KGHT Volume 1
Chapter 2: The Girdled
"Bye Vacuo!" Travis waved at the city behind him.
The team was already a miles away from the city and Travis was still saying goodbye. He sat in back with Hikaru and her not glaring at him for once. Karina was in shotgun like before, even though Travis called dibs on it before her, and next to Flamma who was driving. Travis stuck his head out of the window, looking at how Vacuo became smaller and smaller the farther they went. Hikaru seemed quiet and serene but she was very fidgety with her legs and fingers from being next to Travis. Karina had her scroll out with a map on it, telling Flamma where to go.
"Don't worry," Karina responded, "We'll be back in no time."
"How long are we going to be gone?" Travis asked.
"It depends," she replied, "If everything goes smoothly then we should get there at the end of the tournament."
"And see ," Flamma commented.
"But," Karina continued, "if we hit any trouble like the Grimm that would be a problem."
"I think...you jinxed it," Hikaru pointed out, "The left...that sand cloud."
The rest of the group then all looked at the small sand storm coming towards them, fully alert.
"Travis!" Karina called.
"Already on it," He replied, activating his semblance.
His semblance were enhanced senses and with his eyesight Travis was able to see a monsterous black scaled lizard, about a size of a tall building from his presence but was most likely way bigger than that, in front of the small cloud. It crawled on all fours and slithered its stomach on the sand that it looked like it was dragging it. The red markings all over on its white bony exoskeleton that made it standout from the body because it looked like it was painted on by some sadistic artist. The exoskeleton was nearly covered every inch of it's body and was more spiked than most Grimm. Its red beady eyes glared directly at them and was ready to devourer everyone in the car.
"It's a Lizzy," Travis told his team.
"A what?" Flamma said confused.
"A Girdled," Travis corrected himself, "I call them Lizzy's for short."
"What are its weak spots?" Karina asked while getting her weapon out.
"You can't hit it's armor it's to hard," Travis said knowing from experience, "You have to get it's underbelly but that's basically on the ground."
"How...do you...know all this?" Hikaru questioned Travis.
Right before Travis could say a word Flamma interrupted him.
"Do I stop?"
"No!" Karina quickly responded, "Just drive into those rocks over there."
Karina pointed at a the canyon ahead that had a narrow entrance and began to give orders.
"Travis you keep watch for any more Grimm that could attack us and get some explosives ready just incase."
"Got it," Travis said as prepared his weapon.
"Hikaru can you coat the car if that thing or anything else gets close?"
"Yeah," Hikaru replied, "It'll be...tough but I...can do it."
"Good, I'm going to cover us," Karina said as she climbed on top of the roof.
Karina settled up her weapon, Uprising, a huge crossbow with blades for it's arms pointed at the Grimm. The surging winds made it nearly impossible for Karina to get a proper shot at the creature so she had to used her semblance as well. Her ability was to warp small things from one place to another, perfect for her sniper fighting style. All she needed was to see her target and pull the trigger. Karina then shot a few plain arrows at the Girdled eyes to test its reaction. The Grimm rolled to the side to dodge all of the arrows and kept charging at the car. It was good at avoiding the attacks which meant that it was pretty old, more experienced. Karina then switched her arrows to dust filled ones and starting shooting again. Dust was a source of energy in Remnant that harbored the natural elements of the world spanning the use to cooking, teaching, development of technology and in this situation combat.
The Girdled stampeded the ground fast and every step got louder as it got closer. However the closer the Grimm was to the car, was the easier for Karina to make a shot. Her heart pounded as she stared at her Grimm through her scope. What she saw was a monster who she was ready to kill everyone in the car and what the Grimm saw was it's lunch. The dust arrows landed on the Girdled perfectly, setting off explosions of ice and fire on the monster but they didn't do much if any damage. The Girdles armor was just too thick for the arrows and it shrugged off each attack like it was nothing. Karina had to find a way to get its underbelly soon or it'll be too late and they'll all die.
While shooting, Karina investigated the monster for any weak points that it might have. The obvious places to shoot where it's joints were but even that was over protected. That's when she noticed that the arrows that landed on the Grimms sides actually did some damage and began to aim there. It's sides weren't as armored as much as the rest of it's body is what she concluded and is another weak point besides the stomach. The shots with the exploding arrow worked the most as the Girdled nearly lost it's footing. Karina was happy that it worked and bombarded the monster with exploding arrows at both sides until it finally toppled over to it's side, exposing its stomach. To ensure it didn't get up or recover at all, Karina fired a round of ice arrows. The ice arrows grew into a glacier and encasing the monster completely.
"Did it," Karina said proudly and relieved.
"Karina!" Travis yelled out, "Get inside it's getting ready to roll!"
"What?"
The Girdled then easily broke out of its frozen prison, throwing all of the ice off of him like it was nothing. After breaking out of its frozen prison it bit its tail and curled into a spiked sphere.
