@nail Shimmer seeing that this bounty was located in Murkwood was excited to accept it. Being a Direwolf, her kind was once hailed as Luana’s Warriors, but modern Direwolves have now spread out further than just their native home of Murkwood. Born in Darkspine and raised in Goldsea, she never got a chance to really see her kind's homeland. Excited for the adventure, she plucked up her Voltspike Zapscour and set off to Murkwood.
Shimmer crashed through the entangling Murkwood bog underbrush with her Voltspike Zapscour clinging on to her head for dear life. When they eventually arrive, Shimmer finds her fellow Direwolves limping and licking their wounds, and the consumed monster nowhere in sight. After conversing with them, she learns that the monster skulked off into the bog. Although it might seem the best strategy would be to wait for other lorwolves before fighting the monster, she figured the creature would just flee, making the fight tedious. Perhaps if she challenged it alone, maybe she could draw out the fight longer than the monster would like. She discussed her plan with a couple of older Direwolves and her Zapscour companion, who agreed and nestled itself firmly and safely in the fur on her head.
Prepared and excited for the fight, Shimmer trudged into the Murkwood bog, exposing herself for the consumed monsters' ambush. As expected, the Consumed Thrasher, thinking Shimmer was stuck in the bog, surged out of the muck to claw her. The bog was thick and heavy, but no match for Shimmer's strength; she easily pulled herself free and dodged the monster's attack. Leaping back into the fight with razor-sharp claws, she cleaved at the monster. The two relentlessly traded blows, neither getting the advantage over the other. The monster, growing frustrated with this prolonged fight, taps into its fel-consumed power and summons a shield of vines and tendrils. However, Shimmer easily pierces and tears asunder the shield with a mighty swipe, and two combatants again lock into combat.
The younger watching Direwolves itch to join the fight and move to enter, but the older Direwolves hold them back, informing them of Shimmer's plan. Begrudgingly, the younger Direwolves watch from a distance, engrossed in the fight and display of skill. However, soon they are startled by what seems to be a faint violet glow around Shimmer. All Direwolf pups growing up hear stories about the Luana’s Warriors of old. How when push comes to shove, Direwolves can call upon their roots and go into a battle frenzy. Power will course through them, buffing their already powerful abilities beyond their limits. However, after calling upon this power, a Direwolf will need to rest for several days. Knowing this, some of the Direwolves, fearing that Shimmer might be in this battle frenzy and may suddenly, at an ill time, collapse and be vulnerable to a lethal attack, move to join the fight. Once again, however, the others hold them back.
Shimmer and the Consumed Thrasher duel ferociously, and with every movement, Shimmer's glow grows even brighter. The watching and conversing Direwolves ponder that perhaps the glow is not from her battle frenzy but from her Aura. All lorwolves hear from their elders through myths and legends that before the Spiritwolves departed, they left behind their Aura in sacred shrines to protect Loria in their absence. Some of these stories even say that some lorwolves, with enough training and dedication, can even wield this Aura and become Aura Masters! Seeing what must be history in the making, the watching Direwolves begin to cheer for Shimmer, beating the ground with their mighty paws and howling for her victory.
Shimmer, breathing heavily and thoroughly exhausted from the long fight, narrowly dodges the monster's whipping tail. The Consumed Thrasher, seeing that its prey is finally slowing down, presses the attack. Shimmer's legs begin to tremble with fatigue, but she cannot give up yet. The Thrasher leaps towards her, with its maw open wide. She raises up on her back legs and catches the monster's jaws in her paws. The Thrasher presses down on her, but with a roar she pushes it off. However, it uses the momentum of her shove to whip around and swing its heavy tail at her. She moves to dodge back, but her strength finally fails her. With a bone-shattering crunch, the monster's tail smashes into Shimmer and sends her flying into an ancient tree in the distance.
Rather than slinking back into the bog, the monster gloats at its victory and descends upon the brilliantly glowing but helpless Shimmer. Seeing the sudden turning of events, the watching Direwolves rush to her aid but are too far away. The Thrasher, towering over Shimmer's limp body, raises one of its arms high above its head, closes its claws into a single spearing point, and drives it down onto Shimmer.
Shimmer, seeing double, helplessly watches the Consumed Thrasher menacingly approach her. She tries to move, but the wind was knocked out of her. She lets out a little laugh as she remembers that this was her first bounty and how foolish she was. Her attention focuses back on the present as her vision clears and she sees a tiny purple tail waving in front of her eyes. Remembering what needs to be done, she musters all the strength she has left as she watches the glinting, spearing claw of the Consumed Thrashed descend down upon her.
With a final burst of energy, Shimmer parries the blow away from her head and onto her shoulder and, with a defiant roar, rises up and headbutts the consumed monster. The monster stumbles back, briefly perplexed by Shimmer's remaining strength, and moves forward to finish her off but stops, noticing that she looks different. She is no longer glowing, and the weird purple splotch on her head is gone. The consumed monster looks down, noticing it's now glowing and that the splotch that was once on Shimmer's head is now on its chest, and that the splotch is moving and has two eyes and a pink tongue. Shimmer, wincing in pain from her shoulder, pulls herself just high enough to get out of the water and roars. Realising what is about to happen, the Consumed Thrasher tries to fling the splotch off, but it is too late.
The watching Direwolves desperately rush forward, but they are still too far. They pick up speed, seeing that Shimmer manged to avoid that lethal blow. But before they could get close enough to strike the Thrasher, the air suddenly grows still, and the hair on their backs goes up. The Consumed Thrasher, enveloped in crackling violet energy, flashes in blinding white light, every bone in its body illuminated in clear detail. A fraction of a second later, a thunderous concussive wave exploded in all directions, hurling dirt and debris and knocking back all who were close to the explosion.
CRITICAL HIT!!!
You have successfully targeted it's weakness! All synergies are doubled for this attack! (weaknesses can only be targeted once!) Heroic Hunter has been claimed for this bounty!
Hit! 14/? Primal
Hit! 9/? Tactician
4/? Rogue
Hit! 5/? Dueler
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