My powers are strong, but sometimes not strong enough.
Everyone has a certain trait that's stronger than the others.
Sometimes, it's able to make calculated assumptions about a person's thoughts or emotions. Sometimes it's strength or speed.
For me, it's instinct. I can sense danger. With over a hundred years of training, I've managed to perfect my danger instinct so I can pinpoint the almost exact place of the danger.
It was on a cold, dark night. My magical cloaking shield that protects all mythical beings kept me hidden from view as I slithered around the town. I was small, only six feet long, but my fangs were poisonous, and I was strong and fast. Not as strong as a male, but strong enough.
Unfortunately, I stumbled across a gateway.
Gateways feed off of magical powers to grow. My danger sense blared loudly and was muffled by the gateway's powers.
I was strong enough to resist the pull of the gateway, but half of my strength was gone. As I tried to pull away, the gateway seemed to tuck in, all the swirling cosmos of the dimensions sucked into a little rip. That wasn't good. It meant something was coming out.
The gateway exploded, forcing three Anti out.
The Anti looked like large, burly demons. Without my cloak, I was easily spotted. They were all larger than I was, and so I used the only thing that would be useful to me in this situation: Speed.
I turned and slithered away as fast as I could, which was about as fast as a normal human vehicle. The Anti grunted and gave chase.
I was fast, but the Anti were faster. Soon, they were so close I could almost hear them. I ran for the nearest tree and climbed, knowing by experience that the Anti were too heavy to climb trees.
The Anti snarled at me as I climbed higher and higher. At last, I was so high that the branches swayed violently in the wind beneath me.
The Anti could feel my fear. They drank it in, and began to climb the trunk.
It was soon obvious that they could only go so far, so they stood on the thick branches and growled at me. I laughed back, spitting my venom in their faces. One of them got a shot in the eye, and howled as it ate away at it's body. The Anti crumbled to dust
One of the Anti jumped and made a grab for me. His large hands grasped the branches of the trees and snapped them, making my branches shake.
They jumped for me, grabbing for the branches I was on.
One of them came so close that it grabbed my tail. I jerked forward and bit deeply into his arm. He let go and fell, also crumbling into fine, soft earth.
The last Anti managed to pull enough branches away from me. I fell, and he grabbed me by the neck. By now I was far enough from the gateway that my magic had returned, but the presence of the Anti still carried enough of the gateway's essence that I couldn't cloak myself. I tried to bite the creature, but I couldn't reach him. He squeezed tightly, and I gasped for air.
Then his grip loosened, and I fell to the ground. The Anti was frozen in the air, arms spread wide, an arrow through his chest. The arrow fell with the remains of the Anti.
I cautiously examined the arrow. With my enhanced senses, I could tell that the tip of the arrow was doused with water from the first well, which legend said was holy and therefore could kill an Anti with a touch.
"I'll need my arrow back."
I turned around, hissing. An Anthro female was behind me. Her long blond hair did little to hide her pointed ears, and her tight-fitting shirt displayed her large muscles quite easily. She stood at seven feet tall. I noticed talons on her ankles, which were poking out of her worn black boots. She would have been considered pretty if not for the fact that her eyes changed color at will and glowed in the dark.
"You should be thankful," she said, calmly picking up the arrow and stuffing it back in her quiver.
"I am," I muttered.
"You know too much," the Anthro girl said. She was wearing sunglasses, which made her seem very intimidating. I reared to my full height, but that was still two feet shorter.
"I also saw how you handled the Anti," she continued. "Very few can do what you did and stay alive. I think the IDP could use someone like you."
"IDP?"
"Inter Dimensional Patrol. We find the Anti and kill them. There are two jobs available at the moment: A hunter and a diver. The hunter tracks down the Anti that have passed through the gateway and kills them. The diver goes into the gateways and tries to figure the plans of the Anti. Both require skill, and you must pass a test first. Do you think you're up to the challenge?" The Anthro extended her hand to me.
"What's your name?" I asked.
"Lilith. And yours?"
"I don't have a name?"
"Why not?"
"No one ever gave me one," I admitted. Every part of me spoke of poverty, from my long, tangled black hair to my sunken eyes.
"Well, we'll just call you Naga," Lilith decided. "So, do you want to join?"
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