Deep Breath

Deep Breath.

Your grip tightens on the bow in your hands, focused completely on the leader of your group. The small team rallied behind him as he spoke, your mind threatening to wander off as the weight of the situation settled upon you. Eyes shifted to the right just enough to see your mentor standing just next to you, a wave of nerves rolled over your already wounded form. Nerves from fear, of possible failure, not for yourself, but for those around you. A roaring heat bubbled close to the surface, waiting for you to call it forth in a familiar, comforting way. It helped melt the nerves, the tension away, restoring focus once more.

The quiet of the room felt deafening as the only voice had stopped. This was it.

‘You got this,’ a small voice sang out to you as you moved to your position. They did always have a way of believing in you, especially when you didn’t believe in yourself. You both started this together, so many years ago, and you would end this together one day. Dread of that every end came back forth, this could very well be that end.

Deep Breath.

You ready your mind and bow, the rifle on your back seems so much heavier now. It felt like it alone held the weight of your mission. Failure was not an option; you think as you fall in step behind your mentor. He stops just before your mark and turns his head just slightly towards you.

“Ready?” You do not trust your voice just now and instead nod. He believed in you almost as much as your companion, neither you wished to let down. Once last glance and he continues to move forward away from you. The moments that follow, calm before the storm; and mayhem began.

Enemies that threaten time it very self, flowed into the room. Arrows easily flowed from your bow, those that got close fell to your mentors’ own weapon; while shadows and flames covered you both as you call upon the powers within you. The roaring heat easily flowed out freely now that it had targets, though it burned even stronger inside now. Telling you the time was close.

Cutting through the chaos, your nerves and focus was a voice you have been trained to focus on. “To me!” You felt your feet move before your mind fully understood the call, reacting on instant and habit falling in step with your mentor as you went full speed towards the very creature you all were hunting. Your bow finding its home upon your back, the rifle moving to a free hand in your movement. A behemoth of machinery and electricity appeared before you and your allies, as if out of thin air. A creation that many of your kind grew to fear, and one many have fallen to.

You felt metal start to form in your freehand as the flames within burned outward, familiar and ready it was at its peak. Only a moment more, the last of your allies within your radius you slam the new metal weapon into the ground sending shockwaves of heat out, healing and shielding them, while burning any others who came close.

Fluid motions have your rifle locked on and firing, a mixture of sounds assault you as your allies all attack at once. It was now or never, you steel yourself, focused more than ever before. To fail now, there would be no coming back. To fail here, none would even remember you ever existed…