IX
"Oh crab!" Noriko exclaimed before dodging massive water spit from the larger than life crab. "Oh shit…" she grunted as a pair of humongous claw side-swiped her just as she was dodging the water spit. "Ugh… I feel so lucky running into one monster after another…" Noriko groaned as Shimako helped her up. "I've never seen so many monsters in all the times I've travel like I've seen in the past couple of days," Shimako chimed in sounding a bit too enthused.
"Move!" Noriko quickly shoved Shimako away sensing something coming their way. Her instinct was dead-on the claw swooped down and clamped down upon her, but she's glad that Shimako was out of harm's way. "Oh… the agony…" she moaned feeling the claw slowly crushing her.
"Goodness, she's just a monsters magnet…" Shimako murmured bending down to pick up a few pebbles. "But who am I to blame her, when I was the one that keeps her from going all out." Shimako said to herself as she picked a single pebble from her left hand and flicked it with her right hand aiming straight at the crab's left eye. Unbelievably, its left eye exploded just as the pebble came into contact with it, the crab shriek out in pain dropping Noriko as it staggered backward slightly from the agony. Shimako took that chance as she tossed all the pebbles up in the air, while she started to flicked the pebbles with her right hand at rapid speed that the pebbles didn't have a chance to fall down toward the ground. With each pebble, the impact become greater on the crab and she was aiming at its legs, thus causing it to dropped with a loud thud once all that legs were sent scattered about.
Noriko whistled looking at the immobile crab with a raised brow, "Hot damn! I think we just got ourselves lunch." "You're kidding me," Shimako said as she wasn't really considering something that's about to eat her to be lunch. "Nope," Noriko smirked pulling her right hand back as it morphed into razor sharp claws before igniting into amazing blue flame. Dashing toward it, Noriko jumped onto its back and dug her claws onto the shell as the blue flame moved from her hand onto the shell and continued to spread all over the creature until it is cooked thoroughly. The smell was so enticing that even Shimako's stomach rumbled loudly in hunger that even Noriko could hear it even from the distance, Noriko quirked a brow and looked over at her captive who in turn blushed deeply.
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"Oh shit…" Yumi cursed when she noticed something odd about her opponent, another pair of red glow eyes appeared. "We can take them," Sachiko encouraged. "Really? Because I'm getting sick of being attacked by everyone as of late," Yumi said in a sarcastic tone. "Well, I'm starting to think that you're a monster magnet," Sachiko teased (or tried to). "More like a beast magnet," Yumi retorted as spikes tore through the sleeves of her shirts and the back as well.
The spikes were like sharp blades, Yumi leaped up in the air and curling herself up as she started to spin at rapid speed until a buzzing sound started to emit from her. At incredible spinning speed, Yumi took off and tore the air cutting through all the statics that were aiming for her as she continued on her course until a thunderous shriek from the monster was heard did she moved back. Landing on her feet, Yumi slid back a bit with her legs far apart as her left hand touched the ground while her right hand was far back in an attempt to regain her balance. During the whole time, Sachiko could only gaped at the scene in front of her, after all it's not everyday that she saw a person turning into a deadly weapon. Actually, this would be her very first time seeing it, and it just blown her mind away.
"Wow…" was all that Sachiko managed before snapping out of her trance and returned her focus on the beasts before her. "That makes me feel slightly better," Yumi commented but the wound on her side made her cringed. "Hmm… nope, not at all, feeling crappy still," she continued as she stood straight up and all the spikes on her went away.
Not to be outdone, Sachiko moved swiftly and gracefully as she used her spear to her advantage and slicing up the beasts in less than fifteen minutes. Once it was done, Sachiko breathe a sigh of a relief silently hoping that there will be no more weird things happening to them, and Yumi was once again out of her line of sight. It wasn't until she noticed the flicking aqua glow from the carcasses that gotten her slightly worried, I'm pretty sure I killed it. With her spear in hand and ready to kill again, Sachiko made her way to the pile of carcasses cautiously while looking for any sign of it being alive. To her relief and confusion, it was just Yumi carving away at the carcasses removing selective scales with care and ignoring everything around her as she was too engrossed in what she was doing to care about anything else, and that included Sachiko.
"What are you doing?" Sachiko asked. "Carving goods," Yumi replied dropping down a large scale near Sachiko. "These things are rare and of high quality, it will fetch us a handsome amount of money to stay at an inn with good foods and good wine." Yumi added leaving out the open air bath part. "Sounds good enough," Sachiko nodded putting her spear away and started to pile of the scales that Yumi carved off the carcasses.
"I always thought it was the monster that generates the statics," Sachiko commented once everything was done and the two carried the loads a bit further away before Yumi stopped to look around. "What are you looking for?" Sachiko asked when Yumi halted in her steps. "A clearing," Yumi replied. "Is it even possible, I mean we're in a rainy dense jungle…" she trailed off when Yumi spotted a clearing area and moved over to it. "I take it back, there's all kind of things in this place," Sachiko murmured walking over to the other girl. "Always expect the unexpected," Yumi said flashing Sachiko an impish smile. "Why would you want to step into the clearing of a dense forest?" Sachiko asked as she doesn't understand why anyone would want to be in the clearing of a dense forest, as that would make one an easy meal for the rest of the carnivore monsters in the area. "So I can shadow-step," Yumi replied in a nonchalant manner. Sachiko had to do a double-take when hearing that, "Wait, wha? Run that by me again?" "Shadow-step," Yumi repeated looking over at the other woman with a quirked brow.
"I thought shadow-stepping would be… oh, I don't know… in the shadow?" Sachiko exaggerated. "Just shut up and take my hand," Yumi growled holding her free hand out to Sachiko, who took it after a moment of hesitation. "I'll explain later," Yumi added before she dragged Sachiko with her into the the empty space of darkness.
A/N: Sorry for the lack of update(s), really... I start working on it and about a few paragraphs in, couldn't think of anything more to add. Instead, something else popped up and I didn't want to work on that idea, stupid brain. Anyway, sorry for the lack of update (repeating myself again) and hope y'all enjoy this chapter as much as it hurt my brain (laughs). Ja~