[center][h1][color=darkgreen]Linkle[/color][/h1][/center]

[center][color=darkgreen][b] Level 7[/b][/color] - (31/70) + 1 [/center]

[center][b]Location:[/b] The Land of Adventure ~ No-man's Land
[b]Word Count: 737 [/b]

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Linkle's unrelenting icy assault halted momentarily as the vast majority of the koopa troop that had been so valiantly holding the line up and vanished. She brought her fingers to her lips and let out a sharp whistle that echoed across the battlefield. Immediately she spotted three little dots of white weaving to and fro through the horde of regular soldiers toward her. They were a little worse for wear, feathers ruffled from the battle, and as they barreled out from between the legs of the primids at top speed Linkle saw that same group of primids get thrown aside as a giant chicken monster barreled after them.

A quick look around told her that most of the awful horn monsters were just flat out gone, and a moment later Linkle charged past the rough defensive line they'd formed to protect the Brother Grimm. Her girls shot past her underfoot as she draped the bow back over herself and shot forward boot first at their pursuer. There was a crisp, cool impact that the big bird monster just powered on through. Linkle was forced to hop backwards on one leg, foot still planted on its chest, as the thing just kept charging forward. As she was being pushed along she reached out and grabbed her crossbow out of her outstretched boot, put it right against the monster, and fired over and over again. The crossbows had greater power now, and from this range it wasn't long before little fractures started appearing in the monster's flesh.

Grinning, Linkle bent her knee and kicked off the monster's chest to buy herself a little space. She darted forward, leaping into the air and flying downward to deliver another kick. This time the monster’s chest caved in like the shell of an egg, but instead of being sprayed with goo or spirits a small yellow chick emerged and fluttered off into the sky as Linkle stared. The sight was dumbfounding to her. 

She didn’t have time to be distracted for long. An ear splitting sound suddenly echoed across the battlefield, making her wince even as far from it as she was and drawing her attention back, to the weird ghostly creature that had snuck around to the Courier's gun nest. An explosion drew her attention back to the enemy's side of the field, a contingent of yellow and white creatures emerging from the dust cloud and making their way down the field flanked by what looked like a bunch of low flying carpets. Those zoomed in much faster, and Linkle jumped as one of them flew under her. 

Unfortunately, that one flew up under Tora and started lifting him high into the sky. Luckily he was smart enough to jump off before it went too high, and someone was close by to catch him. Another went for Euden just after he triumphed against the growing monster. More were moving stealthily, snaking their way along the ground toward Bower, Geralt, or….OH NO!

Linkle started to sprint back to the defensive line around Brother Grimm. Everyone else was too busy dealing with the new threats, they didn’t see that someone was [i]assaulting the commander.[/i] Linkle was very fast though, and had more than enough experience with huge battlefields to cross them without getting murdered. As she approached Peach just on the heels of the carpet thing she leaped toward it just as it wormed its way under the Princess, slamming her free hand on what she could only think of as the creature's tail. She thought she felt it rippled in surprise, but it didn’t have the freedom to move like that for long. Cold coalesced around them, spreading out from Linkle’s palm as ice began to spread across the creature and spill off of it onto the ground. It tried to lift up and take Peach on a round trip into the stratosphere, but found itself shackled to the earth by an uneven lattice work of gleaming ice.

Linkle sighed in relief, popping back to her feet. She pulled her other crossbow and turned around, scanning the field for more sneaky assassination troops. This was by far the weirdest collection of monsters she had ever seen.