice' :

Ryo shot awake with tears of blood streaming down his cheeks and he looked around his room. He was in the house that he and Ian had bought together a long time ago. Gora’s head lifted off of his front paws and looked at his ‘father’ tilting his head in concern. Ryo shook his head and pulled a red handkerchief off of his nightstand and rubbed the trails of blood from his eyes. Standing up he started to dress. His black slacks, a blood red button up shirt, an electric blue suit vest, he strapped on his belts that held the card boxes that were his and snapping his fingers his duster came floating over to him allowing him to put it on. Looking to his hat he saw Hekate slumbering on the brim of it and he picked her up tucking her into his vest pocket while he put his hat on his head.

He opened the door and looked to Gora “Let’s go.” He and the dire wolf left the house. Gora was following Ryo, and Ryo was following the directions that he had received from some kind of spirit which was the cause of his sudden awakening that was so disturbing. He and Gora arrived at the portal that Ryo was told to go through and Ryo grabbed his pup lifting him up with one arm and jumping through the portal. When he landed on the other side of the portal he set the dire wolf down and looked to see that there was someone already here waiting for him. Ryo raised his brow and tilted his head to get a good look at the person before him. Gora looked at the person as well his hackles rising slightly “He smells sick.”

Ryo looked to Gora frowning “I smell dead, your point?” He looked back to the other male and cleared his throat “Let me guess, a spirit told you to come here while you were asleep?” It was then that Ryo saw the little magical ball of light and he turned to look at it as it was clearly trying to lead them somewhere. He rolled his eyes muttering “Follow the bouncing ball.”

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Advent had been moving his head this way and that as he tried to decide what to do, it wasn't as if he could just turn and walk out of the portal as much as he wanted to. "I really don't want to be here..." he complained to the unseen forces he called his parents "That's easy enough for you to say, your already dead apparently!" he crossed his arms growling "I am not, you just seem to bri-" he stopped mid sentence as he lowered his head like a scolded child "I'm sorry... I-I know." he leaned forward doing a low standing bow to what would appeared to be a bush "I'm just so tired... I released the souls..." it was true he had went through hell when he had went to Sombras Manor with his guild master Ardere to try release the souls that had been crammed into a soulseal lacrima, it wouldn't take a genius to work out what it done. They had found themselves separated due to dark magic of the necromancer that taken up residence within, he had to take our undead and countless traps so it wasn't the best encounter he had ever had.

Even now he wondered who booby trapped their own home, it made absolute no sense to the long, white haired youth but that was of little consequence now. Hearing a noise behind him he stood up and turned towards were the noise had come from revealing his blindfolded face wearing a confused grin as his head tilting to the side listening to what the other said. "Spirits tell me to go places when I'm awake, so why would the fact I'm sleeping be any different?" he asked calmly, to be honest it wasn't just spirits that bossed him around like an errand boy but any within any of the cycles he could hear could give him a request and he'd have to tend to it. He found himself lucky that it was the guardians of the cycles that decided on wither or not it was a good enough reason or not so he wasn't taken advantage of. "Wait... before I answer your question, I've been asked to find out who are you and why you asked about a spirit." he shrugged to him it didn't matter so longs he wasn't a threat "Bouncing ball?" he seemed somewhat perplexed by this notion, for now he wasn't to do anything til the introductions where made and was happy enough to let the other start.

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The fact that this youth didn’t seem to mind spirits calling him out to focus on him was a bit strange, but Ryo decided that it wasn’t worth pursuing. He looked from Gora to the youth that was blindfolded in front of them with one eyebrow raised. It seemed clear to him that this boy was blind to some kind of degree and used something besides his eyes in order to see as well as navigate the world. Looking to the young little kid in front of us he raised his brow at the question of who he was and what he meant by a spirit. He gave a shrug before he pulled his hat off of his head putting it over his heart and bowing his head slightly “My name is Ryo Knetegawa, I am the tenth wizard saint, and I am the second in command of Sabertooth. It is a pleasure to meet you. This great beasty with me is Gora.” He said gesturing with his hat towards the huge dire wolf “We came here because I had a spirit of some kind that invaded one of the few sleep sessions I have in order to guide me here.”

