25 Gazing into the Nigh (1/2)
Denatro Forest
Previously Yu had been sent running with a tail between his leg, his snake's tail, but an abject defeat he suffered nonetheless, and now he was back, mind set on payback
”Hmm I'm far enough from the roads, this should be a good place to start”
He once again strung those unintelligible words together summoning forth the familiar hexagram from which emerged his companion
”Wuu” ”It's been a while friend”
Yu pats the wolf with a warm smile, one could not forget that it was the wolf that had taken the bite for him that time, even though it could have been because it knew it wouldn't die from it, or that it knew it would die if he was killed, but Yu could tell that wasn't the only reason, the wolf's eyes portrayed an honest desire to protect him, just as he didn't want I to be hurt, their adventures on deaths edge together had brought them closer
”Wuu Wuuu” ”Ahaha sorry, this place is very weird, I haven't seen anyone with a beast so I was afraid to summon you” ”Wuuu” ”How about we have some food and then proceed to kill those pesky bees?”
The wolf shook its head and started walking in front of him, Yu smiled at the wolfs excitement and followed behind, he could partially understand the wolf since it was his Guardian, the Guardians and the Grimoire holders share emotions, and Yu could feel some blame from the wolf probably because it felt bored alone in wherever they go when they enter the Grimoire
Bizzz
”! Here comes the first one, lure it away first, we only want one first”
The wolf nodded and ran with Yu to the periphery of the forest, soon the bee started to slow down, this was evidently as far as it was willing to go, it turned back after scaring the danger
Thunk!
A rock suddenly hit its head, it didn't hurt but the bee was angered by the sudden attack, turning to see the perpetrator waving at it, it burst toward him, such a small creature, even if it stung it its stinger wouldn't dislodge and it wouldn't die
”Okay, show me how you fair against it”
”Awuuuuuu!”
The wolf wailed to the sky and then burst with unprecedented speed toward the bee, who in turn deaccelerated and tried to maneuver around the wolf instead of meeting it in a head on collision
The wolf saw the bee pulling back its stinger as it rotated so it leaped mid run, avoiding the thrust of the bee, using the front paws for landing it pivoted it back feet to the side successfully managing to turn back around to the bee before it managed to adjust its position then it used its now grounded back feet to push itself off the ground and make another leap onto the back of the bee, ending the exchange with a large crunchy bite
”Wow that was aw-” ”Pu Pu Pu” Yu wanted to complement the wolf for its smart and fluid battle execution but it interrupted him by spitting, seems like those bees weren't very tasty
The wolf looked at Yu begrudgingly, as if to say, why didn't you tell me they taste like crap, but he only smiled wryly and moved to the now dead bee, it's not like he ate bees before how could he tell it before hand
”Hmm this is the soft spot that old granny was talking about, two centimeters above the area where the stinger and the body meet, if I cut right into it I should see the stingers shall… Oh here it is, okay now I need to piece it quickly with a small needle like so, okay now I'm supposed to put that huge hollowed needle inside and the poison would come out of the sack just fine…. Nothings coming out, seems like I failed, hmm I'll try from another angle”
Yu mumbled to himself as he tried to extract the poison, seeing him so focused the wolf decided to lure in a few more bees to kill, it had an urge to kill anything since yesterday night, it didn't know where it came from, but it really wanted to kill as much as she could right now, thus she went ahead into the depths of the forest leaving Yu sticking needles into the lower back of the bee…for educational purposes…
It didn't take long for the wolf to find a bee, this one two friends though, but this excited the wolf more, after all one bee could never pose a challenge
The bees who spotted the wolf back didn't waste time and flew toward it, well glided since they can't really fly with those heavy bodies and small wings
The wolf didn't run toward them this time, instead it crouched down and put strength into its back feet again, once the first bee was within a stingers reach it suddenly propelled its feet upward while its front feet were still grounded and it used those to spin its legs to the front, then it used the side of the approaching stinger as a spring board which sent it the bee catering toward its partner while the wolf spun to the opposite side with the help of the kick putting it at the side of the third bee, which it took a bite of much to its own dismay, it really didn't want to eat this bug, but it swallowed its discontent, and the bite, and turned back toward the two now enraged bees
The two bees didn't expect the cunning wolf would use them to jump about they had been preparing to attack it from three sides and so they had sped up to encircle it, but now they would approach it slowly so they can maneuver away if it did something like that again
Seeing the bees slow down the wolf smirked, it picked the dead body by the head and ran toward the them, it then whipped the dead bees body toward the first, with the extended reach of the body added to the stinger it managed to pierce through the stunned bee and the wolf let go, but the momentum carried the two bodies to crash with the third, the wolfs took a moment to readjust itself and bounded toward the last one finish off the faltering bee with a large crunch
”Awuuuuuu!”
Wailing to the sky the wolfs takes a movement to look at its flawless victory, bringing down three enemies within the same rank was not something any Soul Beast could do, even though they were probably low on the star end these bees would still pose danger to other first star beasts, as the star rating didn't make too much of a difference within the Bronze Rank
It started dragging the dead bodies one by on back to Yu, who was already done fundling about with his first try, having extracted most of the poison within a few minutes
Seeing three dead bodies in front of him Yu gives the wolf thumbs up, then starts practicing once again, this time the wolf doesn't leave though as it waited for the bees to follow the pheromones back to these bodies
And the bees surely didn't disappoint for only a few minutes later a bee could be seen coming toward them with clear aggression
”Only one? Hmm we are probably far from the hive right now then, why don't you go hunt once you finish this one, don't worry about me I can handle a few on my own”
The wolf gazed at Yu for several long seconds, enough for the approaching bee to get alarmingly close, before nodding its head and making a sudden flex as it swiftly ripped off the bee's head, spat it, and made its way deeper into the forest
'Alright, I shouldn't dally too far behind'