mion?

nic was on his way back, as he walked in the trail left behind by the monster warthog, the day was coming to an end as the last bit of light left the forest.

"Charlotte most be worried" nic gritted his teeth as he held onto the side of his stomach, he was hovering slowly through the trail of trees that have been uprooted.

"grrr" nic face blackened as he heard a monster close to him, he was not in a good condition to fight much less run away from the monster as he was exhausted from trying to get away from the warthog.

he looked around but did not see anything, so he cautiously hovered forward, soon he heard the cry once more, but this time he spotted the creature that looked like a mixture of a dog and a goat.

the monster was bleeding from its neck, and a tree can be seen on its body, it seemed to have been injured by the warthog.

nic place a devious smile on his face as a sudden idea had entered his mind and he transformed back into fairies peak.

"descending kick" nic was in the air as he landed with one foot in the monsters head that was crushed from the impact.

nic then looked at the remains of the monster head but did not find a monster core.

"maybe it's in another part of its body" nic thought as he was ripping the monster corpse apart with his bare hands.

but he did not find any monster core, "was it to weak to have one?" nic was asking himself a questions that he himself cannot even answer.

"bwaar"

"grrrrh"

"krrrcc"

nic started to hear more cries of monsters that sounded as though they were cries of pain.

"well guess I would find out" nic forgot that he was in pain and greed had taken over, he quickly went from one body to the next.

"so it's all random" nic said as he cracked open a giant monkey monsters head and found a monster core inside.

he went on to crack open twenty two monster heads but was only left with five monster cores, even though he was still happy as that it would have been harder if he was to fight them while not being injured and trapped.

"it seems that I benefited from you after all" nic said as he looked to the direction in which the warthog went.

a couple minutes after and he was at the river once more, he found that the corpse of the monster crocodile was still their.

"it seems that even the monsters here are afraid to touch your prey" nic mumbled to himself, he decided that he wanted to see if the croc had a monster core, so he grabbed the tail and slowly dragged the monster upstream.

"I should be thier before midnight" nic said as he suddenly thought of Charlotte, she most be starving and worried since nic left her so long, he wanted to carry the croc so they would have something to eat for a good period of time.

the moon brought light on the land and nic could clearly see around him, yet he was still cautious as their were monsters in every part of the forest.

"yawn" nic was tired as he was walking with the monster dragged behind him for almost an hour.

he soon saw the waterfall which gave him hope as he was close to home, but then a shadow ran out of the bushes and was infront of nic, he was running as though he wanted to run into the river.

nic immediately recognized the person infront of him, and was in a state of shock as he was unsure as to how he ended up in this place.

"mion?"

hearing this the person stopped and turned around to facing nic, his body was covered in scars

and bruises, blood can be seen on his tattered cloths.

"nic?" mion said as he looked at nic in disbelief, "I thought you wer.." but before mion could finish his sentence his face went numb and his eyes changed to the color of white as cold sweat ran down his face, his head suddenly dropped then raise again to show that of a devious smile.

"so you are alive after all, nic the halfling" mion spoke but his voice sounded different it was more deep and manly.

"who are you?" nic asked as he dropped the croc tail and stepped back, he could feel the massive killing intent from mions body, and he could clearly see that it was not him but someone else who was talking.

"I am the general of the land you step on, but that's not what is important, you see you are really special nic the halfling" he said as he walked closer towards nic.

"a halfling without any imperfections, your just what the queen desires"

"what's so special about a halfling?" nic asked as the only other person that ever called him special was iris.

"do you want to know?" mion asked as he was now right up to nic's face.

"yes" nic said as he looked deep within mions eyes as though he was staring at the one who possessed him.

"well come and find me, their is alot of things for us to talk about" he said as he turned himself from nic and was about to walk back into the dense forest.

he was soon halted as a hand was placed on his shoulder, "huh?, what's the meaning of this?" he asked playfully as he turned his head around to face nic.

"leave the boy, I promise I would come and find you, afterall you also have the woman with you since she was with him, I would be their soon to collect her as well" nic looked deep in his eyes as he held firmly on his shoulder, he did not care that much for mion, but he owed him alot.

"HAHA.." mion held a hand to his face as he arched his back and laughed.

"..HA, it's been awhile since someone had the balls to stand up to me, your really special nic the halfling" he said as he wiped away a tear from his eye.

"anyway I was just going to feed him to a monster since it would be to much on me to keep a link this far, never known that you all were that close, I searched his mind and did not find anything other than you two fighting a knight together, but since you want him, you can have him" after speaking mion eyes went back to their normal color and he dropped down to the ground

nic rushed over and place his finger on his neck to check on him, he found that he was still alive but the instant he touched mion he got an instant headache.

"I almost forgot to tell you nic the halfling" a voice similar to how mion was speaking was being heard in his head, "dont make me wait to long!" a sudden burst of killing intent flooded his mind.

he got dizzy and almost fell before he forced himself to stand, the headache went just as it came, he could not feel anymore killing intent within his mind meaning that who ever possessed mion was gone.

"as soon as I concur this forest I would come for you dona" nic said as he looked up to the sky.

he grabbed a hand of mion and the tail of the croc monster and began to drag them both, he did not have time to focus on what just happened as he was more worried about Charlotte.

"we would soon arrive Charlotte" he said as he walked towards the waterfall.