Act One: Issue #4-Chapter 9

"Go, go, go!" Mother shouted as she, Dilara and her daughters ran for their lives. They looked back and forth while they ran, with panic striking their hearts. "We're going to head back to our mansion!"

"Huh?!" Mother's daughters asked.

Repeating the statement in a much louder voice, she continued, "It's our only way to safety!"

"Right!" Her daughters agreed.

Dilara and her family ran their way as fast as they could, yet they noticed their enemies were not only stronger, but killed the majority of the soldiers at the sanctuary camp. Those monsters were closing in to take over the camp. Dilara needed to find another way for herself and her family to flee to.

Dilara scanned her surroundings for another path while she ran, another way to lose those things. Yet she had yet to find it.

"They're getting close to us, Mother!" Ingrid cried.

"I know!" Mother agreed in a loud voice.

"What are we going to do, Mother?!" Shakila asked.

"I have no idea!" Mother began to have a look around. "I'll think of something!"

Then one of the flying monsters flew downward and blocked Dilara and her family's way. It roared at them and Mother and her daughters screamed, trying to run for their eyes.

While Dilara sighed calmly and was about to aim her palm at her enemy, the monster already stabbed Mother on the chest and Mother collapsed to the ground.

Mother's eyes remained open with some blood oozing on the ground. Ingrid and Shakila screamed at and kneeled down at the corpse, as their tears were raining upon her; Dilara just frowned at the corpse.

Oh, no! That monster just killed Mother before I even get a chance to attack it! Damn, that monster!

Dilara turned to the monster and glared at it. It was definitely going down for sure.

Before that monster even got a chance to stab one of Dilara's sisters next, she immediately aimed her palm at it and calmly chanted her spell. She hoped it works this time. The white light blinded the monster and made it scream in pain, disappearing in black dust. Although she was glad that it worked this time, she hoped it didn't become weak again like it did last time.

Dilara turned to her sisters and pulled them up away from the corpse. "C'mon! We gotta get out of here! One of those monsters will kill us next if we don't get a move on!"

They wouldn't budge, no matter how many times Dilara tried. She just couldn't make them move, which made her both frustrated and impatient at the same time. Her sisters were just as stubborn as Mother.

"C'mon, c'mon, c'mon now! We don't have much time left! Jus' hurry up and get goin' already!" Dilara cried while she shook one of them.

Nothing could make them budge until the monster's roar echoed to the left of Dilara and her sisters. They turned to that monster's sound and saw a land beast gazing at and heading towards them.

Dilara's sisters gasped and wiped the tears out of their eyes, standing up from the floor. They gazed at the thing as it moved closer to them.

Dilara was preparing to aim her palm at the monster, until the flying monster roared at her and her sisters from above. They looked up at the sky and saw the monster charging towards them in speedy light.

It was impossible for her to chant the spell since it was too quick for her. Her sisters screamed at the monsters while Dilara shouted, "Run! Quickly!"

Then the blue laser shot the flying monster and made it explode into black dust particles. Turning to where the blue laser came from, they saw a wounded soldier shooting his gun at the land beast when it was about to charge Dilara and her sisters.

The wounded soldier turned to Dilara and her sisters. "Go on! I'll take it from here!"

Dilara and her sisters grinned at the soldier and shouted, "Thank you so much, sir!"

"You're welcome. Now go!" The soldier was on the lookout for an incoming monster.

While Dilara's sisters shook their heads and were ready to leave, Dilara turned to them with her hand up, wanting to heal the soldier's wound as a reward for saving her and her sisters. "Wait!"

Her sisters turned to her in confusion. "What?! What do you mean, 'Wait?!' The man says we have to go!" Shakila roared.

"Yea, we don't got all night, you know!" Ingrid also roared.

"I know that, but…" Dilara turned to the wounded man and gazed at his wound on his leg. "I want to heal his wound as a gratitude."

The soldier turned to Dilara and grinned at her. "Look, I appreciate what you're trying to do, but please don't worry about me and get out of here, okay?"

"But-" Dilara frowned when she heard him say that.

Then Dilara's sisters turned to one another and back at Dilara. Shakila walked towards Dilara and grabbed Dilara's arm, pulling Dilara forward. "C'mon now, Dilara! You heard what the man said! Let's go!"

Dilara didn't bother to resist. She ran with her sisters towards the mansion, hopefully to survive this hellhole. She turned to the wounded soldier and saw him fired his gun at the monster, seeing him get killed.

Her tear slid down on her cheek while she frowned at that soldier. She hoped and prayed to the gods would allow him to get to Heaven in her head.

She returned her attention to her destination and searched for another way with her sisters. Dilara and her sisters' energy was depleting fast, making them run a bit slower.

They panted with their mouths open and their hearts beated their chests harder, ignoring their pains. They failed to find a new path forward, a new path out of the burning camp.

"Okay, we need to head into the woods and find a hiding spot," Dilara suggested.

"'Hiding spot?'" Ingrid repeated, turning to Dilara in confusion. "Why should we hide? Aren't we supposed to head for the mansion?"

"Yea, but-" Dilara tried to explain.

"Go touch some grass, Dilara!" Shakila roared. "We're going to keep running instead of hiding!"

Dilara growled at and glared at her sisters while they continued running their way throughout the camp. They could barely breathe normally.

These bitches, I swear-

Then the fat land monster blocked their way out of the camp and roared at them, dashing towards them for an attack. It stood on two feet and and grinned at them. Dilara's sisters screamed while Dilara was about to move around Ingrid.

