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The Bounty Hunter
In this particular scene, we are shown what seems to be a dense jungle, it is shown shining down upon the forest, we see a bulky red bug climbing up one of the trees. We then hear what seems to be rustling in the grass, and the bug flies off. The grass is then cut down by a woman carrying a machete, She is wearing some sort of explorers hat and a white buttoned shirt, with brown shorts. Coming from behind her is a man with black hair, brown eyes and wearing a green trench coat. On his back is what can be best described as a broadsword. The woman speaks.
"Shouldn't you be the one cutting down all this grass? Why do I have to do it?" Said the woman.
"For the hundredth time babe, it makes more sense for you to cut down grass with your machete than it would be with my sword." Said the man.
"You could at least help." Said the woman.
"I will, once the action actually starts up." Said the man. "Which reminds me, what's our goal here?"
"A man by the name of Joseph is leading his team of archaeologists to escavate this ancient Elw temple, he and his team however have been encountering trouble with monsters on the inside." Said the woman.
"Gee, I wonder why." Said the man.
"I believe you know the rest, Derek?" Asked the woman.
"April, I've been doing this for years, of course I do." Said the man, who is now named Derek.
"Well good, because we're here." Said April.
"Damn, that was fast, people usually get lost in the jungle for a couple of weeks. We've only been lost for a couple of hours." Said Derek.
"Look at this place, it's huge." Said April.
They look upwards towards the temple, it is covered to the brim with moss, and the top seems to reach that of the sun. They soon find an entrance to the temple blown open on the left side.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me." Said April.
"Well, I don't see any other entrances here, so it makes sense why they would make one with explosives." Said Derek.
"No wonder why the monsters in this area are probably riled up, these idiots probably woke them up from heaven knows how many years of sleep." Said April.
"Well nothing is going to get done with us just standing idly by, shall we enter?" Asked Derek.
"Might as well, we came all this way." Said April.
"Get behind me, we don't know what we're up against just yet." Said Derek.
The two of them head inside the temple, and find that on the inside it is vastly dark.
"I think we're going to need those flares babe." Said Derek.
"Right." Said April as she lights one up. The two are then sorrounded by a small field of light.
"Come on, let's get moving." Said Derek.
The two of them go deeper in the darkness, April is shown looking around, some parts of the wall written in what seems to be some sort of hieroglyphics.
"Man, if only I could read what these words say." Said April.
"You said you wanted to be an archaeologist at one point didn't you? Why did you give that up?" Asked Derek.
"I'm not entirely sure, I just grew out of it I guess." Said April. "Besides, there isn't as much excitement here as there would be in archaeology."
"You could learn some things." Said Derek.
"True, but what can the past teach me?" Asked April.
"You'd be surprised." Said Derek. Derek suddenly stops. "Wait, don't move."
"What is it Derek?" Asked April.
"SHH!" Derek whistled. The room is now completely silent save for a light rustling sound on what seems to be the cieling. April points the flare upward, and the two spot a red lizard like creature with black spots about the size of an average adult male. The lizard looks down upon them and growls, revealing several row of sharp teeth. "EEEEEEEYAAAAH!" The lizard creature roars as it falls downwards towards the two.
BANG!
"EEEEEEYAAAAH!" Bellowed the lizard creature as it proceeds to fall backwards on the ground. Derek is shown pointing a gun towards the lizard. The lizard is shown struggling to hold onto it's life a little bit longer before it stops moving. The lizard then proceeds to spontaneously combust.
"That was a Salamander!" Yelled April.
"Yup, and by the looks of it he brought some friends." Said Derek as two more of them leap out of the darkness.
April get's out her machete, only to have it blown out of her hand by a fireball.
"Ah!" Yelled April, shaking her hand in pain.
"HYAH!" Yelled Derek slashing the other Salamander. That Salamander also bursts into flames upon death.
The second Salamander looms ever closer to April, hissing and growling as it comes closer. April is shown backing away slowly, trying to find her machete to slash the stupid thing with.