His gaze flickered around, and he frowned shaking his head in irritation. He also saw that Gora had picked up on the intruders as well. The intruders were wolves, and they were on their last legs. All of them were starving and this was to the last of them. He almost felt bad for them, but the sphere was leading him beyond the pack of ten starving wolves. Slowly he drew out a card from his coat, depicted on the card was a single katana. With a flick of his wrist the picture came to life and in his hand, was now the beautiful weapon. Tucking the card into the brim of his hat he drew the blade revealing the steel and silver alloy “It looks like we have to take care of these wolves before we get going. This is going to be hard Gora, but these pups are too far gone for us to save.” Gora nodded his head in agreement, and in a blast of ice, wind, and magic he was now in his battle form. Without a wasted breath or sound, he charged forward snatching up one of the much smaller wolves in his giant mouth. Shaking his head violently he rag-dolled the starving wolf nearly tearing it into two pieces before tossing the corpse away. Ryo hadn’t let himself fall behind either.

He rushed in and with a pair of quick slashes he brought the first wolf down moving to swiftly engage the second one that was closest to him. Yet, one of these starving half mad canines tried to leap at him but was quickly dashed away by Gora’s giant paw before he was set upon by the dire wolf being ripped apart for his audacity to try and hurt Gora’s partner and father. Ryo dropped his second target with a trio of quick slashes and now there were only 6 out of the 10 remaining wolves. The others seemed more hesitant now, and Ryo nodded “Let’s follow the bouncing ball of light before we lose it.” He said to the other human around.

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Advent listened to the elder man though seemed confused crossed his legs as he tapped his head, he knew he had heard about wizard saints before from his mentor but he was clueless as where he had stored the information Aiyana had given him. He sighed in frustration before it seemed to click "Oh your the tenth most powerful mage on this place... got it!" he seemed almost proud of himself for remembering without a trigger object "Sabertooth? OH! I KNOW THAT PLACE!" he seemed excited a big grin on his face "Zennie is a member there! I like doing things with him but he has demons and thinks I'm insane I thing... but honestly... I'm perfectly sane." he said in a big rush of breath his hands moving helping him getting his point across the grin ever present as he spoke "Uh? Oh yeah... sorry I forgot" he moved his hand to the back of his head rubbing the back of his head chuckling nervously before he bowed a little in a fashion normally only seen in Terra Ignis.

"I have a name I'm not allowed to say so you get to call me Advent, and I would introduce my parents but it's unlikely you can see them." he said moving to his hands and knees his head bowing to Gora showing respect and understanding of the order of things almost as if it was how he had been raised. He sat back on his knees "I'd like to sleep but they always seem to have other plans" it was frustrating to him as it was how he could deplete the corruption his magic gave him without getting the dead involved. It completely went over his head that the other didn't sleep often but it may have led to problems if he did catch it. "Unusual for that kind of thing to happen.. must mean there's a severe issue." he said hopping onto his feet starting to walk his hands going behind his head humming lightly to himself but stopped feeling the vibrations "Aww, come on!" he huffed crossing his arms "W-wait it's wrong, th-they're off..." he said in concern feeling the light vibrations his toes digging into the dirt.

After a moment pitch black eerie runes appeared around them "Leto, don't make them suffer any further" he said calmly but it was clear the order saddened the youth to the point it hurt to give it. Beside him a person clad from head to to in white clothing appeared, the only thing seen was her glowing golden eyes. Without a word she dashed forward a ninjato in her hands, with extreme ease and with no hesitation stabbing it through the forehead of the last six before walking back to him caressing his cheek loving you "Matray, I know hard. Done well... never second guess decision. Understand?" The speech was broken and quiet but with heightened hearing it would be easy to see it was a woman that spoke to the white haired youth before she vanished "I know, doesn't make it easier Leto..." he clenched his hands before he walked on quietly thinking about what he had just ordered, he knew it would have been worse if they continued to survive they'd be suffering and likely turn on each other.

