"Yes," she led the way. "We can't get anywhere without a map."
{HP: 50/100}
Oscar checked his HP and chased after her, "We can't go looking for a fight right now. We'd have to wait a little."
"Wait? I'm trying to help you here, young man," Nora reminded him.
"I can't even use any magic right now…"
{10:12:21}
"I still have ten whole hours."
"Ten whole hours for what?" she turned to him aggressively. "My family is gone, don't further annoy me with whatever you're trying to do right now."
She turned around and continued the journey.
Oscar sympathized with her anger by remaining quiet for a second and then he followed her again.
"Isn't this the underworld? They'd probably just pop up somewhere in the area. No one dies here."
Nora halted in surprise, "Oh there they are!"
"Where?" Oscar seemed excited.
While he squinted his eyes to see, Nora swept his legs off the ground and put her hand over him, "Are you lecturing me about a place I've been stuck in for thousands of years?"
"My family is dead!" she spelt it out for him. "Dead. If the natives kill you they wipe your soul out of existence. It's called being denied by the underground, although it rarely occurs."
'Forget it. I'd never bag her. She hates me already. What did I do to deserve this from everyone?' Oscar thought to himself. 'She's already playing me like a toy.'
He slapped her hand off his face and stood up, wiping the dirt of him, "Next time you make me fall to the ground, I'm killing you."
Challengingly Nora did it again.
Oscar jumped off the ground with a punch projected for her chin. Nora dodged and kicked him to the ground yet again.
{9:49:34}
Oscar checked his punishment timer and wiped the side of his face with the back of his palm, "Once I get my magic back, I'm gonna teach you a lesson."
"Oh, I can wait," she blushed villainously.
"Human!" a humanoid creature points at them, followed by blowing a loud ancient horn.
"Run," Nora yelled at Oscar as she raced away.
Oscar immediately stood on his feet and joined her.
Behind them an army of natives; both the dogs and their riders who had just heard the horn, raced up a hill to see the two humans running.
Their leader, who had a dusty black coat on his shoulder and a map in his hands watched them for a second, simultaneously staring at his map.
"After them," he commanded, "take the girl unharmed."
Like arrows released from a bow, the army all chased at once with the legs of the dogs drumming on the surface of hell as they charged forward.
Oscar took a quick peek at the army behind them and panicked, his eyes widening at their speed and great number.
{9:45:12}
His thoughts froze as he checked his punishment timer again; his mind silent like a graveyard.
'Is this where I'm going to die?'
"I have a plan," Nora screamed at him. "We'd steal the map their leader is holding."
"What!" Oscar thought it for a joke. "Steal a map from the guy trying to steal our lives?"
"Just play along," her fingers started emitting dark fog again, gradually spreading across the area.
"I can't see in that fog," he complained.
She stretched her hand to him, "Take my hand."
"Huh," at first he was surprised but then he gladly accepted.
'Does this mean she likes me?'
'I don't know anything about women. I should probably wait until she tells me verbally or I'd embarrass myself again'
He gripped her hand tightly.
"Can you still swing that sword?" by now the fog has thickened, Oscar could only hear her voice and see her bright purple eyes, which penetrated through the darkness.
"Yes," he replied with an amplified tone.
Suddenly the loud footsteps of the army echoed more loudly behind them, they were closer than ever.
"Nora! They're trying to crush us."
"Use your sword," Nora led go of him and took a high jump.
"Huh!" Oscar pulled out his chainsword and swung it round in a circular motion. He could feel the edge of the sword slicing the legs of the ones nearer to him.
He looked up again, Nora was out of sight.
He kept on swinging and swinging in frustration. He was basically fighting blindly.
The flares on the blade were visible in the fog, every last one of them had marked his location and were approaching fast with their legs drumming against the ground like a terrified heartbeat.
He was alone standing against an hundred soldiers of death, all of them lurking in the darkness. However, the only thing that protected him against their lethal claws was the same thing that attracted them to him; his shiny weapon.
But if the weapon leaves his hand, so does his life. These dogs are bigger than him, they don't need eyes to run over him and crush him to the ground. They have the advantage, he already stunk of death.
He gasped, he swung his chainsword, then he halted for a quick second…
'A distraction,' Oscar thought as more footsteps approached him with the army making aggressive battle cries.
'I was just a distraction for her to escape.'
His expression turned grim, the pain of the thought was already eating him up; the pain of being betrayed. Still yet he kept on swinging the sword with every last bit of strength in him, his face molding into that of a warrior ready to die on the battle field, but not still he exhausts himself completely.
"Nora!!!" he yelled out loud with everything in him. "Why did you abandon me!"