1st Random Encounter
"does it mean there will be more?"
Tunk
Tunk
Tunk
"is it me? or is there a sound of something really big walking nearvy?" asked Yamato
The trio had manget to track back a little from their trip to the underground on a walk back, since they had walked 30 minute to get in they were a long walk to get out, this was further complicated when after 5 minute of backtracking they got confused upon the multiple paths that Taichi had ignored while being chased by a zombie
In other words, and just like Matt had predicted, they were lost
"mm... if my zoological knowledge is not wrong" started taichi ignoring the "did you go to the zoo without me?" coming from Miyu "this creature must be at least 2 meters tall and bipedal" he nooded sagely
"are you saying that we might have to fight some giant sewer alligator?"
"don't be an idiot, there isn't a sound from a tail being draged, it's why i said bipedal rather than reptile" denied Taichi
Matt relaxed to said words
"on the other hand i kind of expect something like an elephant, but given our current location i will also bet on the fact that it must be man eater"
And Matt's hope of survival without a deathly challange were crushed with his further comment from his friend
"come on, it couldn't be like that, this is japan, there are no such big predators" said Matt in denial
Miyu then spoke finishing all of Matt's remaining delusion of a normal day "it is know for magicians to put defences on their lairs, some kind of chimera is not out of place for an underground hideout, mutations on nearvy animals due to magical radiation is also common and given that Onii-sama found a group of zombies it would also demostrate that this group was not particulary good at preventing magical contamination, the presence of zombies when studing necromancy is the ultimate proof of the researcher's incompetence and failure"
"so in other words we are not necesarily goin against a elephant rigth?" asked Taichi preparing his gun, he foregone the acuracy of single handgun for the rapid fire and cool factor of dual wielding
"a mutated dog will turn in a hellhound, a mutated chiken will be have the size of an orstrich, but i am not very experienced" said Miyu pulling out a single knive, it wouldn't have looked meancing if not for the little blue ligth aura coming out of it
At that moment Matt was really envious of the pair, one had weapons of war and the other weapons of fantasy, and he himself was only armed with a wooden baseball bat
He should atleast have brought the aluminium one
TUNK
TUNK
TUNK!
Finally looking forwards on their toonel the monster came from the left side of the intersection, the company could not help but step back upon what they were withnessing
The beast was reptilian of aperance, it was at least 3 meters tall with green scales and a white underbelly
It walked on 2 hindlegs and had a long tail to keep balance of it's strangelly big head
It had brown 'hair' on the top of the head, 2 masive horns that may had been bigger than it's legs
It also had countless amount of eyes on it's 'face' and fangs that were bigger than a man's arm yet looked like a needles making up the fang of a shark's mouth
Taichi couldn't stop himself from asking "is that the black beast of Aargh?"
Miyu repliet more out of reflex than actual thought "it is know that magicians lack imagination and will often simply try to turn elements from fictional works in reality, the bigest example are wizards and their flying brooms and the church making true 'light sables' from holy light to destroy devils"
Both males nodded in undertanding
"so can we kill that thing?" asked Matt really feeling out of his league, his weapon was the very first and basic choise a zombie survival gear, it was theoretically better than Taichi's gun when dealing with zombie due to lack of 'noise' but it was uterlly useless against that beast and he was NOT gonna get in range to actually prove this
BANG!~ BANG!~ BANG!~ BANG!~ BANG!~ BANG!~
Taichi's handguns fired all of their bullets, 24 rounds impacted on the beast face each one making it close one of the eyes that were hit, but a few bullets missed the face and found their way on the 'body' of the beast but acomplished nothing
"when enough magic power is used, a magical creature can be created, a common trait among most magical beings is that they are inatelly inmune to any kind of comventional weapon that is not enhaced by magic" said Miyu when Tai's gun cliked empty and the beast merelly growled in disconform "is not unlike trying to do your homework by talking aloud rather than writing with a pencil"
The beast growled but Taichi's impromptu use of a Uzi delayed further movements
"then can your knife kill it?" wondered Matt steping back
Miyu gived her knife a glance "Nanatsuyoru is a mystic code, it grants the skills and traits of a true assassin, i could kill a person by stabing their heart or cuting their throat without being seen, hear or detected, i could run a hundred meters under 10 seconds, i could even cut steel if am willing to break the edge"
"so?"
