Defense of a New World

Brights and Night Blade were now far from the Keep. Deep within the part of the forest known as Dagger Fell Grove. All the trees were covered in thick dagger like thorns that would stab and cut you as you past the trees or they fell off. This part of the forest had the lowest level monsters in it but they tended to gang up on wayward travelers. Plus the constant damage from the trees themselves was always a problem.

"Brights, this part of the forest gets really dark, could you give us some light?" Night said looking over his shoulder as he took lead going through the grove.

"Why, afraid of the dark as well? One would think with your head always in that helm it wouldn't be a problem."

Night turned, looked at Brights and rushed him, bringing down a strong over hand swing of his sword. Brights dodged to the left and turned to see a goblin's head split clean in two. "No, I am not. I would like to be able to see when something is sneaking up on us."

"Ok, Ok! Give me a minute!" Brights looked up into the darkness of the forest as he lifted his hands. Magic circles formed over them "Come little ones that flutter by moonlight and make this gloom shine with starlight. Starlit Moths!" As he finished, thousands of little moths fluttered out of the magic circles and into the air, illuminating the forest around them. In the darkness the moths looked like twinkling stars of the night sky.

"You know Brights it never ceases to amaze me the creatures you find to help you."

"Well Night all you have to do is look and you could find wonders in this world you never thought."

Thanks to the light of the moths none of the smaller monster could sneak up on the pair and those that tried were quickly cut down even if they attacked in groups. "Brights does it seem too quiet here now?"

"Ya and I don't like quiet."

A stick snapped drawing the duos attention and they did not like what lay before them, a heard of minotaurs. A foot or so bigger than even Night Blade himself, dull, dimwitted creatures possessing immense strength.

"There are like twenty of the fucking things, really. Just our luck to run into a heard of one of the strongest monsters in the whole forest. What a loud of bull." Brights elbowed Night "Get it, bull?"

A quick punch to the jaw was all he got. "Get with it, we don't got time for your bad jokes. Strength up, Defense up, Block up!" As Night called out his skills he flashed red, gold, and silver. "Shield Rush!" In the blink of an eye Night slammed into the enemy ranks nocking a few down to the ground and pushing the others back a bit. He quickly brought his blade down onto one of the fallen minotaur's head, killing it instantly. Raising his shield just in time to block the war hammer sung at him, Night was sent hurling into the air. He quickly speared his wings to land on his feet.

Quickly drawing his scythe and using it to jump over Night, Brights sored through the air. "Strength up, Agility up, Speed up!" He flashed red, green and then blue as he sailed to the minotaurs landing in the middle of the group. "Full axle!" A blood red wave came off the scythe as he spun in a full circle, felling the closest of the monsters and hurting some of the others. Jumping up and stabbing the handle of the scythe into the ground, Brights sat on top of it as a great sword passed where he was.

"Guardian's Roar!" as the sound attack hit the minotaurs they turned to look at Night and began to charge. "Honor Guard!" A shield of light formed in front of his shield as he anchored himself, taking the hit from the charging minotaurs. "Force Blast!" the energy from the hit the minotaurs caused was sent back to them as a shockwave, staggering them.

"Charger and Blood Crescent!" Brights rushed at the enemies backs, his scythe held high as a crimson light flashed three times, getting bigger with each flash. As soon as he reached them he stopped hard throwing all his weight into his attack splitting two minotaurs clean in half. He nicked a third, hurting it. Pulling the blood from the enemies and forming it into a ball below the second skull.

The minotaur quickly turned, bringing it's great axe down in an over head swing, only to have it bounce off a shield and find a sword buried in its chest. "Your lucky Guardians Roar is still in affect or that would have put you out of the fight till you healed."

"Take it easy Night, I was just letting you get in on the fun. After all, that Full Counter of yours always activates when one of the monsters you agroed changes targets before Guardians Roar wears off." he swung at the closest minotaur caching it in the neck taking its head off.

"Well at least I know you paid attention when I told you about my skills. There is still about 13 of them left. I say we hit them hard, go at them, let me charge so I can hit them with my super tier spell." Stabbing his sword into the ground he took a knee and magic circles began to slowly form around him.

"I love it when you use that spell at night. You got it, I'll buy as much time as I can." Brights threw his scythe toward the now advancing minotaurs. "Buzz Blade!" the scythe spun faster and faster looking like a whirling saw blade as it ripped into the enemy ranks doing a lot of damage. What surprised the minotaurs the most was when the spinning blade curved and started to head back to Brights, taking all the blood it pulled out of the enemies with it.

"Very nice, looks like Blood Crescent is fully charged." He turned to look at Night and saw that the magic circles were half way done forming.

"Well than I best keep wor......" one of the minotaurs got close enough and punched him hard, sending him flying into a tree where one of the dagger thorns pierced his left shoulder. "AAAAAAHHHHHH! Damn that hurts and its going to get worse." Jerking himself free just in time to avoid an axe to the face, Brights rolled away but left a gapping hole in his shoulder. "Everfight!" glowing, the damage to his shoulder closed and stopped the bleeding but didn't heal fully.

"You idiots want to play hard, fine lets play hard 'Hide Sight'!" He then became invisible and quickly made his way around the minotaurs. "Blood Moon Blade Edge!" The blood taken form the fallen circled the minotaurs and slowly began to close in. Any that tried to get out got cut adding more blood to the attack.

"Time to end this. Brights get behind me." Doing as he was told Brights quickly got behind Night just as the magic circles finished forming. "Armor Brand!" a blue dome covered Night and Brights as he rose from his knees. "Lunar god of the night, aid me and smite my foes. Super tier magic Luna Blade!" The canopy of the forest was smashed open and a pale blue blade came crashing down from the heavens and struck the caged minotaurs killing the rest in one go.

After using the spell, Night hit the ground, panting hard. Brights walked over and helped him to his feet making sure to keep him away from his hurt shoulder. "Come on old man don't die on me now."

"Shut up you idiot. Lets go over there to that cave to rest." Night pointed to a cave through a group of trees using his sword.

Brights nodded and started to slowly walk over. Once inside, Night leaned against the cave wall to rest. While Brights took out a potion to heal himself up. "You know I'm so glad that Venrus knows how to make these but I hate that all he makes is God's Blood." Uncorking the bottle and chugging it down with a sigh. As he finished it, it worked its wonders. "May look like blood but tastes like cherries."

As they rested to finish their quest they failed to notice that the in game clock hit zero. They then blacked out unaware of their fate.