Chaotic: Legend of The Chezamon
Chapter 5- Mist Forest Tour
Since they got the Chezamon scans, the group was constantly harassed by players who wanted to trade. No matter how many times they refused to trade, the other players didn't give up so easily; the group had been offered the rarest Scans, yet they refused to trade their precious Chezamon. In fact, it was because of those scans that they were now invincible in the drome matches; Kaz wanted to go to Mist Forest for more scans, but Luna didn't want to bother Kaya and the others so often. In that moment, Tom, Kaz, Sarah and Luna were watching Peyton's drome match, who was battling as Rocket. He had lost only one Creature, and was creaming his opponent completely. The last match was on Kiru City; his opponent was playing as Ulmar.
One of the advantages of the Chezamon Creatures was their exceptional smelling and hearing sense, which they could use at their advantage. Their vision was quite strange, though; they saw everything in color, but when trying to find opponents, they would start seeing everything in black and white. Apparently, the Chezamon could see the heat of other Creature's body, just as snakes. One of the disadvantages was the fact that Chezamon were completely quadruped, and had no thumbs… in other words, Peyton had trouble when he wanted to use Battlegear, as he could only use his fangs to grab it.
But other than that, the Chezamon were almost invincible. Peyton was having trouble using his sense of smell, however.
"Guess Rockie had a cold when I scanned him," Peyton as Rocket muttered under his breath. A sound caught his attention, and the Mipedian player ducked just in time to avoid a Spirit Gust. Ulmar growled in frustration and used his Pyroblaster on the Chezamon, but to no avail. Rocket's speed was very high.
"You know, Peyton's doing better than the last time," Kaz commented, back on the table, as he took a sip from his soda.
"The last time he played as Rocket, he was having trouble walking on all fours," laughed Tom as another player came closer, "I'm not trading,"
The player accepted the answer and left in disappointment.
"I'm getting sick of all this trading offers!" Sarah growled while deleting all the messages and trade offers from her scanner, "why can't they go to Mist Forest and scan some Chezamon themselves?"
"Perhaps because we befriended some Chezamon, and they might help us to get more scans," Luna suggested while looking at Peyton's match.
Rocket (Peyton), meanwhile, was launching a Howling Burst to Ulmar, who was sent flying against a wall. The Underworlder decided to counterattack.
"Ember Swarm!"
Rocket opened his eyes in shock and quickly darted away, looking for cover. One of the fireballs struck him, however, and he fell to the ground with a loud thud; the air smelled like burned fur. Rocket stood up faster than Ulmar expected, however, and decided to end the match at once.
Attack… kill him…
He lunged at Ulmar, baring his fangs, and dug his fangs into his neck, coding him and ending the match…
"Way to go, Peyton!" Tom exclaimed after rejecting another trading request.
Luna was lost in thought, however; she remembered the first time she played as Kaya. The voice that incited her to finish Klay off… did Peyton hear it do?
"This is why we should go to look for more scans! Who knows what Battlegear or Mugic we might discover!" Kaz pointed out
Sarah sighed in annoyance, "and do you think the Chezamon will simply let us go in and out of their territory just because we befriended some of them?"
"Who knows? Perhaps we can earn their trust,"
Peyton walked in, a victorious grin upon his face.
"Hey, Peyton! You completely creamed that Underworld player!" Tom grinned as well
"Dude, I didn't know Rockie was so agile! Perhaps that's why he was named Rocket, he's as fast as one!"
Luna decided to ask Peyton, "Hey, Peyton, did you hear a voice when you were battling?"
The four players turned to see her in confusion.
"Voice?" Kaz inquired, a worried tone notable in his voice.
"Like a ghost speaking in your head?" Peyton added
Luna nodded, "yeah, something like that,"
"Now that you mention it, when I played as Jerome I felt as if something told me to simply attack," Sarah remembered her most recent match, where she had heard this voice…
"Creepy," Peyton added
Kaz thought it might be a good chance to go back to Mist Forest, "hey, guys, what do you think about going to Mist Forest and ask Kaya and the others about this?"
"Why do you think they would tell us?" Tom pointed out
Kaz shrugged, "I don't know, perhaps they might know something about this,"
Luna sighed in defeat, "Alright, let's go… just try not to make them angry,"
The five players headed for the Port Court, not knowing they had been heard...
XOXOXOXOXO
Rocket was not happy.
He and Kaya had been assigned to guard the northern range of Mist Forest while Shaoran, Jerome and the others were in the Den, guarding the Reserves. Actually, he thought it was a punishment because of Kaya's little sideshow the last night…
"Come on, Rocket! I already told you I'm sorry!" Kaya protested, catching up with his partner
Rocket just grunted, not even looking at him.
"How many times do I have to say I'm sorry?"
"I'll tell you when it's enough," Rocket growled under his breath, again not looking at the red-furred Chezamon.
Kaya sighed in annoyance; every time Rocket was mad at him, he would not speak to him at all, and never bothered to look at him. Usually, he calmed down after a day or two… a sound caught his attention.
