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I am sorry it took so long to finish this chapter and again apologize if it's badly edited and not as exciting as the chapters that make people keep coming back to read it over the months it's been on hiatus. I have over two hundred stories on my profile with dozens that are unfinished I want to try writing. I promise though the next chapter for this fandom I'll try harder and will have it out faster. Thank you.
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Teresa swiveled out of the way when she swung her weapons at her. Teresa rode towards a wall only to veer quickly to the right, the lion girl leaping at her and crashing into the wall. As fast as Teresa was moving, her feet now what were carriage wheels only they accumulated into a big splotch of dirt that kept moving, the lion girl was keeping up with her, those giant weapons doing nothing to slow her down.
She cleaved her sword down while her feet were helping her keep up with her neck. Teresa morphed from a chassis to her normal body, quickly dodging the blade, her feet and robot muscles scraping against the ground, even if she wasn't human losing a limb for her was the same as humans losing their own limbs.
Razi could see the ruthlessness in the beastwoman's eyes as her shadowy silhouette weaved the air trying to slash her claws through his skin.
This gave him an idea. While the eye-monster was prepping to attack, he spoke with Teresa.
"I need you to get me." Razi pointed his finger to give her a more accurate spot. "There."
Teresa's body tethered and her robotic eyebrows blinked yet she responded, "Under4tood."
With her strong hands she lifted Razi up before throwing him to the roof. Razi stood up as the beastwoman roared so ferally it would be dinned in the young boy's ears for nights on end.
With a teether of a lurky hood donned person or apparition.
The beastwoman prowled, bloody war cry hollered out. Razi used his embedded axe to block the first swipe she made at him. The key-if he was going to be successful-was to watch his footing so he didn't accidentally fall, which was hard when he had to persistently weave backwards while the beastwoman began her onslaught.
Even her just smacking his axe was twisting his wrist and searing his neck. He couldn't even step back, had to keep her preoccupied while he encircled the puppet master. He could now see a silky robed creature with bony grey hands and sunken maxilla on its grey face with glowing red eyes. Attached to its fingers were long ebony strings.
Little did this string master know there were copper wires all around the roof while Razi was doing his little tango. The wires rattled. Razi felt in harmony dancing and the beastwoman plowed into him launching him to a mast.
Suddenly, the wires exploded and soared towards the two tangling them around their joins. The puppet masters' right arm still had a little wriggle room he used profusely to try to sever the wires; until Razi moved with lightning speed and chopped his arm clean off.
The puppet master could only scream in anguish terror as the wires began to constrict. The metallic lacings were soaked in the seeping blood of the puppet master's bleeding body before his whole body was sliced into tiny gray cubes only a wizen grotesque monster could have.
Razi holding that disgusting puppeteer monsters' hand took a bite of it. The hand tasted clammy as if he just munched on the forehead of an old man's head with dandruff. He didn't have time to lament, he swigged down a vial of antidote.
He was sure his body built up an immunity to poisons by now, but he was being cautious until someone else, an ally, would eat this flesh and need his antivenin.
Below, Teresa strewed her right arm as if she was lugging a baseball bat on the ground. The monster had its many eyes wide open and affixed to her before charging magenta lights beamed to life in its eyes and linear laser beams were fired at her. The lasers punctured three holes in her body out of five beams.
The monster's energy in its tentacles whittled down to normal eyeballs overexerting its energy, but nothing stopped Teresa from running towards it.
Upclose, exhilarated, she splashed it with a fistful of sand. The monster didn't flinch so it closed its eyes to shield its eyeballs. But Teresa's plan wasn't to cover it in sand; flames burned in her mouth.
"Oiii!" The monster shrieked before Teresa burned it with a gust of flames scorching from her mouth.
With one mighty roar the monster was burning and writhing as its long tentacles and bulbous body liquidated into a puddle of purple liquid.
But before all of it liquified, Teresa severed one tentacle she clutched in her hand like a flower.
