Bad Shit Comes to Worm Town

There were five of them, or at least looked like five of them coming at me. I can admit here, safe and sound and not currently facing imminent death (other than bad food that I ate recently, the farts they are so awful). I was afraid, I was fearful I had done something beyond stupid I couldn't just luck my way out of. The rest of the town was watching me. I had moved to the center of town to try and I dunno force the creatures to come one direction? I couldn't exactly explain my thought process here.

"So are any of you going to help." The worms were moving slow enough that I could see them coming, but I could make a plea for assistance.

"Sure we'll let your next of kin know you died." I would have quipped this wasn't helpful, but the first worm got to me. It actually overshot me and came from behind (so it reminded me of a few failed dates I'd had). This one was fairly large, like the size of a small car, or at least the "head" of it was, I say head in quotes because its a freaking worm, learn some biology! Thankfully for me the machines also tended to use a zip by you and strike move, so I anticipated it, side stepped and slashed the head like so much bloody worm death. I sensed the rest of the creatures would make a strike at me with my back turned, so I quickly spun around and enhanced the slash with some of my cold fire arcing in front of me. The luck of Trezlan was with me as they lept up into my fire blade and all died the same.

Not wanting of course to hide my moment of bad assery I turned my back to their twitching corpses and slid the blades back into their sheaths. No one applauded the jerks. No one ever applauds. Sure they'll criticize you when things go badly, but you do something awesome and no one gives you a hand.

"Well why didn't you do that the whole time?" I wanted to kill the asshole down talking me, but really it was a good question. I guess ever since the war ended I hadn't really trusted my abilities anymore. I started to worry I survived on luck and not skill, even here it didn't feel like something I had planned, and felt more like I did in reaction. But the one thing I wondered was where these creatures had come from. The rest of the town seemed fine with them being dead, but I knew, I knew this wasn't the last of this and I had to figure it out.

Well that and I really had to pee and I didn't want to do it around those jerk town folks.