Lady Boss Of The Unpopular Dungeon

Alexa and Rune couldn't believe the foul word coming out the mouths of the two obvious monster poachers and tried to hold back the hatred in her eyes. Suddenly a though crossed her mind about recent events back at Astral Descent and the wheels in her mind began to turn.

She took a deep breath and steeled her nerves and she slowly began to remove her hood revealing her lovely exquisite face, her bright teal eyes and her long hair which was put in a long graceful ponytail with a few locks of hair left out to frame her face.

While trying to hold back her disgust, Alexa put on a fake smile and she began to converse with with the two lechers while silently sending a gesture to Rune to sneak the injured Simurgh a safe distance away for her little scheme. "Um, excuse me, but what exactly are you two gentlemen doing all the way out here in these dark scary woods." while faking a shy and nervous expression to throw the poachers of guard which easily worked.

While relaxing their stance and putting some sleazy grins on their faces, the to men began to introduce themselves with the the blonde man speaking first. "Well hello there Honey, my name is Rolf and this is my associate Kyle. We happen to be monster collectors and you should be lucky that you ran into us or you could have gotten into some trouble." Rolf began to swagger a bit and walked a few steps closer to Alexa who tried her best to not flinch or glare at the two men.

The feisty dungeon mistress began to sweet talk the poachers in an effort to distract them from Rune's sneaky actions. "So you find and capture monsters, have you ever come across any arachne, I heard they can be trained to make clothes?"

The two men put on some arrogant grins and began to boast. "Well honey, we managed to catch one last month, but the blasted thing escaped last week and the recent storm washed away it's trail. It was pain in the a.s.s to catch but the stupid thing is probably dead, such a valuable piece of merchandise lost.." Rolf trailed off and he suddenly reach over and put his arm around Alexa who became very still and her face was covered in a unreadable expression. Rolf began to speak "So sugar, how about you stick with us, and we'll do our best to make sure you're safe and um....satisfied." and he ended his very creepy proposal with a unexpected attempted to plant a kiss on Alexa's cheek while trying to sneakily feel her up.

"SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!"

All of a sudden, Rolf was lying on the ground feeling very dazed and in pain from getting slapped three times in his idiotic and sleazy by a very angry Alexa. The normally cheerful girl was absolutely enraged by the horrendous attitudes shown by the two poachers towards her and to Rune and the poor monsters that had encountered them. Alexa crossed her arms over her c.h.e.s.t and began to speak to the poachers while giving them a look that basically said "Burn in the deepest darkest pits of hell for all eternity."

"Do you really think that I would have bad judgement to even consider being anywhere near you two lowlifes! Anyone who treats a living thing like it's merchandise or some plaything deserves to have his sorry carcass beaten black and blue."

Alexa began to smile a little and she continued her fiery monologue "I believe that it's time to teach trash like you some much needed manners....Aura Blaze!"

The moment that Alexa shouted her attack spell that she had been practicing nonstop for the past week, a bright purplish-blue light that resembled a large comet burst from her hands and hit the poachers in a perfect preemptive strike.

The two men were sent flying into some nearby bushes and within a few minutes, the poachers crawled up out of the bushes with angry scowls on their faces and the taller one painfully growled out "You little tease! When we get through with you, you'll be wishing you were dead, you little bitch!" After making this hate-filled threat towards Alexa, the poachers drew their long swords out and rushed at Alexa who took a deep breath and prepared to use her defense spell to negate their attack when a dusk-colored figure darted towards Kyle and Rolf and the two men began getting badly scratched up by small acid green blades that seemed to be emitted by the figure.

Rune kept up his assault on the hunters for a few more minutes and soon he gracefully leaped back towards Alexa and began to speak. "Boss, the bird is safe, but did you really have to all the fun without me?" Alexa began to involuntarily chuckle and she covered her mouth with her hands to stop laughing.

"Pfft...Sorry Rune, but the creepy guy with the blonde hair was making a cheap pass at me...what do you think I should have done?" Rune turned to glare at the poachers who were disbelief at hearing Rune and Alexa's conversation. The sassy carbuncle gave a huff and replied "Well, obviously you should have blasted them into next week or until these morons stopped moving....I might as well help you send them flying.

Together, Rune and Alexa began their first field test of a combined attack that consisted of Alexa using Crystal Barrier to trap the intended targets in a inescapable sphere while Rune would blast at the sphere to launch it into mid air and the the two friends would combine attacks and send the sphere flying through the air and far away from them.

Rune started things off by lunging and leaping at the poachers in an effort to distract them from noticing Alexa concentrating on trapping them with Crystal Barrier. Within a few minutes, Alexa was ready and she called for Rune to get out of the way. Before the poachers could react, Rune easily darted out of the way while Alexa chanted her spell and trapped the two wicked men in a sphere that closely resembled a polished quartz marble and with some enthusiastic blasts from Rune, the sphere was sent upwards by a few meters. For the final part of their coordinated attack, Rune and Alexa each fired an attack spell that joined together and hit the sphere with enough force to send it towards the sky, where it kept going and going until it disappeared.

"Goodbye and good riddance!" Alexa cheerfully shouted while Rune kept snickering. The pair celebrated their victory in what was basically Alexa's first fight. Soon the pair stopped celebrated and rushed over to where rune hid the injured simurgh in order to tend to it's injuries.