Back in the abandoned shed, things were really getting heated. "You think you can defeat my mighty axe with a simple sword?", questioned Patrice as Craaq circled him with his weapon pointed straight at him. "I'm not doing this for my own gain, this is for my friend and superior who helped me come to terms that I'm different, something you goons refuse to do!", declared the anthro bunny. Allowing his short legs to move freely, he charged at Patrice, clashing with his axe.
"Tch, you're so strong yet so deranged for a little man!", remarked Patrice as he swung his axe toward Craaq. "I'll never understand you people, why must you hurt those for your twisted justice?!", exclaimed Craaq, he began to get frustrated, aiming for his opponent's chest. "AHH!", the young man screamed as he desperately tried to strike Patrice. "So easily offended, so easy to defeat...", commented the taller man. To Craaq, Lin's lust for power was clear in his subordinates.
"I have to win, that's the only way to make them understand that I'm on the right path!", countered Patrice, hitting the blade with more force than before. Craaq gave a smile, "Fighting won't change your path, or mine for that matter! You should rest and think of your mistake before it's too late!", he replied, much to Patrice's surprise. "There's a man in my life that would never let ongoing frustration get the better of him, smiling through the pain.", added Craaq. He wasn't simply fighting for himself, or Fleur, but Aster, the man whose confidence he wanted to match.
On the other side of the room, unbeknownst to Craaq's admiration of her, Fleur was trembling. "K-keep stalking me...I-I can take you...", she stuttered, terrified of the trio stalking her. "Three against one...", the first of them murmured. "What are you going to do, little Fleur?", the second added. "Too scared of a simple battle?", the third then questioned in conjunction with their teammates. The elf girl shook, clutching her sword tightly.
"My friends, they're fighting for me, why can't I fight for them?", she thought to herself. Her face got tighter and tighter, barely keeping track of the group she was battling due to her blurred vision. Her breath quickened like an antelope running from a cheetah, knowing full well she was going to die if she didn't act fast. At the slightest sign of movement, she rapidly jabbed her sword at the disturbance. To her luck, she had stabbed one of the stalkers right in the head.
As the chaos went on, Viper witnessed Fleur make her fatal blow. "You're not going to win this one!", she warned her own opponents. "Go on then, chain us up...", the man of the two replied. She spun in a circle, conjuring a chain as she revolved around her space. The clattering metal swooped around, grabbing both of the weapons of the two people. "I'm going to make you suffer for what you've done!", she declared, holding them close to her. "Oh, I'm not scared of you!", the woman shouted, her face getting red as she tried to escape, but Viper bashed the pair against each other, knocking them out.
"This ends now!", screamed Viper. He was heard by Shiva and Sulena, who had already taken down three of thier opponents, but had reached a halt. "I haven't got enough venom to take them on.", commented Sulena. This gave Shiva an idea that would help the entire group, "Sulena, be sneaky and just take one of them on, my plan will handle the rest.", he whispered. Sulena nodded, spitting her venom at one of the weapon users, causing the others to flock to her.
Shiva bounded away from Sulena and set his plan into motion, spreading a thick mist around the battlefield. "Leave now!!!", he yelled so the others could hear him. He teleported toward the exit, hoping the others would follow. "Shiva, what is this?!", Fleur shouted. ''Just run!!!", he stressed once more. Fleur felt hopeless, why wasn't she the one to think of that? For the sake of her life, she ran toward a faint light in the mist, meeting Viper as she left who had found a way out as well.
"Craaq, get out of there!", Fleur emphasised. As he continued to clash with Patrice, he noticed everyone who could still walk rushed toward him. He had no choice but to go over them. He bent his knees as much as he could and bounced over the team of people persuing him. "Thank God for bunny biology...", he thought. Following the others, he shot out the door, closing it with force. "We are never going in there again.", he remarked.
The five of them took a deep breath after witnessing what they did. Fleur stood up, "W-why the hell was I so weak?!", she shuddered. "I was just so scared...", she murmured. Shiva and Sulena looked at each other, "You're not the only one.", Sulena comforted her. "You were also the one who led us to the place with people who knew what was going on.", Shiva reassured. "Right.", said Fleur. She looked ahead toward the mansion in the distance, "I guess we have a lot of work to do, and it starts with the ice wall."