Voyage Of The Villainess

The heat from the sun was as scorching hot as ever. But right now Malaya didn't mind it.

As Malaya glanced ahead, her eyes widened. Large scorpions were spiraling in and out of the sounds. 'What?' But as she narrowed her eyes, she saw something more.  It must be due to the mountain of sounds blocking the view, but as those large scorpions were crawling at an incredible speed forward to her direction, there was one creature that looked like a camel. And they were desperately running from the scorpions.

'The first form of life.' Malaya couldn't help but sigh in relief. 'Maybe I should give them a hand and they could lead to some good place where I can get good food and drink as well. Having replenishing potions is not really not satisfying since they have a bland taste.'

'I have storage items, but why do I not store some decent food and my treasures.' Malaya glanced at the pearl that was attached now to the silver bracelet she was wearing. 'Well enough of that, and let's just give this first glimpse of civilization a hand.'

Malaya analyzed the situation first.

The trembling continued. 'What can cause such a strong earthquake? Is it those scorpions? No. That is impossible, even if they are huge, it is not enough to cause such a strong earthquake. And this will be quite a hard job to do.'

She sighed as she brought out two talismans. One exploding talisman and a teleportation talisman. 'I hope they have lots of food to spare for me. Or I'll just waste some talismans on them.'

The earthquake finally stopped. 'Good, it's time to move now.'

***

"You must leave me! It will become faster and you will be able to escape." Lamar gazed at his friend, Dandras. He was driving the camel while Lamar had a deep wound on his left abdomen.

"Leave you? If we are going to die, we will die together!" 

'He is so stubborn.' Lamar couldn't help but smile faintly. 'But I can't let you die here. I won't let you die here.' While Dandras was so focused on driving the camel, Lamar let himself slip out on the camel.

To Dandras' shock, he tried to catch Dandras before he fell. "Lamar!" He screamed as he tried to stop the camel.

"Go Dandras! Leave me here!" Lamar screamed as he coughed up some blood. 

Dandras pulled back the reins of the camel, but the animal was too afraid of the giant scorpions after them. It didn't budge when Dandras tried to stop it. He turned back and decided to jump out of the camel. He fell on the scorching sun of the desert with a strong impact. He immediately stood up and ran towards Lamar.

"Lamar!" He ran towards Dandras' direction, who was lying now on the sand. Dandras wouldn't make it! And the scorpions were rapidly approaching Lamar. "NO!" His eyes widened in horror as he tried to jump to Lamar. The scorpions were just an inch towards Lamar.

However, before the first of the three scorpions could stomp on Lakar, something flew towards the scorpion's top front. And it exploded tremendously. 

"Hey, you have some food with you right?" Dandras was startled when he heard a woman's voice behind him. "Let me have lots, after this." 

Ocean blue hair that fluttered as she walked ahead of him. Her white cloak fluttered as well. She brought out three pieces of paper with her, "Two more scorpions, it seems I can have delicious scorpion meat as well."

Malaya tore the teleportation talisman, and appeared right above the second scorpion. She tore the explosion talisman and it fell directly to the top of the scorpion. Five seconds before the talisman exploded, Malaya tore another teleportation talisman. As soon as she teleported, the talisman exploded sending the scorpion to fly away like the first one.

Malaya didn't waste any time, while still high on the air, she tore another talisman after seeing the last scorpion. She appeared right above it and threw another explosion talisman. When the last scorpion was defeated, she teleported right to Lamar's side.

Dandras was completely surprised and in awe seeing how Malaya defeated the three scorpions as if it was nothing. But then he remembered his friend. "Lamar!" He immediately stood up to check his condition.

Malaya saw the sand drenched with his blood. "Shhhh... What a nasty wound you got there." 

Lamar looked at her with a pained expression. His vision was blurring. He could see the blurred ocean blue hair of Malaya, and her face was blurred as well. 

"Aish, I don't want to waste any healing potions either. You owe me a lot with this." Malaya said as she retrieved a healing potion from her space stone. "Let your friend drink this. It's a healing potion." She threw a bottle containing green liquid to Dandras who was running towards them. Dandras caught it swiftly and without questioning whether it was a real potion or not, he let Lamar drink it.

While they were doing that, Malaya walked towards the first scorpion that exploded. Most of its limbs scattered everywhere. She approached a huge limb and knocked on its shell. 'This thing is quite sturdy, but my explosion talisman is really the real thing.' She touched it and it disappeared. It went directly to her storage stone.

'I can sell them at a good price, and at the same time, I can have some food stocks.' After putting every bit of the scorpions parts to her storage space, she walked back towards the two strangers she just saved.

"How is he?" She asked right away. 

"He is doing fine now. But he seems to lose consciousness." 

"I see," Malaya said. "I'm Malaya by the way, you are?"

"I'm Dandras and this is Lamar. Thank you for saving our lives, Miss Malaya."

"I didn't help both of you for free though." Malaya said.

Dandras looked at her with wariness, which made Malaya let out a laugh. "You just become wary of me right now? Don't worry, like I said, I just wanted some food earlier."

Dandras remembered what Malaya had told him before she went to defeat the remaining scorpion. And watching from how all those scorpions' parts disappeared, she must have contained a high level space storage. But it was strange, how he didn't sense any ounce of magic in her. It seemed to him that Malaya was not an ordinary person. Well, she easily defeated those huge scorpions that mostly four to five of their warriors needed to fight off. She was also quite a beauty with unique hair color and eyes that were like the clear skies.

If she had ulterior motives, only fate could save them from someone like her. 'But she said that she only wanted food.'

"You only want food," Dandras asked in disbelief.

"Yes," Malaya smiled.

Dandras was still wary of her, but he looked apologetic at her. "I'm sorry, but all our supplies are in the camel with us. But he ran away now."

Malaya completely looked horrified hearing this. "Why did, you just said it now?! I can still go after it!"

"It's alright." Dandras stopped her. "Though it is shameless of me to ask for your help again, but if you help us reach my house, I can prepare some meal for you to have."

"Oh, then let's go home now! Where is it?" Malaya excitedly brought out three talismans with her. He gave all of it to Dandras. "Just think of your house then tore this talisman. As long as the holder has already gone to that place, and not in a far flung distance such as the other continent or far away country that needed a ship to get there, these talismans will help you reach that place." She explained.

"I see, to think that I will be able to go back to our house this fast," 

"Yes," Malaya smiled then held both Dandras and Lamar's arms. "And we must be touching each other, when we teleport."

"You can tear it no…"

"Malaya," 

Malaya flinched when she heard the voice, the voice that caused her to run away from the previous chapter. Dandras also saw a man clad in black cloak just a few meters away from them. He saw how Malaya's hand became tensed, since he was touching him.

"Let's go! Tear it now!" Dandras too startled when Malaya screamed. He tore the talisman right away.

"Malaya wait!" 

Dandras saw how the man tried to reach her with a desperate expression on those crimson red eyes. "Don't run away from me!"

The last thing they all heard before they vanished. Malaya, Dandras and Lamar, arrived in a deep cave. 

Seeing that Kayden was no longer there, Malaya sprawled on the ground. "That was close. I didn't expect that he would find me sooner than I expected.' She could feel the loud thump of her heart. 'I'm really such a coward. I'm even afraid to look back at him.' She put her arms on her eyes.

'Malaya you are really such an idiot and a coward.'