Chapter 21

The sounds of grunts were heard as it shows John busy exercising in his room. He was doing two finger pushups while upside down.

"I have to stay in shape." he mumbled to himself.

A knock is heard at the door and with one push he was on his feet, taking a nearby towel he quickly wiped his face off to get rid of the sweat. The teen opened the door to reveal pepper taping her foot impatiently on the floor.

"Finally, what we're you doing taking a sho..." She didn't finish her sentence as she noticed John's appearance which was only a pair of shorts and nothing else, the sweat glistens of his shirt less body.

"Sorry I was just busy with something; how can I help?" asked John.

Pepper cleared her throat and willed the blush away on her face.

"Right, there is a group of behemoths heading towards the dome." said Pepper.

"What category?" asked John.

"2 category fours with code name Coast Crawlers and another pair of categories 3 Nuipe." listed Pepper off.

"Are you guys already preparing to deploy?" said John.

"Team Zero is being dispatched to go take care of behemoths that are blocking the rails of our dome's on towards this dome." said Pepper.

John nodded and said his farewells and quickly ran towards the hanger, once there he quickly sprayed himself with some water and put on his pilot's suit. After putting on his suit he saw Asura being prepared for deployment but noticed that his sword was smaller and more stream lined.

"Hey what's up with the sword?" asked John.

"Well team zero's dome gave us advances in technology so we upgraded that big impractical sword with this new one, it's modelled after a katana just like Tempest, so you have to get use to it." said Coffee looking at a sheet of paper.

John just nodded and climbed in the cockpit connecting with his robot. Asura's eyes lit up and the hanger doors open, the big mechanical beast walked out the hanger letting the waiting ospreys hook it up, carrying it out. Once outside Asura wasted no time and floored his thrusters making him rocket towards the incoming dangers.

The Coast Crawler is a giant crab looking beast that walks on 2 legs, Nuipe are wolf like creatures walking on two legs with thin arms leading to giant paws with claws coming out. The beasts looked towards the growing dust storm approaching them and noticed a pair of yellow orbs looking right at them. Coast Crawler 1 tried to look closer at what was approaching them but then suddenly got a object lodged in its fore head making it spray orange blood like a fountain and screeching loudly. The beast fell on its back and twitched a bit before stopping, it was dead, when the Nuipe looked at what the object was it was a black and yellow sword sticking out. The last coast crawler looked angrily at the shape on to see a shadow right above it, a foot came crashing in the side of its face blasting it sideways, sound of cracking is heard as the coast crawler was sent away.

The Nuipe quickly recovered and sent a punch towards the shape, once the dust settled it showed Asura holding the beast's fist.

"You may be a wolf but you aren't no Big bad wolf" said John as he grinned and brought his knee up on its arm breaking the beast left arm.

Nuipe 2 appeared behind Asura and sent a kick towards the robot's head making him crash in a mountain. The fallen Coast Crawler screeched and armor plating shifted over its face protecting it, the beast joined the Nuipes and ran towards the robot. Asura shaked his head to clear the dizziness only to jump out the way of a charging Coast crawler. He quickly countered by sending a barrage of punches on it only to notice that it was doing nothing.

"Dammit" spat John out.

He boosted away from the crab and saw the Nuipes above him about to hit him, he's able to dodge the first one's kick but couldn't dodge a clawed hand scratch across the chest causing him to go backwards. Asura noticed that he was next to the corpse of the first Coast crawler, he pulled out the sword lodged in its head and stood in a stance, inside the cockpit John took a deep breath and looked coldly at the approaching beasts.

The first Nuipe lunged and tried to claw the robot down only to get blocked by the blade and with a huff he pushed the beast back and quickly moved forward bringing his sword across its chest quickly causing orange blood to spray out, coating Asura, but he didn't stop with just one slash, he twisted the wrist and slashed a bunch of times across its chest and then one last swipe, the robot looked at the other Nuipe and the one he just attacked blood sprayed every were and his head rolled off its neck thudding to the floor.

"That's one" he said slicing his sword downwards making the blood on it splatter to the floor.

Both behemoth's where scared and started to run only to see a shadow above them, the sound of splattering was heard as Asura quickly looked to see what happened only to see something weird. There above the two now dead behemoths was an average sized behemoth that was a shade of green with black plates covering it, it's head consisted of 2 pairs of red eyes that glowed eerily, it had no skin around its mouth showing only it's teeth, on top of its head was messy white hair that reached the back of its neck. The strange beast's fists were covered in orange blood.

Asura threw his sword at the beast head only to see it move out the way dodging the sword, it then started to run towards Asura and seeing as how it was charging him Asura also started to run toward it.

Back at the dome in a dimly lit room the sounds of bone crunching and flesh ripping off is heard as it showed a silhouette eating a poor random soldier. The door of the room opened and the silhouettes turned to the door and saw a figure standing there.

"Now why would you go and do this; I did get you food in your room...Adam" said Robbert.

The silhouette was shown to be Adam having a piece of flesh in his mouth and blood dripping off his chin his eyes glowing red and 1 horn sticking out of his head.

"I couldn't help it, I heard John was busy fighting behemoths and just the thought made me well...hungry~" cooed the white-haired teen.

"Don't worry, it won't be long before the king arrives" said Robbert as he closed his eyes then opened them again showing the once yellow eyes turn green with slits in it.

"Then we can eat to our hearts content..." said Robbert.