Recudor: Feared Wolves Den

The wolf, wounded by RD, dies almost immediately after releasing its grip, before being torn away by shadow spikes, giving RD barely enough time to move a safe distance away from the spell. Shortly after,  one of the other wolves gets also impaled by the Doc's spikes right after getting hit by a bolt from Airgetlam.

The remaining two wolves back off, growling and snarling and make a quick escape into the forest, narrowly avoiding another of Doc's spikes as they duck into the brush.
The growling can still clearly be heard among snapping of twigs and rustling of leaves and bushes as the two wolves continue to stalk around the group but eventually grow quieter as they slowly move away.

Richard watches the wolf occupying the space behind the Doc take a bolt in its throat, and assumes Air was the one who placed the shot. As he turns back to the next targets, Atrium yells out in anger and lets off a big attack that RD barely avoids being in the immediate vicinity of. Richard leaps back as most of the area is engulfed in shadow and both the wolf who had bit the Doc and the wolf who was wounded due to Air's bolt were skewered by numerous 'spikes'. The last two wolves opted to retreat before facing the same fate.

Richard wasn't sure which irritated him more, the fact that the Doc attempted to kill his target or the fact that the target along with another wolf were fleeing. He found himself resisting every instinct his body wanted to follow, track and eliminate the enemy; gripping his blades tight enough to make even his dark fingers go red as the sounds from the fleeing wolves become fainter. He begins to relax somewhat and is able to rein himself in, allowing his logic to take control once again. Richard sheathes a blade and helps the Doc up and over to a nearby tree, propping the man up against it somewhat.

"Heal yerself, Atrium, If ya need any more assistance let me know. Air, keep an eye out fer more." RD says the part concerning Air a bit louder, not exactly sure which brush she set up in, only having a vague idea of where she may be based on the direction the bolt struck the wolf from. He then begins to slowly walk away from Atrium and towards the cavern opening as he unsheathes his blade yet again, hoping the actual goal of the group's escapade lies within, they still needed to find the royal emblem.

"Impressive, if a bit visceral." Airgetlam says to herself. She gets up, walks over to the wolf that caught her bolt and she yanks it out, sticking it back into her quiver, albeit in the separated pocket. She takes another iron bolt and opens the cylinder, slotting it in. She pats RD's shoulder at her power walk pace.

"Aye-aye." She simply says, and looks beyond their current location, in an effort to keep track of the remaining canines. Their show of force definitely showed they were going to be no easy prey - which means they will come back with more.

She turns around for a moment, asking Doc a question.

"Are you ok?" She says, looking him in the eye.

Doctor Atrium puts his back agents the tree and slides down until he is sitting on the grassy ground. He slightly chuckles at RD.

"That's a good idea. I was just going to leave the wound there." He tries to say it with a sarcastic tone but the pain in his leg makes it hard. He looks at the whole in his pants and the wound that is there. That wolf did more then just bite, there bit of his leg missing. "No wounder this hurts like hell." He says aloud. The pain of his leg is severe but not enough to make him want to faint, it just makes concentrating hard.

"RD, you have a spare shirt or rag of some sort on you? I have an idea on how to get the wolfs into a trap." He asks but he frowns when RD says no. "Well, thats alright, I will just have to use my sleeve."

Doc then pulls out one of his scalpels and cuts his left sleeve off. He cuts the sleeve so it is no longer a tube shape but flat, then cuts that in half. He puts on half on the open wound, he then wraps the other half around his leg and uses the scalpel to make a tourniquet. He winces every so often, this old fashioned way of stopping bleeding hurts quite a bit. After a bit, Doc takes the now blood soaked cloth and puts it next to him.

"I am going to need  you guys to back away a bit so I can heal my leg." He takes the soaked cloth and tosses it to Airgetlam. "Make a trap with it. The wolfs seem to be on the hunt, they should jump at the smell of blood."

