Bounty Hunter Bash Sleep Lock Part Four

 The Dream People 

They walked into a village. The homes were made of stone with uneven glass windows with back doors. The roads were cobbled and there were no pavements. There were many men and women dressed in all black. Their faces were all pale as death with heavy bags underneath their dead eyes. They had no expressionless faces and went about their business like clockwork.

They all looked around for anything that they could indicate that there was something off. Bash then walked up to one.

“Hello.”

“Why are you talking to them?” Asked Cerpheres.

“They might have something to say.”

He smiled and nodded.

“Hello. You are real people, I see.” She said with an emotionless voice.

“Yes.”

“Then I am to give you this.” She said, giving her a map. “You are to travel to the Dream Castle. That is where her main Dream Avatar is, there it is waiting for you. That is if you can get there.”

“And what do you mean by that?”

That was when the rest of the village crowded around them. Then they came closer and closer and closer.

“You are to fight us.” She said, throwing a punch at her.

Bash ducked and struck her fist into her stomach and flicked her foot up and kicked her away from her. She saw a fist coming at her. The next moment she flew back. She landed in the middle of another group. She quickly whipped out her bow and arrow and hit one before another broke her bow. She then held her arrow and stabbed one in the head. Then slit another in the throat. Suddenly she felt a fist in her stomach.

She flicked her arrow down as she curled over. Then she felt a fist in her side. She dug the arrow head down. She felt one in her back. She flicked it back and reacted like a wing. Then she saw a leg coming at her. She stabbed the leg and another leg and another leg. She did this again and again and again until they all fell. 

She was able to get up. She was able to get another bow. She fired an arrow at one line after the other. She saw more of the mob racing to her. She shot one after another, spinning as she did. She loaded arrow after arrow as fast as she could.

Then she looked over at Chashathrophogh as he fired a fireball at one that was about to hit Strena, who seemed slightly taller. She slit one throat then another. She jumped up and stabbed one that was about to get to him. Zaryb threw tiny daggers as one was about to hit her. She spotted one was about to strike him from behind. She quickly loaded her bow and fired at the village dream woman.

She then returned to the rest of the mob that were racing at her. Then one hit her again. Then the quiver of arrows were broken. Then they threw fists down, one after the other until she spat out blood.

This is not working…

She closed her eyes then focused her magic out. Then fire flew out of her. This took out a great deal of them. She raised herself up, she then spotted the mob coming back to her. She was about to get another bow and set of arrows then was hit back down. She was then under another round of rain of fists.

She tried to use her magic but her mind could not focus. Then the group around her fell. Then she looked up to see Cerpheres blow her a kiss. She grimaced as she turned to the rest of the crowd. She then summoned a bow and arrow. She lit the head and then fired. She willed the arrow to go through multiple dream people. She then used her magic to increase the fire.

Soon the mob was ash.

“Girl, why didn’t you do that at the beginning?”

“Why didn’t you?” She asked as they left.