[Ahti and Imari]<br/><br/>Ahti charged, the creatures creeping upon the girl and prepared a massive swing. Gripping her hammer, she snarled and the muscles in her arms and chest rippled as she swung the huge hammer.<br/><br/>Imari ducked/tumbled out of the way of the creature, moving past it like she had the one from before staying low as she heard the satisfying yet sickening sound of its chest being crushed by the force of the hammer. Yep this woman was indeed going to be her new best friend.<br/><br/>The creature went limp and twisted painfully through the air, only to land at the feet of the other creatures, which showed no fear. They continued to encroach, and Ahti counted four more, "Can you fight?" The question was more rhetorical, a warning of sorts.<br/><br/>"I am more of the evasion style but...." she drew a pair of daggers. "I am not helpless" giving them a bit of a twirl she smirked. "I can bait them in close, hamstring them and you can finish them off....work for you?" she asked as she watched the fours creatures start to fan out, seeking to flank them she would assume.<br/><br/>Ahti looked confused, taken aback for a moment, then laughed, "Just say when to swing." Ahti wasn't much a tactician, and it showed... she was power, pure and simple. She squared her chest and gripped her hammer roughly, a malicious look danced across her face.<br/><br/>Imari nodded and moved forward a bit, keeping her back to her new friend. "Come on you ugly bastards! Aren't you hungry?" she taunted them though she was not even sure if they understood her or not. Still with her a bit away from her friend they were more inclined to attack. Two rushed her she ducked past the first one, "SWING!" she shouted then side stepping around the second brought her dagger<br/>down to where the kidney should be. Driving it in to the hilt, she jerked it up then kicked the bastard off and at her friend, "SWING!" she shouted once more.<br/><br/>Ahti swung into the first creature, connecting stone bludgeon with it's knees, it tripped, landing face first into the dirt, and she brought the hammer down on it's back, a loud, searing crack and a splash of dark, venomous blood. She brought the hammer back up just in time to hear the command once more, and brought the hammer straight down on the head of the second victim...<br/>crushing it's head into it's shoulders, as it fell limp to the ground<br/><br/>Two left, Imari thought as she turned to face the last two but realized her mistake in ever taking her eyes from the last pair. She heard a snarl before it collided with her beck and took her to the ground with the force of the tackled not to mention its weight. Grunting as she hit the ground she dropped her daggers ass she struggled, in keeping it from biting down on her neck.<br/><br/>Ahti lifted her hammer from the corpse, dripping black. She saw, in horror, as one of the two creatures tackled the young woman. Ahti felt anger bubble inside her, and her lessons faded, the weight of the hammer felt lighter than air... She had come to love this sensation; Rage.<br/><br/>Imari worked on trying to not panic as she did her best to keep the thing from biting her. Still in the position she was in and the fact she never thought she would need to train for something like this. The sharp bite to her shoulder should not have surprised her. Though her scream was loud, clear and a mixture of sock, fear and of course pain.<br/><br/>With a roar of mixed pain and outrage, Ahti charged the melee, tackling the beast in turn. The three rolled together across the ground, and Ahti clenched the head of the monster, with as much force as she could muster, pulled the head away from the young woman, and grappled the creature to the ground. She released her hammer and roared a mighty, thunderous roar. She delivered slam after slam ...<br/>to the creature's head and chest, Her fists broke bones and when she missed dust greeted her rough fists... the monster swung wildly at her. What hits didn't glance off her armor were absorbed by her mighty frame as she continued to beat the monster into a pulp.<br/><br/>The world went topsey turvey for a second then Imari was left whimpering softly as she clutched at her shoulder. Looking over she watched with rapt attention as the woman pummled the creature into nothing but dust and mush. It was frightening yet thrilling at the same time. Still there was one more and it was making its way toward the blue haired woman. "BEHIND YOU!"  she shouted as she got up to her feet, wanting to help though she was not sure how.<br/><br/>Imari's words were a haze and as soon as Ahti had deciphered them, their meaning was evident as the creature dug it's claws, raking across her back. Ahti screamed in agony and toppled off the creature, long since dead. She pushed herself to her feet, the moster readying another attack, her hammer a few feet away. Her rage got the best of her and she grabbed the nearer of the two weaponns...the dead ghoul. She hoisted it through the air and brought it down with a thud, missing the live ghoul, who hissed wildly. Ahti responded by swinging the dead creature in a horizontal arc, knocking the live one from his feet. She spun in a half circle, the live ghoul now on his back.<br/><br/>Imari could now say that she had seen everything as she watched the woman use the dead creature to beat the other one to a bloody pulp. Though the woman did not stop once it was dead, she just continued. "Barbarians..." Imari mumbled in frustration. "Hey! Its Dead! We're SAFE!" she shouted, prepared to repeat it if necessary to get through to the woman as she raged.<br/><br/>Exhaustion swept over Ahti as she realized what she was doing. The limp body in her hands fell lifelessy beside it's kin and she straightened herself, grabbing her hammer. "We must go back. Probably more that need help... like you did." Ahti may not have been very articulate, but her meaning was clear.<br/><br/>"Probably. But we are both hurt...we can't kill them all..." Imari said as she retrieved her daggers. "We need to leave and get out of this place...." Imari was not bad or heartless but she did not see the two of them saving the whole village so there was no point to stick around and get killed.<br/><br/>Ahti's pride raged inside her, conflicted, her training was to stay and fight, a warriors death was better than life eternal as a coward. She grimaced, "You are right." She whispered. She could see more of the things in the town, and the two of them stood no chance against all of them. "You can run?" she asked, as she hefted the hammer onto her back, the strap resting between her breasts,and replacing her cloak on her bloodied back.<br/><br/>Imari grinned, "My friend. The only thing I am alway good at is running" she winked though her shoulder felt like it was on fire as she nodded. "This way" she took off in front to lead the way out of town.<br/><br/>Ahti kept pace with the girl easily enough... she looked back to the town and a pang of guilt rang through her heart.