"EEEEEEYAAAAH!" Roars the Salamander as it jumps towards her.
"Oh shit!" Yelled April.
BANG!
"EEEEEEYAAAAAH!" Roared the lizard in pain as it flies past April. April quickly grabs her machete and chops the Salamander while it's down.
"Take! This! You! Stupid! Lizard!" Yelled April as she chops away at the Salamander.
"Woah, babe, take it easy." Said Derek, pulling her away from the burning Salamander. "Are you alright."
"My hand is burned a little, other than that, just fine." Said April.
"Glad to hear. Logic now dictates that seeing how we are now encountering monsters, we're officially going in the right direction." Said Derek.
"Shall we continue then?" Asked April.
"Kind of have to, we're being payed for clearing these annoying bastards out." Said Derek. "Let's get a move on."
They keep walking down the dark corridors of the temple, and soon find themselves with a fork in the road.
"Oh jeez, now what?" Asked April.
"Good question." Said Derek. "I'll go right, and you go left."
"You mean we split up?" Asked April.
"Uh huh." Derek answered simply.
"In a dark temple full of monsters, are you kidding me?" Asked April.
"Relax, the monsters here really aren't that tough. Just be sure to have a better grip on that machete of yours this time." Said Derek.
"Oh ha ha." Said April sarcastically. She fires up another flare and heads left.
"Let me know if you find anything." Said Derek.
"Same to you." Said April.
The two of them go off into two seperate directions. Derek is just shown casually walking down yet another dark hallway.
"You'd think they'd place torches all over the place, give us some sort of indication where we're going." Thought Derek.
Derek stops. He then looks around.
"Must be imagining things, could of swore I heard something." Thought Derek once again.
He pulls out his gun and begins to fire upon the wall. Bullet holes now pollute the wall, until suddenly a purplish liquid starts leaking out. A moth like creature with red eye markings on it's wings then reveals itself, and falls to the ground dead.
"Oh you've got to be kidding. If there are things like this in the temple, then that means..." Thought Derek. "Shit. April!"
Derek then does a complete U turn and starts running down the corridor April went off into. "April!" Derek yells out.
Meanwhile at April, she is shown getting swarmed with at least 5 of these moth creatures. She is shown swinging her machete madly just to keep them away.
"Damn it all to Hell, where did these things come from!" Yelled April.
A sixth one comes up from behind and bites her in the back of the leg.
"AH!" Yelled April in pain. She falls backwards and kicks the moth thing off of her leg. Some blood begins to ooze out of the wound.
"Ah! AH! Damn it all!" Yelled April, she is now crawling and slashing away at the moths, trying to get them away from her. One of the moths flies up into the air and dives at her.
"No!" Yelled April, covering her face.
BANG!
The moth drops down dead. More gunshots are heard and one by one the moths drop dead, all of which instantly combust afterwards.
April looks up. "Derek!"
"Are you alright?" Asked Derek, helping her up.
"For the most part, one of those bastards bit me!" She yelled.
"Ouch." Said Derek.
"I'm bleeding." Said April.
"How badly?" Derek asks.
"Not to bad I hope. Check." Said April.
Derek then inspects the wound.
"Shit April, that bug got in there deep. For your sake you better hope those things aren't poisonous." Said Derek.
"That would really suck right now. We don't have any bandages on us do we?" Asked April.
"Naw. Sorry, looks like you'll be on your way to the clinic once we're done here."
"This wouldn't of happened if we hadn't seperated!" Yelled April.
"I know, I know, my mistake. Come on." Said Derek lifting her up.
They begin to walk down the corridor together, and eventually find themselves at a dead end.
"Well, this was a disappointment." Said Derek.
"Come on, let's turn around." Said April.
They turn around and begin to walk down the corridor again. Along the way they meet up with more moths.
"Shit. Just stay back, I'll handle this." Said Derek.
He put's April down and begins to slash away at the moths.
