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Nubia trudged through the snow, her feet carrying as fast as they would go, thankfully as she continued onward the ice crystals seemed to form together as a sturdier platform. She felt herself begin to free from the confines of the cold fluffy prison as the mass of white beneath her began to become more solid. She breathed a sigh of relief, the breath from her mouth becoming mist as she did and momentarily fogging the goggles she had on. [break][break]

Luckily they cleared up just as the creature came barreling at her, diving in for an attack with a leap and pounce. She was tempted to roll the side, but instead, she ducked downward, bringing the blade upward toward the creature's neck, "Red Soil," she muttered, stepping to the side as the blade sliced into the neck of the creature, though it turned its body just at the last minute. It leaked from its neck and wobbled as it stood and turned to reorient itself. [break][break]

It growled at her, barring its fangs from its maw full of teeth circling Nubia slowly, looking for an opening. Nubia didn't know how resilient this thing was but the fact that the front half of its white coat of fur was now coated in blood Nubia had a feeling it was rather sturdy, that or just stubborn and intent on taking her down with it. She sucked her teeth, she had hoped that attack would kill it or at least scare it enough for it to turn tail which would give her an opening. She didn't expect the creature to instead ready for another attack. [break][break]

This time it rushed forward, no pouncing, no more stalking just a desperate made dash in an attempt to bite into Nubia. She rolled to the side, snow coating her face and body, the cold stung but it was better than bleeding from an open bite wound. She held her dagger near her side, taking its sheath out of the dagger and placing the blade within with practiced grace, only to quickly draw it one smooth succession. She ran the edge of the blade across the side of the creature lettings momentum do most of the work for her. The creature fell to the side behind her bloody and bleeding. She could still feel the warmth of its body heat as it had passed so close by her. [break][break]

"Ollie, get over here so I can place some of whatever this in your inventory, what do I need to take?" She yelled. Turning around she flicked the blood from her blade just to dirty it again as she began digging into the creature with the blade. It was time to harvest.  [break][break]

[attr="class","landtag2"]Ollie [TAGGED]

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Nubia could hear her heart thumping in her chest as she closed her eyes, opening them slowly as she took a deep breath only to open them to the sight of the Minotaur finally reorienting himself. Nubia let Sebastian charge in first after his comment. Especially considering it seemed the beast now had a vendetta against the spider boy, perhaps it was because he was talking shit and the creature wasn't fond of it. [break][break]

Nubia moved around in a semi-circle rather than charging straight for it, attempting to get behind the creature as Sebastian moved forward, attacking the creature head-on, either the kid was confident or reckless, either way, Nubia was fond of it. She saw the message from Ollie then, nodding to affirm she had read it. She readied her dagger, letting Sebastian strike first, watching as the spider boy slid underneath the charging bull creature like a baseball player trying to steal a base. She smiled as Sebastian's spider legs dug into the creature's groin and her left hand elicited a large wail of pain from it. [break][break]

However, as Nubia was running to maneuver around it, the beast grabbed Sebastian by his spider leg, tossing him just as she had reached its side, if Nubia didn't know better she would've sworn the minotaur was specifically aiming toward her. She cartwheeled out of the way, using her momentum to carry her forward and to the side as she twisted her legs, using the weight of her feet and thighs to pull her to the side. Upon landing on her feet, she ducked down just in time to avoid a swipe from the creature. Another swipe, and another duck and leap back, she couldn't get close that was until a dagger, no, a feather from that bird creature they killed earlier came flying, stabbing into the creature's eye. [break][break]

Nubia ran around the Minotaur, cutting its tendons with her blade, before rolling to the side as another stomp came, the beast toppling over from its own weight. Then the creature was blinded as Adrian of people came, Nubia rushed in only to nearly get slapped back by wild swinging, the creature's hand colliding with her blade as she leaped back to minimize the force of the impact, and she felt her body lift off the ground and fly back. [break][break]

Then she was stunned, not because of anything she did, but because the Minotaur let out a deafening roar, and as it did Nubia felt her mind slip into despair, into fear. Her whole body began to shake, then a notification popped up reading something about her being stunned due to an [fear] effect. She felt her heartbeat race, she felt tears welling up in her eyes as the creature's hands wrapped around her hefting it closer to her, its eyes were blind, it took a sniff of her before lifting its hands slowly. Its energy clearly running low as it was bleeding out and poisoned but if it slammed her down Nubia was sure something would break, perhaps it would even kill her.[break][break]

