Tablet Master
Chapter 13
Kellia
Kellia yowled as the molecule of her body spawned from thin air in a mere second. The world was spinning, all sounds warped and her head felt heavy for a moment longer before she inhaled deeply.
"What is your order, Mistress," she said, out of breath. "Why the hell did I say that," she added, shaking her head.
A pair of long leather boots was wiggling to hurry through a narrow hole in the stone wall.
Kellia scarcely notice a grey fur covered tail wiggling in between the boots. The sounds of animals barking forced her to look over her shoulder.
A huge wolf locked its teeth into her throat, piercing her neck as she fell to the ground under the giant beast. The pain was crushing, but her scream of agony was cut short when the wolf ripped a huge chunk of her neck. She gaged and choked as the blood spewed all over. Her vision blurred and the world began to fade.
The animal took another bite at her face.
The pain peaked, but everything went black.
What the hell just happened? Where was I? Was I dreaming? Was this a dire wolf? Why did it attack me? Where is everyone? What am I doing here? What is this place? What is happening?
The confusion grew even more as she materialised again, falling to her knee in pain.
"Gaawwwwsshhiiittt, what is your order, Mistress," she said through clenched teeth.
"Help me for fuck sake," a young female voice shouted. "Stop them!"
Kellia didn't wait to see what was happening this time and generated a sphere of energy around her as she watched her mistress running away fast. She didn't know how or why she knew it was her mistress, she simply did. Her mistress was wearing a long brown cloak with a hood, so Kellia couldn't see much, except for her feet, which she had already seen in the hole earlier, and what appeared to be a long tail of gray fur.
The energy sphere crackled as the dire wolf slammed into it.
She turned to face it, keeping one knee on the ground to counter the dizziness and released a blast of energy. She invested a fraction of her potential, which was enough to kill most human, but it barely scorched the beast.
She shouldn't have been harmed by the beast the first time, yet it did. Kellia was normally unarmed by anything that wasn't either magical or made of silver. That dire wolf didn't appear to be either, yet it had killed her earlier.
'I must be careful,'
she thought.
The creature tried to move through her barrier in vain and ended up circling around her instead, exposing what was coming afterwards.
Three more dire wolves and a dire bear. She squinted in disbelief, but it was still there, riding on the bear's head, she saw a small humanoid creature that looked like an elf with wings.
A fairy?
She thought. "What in Seven's name is happening here?"
The fairy yelled something in a foreign tongue. The first wolf dashed away from her, heading in the direction they were all running to.
"All right then," she said as her head finally stopped spinning.
She was carrying a rifle strapped around her neck and hanging in her back, but as much as bullets were effective, it was nothing compared to her supernatural powers. The rifle would become handy if the wolfs made it too far.
She focused most of her potential to create four long magical tentacles in the form of heavy-duty chains and snatched the first wolf with one before he'd get out of range.
As the other three wolves ran past, she snatched them all.
Her chains had the strength of a hundred men, and so did she, but she still only weighted two hundred kilograms against the weight of four creature each twice as much.
She flung left and right as they struggled to break free for a moment until she managed to lift them all off the ground.
She had one hand and one knee on the ground in a low position, her chains arched from her back with a beast in each, held two meters above ground when the dire bear stretched high and mighty with one paw pulling backward.
"Shhhhhhhhiiiit," she said.
The giant paw slammed across her protective sphere with its sharp claws and she felts its potential reduced by more than half.
The second blow was already on the way.
With little time to ponder the appropriate defense, she decided to slam all four wolves into the bear in a simultaneous attempt to save her skin.
The beasts crashed into the bear all together with force, but the large paw obliterated her defense and the sharp claws ripped her flesh open in multiple spots, all at the same time.
She roared in pain, fueled with all the potential she had left. Her sound boomed so loud it muted the howls and the growls of all the beasts.
The animals crumbled to the ground with their heads between their paws, howling in pain for a moment as she maintained her supernatural roar.
The fairy had fell off the bear and held its ear in pain as well.
She stopped. She looked around, panting heavily, her chains waving idly.
Two of the wolves appeared to be dead, blood oozing from their ears and noses. The other two were still breathing faintly and the bear growled low but looked stun.
The fairy wobbled back on its feet and glared at her. "Who the devil, are you?" he asked before coughing some blood. He looked like a tiny version of a human with long pointy ears, dark brown skin, glowing blue irises, and long dark purple hair. His fairy wings were transparent with a fain bluish luminescence, two on each side, protruding from his shoulder plates. He wore a suit of leather armor, a long sword at his belt, although it looked like a toothpick to her, a few pouches and a pair of red boots that looked like a leaf wrapped around his foot.
"I'm Kellia," she said, panting.
"Why did you stop me?"
"She asked," Kellia said, pointing her finger at her mistress, who was still running away in the high grass.
"Why did you listen to her, she's a murderer and a thief!"
"I... I don't know," Kellia said. "The first time your wolf killed me, so I assumed you were the bad guys."
"Killed you?" The fairy snarled. "If he killed you, why are you here?"
"I... I don't know."
"Well get the hell out of my way and let me catch this scoundrel," the fairy said, climbing back on the bear.
The thought of letting him go caused an annoying pain to course through the back of her neck and the more she watched without doing anything, the greater the pain.
The fairy muttered in a foreign tongue and his hand glowered a faint green as he touched the bear.
The creature woke. It shook its huge head and slowly got back on its feet.
Kellia's chains faded away. She didn't have any potential left to fuel them.
The pain was becoming unbearable, near agony.
She stepped in front of the bear with her arms spread. "No, wait!"
The pain subsided instantly.