"it has no enhacement when it comes to dealing damage, i was prepared to deal with a mundane zombie or a magician, neither has protection against bullets, sneak attacks nor sharp blades" she admited
"..."
"..."
Click~ Click~ Click~
Finally Taichi's gun ran empty, the beast showed no more damage than a normal person would by being hit with water from a hose
"so we run?" asked the brunet
Neither of the 3 knew who had been the first to retreat, they were all too bussy trying to not be the last on their mad dash running away from inminent death
The beast led out a roar before chassing
"dam it! that sounded like a T-REX that isn't good omen!" said Matt while also cursing being the less atlectic of the trio
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Anyone who has done excercise, or at least read a few of the correct stories, will learn that adrenaline allows a person to excede their mental limits, this is not some sort of supernatural energy that grants power from nowhere but rather the release of a restriction that stops a person from using 100% of their physical capacity due to the fact that such activity would tear down their body
Adrenaline therefore allows a person to reach their peak condition for the simple reason that it won't matter if you would suffer from a heart attack at your 58 years of age if you do not survive the event that took place when he was 20 years younger
This is what allowed Ishida Yamato to run at full capacity for 10 whole minutes while being chased by a big and ugly green monster
It should be noted that while Yamato was not fond of doing excesice he was still somewhat fit, he could last 5 kilometers when he passed himself correctly, and he could even run 100 meters in little more than 16 seconds
but under normal sicuntances he couldn't do both at the same time, he lacked the physical resistnce necesary to do so and he had only managed to do the temporal convination of both traits due to adrenaline burst
"ah~ ah~ ah~"
But that wouldn't last forever
It also should be pointed out that Yamato was not the only person that had been chased by the Black Beast of Aaargh, but both of his companions had further advatage outside of als having the adrenaline boost, the young Miyu was armed with a magical enhacement to increase her capacity to peak human condition, while Taichi was member of the soccer team, and as the capitain of the soccer team, he was not just used to running at max speed for training but doing so for hours to make the example
This mean that Yamato had been the slowlest of the group and the one that the beast had chosen to chase when they came across an intersection
Tunk~ Tunk~ Tunk~
Luckily for Matt while the beast prancing was consistent, it wasn't particulary fast one, and a less distresed version of himself may have even pointed out that the beast might be doing it that way to torture those that it chased, nothing like a hopeless victim that was being further humillated by the ridiculous way they were being chased
"ah~ ah~ ah~"
It was at this point that Matt was wondered if he would die, if he would follow the same fate as his wooden bat when he had desesperatly threw it on hopes of triping the monster but it had gotten trampled and turned in splinters
'being steped on would likely be better than being eaten alive'
But he still keep running, his speed slowly goin down and the beast got closer and closer
BANG!
The beast roared in pain upon being shot again
Matt feel a little more hopeful upon noticing that at the end of the tunel he could see the form of Taichi, he had once again pulllet out some random gun, this time it had been a hunting riffle and he had managed to aim the shot without hitting the blonde
The beast now being pelled by ammo slowed again, the blonde knew it wasn't being hurt but he feelt hopefull and used the last of his energy to reach his friend
when he got close enough Taichi stoped firing, threw the riffle to the side and took Matt's arm to drag him further on their current room, it was one of the big ones filled with pilars
"good to see you google-face" said the breathless blonde boy
"like i could abandone you to some green monster, whose fries would i steal if you died?"
Still after shoving Matt behind a pilar Taichi took out a shotgun from inside his coat
Matt had to ask a question
"how many guns do you have in there?"
"this is the last" admited the brunette with a shepishly smile "i did not expect to find a boss on the first level so i only brough what i could fit in my pockets"
"2 handguns, an uzy, a hunting rifle and a shotgun?" Matt was surpriced by what his friend considered 'basics'... and how many things he could fit on his pockets
"basic shooter ensemble" nooded the boy "trouble is that i had an easier time finding weapons than the bullets so they are kinda expendable" he said finally moving to the opening of the last tunel Matt had ran from
"what are you doing?" wondered he blonde who could no longer move but his friend didn't answerd, he simply keep his face focused on the rumbling behemont
"hello monster, aren't you an uggly fellow?" asked the fluffy haired boy to the creature, it only showed no responce outside of steping in front of him, slowly measuring each other
Faster than Matt could blink the beast moved and pounced on his frined, it had given no tell of reading itself for such a move but Taichi's reflexes were better, in the same instant he didn't just manage to roll to the side, but he also shouldered his weapon and opened fire at point blank range since the head of the creature had ended no more than a step from his crouched position
Bang!