Above Razi sauntered towards the beastwoman; she hissed, snarled and barbarically clawed at him trying to break free and maim him. Razi raised his axe-hand in a threatening, looming pose.
Seeing him like this stirred emotions she thought were long gone; the will to survive. She wanted to stay alive.
He chopped in an indolent way and that was what surprised her more than him breaking his wire off her.
"I don't kill beasts unless I need to. Your free to leave if you wish. I only care about the hidden treasure in this cave not the monsters that dwell inside it."
After such a headlong battle it was hard to believe she was giving the choice to leave. Instead, a smarmy toothy grin appeared on her face.
"I'm not leaving you."
"You find something interesting about me?" Razi sounded bored.
"No other prey has made it past this room. No one has ever left here alive; imagine living tethered to a chain being forced to kill just to keep a door closed."
"You abhor killing people?"
She had a strange smile on her face-and all it took was one sharp tooth for her face to be considered smiling. "I don't like killing for anyone other than myself. Obeying his orders was torture."
Her enthusiastic tone in the conversation about killing gave Razi an idea.
Right in front of the beastwoman he opened his mouth and mawled his teeth into the flesh of the puppeteer's severed arm. This enraptured the beastwoman rather than disgust her. With his other hand he uncapped a vial and dripped a trickle in his mouth. Taking the beastwoman completely by surprise he rushed towards her and pressed his lips against hers.
It was the worst kiss any women/beastwomen could ever taste. It was as if Razi's tongue was a ballista propelling stones down her throat-wet raunchy stones.
The beastwomen felt revulsions of this-not a word in her people's tongue for cruel.
Cruel.
He stopped, backed away until he was at least six feet away from her. Her mouth opened with gaping teeth as she prepared to lunge-
" I wo8ld 2sk s3meone w8y t5ey 6id som7thing bef8re bar1ng my c5aws at th6m."
That was Teresa using a very long robot arm she tangled up on the bridge...she shuddered in an excited way before composing herself, arms squeezing together. "R2zi w7s tr9ing t2 s4are t7e in6ate abi8ity fo3nd in yo4r pu5pet m2ster.
"Although it is a gamble of whether this plan works or not, do you know what skills he had, Razi?" The spirit inside him asked.
"He strewn people like puppet's if they fell into his rope trap. So...not that useful."
Razi would rather cleave than use a squalid cage to fight against his enemies even he didn't find this new skill useful was a métier having all these different skills. He turned around; felt the thud of someone knocking.
"If you really are so powerful, please take me with you."
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The next room had an eerie vibe to it. It was the opposite of the hallway with how dirt-free and glittering the ground was, long gaps with shiny stones along the ground, and a big monolith encased in the center.
Razi and Teresa were with their new beastwomen ally Lye taking in the scenery.
"It smells jasmine in here." she said.
"I don't smell the jasmine." Razi said walking-like a duck raising his foot with a hard press in each step. "All I smell is the importance of each puzzle in this room."
Razi gave Teresa a tap on her right shoulder. She was unflinching. He tried again. This time he did a little slapping on her wrist. When that didn't work, he launched his axe blade in the room, a reckless action to get her attention.
" N1 m2ster. I ha7ve8't t7e da3ndi6st id2a on h4w-"
She realized staring into the flickering eyes why he was so persistent at getting her attention. He was showing her the tallows concealing things in the ceiling. What she saw were a multitude of different eyeballs, sclera's wavering from yellow to red to blue. She once again saw an axe flutter in a helpful and looming dangerous way, fixated on Razi.
He moved up to a corner in the room where a hieroglyph was etched on the wall.
"This room is giving us a riddle to solve. OF THE LORD I AM BLUE AND OF THE PLEBIAN I AM RED! OF THE LIZARD I AM COLD OF THE BULL I AM HOT! WHAT AM I?!
Teresa wasn't so perplexed by hot and cold that she couldn't figure out the answer; she just never had the blood in her and never felt hot or cold.
