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This guy was no Snowsnake, but you couldn’t deny that he knew what he was doing. On any other day, you’d probably wipe the floor with him. But with this many people gunning for you all at once…
The tip of his blade grazed your chest, tearing some of the fabric, and you snapped.
The next time he attempted to run you through, you skipped forward with blinding speed, catching him off-guard with a swift elbow to the cheek. You felt something <span class="mu-i">crack</span> under the weight of your blow.
But before you could press the advantage, a blur of fur, fangs and fury tackled you to the ground. It was a bengal tiger, and it was full of piss and vinegar!
The fearsome beast snarled, snapped and clawed at your face and throat, and it took a considerable amount of effort to avoid having your throat torn out. At the very least, having this thing’s hot breath fog up your lenses was well worth the protection he offered you. If he was their pet, then they probably wouldn’t do anything to hurt him. He might be big and scary, but until further notice, he was your shield!
As if to prove you wrong, a wickedly sharp dagger flew past your face and buried itself into the ground near you. That was uncomfortably close!
You traced the angle the knife had flown back to what appeared to be a clown holding a handful of them! He was laughing to himself, eyeing up his next shot and preparing to throw another. You didn’t give him the chance.
With a swift kick, you sent the tiger flying towards the clown. Both man and beast crumpled to the ground in a heap, allowing you some breathing room to roll off of your back and reorient yourself. Why the fuck were you struggling with these clowns? You defeated Typhoid Mary, for Christ’s sake! And with Callisto’s training, you should be mopping the floor with them.
Feeling a hot anger flowing through your veins, you glanced back and forth between the circus troupe for your next opponent. Eventually, your eyes landed on the guy in the green suit, and you grinned evilly.
Yes! If you could take out their leader, maybe you could get this situation under control and-
A fierce, deafening trumpet filled the auditorium, causing you to freeze in place involuntarily. A rumbling sensation reverberated through your body and the entire stage in rhythmic bursts, and it took you a while to realize that they were in fact footfalls. Footfalls created by a truly massive creature. And judging from the noise it just made, you had a good feeling of what was behind curtain #3…
<span class="mu-g">“Get him, Rawal!”</span> the man in green shouted, pointing a finger directly at you. Immediately afterwards, an enormous, bull elephant stormed onto the stage and lowered its head as if to gore you with its massive tusks. You leapt out of the way to avoid them, only to have the creature’s thick trunk wrap around your torso and pull you into the air.
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