A shadowed figure ran across the dense forest ground, much faster than any human could ever be. Several other shadowed figures could be seen giving a furious pursuit, slowly but steadily gaining grounds to the front figure. The pursued one jumped from the ground high to the top of the trees, enabling the soft moonlight to illuminate the figure and revealed what look like to be a young woman with silver hair tied up in high ponytail. Her leather clothes had scratches nearly all over and at some places look like it barely hanging on and she's missing a shoulder pad armor, a pair of swords were strapped securely on each off her sides. 

At a glance, she looked emotionless, as her electric blue eyes determinedly looked forward, but lines of exhaustion could be seen on her face. She had been running for several days without stop, and if she did stop it wasn't for resting but to fight her pursuers. She could hear something bursting through the leaves behind her. Without looking back, she knew that her pursuers had also taken the treetops to chase her. She could see them in her mind. Two demonic humanoid beetles that resembled atlas beetle, and a huge Praying Mantis demon. There were more, but she had managed to thin their numbers with some guerrilla tactics. Unfortunately, she knew that she's now at her limit. She couldn't keep this up for much longer. Her best option would be to stop and fought them all before taking a rest. Keep running, unfortunately, was no longer a choice for her at the moment. 

Finally, the tree line stopped to reveal a wooded swamp area with a small clearing. Jumping down and spun around as she skidded to a stop, the young woman unsheathed her swords and immediately had to deflect one of the atlas beetle's horn as it tried to ram her. Spinning with the momentum, she jumped over the second atlas beetle demon and swung her swords towards the praying mantis demon, which clashed against its blades. 
The fight that ensued was a deadly dance that tested the young woman's speed and agility as she moved between her foes attacks to make her own attacks. Somehow, she managed to kill one of the atlas beetle demon courtesy to a sword to one of its eyes, straight to its brain and killing it instantly. The other atlas beetle was killed when she managed to maneuver around it and caused the praying mantis' blades to pierce its own comrade. It's now one on one battle, and neither was giving ground.

Spying a chance when the young woman's focus wavered due to exhaustion, the praying mantis demon immediately struck and managed to slash the young woman's side, leaving a big gash. She let out a pained scream and fell on her back. Just as the praying mantis about to dealt the final blow, she managed to threw her sword and struck the demon on its head. The praying mantis demon stood still for a few moments before it slowly slumped to the side.

Knowing that she couldn't stay there, the young woman struggled to her feet, pressing her arm to the big gash, trying to slow the blood pouring out from her. After retrieving her sword and unsheathed them, she walked unsteadily away from the clearing and deeper into the wooded swamp. Usually, her enhanced regenerative ability should have made her wound to stop bleeding at the very least, but apparently the praying mantis' blades were covered with something that interfered with her healing ability. 
After a while, she started to feel lightheaded. Left with not much of choice, she dragged her battle worn body up to one of the tangled big roots that were all over the swamp and hid herself behind the roots curtain. It wasn't much of a protection, heck it really was not even worth to be called a protection, a low leveled demon could very easily tear through the roots. Still, it was all she could have at the moment, and before she could second guess herself, her blood loss soon robbed her of her consciousness.