Zerrex leaned back, still sitting cross-legged, one eye cocking as he studied the youth. He had the eyes of a Witcher, the medallion of a Witcher, but something about him was wrong. "So, who are you?" he asked nonchalantly, as if unaware of the drawn dagger the hunter was holding behind his back. "Just someone with a contract." answered the other reptile, before curiosity clearly got the better of him as he sneered: "Unlike you, I fulfill mine." "You could just ask, you don't have to be an asshole about it." Zerrex replied blandly as he stood up with a grunt, cracking his back. The adversary scowled, then said contemptibly: "I heard clearly enough. That was how I found you in the first place. You told that idiot it was a spell, but all you did was yell 'fuck off' in elven at a tree." "Yeah, I guess that makes it more of a curse than a spell." The lizard grinned, then he tilted his head as he asked: "Elvish?" "None of your fucking business." "Cool." Zerrex rose his hands with a shrug. "It was enough, though. Spooked off the lame trickster that was stealing his socks or whatever." The other reptile's lip twisted in derision. "Are you sure about that? Sometimes things come back to haunt you, after all. Especially people like you. Seems like you pissed off someone powerful, after all." Zerrex shrugged. In a flash, the hybrid leapt at him, sword flashing, dagger ready to parry- Zerrex drew his own sword, his expression changing from easy and nonchalant to ready, body language transforming as his fingers formed the Aard sign in a moment and blasting his opponent with enough force to send him hurtling backwards, dagger flying out of his hand. He landed hard, skidding backwards in a flexed crouch, eyes burning with rage as he bared his teeth. And Zerrex only grinned wryly, leveling his sword at him, stance loosening as he said: "Pissing off powerful people is just part of what I do."
_______________ This very cool addition to my picture was written by none other than the amazingly talented
who has written other awesome things for me in the past already that you should go check out (I’m working on an illustration for one of them still). I just wanted to see how hollowbell’s big witcher-Zerrex would look next to my small witcher Niko and then he went and wrote the cool little backstory and I’m sold.
Anyway, I’m also back from vacation and I’m sad that it’s over but looking forward to everything that I have in store!
You are too kind to me and you are the most awesome of all people. Also look how cool you make Zer when we know 90% of the time he'd get stuck thinking of some one-liner and probably stabbed, or he'd do his Quen thing to make the sword bounce off, laugh, and then get kicked in the balls. Seriously, though. I can't thank you enough for this, and I look at it like every single day. You are an incredible artist and an incredible person.
You are too kind to me and you are the most awesome of all people. Also look how cool you make Zer w
