Chapter 18

Bartholomuel not having any of that creepy thing took his rail gun off his back and shot at the beast, the blast sails through the air but the creature quickly jumped in the water dodging from the shot. A small mushroom cloud was formed as everyone sees the vines screech and start having convulsions causing the body parts to fall off and sink in the water. Wave ripples are seen as a tree log was flung towards everyone, everyone quickly dodged out the way but didn't notice the creature hiding underneath the log, Adam was the first to notice and wanted to shout a warning but got a webbed foot in the face making him crash to the ground. John seeing this threw a punch at the beast's head but it quickly jerked its head to the right and dodged the punch, it scratched its bony fingers at the robot making giant gashes over its chest and body. Asura grunted but pushed through the pain and kneed it in its chest causing the sounds of bones breaking to be heard as it was blasted backwards falling to the ground. The twins already fused to make Rock n Roll and stood next to Asura.

"You think it's dead?" asked Mint.

"Has to be, the thing looks so frail whatever killed all these pilots plus behemoths is probably chilling in the back." replied Pepper.

Just as they were talking the creature sat up, each arm slowly went outwards and by some movement it was on its feet, standing there as if strings were keeping it up. Bones crunching and being moved is heard and seen as the bones underneath its grey skin moved around. It honestly looked like a messed version of a puppet being pulled up by the strings.

The thing screeched only to dodge out of the way of a rail gun shot, it ran unnaturally fast towards Taurus. When it arrived at the robot, Taurus took his war hammer out and swung at the beast, but it was way too fast and gave big scratches that even punctured the multiple layered plates that was on the robot.

Taurus didn't care and swung right, hitting it on the pelvis making the lower part of its body bend in a unnatural angle, that didn't stop the creature from leaping right into the robots face and start mauling it in the face, the robot tried to pry it open but found that those bony fingers were jammed in its head. Sound of an explosion is heard as it showed a small crater with the beast being pinned to the ground with a spear protruding out of its stomach area.

It showed Rock n Roll sprinting at the crater with Adam and John right behind it. The team were going to finish the creepy beast when multiple roars were heard, as the team turned around to see a whole pack of category 4 Rampage boars! A Rampage boar is as if a normal boar was the size of a sky scraper with scales and spikes sticking out of its entire body. The boars were releasing steam from there nostrils and looked excited to find meals out here to satisfy their hunger.

Rock n Roll looked towards the crater to see if they can get the spear but saw that the crater was empty.

"Guys! That thing is gone!" said Pepper as She made the robot point at the empty space which was the crater. That's when they heard the sound of a commotion behind them. They looked and saw that the strange behemoth was biting and stabbing using Rock n Roll broken spear to kill the head Rampage Boar.

It's moans and groans of agony was heard as one loud sound of bone breaking was heard; the beast broke its neck finally. The beast bent down and started to eat the boar fast as if it hasn't eaten anything in days. When it was done orange blood was dripping off its mouth as pieces of flesh were lodged in its teeth.

"More..." It said that one word then lunged to the rest of the pack of boars.

Team Zero and John were stunned at what they were watching, one behemoth was butchering and eating other behemoths! Out in the wild when behemoths cross each other they usually just leave each other alone, not attack or even spare a glance at the opposite beast.

What made this even stranger was that before the fighting began it was sitting in the middle of the lake and mumbling, saying the Bogeyman will get you, John thought it was calling itself the bogeyman.

When they looked again, they saw that the strange beast was alone in the middle of all the corpses dead, it then raised a bony finger and pointed at the team, suddenly afterwards started full on sprinting toward them.

"Let's get this thing now! "said Adam as he brandished his katana and stood ready.

The strange beast we would be calling Bogeyman for now jumped at the last moment in the air. Rock n Roll looked up only to narrowly dodge their own spear that Bogeyman threw at them, when it landed on the ground it kicked in Taurus knee causing it to fall to its knees, the beast then sent a bony knee in the robots face causing metal scrunching to be heard but bogeyman man saw that the robot had its open palm facing it's stomach, the beast then felt a great pain there and got blasted backwards. Taurus stood up showing that its head was only dented a bit, it's eyes now glowing red, as his hand was on the ground it started to move back to the arm via chain.

What must have happened was that it shot its fist into the beast stomach causing pain. The beast recovered quickly and was going to carry on attacking but suddenly froze. Team Zero and John took this opportunity to jump back in case this thing was going to do something.

Bogeyman screeched as its skin turned white and cracks appeared afterwards, it turned into a giant white statue that was frozen.

"Uh what just happened?" asked Adam.

"It turned into a statue." stated John.

"Thanks, we can see that genius!" said both Pepper and Mint.

The team were continuing their discussions but stopped when a loud crack was heard, they looked towards the statue and saw that one giant crack was going downwards from the head to the bottom, that's when it fell apart causing a cloud of dust to spring up. Each of the members waved their hands to get the dust out of their face and in the middle of the dust cloud they saw a small silhouette. After the cloud went away, they were shocked for the third time today. The silhouette was a small girl that looked no less than 17, she had long black hair that rested by her ankles, her skin consisted of a pale white color, but the most prominent characteristic was one horn sticking out of the side of her head.

"State your business ma'am!" shouted Adam.

"Are you talking to me?" asked the girl as she pointed at herself looking around.

"Yes you!What is your name?" asked Adam again.

"Name Ah probably need one now." mumbled the girl to herself.

"I need a name can you suggest one?" asked the girl looking at the Chasser's.

"Was this kid dropped as a child or something?" asked Pepper.

John didn't say anything but felt his hand go up towards the hilt of his sword.

The mysterious little girl looked around and saw one of the dead boar's eyes were open, its eye was a very pink color that was still glowing like a quartz stone..

"My name is Quartz, you must forgive me but I just remember bits and pieces, not a lot though, I remember that one dome..." said Quartz.

"What dome?" asked Adam.

"Can't remember, all I remember was breaching this flimsy wall and fighting a few Chasser's, they were pretty weak if I'm being honest but the people were such a delicacy that I couldn't help myself ,her mouth starts to water and we see her mouth is filled with razor sharp teeth, then the last human I ate was a mother she was the tastiest of them all but afterwards I got a memory from her, I don't know how but it showed her girl as a mother tucking her in one night and singing a lullaby to her." said Quartz

"The Bogeyman song?" asked John.

"Yes, that one! After that dome I couldn't find anything to eat so I became this skeleton of what I use to look like and I saw one juicy looking Goji." replied Quartz.

A sudden boom was heard as the team see a giant crack is approaching them, they quickly flew backwards as a giant creature jumped out blocking the sun from all their views, when they opened their eyes they saw a monster of a behemoth as the thing was the size of 2 domes next to each other, it's color was pitch black smooth skin that had orange lines going everywhere, it was a giant whale behemoth!

"Well my rides here guess it's time to meet the king." she slowly walked towards the things mouth and it open its mouth looking like you could fit a few Chasser in there.

The Whale closed its mouth and dived back underground causing massive clouds of dust and rock to be spewed up.

"We have to tell the general about this and Professor Robbert!" said Adam as the team nodded and started to leave but John looked back one more time at the destruction caused by that whale.

"Who was this king she was talking about..." he mumbled to himself.