"So how long will it take for us to get there now?" Blake asked. "A little less than a day. This is by no means a safe trip. There are plenty of dangerous creatures and sinkholes in the sands. We probably won't have to worry about guards coming after us for the skiff, Latoiabridge isn't the best with criminals. Unless the person we stole this from is royalty the guards won't care." Asura said. "Well what else should we know about an Imoogi?" She asked. "It's basically nothing but a large snake. No special powers or anything, just a large beast. All we have to do is pray that we don't run into a sandstorm, the sands at those speeds will be like being pelted by rocks." Asura said as they rode up a sand dune making the skiff get a second of air before hitting the ground. "I wanted to ask. What is that?" Blake asked touching her pointer finger to Ascalon. "You showed it during the fight with JNPR but you put it back." "Well that's my weapon. I had Karma, the blind girl Priscilla pulled out, make it. It extends to above the shoulders and has ten blades, five on each arm, two shotguns and bayonets. The shotgun ammunition can be changed from everything from riot control, lethal, crystalline, shockwave, and my personal touch, Ruin shells." Asura said taking one hand off the wheel and extending Ascalon. "Will we have to kill the Imoogi or is it possible that we can make it leave?" Blake asked. "From what I hear it's an evil, corrupt Imoogi. It spends the 1,000 years causing havoc while the good one helps. We'll have to kill it." Asura said. "How big is it?" Blake asked, her yellow eyes seeing across the dark sands. "I'd say since it started attacking 4 years ago but people say it showed up about 30 years ago… a little bit bigger than this skiff. They either hid in caves or it will be under the sands. We'll have to be extremely on guard when that time comes." Asura said.
After they talked for a while the sun came up and a while after that it was extremely bright outside. They had run into a sandstorm and everyone but Asura was held up in the hold to be safe. "Well it should be around this area!" Asura said as they continued on. "How big is the area?!" Weiss asked. "Well since it's big I'd say… five hundred square miles!" Asura yelled over the wailing winds that pelted his body. "Are you fucking serious!?" Weiss asked. "I never said it would be easy!" Asura yelled back. After a while they finally got out of the sandstorm and everyone was on the deck of the skiff searching for caves. "Is that it over there!?" Yang yelled. "Let's go look!" Asura said spinning the wheel, turning the ship to head to the rocks. "It surely seems big enough for one! Keep an eye out and stay on guard!" Asura yelled out as they all had their eyes burning holes into the cave looking for movement. "ASURA LOOK OUT!" He heard Ruby yell before turning his head to the right and seeing the Imoogi in the middle of jumping out of the sand, ready to snap the boat in half. "GET TO THE CAVE!" Asura managed to yell before the Imoogi slammed its jaws resulting in a thunderous sound along with broken wood. Asura jumped with the boat and ended up in the group with the others as they all ran for their lives to the caves. "It looks too small for it to get into!" Asura yelled as they got closer. He heard a yell and say that Ruby had fallen and the Imoogi slithering across the sands behind her. Asura ran to her and grabbed her and threw her to the others. He didn't have enough time to dodge the gaping abyss that was the Imoogi's mouth and braced himself. With expert precision, as the Imoogi's jaws slammed, he put his hands up and used all his force to stop the maw from crushing him. The imoogi reared upwards lifting Asura high into the sky. It curled its forked tongue around Asura's waist and tried to pull him in. "Weiss! Ruby! The tongue!" He said as he struggled to keep the mouth open. Weiss used her dust to launch Ruby and Ruby used her special magazine to gain extra momentum and in a blink of an eye flew from one side of the Imoogi's mouth to the other, cutting the tongue like paper in the process. Asura pushed off the Imoogi and started to run back with Ruby to the cave. He turned around and saw the Imoogi writhing on the sand before it got up and roared at them, blood pouring from its mouth. After it roared it slammed its tail on the sand sending shockwaves through the earth before standing taller in the sky, tall enough to block out the sun, and released deafening screech as two hoods