25 Golden hair (1/2)
Part 1
Ashley did not know what to think. One moment her friend was lying on the ground on the verge of death while a crazy huntress was stabbing her hand making her almost pass out from the pain. She closed her eyes for a second and when she finally opened it again she saw the huntress was staring at some kind of creature with wings covered in golden-like fur. She tried to search for Evlin for a second but quickly noticed that both her and the griffin were gone.
After giving the creature another look she realized it had a feminine figure and was wearing the same clothes as Evlin, down to her wooden bracelets. She realized that the creature was Evlin herself somehow. Her face was a little different, more feral and she had gotten slightly taller and her hands and legs were replaced by claws. But she still could recognize traces of the young girl behind that thing.
Ashley was so stunned by this appearance that she almost forgot the silver knife locking her to the ground. The creature met eyes with Ashley and approached her at an absurd speed. It almost looked like teleportation, the creature was one second on a distant spot and suddenly it was crouching right in front of the knocked down Ashley. The changed Evlin started at her hand and quickly applied healing magic after removing the silver knife. She extended her hand and helped Ashley to stand up. The confused girl tried to talk.
”Are you... Evlin...?”
The creature looked at her then looked at her own hands. She tried to speak but only growling sounds would come out. She closed her eyes as if trying to focus and tried to talk once again, this time successfully managing to form words.
”I... Think... So...”
”Evlin... Evlin!! What happened to you??”
”I'm... Not sure... But... I think i discovered my affinity...”
The huntress kept staring at the two girls with eyes of bewilderment but those quickly changed to frustration.
”You... What did you do with my merchandise?”
Evlin glared at the huntress and started to release and huge amount of magic energy which knocked the huntress away making her fall on her back. Ashley was also surprised.
”Ashley!! You got your magic back??”
”It's not mine... This griffin... He had a crazy amount of magic... I think i could build a whole castle using earth magic if i had as much as he does...”
The huntress leaped towards the two girls in a attempt to stab them with her silver knifes but Evlin quickly grabbed Ashley in her arms and moved out of the way. From the huntress's point of vew it looked like the two had vanished in thin air. She searched for them and noticed that they were now on the others side of the camping area.
”Evlin!! You got your speed back!!”
”... No... I got much more...”
Evlin quickly returned to the huntress location and dropped her right leg on top of her like a hammer. The huntress tried to block it but Evlin was much faster than before. The huntress was buried into the ground thanks to Evlin's now extremely heavy leg. The Huntress spitted some blood and tried to call for her underling in despair.
”All of you!! Kill her!! Kill her now!!”
The rest of the hunters who were just paralyzed in fear watching the fight up until now started to rush to save their leader. Evlin realized more enemies approaching changed her bracelets into a ring for her tail and used it to stab the ground. She used earth magic and modeling magic trap all of them inside of holes that she had opened on the ground. The hunters tried to free themselves in vain allowing Evlin to continue her confrontation with their leader.
”Hey... I'm bullying your family again... Aren't you going to punish me?”
”You cursed beast!! I'm going to slice you head off!!”
She stood up and using the agility gained from the knifes tried to move behind Evlin in a attempt to stab her from the back. Before she could do that thought, her hands were stopped after being grabbed by Evlin's tail, who proceeded to crush her hands making the huntress drop her knifes.
”How... How are you keeping up with my speed?? No one should touch me while i hold these knifes!!”
”...”
Evlin stared at the huntress with eyes that seemed like it could stab a person. She raised the huntress by the hands with her tail still holding her and started to apply some modeling magic. The Huntress looked at what was happening and started to shake in fear.
”What... What are you doing to me!!?? Stop!! Stop!!”
”I'm making sure these hands can never harm another creature again.”
She finished releasing her energy and dropped the huntress on the ground. The Huntress stood up and tried to go for her knifes again but something was wrong. Her fingers would not move. Her her weren't obeying her and just acted as if they were dead.
”What... What did you do to me you freak!!??”
”You were trying to cut off this griffin's wings right? I just gave you a little taste of your own medicine.”
”My hands!! I can't feel my hands!! I can't feel anything!!!”
”Really? Let's see if you can't feel pain then!”
Evlin proceeded to punch the huntress in the face and sent her flying all the way across the camp. The leader of the bandits was completely knocked out and the rest of the group was buried all the way up to their necks onto the ground. Evlin moved toward the cages and released all of the creatures that were inside of it. She wasn't sure about releasing all of them like this, after all there was even an ogre among them, but as soon as they were free they all run away afraid of Evlin.
”You're welcome by the way...”
She saw Ashley approaching with a similar scared look on her face and started to wonder just what the heck was she looking like right now to keep causing that reaction.
”Evlin... Are you... Going to stay like this now...?”
”No way... All this hair is really scratchy and these wings are really heavy... I think i can return to normal if i apply some transformation magic again.”
”Transformation magic...?”
”I'll explain in a second... Help me grab all these silver knifes and the pieces of my armor...”
Part 2
”Screeech!!!”
The griffin had now returned to normal and had all of his injuries completely healed. he was screaming with happiness after returning from his combined state with Evlin. he kept cuddling her like an overgrow cat who wanted to be spoiled by it's owner. Ashley looked at the scene with a little shock.
”... I think he likes you...”
”Can we keep it? Can we keep it? Can we keep it? Can we keep it?”
”You're asking me??”
”Well... You are the older sister...”
”He... Won't try to eat me right...?”
”No... He only eats sea-food...”
”... You know what he likes to eat...?”
”Among... Other things... While we were combined i could see into his memories... He actually is just a baby that was abandoned.”
”Oh, poor gu- Wait, baby?? This thing can get even bigger??”