Yet the monster was too fast for Dilara to move, let alone even impossible for Dilara to chant her spell against it. Charging its claws through her sisters' abdomens, her sisters' blood oozed from their wounds and dripped on the floor, causing them to collapse to the ground with their widened eyes.

"Nooo!!!" Dilara cried, turning to the corpses and the monster back and forth. She then glared at the monster when it laughed at her and pulled its claws out of the corpses. She wanted to destroy that thing right now and head back home at once.

When Dilara aimed her palm at the monster, she chanted a spell against it without being calm. The spell didn't respond in her favor.

Then the second monster roared behind her, causing her to turn around. "Huh?!" Dilara cried even more in a louder voice.

This time it was another four-legged beast getting ready to charge at Dilara. Dilara scanned her environment and found nowhere to run away to except into the woods.

The land monster sliced Dilara's hand and made Dilara scream while holding her hand. She collapsed to the ground and looked down at her hand.

A lot of blood exited her wound and the pain dominated it. There was a big scratch mark on her palm.

With a monsters' grunt echoing from above, Dilara looked at both monsters sideways. She saw another four legged monster charging its fangs towards her while the land monster raised its claw up in the air. She closed her eyes to prepare for her incoming death, not knowing if she'll ever get to Heaven or not. She thought she was going to die soon, until the blue sphere blocked their attacks and they stared at it in confusion. Dilara opened her eyes as well after her ears caught a bang.

They attacked it a couple more times before they moved away from Dilara. Dilara smiled when she was alive after all.

Dilara stood up from the ground and tried to touch the sphere, yet felt nothing. Only the monsters felt it. It was strange: she couldn't feel it, yet those monsters could.

"I saved your life one again, Dilara," the same woman's voice echoed above Dilara.

Dilara looked up at the sky with a glare. "Well, thank you for savin' me! I wish you would only save my family members! Why couldn't you save them, huh?! You saved Mother earlier! Were you distracted by something again?!"

"No, I had to assist someone else, someone a bit far away," the woman's voice answered.

"And who was it, may I ask?"

"I'm not allowed to say, nor will you have any time left to remain here at the camp. Forget returning home. Head for the river. It'll lead you to a waterfall. You'll find safety there more than here."

So she'll tell me where to go, but won't tell me who she went to, huh?!

The moment Dilara was about to speak, the monster's roar echoed to her left. She gasped and widened her eyes when she saw two four legged beasts charging their fangs towards her. She pressured herself to hurry and get out of here now before she got killed and eaten. 

Despite her hand hurting, Dilara quickly stood up from the ground, fighting through the pain, and rushed through the woods. She was lucky those monsters missed their target.

Those monsters crashed into one another and rolled over on the ground, crashing into the tent. Hearing their screams of pain, Dilara turned to them and smiled at them out of relief, while she held her bleeding hand. That was too close for her.

When another monster's roar echoed to Dilara's left, she turned to that roar and gasped with her broadened eyes. She spotted a fat, flying monster dashing towards her.

Dilara turned right and dashed her way forward as quickly as she could. Using up all her energy when time passes by, her heart beated faster and harder on her chest.

She quickly looked back and forth and the monster was getting closer. She tried to find a river but couldn't find it, no matter how hard her heart wanted her to do so.

She just couldn't do it. Panicky, she even tried to find a branch to maybe stun it, like she did with the beast earlier. She also couldn't find it, wondering how the hell she would defend herself against that thing. It was clearly faster than her and it was about to attack her.

Dilara looked up at the sky with an angry face.

And where the hell's this woman at?! Did she disappear to someone else again?!

With the monster's shadow casting over me, Dilara looked up at it and gasped. She saw the monster raise its claw upwards towards the sky, chuckling at her.

She jumped forward and the monster missed her. After it attacked her a couple more times, she finally spotted the edge of the waterfall, smiling out of joy as she finally found it.

When she dashed on the water, her feet felt cold and cold and had to fight it out to escape from the monster. She stopped by the waterfall's edge and saw a fog at the end of the river and a pond stared at her from below, from the moonlight.

Shivering, she gazed at it for a few seconds before the monster roared at and got close to her. Looking back and forth one more time, she swallowed her spit and looked down at the pond.

Once the monster got close to Dilara, it swung its claw at her, yet she jumped down and screamed, making her enemy miss its attack. Splashing into the water after her big fall, white foams made a big, curvy circle and Dilara was nowhere to be found.

The monster roared and swung its claw in the air while looking down, before it flew away from the waterfall. Dilara's head popped up from the water and took a couple breaths, searching for a surface to lie down.

She then looked up at the top of the waterfall and saw no flying beast standing there. She sighed out of relief and continued gazing at it. She resumed looking for a surface area to lie down.

Once she spotted a surface area of her choice, which was a circular spot being surrounded by grass, she smiled at it.

Bingo!

Swimming towards her spot, she lifted herself up from the lake and laid there, staring at the moon with her tired eyes, yawning. She was no longer being chased by those monsters.

She turned to her wounded hand and placed her other hand near it. It was time for her to heal her wound.

"Cakoza!" Dilara chanted. The white light glowed on her hand and eliminated the wound. Once it disappeared, her hand appeared to be clean and unscathed under the moonlight, leading her to smile at it. "Good, time to sleep, Dilara."

Dilara blinked her eyes as she was about to go to sleep, deciding to find Rhydian and go out on a quest with her. She finally fell into a deep slumber and prepared herself for the next day.