Dimension Ah

"Incredible..!" Said Semacoar with wide eyes.

"What is she?"

April's jaw dropped. She had tails. Those were tails! She had tails?

Two tails!

"This creature's not an elf." The paper-white young man said in a hoarse and threatening voice behind April, who was shivering from head to toe.

"What should we do with her?" The brunette repeated.

"Tie her up." Blonde in blue said with a straight face.

Before April knew it, she had nowhere to run. All she could do – as terror coursed through her veins – was whimper and struggle as the whitehead restrained her against a tree with a ludicrous amount of rope.

"H-hey, you guys… this is not funny - ah!" April squeaked when the young man tightened the rope over the two new tails.

"It speaks!" Said Semacoar with an amused smile. "And in perfect Elvish."

"What?"

"It would be best to just get rid of it. We don't know what kind of threat it could pose."

"Saka's right." The redhead young woman said, nodding to the blonde in blue.

"I didn't ask for your support," the one referred to as Saka; the whitehead spat.

"Oh, hey! You guys!" April cried but had to choke on her words when Saka gagged her. "Hmmmm!"

The others looked at Saka with questioning eyes and he told them:

"It might have mind controlling abilities."

April's heart did a repetitive thrumming against her chest as her desperate situation got even more desperate.

What the hell was going on?!

A not-so-distant twig-snapping sound jerked her head up and interrupted her thoughts.

"Please be a rabbit. Please be a rabbit." she chanted in her head.

The twig-snapper emerged into the foreground.

"...You're not a rabbit." she thought, blood rushing away from her face.

Its skin was pitch black. Spikes ran down its back. It had dog-like ears, hollow black eyes, long sinewy front arms and hind legs and a large mouth lined with yellow, finger-long teeth.

Tears instantaneously raced down April's face as it started dripping thick gel-like drool to the forest floor.

"What the heck is that?...Black is supposed to be beautiful…" she thought hopelessly.

She was staring right at a hungry beastly creature and it was looking at her like she was a gourmet meal. The added horror was that it had the semblance of a masculine build and was so ugly!! Was that how she would go out? Right after she lost Hiroko? Was her freedom that short-lived?

Where was the Creator? She was about to meet him.

The creature made a belching sound with each slow step, inching closer and nearer. It widened its jaws, anticipating its meal. There were only five meters between it and the elves who were standing like stone figures. It groaned and growled like the beast it was. An arm extended forward, followed by another, which put the creature four meters away and repeated, standing three meters away now. April had nothing to do but let her tears race down. The creature suddenly rose to its hinds and eyed her with a growing appetite, fueled by her radiating fear.

She was about to wet herself when a sudden blue light flashed behind the beast. It stood still for a second and then its upper body separated from the lower section and fell to the ground.

April looked at it in bewilderment before looking behind the dissected pieces of the now caucus creature.

He stood there, falchion in hand, the blonde elf, an assertive look masking his face. He was the blue flash. He just sliced that monster in half in a literal flash.

"The lycans are finally here. We can use her as bait, no?" he said in his calm voice.

"Mmm?!" April indignantly screamed through the gag in sheer fear and shock.

"Did he say lycans?!"

A hiss came from up above to April's left. They all simultaneously turned to look.

Another lycan came flying down at the paladin in blue who gazed expressionlessly at it with his emerald eyes, sword unflinching. When it came close enough to shave his face with its claws, he blinked, and a torrent of red light blasted the creature to Hades!

April blanched in shock.

Standing to her right, the redhead brandished a fist triumphantly.

"You're welcome." She flashed a small smile on her ruddy lips.

The blonde paladin in blue gave her a sharp nod and turned back to April with a commanding eye.

"Hold on tight. They're coming."

'They' were certainly coming. Like shadows, more lycans appeared in the clearing and snarled at the elves, clearly ready to fight.

"I'm in a forest of horrors!' April screamed to herself inwardly.

Semacoar and the brunette appeared on the clearing, too.

"Who's ready to play?" He chimed. "Oh, sorry. I mean slay!"

The redhead rolled her eyes.

"Where's Saka?" Blonde in blue asked with a hint of concern in his voice.

The other blonde was however incurious. He heavily shrugged and unsheathed his sword.

"He's disappeared," he crowed.

"What…?"

But the blonde paladin's response was shortened when all the lycans pounced.

April gawked wide-eyed as they battled the horrendous creatures.

The brunette and redhead blasted the beasts into charred cadavers, Semacoar felled them with his sword while also throwing what April saw to be small twisters out of it. The lycans were swept up in their rotating exteriors and spat out dead. Paladin's falchion was literally on fire, burning and slicing anything he lashed at.

April gawped in shock. Those people were crazy! Those people were insane to be fighting monsters with the ease she saw. And what was with their miraculous abilities? Those superpowers! They had supernatural powers…

They weren't Larpers, were they?

…Where was the snowy boy?!

The paladin in blue grunted as a lycan pushed him back – and slashed it in half gracefully despite being surrounded by seven of those beasts. He eyed them all with a knowing look before crossing his arms. A sudden blue burst of fire from his chest scorched every single lycan.

"Can you smell what the swordsman is cooking?" He quietly jested.

The brunette on her end was unaware when a horde of lycans suddenly dogpiled on her. April was sure she was dead. They were motionless for a second, and a second later, a vicious white light protruded in several places before they exploded away and left the young woman standing quietly as if she had never been pounced on.

There was another twig-snapping sound and April jerked her head to it. She was expecting to see another bloodthirsty lycan sneaking up on her when the elves' attention was nowhere near her.

…That would have been a lot better than what she saw leap out into the clearing.

It was three times bigger than the lycans and it was far scarier to April than those ugly dog-faced creatures.

A paralyzing feeling of terror ran up her body like an electric shock as she watched the wolf tear up the lycans.

The wolf.

The.

Wolf!

It suddenly stopped, and as if feeling her eyes on its hind, turned its head and landed its gray gaze on her.

"No… No way… NOO!!" April shook her head vigorously. This thing was here too?!

Everyone turned to see April facing the colossal wolf. It took less than four steps, and it was already towering in front of her. Everything inside of the girl melted as its large, clawed paw raised… and came down on her…