Turning the keys, he started the truck, tilting his head towards the left, a devilish smile appearing on his wrinkled face as he gazed towards Zaya.
The rushing wind in the area went still, heating up as the old man's eyes glowed. "I have heard of you child, the phantom paw."
You couldn't defeat the fifth rank alone, what makes you think you could have a chance against me, the ancient fourth in rank?
"The mighty demonic dragon."
A wry smile covered Zaya's face as she giggled.
She then gave the answer to the rotten old fool, smacking her lips, she spoke, "Edeth."
The devilish smile on the face of the fourth rank vanished. He felt a wrecking ache trigger all around his body as he heard the name.
Numerous flashbacks overwhelmed him as he recalled the power of the Omni fox, how she tore through the lines of great dragon armies like they didn't exist.
"How dare you speak of that forbidden name!"
Now totally mad, he yelled on top of his voice, "kill her and bring her head to me!
The truck zoomed off leaving only traces of dust, The dozens of dark energy beasts began surrounding Zaya slowly.
Zaya felt something different about these ones, their appearance was not like any animal she'd ever heard or encountered.
The primordial signature they emitted reflected that they'd just been conquered and mutated.
Ignoring, she said to herself, now the fun has finally begun.
The first fire beast lunged towards Zaya, its sharp sickle meeting both of Zaya's purple blazing swords.
It was immediately pushed back by the sheer force Zaya exerted, with a couple of strikes, she sliced the beast into three different parts.
Parts crashed on the ground unmoving, the others seeing this shrieked hard as they dashed towards Zaya.
Zaya dodged their continuous strikes, simultaneously attacking, she parried each of the different weapons used by all of the fire beasts, which seemingly came from all sides.
One of the shrieking creatures holding a laser machine with both of its hands, shot a beam towards her Zaya.
She leapt twisting in the air, diagonally escaping the ruthless burn of the vaporizing terror shot towards her.
In a slant, curved slash the fire beast was divided into two, its body falling lifelessly on the ground.
Five of the fire beasts remained, one holding a large axe in his hand, while a long horn protruded out of the head of another.
The third, shot out poisonous spikes from its body while the remaining two held large hammers.
They shrieked loudly as they ricocheted at Zaya, Zaya didn't hesitate as she also lunged at the mutated beasts.
She attacked the fire creature with the horn with a wild kick, twirling on air in the process while continuously attacking the ones with hammers..
Shattering their hammers into pieces.
She landed steadily on her feet, dodging a close strike, clanks could be held as she used her swords to shield the continuous spikes.
She threw one of the swords towards the spiky beast which entered its head coming out from the other side.
Zaya felt huge pain all over her body, as it was struck by a large hammer she fell on her knees coughing out blood, the fire beasts had taken her by surprise, the axe wielding beast went for another attack.
Zaya rolled on the ground escaping from the fatal strike the beast had dealt, enough of this she yelled on top of her voice.
She dropped the sword on her left hand on the ground as she stood up staggering, the nano suit that at shielded her disengaged returning to the form of the Phoenix emblem.
Seeing that Zaya was rid of her suit, All of the five fire creatures launched towards her ragingly
Zaya calmed herself down as she closed her eyes, focusing all of her mind to one solid attack.
She swerved her sword aiming at the direction of all the fire creatures that lunged towards her.
The five creatures were thrown a few minutes back and so did Zaya, she felt she had for a split second, tapped into a realm that had only been used by gods of war,her right hand writhed in pain almost going numb.
She coughed out more blood, picking her sword with her left hand. She wanted to end this meaningless battle immediately.
She picked up the Phoenix emblem on the ground attaching it to her chest, the tight unpenetrable suit overwhelmed her body once more.
With one sword in her left Zaya walked up to the fire creatures the beast with the horn dashes towards her she slashed the horn from the tip breaking the beast's head with it..
In multiple slashes Zaya cut the fire beasts into bits.
The spiky beast and the one who held the axe began stepping to the back as they knew death was coming for them.
They raised their head shrieking loudly in what felt like an incantation,Zaya attacked with her sword and the two beasts vanished into smoke.
The fourth in rank must have saved them, she thought.
Zaya raised her hand up staring at her watch hoping she was not too late to return to school.
"Thank you for saving us, how could we ever repay this debt"
Zaya's gaze fell on carol and the others who had now come out from the bar where they hid.
Do you have a car Zaya asked, I could help with that carol replied.
Zaya arrived at her hostel exhausted and disappointed she had tried her best not to always rely on her fox form to fight battles.
Just like Edeth had done a long time ago but she always failed, A smile appeared on her face as she was glad she'd at least tried.
Zaya sneaked into the hostel through the roof as she landed in one of the toilets, she walked out of there with the phoenix emblem in her hand.
She arrived at her room, pushed the door and was unexpectedly greeted by the presence of each of her new friends. They were all awake and staring at her.
Zuri then asked Zaya a baffling question.
"Where you there?"