5 Blake Roseland (1/2)

Currently, Alicia was stuck in a small crevice between two large rocks while a large creature almost four times the size of her was staring at her with bloodshot eyes. She was scared out of her mind since she had never seen such a creature before. It was like a lion but it's back was covered in red scales and it had a fiery mane around its neck. Its claws were taking huge chunks out of the hard rock. She had already lost her sharpened stick when she tried to poke out one of its eyes in an attempt to try to scare the creature away but it reacted too quickly and just smashed the sharp stick into splinters.

Thanks to this creature she had lost all her items and only had the rabbit horn left for self defense. All her other items were used as a distraction to try to escape the creature in front of her. But it only slowed the creature down by a little bit just enough to allow her to squeeze herself into this crevice.

The creature continued to swing its large paws at the rock in front of it. With each swing, it took out another chunk of the rock. The creature was slowly getting closer and closer to Alica. With a final swing, the last bit of remaining rock crumbled exposing the tiny Alicia to the creature. The creature opened its large mouth baring its sharp fangs that had saliva dripping down it. Alicia really wondered if this was how her life was going to end!

”No! I will not die here! I have already died once!” Alicia suddenly shouted out. All her fear that she had before disappeared as she threw herself into a trance. ”Kill it before it can kill me! Kill it before it can kill me!”

Alicia did a head dive under the large creature. She twisted her small body around causing her blonde hair that was now caked with mud to swirl around. The tips of her hair sizzled as it passed close to the fiery mane of the creature. With her rabbit horn in hand, Alicia thrust it upwards into the underbelly of the creature. But she did not stop there, she pulled it out and continued to stab the creature over and over.

*Roar!*

The creature let out a painful roar as it jumped up into the air backing away from Alicia! It stood there staring at the small girl who earlier was as scared as a rabbit. Now her eyes were cold as ice and her body exuded a faint killing intent.

Alicia knew if she attempted to run it would be useless. Alicia shouted out her battle cry as she went to charge at the creature! ”Kill it before it can kill me!”

”Well said!” Alicia stopped her charge and looked stunned up at the tall boy in front of her. He was only around eleven years old but he stood tall and strong in front of her little body. His armor glistened in the sun that pierced through the canopies of the trees overhead. His shoulder length silver hair swayed in the breeze seeming to create sparkles as the sun's rays landed upon it.

This was a knight! A young one but still a knight! Alicia's eyes sparkled. There was no way she would not know what he was! He was most likely a squire but he still stood strong in front of the creature in front of him. The young boy charged forward causing the creature to swing its large paw at him. The young boy sidestepped the paw with ease and got to the creature's side where he thrust his sword into the creature's side slicing down leaving a large gash as blood and guts spilled out all over the ground. One strike! One strike was all it took to kill the creature! This was Alicia's image of a knight!

The young boy flicked his sword and looked at the many puncture wounds on the creature's belly and was very surprised. He looked over at Alicia and saw how little and thin she was and couldn't help but feel astonished. Those thin arms were able to do this much damage to a magma lion.