"W4at is t8e p3an?"
"You keep away from me and let me think."
Teresa paused. She saw the diverseness in Razi's speech, asked again, "W4at is t8e re5l p3an?"
Razi stood still, crossed his eyebrows, said "Fill this room with gas; vacuum it into your right hand, then when it looks like something will reach out to grab you-and something will-hurl that gas ball and spew fire at it. I'll make sure our bipedal feline isn't scorched in this onslaught."
Teresa was surprised; her master was intelligent. It was a good thing he had another plan since the eyes started to oscillate in the ceiling. The first attack was a prong attack from the left wall, a spear-esque object launched at Teresa.
Her only feasible move was to dodge the spear by rolling in a curled ball position in a angle roll, but that would leave Razi wide open to be impaled-and even a heartless robot couldn't cull something to lead to the demise of a friend.
Suddenly, her choices were no longer metaphorical when the beastwoman rushed towards the spear and clawed through it. Two long vertical lines cut right through the spear as it was overhead of her, and the remnants of the spear almost impaled or grazed Razi while he was using the bottom sharp side of his axe to make an insertion in his palm.
Teresa's motion detector-a thymic hearing processor-noticed another appendage looming towards them.
This time the prong was axelike with four sharp blades meshed together on four sides. She immediately dashed to the far left side.
And then-using a little flame she pocked a flint at the axes arm. It trembled showing it still had nerves before it roared. The arm elongated towards Teresa before missing and slamming itself on the ground.
The moment played out in the room as so: Lye catching a blade on the left, Teresa using a fire to confuse the arm on her right, and Razi was showing the monolith his bloody palm before touching the riddle with it.
He didn't know if that was the answer they were looking for, and was feeling a little searing pain while the alienated room caused him to feel damp. He had to think what would make blood work. Thinking was causing his left side to hurt; he quickly touched his upper gums with his tongue. As he receded his tongue back behind his teeth, a bubble emerged out. It fluttered through the room until it reached the ceiling, and then another cold-blooded creature plummeted from above with markings ladened all over its face.
The creature stared at him coldly, cold and heartless as a cuddlefish, its pudgy lips predominately open in a scary way and appearing the same way a fleeting shadow does it pulled out a ink black cloud with red eyes grazing all around...but all this suspense was just a game to Razi.
Like a clock missing an important small cog, the creature stopped a neck length from Razi's jugular. Teresa saw no reaction from the hand as she turned her flamethrowers off.
The beastwoman Lye mawed on the lance-arm trying to eat any meal; she being in a frenzy to try different monster meat since Razi kissed her with that ball of flesh in his mouth. The appendages retracted back into the wall...walls but the fish continued to stay, loom.
Razi's full attention was swaying away from it and focused back to the monolith the riddle was carved in. Teresa and Lye joined him walking up to him until their armpits squeezed into him.
"Y2u thi4k i5's 6ver; the3r ri8dle w4s s9lved so 1ow 2hey wi4l gi6e y2u t8e tr3a6ure?" Teresa asked going from pushing into him to turning around and grinding his leg.
"What we did was too easy-they were telling us the answer."
The hieroglyphs were emboldened with a flurry of water tracing each symbol. The water had a reverie to it the same way water sparkled in a pond. To Lye, however, this water was the poisonous saliva of a serpent.
She moved her feet repeatedly while hissing as her eyes flared. She did this until the water elevated to her feet where she leaped sky high for the ceiling. This escape was foiled by the creature appearing in her way and opening its mouth-Lye being swallowed whole. Even inside a giant fish, her guttural rage filled in the room.
The fish flitted in spinning momentum towards Razi and Teresa.
The defensive automaton raised her right arm to fry the big fish before it swallowed her and him; he lowered her arm before any fire could be sprayed.
" W4at a1e y2u do5ng? th7t thin8-"
"It's doing everything we need it to do."
