Chapter 21: Monster Hunting Part 2

Chapter 21: Monster Hunting Continues!

The mist starts to grow more and more as the only thing Evie and Jaden can see is the purple eyes from the monster.

"What the hell is that?" Jaden says getting into a basic fighting stance. Evie still in front of him gets into a stance Jaden doesn't recognize.

Her palms are open with her left arm out forward with her right close to her chest, she's bent down at an angle with her left leg stretched forward, and her right leg bent slightly.

"Oh..so you know how to fight?" Jaden says surprised.

Evie glances at him "I had to find a way to compensate just Incase I didn't have any weapons, so before I joined...I took some training in mixed martial arts."

Just as she finishes saying that the monster raises his hand up as from the darkness comes this huge tree being thrown at them. Evie palms forward as the tree splits in half. Jaden looks at her as he sees her dash forward as the tree splits. "Woah…she isn't even an Attack Type, yet she's using her ability completely different now."

Evie breaks through the tree as the monster tries to swipe her with its claws, Evie parry's the monster's attack as she jumps up, kneeing it in the face causing it to be stunned.

A yellow light appears on the monster's chin. While in the air Evie does a front flip slamming her heel on the monster's head as another yellow light appears on the top of his head.

Right as Evie jumps off the monster she is stopped in mid air. "What?! He can hold me in mid air?!"

The monster gives off a sinister smile. As the mist around them start to form into giant black claws as it slashes Evie all over, but her aura is protecting her.

Evie thinks to herself "I just need to to move any part of my body…" she struggles to no avail.

The monster looks at Evie "The light...can protect itself...but soon..soon the light will be covered and trapped in my darkness.

""Hey…" the monster hears as it gets uppercutted by Jaden as the monster drops Evie.

Evie takes this opportunity to make the yellow light on the monster's chin and head expand and completely enveloped the monster's head as Evie closes her hand, causing the ward to close and crush its head.

The darkness disperses as quickly as it came as the stand there for a minute. They hear a beep as their wristband barely goes up.

Jaden has a tiny flame on his knuckles as he looks at his wrist "Well that was a quick fight but come on he wasn't even going to give us a lot of points?"

Evie pats him on the back "It'll be fine. We can go around and-"

She is interrupted as multiple creatures that resemble a dwarf but with dark ashy skin appear all around them on trees and out of the forest. They are chattering their teeth in unison watching Evie' sand Jadens every movement.

Meanwhile,

Xander and Leslie are standing around their side of the island walking on sand as they are surrounded by rocks and dead trees.Xander wipes his hands "Dang...hunting down these low monsters like goblins and slimes. We need something a bit bigger if we want to win this."

Leslie who is drenched in sweat, he looks down at his wrist pad and sees that it is a quarter way full. "Yeah it seems we all have been pulling our weight….I wonder what Jake is doing right now..if he just flew around he could've finished this."

Xander puts his hand through his head and sighs "Hey...Leslie. How do you feel about Jake, with his powers yah know?"

Leslie sits down "I...I don't know man. I see him as Jake, sure he has wild abilities but at least he's our teammate, our friend.. instead of kicking him out or trying to kill we should help him figure out what he is."

Xander remains quiet as he looks at Leslie "Yeah..I feel the same way."

"No you don't, your entire perspective on Jake was altered after you tried to kill him.." Leslie says as he stared up to Xander.

"You saw it too! He made everyone in that room silent! We saw them trying to open their mouths! We heard their muffled screams! How else was I supposed to react...we need to keep him under control-" Xander says pacing back and forth.

Leslie stands up "Who are we to try and control anyone?! Especially those we work with..."

Xander turns towards him with anger in his eyes "Funny coming from a summoning type."

Leslie stands up completely, still holding his stomach. "You know what…" a purple aura starts to surround him.

Xander takes a step back "Hey..man chill out we need to finish this-"

Leslie grunts in pain as a portal slowly opens up as a Fleshy-like Ent comes stumbling out with purple glowing eyes. Leslie looks up with even more sweat on his face. "What..he didn't look like this the last time I summoned him."

The Ent arms stretched outward towards Xander as it covered him as poison . Leslie drops to one knee as the portal instantly closes. "I'm not going to attack you idiot! Look behind you!"

Xander looks between the limbs of the Ent as he sees a creature above a set of rocks looking down at them. "What...is that.."

"Why have you come here?" The hear in a growl.

"You humans haven't disturbed us for years and now you suddenly appear?" They hear in hiss.

"To do what?....to use us as your little games again?" The creature growls again as it was shown to be a chimera, a creature with the head of a lion, a body of a goat, and a snake as a tail.

Xander grabs his side seemingly on instinct "Shit! I don't have Miyamoto…" his eyes widen "Leslie!" He looks over to Leslie and he is barely able to keep himself up.

The chimera drops down. "I've learned your language, human, you should at least respond back."

Leslie looks up at Xander as he begins to stand up. "Damnit..what's wrong? My body feels like it's on fire from just summoning the Ent."

The Chimera walks ever so slowly towards Xander as the snake hisses and the lion bares his fangs "Perhaps we should communicate in other ways."

Xander dashes in a blur and appears in front and behind the chimera at the same time as he grabs the snake by the head and kicks the lion in the jaw stunning it. He then tosses the chimera into some rocks nearby making the rocks crumble under it.

Leslie looks at Xander "heh..Nice." he says as he suddenly drops to the ground passing out as a portal opens behind the Ent instantly sucking it in.

Xander rushes over and picks Leslie up as he hears the rocks behind him start to rumble and move.

They burst outward as the chimera roars loudly staring down at Xander "You filthy HUMAN" The goat head bonks the lion on the head "You can't be loud!" Just as the goat head finishes talking they start to hear a rumble coming from underground as the sand starts to move like a wave in the water.

Xander has a confused look on his face as the chimera seems to be frozen in fear. "What are you so afraid of?"

The wave of sand starts to come closer and closer towards the direction of the chimera as the chimera screams in terror as it starts to run.

The ground underneath the chimera opens up showing a huge mouth with thousands of teeth all constantly rotating like vacuum, it inhales in the chimera as it dives back into the sand.

Xander watches "Should've dodged."

He then notices that the huge creature was a huge worm, he also sees that the worm has bits and pieces of the island on it, some frozen ice, vines from the jungle, and moss from the forest.

He puts Leslie over his shoulder "I need to get you back to the boss Les, you're messed up bad man...what did you do?" He holds Leslie close and zooms towards the direction of Evie and Jaden

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