Chapter 12

Wendy’s perspective

As Wendy drew her sword and face off Nyx, she noticed Nyx had a smile, something Wendy only rarely saw from her usual expressionless self, only seeing it whenever she was with Alex.

Smiling back, an ominous feeling creeped up on Wendy with that smile but she didn’t heed it any mind.

Excitement filled Wendy’s mind to see how strong Nyx is.

Nyx began by throwing a knife at Wendy, then immediately closing the distance and swung her sword.

Wendy hit away the knife thrown toward her with her sword and blocked Nyx’s swing without much effort because of her being a beastkin because of her physical abilities much more superior to normal humans.

Expecting it, Nyx bent her body low to the ground and did a sweep kick, trying to cause Wendy to lose her balance.

However Wendy jumps away from Nyx’s sweep kick and swings back midair.

Nyx managed to dodge Wendy’s sword and counter attack with a swing of her own despite being low to the ground, then she took several steps back.

There was a pause in which each of them stared at each other, waiting to see who was going to move first.

Wendy's smile grew bigger, being more excited than to fight with Nyx, seeing that it was way more fun than she thought.

“Nyx your strong even though your not a beastkin, let's play some more”

Nyx didn’t respond but a slightly bigger smile and a small chuckle leaked out.

Wendy, as well as being the glutton, is also the meathead of the party, mostly because beastkins are known to value strength above all else, meaning most of them like to fight a lot like Wendy.

Getting some distance, Nyx took out 3 spikes out of the holster on her left thigh, she threw them at Wendy.

Wendy, with the agility of a beastkin, avoids the spikes Nyx had thrown, causing the three spikes to miss and hit the tree that was behind her.

Nyx throws more spikes as Wendy is moving to attack, seeing an opening when Wendy has to focus on parrying away the spike because each spike being thrown is becoming harder to dodge or parry for Wendy.

Once spike managed to graze Wendy's cheeks, causing a bit of blood to flow out.

As Wendy hit away the spikes, Nyx moved in and thrusted her sword toward Wendy. Wendy at the last moment, parries away the thrust and counter attack with several swings of her sword, using her being physically stronger than Nyx to her advantage.

However Nyx, being more adept with the sword, manages to push Wendy several steps back with her sword play.

Then Nyx threw several more spikes at Wendy, Wendy barely being able to get out of the way, having to roll on the ground at times to not get hit.

Switching to knives once Nyx had run out of spikes to throw. Like the spike Nyx had thrown, each throw became even more accurate and harder to dodge or parry for Wendy.

A couple of small cuts from near misses cover her body and a couple strands of her hair were cut off, including a bit from her tail.

In Wendy’s thoughts, she was thinking about how it was abnormal for Nyx to be able to improve her skills in throwing to an extent that it was hard for her to not get hit after only a couple of throws. Normally, if it was a normal human, there was no way for them to not get hit.

Wendy felt an instinctual chill as she noticed once she saw Nyx’s smile grew bigger and the chuckles became a small laughter.

The knives Nyx had thrown were even harder for Wendy to dodge or parry with her sword.

When she had run out of knives to throw, Wendy had a small sigh of relief thinking it was over because if it wasn’t for her being a beastkin, she would have been a porcupine by now.

“Nyx lets stop, you’ve already ran out–”

Cutting off Wendy, Nyx instead ran toward Wendy not caring what Wendy was saying. Wendy saw Nyx's smile, now a big craze smile like a battle-obsessed lunatic.

Speaking for the first time in the fight, Nyx spoke.

“Hahahahaha, why? We’ve only just begun”

Wendy started running and screaming in terror like when Nyx was sparring with Alex, begging for Nyx to stop.

In the meantime, Rain was quietly observing Nyx and Wendy in amazement by how skillful they were sparring with each other.

Rain was surprised when Nyx was smiling while sparring with Wendy since when Rain met Nyx just yesterday, she thought that Nyx is the type of person who doesn’t show a lot of emotion. But it turned to concern when Nyx started laughing and Wendy begging for Nyx to stop as she was being chased around by her.

