14 Pact

It was huge, at least one meter tall and maybe two of wingspan with the wings extended, her feather consisted in a double crest head and body in black with a pair of blue sky feathers, her claws had dark blue lines and sky-blue tail had stripes that reflected the light. Both peak and claws seemed absurdly sharp and strong, the black glow of her eyes was of a hungry predator.

-... Absolute beauty.

I was extremely amazed before the creature.

I stood up from the ground and staring at her with a challenging smile I lifted my arm and said:

-Become mine!

The desire to own her flooded me, now that I had such a majestic beast in front of me, I couldn´t help but want her.

The bird looked at me for some seconds with sharp eyes, extended her wings, and threw herself to me with murderous intentions.

Before her claws ripped apart my head, a magic circle of anti-aesthetic symbols appeared below my feet, wrapping me in dense darkness.

I didn´t move from the place, something told me it wasn´t necessary. Before noticing, I was in a snowed forest filled with trees with white trunks and black leaves. Instead of the afternoon sun and the orange sky, there was a full moon lighting up the night.

I didn´t feel cold, tough vapor came out of my mouth.

-Human

A sweet but menacing voice came to my head, a drill of wind and ice was getting close at dangerously high speeds.

Thanks to my stats upgrade and my new eyes I could dodge it by a little, getting a superficial cut on my cheek.

-Ouch, that was dangerous you know, I could have died.

Among the wind and ice, the giant bird showed itself to me.

-The ritual has started, your only choices are to finish it or die on the try.

-Ritual eh, Is this place something like your domain or territory?

-This is the bridge between our souls, just those with an element similar to the beast can attempt to do the familiar pact.

-Then you also have an interest for me, goodness, you´re not honest at all~

-Hah!

The wind that the bird´s flapping produced was so cold that parts of my arms were covered in ice.

I hope she doesn´t freeze me every time I play with her a little.

With a smooth move, I got rid of the ice.

-You should feel honored that an ice Ruc like me lets you try making a pact!

An ice Ruc... Sounds great.

-Hahaha, you don´t have to be like that, we both want each other, this is just a formality.

-Kukuku, Show me that confidence is not just a decoration human!

With a flap, the ice Ruc ascended to the skies.

-The rules are simple, find the exit before the moon disappears or defeat me!

-Sounds good to me, but answer me something first, What happens if I die here?

-The actual you is your everything, if you die here there will be nothing but an empty shell in the world.

-It can never be something that doesn´t kill me eh.

The moon never stopped getting dark during our conversation, so I started to run to the woods.

Use Putrefaction in her will be difficult if she keeps flying all the time, I need a way to go up or make her go down, in any way, I´ll keep me moving to find the exit.

-Kukuku, You won´t scape!

With the flapping of the Ruc, feathers of ice were shot to me mercilessly.

-She can see me even though I´m covered by the trees?

Despite the dense foliage of the trees blocked the line of vision of the Ruc, her attacks were dangerously sharp.

I dodged the rain of feathers by getting covered in the trunks, however, spikes of ice came out from the ground, almost impaling me.

!!

Not even five seconds passed before ice crystals started to materialize around me. Not having anywhere but above to run, I climbed the tree trunk just before the same got destroyed by the ice.

-Shit!

Before the tree touched the ground, I jumped to another one and cling to its branches.

A merciless ray of blue light descended over the fallen tree, freezing it completely.

... That was very close.

I climbed the branch where I was hanging and waited for the next attack from the Ruc.

...

Flap* Flap*

I could hear her flapping in the sky, but it didn´t seem like she was going to strike again.

Why?

I didn´t let down my guard for a second, if an attack was aimed at me I would surely see it, no matter how fast it was.

... Think about it... What did you learn from this?

Somehow, the Ruc was capable to attack me even though I was covered by the leaves, her range, speed, and power is not a joke, due to the color of her feathers it's hard to know in which part of the sky she is.

What else?! What else?!... The snow!

Following my train of thought, I picked up a bit of snow from the branches and made a ball.

I aimed to the tree contrary to my side and threw the ball as quietly as I could.

Pot*

Just when the ball hit the trunk, a rain of ice attacks destroyed the tree and its surroundings.

So that´s it.

I had a way to move now, the problem was the direction to follow.

Can´t you give a hint or something?

Like to respond to my petition, a yellow light came out from my chest and flew to the sky.

-God-fucking-dam it!

I jumped away from the tree moments before an ice ray froze it.

-There you are!

After getting to a certain high, the light went east.

Couldn´t you do that more discreetly?!

Now I had the direction to where I had to go, but now the Ruc also knew where I was and where I´m heading.

More spikes and ice feathers hurried to pierce me while I was running through the forest.

I needed to climb a tree and avoid the sound of the snow if I wanted to get out from this alive.

I picked up snow and made two balls with it, chose which tree to climb after, and took a breath.

IIHSSS* FUUU*

All right, Let´s do this!

Just at the instant, I jumped to hang from the branches, I threw the snowballs to a pair of trunks in different directions, the sound of the trunk being hit and my hand landing in the branch synchronized.

Fortunately, the Ruc missed the target and unleashed its power in one of the wrong trees.

When she was done destroying it and its surroundings, I already had prepared the next round of snowballs. Thanks to that trick I was able to move forward whit relative security.

The moon was now shining by half.

After a while, I managed to see an ice gate, the Ruc was waiting on top of it.

-I know you are there human, come out. Said the Ruc looking at the tree I was hiding in.

-Tch, seems like I don´t have another choice.

I came down from the tree and faced the bird.

We were in a distance where either I touch her with Putrefaction or she freezes and tears me apart.

-Will you be nice and let me go through that gate, Or we do it the hard way? I said pulling out my pocket knife and preparing Putrefaction.

-If you pass this, I will officially recognize you as my master.

-Great! What do I have to do?

The Ruc flew to the sky, ice gradually covering her body. When she was completely covered, it went down in a dive and crashed with the ground.

Instead of a bird purée, an albino woman dressed in Chinese clothes appeared.

Her beauty was on a different level from normal women if it wasn´t because I´ve been living surrounded by beauties in the castle for two months, there´s a high possibility that I would have fallen over heels for her. Both her hair and eyebrows, which seemed like a pair of dots over her yellow eyes, were white. Unlike traditional on earth, her long and lightly waved hair was loose. Her ears were slightly pointed and carried a pair of gold pendants with the shape of a drop. Her body was the definition of female appeal and the Qipao black dress with printed snowflakes just highlighted her slender and perfect figure. The lateral opening in her leg was a dangerous temptation to her tighs, which covered part of a tail with golden feathers. Shoes with heel buckle of a dark blue were embracing her feet.

-...You´re not a Ruc, Are you?...

-You humans know us more as legendary beasts.

Legendary beast, a world totally separated from magic and demonic beasts. According to the books of the royal library, they are beasts with the capacity to manipulate low-rank beasts of their same species, apart from being considered as the strongest of their kind. Like the dragons, they are capable to adopt human forms but is doubted that it was for reproductive purposes like them.

-I... see... To what do I owe the pleasure of a legendary beast to make a pact with me?

-Kukuku, To where your confidence went?

-Confidence and shock are different things, and to say I´m shocked is getting short.

And I didn't lie, I supposed that it was a powerful magic beast since she could telepathically communicate with me, but I never guessed that it was a legendary beast.

Something was wrong.

It was impossible that such being showed itself so easily open.

I needed answers.

-And well? What happens now?

The woman made a tentative grin and got close, she rested her body over mine and put my right hand on her chest.

In the second I felt her hand, my pocket knife was ready to slice her throat.

-Now we make love~

-... Excuse me?