"What's it doing!" Flamma yelled, as he saw the Grimm through his mirrors.
"It's starting to roll," Travis answered.
"And what does that mean?" Karina asked, getting inside the car.
"It means Flamma drive faster!"
Then the Girdled started rolling like a boulder towards the car. The Grimm's ball form was extremely faster than it's former shape and in no time was behind them, chasing the car down. The Girdled completely demolished the road behind it as its spikes dug into the road and flinged it everywhere. Chunks of the road almost landed on the car if it wasn't for Travis instructing Flamma where to maneuver. However some of the asphalt did land on the roof but Hikaru coated it with her semblance, protecting it completely.
"What do we do now?" Flamma demanded to know.
"Just keep driving to the canyon!" Karina shouted sitting on the car door, still firing arrows at the Grimm from inside the car, "Travis get ready to set the bombs on the rocks!"
"Got it," Travis replied as he readied even more of his explosives.
The Girdled was so close to them that Travis could swear the Grimm was right next to him. He could feel it's breath behind his neck, it's heavy breathing suffocating the air around him. This wasn't Travis's first encounter with a Girdled. In fact this on wasn't the biggest he's ever seen but it was still just as dangerous. Karina's instructions were right on the mark on how to defeat or at least escape it. The rocks they were heading towards were too narrow for the Girdled's gigantic body and it would be difficult for it to pass through.
"What's it...doing now?" Hikaru asked as she saw that the Girdled was slowing down.
"It wants to run us over," Travis replied but realized what it was about to do.
Suddenly the Grimm leaped in the air and was going to land directly on the car. Travis's heart pounded as he viewed everything around and because of his semblance, he was able to see everything as if it was in slow motion. He was the first to react as he instantly slammed Flamma's leg down on the peddle, accelerating the car. The sudden jerk made Hikaru bang her head back on the car door, knocking her unconscious. Karina was still sitting on the door when the car sped up and would have fallen out onto the road if Travis didn't grab onto her leg with his other hand. The team narrowly escaped from the Girdled's landing but now they were trying to outrun the shock wave of the impact. The wind in back of them wasn't that far behind and eventually swallow them whole. The car was engulfed in dirt and sand making it nearly impossible to see through. They were practically in a mini sandstorm but the canyon walls were just straight ahead so they could still get to it.
"Crap!" Travis yelled, trying to pull Karina back into the car.
"We're almost there," Flamma told him, "just a little longer!"
The Girdled soon got up and pursued the car again with Karina still trying to get back in. She was practically dangling outside and would have been road kill it if wasn't for Travis still helping her in the car. Uprising was luckily strapped along her body so she didn't have to worry about losing it however it did weigh her down so it was difficult for her to get up to the door. She was practically tasting the sand and dirt mixed with the car fumes as she was hanging outside. When Karina finally got back inside the car, she was covered in sand and tried to catch her breath from that near death experience. She's been almost killed plenty of times before but it's a feeling that she'll never get use to.
"T-thank you," Karina said to both of them, coughing out sand dust, "That's one hell of a grip you have their Travis."
Karina rubbed her ankle where Travis grabbed that was already swollen.
"Yeah, you get that from climbing rocks for nearly five years," Travis replied with his explosive launcher ready to fire, "Karina I need you to check up on Hikaru."
"What happened to her?" She questioned and then saw Travis opening his window, "Where are you going?"
"You mean 'him' not her," Flamma commented, still driving towards the canyon.
"Doing my part of the plan," Travis replied as he climbed out the window and onto the roof. As soon as Travis left the back, Karina climbed over to his seat and began to do first aid on Hikaru.
This was bad. The sand and dust used Travis's sweat as glue and stuck onto his skin. He could barely see anything and sand raced up his nose, making him want to sneeze but he had to fight the urge and get ready. The constant rush of wind thrashed through his ears made it difficult for him to hear things however he could still hear the Girdled chasing after them. It's loud thumping reassured him that it wasn't rolling into a ball but was on all fours and dragging its stomach on the sand.
Travis had to focus hard and find where the rocks are located. All he knew was that they were going to pass it soon and if he didn't do his job they could all die. So Travis calmed down and concentrated on the area around them. He ignored the sand up his nose, the fact he can't see a thing, and the Girdled that wanted to kill them. Every breath he took was mixed with dust and sand that made him want to cough and hack it out but he held his composure and listened. He held his breath in and slowly let it out, relaxed his beating heart. Travis was able to listen past through the sandstorm and the Girdled and located the rocky walls that was almost in front of them however he also sensed another group in the area. The group had about four or five people and they weren't far behind however they were outside of the sandstorm, it was like they were after the Grimm or his team.