RD Wades through the brushes and past trees, eventually ending up at a bit of an open space. The cave is still a safe distance away, right across the open area. There is no light emitting from the cave, of course, and RD barely manages to get a glance at one of the wolves stalking into one of the bushes across from him.

Airgetlam keeps a look out, to make sure her and Doc aren't going to get ambushed, but it doesn't seem like anything is close by.

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Richard had already put some space between himself and the doc by the time he was asked.

Closing in on the cave he spots another wolf roaming the bushes closer to the cave's mouth.

RD takes a few more steps, reaching the center of the open area, before he comes to a stop, analyzing the area carefully before making anymore moves.

"Keep yer eyes open, seems there's still a few more skulkin' about." he says aloud as he scans the area for more contacts.

He tightens his grip on his blades as he continues foward tuning all his senses to high gear as he stops a few steps away from the cave's entrance.

Airgetlam walks forward with her crossbow sweeping their sight lines, paying special attention to the treeline and the cave. She stands a good distance from the cave but definitely not as close to the brush. She drapes the blood-soaked cloth on the ground in a way that exposes more blood, maybe representing a larger scent and not something that might be small game. She starts backing away and takes a knee in the brush behind them, and gives RD an "O" sign with her hand to let him know she's ready if anything happens. She hopes Doc will be able to give them some support, since the odds will be stacked against them anyway. She takes some water from a bottle she has and lets some of it pour onto her silver hand, letting it wash away any traces of blood she might have stained herself with from the cloth.

Doctor Atrium watches as his friends walk away from him. He then takes a deep breath and starts to use the forbidden spell. The life from the grass and the tree starts getting sucked out of them and into him. If RD or Airgetlem turn and look, they can see the tree start to wilt and decay right there. As the life flows into him, Doc channels it to his leg. The wound starts to glow white and then starts to close, tissue and muscle being regrown in front of his eyes. When he is done, the tree is beyond saving and some of the grass around him have died. Doc gets up on his feet and test to make sure his leg has been fully healed. He smiles, happy with the result.

"Imagine how useful that spell would be if you would perfect it and not just leave it to me. Think how many people we could help, but since you won't, the spell only works on you. Rather selfish wouldn't you say?"
"Shut up, you know that this spell shouldn't be used. Yes it is good but it has a cost that no one should pay. Now begone, I am in no mood to talk with you."
"I will leave for now...But when you are done fighting wolfs, we need to talk..."

Doc then slowly makes his way to rejoin the group. "Did you set up a trap?" He asks when he gets up to them.

The tree begins to actively wilt, turning grey and lifeless. Brown, dry, leaves fall from the treeline, exposing some of the moons lighting. With some audible cracks and an eerie, almost painful, creaking moan the tree begins to bend over itself. It's a wonder it didn't snap from its own weight.

After the ordeal, the Doc does indeed feel better, if only for the fact that the moon is so strong this night. Since he knows that  casting a spell that strong in any other scenario would have left him fatigued. He makes his way to the others.



There is a special kind of tension in the air, as the three of them wait, with RD being smack dab in the middle of the open. The occasional low growl and rustling of bushes can be heard as the moment seems to draw out further.
Despite RD's preparation for another fight, Airgetlam is the first to notice one of the wolves sticking its head out of one of the bushes besides RD, getting ready to pounce him. RD then spots two more from the same direction he saw a wolf earlier, and can feel the sudden presence of several more eyeing him down from any direction 180 degrees in front of him. Other than the previously mentioned wolves, four more suddenly jump out of the brush, trying to pounce RD all at once.

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Richard pounces backwards not only in surprise at the amount of wolves that pounced out of the bushes before him, not only to give his allies behind him better shots, but to also give him time to reach into his chest piece and pull out his 'echo stone'.

"RAAAAAHHHH!!!" He yells into it, his voice amplified by the stone's properties. Knowing the wolves have sensitive ears he uses the moments he bought to get a grasp of how many are actually around him; getting a count of about 5 with a possible 2 more in the bushes to his right. He grunts a confirmation before sheathing both knives and revealing his great sword in one smooth motion.

