Time seemed to slow as Venus tried to assess the situation. A Manticore was out of her league, she wasn’t tried nor properly prepared with the anti-venoms that the season hunters would take when hunting a Manticore.
Venus’s eyes darted to the Manticore’s tail, it was raised and ready to strike. It almost looked like it moved like a rattlesnake, ready to snap at any instance.
Her body was slightly weak from her love making but she knew she could block one of the needles should it fly her way. A second if she could maintain the focus, but a third …
Venus glanced over to Dakur and Boma. They wore both on either side of the Manticore now. Perfect flanking positions but the Manticore seemed to ignore them. Its entire focus was on Venus.
Venus steadied herself, both hand gripping the sword in front of her tightly. Her eyes focused on the manticores movements, trying to read where it would strike next.
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The Manticore was surprised at how fast the human female moved to dodge his attack. He thought the female would be weak from the rape of the Goblins or at least not aware of what was going on but she avoiding all three strikes.
It knew it would not give the female a second chance to dodge.
The Manticore’s magic filled eyes scanned the clearing. It knew that the Goblins had tried to flank him but Goblins never proved a challenge. And the last time it had tasted Goblin meat it had felt sick for 2 days. The Manticore was more interested in the human female, Although this human female smelt different…
The Manticore could not tell what was different of the female. Although the Manticore did recognize the large tattoo markings on the human, they wore markings of a tribe. It had seen them before, more on female Goblins but not female humans.
No matter the Manticore thought. It wanted to ‘taste’ the human female first, and if she put up too much of a fight it would eat her.
The Manticore raised its tail, it felt the 3 needles had regrowing and let them fly once again towards Venus.
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Venus swallowed hard as she saw the tail coil back then forward in a blink of an eye.
She raised her blade and deflected another needle, with a sharp clang the needle fell to the ground. Although the blade seemed to hum with the force of which the needle flew.
But Venus didn’t have time to check as the second needle flew, higher this time; Venus raised her blade to deflect it.
‘Clang’.
Venus had deflected it but not enough, instead of the needle striking near her right breast the sword had deflected it to strike her right solider. Pain shot through Venus’s shoulder and arm, then it quickly seemed to disappear to almost nothing as her arm started to go numb.
‘Noo..’ Venus screamed in her mind as she felt her sword grip drop
She then glanced up and saw the third needle was already flying towards her to her right side again, where her guard was open now …
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