47 Night escape (1/2)

”What is this appearance...?”

”This form is a symbol of the bond I share with my beloved pet...”

”Beloved pet...? You mean that griffin that was sleeping in the living room a while ago? It wasn't enough to try and get yourselves cursed, you even became friends with monsters...”

”Sphinx is not a monster... He is my precious friend... And if your father could see you right now, he would be extremely disappointed!”

”...”

Marcus raised his arms and formed his usual blades from it.

”Every single one of you...”

Using his superior speed he vanished in thin air and reappeared in front of Evlin in a split-second.

”Stop! Talking! About my father!!!”

He tried to slash Evlin in an ”X” formation but she managed to dodge it by jumping backwards using all of her strength.

That was going to kill me!!! If I had taken that head-on I would definitely be dead right now!! I can't play around with this kid. Is what she was thinking.

Marcus was a weird opponent for Evlin. She became used to fighting enemies who would rely on the power of the silver metal such as Boris, the demon-slayers, and several targets of her heists such as the knight from earlier tonight.

She would usually secure her victory by finding an opening and using her modeling magic to change the metal into a weapon for herself. She wasn't sure if that would work on Marcus since his whole body was the weapon, so even if she stole his blade he could just make more.

”Maybe I should try to turn him into a frog as well...? Give Xadi a friend to play with...”

Marcus leaped on her direction with his arms extended and started to spin like a drill. Evlin shot the terrain and created a wall made of diamond to stop him. Marcus crashed with it and a huge impact was felt.

Evlin started to see a few cracks on the wall slowly increasing, and before she noticed, Marcus came out like a bullet.

She managed to partially dodge him but her shoulder was wounded.

”Yaaouhchh!!!”

The attack just barely scratched her but the pain was more than she expected. She wanted to try and catch her breath, but there was no time. Marcus started moving again, this time running towards her like a spear ready to impale her.

Evlin shot the ground again and several diamond hands started to surface trying to grab a hold of the weapon-boy.

He started to slash every single one of them like a shredding machine. While he was distracted dealing with the hands, Evlin used another layer of healing magic to boost her speed and rushed to grab him with her arms.

From her gauntlets, she started to release recreation magic and tried to turn Marcus into something else.

The boy started to glow and shrink in size. Once the bright light had disappeared the only thing in front of Evlin was a small bunny with silver fur.

”D- Did it work...?”

The bunny proceeded to cover itself with liquid metal and begun to grow in size. Evlin started to get flashbacks from the first time she saw the second ”Terminator” movie and before she noticed, the liquid metal had assumed the shape and size of a young boy. The metal started to disappear leaving a back-to-normal Marcus behind.

”That... Was unpleasant...”

Evlin was not enjoying the situation. Marcus was basically her natural enemy. He was a being without fixed shape or form, so her greatest asset, the power of recreation, was useless on him.

”Huh... Would you consider going easy on me if I told you it was my birthday...?”

Marcus turned his left foot into a metal hammer and smacked Evlin around.

”Kuuuaahh!”

She went flying from the impact and as she was about to start falling, Marcus jumped closer to her and struck her again after turning his right hand into a mace.

”Gaaahh!!!”

She was knocked back towards the ground and started to spill blood from her mouth. Even with Sphinx's stronger body, that impact caused a lot of damage. She tried to feel her ribs and immense pain scattered all over herself.

[Evlin, we are all set to go!! Just come so we can leave!!]

She was enduring so much pain that she almost forgot her plan to stall Marcus so that the rest of them could escape.

[Just go now!! The second he sees me trying to leave he will catch on and stop us!! Run while he is distracted!!]

[Evlin don't be stupid!!! He's going to kill you!!]

[Better than killing all of us!! I'm the leader so do what I say!!]

[Sis!! stop talking nonsense and get over here!! You can outrun him!!]

[The hell I can!! This boy managed to keep up with Daren and an armored Lilith! I'm keeping him right here far away from all of you!!]

[Evlin!!!]

[Just go!!! Now!!!]

Marcus started to walk towards Evlin.

”So what about you huh?? What's your story with my father? Were you a candidate too? Or maybe just a friend? Or maybe more? Why not go ahead and share whatever amazing fond memories you two had together that I could never be a part of?”

Evlin was trying her best to keep herself conscious and her stomach was really hurting right now, but she decided to indulge in the kid's tantrum thinking it would give more time to her friends.

”Honestly...? You probably spent more time with him than me...”

”What...?”

”Unlike everyone else... I never really physically met Marceus... I hired a mage to cast a spell that would allow me to talk to him... The only ”fond” memory he and I share together was of me begging him to help me find a way to my own world...”

”...”

”All I could do was spend a few seconds with him in some kind of weird white void before he announced that he was about to die...”

”You... You were in the white void...?”