#*the plot thickens

Falen hisses as she assess her wounds. She was caught off guard.. They all were. The beasts had grown too powerful in numbers and true that they managed to whittle their numbers down a little. but in the end the camp was overrun. Monsters who volunteered to help dusted at their maws and claws. These beasts were not to be trifled with. They meant to kill and nothing else. No mercy or anything. Falen shakes her head, she needed to focus on herself. With a groan she lifted herself up off the snow and dust that had gathered around her. She holds her rib cage and grunts once she stands up. She doesn’t regret making that small barrier trapping her in this area with those things while the others were safe. Her head snaps to the right when she hears the snow crunch under the weight of one of those beasts. She let’s out a groan and summons a sharp bone. If she dies here so be it, she will have died a hero. At least that’s what she thought.  

Laying eyes on the beast and its dusty maw sent her marrow boiling.This one was bigger than the rest. Maybe an alpha? The surface was a cruel place to throw these mutts down here and kill everyone. They circled each other eye locking and never looking away. Her grip on the bone tight and she let out a snarl.  No one messes with her family. The beast lunged and Falen charged at the same time. The bone pierced through the side of the neck but it still managed to clamp its maw around most of her rib cage. She let out a bloodcurdling scream of agony as she felt her ribs break from the force. The bone didn’t pierce like she had hoped. She as quick to whack the beast multiple time to let her ribs go and then tried to summon a blaster. No luck it seemed. Her magic was trying to repair the damage done. She hissed and summoned multiple bones shot up into the body but most broke on impact. Was this things hide that thick that it was able to keep it from being stabbed?! She let out a small growl of frustration and used what little magic she could spare to sharpen her distals. They circled one another and then charged again this time to finish the fight. 

The surrounding area was a mess tress broken and fallen over, blood could be spotted in the snow and the bodies of the beasts laying dead in the snow. One particular body of a beast was huge. The alpha that Falen was fighting. No dust seemed to be scattered around it. Though something was moving underneath it. Eventually the beast was flipped over and Falen was laying there motionless. The only way you could tell she was still hanging by a thread was the twitch of her tail. 

“Stupid beast..” she grumbled out. 

“I would say you were the stupid one.” A voice says to the left. 

“Fuck off Diablo.” she mutters. “Come give your sister a piggy back ride.” 

“You have Talon worried.” he mutters walking over and bending down to pick her up. He potions her onto his back and stand back up. and walks back to where the shield was. Easily passing through with her just to be swarmed by Talon with and angry look and tears leaking out of his eyesockets. 

“Bosslady you’re and idiot sometimes!” he shouted out. Though before anything else he quickly helped the two towards a set up medical tent. “What did you kill in there?” He asked quietly. 

“Alpha of those things.. Hide was thick as fuck.” she grumbled out and grunted when she was put down on to the bed. “Fuuuckkk..” she hissed out feeling her bones starting to reline themselves with the help of Diablos healing magic. “I think I dropped my phone...” she mutters. 

“You’re worried about your phone?!” Talons singular eyelight shrunk in size then he face palmed. “Boss if you weren't in such a fragile state I would smack you.” He growled out and sat down near the bed. “You are forbidden to get out of bed, until your healed. I will call up howler and Oni and have them take care of the pub till yer better.” he huffed pulling his phone out. 

Talon was silently tapping away on his phone updating the group chat on what happened. There was a flood of messages and he grumbled and looked at Falen who was now asleep breathing easily. “How long will that barrier magic last?” he asked looking towards Diablo. 

“For a while if we come back often.” Diablo muses. “It wont be a permanent solution but it should give you all time to build defenses.” He pauses and sighs. “Are you sure you won’t consider the offer?” 

“This is our home. We die defending it. But.. I’m having doubts. Were starving as is. We don’t dare touch the meat on those things. Though we do collect the hide..” Talon let’s out a little sigh. “Perhaps it would be better to relocate.. This au is doomed as it is now..” he lowered his head. “There’s been no kids fallen down and if they have? Dead by those beasts.” He shook his head. “Perhaps we were never meant to get out..”