Curse those two-legs! The beast that called itself Agrigon whimpered with pain in the safety of the darkness. It had underestimated them, and now not only was its deadliest weapon taken away, but that cursed human had cut open its left eye! It would kill them, yes it would, once it got a hold it would rip into them and never let go! Filled with rage, it stumbled slightly from blood loss before it got a grip upon itself. It would heal...yes, it would go to its master and he would heal it, just like before. All it had to focus on was killing these two.
As it came closer back to where its prey was, it could see by their light that the two were huddled together, obviously planning something. It wouldn't help them. Agrigon grinned and charged forward with a roar that echoed down throughout the entire length of the tunnels, awakening several other subterranean dwellers in the process. It had expected them to be surprised at the ferocity of its attack despite its wounds, but instead the human leapt back from the draconian and yelled, "Now!"
And suddenly the entire tunnel was plunged into darkness as she plunged the torch, fire and all, into her mouth.
Agrigon blinked in surprise. Had she just committed suicide? No...but how...how had she...Before the bullete could think anymore, there was a giant inhaling sound just before the earth was alit with flame and light once more, and the creature backed up a step as the draconian launched a gout of fire straight from her mouth at Agrigon. It wasn't a massive blast, but rather a focused line of flame aimed straight at the bullete's head.
It was dangerous, but Agrigon ducked down and the fire deflected off the armored hide upon its back. There was a small impact as it struck, and for a moment the creature thought it was a bit heavier than the amount of flame that'd been sent at it, but soon put that out of its mind as it snarled at the draconian. "Was that your big plan?" It sneered, but remarkably, she was smiling. Wait...it looked to the two-leg's side. Where was the human? "Where is..."
"Looking for me?"
Agrigon glanced up with its remaining eye and saw the human standing there upon its back, an expression of cold triumph upon his face. His blade was glowing with light, and lightning crackled around the blade with ominous power. He must have used the darkness for cover and approached it from Agrigon's now blind side, only to jump on the back of the creature when the fire struck. With a cold chill, the bullete remembered the vision it'd had about the two nightmare beings, and realized it'd not been mistaken at all.
"You...you...monster!" It gasped, just as the human lifted his glowing blade in two hands above his head and speared the blade right through its head. The two-leg's glowing blue eyes were the last thing it saw before everything went black.
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Rose watched in wonder as Eric's sword began to glow bright blue and lightning formed around it. Without any hesitation, he impaled the bullete's head to the ground with a fierce, but silent, stab. The only sounds made in the tunnel was the crackling of the small fire that she'd caused in the tunnel, and the wheezing of the monster as it tried to get up, stumbled, and finally collapsed to the ground, its tongue lolling out of its mouth to the dirt floor.
It'd been Eric's idea for her to swallow the flame. At first she'd thought him insane, but he told her to trust him. Hard, but in the end, she fought past her instincts and done as he'd said. As soon as she did, her body felt like it was overflowing with heat, and without thinking at all she opened her mouth with a roar. Flame poured out from her mouth like a giant snake shedding its skin, and cut through the ground to the bullete. How'd he know that she would do that? How did he know more about her than she did? It was as if...she shook her head of those thoughts as Eric hopped off the monster, and she noticed his blade was no longer glowing blue.
"Well..." He said with a weary smile, and he winced as he clutched at his ribs. "That's finally done."
"Yeah." Rose frowned. Was he alright? "You should sit down."
He waved her off. "I'm fine. Like I said, I'll just get a healer to fix me when we get to town."
"That reminds me..." Rose sheathed the glaive upon her back and looked at the monster. "...we need to bring back proof that we killed it."
Eric groaned, and she repressed a smile. "I am not dragging that thing's corpse all the way back to town."
"Relax, we just need a piece."
"Good." He also looked in the direction of the beast, and she saw a smile cross his lips. "Y'know, for all our trouble, I think a measly three hundred gold doesn't cover it. We should reward ourselves for a job well done."
She raised an eyebrow at his words. "What do you mean?"
"Well, that Tobias guy is a merchant, right?" He jerked his head towards the darkness ahead of them. "And he said he left his 'wares' behind. So maybe we should bring some of it back...y'know, be good samaritans and all." His grin grew wider.
Rose got the picture, and she had to admit it had merit, though part of her didn't like the idea of taking someone else's stuff. But that part was small and insignificant, so she squashed it. "What if he notices some of his stuff is gone?"
"Monster ate it." Eric chuckled.
Well. In that case..."I think you're right." Bending down she used the remains of her torch and the flames still burning to make a new one, before stomping them out and looking to Eric. "Let's go be 'good samaritans', shall we?"