"That thing just multiplied. This battle is far from over. We can only hope that it wont endlessly divide into smaller creatures.", Trevor explained to Samantha.

"EHH!?! What are we going to do about something like that!?"

Garett looked to Ashley, with a serious face.

"I would have taken this opportunity to test out your other skill, but you don't have enough AP left for that. Rather, try to kill one of them with another fireball."

Ashley nodded and put her hand out, once again calling out [Fireball]

And the blast of flame once more created a puddle of liquid tar, while also charring the peg like legs.

[Intelligence roll: 3+6 Intelligence+1 Equipment-0 Fire resist]

[10 Damage]

[Small Wild Gorgonithal HP: 0/9]

[Player Ashley Remaining AP: 1/5 Remaining MP 13/19]

[Enemy turn]

With this, the party no longer had any actions they wished to perform, and the turn ended.

1 Small Wld Gorgonithal remained.

"Its going to attack now! Brace yourselves, everyone!", Garett screamed out, as time returned to normal.

The blob of black goo covered in spiky woodlike legs then stretched itself out, as if it were a giant slug.

Its spikes were on its backside, and with the side that were not covered in spikes, it leaped forward at Samantha.

[Gorgonithal has used [Engulf] on player Samantha]

The black slime spread itself across the left half of her body, and the spikes wiggled and squirmed making it look as if it was a part of her.

"AHGHGHGH!!!!! HELLPPP!!!! GET THIS THING OFF ME!!!!"

With this, the monster turn had ended, and Trevor began to run at Samantha to take a swing at the monster that had covered her.

"What are you doing? Do you think you can defeat something like this with your fists?", Ashley asked in an ever so calm tone.

Trevor paid her words no heed and began to pluck the spikes from the back of the slime, to damage it.

Garett stood on guard with his club, and didn't stop Trevor.

"Ashley, once Trevor pulls back I'm going to need you to shoot a fireball at her."

"Are you sure about that? I'll gladly do it, but I might harm the poor thing.., Ashley said with a slightly sadistic tone of voice.

Garett swallowed the emotions that were holding him back.

"If you harm her then she might be able to heal herself. If that thing swallows her now, she will die as is."

Ashley smiled.

Trevor had plucked off about 6 or 7 of the spikes from the slime, when a message popped up.

[Player Trevor AP: 0/5]

[Small Wild Gorgonithal HP: 7/9]

And like that, Trevor froze.

It was as if time had stopped for him too, just like the monsters had been frozen.

"So this is what happens when we run out of action points...", Garett thought.

Ashley conjured up one more fireball, and let it loose onto her 'comrade', if you could call it that.

Boom!! An explosion of flame occurred, melting the boiling hot tar onto the skin of Samantha, who had been covered in it.

Samantha let out a scream of pain, and Ashley prepared to summon another fireball in case it wasn't enough.

[Intelligence roll: 3+6 Intelligence+1 Equipment-0 Fire resist]

[Damage: 10]

[Small Wild Gorgonithal HP: 0/9]

[Player Ashley Remaining AP: 3/5 Remaining MP 10/19]

[You have won!]

[Player Samantha is taking burning damage]

[Burning has been sped up now that combat is over]

[Player Samantha: HP: 5/10]

A searing pain went through Samantha's left side. It felt as if she was being torn in two. She almost threw up from the vast amount of pain, and when it was over, she fell to the floor, kneeling and coughing.

She gasped for breath, and Trevor bend down to help her.

Looking back with a furious face, Trevor addressed Garett and Ashley.

"What exactly do you two think you're doing?"

Garett stepped up in front of Ashley, as if to say "I warranted her actions"

"We took the best course of action in the scenario. Samantha is alive die to our prudence. Did you have a better solution? Let me answer that for you. NO, You didn't. How do I know that? Because you went ahead and spent all your action points to do a measly 2 damage to the creature. Getting emotional in the middle of a battle leads to bad decision making, and potentially death."

Trevor pressed his hand onto his glasses.

"Sigh.. you are right. Forgive me for my blunder. Even so, should you not have tried to find a less damaging way to save her?"

"There exists no such way."

Trevor had already known this, but still clung to the anger in his heart.

Why was he so angry for the sake of this woman anyways?

Perhaps it was because she had use as a healer. No... that didn't make sense, as he wouldn't mind if she got hurt if he only cared about her usefulness.

There was no point trying to figure out his own emotions. Instead, Trevor cared for the wounded girl, who's blue skin had been completely covered in burns.

Her clothes seemed to be relatively fire resistant, fortunately, so the burns were not as bad as they could have been. Even so...

He held Samantha in his arms.

"Are you alright? Get it together, woman!"

Samantha let out a cough and slowly moved her right arm to her left side.

She felt that what she was about to do was the natural thing to do in this situation. Even though her mind didn't comprehend what she was doing or how she was doing it.

A green glow of healing energy covered Samantha's left side, and the burns slowly faded away.

"...Hea...cough... Heal..."

[Player Samantha has been healed]

[Remaining HP: 9/10 Remaining MP: 9/14]

And with that, Samantha passed out from the shock of what had happened.

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Hello from the Author to anyone reading! Thank you for reading this far, if you have. I hope you're enjoying the book I am writing so far. As you can tell, I am trying to make it very similar to an RPG as close as possible. As of right now, I have already created a plan for what the world will look like, and I am excited for our characters to get out in the world and start interacting with it.

I've been writing a lot recently, as I am currently in college, and won't have time to write over the break. (Ironic, right. I seem to only ever have time when I am in college getting work done, but as soon as break happens there is too much going on with family and blah blah other stuff)

Therefore, I am currently trying to write enough chapters to cover the entire duration of the break from December 14th to January 4th.

Its been an interesting journey, and I have a lot of plans for our characters adventures in the future. I hope you all will keep reading to find out what they are, and I hope I will keep the motivation to continue writing.

-DubstheDuke