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When Advent said that Ryo was the tenth most powerful wizard it was a bit embarrassing because he didn’t think of himself as the tenth most powerful member. He instead thought that he was the tenth in a group that was supposed to safeguard Fiore and protect the wizarding world against all kinds of threats. Still, he supposed that if one were to look at it from that viewpoint then he couldn’t fault them for it. The youth seemed to be very proud of himself for this, however, so he made no comment about what he thought, nor made any move to contradict the way that Advent thought. Hearing the name of Zennie, Ryo’s brows shot up and he nodded his head slightly. He knew the name and had met the man once or twice. Hearing that Advent thought himself as sane he gave a shrug saying, “We are all a little mad.” To him, this was a universal truth and simply stated it as so.

Bowing his head again Ryo smiled “It is a pleasure to meet you Advent. I shall be happy to call you whatever you would like.” He silently watched Advent’s reaction to Gora and saw the deep respect that was coming from a human to him. Gora himself tilted his head this way and that way inspecting the human before him. After a long moment, he gave a huff of pleasure nodding his head in approval. When Advent sat back on his knees and kept speaking the pair listened to him. Ryo did notice that his comment about his own lack of usual sleep went far over the youth’s head. He was very grateful. He did not want to have to explain to this youth why he was sleeping so rarely, but if he opened his mouth too much and let the truth slip he would really have no choice.

Ryo saw the woman that Advent had summoned, and he had to admit that this was a very interesting power. He wasn’t sure what it was as it didn’t seem like the typical celestial summoning magic that Ryo knew well enough to comment on, but he also thought that it did have some kind of similarity to that magic. He watched at first while this woman in white went through and killed the wolves. The one or two that were able to get away did so quickly enough, but they waited a long time in order to watch Ryo and Advent pass. As soon as they were gone and didn’t pose a threat they rushed forward in order to start devouring the corpses of their fallen pack mates. Ryo rode along on Gora’s back following after the bouncing ball of light that was leading them somewhere that hopefully would result in the mission ending. Ryo’s eyes and senses told him that there were other wolves shadowing them, but they wouldn’t strike just yet. They were waiting for higher authority.

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Advent listened to the older man as he spoke he wasn't sure exactly how the other took the information he was given so smiled the entire time before covering his mouth as he yawned "I want sleep so badly." he said honestly in a slight grumble he wasn't getting enough as it was even in an optimum setting but recently it had been regular sleeping situations which made it even worse. "Are you sure this time? You said that last time and the time before that." he complained to what seemed like thin air "Well if you say so because this IS the last task I do without a decent rest." he was clearly irritated about his apparent work load "It never ends, I know I need to atone but there's a difference between atonement and slavery to the cycles and those within it and this is less atonement and more slavery..." he turned his head away as he walked after the other "At this rate I'm not going to do anything and welcome the end as it stands because it's not worth it! I'm going to go into the cycles early if things don't change." it was almost like some strange rant he was going on that he completely forgot that Ryo and Gora where even there.

Hearing the others words he stopped the conversation that he was doing "No, I'm sane... madness and insanity never bode well for those like me." he said his tone a warning not to delve deeper into what he had meant on the subject, it was a scary thought to the youth and on he'd rather not think on. He smiled once again as he heard it was a pleasure to meet him and seeming like he wouldn't push but call him what he asked without any questions. "It's nice to meet you and Gora." he said before covering his mouth yawning once more. He continued walking scratching his head a little before placing his hands at the back of his head "The person you seen was my mother Leto, she was to teach me speed and precision before she passed." he said thinking it was only polite to explain what had just happened "It's not summoning but offering my energy to them so they have a physical form for a short time so they can help me." he explained hoping he had gotten it right.