appeared on each side of its head. It shot out its tail and slammed Asura, separating him from Ruby and knocking him back towards the Imoogi. He unsheathed Ascalon and started running towards the Imoogi. They both charged at each other. Asura barely dodged the giant gaping mouth and slashed his blades, cutting one of the four massive fangs out of the mouth. He then grabbed it and with a loud yell of effort lifted it and spun around driving the fang into the Imoogi's eye. He then switched to shockwave and fired the shotgun pushing the fang inward. The fang curved upwards and shot straight out of the top of the head of the Imoogi resulting in a massive gash. The Imoogi slammed its tail into Asura sending him flying rapidly towards the cave walls, making him slam against the hard stone. "Great the gangs all here now we can die together!" He heard Yang yell. With an angered yell Asura pushed off of the wall, shattering it in the progress. He boomed toward the Imoogi and delivered a flying leg drop to the top of its head, sending it flat against the sands resulting in a shockwave. He tried to plunge the blades into its mouth but the Imoogi raised its head quickly sending Asura into the sky. Asura looked down to see the Imoogi, pushing itself against its tail closing the distance between them, with its mouth wide open making the thick blood fall to the sand with thuds. As he was ready to strike, Asura was taken off guard as the Imoogi as pushed back by a blow to its neck by Yang making a force ripple through out its body. He plunged the blades downward slicing the mouth of the Imoogi at the halfway point. The Imoogi roared into the sky sending a wave of air, pushing Yang and Asura away. It glared down at Asura and roared at him, making its mouth spread out like a bloody flower. The blast sent Asura to the wreckage of the front of the ship. He quickly turned around and in a rage ripped the blade from the front of the bow. The imoogi rampaged towards Asura, who dodged it just barely. The Imoogi swallowed the wreckage in one bite and Asura slammed the blade down taking off its tail. He raced over and grabbed the newly cut edge of the tail and spun it around and the sharp barbed tip of the tail slammed into the Imoogi's face, knocking it back. Asura spun around three more times, each time taking a chunk of flesh from the face of the Imoogi. He noticed the other running out of the cave to help him. He crouched down and stuck out his arms. Weiss and Blake jumped and landed on his forearms and allowed Asura to rocket them upwards. He then turned and continued to run with Yang and Ruby towards the demonic serpent. The red eyes of terror bore down on them as the raced across the sands. Weiss bombarded the Imoogi from above and Blake ran down its back slashing with all her might. Yang connected both fists to its chest sending it backwards. Asura ran and jumped, cutting all the way from the top to the bottom of the hood on the side of its head. Ruby then fired the special bullet from her scythe using the momentum to bury the scythe to the handle in the wound of where the hood used to be. The imoogi roared into the heavens and lifted Ruby up with it, she fired one lasts shot and tore through the back of the neck of the Imoogi. The imoogi fell to the ground with an earthshaking thud. Asura walked over to the Imoogi, who was on the ground hissing but in too much pain to move. Its blood poured out of every wound and turned the sand to bloody mud type ground. Asura put the bottom of his boot to the side of its eye and dug his hands deep into the eye socket before tearing the eye out brutally. He then raised his right hand and said "Ruin Shell." Calmly. When he finished tiny red shards started appearing around him and all gathered in front of the shotgun barrel. In a second they flattened to a microscopic size and all sound ceased to exist as the shell fired a large red laser that tore through the flesh and bone of the Imoogi. At about the halfway point of the laser firing, sound returned and a loud deafening sounds was given off. The laser slowly shrunk to nothingness and smoke escaped from the barrels. Asura let his arm fall to his side as he calmed down. He put the eye in his bag and turned to the others. "So what have we learned today?" He asked. "That you can stare into the face of death and almost die?" Yang replied sarcastically. Asura smiled before he felt faint and his vision went blurry and his legs gave out as he fell to his knees and on the desert floor.