Akira pat Grarr’s side urging him forward. They led the charge towards the colorful flashing lights that were partially blocked by the tall grass growing everywhere.
Tanner followed behind Akira’s royal guards with Kodria’s banner held high fluttering in the wind, the rest of the army followed behind him with their weapons and shields ready.
Akira and Grarr were one of the first to burst out of the tall grass into a freshly cut open field with his shield held forward on his left arm. They paused for a moment to see what they were dealing with.
The thick scent of fresh blood immediately caused everyone to be on high alert as their gazes zeroed in on the culprits of the flashing and exploding skills.
A decent-sized group of around 30 or so mismatched armored and robed people were chatting and laughing as they went about searching the blood-soaked ground for loot.
Akira’s eyes zeroed in on their weapons and saw that all of the melee weapons had fresh blood still dripping off of them.
The sight and scent was enough to send several of the werewolves into a fit, “These damned demigods are always killing people from the demon races!”
“Awoooooo!” Akira let out a howl and they once again resumed their charge toward the murders.
The demigods hearing the howl stopped their chatter and looked towards the howl with several of them showing shock at the hundreds of large wolves, werewolves, goblins, and orcs headed right towards them.
Those that had kept their cool were intrigued by the dark misty light that exploded out from Akira’s body blocking him from their sight for only a few seconds before once again clearing up to reveal a tall muscular body with a menacing furry face with an evil grin full of sharp canines and a pair of piercing blue eyes that were staring daggers deep into them.
The hundreds of other werewolf warriors underwent something similar but less dramatic as they also transformed ready to go all out.
A female demigod at the center of the group said something that Akira could not hear, but the demigods around her all reacted by taking up a defensive stance around her, ready to take on the full attack.
…but before the two sides came to clashes, two teens from the Kamen demon race ran out from the group of demigods waving their hands wildly in the air as they ran in between the two forces.
“Wait! Wait!” “Don’t attack!”
Akira patted Grarr’s side with his left hand while holding his armored fist up to halt the charge only twenty or so yards short of crashing into them.
“What is going on here?” asked Zundar, looking between the two teens and then glancing at the demigods behind them, they were still in a defensive formation surrounding the female demigod.
“It’s not what you think!” said one of the teens, seeing the werewolves looking at the blood covering the freshly cut tall grass.
“Save your breath. If they want to fight we will fight!” said a haughty deep female voice coming from a round female demigod standing in the first defensive ring. Her leather armor was straining to keep everything inside and protected while she wore large iron gauntlets on her fists.
“There’s no need to fight!” shouted one of the frantic teens running around and flapping his arms to try and calm the demigods down as well.
“Kip is right. Look at the flag! If I am not mistaken you are the duke of Kodria right? It is an honor to be able to meet you. I was unable to go to Kodria for the recent celebration but I did see your wedding when I visited Kodria to trade for supplies.”
“Why are you two helping the demigods slaughter those of our demon race?” asked Akira, ignoring the two’s excited chatter.
“So what if they are helping us? Are you their mother?” asked the round demigod again.
“What? NO NO NO! We would never do that! Big sister Teresa is not like those other demigods!” said Kip waving his arms even faster.
“That’s right she is different and just wants to help out! They were just helping us clear out the area,” said the second teen.
“You two should know better than to be playing around with demigods. Even if you are ignorant of the many demon races that were wiped out in the past by demigods. You should know of the current demigods that roam the land killing and causing mayhem,” said Zundar.
“Who do you think you…”
“Rondie, that’s enough. We don’t need to be starting fights with them,” said the female demigod at the center.
Akira focused his attention on her to bring up her name and level above her head. [Lvl 50 Teresa guild: none].
Her looks were nothing to write home about nor was she ugly. Even with the large distance separating them he could feel a kind and sweet aura seeping out of her which made Akira warier.
He quickly scanned the rest of the people around her, including the deep-voiced Rondie. They were all around the same level as Teresa except for three girls who stood the closest to Teresa and Rondie. The four of them were over level 100.
“If these demigods are threatening you or holding your family hostage, just say so and we will exterminate them,” said Zundar.
“Hey don’t talk bad about big sis Teresa!” shouted a low-level no-name demigod.
“Are you trying to pick a fight with us by being rude to our big sis?” another low-level demigod asked.
Several other demigods made threats and glared at Zundar as if he had killed their grandma.
“We have received suspicious reports of a group of demigods going around to each settlement, are you that group they mentioned?” asked Akira while staring straight at Teresa.
“We are.”
“What is your intention in doing all this?”
“We only wish to help those in need,” was all she said.
“That’s right! If we wanted to kill you all, we would have been fighting nonstop and already be a lot stronger like those in the main guilds,” said no-name low-level demigod number 2.
“We all follow big sis Teresa and work on mostly peaceful ways of getting stronger!”
“But you’re demigods…” said Akira, not believing them.
“Who ever heard of a peaceful demigod? All they want to do is kill kill kill,” said Zundar.
The rabid low-level demigods all shouted out excuses trying to defend sister Teresa’s honor. Many of them were males but there were several females as well.
From the way they looked at Teresa it was as if they worshiped her. It was a bit unsettling for Akira to see the expressions on their faces.
“You stay over there away from sister Teresa!” said one of the low-level followers.
“Don’t come any closer!” shouted another.
The group of low-level demigods stared angrily at Akira and the rest of the Kodria army.
“Duke Akira, please allow me to escort you and your soldiers to the town. I can bring you to the town’s chief so you can peacefully clear up any misunderstandings,” said Kip.
Since the demigods in front of him were not attacking them or the town, Akira decided to ignore them and accept Kip’s offer even if he did not trust the words that came out of the demigod’s mouth.
All of this just made him even more sure that they were up to something. But he was not sure what.
“Lead the way.”
Kip made sure to lead them in a wide arc around the demigods to make sure that no clashes happened that would start a fight.
Zundar stayed at the rear of the army to guard against any sudden surprise attack from the demigods who only stared back at him as they marched to the town.
They reached the town’s new dirt ramparts without incident.
“Zundar, make sure nothing happens while I am talking to the chief,” said Akira quietly as he passed him.
“You can count on me to swat them down if they try anything!”