"Sure thing darling." She sarcastically thought to herself. She then notices a crack in the wall. "Huh? What's this?"
"HYAH!" Yelled Derek slicing the last moth in half. "What did you say?"
"Derek, there is a crack in the wall. I think there might be something on the other side." Said April.
"Is that so, well then let's see what's behind door NUMBER 1!" Yelled Derek, who proceeds to front kick the wall down, revealing yet another passageway.
"Secret passage." Said April.
"Indeed. Let's see where it goes." Said Derek.
They walk down the hallway, which for some reason unlike the rest of the temple, is actually lit with torches.
"That's weird, why is this hallway lit when the rest are plain dark?" Asked April.
"Maybe someone has been here." Said Derek.
"That can't be, we're the first ones who found this hallway." Said April.
They soon reach a door, with hieroglyphics written all over it.
"You think maybe this is where all the monsters are coming from?" Asked Amy.
"No, how would they open the door without opposable thumbs. Still though..." Said Derek, getting out his sword.
Derek than proceeds to kick the door open, and they are met with a room with a wierd green glow. On the other side of the room we see a large statue of some one eyed jaguar like creature.
"Woah, no way." Said April.
"What is it?" Asked Derek.
"That statue, I believe it to be that of the guardian spirt Cait Sith." Said April.
"Cait Sith isn't any guardian I ever heard about." Said Derek.
"He's not one of those Guardians. But still, Cait Sith is a legendary creature worth mentioning." Said April.
"What does he do?" Asked Derek.
"He supposedly watches over the souls of the dead, and defends the tombs from any sort of intruder." Said April. "...Wait, did it just move?"
"What?" Asked Derek.
"Derek, call me crazy, but I think I just saw that thing move." Said April.
Low predatory like growling can then be heard. The statue's eye begins to glow green, and the statue itself begins to move.
"Sadly April, you're not crazy." Said Derek, getting his sword out.
"ROAR!" Roared the statue, which proceeds to jump in the air. It lands right in front of them and slowly prowls towards them.
"April, get back." Said Derek.
"Oh get over yourself, like I'm going to let you have all the fun." Said April.
"You're injured, and judging by your luck thus far, you're not going to be much help. No offense, but I need you to stand back." Said Derek in the most serious of tones.
"Sigh. Fine." Said April, slowly stepping backward.
"Leave now mortal! The likes of you are forbidden in this land. You who are powerless are not worthy enough to set foot here!" Said the statue, or Cait Sith at this point.
"Sorry kitty, but I have a job to do, and I ain't leaving until it's done." Said Derek.
"Poor stupid human, do you not know what you're up against?" Asked Cait Sith, it opens it's mouth and let's out what seems to be a ball of energy towards Derek. Derek slices the ball in half and it explodes.
The smoke clears and and Derek is shown wiping some dust off. "You know, for a guardian spirit, you really don't do your job that well, don't you?"
"What!?" Growled Cait Sith.
"It's no wonder why this place is crawling with monsters, it's because all you do is sit on your ass and mope all day." Said Derek. "Some guardian you turned out to be."
"You a mere human make a mockery of me?" Yelled Cait Sith who now begins to spark a green aura of electricity. "HRAAAAH!" Roared Cait Sith who proceeds to send a crap ton of lightning towards Derek. Derek proceeds to jump out of the way of the lightning.
"Strike a nerve? If you want to prove me wrong, then show me." Said Derek, flashing a smile.
"You will regret this you worm! GRRRRR!" Growled Cait Sith.
Derek is shown cracking his knuckles, and stretching his neck. "Let's go, you stupid ceramic, I don't have all day."
April is shown watching from the corner. "Please be careful Derek, Cait Sith isn't someone to be taken lightly." She whispered, with some hint of worry.
To be Continued.
Author's Notes: And so we're introduced to another set of characters. Don't worry folks, I assure you it will all come together sooner or later. In the meantime, please leave a comment or review, please no flames. See you next chapter.