The Trial Continues Pt 2

Nightfall soon came after Axis returned, and when nightfall rose, they would make sure that the vile snake would have fallen. Axis had determined an entire plan swiftly to take down the ebony wicked snake that dared to pose a threat to the innocents of this village. Not even just because of its hunger, but simply because it could, a devil posing as a snake just as they once had before. Axis would be up to lead the charge, although unfortunately he could not much aid in battle with his injuries that were recovering oddly slow for himself yet he merely perceived this as another simple challenge. All the units stood around the spot where the snake was all within their proper positions and in an instant the plan would suddenly come into action.

Axis would look off at the snake from one of the tree branches, and turned towards one of the village members that crouched in a tree across from him. Axis gave a slight nod initiating them to start. Axis would suddenly shoot out a burst of bravery energy into the face of the snake to suddenly wake them up and distract them as they tried to go towards the source of the energy which was Axis. And that is when the snake would feel something suddenly puncture the back of his head, it was a precise stab that aimed just between it's armor scales using the small frame of time it was distracted being one of the greater warriors of the village. They quickly ran along its body to then jump off of it with the snake about to chase them…

The snake had suddenly been pelted with arrows from one of its sides, some of the sharp shots also ignoring its armor scales and causing more damage to be caused by it, but as soon as the snake looked at them they all mysteriously retreated and started running away in a spread out pattern. The snake would suddenly do a shotgun-like spit of the sticky substance trying to get some of them though it was blocked by shield soldiers who were sneakily hiding on the ground and retreating with the archers away from the snake.

With the snake on their trail and closing in, it would feel further pain towards it, but this time from its rear as it was struck with many arrows, but now from the opposing side as it suddenly rushed over towards the snake impaling it with plenty of arrows once more, but these people used the extra time they had to set their arrows alight with a strange powder that could be made with the surrounding plants of the area. These flaming arrows would all burn up and cause an explosion after. The explosion didn't really damage it much, but it removed armor plates and caused it to be hit with shrapnel of arrows all over and some of the arrows burning allowed for it to bleed out more.

The snake was catching on that now this must have been another trap with its pseudo intelligence, but it had not enough time to process the other dangers that may be around due to the danger of it continuing to stand still as it went towards the other archeres, but it would encounter the same defenses and strategy as they stopped it from being able to chase them and even when he tried, he would now be pelted with things from above. This time it was not arrows, but instead it had been something that would prove a bigger problem towards the snake. There were far fewer this time that attacked this time, but they had some improvised weaponry crafted by Axis himself which was basically a handheld cannon or gun rather that had massive explosive force to it. Each of the village members that were above and fired all aimed for a different spot to break his armor everywhere. The last shot towards the snake was not actually containing the deadly blast of a cannon fire, but instead it was oil that coated the entire body of the snake.

As the snake looked upwards towards its new attackers as it was blasted apart, suddenly the group with the flaming arrows would have formed back together in the distance and shot them once more at the snake which caused them to suddenly be lit ablaze with a never ending flame that didn't go out despite the mass thrashing of the snake in an attempt to stop the flame that burned its flesh with unrelenting fervor. The strong warrior who had first attacked it from before once more jumped down from the trees and suddenly gripped onto the head of the snake wrapping around its neck and trying to hold it, relieve it of air and give away its strength to move stabbing a knife deep into the snake's neck. Suddenly then jumping off of it to the side and running away from it with some burn marks that coated their body. With the sacrifice of the burning scars that now coated him, he had stopped the snake from thrashing around so it did not do any further damage. And just for safe measure Axis would have shot it several times more with some of his remaining bravery energy that was still within him.

Axis slowly scaled down from where he was and walked up to the burning body of the snake, the snake was now cooking itself alive after all of that. And finally he would have ordered some of the women of the village to prepare to clean and ready the snake for something else, they were going to celebrate this victory by actually eating the snake. And some believe that they would have good fortune after this triumph and consuming the body of evil purifying it from this space.

Axis and the others would walk back towards the village with those that braved the dangerous quest with him, but under his supervision and quick thinking of leading out a battle plan against the snake after seeing it only once and for a short time at that none of them had died. The chief was there waiting, and he would instantly be shocked upon seeing them all come back alive. A part of him had actually thought they'd all be dead, but now he would be glad he still had hope. The chief dropped down to his knees in front of Axis showing his gratitude with a bow towards him and he himself was almost in tears due to the utter joy he would have felt to finally have slain the creature.

"Thank you, thank you so much I don't even know how to repay you. The least I can do is to invite you to dine with us please if you'll allow me." The chief would say with a great joy in his tone erupting through, the tears of course were ones of extreme happiness.

Axis would grab the hand of the chief and bring him back up to his feet with an awkward smile coming onto the king's face, but he quickly sorted it out to be a normal one. He had come too far now to be nervous anymore, if one were to be truly brave they shouldn't fear just regular interaction. "Worry not, I believe I can make some time on my journey to enjoy some food, besides I would like to get a fill of food before I continue my long journey." Axis would say and then chuckled the two now meeting in gaze once more.

Strangely after he had he would have heard a voice inside of his own head that would echo a sentiment within his head, something that he had not known. Yet something that made him all the more glad that he had done this, realizing things weren't exactly as clear as he thought they were.

"Axis, you have passed the second trial." The voice spoke sounding somewhat like Tobias, but greatly distorted in a way where it was hard to tell exactly whom it was.