Within the next moment RD is nearly a blur, he covers the distance between him and the two wolves to his left in what looks like two strides. Bringing his sword up reverse grip with only his right arm, he divides one wolf's head in two from its neck to the top of its skull before bringing the blade down two handed on the second, in a stabbing motion, and twisting it. He removes his blade from this wolf's skull by stepping on its carcass and tearing it back out. Turning to face the rest of the pack, Richard flips the sword into a forward grip and moves towards the two-to-four wolves that were on his right using the same quick stride as before.

Airgetlam keeps an eye on RD's eruption of fury, answering Doc's question without looking at him directly.

"Trap sprung, we need to get moving." She says, and sweeps her sight lines, noticing a wolf on the far left which could pose an immediate threat to anyone in the vicinity. If it notices them, it could end up harrassing them.

She aims for the wolf's head and pulls the trigger, letting loss a bolt that pieces the creature's cranium, quickly going limp. She pumps the action and looks for another target, noting the wolves that are jumping for RD. She notices two to the side that RD took out, having made some grisly short work of them. As she watches him move to engage the 2nd couple of wolves, she notices two more ahead of those. She aims a bit higher, and tries to hit the body instead of the head, as a head shot isn't as likely from this distance as a body shot. She applies force to the trigger again and fires another bolt, pumping the action again but waiting to see the damage done.

Doctor Atrium narrows his eyes to pick a target. He pulls out a scalpel in each hand and lunges towards RD. He hears something fly by him and when he looks up, he sees that there is a bolt in one of the wolfs side. As he is dashing, he brings up one of his hands that is now covered in shadow and throws out a quick line of spikes to try and hit the wolf that Airgetlam hit. When he gets to RD, He holds his hands up in a guard.

"I got your back. The is at lest two wolf off to your left. If I was a gambling man, I would bed the packleader is in the cave in front of you though." He is talking quick while looking around. He is only loud enough for RD to hear him. "If you need to change, do it now while I still have the strength to keep you at bay. Other wise, I may be too tired to keep you from zerking off to gods know where."

RD takes the first wolf down with ease, quickly dashing after the other group opposite from him. Before he gets there, the wolves nimbly dodge out of the way and prepare for a counter attack. In the mean time, two other wolves go down as the doc makes his way over to RD to back him up. The two of them stand a little off to the side of the open space taking in the remaining wolves. Three wolves are between RD and Doc, and the cave. One between the two and Airgetlam, who is still hiding in the bushes.

Without any warning, suddenly a wolf jumps out of one of the bushes, closest to RD. Using this to their advantages, all the other wolves move in to attack Richard and Dr. Atrium, biting leaping and lashing out at them.
Airgetlam takes aim to get some of the heat off of them when suddenly two wolves attack her from behind. Having been lured in by the smell of blood they try to bite at Air, who has barely enough time to roll out of the way of one of them. Suddenly faced by two vicious wolves and too close to reliably shoot her crossbow, Airgetlam is in danger, as is the rest of the group.

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Richard stops his dash at the two wolves that were right of him seeing that they had already prepped themselves for his attack. As the doc approaches with his scalpels in hand Richard glances in his direction and cocks his head to the side as if somewhat indecisive... as if he forgot who the man is for a moment.

RD watches the Doc kill one of the wolves and seems to listen to the man as he turns his attention back to the wolves before him. He has decided that the man isn't against him, and that's all he really needs to know at the moment.

Unbeknownst to the Doc Richard had already been shifting into a berserk status progressively. His manner of speech had lessened the further into fighting they waded, his last conscious thought, using the echo stone to startle the pack. By the time Doc had gotten to him his eyes were already a blazing red, his left arm taking on a deeper crimson as if his flesh was stained. He barely recognized friend from foe at this point; the organisms around him merely being classified by immediate threat status. The only reason the Doc hadn't been attacked there and then were the final threads of a familiarity Richard retained towards the man.

