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Chapter 13 - Ashweaver

The forest have gone silent

Not peaceful silent

Watching silence

Kris landed against another thick branch, bark bending slightly beneath his weight.Quan immediately felt it.

Something was wrong

The creatures from earlier - the chirping thing hidden within the canopy - had vanished

Even the wind felt distant

Anika suddenly raised her hand

"Stop moving"

Sarah obeyed instantly, pausing mid jump like a statue

Kris narrowed his eyes and listened,landing on the nearest tree saying " what is—

A thin vertical thread grazed past his cheek, the first thing Kris felt was the treads sharpness, moving his head another sensation hit him — heat , not enough to burn , but enough to warn. Quan's instincts exploded "MOVE " , Kris dropped from the branch as something crashed into the spot where he was a second ago, crashing through the canopy with a "BOOM" the branch collapsing falling from great heights on the branch through the debris Kris and Quan caught a glimpse of a white furred creature on all fours falling with the branch standing on it like a battling war machine. Staring at them with a smirk, the white furred creature has long arms, crimson marking across its face,four bird- like talons digging into the fallen branch, the branches from the tree hit the ground with a Boom!!!, Kris and Quan try to look through the dust but couldn't

See anything, Anika and Sarah were no better, but suddenly threads ….hundreds of nearly invisible threads stretching between the surrounding trees, Kris's eyes open slightly " a web?" He watched the threads move around the group "No" Anika said quietly, taking a stance. The creature tilted its head, it furr started glowing a faint orange," that's a Ashweaver" Anika said as a milky white Aura spread across her body,but whiles her aura was spreading, the threads suddenly ignited and the forest begun to burn.

" spread out triangular formation" Anika shouted the second the flames erupted, the ever loyal Sarah moved at the command twisting her body into a jump using the momentum to push herself backwards seemingly sliding her body through two thread lines landing on her hands into a roll, Sarah looked up at the creature while wiping blood from her cheek Sarah could feel the fresh blood dripping down her face looking back at two threads that were egnited there's a other thread in the middle that not egnited ' pain in the ass " Sarah instantly shouted to her sparrow " Be careful, some of the treads aren't light" Kris, still in his original position, looked at the creature with a keen interest. hearing Sarah's warning he casually looked around the formed web "a humanoid type creature, fire and thread elements, using those elements to create a explosive flaming web to ensnare its prey" Kris analyzed, Anika seeing that Kris hasn't moved yelled " Kris get away from it " Kris turning to meet her with a smile and proceeds to say " this mare common rank beast is -" his word are cut short as the beast that was just on the fallen branch was now near Kris with a punch in full swing, " tank it let test its strength " Quan says excitedly, Kris sneers but still follows his brother's opinion,raising his guard to the side of his face, the punch connected square in his guard, a punch that was supposed to send him flying… only puches his 5 step back, Kris looks up as he at the creature shaking off the impact, quans voice is heard again " it's almost at catalyst retrieval phase, I can handle it but if you wanna fight you can" Quan says nonchalantly to Kris. Kris knowing his brother had only halfway lost interest in the creature says, "I got it " as he activates their technique [ twin cognition ] "lend me your eyes brother" Kris says as he charge into a clash with the ashweaver. The ashweaver turns its head slightly, looking at its incoming prey, it smirks slightly and dashes in. also,Quan notices an says " its form is high,slide into a leg sweep" Kris nods and before the ashweaver could come close, he leans backwards into a slide and passes through the beast legs and turns his leg to perform a leg sweep, tripping the creature, Kris quickly adjusts his balance and stance, before sending to jabs to the fallen ashweaver, seeing the incoming attack and knowing it can't block both,it takes the first hit while using one of the thread on its body to pull its body away before the second hit could connect. Kris looks at the fleeing creature and smirks back at it. The ashweaver looks down at it wounds from the attack, it lunges back at Kris but the second it lost it temper a fist landed square in its side with enough force to make its entire body carve a trench in the grab slamming into the ancient trees of the forest.

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