80 Dangerous enemy (1/2)

Part 1

”Mmm...? It's just you two...? I could swear you guys would have tried to come with the whole team to save Ashy... I guess you just don't care about her that much...”

”...”

”...”

Daren and Lilith were staring at Rya with their battles stances while she was sitting on a bed inside of the castle's dungeon.

”Even stick-girl hasn't come yet? Is she still in dreamland? Or maybe she simply realized how useless her sister is and decided to just get rid of her.”

Daren was trying his hardest to keep his emotions in check. He wanted to scream about how his team would never abandon Ashley and how they only came by themselves because of the barrier surrounding the castle and also because some of them still needed to take care of Evlin.

However, he didn't want to reveal that Evlin was defenseless right now. The last thing they needed is to have her captured as well.

Information is power, and he needed to keep to himself just how fragile the state of his team was right now.

”You can mock us all you want, but you still have no chance against the two of us at full power!”

”You don't say...? Well, guess I should better run then...”

Drya leaped off her bed and started to walk towards the exit of the dungeon, which in turn alarmed Daren who thought she was going to try and escape again making him rush towards her.

”Wait, stop!!!”

She then turned her face towards him while still keeping her back turned and started to smile.

”Just kidding!!”

Suddenly, several spikes started to emerge from her back and began to piece Daren's skin, much to his surprise.

”Guuuuaaahhhh!!!!”

”Daren!!”

Lilith rushed to his side but the dryad used her vines that were spread all over the room and after grabbing her bed with them, slammed it against Lilith.

”Kaaaahhh!!!”

”Man!!! You guys are the best!!! I could do this aaaaaall day!”

Daren stood up and glared at the demon with ferocity.

”How did you do that? Nothing should be able to hurt my skin aside from blessed metal!”

”Did you forget that demons get their power from suffering? Right now, my good friend Ashy is so deep in depression that she can't stop thinking about how much she wants to kill herself!”

She extended her arms and created a pair of leaf-blades.

”With this much inner damage, no one can hold me down!!”

”Grrrr!!!”

Daren moved with his maximum speed to get behind the dryad's body and knock her out, but the moment he got close to her she simply extended her spikes in an attempt to pierce him again.

”Come on big boy!! Give me a hug!!!”

”Ugh!!!”

Daren managed to halt himself at the last second and got some distance between the two of them.

”Ooe to me...”

She aimed her blades at him and started to raise herself with her vines while moving towards his position.

”I'll come to you!!!”

Daren jumped up to avoid her blades and kicked the ceiling to return to the ground quickly. He started to repeat the process and began to jump all over the place so that the dryad couldn't lock into him.

”Do you have fleas or something? Stay still!!”

Daren was managing to avoid her attacks with ease thanks to his non-stop movement. Drya was so busy trying to follow Daren with her eyes that she didn't notice Lilith approaching her from behind.

”What the...!!??”

Lilith swung her sword down and almost sliced Drya in half, but the moment she was about to, Drya turned her arm into vines and pulled herself out of the way by latching onto the ceiling.

”Close one...”

While she was in the process of moving out of Lilith's attack, Daren leaped towards her and smacked her against the ground.

”Guaaahhh!!!”

The dryad collied with the floor of the dungeon and started to spill some green blood.

She saw Daren looking at her and tried to stab him with her spikes once again, but right after that, the spikes were cut into pieces by Lilith's sword.

”Kyaaaahhh!!!”

The dryad tried to go for Lilith this time but Daren used his speed once again to slash her with his claws.

Drya then realized she was caught in a loop. Each time she turned her attention to one adversary, the other would take this chance to strike her. She was being bounced between opponents like a volleyball. Their tag team was going to defeat her in no time.

”Ugh... I need to change my strategy...”

She saw Lilith coming to attack her again and had an idea. The moment she was about to swing her blade Drya opened her arms and stood perfectly still while the sword was coming towards her.

”Go ahead! Kill me! Let's end little Ashy's suffering!!”

”Ah!!”

Lilith panicked as she realized she forgot this wasn't just an enemy, this was Ashley's body. If she killed Drya, Ashley would die too.

She hesitated and Drya used this chance to attack her with a barrage of spikes.

”Kyaaahhhh!!”

”Heh... Classic!”

Lilith suffered a grave injury. She was lying on the ground with wounds all over her body and making a pool of blood.

”You still can't get over your little trauma cant you? Still too afraid of getting lost in your desire for carnage...”

”I have no desire for carnage you plant-demon!”

”Of course you do! Don't you know? I saw Ashley's memories, I know about your hate towards demons!”

”Of course I hate demons! They attacked me and my family when I was little!”

”Oh, silly girl... That's not why you hate demons...”

”...??”

”You hate them because you are afraid of one day becoming like one!”

”What are you talking about??”

”I'm talking about your silly little traumatic experience where you lost yourself and ended up slaughtering a whole army alone...”

”Shut up!!”

Lilith tried to impale Drya with her sword, but her frustration was starting to make the plant-girl stronger and faster.

”You are afraid that you might like it! That you might enjoy it! That one day you will crave the taste of blood so much that you won't be able to live without it!”

”Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!!!”

Lilith continued to swing her sword wildly but Drya managed to catch her with her vines and brought her very close to her face.

”Just- Like- A- Demon!!!!!”

”Grrrrrr!!!!!”

Lilith began to engulf herself in rage and started to attack Drya with even more aggressivity.

”I'm going to kill you!!!”

”Lilith calm down!!”

”Yeah Lilith, calm down! You don't want to have the man you hate seeing that side of you, right?”

Lilith froze in the middle of her attack right when she was about to swing her sword again. Daren looked at her with his red eyes wide open.

”What...?”

”Oh, Daren... She didn't tell you?”

”Daren, don't listen to her!”

”Yeah Daren, Lilith hates you! She hates looking at you because you remind her of everything she fears becoming one day!”