Tai stood with one of her hand on her waist, her smile never leaving her face and a giant green shield in front of her.
Chuck stood opposite her, with his boys behind him. He wanted to wipe that smug smile off her face, she was strong and although that was a problem, he had a plan.
In the group of boys there was two people he fought well with, his two best friends Jay and Flu. They were friends since childhood and had been training with since they could remember, so they were almost always in perfect sync with each other.
If the other boys could distract her properly, then him and his buddies should be able to crush her with their superb teamwork.
Jay, the one who threw the shield, walked up to where Chuck stood. "We're gonna do it, right?" he asked his pal. He had blonde spiky hair and was slightly taller than Chuck
"You bet your a*s we are." He replied almost immediately. "Flu, get your butt over here."
A smaller boy with bangs over his eyes came out with a grumble and stood beside them as well. He held no weapons but he had a pair of deviant boots that were jet black in color.
Seeing the three of them standing together, the others knew what to do. They had used this tactic many times, they would serve as a distraction for the enemy, while Chuck, Jay and Flu would act as their main attack force.
With a plan set, Chuck raised his weapon, a pair of short swords, and pointed it and Tai. The others saw it as a signal and everyone except him, Jay and Flu, charged in.
"Stay here, I got this." Tai said to Wyatt. She then stepped on the shield in front her, lifting it to the air, caught in her hand and threw it with all her might into the crowd of attackers in front of her.
She activated the deviant weapon in her hands the moment she held it and when she felt the power of the shield empowering her, she threw it right at the group boys.
The shield flew out at an amazing speed, a few of them managed to dodge by the skin of their teeth but not all of them were lucky. The shield hit one the boys right in the face, and even after the hit it didn't slow down as it went through three more boys before it flew to where Chuck, Jay and Flu were standing and Jay caught it in his hands.
"Thanks, I was wondering how I'd fight without it." Jay said with a smile. Although he was smiling, his hand was hurting quite a bit. 'Just how hard did she throw the damn thing.' He wondered.
The other boys weren't really doing a great job against Tai, although she was finding it hard to properly finish any of them off. They properly covered each other's back, making it hard for her to do any real damage, so apart from the first few who were hit by the shield she hadn't taken any other person out.
"Shall we?" Chuck asked after watching for a while.
"We shall." Jay replied, while Flu just nodded.
Wyatt just kept his eyes glued to Tai. She was handling herself surprisingly well despite facing so many people with deviant gear while she herself wore none. Nevertheless he couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong, this was going too well.
Tai ducked under a grab and delivered a kick to the attacker's face, she was about to deliver a devastating axe kick to the same person when a long slimy tongue pulled him out of harm's way.
The same tongue came again to attack Tai but it was too slow, she had caught it with her hands.
"Gross." she said as she pulled the tongue in and the boy who had the tongue came flying towards her. She kicked him in the gut, sending him flying back, but she pulled him back in with his tongue again and landed another powerful kick, knocking him out.
This was the first person she had beaten in this fight.
There was a slight pause from the other boys as they all looked at each other. Then they all went in to attack once more.
Wyatt just kept watching, there wasn't really much he could do, in fact he would only her back so it was best to just watch for the time being.
He had considered running to go call Craven but he was scared something might happen to Tai in his absence. Not that there was anything he could do but it was better to be here to help when she needed it.
Taffy went towards the boys who had daggers in their thighs, everyone else was immersed in the fight, so no one really noticed him doing this, the boys who were stabbed were passed out themselves.
He pulled both of the daggers from both of them and ran into the nearby bush, he circled around until he was a bit closer to Wyatt while still being covered by trees and greenery, then he just waited.
Tai was still fighting the group of boys, she was single handedly fending off each and everyone of them, although the fight had dragged on longer than she had expected.
They were all working well with each other, unlike the other who just wanted to dispose of her quickly, these ones were cautious and covered each other's back well, giving her no chance to do any critical damage.
She was still fighting them when suddenly a large green shield came flying at her at quite an impressive speed, she didn't panic though, she simply used the heel of her feet to kick the shield back with equal force.
The shield flew for a while before landing directly in Jay's palm, catching the shield with ease all he did was smile. "Impressive. I didn't think you'd see that one coming."
The whole time she was fighting she had been keeping an eye on the other three who had refused to move, she saw when the shield had been thrown so it didn't catch her surprise, in fact she she even had time to prepare a counter.
"You call that a surprise attack?" she scoffed as she dodged a blow from behind. "You clearly haven't met my friend Randy." She then jumped back a few feet, distancing herself from the horde of attackers.
'That shield would've been bad news if I hadn't been watching them, these guys definitely have no qualms fighting dirty. What a bunch of wimps.' she thought as she crouched down into her fighting stance.
"Oh, really?" Jay replied amused. "Wanna try again?" He smiled then threw the shield at her again.
She was confused. This wasn't a surprise attack, she could clearly see that the shield was coming at her. Whatever the case was she was prepared for any form surprises as she prepared to dodge the shield.
The shield was right in front of her when suddenly it phased and the short boy with fangs was now in front of her. It all happened in less than a second, she was caught by surprise so she didn't have to defend against the strong kick powered by deviant gear that went right into her stomach, sending her flying back to where Wyatt stood.
Back where Jay and Chuck stood, the shield was now laid where Flu once was, spreading his hand, the shield levitated then flew back into Jay's hands.
"Still think this Randy fellow is better than me at surprises?" Jay taunted with a smile.
"By a whole 'nother level." Tai taunted back with a smile as she slowly got back up with Wyatt's help. She was slightly bleeding from the side of her mouth.
"Tai that's enough. Let's go call Craven so he can settled this-"
"And let Randy and Julius mock me till I'm 50? Ha, no way." Tai cut off Wyatt's voice of reasoning.
"I got this." she said as she lightly pushed Wyatt off.
"At least let me help." he said with a worried expression.
"Craven said we can't risk you going Into your 'possessed' mode. Your body still can't handle it." She was of course referring to what happened to him during their sparring match a few months ago, where he almost lost it and broke her leg.
"You're an odd one." Chuck finally spoke up. "You ain't even a little bit scared that we could kill you or hurt that pretty face of yours?"
Tai let out a hysterical laugh.
"let me tell you something buddy." She got into her fighting stance again. "There's only two people who've scared me in my life." then she pointed to Wyatt. "And you're looking at one of them."
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In the bushes close to Wyatt and Tai, Taffy was crouched there hiding, watching.