User blog:Safnar/MGE Special Ops. Chapter 2

Chap 2

                 "They are working well. The monsters who took the strange men say that are simply full of raw mana and there seems to be nothing else special about them." The succubus said to the lilim she kneeled before.

                 "That doesn’t mean we have nothing to fear. There is one more out there we need to know what he can do." The lilim said. A lich came in.

                 "Mistress. I have examined the foreign materials that the men’s cloths, amulets, and weapons were made of." She said.

                 "And?"

                 "The cloths were made of a strange inorganic material as well as padding that resist projectile penetration. The metals the weapons were made of is an unusual alloy much stronger then steel and the pendants as well are made of an unidentifiable mixture. All of the material seems to soak in magical energy’s. The pendants alone-" the lich held up a pair of dog tags. "Drained a witch of most of her magical power before reaching saturation. Its demonically charged now but I have no doubt were these men come from there is no magic." She said.

                 "So there is still one of these men out there who is highly resistant to magic and trained in fighting styles beyond anything we've seen before... there's no way around it. Put a bounty on him circulate his information call the assassins." The lilim demanded. The two monsters nodded and were off to complete their tasks.

                 I looked around the crumbling remains of the church. This was shit. I didn't know where I was I had no supply’s I had no information on the inhabitants. The only way I was going to survive is if I got allies. I looked at the man I had tied up. He glared at me defiantly. Definitely not. I picked up his knife and waved it in front of him.

                 "I'm going to go now. I can't cut you lose and I can't leave you here to be picked up by that scorpion thing so here's what's going to happen. I'm going to put this in your hands and walk away. You can cut yourself free. Now weather you do that before a monster gets you is up to you." I didn't wait for him to respond I slipped the knife into his hand and walked out of the dead church.

                 "N-no help she's ba-" his cry was cut short. I assumed him dead. If I had known what was really happening I might not have felt so bad. As it was I had just seen something across the road and was far to distracted to notice the scorpion woman carrying the paralyzed hero him her arms affectionately poking him with her stinger as she scuttled away.

                 The jeep in all it’s off road glory sat before me. It was a god send. I ran over and inspected it top to bottom for damage and useable supplies. There were a few MREs in an emergency kit in the back as well as a few other essentials. The outside looked dinged up and scratched but that was probably us, god knows we have been chased from the garage by a hoard of angry maniacs on more than one occasion. I checked the glove compartment.

                 "Lard bless John." I said as I looked at his stash of protein bars. He would kill me for eating them but hell I needed them and as far as I knew... they wanted them alive right? So they would at the very least be fed? I hoped into the front seat and pulled out my spare key. We were all given one because god forbid it something happens to the driver and we couldn't get his key we needed to be able to get out.

                 "Hey what are you doing?" A small voce next to me asked. I panicked but rather than jumping and shouting I pulled my side arm as my militant training had taught me to. But I found nothing but a small cute teen age girl in a pointed hat looking shyly back at me. "W-what’s that?" She asked shaking. I couldn’t let my guard down. This world had already shown me there were things beyond science I had to assume nothing could be trusted.

                 "I'll ask the questions. Who are you?" I said my voice was cold and harsh an unintentional lesson I had learned in training.

                 "P-please I got separated from my group. W-we were traveling here to fight off some strong mamono and w-we heard strange noses like lightning and we got separated. Please I'm only an apprentice magic user I don't know any fighting spells." She said quivering in the seat. There was a thunk outside another of the strange bone spike things was sticking out of the hood. The girl squealed.

                 "M-manticore!" She shouted. I stuffed the key into the ignition and turned it hard. The jeep roared to life causing the girl to scream again and a few more spikes to impale the car. I threw the car in revers and slammed the gas. We stared moving. I cut the wheel and the nose of the car swung around kicking up dirt. Brake and shift to drive. Floor it. We were taking off at top speed the girl screaming in the seat next to me.

<p class="MsoNormal">                 "Shut up!" I shouted as I narrowly avoided smashing into a pile of rubble. The girl clamped her mouth shut. That should be far enough the town was shrinking behind us. "Your group, was there somewhere they were supposed to meet?" I asked. The girl still quivering pointed shakily at a ridge.

<p class="MsoNormal">                 "O-over there." She stuttered. I put the car into off road and it lurched causing another yelp from the girl. We were over the ridge and fast approaching a camp. A small little thing clearly meant for three. I eased the brakes so the jeep slowed to a halt a good distance away another girl with long blond hair came out from behind the tent clutching a long bow. The girl next to me whimpered.

<p class="MsoNormal">                 "P-please let me out." She said. I looked at her and she seemed to shrink smaller. I reached over her and opened the door. She launched out of the car and bolted to the bowmen whose face didn't soften at the return of her friend. Bow still drawn she stared fixatedly at my car. I got out slowly my riffle in my hands. I had it leveled at the girl. Cute as she was the ogre who attacked me and the scorpion woman were both attractive as well and I could see from here pointed ears sticking out of her golden hair. The girl got up on her toes to whisper in the, can't believe I'm thinking it, elves ear.

<p class="MsoNormal">                 "You control this metal beast?" She asked shortly. I reached in and pulled out the keys.

<p class="MsoNormal">                 "It can't even come to life without these." I said calmly. My rifle was still tamed on her. Undoubtedly she had no idea what any of this was. I toyed with a few ideas that I could use should things go bad, but I quickly pushed them assize for the time being.

<p class="MsoNormal">                 The elf didn't like this, can it be called human? It was clearly male but its face showed no outward signs of his inner thoughts. He looked angry and cold. It was a chilling thing to look at no wonder Penny was scared of him, that thing he brought her in. It was strong it had several bony thorns sticking out of its surfaces and yet she believed it was largely undamaged.

<p class="MsoNormal">                 Then there was his clothing. A strange green, brown, and black pattern she doubted she would be capable of spotting him should he hide in some wood somewhere. Finally his head gear. She worried that if it came to a fight that helm would prove as tuff to damage as the monster he rode in. A fight however didn't seem entirely unfavorable he seemed to point a strangely shaped club at her. The black metal worried her but what good would it do if she put an arrow through his eye before he got close enough to use it?

<p class="MsoNormal">                 "Be very carful miss I can kill you were you stand." I said slowly. She tried to hide the momentary flash of fear in her eyes by saying something clever.

<p class="MsoNormal">                 "You could kill me? With that metal stick of yours? How c-" BAM! A single round zipped past her putting a thin slash in the arm of her green tunic the bullet burred its self in the dirt with a distinked thud. The elves eyes were wide.

<p class="MsoNormal">                 "I hope that proves my point for me. Now I'll put mine away you put yours away and we can talk. The elf was shaken. How did such power exist? Well if I can't beat him and he's offering to simply talk... the elf put her bow down.

<p class="MsoNormal">                 "Fine we can talk."