33 Risen#re

'Zip, zap'

The lightning crackled.

'Zip zap'

The lightning snapped.

'Zip zzzz…'

The lightning failed to pop.

The lightning coiled around the metal object.

The object held visible cracks forming a web on the flat part of its metallic surface, its edge had become chipped and bent, but the lightning coiled in those cracks.

Lurking and unwilling to let go, it knew the blade it was on was useless now, but still it continued to seep within as it listened to the blade's tales of its master.

It slaughtered hundreds in its first bout and it was also broken, it was only to be expected, the blade was not made to be wielded by a true master.

The blade knew it was unworthy of its wielder but still it wished to be held and be of use once more, it was it's only wish, to return to those master full hands.

It lay buried in the ground beneath the fallen land, a thin stream of water rolled over its broken handle that snapped in the fall.

Yet still lightning seeped in between the cracks it could feel the blades determination to return and so the wilful lighting continued to do the only thing it could, it crackled, it snapped, but still it failed to pop.

It didn't know what was missing but it knew that the answer would come its way.

---

Lirian and Edith slowly stirred, their naked bodies that were as fair as the first snow, were still tightly inter-twined and joined together.

Edith was the first to open her eyes, as she looked at him everything they had done last night had come rushing to her head, and the only thing she thought was that it was magical.

They had gone over and beyond her wildest imaginations, every girl she knew had probably had a few fantasies about doing it with Lirian, and she'd be lying if she said she didn't, but that night was completely mind blowing for her.

They did it so many times that she lost count, and Lirian would do this strange massage on her that removed all the soreness in seconds, while getting her ready for the next round.

The only thing she lacked was stamina, but a few minutes of rest was all she needed to restore herself.

But most of all was the feeling when he was inside her, it was so perfect like they were two pieces of a puzzle that belonged together, even now she slowly wiggled her waist in joy, as that full erect member filled her up.

She could tell that he was awake and ready to go for another round.

There moans soon greeted the air and after an hour of blissful fun they unwillingly pulled themselves apart and got dressed, they had a lot of work to attend to, and it would keep them apart for most of the day.

When they came back to the base they walked hand in hand, and Edith noticed a lot of them starring at them, as soon as she looked at someone directly they would turn away with reddened faces.

'Did they see or hear us doing it?" she wondered but she held her head high and looked around proudly.

She was made into a woman last night, and if any girl knew the details of what she experienced, they would die of envy and every boy that looked at her would probably be to scared to even think a sexual thought about her, especially after they saw what Lirian could do.

It would be an instance death sentence for them if Lirian heard someone discussing his woman like some object.

They quickly got to the commanders tent and began to discuss what they had to do now, two of the fifty men tents were buried in the dirt and a lot of their weapons had been badly damaged during the battle, the good part was that with the guardian of the forest dead, no other creature would come near them.

As they spoke Edith was especially happy that there seemed to be no nervous tension between them and Lirian was also a lot easier to talk to all of a sudden, and he was being less snarky and rude when she gave a bad idea.

The only thing that was saddening to her was that he wasn't trying to rip of her clothes, it would appear that he wouldn't allow himself to lose control of his desires when they were busy, but she could tell that he was constantly getting distracted for short periods, and she and an idea of what it was that made him loss focus.

'He's thinking about what we did last night, he's thinking about what he wants to do to me tonight,' she thought with a naughty smile as she spoke with him.

She had every intention to make him loss concentration and play with her a little more.

---

An hour after they came up with a plan to fix as many problems as possible the people in charge of communications between the two exploration groups and the main base arrived.

Each team consisted of five warriors and two mages and most importantly the psychic, every day they would come back with new pieces of the map that needed to be added, and they'd report anything that needed to be reported in person.

But today when they arrived their entire group stopped, with looks of utter shock and horror on their faces.

"I'm not dreaming or having a nightmare am I," the psychic Meana asked in a loopy voice, just the sight of what she was looking at was making her feel lightheaded.

"Jasmine please pinch me, so I know this isn't a dream," one of the boys said turning to a mage in their group.

He didn't need to ask twice, because he got a lot more than he asked for, as the short and sweet girl Jasmine happily slapped him as hard as she could.

He held his face and spun around; he was a warrior, so the hit didn't hurt much but when he looked down again the sight was still there.

"The waterfall!" one of them shouted, "It used to be over there!" he cried out while pointing at empty air a few hundred meters of air.

"How the hell do you destroy an entire waterfall!" he cried out, it was true the water fall was completely ruined, now the water simply ran over the newly formed slop at many points the water could hardly be seen because it was being soaked into the ground, and running between large rocks.

"Kallus," Meana said to the boy that just got slapped, "We should go up there and check things out, maybe there are a few survivors," she said, already thinking that the worst had happened.

Kallus nodded and they had to do this, but he'd be lying if he said that he wasn't afraid of what they might encounter if they go up.

They were still looking from afar, so they didn't know if the main group was still alive, they continued their journey doing their best not to show their fears and when they finally arrived they got their first proper view of the camp.

To their relief, the main group seemed to be doing fine and they were in high spirits as they walked around doing tasks, other then looking a little banged up and tired, there didn't seem to be any problem.

The dust had completely settled over the night and they could see that an area about half a mile wide had completely collapsed it even took down part of the base, and on the other side, hundreds if not thousands of beast corpses were scattered all over the place and the entire ground was covered in dried up blood.

As they walked through the camp they heard people talking about what had happened, and the story sounded absolutely ridiculous, they all knew just how scary their commander was but this was unbelievable, they were saying that as an ordinary person, he took down a second-grade rock drake.

But as they walked further into the camp the story was still the same if not more exaggerated they slowly walked up to a group that were sitting in a circle and talking.

"…let me tell you, when I looked at Peta he had completely soaked his pants," the boy was saying, and his friends started to laugh when continued.

"Now, you didn't hear this next part from me," he said raising a finger to his lips and made them all come in closer, "I didn't see anything it was to dark, but when that drake roared, I couldn't hear shit, but I definitely smelled shit coming from Peta's ass," as the boys around him started to laugh while holding their stomachs, the boy looked up and saw someone he knew listening.

"Kallus," he called out to his friend, they were put into different groups, but they knew each other pretty well.

As they sat down the two spoke, and Kallus's friend gave him a full break down of everything that happened, his friend could see the disbelief on his face and only snickered.

"You should have been here to see it, I'm telling you guys, we call these beasts monsters, but when compared to the commander, they are just a bunch of scared little puppies, and if you don't believe me you can ask around," he said getting to his feet.

"I gotta go now, it's my turn on clean up duty in a minute," he said patting Kallus on the shoulder and rushing of.

The entire group got to their feet in disbelief, and walked towards the commander's tent in silence, they didn't even know how to digest what they heard.

From what they knew the only time that the terrain would start to be changed in a battle was when at least half a dozen people of the third-grade fought with all their might.