With no warning a wolf suddenly jumps out from a nearby bush from behind Richard. He reacts quickly only hearing the bush's shudder and getting the feeling of an approaching threat. He quickly steps aside and uses the beast's momentum to toss it towards the ground head-first; it bounces slightly from the force of the throw and RD takes the opportunity to kick the wolf into one of the oncoming wolves, whom had taken the beast's attack as a signal to all charge in at once.

The third of the wolves before him unfortunately didn't get so lucky. It charges forward, around its two pack-mates, who go tumbling backwards with surprised yelps. It leaps forth attempting to get an attack in on RD, only to be met with a roar, as his great sword  is dragged straight through its open mouth. Its violently divided from jaw to tail and falls to the ground in two heaps. Richard doesn't even pay the kill any mind and instead moves to eliminate the two recovering wolves, failing to notice the peril Air is in, fully enraptured in his own blood-lust.

Airgetlam watches RD cleave a wolf in twain long-ways, and she can't help but be impressed and shocked at the same time. She hears a growling however to her rear and whispers an "Oh shit..." As she turns, She jets up from the grind with her crossbow hurriedly and sloppily being slung over her shoulder, and she whips out her short sword she uses for close encounters. She starts running and looks back to find a wolf trying to lunge at her, and she swings at it, half running backward. The blade manages to slice a cut into the wolf's fore shoulder plate, and the blade starts to take in the blood it's been fed. It becomes sharper in the process, indicating it hungers for more carnage.

Doctor Atrium turns to attack the wolf jumping out of the bush but he sees that RD has beaten him to the punch and has thrown the wolf into the other two. He turns then to attack the one wolf that jumped out but yet again RD beats him and watches as he cuts the wolf in half. Seeing that they are doing well, he turns to see how Airgetlam is. He get worried when he sees that she is getting attacked. He turns to RD and tries to get his attention.

"RD! Air is getting attacked behind us! I am going to try and help! Let me know if the wolfs try to fallow me!" He slightly yells at RD but he wasn't ready to the reply. RD slightly turns his head back to see who is yelling at him, then turns back to the wolfs. Doc wouldn't help but shiver a little seeing the red piercing eyes and the angry face RD had.

"It would seem our friend is no longer with us. Should you take him down now while he isn't focusing us?"
"No. I need him to take care of the wolfs. This is the reason we are our here tonight. I wanted him to change so he could let out some steam."
"ARE YOU MAD!? We were lucky that we were able to subdue Richard when he changed in the past. It has been a while since we last saw him, who knows what that beast could of learned!"
"I have a plan and I will take care of it! Now go away!"
"I will leave for now, but I will be back"

Doc shakes his head and refocuses on the fight. He turns to Air and start running to help her out. When he is in range, he channels his shadow and throws it at one of the wolfs trying to impale it with his spikes.

Airgetlam cuts the pursuing wolf. As it yelps in pain and jumps away from her she suddenly feels a  blunt pain in her legs as another one of the wolves as come around her flank and landed a sneak attack on her. She stumbles over the wolf with her full momentum, crashing backwards into the ground and rolling onto her side. To Dr. Atrium's dismay, his first attack seems to pierce through nothing directly above Air. The good part being she didn't run head first into the attack in her panic.

Quickly both wolves attempt to pounce Airgetlam as she recovers from the fall, one of them leaping through the air and the other dashing at her from below.


RD proceeds to the other two wolves, wildly making his way over to them with the intent of slaughter.
Before he manages to get far, suddenly a bright flash strikes across in front of him, with his sheer speed being the only thing keeping him from whatever just attacked him. He dodges the unknown streak, ending up at the two wolves anyway, one of which barely manages to jump away. The other caught by surprise is brutally done in by RD's sword and raw power as he finally takes the time to turn and check on whatever had attacked him before.

