"What was that about?" Uriel asked not expecting an answer as after the tree like creature retreated everyone turned to murmur paying no attention to him.
"Uriel? Uriel, is that you!?" Medusa's voice came from within the protective circle of varied creatures and they began to part. For a second Uriel feared to see a disfigured version of Medusa blending in with the creatures that surrounded her, but what he saw shocked him even more than he expected.
There was a completely normal looking Medusa wearing her accustomed blindfold and nothing about her was out of the ordinary. No, that wasn't what left Uriel speechless, it was the 'thing' he saw laying in the ground next to Medusa.
Jon Hunter, the champion of humanity, was horribly disfigured, maimed and wounded in all ways possible. His body a patchwork of what a human was supposed to be, the exposed muscles, arteries and even bone horrified Uriel, but the worst part of it all was that he was still alive and conscious.
