Chapter 7 - The Loss

Several melee machae just charged to the front line and ganged up on the heroboy and herogirl. A strange tune began playing out of nowhere - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iap7PpYNcXQ
Herogirl was still busy with the archers. She was so good that each shot managed to take down a machae archer. Heroboy though got busy with these melee machae. Even being surrounded didn’t scare him. He would just spin from time to time, hitting three targets at once, like a demented merry-go-round.
- “We need some reinforcements!” Pylades shouted.
Some troglodytes from the neighbourhood decided to join the fight and to help out their fellow daemons. The troglodytes could take in at least 3 of herogirl’s arrows before going down, so that meant they could last 3 times as long.
Heroboy in a meantime faced the warden machae. The machae stabbed his spear into the heroboy, but all that happened there was a bell sound. Heroboy momentarily took out a potion and drank it. The warden machae then tried to stab again, but heroboy produced a quick cross cut, which hurt the machae, which then he followed with a jumping overhead hew. The warden machae didn’t survive that.
- “What is that human made of?” Pylades couldn’t believe it when he saw that and then aimed an arrow at the heroboy.
He shot it and when the arrow hit the heroboy in the torso, he just ignored it and continued slaughtering other melee machae.
Here the herogirl got closer to Pylades and began shooting the archers near him. That archer who found her hot, suddenly stopped firing and began wolf-whistling. The herogirl saw him and then shot an arrow in his face.
- “I told you not to get distracted!” Pylades said to that archer’s dead body.
- “Then why are you getting distracted?” Herogirl shouted over to him and shot.
Pylades dodged the arrow that she shot at him and began backing away.
Heroboy in a meantime handled all of the melee machae and moved onto a few Empusae. The Empusae were semi-naked so they could attract guys, but the heroboy didn’t even pause to look at their bodies. It’s as if he had such a strong will not to allow his hormones take over. Or maybe he was just frigid.
Herogirl took care of most archers. The only ones remaining now were the master archers, including Pylades.
- “We need to retreat!” Pylades shouted to his daemons.
- “Retreat to where?” one of the master archers asked.
- “To the city of our Lord Keuthonymus.” Pylades replied.
- “But then the heroboy and girl will attack our homes.” The master archer said.
- “Well sometimes you have to worry about saving your own skin.” Pylades said, “You might care about the future of your people, but I care about the future of me.”
Empusae and troglodytes were dealt with by now and only those 5 retreating master archers were remaining.
- “Shoot them while we still can!” Pylades commanded.
All 5 of them shot at heroboy. Heroboy seemed to stop and go back a bit. They just began getting a feeling of hope, when the next second he just returned and continued heading in their direction. Herogirl was also coming.
Heroboy then threw a knife and it hit one of the master archers. As they began running away, that master archer was greatly slowed down.
- “Come on man! What are you doing?” Pylades shouted to him.
- “I can’t go any faster.” Master archer admitted.
Here heroboy caught up with him and killed him. Herogirl also caught up and shot an arrow towards other master archers. It hit one of them, but did not kill him. He turned around to shoot, but she shot another arrow, which killed him.
Pylades and the surviving two master archers then stopped and fired at the heroes again. The three arrows all headed for the herogirl, but only one hit her. Others were ‘avoided’ somehow.
Pylades continued running away, but the other two master archers stayed and took another shot. That was their mistake. Heroboy reached them in no time. He produced a single lethal strike at one of them, causing him to fly miles back and roll on the ground like a rag doll. The other one just received an overhead hew and also died.
Pylades was the only one escaping now. Heroboy and girl ran after him through the outskirts of the city. Pylades was getting cornered by cliffs from all sides. Just as he was to make another turn, herogirl shot an arrow which hit Pylades in the back, causing him to topple over down one of the cliffs.
They then each drank a potion and stopped to check on the loot that the machae dropped.
- “Meh, just whites and yellows again.” Herogirl said.
- “Some gold too.” Heroboy said and picked it up.
- “So where is the treasury of this so-called Keuthonymus?” herogirl asked.
- “Must be somewhere nearby. Dad said that it used to belong to Hades and it required 4 stones to open it. Maybe it needs the same stones this time.” Heroboy explained, “He also said there was an annoying shade always standing by it and dreaming of how to rob it.”
- “I just want to kill this Keuthonymus and to get over all of this.” Herogirl said.
- “OK, in that case let’s not waste time and continue.” Heroboy agreed.