Hades and Rayne

Chapter 25: Tibacodile Attack

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Hades sighed as he pulled off his heavy armor and thermal netting, having no need for it before he set his weapons on top of his armor and threw his loincloth on top of it.

Hades checked the atmosphere again, making sure he would be able to breathe with no problems before he carefully pulled off his biohelmet and set it on top of his armor before he took a tentative breath and relaxed before walking into the cool river.

Hades waded further into the water, keeping an eye out for any water predators that might be around before ducking halfway under a waterfall.

Rayne sighed, growing bored as she continued to wait for Hades before she stood and went to look for him.

Rayne ducked under a large tree branch and pushed aside a curtain of moss only to go still when she saw Hades standing knee deep in the water completely naked and facing her with his eyes closed.

Rayne's face immediately turned red as she blushed but quietly retreated, not wanting to disturb Hades any further.

Rayne instead began to look for tracks yet again but this time a little further down the river bank, having studied the tracks of the creatures and knew they would be hard to track as it was for it wiped over its tracks with its large crocodile like tail.

Rayne slid down to all fours, extremely glad that her new gloves didn't lock up or pinch her wrists as she continued to move forwards on all fours, searching the ground intently before she was finally able to see the tracks she had been looking for.

Rayne smiled behind her mask but sent her tracking beacon to Hades's mask knowing that when he put it on later it would show her progress on a small map.

Rayne straightened but kept her eyes glued to the tracks and her ears open to any sound. Rayne turned hearing the leaves rustle but was already to late, as the Tibacodile clamped its jaws around her thigh.

Rayne's scream was thankfully muffled by the mask but she forced her body to move and slammed her clawed hand through the Tibacodile's neck, severing its head cleanly from its spine.

Rayne gagged as she lay on her back before she forced herself to relax, despite the agonizing pain that she was in.

Rayne took several calming breaths before she forced herself to sit up and pried the Tibacodile's jaws off of her leg and stood, dragging the head behind her as she limped back to camp.

Rayne staggered and dug her claws deep into a tree as she continued to lose more blood but called out weakly, "Hades?" Hades lifted his head hearing Rayne call his name softly before he heard a soft thud and the sound of shredding bark and immediately leapt to his feet, rushing out of the small cave they had found.

Hades went still in shock seeing Rayne's entire left leg completely covered in blood but she carried the head of a Tibacodile behind her as she sat with her injured leg out and her claws dug deep into the tree as her head lolled forwards.

Hades rushed forwards lifting Rayne's small frame up into his arms before he grabbed her medicomp and immediately began to clean and disinfect the wounds before he quickly injected Rayne with the healing serum, forcing her body to heal at an accelerated pace that would leave her weak for hours.

Hades quickly made Rayne as comfortable as he could and continued to clean the blood off of her leg as she lay limp and unmoving but she had yet to release her trophy.

Hades sighed softly as he looked into the dark eyes of her mask but carefully maneuvered her extremely sharp metal talons to release the head of the Tibacodile and cleaned the blood off her metal gloves before moving to clean her trophy.

Rayne jerked into consciousness with a gasp and sat up only to nearly fall to the side as the ground swirled dizzily.

Hades quickly caught Rayne as she lurched to the side and pushed her gently back down as he pat her shoulder.

Rayne looked over at Hades before she relaxed under his large hand to find that he had been lying on his side and his arm had been under her head for her pillow and one of his legs rested under hers comfortably.

Rayne nudged her masked head against Hades's in confusion before he sighed softly, "Go to sleep Rayne. We hunt in the morning after you have recovered from the serum." Rayne nodded and tucked her head against Hades's shoulder again as he leaned over her protectively and both slid quietly back into sleep.

Rayne awoke when she felt Hades shift and carefully sat up, happy to find that her body was not as weak as she had expected it to be but she still felt rather tired.

Rayne stretched her arms above her head and arched her back as she stretched before she nudged Hades carefully and he sat up, stretching before he handed Rayne the cleaned skull of the Tibacodile that she had killed.

Rayne blinked in surprise but nodded in thanks before she attached the skull to her side, weaving the thermal netting around some of the bone to hold it there, "Do you want to start off where I got attacked?"

Hades nodded and stood before Rayne stood as well and headed back to where she had been attacked, "They are actually very quiet given their size. The only sound I heard was leaves moving before it was there."

Hades nodded and followed after Rayne before he saw the large, hulking body of the Tibacodile, who's skull now rested against Rayne's leg.