The Adventures of Rose Hood

We had surrounded Kala and she seemed lost on what to do, though she seemed to stand with more confidence, perhaps because of having Rose’s memories.

“FIRE!!!”

The elves all shot, but their arrows merely bounced off. Without curse arrows, there was nothing they could do.

“Hey, Kala, take this.”

Asura slashed, but Kala was faster and caught his blade.

Celios took advantage of the moment and also struck at her. She also caught it.

“I can’t let you kill me.”

“Well, we can’t let you leave.”

“You can and will.”

Amy picked up a bow, but it didn’t seem like Kala saw that.

“Why, why would you attack? For power?”

“You don’t need to know.”

Her attention was on me, and Amy took aim.

We had one shot, that would stun her and allow us to win.

_

(2 hours ago)

“So, why would you want me to fight?”

“Because Kala will be wary of all of us, but you, even if she realizes you’re from another world, she’d likely make the same assumption that Ausar made.”

“Amy, how good is your archery?”

“Why?”

“Because dragons have one weakness on our bodies.”

“Okay, I’m pretty good, what would I have to aim for?”

“Square in the middle of her eyeball.”

“I see.”

“Can you do it?”

“Yes.”

_

Amy aimed as Kala was focused on me.

Then she shot.

It was straighter than I expected. She was a perfect shot.

It landed directly in Kala’s eye.

She screeched, and we attacked. There wasn’t a curse on it, so we had to fight full power, but we were able to.

Celios and Asura both pushed in their blades and cut her hands in half, as me and Nala charged forward and lopped off her legs.

She fell down and we all converged our magic for one attack.

“Divine Destruction!!!”

“LIFE FOUNDATION!!!”

My eyes widened as she broke into a smile.

We lost.

_

Their blast worked. It obliterated me, until a single cell remained.

“Did we do it?”

“No…”

Only Dallel knew I survived.

My regeneration already was working. My skeleton reformed as I stood up.

“Impossible, that would have killed anyone.”

“Oh, you fools. I am way stronger than you.”

Asura struck my skeleton, but his blade broke.

“Life Eruption.”

My magic erupted, speeding my regeneration to an unparalled level.

My clothes were in tatters, but my body was in full stature.

I smiled as Celios and Nala both thought they lost, but Dallel wasn’t done.

“Life Eclipse.”

He cut off my head.

Then he caught it.

In his hand, I turned to face him. My face turned into the horror game smile.

Magic shot from my body and grappled my head, returning it to its proper condition.

“Haven’t you figured it out yet? I’m unbeatable.”

My mouth didn’t move.

Dallel struck with his full force. With his speed and evolution, he was a match for me.

“I will win.”

“No, you won’t, Dallel.”

My only goal was getting out of there without killing anyone, but they were annoyingly stubborn.

“You’re forsaken Kala, we can win.”

“Oh right, what if I simply removed myself from that system.”

Kala did the work and removed us, now I had my power.

“What?”

“Move or you die.”

They attacked and I countered. I knocked down Celios and Nala. Dallel was the only one still standing.

I used fear, but Dallel stood and looked at me. He coughed.

“I won’t let you hurt anyone else.”

“Alright.”

I battled on equal ground with Dallel. It was difficult to, but I managed. I realized that a single mismove would give him a chance for a proper attack.

His evolution put him on par with me. That’s not good.

Me and him struck back and forth like an ancient dance.

I’d slash his arm, he’d cut my stomach, and back and forth we went.

He sped up, so I did too.

Celios recognized something.

“She’s trying to not cause collateral, why?”

Nala noticed something more.

“She’s not even trying to fight, just to run.”

They noticed. They are Kala’s children after all.

Dallel struck down with a powerful blow, but I narrowly dodged, with it cutting through my torso.

Despite their observations, Dallel was smart enough not to let his guard down for a single second.

Then I felt two presences.

I dodged as Silith and Ausar did a combo attack. They caused an earthquake with their landing.

“You stole my thunder, brat!”

“Oh, please, you slowed my attack enough for her to dodge, Aussy.”

“Can you two idiots focus?!”

The duo turned to Dallel in shock as he just called them out. I snickered.

“So, you are bringing more to fight? How fun, you can’t take me on alone.”

Celios shouted.

“She’s only trying to get out at this point, but be careful, she recovered her memories.”

“Understood.”

“Well, this isn’t fair at all. 4 gods and an altmer against little old me.”

I needed to act as the monster for now, Kala was tiring, so I needed to escape at all costs.

“You won’t be able to leave here alive.”

“And why not? Do you really think you can beat me?”

Silith smiled.

“You are tiring from your restraint, that will leave you open.”

“You want to be a hero my child?”

They looked confused at me.

Then my face dismorphed as I smiled.

“Then die like one.”

I charged at full speed and cut Silith in half. I was getting desperate, and they realized it.

“Think fast.”

I narrowly dodged Nala and grabbed her leg, tossing her into Ausar.

Dallel slashed at me, but I caught it and ripped the blade from his hand, lodging it in Celios’s throat.

Thalia took advantage of my distraction and hit me with the full force of her flame onto my back.

She burnt a hole through my heart causing me to screech, but I lashed back, creating a whip, that dug a major gouge into her side.

‘Kala, I have one more plan.’

‘What?’

She was also tired.

‘It will either kill us, or it will save us.’

‘What?’

‘We need to name the rest of the shards.’

‘That… would escalate our power, but they could also rebel.’

‘I’ll hold them in place.’

‘Then I’d have to fight.’

‘And? Amy is out of harm's way now, so you can go crazy, just try not to kill Dallel.’

‘Alright. Let’s do this.’

I let Kala in control as I returned to the core where the other 9 were sleeping.

I named each one. Expending my mana, but then they awoke.

‘Kala, stage two.’

‘What?’

‘Release us but keep the body and run. We will remain connected, so you can call us back.’

‘Understood.’

‘Rose, what’s happening?’

‘I learnt the truth you now know, but now we need to fight so we can live.’

‘I understand.’

Kala then channeled her power, and all 10 of us launched out and landed.

I was at the forefront, a catkin wrapped in an embroidered drape.

Celios gasped.

“Purity.”

“How?”

“Run Kala, we’ll handle it from here.”

“Thank you, Rose.”

I smiled. Kala fled in my body.

“You should have just let us run.”

“Rose? H-how?”

I smiled sadly.

“I never was absorbed, you just assumed.”

They realized that for a majority of the battle, they fought me.

“Well, it’s time for the next fight to begin.”

Each shard nodded.

“Let’s begin.”