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Creative Writing: The Chimera

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Glancing around the arena, Herja could see that many of the other slaves had already been pitted against a wide variety of opponents. Most of the demons and creatures she was able to recognize, having faced others of their kind in battle before, but there were one or two that even she was less familiar with. She quickly switched her focus back to what was going on closest to her as another of Lucifer's pets was summoned in the same circle that she stood in. Planting the butt of her spear in the sand, the Valkyrie batted her majestic wings forward a single time, dissipating the thick cloud of smoke almost instantly with a powerful gust of wind. Herja stood stoically with her head held high as she gave the beast a slow once-over, studying its …show more content…

Using all of her previous experience and knowledge, she was able to make at least a couple of educated guesses about the beast's nature. The first thing that stuck out at her was the grotesque perversion of a human head. It was safely tucked away in the creature's chest and had no neck, meaning that it would probably not be very practical for the Chimera to attack with it. That led Herja to the conclusion that the other two heads would probably be doing most of the fighting, while that one was the more intelligent of the three. It was either the one calling the shots for the other two, the one that controlled the majority of the other body parts, or perhaps even both. In any case, she was fairly confident that slaying that head in particular would yield the greatest results, although it would also be the most difficult of the three to …show more content…

Instead, the force of the goat's sturdy head colliding into her body sent Herka flying several feet backwards, all the way to the edge of the invisible platform and beyond. Thinking quickly, she used her shield arm to draw the sword from her waist and stab it into the platform, using it to hand on as her body dangled over the side. She could hardly feel her right arm at that point, let alone use it to help herself climb back up, and her right wing wasn't doing amazingly either. Still, she was at least able to flap her wings a couple of times and push herself back onto the fighting circle where the Chimera was already upon her. Quickly ripping her blade back out of the ground, Herja tucked her wings in as much as possible and rolled away from a heavy talon swipe that would have shredded her entire body to bits. She groaned in pain loudly, having been forced to land on her injured side in order to avoid the strike. Scrambling back up to her feet, the Valkyrie discarded her shield as it made using her sword with the same arm awkward and

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