The Ghosts in the Meadow [Ehefra / Julia]

As soon as she pulled out her Funkenregen ability, Ehefra created a second Golem and released arrows that circled overhead like an ever growing halo of bright spiritual energy. Blissfully unaware that she herself had been showing off, Julia thought the same about Ehefra, although she had to admit that it was pretty dang impressive what she did.

Meanwhile the two Hollow that were approaching continued to do so and, much to Julia’s dismay, at increasing speeds. One of the two Hollows looked as if moths had been nibbling at his mask, with some parts missing, and a few minor holes in it. Also it looked extremely pissed. The other one had a few parts that looked a bit singed, otherwise he was just pissed. They now had more or less a clear path and clear sight towards what they presumed were their victims, and increased their speed even further. But now that julia could also see them well, she could aim properly.

Once again she drew the bow fully, charged an arrow and released it with the same mental command as before. Also once again it flew a short distance before it split up into fragments, five of them racing away to the right, five to the left.

The fragments that took to the right had an impressive, and very welcomed, effect. They hit the Hollow that was in worse shape than it’s companion smack in the middle of its mask. The ugly bone white face split right down the middle and the beast fell down, crashed into a young tree, felling it in the process, and remained motionless. The other one, however, had managed to evade the same fate and was now obviously beyond pissed of. He was really angry.

His shape was somewhat a mixture between a bull, a triceratops as Julia knew them from schoolbooks, and a gorilla, while his face was about as attractive as Sloth from the Goonies. Also, he appeared to weigh in at roughly the same as a train and was charging at them with the same speed as one.

“Vorsicht!”* Julia yelled at Ehefra.

In the meantime her hands were already moving, mechanisms that had been hammered into a childs head taking control, bypassing conscious decision making, in favour of lighting fast reactions.
Her right hand had already grabbed one of the Seele Schneider, while her left hand was still getting rid of the bow. With a bright flash the blade formed and Julia sprang into action. With a small Hirenkyaku she closed the distance to the charging Hollow. However, because she had misjudged the distance, she missed his mask completely, ‘only’ hitting his huge flank, when she reappeared. She held the Seele Schneider in both hands, wielding it in a wide arch, cutting deep into the body of the monster, before she came to a sliding stop behind it.

When she turned around Julia was ready to pull out Arti again and fire the Schneide straight through the ugly beast, splitting his mask from behind. There was only one flaw in her plan: Right on the other side of the Hollow was Ehefra and Julia knew the Seele Schneider wouldn’t be stopped by just one Hollow. There also wasn’t enough time to get to a proper distance for ranged fighting, not if she wanted to prevent the beast from literally stabbing Ehefra in the back.
So she pulled out the second Schneider and activated it. It seemed like she’d have to cut her way through this one piece by piece.



*”Watch out!”