The ring of the shootgun shoot was particulary loud, but Yamato's only though wasn't on that part, but that it was specially meaty and that Taichi's hit had actually sounded meaty
For a second he worried that his friend had been hurt, the amount of blood that fell was inmense
Then he noticed that the beast pulled back while roaring in pain, the shootgun blast had destroyed half of the face of the creature and the eyes were bleeding
"not so funny when you suffer actual damage is it?" said Tai
Bang!
Another part of the beast's face disapeared in a misty red rain of gore, it tried to trample the human boy, but he was carefull enough to keep outside of the range of the trampling foe that couldn't really track him down due to the dimishing of it's ability to see his target
"sadly i can not kill you" said the brunette making another shot, the beast however was ready, it moved it's face to the side preventing the bullet from impacting the delicate eyes but not it's body, the pellets fell hamlessly to the ground "a hastefuly done enchantment can not turn this weapon made for killing men, on something stronger than a metarporical peas shooter, isn't magic such unfair advantage?"
For a moment Matt wondered if his friend was being suicidal, the beast aparently undertood that so long as it did not risk it's own face it could not be harmed, that by using his body as a shield he could trample his prey without further injury
Taichi however was no slouch, he simply moved in a way that allowed him to evade the gues work that was the beast aiming it's attacks, he also proved how he had managet to battle a zombie with super streng for a while without getting killed
When the tail was shot like a whip, Taichi crouched down, falling low enough that it looked more like he was doing a push up rather than an actual crouch, he then rolled to get back to his feet faster than it should be possible and in a new position
When the beast threw it's body on a tacle Taichi evaded, the division between legs offering him enough space to slid under, but he also made an effort to aply variation by ocasionally running to the blinded left side of the monster
When the beast tried to bite, he simply aimed his shootgun and fired, the bleeding eyes were enough of a critical point to make the creature flinched back from pain and stop it's attack
But Matt knew that this wouldn't be enought, his friend had admited that he would eventually run out of bullets
Click~ Click~
"no more bullet" said Taichi not showing even the a little bit of fear to running out of ammo "but even so, i still have something that you do not" Matt could feel the smirk hiden under that unrully brown mop of a hair and aviator goggles "i have the power of faith, friendship, strategy, teamwork and legends on my side"
It was only then that Matt noticed it
The underground storm sewers were a place with surpricingly good illumination, the openings to the street allowed enough light to ender during the day, some tunels did need you to bring a lantern but most of the passages had fluorecent ligths that would be naturally charged and reflect your own ligth source rather effectivelly
This place however had a ladder leading to a upper level and said uper level lead to a railing to the street level
Upon said railing and not far away from the monster stood the small black haired little girl know as Sakatsuki Miyu
And in Sakatsuki Miyu hands was a round glittering ball with a cross on top, she had it raised over her head while saying something
"O LORD, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy"
"you gotta be kidding me" siad Matt after understanding the reference
Magic was real
Fantasy could be turned in reality
Monsters of myth, tale, and legend were a real treat
And weapons that were supposed to be nothing but a joke could be achived by magic
"...And the LORDspake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it"
And then upon finishing her 'chant' she threw the [Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch] upon the [Black Beast of Aaargh]
Taichi smirk could be felt from miles away "bye bye, little fella" as if to make a futher point of his superiotity to Matt he took the unloaded shootgun by the barrel and used it as one would use a baseball bat to hit the glithering hand granade, the ball of silver flied true, and it was swallowed by the monster
BOOM!
And with it's internal organs destroyed in a rain of gore the Black Beast was no more
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Adventure Guild Rules of Adventure
1 – thou shall allways bring more dakka than extricly necesary (and prefently enought tools to destroy a boss monster) no matter how small the adventure you had planed, it's better to have more fire power than requiered by the job than to lack the fire power that is needed when everything goes to hell
2 – when goin on an adventure always wear confortable clothes that you are willing to loss, ease of movement is important when running for your life, but monster blood is also surpricingly hard to wash out and will even resist most brands of magic cleaners.
3 – when using explosives always wear eye gear, an exploding monster means that there will be a rain of gore and this gets everywhere, even your eyes.
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AN: Credid for the creation of the monster and 'holy' weapon goes to Monty Pithon