A loud howl shakes the forest and before RD is a massive black wolf, the size of himself, preparing itself in a ready stance. The Alpha Wolf. It's eyes are glowing a teal blue and with every laboured breath blue liquid flames gush out its mouth, dripping to the floor below. It paws at the ground, getting ready to strike, each hit sending out small waves of blue flame. From behind it an only slightly smaller white wolf with crimson flames suddenly dashes past it, and RD with such speed he barely has time to react and sidestep it. As it moves past, RD can feel the immense heat coming off it, but doesn't have time to think about it as the Alpha Wolf lunges at RD, fangs and claws first and wrapping itself in blue flames.

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Richard side steps the white wolf; its crimson flames enticing his eyes, trying to draw him into a distraction as if they had a mind separate from the entity they rose from, but he resists. RD never takes his eyes off the Alpha, whose very veins seem to course with the same azure fire it wreathes itself in. It lunges forth in a blanket of fire, its claws and fangs making the visage look like something straight out of the abyss.

The image causes Richard's blood to boil, his adrenaline kicking into full gear as a sadistic grin appears on his face in reaction to the approaching challenge. He rushes the lunge, dipping slightly down and bringing his sword up on the underside of the wolf. He grazes the beast as it passes, but is unable to put enough momentum into his blow, and the cut does not bite deep enough to cause any serious damage. Instead of dwelling on his failure to actually do real harm to the beast in what could only be described as a perfect situation to do so, he moves to take down the wolf whom escaped his wrath earlier, only for a white and crimson blur to approach him at an absurd speed from his right. This time he expects it though, the sudden dash towards the remaining normal wolf in their midst was merely a feint in order to goad it into another high speed pounce.

Richard quickly turns to face the white wolf, who is pouncing at him claws and fangs at the ready, and swings his cleaver with two hands at an upward angle. This blow connects with the beast's leg, not severing it but definitely wounding it, which RD mused would slow it down somewhat. Richard can't help but chuckle at the wolf's misfortune, he's truly enjoying himself now...He quickly exchanges a glance with the more neutral of the three wolves who seems to be backing off, wary of RD's formidity, possibly waiting for the two elemental beasts to weaken Richard before it mounts an attack of its own.

Richard focuses his attention back on the Alpha who is now already in the midst of another charge, this one seems a bit more focused though...RD prepares himself to dodge but the black lupine zig zags its approach as if it had already considered the move and stands on its hind legs as it reaches him, opting this time to force Richard to block its claws.

Having no option but to do so, Richard is held standing in one spot under the wolf's immense weight as it bears down on him, gnashing its fangs in an attempt to get a bite at RD's throat. The black beast's white hot saliva makes pock marks in Richard's armor as he finally forces it back with a sudden shift in weight to throw it off balance, followed by a swift kick to its ribs. Richard doesn't come away unscathed though, his upper left arm sporting a steaming new gash the onyx creature managed to inflict as it was forced back.

Richard hops back a few steps to catch a quick breath and reanalyze the situation now that all three wolves are before him. He barely seems to even acknowledge the injury, rotating his shoulder and stretching the arm as if it merely needed to be loosened. A crimson gleam in both eyes and a sinister grin on his face, he lowers into a three-point-stance as if he was becoming a beast himself and charges the pack once more.

Air quickly recovers from the roll and looks onward as two wolves rush her. She prepares for the incoming attack.

"Doc, bottom one!" She yells to him so at least they can coordinate. As she says so, she backs away and readies a punch with her silver arm, jetting it in a screw-like motion into the creature's face, and follows it with a quick stab with her short sword at the creature's throat. She stabs it again, a gush of blood squirting from it's throat, and she prepares for the next wolf by keeping her short sword bladed edge facing the second wolf, though Doc should be able to slice into the beast whilst it's preoccupied with her.

Blood drips from the blade, and it's edge becomes ever more keen, hungering for more of the life-liquid that it has tasted.

