Maxine charged straight at the Terror Bear that was completely oblivious of her presence. When she was less than thirty feet away from the Terror Bear, she jumped powerfully into an arc. When she was directly over it, she took quick aim and rapidly fired her anti-tank rifle twice into it''s skull. The recoil from her gun threw her an extra foot higher into the air. She heard a beastial roarof rage only after she landed. What?! Maxine scanned the Terror bear with her spiritual sense as it turned towards her. There were two bloody holes on the top of it''s head, but the bullet''s themselves had only penetrated half-way through it''s skull.I should have known it wouldn''t be that easy.
Maxine quickly charged at the angry beast and dodged the first swipe of it''s paws as she began to dance around it. She couldn''t make a single mistake at this range, but if she tried to fight it at a distance, it would charge at her so fast that she wouldn''t be able to avoid it''s attacks. It''s only weakness was that it couldn''t turn very quickly. She was biding her time for a good shot, since she didn''t have very many bullets for her anti-tank rifle. A shot to the body is no good. It may not penetrate deep enough to kill the damn thing.
Maxine aimed at it''s right fore leg at the elbow and put a round into it. Causing it to stumble. She immediately brought the barrel and aimed at it''s eye and shot her rifle again. Maxine jumped back and quickly changed the clip while the beast roared at her in rage and pain.Even the interior of it''s eye socket is this tough?! This is ridiculous!Killing this beast is getting harder and harder to pull off in Maxine''s mind. Until she remembered how it had roared every time she inflicted sufficient pain on it and that she still had the grenades in her satchel.
She was brought back to reality when the bear swiped at her with it''s claws and just barely dodged it. The wind pressure from it''s claws tore her essence armor apart and left shallow wounds on her right arm.Shit! That was close!If that had hit her, she would have probably died. She kept dancing around the beast until it stood on it''s hind legs and slammed down hard with it''s fore legs. The force of the impact knocked her off her feet. Before she could get back up, it had already turned around and was in the middle of a strike. Maxine kicked the ground hard to launch herself backwards. The ground where she had been exploded and pelted her with debris.
Maxine rolled back and got onto her feet. She saw a crater where the bear had brought down it''s paw. It looked straight at her with it''s rage-filled eye. Maxine brought up her anti-tank rifle in an instant and shot it''s nose. It''s tender nose exploded. In that instant that it started to roar in pain, Maxine dropped her anti-tank rifle and pulled out two grenades from her satchel. After pulling out the pins from the grenades, she threw them at the Terror Bear''s open mouth. One of them deflected off the side of it''s face. The other flew perfectly between it''s open jaws and down it''s throat. She didn''t even bother with her anti-rifle and ran. She counted to three and heard a wonderful boom in the distance and a much closer thud.
Maxine spun back around and was dismayed. The Terror Bear was still alive, but it was clearly badly injured as it vomited blood.BULLSHIT!It looked wobbly on it''s feet, but it was still standing barely twenty feet away from her. She heard the sound of the artillery firing for the first time since their battle began and created hundreds of shadow tendrils to wrap around the Terror Bear to render it immobile. She managed togetthirty feet away from the Terror Bear before the artillery barage landed. A thunderous explosion eruptedbehind her and she was thrown off her feet by the shockwave. A dust cloud quickly covered the area around her. I would really like to see you live through that, asshole. She got back on her feet and looked around.She couldn''t see through the dust cloud to see the fate of the Terror bear and used her spiritual sense to investigate. To her horror and disbelief, she saw that Terror Bear was covered in bloody wounds and was about tostrike her.She couldn''t dodge it. She immediately put up her arms defensively and formedmultiple essence barriers infront of her. All of them shattered in rapid succession before she felt the impact of it''s strike broke both of her arms. Maxine was thrown nearly three hundred feet by it''s strike before her back hit the ground and skidded another fifty feet before coming to a stop. Maxine trained her spiritual sense onto the Terror bear. Fortunately, it''s injuries were too severe for it to persue her and staggered a few stepsin retreat before it collasped. A few seconds later, another round of artillery roundslanded around the Teror Bear.Please, don''t get back up.
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The whole fight hadn''t lasted more than twenty seconds, but to Maxine it had felt like a hours long battle. Pain hit her like a truck and she scanned herself with her spiritual sense to assess her injuries. Both of her arms have multiple fractures. She has at least five broken ribs. When that happened, she had no idea. Her back felt like someone took a belt sander to it and she has gained a collection of cuts and bruises over the majority of her body. She didn''t think she could move even if she wanted to. On a more concerning note, her essence was draining fast due to her injuries. It was making maintaining her essence armor very difficult. She really didn''t want to give the person who comes to investigate her a full view of her figure.
She just laid there motionlessly until she heard the sounds of people running to her to her right. She turned her head and saw Amanda with a lot of soldiers right behind her. When they got closer, Amandastopped and looked at her cautiouslywhile the soldiers spead out around Maxine.She was beginning to wonder what was going on when she saw a couple medics carrying a stetcher. She opened her mouth to speak, but the pain from her broken ribs flared causing her to whimper.
Apparently, Amanda thought it was a whimper of fear and attempted to soothe Maxine. "Don''t be afraid. We are here to help," Amanda said as the medics approached her. Maxinehissed in pain when the medics picked her up to put her into the stretcher. They grabbed ahold of the stretcher and carried her off. To where, she did not know.
After a few minutes while enroute to their destination, Maxine couldn''t maintain her essence armor anymore and watched helplessly as small streams of smoke sprang up to reveal patches of her skin. She didn''t want to be seen naked by all of these men. Fortunately for her, it was starting on her legs and arms and it was going slowlybecause she was resisting it. Shewas carried into a tent and placed on a bed. Afterwards Amanda came overwith a blanket and covered her over. She was grateful Amanda had thought to do that.
Amanda said a few words of comfort before going to get a doctor. Maxine released her essence armor rather than waste any more strength trying to maintain it. She closed her eyes to rest because she knew that this horde was onlyfirst of many and it was only going to get worse.