The Guardian of the Everfree
Chapter 11
My hand shot forward trying to grab the little filly. I wanted to get to her before the paw that had shot up from the ground could do anything. Unfortunately, the paw ripped her down before I could grab her front leg. The other two fillies proceeded to disappear as well. One of the creatures shot up from the ground.
Oh, god. Its one of those bipedal dogs. The stupid fuck jumped up from a hole it suddenly made, holding a spear. The problem was, the dumbfuck wasn’t looking at me. The dog took a slow sweep in front of him, and slowly began to turn around. He spotted me, and I charged. I jumped over the hole with my body staying vertical and than slamming the dog to the ground.
These dogs were about the size of an ape. But they definitely didn’t have their intelligence. After I slammed him to the ground, we both rolled. The dog lost its spear in the slam, but was now scrambling for it. I still didn’t have my AK, but this fucker was going to die.
The dog had managed to grab its spear, and attempted to thrust the spear into my torso. I twisted my chest and grabbed the stick, pulling roughly. The top heavy dog toppled and I flipped the spear, so the pointy end was facing the dog instead of me. I thrust the spear, and caught the dog in the gut. The dog brought his paw down snapping the spear in half. Fucker’s more resilient than I thought.
The dog pulls the spear out, and tries to bring his paw around to slash me. I step outside of the reach of the arch. As the paw passes me, I rush forward slam the dog in the face with my right fist, following through again with my arm slamming him in the face.
I kicked the dog’s left knee, causing the lower leg to bend upwards and the knee to break. The dog howled in pain, and collapsed. As I was about to finish the dog by crushing his skull with my foot, something tackles me. Fuck, I wasn’t paying attention. I manage to roll just as the dog brought his face down. I manage to bring my arm up and use it to stop his jaw from closing around my face, this time putting it on his neck rather than his jaws. A bent human elbow is much stronger than a straight human elbow.
The dog was slathering around the mouth, and was slowly using his weight to push my arm down closer to my chest. Too close, it’s nearly snapping my damn nose off. No, too fucking close.
I hear barking to my left, and something slams in the dog. Pulling it off of me, I get up and see something that I had totally forgotten about. Moira! I wanted to slam my face into a rock right now for forgetting about her. But now wasn’t the time. I pick up a large rock that could fit into my fist. Time to get rid of this fucker that is holding my dog down, this time with some good old Caining. First, however, I crush the skull of the dog whose leg I broke.
I walking to the dog, grab him by the shoulder. He instinctively turns around, and I hit him with the rock. He falls to the ground, and I proceed to pummel his face. After a few more strikes, I dropped the rock. The dog’s skull was caved in.
“Faust?” I asked.
“Yes, Dante?” I will never get used to having a Goddess in my mind.
“Where did Moira go for that short time?”
“Moira, Dante, was sent away by me.” I looked over to the hole the dog had made, A dog would blow my cover if this led to caverns.
“Mind sending her back to Citadel? I can’t risk having her down there.” I asked. Without saying a word, Moira turned tail and went back in the direction of the citadel.
“Dante, you may want to look behind you.” Faust said, calmly. I however was still jittery, especially with the dog’s corpses. I swung myself around, fists at bear. To see… nothing.
Wait, no. There is a black pack on the ground. I walk to it and pick it up. Unzipping it, I come out with a chest rig with ten, thirty round mags with .45. A UMP .45 with a mag in it and a round chambered, fitted with a light and an EOtech holosight, a pair of NVGs, some flares, some C4. In addition to the mags, the chest rig had four frag grenades attached to it. I slid the backpack onto my.
“Faust, what happened to my AK?” I asked.
“I, Dante, dematerialized it.” She responded. Rolling my eyes, I responded.
“Of couse.” I walked over to the hole. My hope was that the dogs couldn’t defy gravity and the hole sloped like a slide. I slid the NVGs over my eyes.
“Down the rabbit hole, Alice jumped.” I thought to myself.
I than proceeded to jump.
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My luck had paid off! The dogs couldn’t defy gravity and the hole sloped. I was sliding with my right leg bent into a V shape and my left leg slowing me down by digging into the dirt.
After a few more seconds, I had reached the bottom of the hole and was met with a meter drop. I lowered my legs onto the ground, I raised my UMP and quickly flipped the NVG button on the EOtech on. I scanned the sectors, keeping an eye out for dogs. I moved forward to what haad been my right. The left was a dead end and the dogs made a pretty obvious trail of the direction I needed to head in.
This tunnel system was creepy, to say the least. I soon found myself at a three way tunnel system. Damnit!
“Faust, you’re omnipotent, right? Which way do I need to go?” I asked.
“The hand of God that He does not sit at will kill you. Whereas the path that he angels took who betrayed him will lead you no where. It is only by taking his side, will you find what you are looking for.” She said. What?
"Faust, stop fucking with me! There are three children on the line! Which… fucking… way!" She responded.
"Now, Dante, you wouldn't be the one helping them if I told you outright."
Son of a bitch. Fine. Lets see. The hand of God that He does not sit at will kill you. So, the… left? If "He" refers to Christ. So that would mean the… right, wouldn't it? I think.
Damnit! I should have stayed awake in my Theology classes! Alright, so Christ sits at the right hand I think. Wait, is it my right or his right? Fuck it, its his right. So, my right will kill me, and my middle is a dead end. So, the right? Yeah, that sounds right.
I went for the right tunnel. Speedwalking for about fifteen minutes, before I heard a blood-curdling scream. Fuck. I started running. The tunnel was curvy as hell, but thankfully there was only one path. I got the beginning of a large tunnel. I charged through it. There was a door at the end of it. I'm not stopping for it. I throw my large frame at the door, causing the door to swing violently open, after the knob had been torn from door and the hinges destroyed.
When I got up, and looked from the precipice I was on, I saw a sight that still haunts me to this day.
"Oh my God."