Doctor Atrium frowns deeply when the attack misses one of the wolfs. He keeps charging at full speed as he hears Airgetlam tell him what wolf she wants taken out. He shifts his direction and dashes head long to his new target. He quickly throws out the two scalpels he was holding and watches as they fly straight into the side of the wolf. The beast lets out a yelp in pain as they stick to its side and turns to see what just attacked it. Using the moment of confusion and finally being close enough, Doc channels the shadows underneath the wolf and makes five tall spikes come out and skewer the beast. He cancels the spell and the dead wolf hits the ground with a thud.

Doc then turns his attention to Air to see how she is doing. He smiles slightly to see that she is ok. He sees that she is sitting on the ground and he hustles over to her to let her know what is going on with RD. He gets down so he is next to her and face level. He sees her leg wound and gets worried but doesn't panic.

"Are you ok?" He says in a low voice. He looks off in the distance and watches RD fight a bit before he turns back to Air.
"I am just going to take your wound and heal it and is much faster that way. While I do it, I need to explain what has happened to RD."

Doc puts one hand on her bite and puts the other on his leg. His hands glow and to Air it feels like someone just ripped the bite like a band-aid. Doc bites his lip and just endure the pain. He looks at her leg and makes sure that it looks good and when her leg it wound free, he gets to work on healing his leg. As he does so, he is looking up at her to talk.

"The man over there fighting is no longer the man we came into the woods with. The man fighting the wolfs is more or less a beast. I can't go into the details but the more angry and stressed RD gets, the more he becomes a bezerk. There are about ten levels of bezerk and right now he is at a seven if I had to guess. He no longer sees things as people, animals, friends or even family, He sees things as threat levels on a scale of one to ten. The wolfs right now are a level seven threat that he sees. When he is done with the wolfs, he is going to look for other threats to make sure they are all eliminated. That means he is going to find us and when he does...He is going to try and kill us. You must not let him see us until he has killed the wolfs. I am going to need time to make a plan to take him down. As I have said, I used to travel with him so I know how to stop him. That being said, it isn't going to be easy. RD is faster and stronger than he normally is. If you try and help RD by shooting a bolt at the wolfs, he will find it, the bolt I mean. Since RD doesn't use range weapons, your threat is going to go to nine. He is going to ignore the level seven threat wolfs and go after you, then he will see me. I am the highest level threat any time he changes. Not only do I have range, I also have magic and I have stopped him before. I will be his main target."

Doc takes a moment to look at the bite. He has healed most of hit but he isn't fully healed. He looks up at Air.

"I am sure you must have a million questions. We will answer them later but right now, I need to finish healing my leg. If you have any tranquilizer bolts, you should load them up now. We are going to need to slow him down. Air, I need you to prepare for one of the hardest fights you have had."

Both wolves split from RD, leaping around him in a circle before one of them pounces RD from one side and the second from the other. He manages to avoid both just narrowly, but they immediately turn and are already on him, attacking once again from opposing sides, this time anticipating the slight juke. The black wolf attempts to raise itself over RD again as the white wolf mimmics its action. Though the wound at its leg causes it to slip and go for a low tackle instead, with small bursts of flame emitting off each of the wolves as they close in to RD. At this point the white wolf is at a clear disadvantage, thanks to Richard's earlier efforts, though its unknown how the alpha would take advantage over the situation should RD act on its mate's weakness.



With quite some effort and strain, Doc begins healing the wound. Fortunately due to the moon's alignment, it goes by faster than it normally would, but he will need a bit more time before the wound is healed enough to use to the fullest reasonable extent. Airgetlam on the other hand barely feels more than the response to physical trauma, with her wound completely gone and no more than an irritation left.

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* Checkmate
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This sentence gives any player the right to remove the combatant out of play for the remainder of a fight, or permanently.

