50 Wails of Fire (1/2)

Linri fell face first into the ground, he was panicking. This was not in his plans, he was expecting to fight against some skeletons or something. What the hell was the sudden teleportation. If this was how they treated criminals why were there broken equipment in the first place?

Linri got up, due to the impact of the fall his headlight was broken and torch was snuffed out. He was in total darkness, the air was heavy but not suffocating compared to before.

The moment he got up, torches started to lit up. They lit up one by one till the whole room was as bright as outside. He covered his eyes as they were not able to adapt to the sudden increase in light. Once he felt like he could see now he parted his hand to see what was in the room.

The whole room was empty, there was only a statue of some kind of giant tiger-like animal. Linri could not see Jaime around and he got worried. She was dragged into this mess because of him so he would feel guilty if something had happened to her.

Sudden cracks started to appear on the tiger statue.

”Oh no!”

He knew this pattern after reading countless books. The statue was coming to alive and was gonna eat him. Linri ran to torch closest to him and grabbed the whole bowl after raising his body temperature.

He put it down and took out a couple of spray cans and bottles from his backpack. He had to hurry because the cracks were getting bigger.

Before Linri could finish what he wanted to do the giant tiger came out of its shell and pounced on Linri. He grabbed one of the bottles on the ground and rolled to his side. That was dangerous, the animal was so fast that he could only react in the nick of time despite the difference of distance between them.

Linri took a crouching position and looked towards the tiger. It was also looking at him so their eyes were interlocked. He was hesitating about what to do while the tiger was sizing up its prey. Seeing the giant tiger not moving he could tell that this was the best opportunity he could get.

'Inferno Cage'

Flames appeared under the giant tiger's claws and Linri became dizzy due to the sudden loss in prana. The beast was startled by the sudden circular flaming cage around him and instinctively tried to get away. Because of this, its backside was burned and a mad expression appeared on the giant beast's eyes.

The tiger pounced towards him once more while totally ignoring the flames. Linri dodged again and came face to face with the animal. He could almost see a sneer in the beast's eyes.Even though half of its body was burnt and battered his prey was standing in front of it.