"Did you hear d that?" Kaya peered his ears to the front, looking around in alarm
Rocket growled in annoyance, "I'm not falling for it this time,"
"No, really, I heard something…"
The red-furred Chezamon sniffed the air and warily neared the bushes he had heard the sound from. It was getting louder, louder… Rocket's curiosity got the better of him and he walked closer to the bushes as well, now hearing the sound as well. It sounded like footsteps… both Chezamon expected the footsteps to come from a stray animal or something, but didn't expect a human to come out of the bushes. A VERY familiar human.
"Oh, it's you," Rocket relaxed and stepped back, giving Luna some space to come out of the bushes
Kaz, Tom, Sarah and Peyton came right behind her, panting heavily.
"Guys, do you ever bother in cutting the grass around here?" Tom panted while wiping sweat from his forehead, "I cut my hand for about five times!"
"What is it you need?" Kaya sat down, looking expectantly at the humans.
Sarah set her eyes on the red-furred Chezamon, "we wanted to ask you something. Are you guys psychic or something?"
"What?" Kaya tilted his head in confusion
"See, when we play as you, we hear this weird voices out of the blue. They tell us 'kill it', 'finish it off', and things like that," Kaz explained, "do you guys hear voices?"
"I see you have heard the Prey Drive," Rocket replied,
"Prey Drive?"
"I've heard about it, Amigo," Peyton spoke up, "meat-eating animals have something like an alarm in their brains that tells them to go after prey and kill it,"
"Exactly," Rocket was quite impressed. He hadn't expected humans to know about Prey Drive, "how do you know? Are you predators too?"
Luna was repulsed at the thought, "no! not exactly… we DO eat meat, but we also eat vegetables, fish, and other things… it's just that in Ear-… where we come from, there are predatory animals like you called wolves,"
"Wolves?"
"They kinda look like you, but they're… smaller, less scary, and they can't speak…" Tom added
"Anyway, we also came here to ask if you had some Battlegear or Mugic for us to scan," Kaz talked out loud, but upon seeing the look on the Chezamon's face grew nervous, "I mean, if you don't mind…"
"Sorry to disappoint you, but we don't bring Battlegear or Mugic out of the Den unless we go to explore new territory," Rocket replied
"Can we go to the Den?" Peyton inquired while stepping forward a bit
"Take you to the DEN? It would be easier to put ME on a diet!" Kaya growled softly, "if any other Hunters see you they won't think twice about dealing with you!"
"Even if we could sneak you into the Den, you can't just walk around as if you lived there," Rocket backed up
Sarah smirked a bit, "don't worry, we've dealt with more difficult situations than that! We've gone to the other Tribes cities and scanned Mugic and Battlegear with no problem!"
THIS caught the Chezamon's attention.
"You've been to the other Tribes' Dens?"
Peyton nodded, "yeah. You know, Kiru City, Mount Pillar, Mipedian Desert,"
"Don't you guys know about the other Tribes?" Tom inquired
Rocket shook his head
"No, we're not allowed to go outside the territory,"
"So you've never been out of Mist Forest?"
Tom looked away, "I wouldn't be surprised if the other Tribes didn't know anything about you guys, either,"
"They don't. I have heard that the other Tribes in Perim think our forest is haunted, because every intruder that has put a foot in here never goes back,"
"What do you guys do to the intruders?"
Kaya was about to answer when Rocket discretely smacked his rear part with his legs, the red-furred Chezamon understood.
"We are not allowed to tell that information to strangers,"
The Chaotic players were quite disappointed with that answer; apparently, although the Chezamon had taken liking to them, they still did not trust them enough to tell them about that. Apparently, they would have to wait until they had earned some more degree of trust, and then perhaps the Chezamon would tell them about that.
"Can you guys at least show us interesting places around here?" Kaz sighed, half-expecting the Chezamon to say they couldn't.
Kaya thought for a moment, then turned to look at his blue-furred partner, "we could show them Mist Lake, the others won't bother if we take them there for a while,"
"That's a bad idea. If Hukaro finds out we took outsiders to the lake, he'll skin us alive and dance over our graves!"
"He won't find out! He's too busy barking orders at the Hunters in the Den,"
"Who's Hukaro?" Sarah inquired, whoever he was he sounded like he had the same attitude as Odu-Bathax.
"He's the Beta Male, the second in command. The only problem is that he's very stern! He doesn't let us roam the Den at night unless we're patrolling, and he sometimes can exaggerate when it comes to accidents,"
"Like the incident YOU had today," Rocket muttered under his breath,
"I already said I'm sorry!"
"That Hukaro sound worse than Chaor when he's having a bad day," Kaz commented,
Kaya turned to the humans once again, "well, where do you want to go? There's Mist Lake, Silver Cliffs, Akotash Clearing,"
"How about the Drakdeer Plains?"
"I thought you didn't like the idea!"
"Hey, if we're going to do this, we should at least do it well,"
Luna and the other Chaotic players grinned; those two were like bickering siblings.
"Well, how about we take a look at Mist Lake?" Kaz suggested
"Great! Follow me!" Kaya smirked excitedly as he turned and headed for a random direction.
Rocket rolled his eyes in annoyance, "Kaya, Mist Lake's the other way,"
Kaya blushed deeply and twirled around before walking towards the direction Rocket pointed out. The humans laughed as they went after the red-furred Chezamon, but Rocket was still worried.
"I hope Hukaro's not on the lake or we're dead," he thought as he followed his partner into the depths of the forest.