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Richard grins as the black beast attempts to force him into another guard stance, finding it a fatal miscalculation to think the same move would work a second time. With a antagonistic chuckle RD, instead of trying to dodge or defend against the attack, lowers himself to rush under the black wolf's upper body and stabs his sword towards its underbelly, this time not only going for heavy damage, but a flat out kill; and forcing the white wolf to consider being crushed by the Alpha's failed attack.

Airgetlam nods to Doc, confused as to where the bite wound came from.

"I swear I.." She began but it would be of no use now, so she ceases speaking. She opens up her crossbow now that they're relatively safe for now and she removes two sleep bolts from her quiver and slots them into her crossbow. She looks back up at Doc and asks a simple question before leaving to a safer location.

"Will a surprise punch to his head do the trick? Maybe if it's from me?" She says with a smirk as she hoists her silver arm. As soon as she gets her response, she activates her stealth device and sneaks off to another bunch of bushes and checks the location, seeing that it is safe, and then deactivates her device, lying in wait, watching RD do his work in his rage, and Doc getting ready to fight more wolves, or subdue RD if and when necessary. She analyzes how she could possibly deliver the syringe bolts, He might be a bit fast for her in this state.

"No Air wait!!" Doctor Atrium tries to yell at her in hushed tone but it was too late, Airgetlam has left him. Crap, this is far from good. Air is going to get herself killed if she tries to punch him. He looks down at his leg to see how the healing is doing. This is taking too long!

Doc looks out to see that Air isn't just running over and trying to punch RD. He hopes that she takes his advise and waits for RD to kill the wolfs before she goes out and attack.

"This is taking to long, it would just be faster if I sured the cure all."
"NO! You have used it once tonight! You know that the more we use that spell, to more it makes he notices! I do NOT want to see him tonight!"
But if I don't, there is a good chance that Air will get hurt!"
"You warned her didn't you? It isn't your fault she didn't listen. You need to stay and heal normally, you are almost done."

Doc sighs. He know that Jericho is right, so he keeps healing.

Airgetlam moves unnoticed between bushes until she's found a suitable spot to hide at. She watches as RD and the wolves fight for their lives, each combatant in their own mixture of rage and insanity as dashes and blows are exchanged. Every force trying to overpower the other.

As the two great wolves swoop in to force Richard into a corner, he reacts with his intense speed, seemingly ignoring the staggered white wolf in favor of countering the black beast in mid lunge for him.



With a sharp yelp the black wolf flings over RD, towards it's white counterpart who only narrowly manages to avoid being crushed by the immense weight of the creature. The white wolf rolls under the other and quickly staggers back into a dash, pouncing at RD who manages to just barely block the incoming attack- and then the next, as the white wolf immediately turns and spins past him like a screw, orange flames dispersing everywhere. The black wolf slowly stands, a small distance away from the two fighting, blood and azure flames gushing out of the side of its belly. It huffs,  with more flames flowing out of its mouth and dripping to the ground before giving a deep loud howl, the power of which seems to be shaking the forest and mountains and forcing the fighting pair to part away from one another as each fights to hold balance. Fortunately, while painful to the ears, Air and Doc aren't thrown off balance by the howl.

As RD recovers from the sudden unexpected deafening noise he takes in a scene of empowerment. Before him the Black wolf is standing on all fours, staring Richard directly into the eyes with murderous intent. From the white wolf laying beside it, orange flames slowly start to trickle up to the Alpha, slowly merging with its Azure burning furr, coating the whole thing in strong flaring magenta flames. As if unscathed by RD's blow the wolf towers over him, now easily bigger than his own size as its grown through the boon of the lesser wolf, who now stands weakened by its side, flashing its teeth, still eager to fight, though all of its fire gone.

The two stare at the raging Berserker in front of them, waiting for an attack.


Having in the scene in both fascination and horror, Doc turns his attention back to the wound he has been healing all throughout the remainder of the fight. His leg seems to be in reasonable shape. He will be able to fight although it's still not quite perfect.