Day 2.1: Encounter with Reptile

A ray of sunlight stirred Silver-Blade up, so he stood up and stretched his arms as the boy yawn. No time for eating breakfast, Silver-Blade start by checking his surrounding to see that nothing is around near the creek. Nodded to himself, Silver-Blade strapped the knapsack to his back and then shifted.

Brown fur covered his body as the boy hunched down on all four, tail come out from the rear as bone changed shape and realign while Silver-Blade became smaller; snout grew on his face as the fur covered the face, and fang grew on his tooth. By the time it was finished, the only thing that hint of his identity are both the silver colored sword on his body, and a knapsack on his back.

Silver-Blade, now a literal wolf, goes forward in a direction to find a way out of the forest.

Hours later...

Okay, Silver-Blade will admit that he had no idea as to where the heck does the boy goes. He's yet to be hungry, surprising enough, but that doesn't means that he won't be hungry soon. Either, Silver-Blade will have to find a place to rest so as to--he hear a sound.

Turning toward the sound, Silver-Blade slowly move toward the noise to investigate, curious as to what is making them. As he come closer, the boy in wolf form hear someone speaking.

"The trap are empty again today. What are we going to do, oh great leader." It is definitely a female voice, that's what Silver-Blade could tell from it. "Well, I guess we are going to have to hunt. I told you all that trap were a dumb idea." Another voice, female as well, said. The wolf laid down on the ground listening on the voices to know more.

"Well, if you think you're so great, why don't you go hunting? We will go and move more traps."

"No, I am the leader! We go together!"

There were more shouting, of which Silver-Blade counted six of different voices, and argument for a while before sides had been made. One half of the group left to set of more traps, while the other start to make plan on hunting strategy. Feeling a little bolder, the boy in wolf form slowly crawl to see who are they.

From the bushes, Silver-Blade can see three... reptilian creatures that he never seen before. Two of the creature have red scale on their body, holding spear on their hands; the last one have purple scale instead, and use a rudimentary shield and a dagger. All three of them wear only a loincloth, their breast bare to the world, although the purple one has something he is familiar under that loincloth.

Curiosities satiated, Silver-Blade slowly moved away from the reptilian creatures; though, seeing those creature... It reminded him of his reptilian steed...

So distracted by nostalgia that the wolf accidentally made whine noise. Too late, he realized, one of the red scale and a purple scale creature noticed him.

"Hey look a wolf!" The purple scale's yelled snapped him out of his funk. "Don't let that wolf get away!"

Silver-Blade quickly turned around and sprint through the woods to get away, not wanting to fight them at all. He can immediately tell that the three of them give chase, not wanting to lose their newfound prey from their sight. So Silver-Blade made a few quick turn to confused them, before going straight for long distance; as he keep running, the wolf turned his head behind him, and see both of the red scale creature are far, but where's---

Instinct warn him of his front, so he turned back to see the leader poised to strike with the dagger. In a panic, Silver-Blade shift back in an attempt to defend himself, clearly caught off guard. But he wasn't quick enough, and the purple scale creature slice across the side, seemingly leaving a deep cut as Silver-Blade yelped in pain while crouched down.

"Oh? So it isn't a wolf, but demi-human." The creature let out a smile. "Well that change things. Come on girls! We need to capture this fluffy boy!" Off in the distance, Silver-Blade can hear the sound of the other two coming to him. However, the cut throw off his shift, leaving him with fur on his limbs, with wolf ear on his head; he took advantage of this form, and sprint toward the leader, who tried to raise her shield against him.

Unfortunately, it is too late as Silver-Blade vault over her shoulder and swing his sharpened claw as he turned around. She didn't have time to shout before the claw sink into her neck, ripping it out just as the other two arrived on the scene.

"Ekkoz!" One of them scream out, shocked at what happened. Silver-Blade turned toward them, they looked angry but nervous after seeing it. Not taking any chances, Silver-Blade quickly grabbed the dagger and dashes toward them and took a leap, grab one of them, who was slow to react; he then spun around so that the haft of the spear hit his hostage instead.

"Gaaah!" The creature screams out in pain, fear is evident on her body language, while the other froze at what she done. However, Silver-Blade's wolf ear perk up, hearing a commotion in the distance; Silver-Blade realized that the scream definitely alert the rest, while the creature tried to escape from his grasp. Not wasting any more time, Silver-Blade threw the red scale creature toward the other, causing the two to stumble into the ground... With the spear impaled onto the reptilian creature he threw into the heart.

She let out a **** sound before going limp, now dead from the fatal wound; meanwhile, the last one manage to hold herself from falling, but she looked at her fallen friend in shocked. A second later, she turned to Silver-Blade with rage on her face, a massive cut across the neck that's bleeding, which confused the demi-human, not remembering wounding her in any way. Deciding to shrug, Silver-Blade grips the dagger and readied it for a throw.

"You dastard... I WILL RIP YOUR THROAT OUT!" With the yell, she lunges at him with all intent to kill him. However, Silver-Blade threw the dagger beforehand, intent to disabled her leg; instead the dagger imbedded into the creature's eye, killing her instantly and make her slump while still lunging. Silver-Blade yelped and rolled away from the flying corpse, of which crashed into the ground.

"Rhathe! What's going on!? Why were you yelling!? Answer me!?" Off in the distance, there's a yelled, of which Silver-Blade recognized as the other half of the group. A surge of pain welled up on his side, so Silver-Blade simply grabbed the spear that was dropped and immediately run away from the voice, not wanting to face more of them. However... In his attempt to flee...

"Wha---yikes!"

His leg caught something, caused him to trip into the ground.

He got up on the ground and looked to his leg to see what snared him. It was a small snare, meant to catch a small rabbit instead of one of his size. It really annoyed him that he got caught in a trap made for something small, but quickly cut it.

In the distance...

"NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"

The sound of wailing is heard, and it soon turned to rage, that alerted him that the rest had found the carnage. Not wanted to waste more time, Silver-Blade quickly run as far away as possible, now minding for any possible traps out there. Eventually, after minutes of running, the distant shout fade until it becomes quiet; realized that he's safe now, Silver-Blade shifted back to his human form as the boy fall down to his knees, one hand on the ground as the other is on where the cut was made.

He moved his body around so that the boy is sitting on the ground instead and inspect the cut. It is a nasty cut, that much is certain, but at least he's not heavily bleeding nor is it deep; but damn it, he need to do something about it at soon. Either way, the boy is hungry now, so Silver-Blade brought down the knapsack and opened it; he then pulled out the dried meat and proceed to eat it, finding nourishment on eating it.

Once he finished eating it, Silver-Blade closed the knapsack and stood up, and then he continue exploring the forest in an attempt to escape.

Rewards:

+75xp for the encounter; 25xp per kill.

+25xp for post

Total XP: +100xp