Stacy leans against Beverly as they come walking into the house. Both women were in their birthday suits. Beverly had nasty red welts all over her body and her face was bloody. Her brother Spartan/Pollux was being helped by Dingo into the house. He was just as injured as his sister.

Spirit was using his staff made from Australian Buloke wood as support. The only member in there that wasn’t seriously hurt or injured was Dingo. His face didn’t look that well, but he was in better shape than any of them.

Tina escorts the team down to the medical bay to be taken care of. There was another woman with her as they went about patching up each member. Stacy had a gash along the length of her right arm and down the middle of her back.

Tina and her assistant Rachel tend to Pollux and Beverly quickly. They were in the most serious conditions. When they were tending to their injuries, they couldn’t believe what type of wounds they had. Most of their wounds consisted of slashes from a bladed weapon.

They had other types of wounds, but the majority of their wounds were made by some sort of bladed weapon. After tending to Pollux and Beverly, they move on to Stacy. Her wounds were just as bad as Beverly’s. They had to staple her back wound close and set her right arm. Tina ends up immobilizing Stacy’s right arm and placing it in a cast.

Spirit had his left leg put in a cast and had to have several ribs set. The only reason he was still standing, was because he was using a new technique, he learned from a Samoan wrestler he met. He met the man while herding cattle and the two of them became sparring partners.

“What the hell happened to you guys?” Tina looks at Dingo when she asks that question.

“We encounter a group of four black armor people. They looked like something from the fucking crusades. They had that freaking red cross on their armor like the Crusaders of old had on theirs. Whatever they were, they kicked our asses.

Their weapons were made of some sort of black metal and cut the twins like they were ordinary people. Hell, I felt that dam blade when it went through whatever substance I was. It had an eerie feeling to it. Poor Stacy had her back sliced open as she was changing. Also, they threw something at her that prevented her from changing once she was in her human form.” Dingo saw some sort of black cloud engulf Stacy and heard her screaming as her body was forced back into its human form.

“How did you survive?” Tina finishes patching up Dingo.

“Spirit’s staff and the intervention of a group of female warriors. They wore some sort of Roman-style armor and carried spears and swords of
Roman design. I would say they were Amazon’s of legend, but I would be wrong. They appeared through some sort of portal.” Dingo had watched as the two women came and left through the portal.

Before they left, they helped administer first aid to him and his group. One of them had rainbow-colored hair and the other had long silver-colored hair. They were well-fit and fierce as hell when they fought.

“What happened to those creatures you guys fought?”

“Some sort of portal opened under them and they vanished. I will say this, the stench coming from the opening of the portal smelled of brimstone.” Dingo couldn’t believe the stench coming from the opening.

“Do you guys normally come back looking so bad?” Rachel looks at Dingo since Stacy and Beverly were knocked out.

Pollux was so filled with pain medicine, that he couldn’t think straight. His mind was cloudy from the pain meds. He also had no control over his body.

Spirit had passed out as well. He was in a healing trance that he learned from his new buddy. It was going to take some time for him to heal all his injuries.

“Not always, sometimes we come back fine. However, this time were dealing with something out of our league. Whatever those beings were that
we fought, they weren’t normal.” Dingo wanted a cold strong beer right now.

“Well, we need to let everyone recover first and hope those creatures don’t reappear any time soon.” Tina knew the team wasn’t in any condition to take on anyone.

Dingo limps over to Stacy and moves aside some of her hair. He could still her screaming as she was forced to assume her human form after changing into a giant rhino.

“She’s had it the worst. Whatever that cloud did to her, hurt her a lot.”

“What do you mean, Dingo?” Tina and Rachel walk over to stand by him.

“Stacy just finished changing into a giant Rhino, when one of those dark crusaders threw something at her that exploded into a black cloud and
forced her to change back. Her body didn’t even get a chance to recover from her first change before that happened. It takes Stacy a few seconds for Stacy’s body to get used to its new form.”

“Damn! That must have hurt. Do you think the rapid change back hurt her any?” Rachel knew Stacy was a shapeshifter who could assume any animal form that was real or mystical.

“I won’t be able to tell until she recovers. Her vitals are still erratic.” Tina had scanned Stacy’s body with the new medical scanner they got recently. It was an improvement over the old ones from Blake Medical.