Then she felt something click, something in the back of her mind telling her that she had this handle, had it covered, her ability details came funneling into her mind. The thoughts of her reading her classes skills and abilities came rushing into the forefront of her mind. Ability Activating... Sharp Mind were the words she heard as her mind quickly snapped out of the [fear] effect, that soon left her notifications. She grits her teeth, both her arms were still free, and with her mind now clear it was her turn to finish all of this. If only she could reach its neck, but it was holding her too far back, she had a dagger, not a sword, unless...[break][break]

She thought hard about the dagger being a blade, and at that moment the dagger's black blade and crimson edge began to stretch, extend and grow, black flower petals peeling off it as it did. She held the blade by her side as if she was about to unsheathe a blade attached to her waist blade. "Black Sunflower..." were the words she muttered, "Fourth Petal - Dissonant Grafting!" She yelled, swinging her blade with her right hand, the blade facing the same direction as she attacked in an Iaijutsu-style movement.[break][break]

The wind began to collect around her blade swing as she swung her blade connecting against the minotaur's neck, arching it from across to the right, then as the blade went free half a foot from its neck, she twisted her arm turning the edge of the blade to the left, grabbing near the bottom of the hilt of the blade with her left hand, Nubia struck again moving the sword along the same path she had before but in reverse. All within an instant, this technique had been one created to originally disarm by attacking a joint, but Nubia had more strength now, more speed, and now it could be used to outright kill.[break][break]

Wind spread from her blade this time as it arched from the blade, just as sharp as the black katana she now wielded, it carved through the creature's neck, lopping off its hard as it slashed through, cutting into the ground behind it and bringing up a cloud of dust. The grip loosened on her and she fell to the ground, bending her knees as she landed to reduce the impact. She rolled away, as the rest of the creature's body flopped hard on the ground. Picking up the head of the creature she tossed it into her inventory. Perhaps the horns could come in handy. Looking toward the headless corpse, Nubia kicked it a couple of times to make sure it was dead, though she had yet to find a creature that could live without its head. [break][break]

Moving toward Sebastian she went to check if he was okay, offering a hand to help him up from the tree before moving toward the others. "Well, that was an ordeal, let's get the hell out of here," Nubia said, before turning back to the forest and running toward the smoke they had seen earlier.[break][break]

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Friendships:

• Ollie
• sebastian
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Enemies:

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Romantic Entanglements:

• List item 1
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Acquaintances:

• Wesley Mackie
• enigma
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[attr="class","landtag2"]N/A [TAGGED]

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*Ping!* The sound echoed out around her as she rested at the table she secured for herself in a cute little café in the Hub. She wasn't really sure how much longer she'd rest here, perhaps until Ollie finished whatever business and adventures he was on and needed her services again. In the meantime, Nubia knew she needed more business, more money. Currency was finite nowadays but favors, acquaintances, trade, and goods were things that had taken the place of the common dollar, for now. [break][break]

Nubia sighed taking a sip from her tea, her favorite part about the hub was that everything was free, even if resting here for too long eventually got you expelled to some random place. She had her through the grapevines that being expelled from The Hub could potentially land someone in a high-risk area, thus she only sat here in intervals, often going through a waygate to a new place to explore and hunt some creatures for materials. She hadn't found anyone to utilize such materials, but that was semantics, and she was sure something would come up eventually. [break][break]

With a casual poke of her finger, Nubia pressed against the blue holographic menu that had popped out eliciting the earlier sound. She had gotten a message request. Cell phones were gone, but if one knew the nickname or your full name they could send you a friend request, party invite, or even a private message provided you left your settings open for people to send such, and you accepted. It read that it was from someone named "Enigma," she smiled messaging back.[break][break]

Clearly, someone had seen one of the paper ads she posted up throughout The Hub. Nubia replied to the message, telling this Enigma fellow to meet her at the café. After sending the message she leaned back in her seat, and took another sip from her tea awaiting their arrival. Another good thing about the hub was there was no need for her to be on guard as you couldn't die or take damage in the hub, something she had found moments after she had arrived in it for the first time. [break][break]

