There were 4 groups of 25 Menerics each.
The first group, Scout, had reached a week ago.
The second group, Assault, just set up camp.
Their leader was a thin (muscular by meneric standards) and green Meneric, the central head having his mouth and nose, the right head with one blue eye and ears, the left head with his other eye and another pair of ears.
Each of his gleaming white claws had a length of a meter, some green visible at the base and his hand lay idle with all of its three fingers.
Elun, as he was named, was looking around.
Everyone here was a criminal, including himself, and drafted by the republic of Meneric, before being sent here.
their goal:
Go commit atrocities against the Hysuans.
That's exactly what was written on an official document.
It felt wierd, but their commanding officer said that it was legit, so...
"Kelp, pass some more wood."
Despite being criminals, they got along well. Mostly because if they looked good, a parole or a pardon may happen.
And, after all, not everyone did the crimes they were in for.
Unknowingly, both dominant races built their bases in polar opposite ends of the Javelin forest.
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That night, Elun went out to get some air, and just stood below the namesake Javelin trees.
These looked like a much taller version of pine trees, except the leaves were dark green spears, and they stuck out like cactus thorns.
Densly packed at the top, forming a canopy like the torn roofs of the homes of Elun's soldiers.
There were other plants and trees here too, like the places where these outposts were built.
Suddenly, one javelin leaf fell.
Elun's claws extended immediately, and the hand on his tail curled into a fist.
His side heads began looking and hearing around, and his central head sniffed the air once.
Then he growled quietly.
But his surroundings were anything but quiet.
The javelin trees leaned away.
The stones on the ground were pulverized.
The grass ducked.
And the tents stilled.
Elun lowered his claws slightly, but the wiry necks of his side heads did not stop.
Suddenly, a red blur shot past him.
The wind picked up sharply, and Elun slashed with his 10 claws, each move sending mini hurricanes at the red blur.
He then ground his claws against each other, sending a sharp wistle heard from a mile away.
He opened his mouth to speak, but his words stopped the moment he saw a golden string spun around him.
*pull*
Elun put both of his claws on his sides just as the string began to tighten towards his body.
*SHHHHIIIiiiing*
The golden string was stopped from coiling around his body and splitting him in 2 by his claws.
The sharp gold grond against his claws, almost reaching his hand before stopping.
This golden string was thicker than expected, with some sort of black pattern on it.
The string had 4 spheres on it.
And the Hysuan was holding two, one Azure and one Vermillion pulling as hard as he could.
The two beads had black patterns on them, and an image of a dragon was visible on the Azure bead.
The other two were unremarkable, one white and one black, both sliding along the string, hitting Elun's claws from the sides.
They did not hurt, but they slid the string stopped by his claws lower, almost reaching his hands.
At this rate, the gold string would just cut through his hand, chopping his claws off!
While the Hysuan was good, the weapon was the one that felt threatening to Elun. Especially the carved dragon on the Azure bead.
"What? Don't you guys know how to treat a superior race, Triherd?"
The Hysuan called him a 'triherd'.
That's a racial AND relegious slur.
3 heads, a relegion around the number 3, and the tradition to move in groups of three.
Elun growled beastially, and began pushing the string away.
"EveryONE! SOME INBRED INSULTED TRIHECTA!"
The relegion of Trihecta was strong.
It made 24 criminals rise together.
And it may make them fall together too.
"Is daddy too rough with you?"
The Hysuan had black hair and brown eyes, and his 8.5 cm horn was finally visible.
"Your wife did much better than you."
"KEEP. HER. OUT!"
Elun was ready to tear this red shit to pieces, just a bit more time.
Either the string gets repelled, or the others get here.
He did not even consider that he could die.
"Well, she does not want it out, so maybe you want it out instead? I can't tell with you."
The Hysuan wanted him angry so that he becomes too angry to fight at full strength.
Elun snarled, and finaly jumped up in the air as the gold string went slack enough.
"YOU ARE NOT GETTING OUT OF HERE ALIVE!!!"
The Hysuan pulled the entire weapon towards him, just as Elun reached the peak of his jump.
The other Menerics were a few seconds away.
Then, he began spinning each of the beads through the string, leaving blurs of the 4 colors in the air, the Azure and Vermilion beads being Noticable untraceable.
Elin however, didn't care.
He shot straight at the Hysuan, ready to dice him to pieces, all claws Ready.
"Oh well. Remember my name."
The Hysuan said.
Then he held the White orb, at the very end of the string, and swung the entire thing like a sword.
Just as the other Menerics reached, The Azure Orb hit Elin.
*ROOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRR*
And Suddenly, a 10 meter Long Azure Dragon Spawned from the Impact, and Bit down on Elun.
Then it turned to the other Menerics.
All except one.
One Meneric lunged straight at the Hysuan, his 80 cm Claws Ready to avenge his presumably dead leader.
Then His white claws changed colors. One red, one blue, one yellow, one white and one black.
The Hysuan was clearly affected by the change. Especially when the change was identical to him.
"Remember my Name.
I'm Karat"