Killeh jumped high, and Rieven went with a low kick toward Victoria, who released the rope into five threads and swung it towards Killeh's left leg, where it wrapped around and caught in pink flames. With a simple pull move, Rieven threw Killeh into the air to the right. At the same time, Rieven tried kicking Victoria's right knee. Still, with Victoria's speed, she was too fast. Lifting her leg above her head, doing a downward kick towards Rieven, who barely managed to pull her leg back, not wanting to risk it getting broken, as Victoria's leg is probably stronger than a simple blow from an elbow. Rieven quickly crawled away from Victoria to Killeh, who was beside Zark, who was still unconscious. They turned their gaze towards each other again and then looked at Victoria. Rieven nodded to Killeh as he understood that they needed another tactic called...Escape, which Zark had used with Killeh when they stole the egg in the dungeon earlier. He threw up Zark on his shoulder and released the chain from him. Rieven at least had a weapon now and needed to pave the way for Killeh to run towards the Portal. Victoria walked towards them when she saw Zark on Killeh's shoulder, worried that they would take him away. Rieven rushed towards Victoria while Rieven threw the chain that had caught fire. Victoria countered with the burning pink threads, and both sides became entangled with each other. Both of them closed in and made a round kick toward each other, canceling out their kicks. Killeh ran from the side, ignoring the battle, and quickly came outside the building. He jumped up in the air, landing right on the roof of a car, and kept jumping to get further away. He just wanted to come as close to the Portal as possible, with Zark dangling left and right on his back. Berk saw him and slowly got up from the ground, starting to try to run, but because he was groggy, it looked more like he was swaying left and right, like two brown mushrooms the size of a human being, looking at him as he struggled to control himself.
"Hey, Bob!" The mushroom on the right said.
"Yeah, Rob!" Bob, who was on the left, responded.
"You didn't happen to have sold the experimenting small mushroom battle spell to the Van Polan organization, did you? We could get arrested if it were to come out that we sell battle spells on the side, which have a distinct mushroom smell. Nobody would believe that we sell them outside of Paladin, but the Mage organization would hunt us down together with the support of the Van Polan." Rob commented, a little bit worried.
Bob turned his whole body towards Rob. He was disappointed in Rob's comment. He would never sell their spell to good people, only criminals in Valiant who pay high prices.
"I do not think that is any spell at all. I think that is something called...Human Behaviour!" Bob commented with a sense of surprise in his voice, as it was the first time he had seen the thing...Human Behaviour.
Rob turned to Bob in shock when silence took over while Berk was fumbling around on the ground, trying to get some balance back.
"Woah...!" Both Rob and Bob said at the same time, surprised by this thing called...Human Behaviour!
Berk managed to get his head under control and started to run after Killeh, who was not hard to spot as he was big and red and was jumping up in the air.
Victoria glanced to the left and saw Berk starting to run after the big red one. The black flames on the chain went out, and it released itself from the threads that were still burning intensely on the ground. Rieven knew that she was in a bad situation, but it was necessary to try and get their Master to the Portal. While both had some distance between them, Victoria's eyes turned back to blue color, which Rieven had noticed. Victoria clenched her right fist, turning the threads into a whip, which had some reach now. Rieven made a couple of movements with her hands and ended up with a pose resembling the yin-and-yang symbol, which surprised Veronica. It looked like the style she had taught the Van Polan boys, but she was not sure, while Rieven only thought about using one of her Master styles combined with the idiot who had unhinged movements.
"You think that fighting style will beat me?" Victoria asked.
Rieven closed her eyes with a big smile before responding:
"Meh!"
Both rushed toward each other as Victoria bent her right arm backward and struck the whip with a straight line from above. Rieven rolled quickly to the side as a big line of destruction hit the floor. Rieven tried to throw the chain, which forced Veronica to grab it with her left hand. Rieven pulled herself with the help of the chain towards Veronica, who had to release her whip as Rieven came in with a knee towards her. Veronica bent her upper body slightly to the right, releasing the chain, grabbing Rieven's left calve, and throwing her in the same movement, not realizing she had just thrown the girl out from the broken window. Rieven used her left hand and made a somersault with her left hand on the ground as she pulled the chain towards her as it curled around her right wrist. Both looked at each other for a second before Rieven started to run for her life in the direction of the Portal and slid over the trunk of a car with a smile because it was fun to do. She ran to the other side of the road as Veronica pursued her but was interrupted by a vehicle that hit the brakes at the last second, just a couple of centimeters from Veronica. An angry light green Goblin came out from the driving seat and screamed:
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, CRAZY WITCH, RUNNING ON THE ROAD? WHY DON'T YOU USE ONE OF YOUR WOODEN MOPPING STICKS TO FLY INSTEAD OF DISTURBING OTHER CITIZENS WHO ARE DOING SOMETHING USEFUL HERE IN PALADIN?"
Veronica gave the Goblin a look, which made it clear that this was not the moment to even talk to her. He realized his mistake and slowly got back into the driver's seat, then closed the door. Victoria returned to the chase of Rieven, who had gotten some distance from her.
"I THOUGHT SO WITCH, RUNNING AWAY SCARED OF THE GOBLINS. NEXT TIME I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS!" The Goblin kept yelling in the car, with his wife in the backseat holding a baby, just shaking her head at her husband's idiotic behavior.
Berk noticed that the big red one turned to the left onto a road that went into the woods, and a big jump from the red one made the distance even further away between them, but he was not going to give up and upped his speed a little bit even though it would affect his energy if a battle would occur.
Rieven went full throttle, running on the road with the great shoes that she had gotten from the Witch earlier as her distance became further and further away from Veronica, who was trying to catch up. She noticed Killeh jump up in the air, and she could see that the boy was chasing Killeh when Veronica screamed in the air to get Berks's attention, as he turned around, seeing Rieven running towards him at full speed, and the chain suddenly got roped around his waist. Rieven made a hard pull as he flew right above her head, with the chain releasing itself from Berk as he flew towards Veronica, who stopped to grab him as both of them rolled around on the ground. Veronica had no choice but to stop as Berk came flying very fast and would hurt himself if she wouldn't intercept him. Berk's head was right on top of her big melons, with them in a missionary position, with him on top.
"Idiot!" Veronica uttered before pushing Berk to the side, as he looked like he was dreaming of Heaven because he had hit three melons, which probably would never happen again in his life.
She started to run in the direction where the girl had gone, but she was no longer in sight, and she could have also gone into the woods, which made the chase pointless. Veronica thought that at least running slower would get her attention if a pathway led into the woods.
Rieven had caught up to Killeh, who had stopped jumping after losing sight of the boy, as it could attract attention from somewhere else. He was happy that Rieven had caught up to them as they passed the woman's cabin, with them waving towards them as they rushed ahead, leading into the woods following the light. When they arrived at the Portal, it was shining, and Killeh threw Zark through it, quickly following with Rieven. As she entered, she looked around to see that nobody was following them, knowing that the bonding was now complete. They are the servants of their Master now, and she was also happy that Killeh had conquered the trust and bonded with the Master. She knew that Killeh's transformation was a result of his attempt to protect them, and that was all the beliefs needed to create the bond, protect the citizens, protect the family, and protect everyone from Evil. The beliefs of their Master...Zark Van Polan.