Long Day At Sasparilla by Bruthazmus | World Anvil
Grolm 13, 578

Long Day At Sasparilla

by Bruthazmus Kele

I was trying to knock some sense into the Hell Hand in front of me. It was like trying to knock some sense into a rock. Rowtag tried to scare the demon-possessed cow hand. He gave it a good try, but demons don't scare that easy I suppose.
 
That Hell Hand put up on nasty fight. Knees, elbows, anything went. Rowtag even head butted the man once and rattled his noggin. Rowtag got a bit shook up from that, too. I could tell the little guy was getting a bit steamed. To be fair, I was too. We were winning this little range war but damn if the cost wasn't high. Somewhere the other hell cows got wiped out. I wasn't sure by what, but I was glad they were gone. That left Hell Hands and whatever was keeping the Hell Bovines going.
 
Around me, Sephia brought down the bovine near her, helped the Hesters, then took out to the south-southwest. Jessie went tearing off somewhere after stomping out another of the bovines. That left me fighting with one Hell Hand with Princess and Chica Alston nearby. It took forever but I finally knocked that Hell Hand out. Miro yelled that Lee Chung was in trouble back south. I asked if Princess and Chica needed help. Princess ignored me and Chica gave me sass. As usual. I really regret yelling at her and getting on her bad side. But what's done is done.
 
Hoping they would be all right, I took off south. Lee Chung found something he couldn't handle on his own.
 
I made it to the thicket when I came across another Hell Hand. This one was hunting someone... but not me. He ignored me and kept looking around. I thought about knocking them out but the Hell Hands aren't the source of the problem. Taking out the source still seemed like a good idea. Whatever that source was. So I headed for the thicket to move in nice and quiet.
 
Until that Hell Hand saw Miro.
 
I wasn't sure if it was Miro or Spiro but the Hell Hand was about to use some infernal hex on one or both. I had no idea if Miro had found Lee Chung, but Lee was in danger down here somewhere. So I had to do this. Didn't want to, it was a delay... but I had to. Rowtag and I took off in a charge. I tackled the Hell Hand with everything I had. Rowtag came in on a power dive just after. To keep the Hell Hand down and not attacking anyone, I did the first thing I could think of... bounce and slam onto him against the ground. Probably break some ribs, hopefully knock the fight out of him.
 
The man panic scrambled out from under me in between one of my slam bounces. Right after that he used a demonic aura to make me back off a step or two. So Rowtag and I did. Though Rowtag was a bit miffed. I think he liked playing trampoline.
 
 
 

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