He heard the feeding frenzy that was happening behind them and the gentle vibrations in the earth of those who seemed to be stalking them. "They're so sickly..." he commented wondering how they where still alive "I don't think there's enough food for them all to survive healthy... I think that's why we're here Ryo." he said bringing his hands down his poise changing instantly to be more stiff a smug look on his face as it happened the the runes that glowed through his clothing glowing a sanguine colour, his hand pulling off his blindfold off wrapping around his hair. His eyes seemingly unfeeling and cold, if the other looked at his eyes he would notice the solid moon blue colour lacking a pupil but golden script easily seen. Around his feet a blue glowing seal appeared that ignited a few seconds later after it appeared it burst into blue flames two meters around him and went six inches high. He was sick of being hunted, especially as he was so tired. Moving his hand forward it forced the flames out 100 meters around him easily catching twenty of the hungry wolves around them. "I am in no mood to be play cat and mouse with you all." his voice as cold as his eyes, the one thing that would be surprising would that neither Ryo, Gora or the forest would be affected by these flames though the air would be filled with the stench of burning fur and flesh as howls of pain filled the area but this didn't seem to face the youth.

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As Gora and Ryo walked along they could both hear the conversation that Advent was having with what appeared to be either himself, or someone that neither of them could see, hear, scent, or feel. Still, they wouldn’t dare to ask or make any kind of questions to the stranger. Ryo well knew that there were many people and they had their various secrets he certainly wouldn’t want to put his own secrets out there in the world, so he wasn’t about to ask anyone of their own. Gora, on the other hand, looked up at him “Who the hell is he talking to? Is there something we should know, or someone we should be watching out for? He is talking to someone, but where and who are they?”
This made Ryo sigh and he shook his head “Don’t worry about it Gora, instead I want you to focus on those other wolves that I can smell. We do not want to kill all of them, but if we thin out their numbers then perhaps they will all be much better off.” Gora nodded his head once giving a soft yawn as he tried to focus on the world around him; his nose was working a mile a minute to scent all of the wolves.

Ryo glanced over at Advent as he said he was sane and he gave a shrug dismissing the boy’s words. He had no plan to contradict the other’s words, and he had no real plan to prove it. Madness and insanity never bode well for anyone in Ryo’s opinion, but there was no denying that there wasn’t some madness nor insanity in everyone. When he said that it was nice to meet them the pair nodded their heads in agreement as well as acknowledgment of the fact it was nice to meet each other. When Advent quit speaking Ryo held up his finger and wagged it “The person I saw, was your mother. It’s alright, it is just a little thing, but I was told that if you always speak fluently, and with good grammar then you are likely to be easily accepted in society. Not that I much care about that.” He said with a shrug “Just teaching as I was taught. Sorry, it is a habit of mine.”

He nodded his head in agreement with Advent’s statement “Yes, they are sickly. I would agree that there is a lack of food, but I think there might be more to it than that. Still, if we are to cull the packs then it is likely that they will all be well fed for a time.” He looked back at the other watching with great intent to see that Advent was removing his blindfold. He instantly spotted the other’s eyes and was very interested to see them and how it worked. A slow wide smile spread across his features and now his two pronounced fangs were clear as daylight. This was going to be interesting and there was truly a very interesting story as to why Advent’s eyes were of that color and nature. He was very sure of that, but it wasn’t going to come out so easily. At present, he would have to wait, but he turned his attention to the wolves that were easily surrounding them. There were many, of them and he sighed shaking his head “I think it is time we also engaged in the fight.” He leapt down from Gora’s back and instead held his arms up in order to claw himself along both of his arms. In so doing he activated one of his most powerful spells. He created two scythe blades one on either arm and the blade tip was pointing towards his shoulders. He was ready now, and he surged forward moving at super human speed dashing towards a group of wolves about five in total, and with five quick slashes he brought down all of them.