[attr="class","landtag2"]enigma [TAGGED]

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"Hm, okay," Nubia said to Adrian she eyed him suspiciously, the fact that they had run for over half an hour just to return and run away from the creature told her that it was probably some type of mini-boss that just enjoyed the hunt. "So in other words you led it back to everyone else," Nubia said with a sly smile. She shrugged, shook her head, and ran off, she knew the guy's power let him make poison but he wondered what the dead girl was, perhaps if she wasn't such dead weight they could've possibly beaten the creature on their own. Nubia made the mental note to not let others drag her down whenever possible, lest she ends up the in position Adrian was in.[break][break]

"Keep your voice down," Nubia said firmly, shooting a glare at, Adrian as he shouted. "It's okay to be upset when someone accuses you of something, but how about not getting us all killed by alerting monsters to us by shouting," Nubia said turning her attention back to the forest ahead. She couldn't fault Ollie for his own words, it was perfectly normal to be suspicious in such a tense situation, especially with a person as sketchy as poison. She cared nothing for his tears, at this point the guy would just have to move on. She didn't fault them for his emotions, she just wished he knew how to compartmentalize them. Now wasn't the time for whining, not when their lives were still at risk.[break][break]

Then sure enough, as they continued onward smoke could be seen, Nubia smiled, turning toward Adrian and giving him a nod of confirmation before she picked up her running pace. Then Nubia heard Sebastian speak only for him to get cut off by a roar, and crash from within the forest past the clearing. She brought up her dagger only to see it was a damn minotaur that appeared, one of the few monsters that she did know from movies. She sighed, relaxing her shoulders and readying herself as she did. "Fuck..." She muttered. [break][break]

Nubia pushed Ollie and Adrian behind a nearby tree, before diving to the side to avoid the charge of the minotaur. It came at them all like an angry bull thankfully with the speed and power it had while moving as it brushed past them, Nubia figured it wouldn't be able to turn on a dime. No, they had a few moments at least before it could reorient itself, just like an actual bull. [break][break]

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"For your sake, I hope you don't," though the words seemed harsh she had spoken them with a friendly tone, choosing to place a sly smile upon her face as she spoke. The conversation continued onward and Nubia nodded to Fox as he spoke before she decided to reply herself, "well if I didn't I probably would've struck you down already, who knows~" She said playful, though it was meant as a joke, Nubia knew that there was some truth to it. She had no qualms about taking human life and though she aligned more along the spectrum of good and bad as someone who was affably evil, Nubia knew that taking lives unnecessarily gained nothing. She simply had goals that she set, goals of which she would not let others come between without retribution.[break][break]

Nubia smiled as Fox accepted the friend request, she placed a hand on her hip, choosing to run her finger through one of her afro curls, spinning around her finger as they began to walk. She was nonchalant about it, but her relaxed demeanor was betrayed by her vigilance as she glanced from side to side constantly. Her eyes took in every tree, every grain of the grass, searching for anything out of the ordinary. Or rather what went for ordinary nowadays.[break][break]

Then roar echoed throughout, Nubia raised her dagger, calmly looking from side to side. She didn't know what the roar was, she was a mercenary not a hunter, thus she wasn't as well versed in beast as she would've liked. Then she glanced over toward Fox, she could see that his grip had tightened on his gun, she chopped it up to nerves and glanced around once more.[break][break]

Nubia shrugged at Fox's question, "beats me, I didn't watch nearly as much animal planet as I should've throughout my days," she said, trying to use comedy to ease the tension in the air, then she spoke once more. "I'm sure we'll find out soon enough," she said nonchalantly, though such casual ease of her words betrayed the caution of worry behind her eyes.[break][break]

Then Fox said that the roar was probably from wolves and that it could possibly be a pack. She hoped it was just one, and if not, perhaps they could use the sheep as cover. After all, she imagined the wolves be more preoccupied with them. She nodded to him and then followed his lead, moving over toward the sheep. "Hopefully there aren't more than we can handle," she said bringing her dagger toward her side, letting the blade point downward.[break][break]

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