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(A/N: Hello, it brings me great pleasure to bring you all my third installment of Young and Fearless. You guys seem to like this a lot more than I thought people would. I've already hit over 100 views and four followers. Thank you all for this, and don't forget to follow, review, and recommend this to your friends. Let's dive right in.
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Chapter 3: limitations
Sadie waved goodbye to her friends as they drove away. The night before had been strenuous to say the least. She turned and walked up her drive way to her front door before her phone buzzed. The blond pulled her phone out of her pocket and read the e-mail that she had just received. It was nothing important; just the big donut acknowledging her resignation. She put her phone back in her pocket and staggered through the door in an almost delirious state, as she had been up for around twenty two and a half hours. She let her weight fall onto her bed as if she could not stand by her own power anymore. When her cheek touched the pillow she was shocked awake by a stinging pain. She put a hand to her face and felt the same shock.
"I must have gotten nicked by that thing's claws at some point," She said drowsily before resolving to lie on the other side and fell asleep.
It was now two in the afternoon and Sour was in his garage tinkering with what appeared to be a short PVC pipe with two nails sticking out and bent into hooks. He was working a fuse through a hole that he drilled into the cap.
'Now that we're fighting monsters like this we can't just charge headfirst with our weapons swinging. We have to improvise.' He sent the pipe bomb on the work bench, and admired his handiwork. He saw something out the corner of his eye and wiped around in his chair in response. Low and behold his half-brother, Onion.
"Onion!" He snatched the bomb off the table and hid it behind his back. "Hey, buddy what's up?" He said nervously. Onion simply held out his hand and made the "hand it over motion". Sour let out a sigh, and pulled out his wallet. "I don't want to hear anything about this, alright," The small boy of undecipherable age just nodded as he took the twenty dollars offered by his brother and walked off. Sour slumped in his chair, running his fingers through his hair in frustration.
Ronaldo sat at his computer that Dewy had set up at the lighthouse which was now his new office. He had his blog page up on. He stared at the home page with pride and sorrow; with a sequence of key a smaller window opened on top of the blog. The smaller window said deleting on it and the bar under the one word quickly filled to %100. The page went blank, and Ron could feel a single tear slip from the corner of his left eye.
"I just can't take the risk; not anymore. It's time to get serious about this, "He said solemnly. Just then Then Sadie came up and opened the stair door.
"C'mon Ronaldo, it's time to go," She called to the blond man as he turned his monitor off.
"Let's roll!" He said with enthusiasm. 'I don't need to try and make conspiracies anymore; I'm living one.' He jumped into Jenny's car, and they drove off. Driving through an area of thick trees on back road Lars spotted one of them fall, and told Jenny to pull over. Once on side of the road a gem beast burst through the tree line. It had four muscular arms, the face of an oni, an out of place white gem on his foremost upper right arm, and had to be at least fifteen feet tall. It dragged its knuckles on the ground as it walked. It let out a fearsome roar and for that moment the teens lost their courage. Jenny slammed on her gas and drove forward. The monster seemed to be following them
"A behemoth with extraordinary strength and four arms and a face resembling a demon tormentor; codename Abaddon," He said.
"How are we supposed to fight something that big!?"Jenny made a sharp turn so that Abaddon's face was close to the vehicle. She pulled the large red canister off her hip and pulled the trigger, releasing it contains in the monster's eyes and open mouth. The creature reeled back and used one set on hands to try to lessen the pain while the other set flailed wildly. Jenny stopped the car and got out as she prepared for battle, with the others following suit.
"What was in that?" Sour asked as he prepared his new weapon.
"Some bear mace I found in my garage," Sadie sprinted forward with her spear primed. She leaped at Abaddon and her spear found a place in its flesh. He let out a wrath filled roar as se gripped her spear to stay on. She then took her knife out and stabbed it into its back as well.
"I have a plan!" Sour shouted "Lars I need you to distract it! The rest of us need to get on its knees!" He shouted. Abaddon finally gained enough sense to reach behind him and grabbed Sadie. It held it in front of its face as she struggled to free herself. Suddenly, as fast as if it were a flash of lightning an arrow pierced its cornea and blinded it.
"Put her down you bastard!" He yelled with all of the conviction and determination in the world. Now seeing a more infuriating target Abaddon tossed Sadie to the side with a pained groan from her. It slammed its fist at the slim teen, which dodged out of the way leaving the ground to take hit for him. In a split second he loaded another arrow and shot out its other eye. Ron and Buck jumped as high as they could off the hood of Jenny's car and swung their respective blades at the tendons in the back of Abaddon's knees, severing them in a instant. With this it lost its use of its legs and had to rely on its arms for support. Sour lit the fuse of his pipe bomb, and with the beast's lower half now on the ground he jumped up onto the spear and knife handle still in Abaddon's back and leaped off of them. He swung his right arm down, jamming the bets nails into the back of its neck before falling back to the ground. With a final roar from Abaddon the fuse reached its limits and exploded in a plume of fire. The white gem fell to the ground with a clink, and team yaf fell to their collective knees, letting the deadly tension flow out of their muscles. A moment later Ron rose to his feet to collect the gem. Lars did the same and walked over to Sadie, and held out his hand.
"Are you hurt?" Lars asked.
"No I'm fine I just landed on my leg," She replied while taking his hand. He pulled her up to which she winced.
"Can you walk?"
"Yeah I'm just sore is all," He helped her to the car, and she sat down. Meanwhile Jenny was absolutely ecstatic.
"Oh my God Sour that was amazing!" She chimed with a kick in her voice that Sour believed to be irreplaceable. He looked away slightly with his right hand behind his head and a slight blush across his cheeks.
"It was nothing," he said modestly, torn between enjoying her praise and not being able to hide the symptoms of said praise. "I couldn't have done it without, Buck and Ron anyway-"He was cut off by a seven foot tall monster slamming into the pavement.
(A/N: And so the plot begins. The next chapter is when the story is really going to bloom. Join in next time for the next installment of Young and Fearless. Don't forget to review and follow.)