Gora himself moved into another group in his full battle form biting and clawing into five others killing them without any hesitation. He would do as he was told, he would do anything for Ryo, and he also well knew the rules that if there were no prey then that meant the weakest wolves had to be sacrificed for the good of the rest of the pack. This was not the preferred way for the pack to survive, but it was the only way in such a predicament. The other wolves were quick to get away from the pair of them, which is just how the pair really wanted it.

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Advent looked between the two tilting his head a moment just realising how it must have seemed to one if not both of them, he was use to this as everyone seemed to see him as the poor insane kid when it was far from the truth; though the more he tried to explain it to people the more he seemed to think him crazy. "I was talking to my parents." he said calmly waiting for the normal silence or words of disbelief that usually followed or the mocking about his state of mind, regardless it made little difference to him as he was use to people acting and saying things either unkind or as if they where just humouring him as if he's some sort of crazy teen that needed some sort of psychological help which wasn't the case. "I have nine parents, two fathers and seven mothers" he conveyed to the elder male with a smile. He tilted his head as they nodded theirs "You realise I'm blind, I can't see you nodding your head." he said calmly to the other.

"One of my mothers, like I said I have seven of them." he then listened to the rest of what was said narrowing his eyes under the blindfold that covered them "Do you really believe there is only one language in this world?" he snapped a little, he hated people who where ignorant of others, he had been raised in complete isolation but least tried to understand before jumping to conclusions on a persons skills and talents "Many of my parents speak this language brokenly but it doesn't mean that they are less intelligent or are less than other people. This language is their fifth or sixth language so it not perfect.." he crossed his arms his voice showing he was ticked off "be more sensitive and think before speaking you'll offend someone otherwise." he huffed lightly it was clear he was protective of his family even if he knew they didn't need him to be.

Advent sighed gently his hands going to his side as he seemingly calmed as nothing happened but a few minutes before, to what he was hearing through his unique hearing it seemed like there wasn't a lot of food so wondered why they hadn't moved to somewhere there was a chance to survive better. "Why won't they travel..." he muttered looking to the left his head tilting as clear indication that he was listening to someone or something "Territorial?" he scratched his head a little as he tried to take in the information and what it indeed meant but was coming up with nothing but blanks as he didn't understand the concept in the slightest. There hadn't been enough time to get the answer as he had taken his blindfold off and started the requiem of rebirth's poisoned flames, he already heard the howls of agony and the smell of searing flesh and fur as sickening as this was to the long white haired teen his dancing never stopped. His movements continued to be precise and straight to the point as he pushed the flames out further catching more of the starving wolves, as before neither Ryo nor Gora would feel the heat nor would the trees show any signs of being damaged in anyway.

The howls this time was different from the ones he had heard previously, he may not know all that much about wolves but he did have a druidic mother who had told him that the howls where of two females and those who had remained close to protect them, he had ended ten more lives he hoped and pleaded that the females weren't pregnant he didn't think that he would be able to handle such a thing. To be honest he hoped that this ordeal would be over soon he couldn't keep doing this, they were still living beings who had the right to live, it was then he drew the flames back and started to walk the seal following under his feet around the seal was the now small blue flames the sign that the requiem was still active.

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Ryo listened to Advent and was a bit shocked to hear that this boy had nine parents. Two fathers and Seven mothers. He had heard of many strange things, but he wasn’t exactly sure what this meant, or how the logistics would work. There was no way he would be able to understand it, so he simply gave up. Gora looked to his master with a curious expression on his face, but Ryo simply shook his head showing that there was no point in investigating it, and to just leave it alone. The Dire wolf really didn’t care much about the ways of humanity, so leaving it alone was not hard for him to do. When Advent told him that he couldn’t see Ryo’s nod, the card wizard smirked “Then how did you know I was nodding my ‘blind’ friend?” he asked his voice dripping with the triumphant ‘gotcha’ tone.

