Scylla.
Also known as a monster with twelve dangling misshapen feet, six long necks and six hideous heads, each bearing three rows of razor-sharp teeth, with barking dog heads encircling her waist.
Though the Scylla we are facing now HAS twelve long necks and twelve hideous heads with several more rows of razor-sharp teeth with numerous eyes all over its heads.
We are in big trouble.
It seems that some of the myths we have on earth are real on this world but the monster description is a bit different in which seeing them look much worse than what was described in the myths. It made me think that it's no coincidence about me being absorbed in this universe. There's a possibility that the writers of the original myths and legends have experienced some sort of seeing the reality of this world in which their human mind has difficulty in comprehending on what they are seeing that they cannot fully describe it in writing.
And that is why we have several myths and legends that gave birth to fantasy written works as the original writers tried to make sense on what they saw.
But I'm the only human though that was completely absorbed physically after Lion tried researching about it.
....
Lion took out his katana as he stood in front of me. He told me to go get the shard as sparks started to form on his other hand.
I nodded then slowly back my way towards the altar as any sudden movement may cause the monster to attack us.
Holding the magic stone towards my chest, I can feel something tried to push me away as I got nearer to the altar.
Suddenly, I felt a bubble enveloping me, preventing me from moving nearer the altar.
It seems that we had to kill the monster first before getting the shard.
Lion closed his eyes as he tried to telepathically call Sly, gripping his katana tightly as the monster slowly moved towards him.
I was about to yell him a warning when suddenly, I felt myself starting to suffocate.
There's no air inside the bubble!
Unlike the bubble back in the throne room that enveloped me, this bubble I'm in now has no air in which I'm starting to cough while holding my neck with my hand.
Even though I don't want to distract Lion, I'm having a hard time breathing as my chest suddenly feels tight.
I tried calling Lion but it seems that my voice is only a whisper as i felt myself gasping for air.
It is only when I banged on wall of the bubble using my stronger hand that he noticed me looking at him desperately as I felt myself sweating on the forehead.
There was terror in his eyes as he kept glancing towards me while attacking the monster.
I began to breathe rapidly, kneeling on the floor with my hands clutching on the ground.
Soon my fingernails started to have a bluish tint on them then I collapsed.
While gasping for air, I watched the battle unfold between the monster and Lion who is trying his best to kill it fast.
One by one, he kept cutting off the monster's heads as he used a lightning attack on the monster, preventing it from moving closer to him.
Sly finally arrived, transforming into his dragon self as he tried to attack it by hitting it with his head.
He bit off one of the heads as Lion finished cutting off all of the monster's feet, making it unable to move.
Sly glanced at me and his eyes began to show signs of panic in which both he and Lion desperately tried to kill the monster faster.
I saw Lion shouting in fury and Sly in a maddening roar as they hacked and slashed in a frantic and uncontrolled movement in which several chunks of the monster's flesh flew through the air, making the remaining monster's heads scream gruesomely.
They seemed like two individuals driven by madness as the monster's body became a mangled mess, covering them with gore as they showed no signs of stopping.
Is this what they meant about being bloodthirsty?
This is the first time that I saw them losing their self control.
I'm scared.
They looked like beasts.
No, more like a part of their monster self has emerged.
My vision became blurry and slowly, it became dark
....
Am I dead?
I opened my eyes and saw myself floating above my body.
Lion is clutching my body tightly towards his chest, crying out in despair while Sly seems to have lost his mind as he kept destroying the entire cave in his dragon form.
Why do I keep dying?
This isn't funny anymore.
It seems that I attracted some sort of bad energy from something that I kept getting wounded or almost losing my life.
But this time, I seemed to be dead for real.
I remembered on how I used to be carefree when it comes to death. But looking at Lion while he's grieving, I felt a pang on my chest.
Suddenly, I heard a voice calling me. Wait, is this the same voice I heard before? When I took the magic stone and the first shard?
I felt something in my hand. I glanced down and opened my hand, seeing the second shard.
Oh.
Um, how do I give this to Lion when I'm floating up here?
I decided to drop the shard beside him in which he slowly turned towards it and picked it up. His face turned into unsuppressed rage in which he clenched his teeth and threw the shard towards the altar.
Please don't waste my sacrifice.
Lion continued to grieve as he tried to wake me up. He tried to say something to me in which I don't understand, stroking my hair and face as tears continued to roll down his cheeks.
I can hear Sly roaring as he almost destroyed the entire cave in his rampage.
Lion raised his head, screaming while hitting his fist on the ground over and over until blood started to spurt. He then held my body tightly again with his hands, nuzzling my face and neck while sobbing.
Then the voice called my name again.
I glanced around and saw no one. Then I went back to watching Lion again.
Lion continued to held me tightly as he gave me several kisses around my face, nudging my cheeks as he tried to wake me up.
I'm already dead, Lion.
Sigh.
I don't know how to feel really. I mean, of course I want to stay with him but what can I do? I think I'm a spirit or something.
After some time, I can see Bahar approaching Lion, putting his hand on Lion's shoulder as he said something to Lion.
Oohh I really think he likes Lion.
I tried to move closer to Lion, in hopes of hearing their conversation as Bahar spoke in a low voice in which I can't hear clearly.
Lion continued to stare at my body in which Bahar suddenly looked towards me. My spirit self.
Ah. He saw me.
Wait, he can see ME?!!
I don't think he will tell Lion though.
I was correct as while he continued to talk to Lion, his eyes are looking towards me.
He raised his eyebrow as his eyes began to look like he wants to devour me.
Then he grinned at me.