Rain trying to stop Nyx by steeping in. Instead Nyx swung her sword at her, causing Rain to run together with Wendy trying to dodge Nyx’s swings.

“Hey Rain, please stop Nyx”

“But I don’t know how”

“I thought you knew each other”

“We’ve only met yesterday and this is the first time I’d seen Nyx act like this”

In the end, Rain was left a sobbing mess on the ground after her legs gave out and seeing her life flash before her eyes one too many times.

As for Wendy, she was still being chased by Nyx and it only stopped when Wendy had to roll on the ground again but she wasn’t looking where she was rolling at and hit a tree.

Now cornered, having a tree behind her, Nyx approached Wendy and pointed the blade of her sword next to Wendy’s throat.

Nyx’s perspective

I had the edge of my sword next to Wendy's throat as she had her back behind a tree. Her hair and tail were disheveled, she had cuts and scratches all over.

I put my sword back into its sheath and looked over to see my knives and spikes were scattered all over the place and Rain was curled up in a sobbing mess.

“Sorry, I’d got carried away their, again”

When I said it, Wendy was already hiding behind a tree, peaking out terrified. I saw her ears were down and tail tucked between her legs, shivering.

“You're back to normal, right?”

“Ya”

I said sorry again, it managed to stop her from hiding from the tree but she is now staying a fair distance away from me.

Then I approached Rain who was on the ground curled up into a ball crying again and smacked her on the head.

“Hey Rain, are you hurt?”

“Is that you Nyx, is it really you?”

“Ya, what do you mean”

Once I confirmed that I was me, Rain immediately latched onto my waist and started crying. I’m going to have to wash my cloak again but I kinda felt like this was my fault, so I let Rain cry till she stopped.

After Rain finished crying, she sat by the campfire to rest with Wendy, who was silently eating the roast Horned rabbit I made for her that was done roasting.

I went to the creek and washed my robe again, then let it dry on a log by the campfire, and finally I gathered up all my knives and spikes that were scattered all over.

Once my coat was dry and I collected the knives and spikes I had thrown, we went back to town.

On the way back, a few horned rabbits appeared, both Rain and Wendy were desperately adamant that I’d not fight. It was a shocking surprise to see Rain wanting to fight something.

When we got back to town and in the guild building, I saw Alex’s party waiting for Wendy.

They saw Wendy’s condition, immediately running over and asking what happened. Maria took out a healing potion and rubbed it on Wendy.

I told them that Wendy was helping me practice, so she became my sparring partner.

Alex had this understanding yet terrified look, while the rest looked a bit confused and concerned. However Lucia, the tsundere of the party, was furious for some reason.

“I was willing to forgive you with hurting Alex but I won’t let it slide with Wendy”

Lucia was pointing her staff directly at me, with her hair glowing bright red.

“I challenge you to a fight”

Unconsciously I was grinning again. I never thought I would fight a beastkin today but as well as fighting a mage, today is filled with surprises.

Alex, Wendy, and Rain were staring at me like I was some sort of bomb that was about to go off when I was thinking about fighting Lucia.

“What’s wrong? Why are you staring at me?”

They all look at me terrified, Rain looks like she’s about to cry again, while Alex and Wendy are shivering with a pale face.

Alex finally spoke up. His face was a mixture of terror and embarrassment.

“You can’t fight Lucia because I’m ummm… planning to take her on a date, since ummm… everyone is working so hard lately, I’m taking all of you individually on a date”

Lucia had a maidenly expression like her anger from before was never there.

Maria and Chelsie have that expression that looks a bit jealous, except for Wendy and Rain who was sighing in relief.

“Anyways we better be going now”

Alex grabbed onto Lucia’s hand and ran off like his life was depending on it.

After watching Alex running off with Lucia, I left Wendy with her party and went to the counter with Rain to complete our quest for today. We evenly split up the money from completing the quest and selling the fur, then said goodbye for today.