The boy snapping at him about the language issue was completely out of nowhere. He didn’t understand how the boy had gotten so riled up so quickly, and there was absolutely no reason for him to be reacting in this way. He waited until the angry tirade was over and he cleared his throat “Firstly, I was talking about you. I was talking about that sentence you said the ‘The person you seen’. That was bad grammar and I let my own harsh training in that area sink through. I did apologize for it. Second, I said nothing about any language, that advice I gave was perfectly useful no matter what language you wished to use, and whatever culture you find yourself in. There is no need to assume I am only talking about this particular language. After all, I made no mention of any language, instead just Grammar and speaking clearly. That is good advice for every language. I would appreciate it if you didn’t jump to such wild accusations. For now, we can put this aside and get this over with.”

Ryo looked around and shook his head at the question “No, most likely it is simply that they have no choice. I would place bets that either everywhere else in this world is much the same as their territory here, without food, and without necessary survival needs, or the more sinister is that something far more dangerous than them has taken the prime places and will kill to protect their lands.” He shook his head with a sigh “I would imagine that nothing could really help them and that they have no other choice. Still, so long as we don’t kill every wolf in this world but kill enough of the other things in here then they will have a future. I do not plan to kill every wolf in this land, only the ones that choose to attack us first.” He said as he stopped dead watching the flames rip through the wolves and the trees. Gora lifted his head back and gave a deep mournful howl which caused Ryo to listen closely to what his wolf was saying. Gora’s howl sang out a song for the death of female wolves, their loss, their value, their great gifts. Ryo’s eyes slowly began to leak red tears down his face as he listened to it.

When the flames drew back, and they started to move again they only stopped when the sound of a larger more powerful howl filled the air. Ryo and Gora stopped dead, as they heard the sound. Gora’s body flashed again with power returning to his battle state and he let loose a howl of his own challenging the other. The alpha had come, and with him were 70 other wolves. Drawing his sword slowly Ryo looked to his partner “Gora, kill the alpha. Kill as many as you have to but remember there is no pack for you here. These are not wolves we can take with us Cull as many as you can, so we can make a stable home for the rest.” He placed his hand on the ice and diamond covered wolf “This is going to be hard my son, but I have faith in you.” As soon as the Alpha stepped forward and lead the group towards the trio Gora shot forward with a large howl it was filled with a challenge that demanded an answer. The Alpha could not refuse the challenge without seeming weak so the two began to circle and size each other up.

While the two great wolves began the dance, it was clear that they would have it out with a great amount of blood to be spilled. The other wolves, however, would not simply sit idle while the Alpha’s fought. Instead, they would kill the rest of the challenger’s pack. A dozen wolves came charging towards Ryo with all speed and he frowned as he saw this. He was not about to let these mongrels do as they would like. He drew his sword and slashed at the first one that lunged at him. The blade slashed through the creature’s mouth with ease widening the wolf’s mouth and dropping it dead. He was onto the next one stabbing it through the neck nearly taking its head off. His free hand dropped into his jacket and he pulled out nine playing cards flooding them with his magic. He allowed his glove to float the cards above his hand shooting them out one after another into the next wolf nearby smashing it down to the ground. His hand shot back down pulling out elemental cards in order to fire them at the wolves fire, water, earth, wind, blood, and more slammed into a fourth wolf bringing it down before he slashed into the fifth with his blade.

Deciding that he could not let this continue on so pathetically he held out his left hand “Blood is the Currency.” He said with no emphasis, but the blood that all the wolves he killed in a 30-meter radius surged towards his hand swirling through the air and forming into a ball. “Static Blood make Wakizashi.” The blood turned into the short sword katana and he lunged at the rest of the wolves slashing and hacking through them. He used his katana to cut them apart, the Wakizashi was used to block and repel bites or claws if he had to. After lots of slashes and death, he stood amidst their bodies looking for the next group to attack him.

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