Travis had to ignore the other group for now to focus on his weapon and get ready. The wind made it difficult for him to shoot properly and barely seeing the walls didn't help either but he knew that it was there and that was good enough. He fired rapidly at the rocks, trying to space out the explosives so that the plan worked properly. The explosives were small cylinder capsules that stuck onto its targets and Travis shot about a dozen of them, at least six on each side. Then he snuck back into the car and happily sat shotgun and by sliding through the car window directly on the seat, he splashed dirt into the air. Flamma nearly coughed his guts out from the sudden rush of dirt but was still on the right course.
"Drive faster were close," Travis told Flamma as he takes out his knife with a button at the butt of it.
The car begins to accelerate like it did before but this time is was in control. When they zoomed through the rocks and were lucky that they didn't hit anything. After making it through the cavern the team soon hears a loud crash the echoed through the canyon. The Girdled was stuck between in the entrance with it's upper body the only thing making inside.
"Go Puma go!" Flamma shouted.
"Get ready," Travis said as he pushes the button and looks back at the Girdled, "Tik tik boom."
The cylinders all beeped twice as it lit up and exploded simultaneously, breaking the canyon walls and a rockslide shortly formed. Another wave of dust erupted towards group but they didn't have to run away anymore, they were confident that the Girdled finally stopped. When the dust settled, the group saw that the Grimm was almost buried in the rockslide with its head and claws the only things sticking out.
Travis jumped out of the front and immediately headed for the back to check on Hikaru.
"How she doing?" He said, still caked with sand and dust.
"She's just waking up," Karina replied as she supported Hikaru, "Are you alright?"
"Yes," Hikaru groggily replied, "What...happened?"
"We totally owned that Grimm!" Flamma cheered as he got out of the car, slammed his car and looked at the trapped beast.
"Don't start celebrating now," Travis quickly jerked at Flamma, "It's not dead just knocked out."
"But we still won," Flamma replied as he started to pose, "Hey can you take a picture of me in front of the Grimm. I want to send it to team NDGO."
"Flamma!" Karina yelled, "Listen to Travis, he knows more than any of us about this desert."
"Why?" Flamma questioned, "We already beat it."
"We have to kill it and get out of here before it wakes up," Travis told them, "Those boulders won't hold it for long and when it breaks free-"
Travis's voice was then drowned out by the Girdled's thundering roar, waking up from its power nap. The Grimm tried to escape it's rocky tomb by smashing its arms into the walls but that only made more fall on top of it and would roar even group all covered their ears from the shout but Travis was the one who felt it the most. He knew what was coming and it wasn't going to be nice.
"What's it doing?" Karina demanded.
"It's calling for more!" Travis replied as he got his weapon ready, "They're coming, get ready!"
"What's coming?" Flamma asked while he put on his weapon.
"Grimm." Hikaru answered as she saw a Bighorn at the over side of the canyon.
The Bighorn were small Grimm and were about a size a big dog but looked strong enough that you can ride them if it didn't kill you first. It's black fur would have made it look like a shadow if it weren't for the white mask it wore. The red designs on it that made it look like it was crying and drooling blood. It's name was Bighorn for a reason because the horns were large enough to be another limp. The team could easily handle one but Bighorns were the type of Grimm to travel in herds and soon more came, making it look like that they were multiplying from one to two, two to four, four to eight, and so on.
"Alright then," Karina said, taking a deep breath and evaluated the situation. "Travis you handle the Girdled since you have the most experience, Hikaru and Flamma use 'Shatterstar', I'll cover you two."
"Got it," Travis responded, "Once I kill that thing the Bighorns should stop coming."
"You ready Hikaru?" Flamma said, clashing his fists together.
"Sure," Hikaru replied in her monotone voice and avoided to look at Travis who was patting himself down of the sand.
"Team KGHT," Karina called out, "Ready?"
Travis pulled out his knife and explosive launcher, Bakunawa, and stared directly at the Girdled, his eyes began to burn as he remembers how his time in the desert. Hikaru puts together her naginata, Oumagatoki, from her sleeves and used her semblance to coated its bladed end to armor it and make it stronger. Flamma cracked his knuckles, turning on the spikes on pair of Cestuses, Sol Invictus, and prepared for battle. Karina loaded her Rising and aimed for the closest Bighorn, ready to shot an arrow between its eyes.
"Go!" They all yelled as if their voices were synchronized with each other.
Karina took the first shot at the Bighorn she aimed for and the arrow hit its target with it exploding soon later, making some room for Flamma and Hikaru to do their team move. Shatterstar was one of the eight battle formations that Karina created that included two for this kind of situation. Flamma activated his semblance, super strength, as Hikaru jumped on his arm and he threw her in the air as if she was a baseball. Hikaru flew up high, making it look like she was going above and beyond the canyon, that she would touch the sky until she began to fall into the herd of Bighorns like a falling star. As she fell, Hikaru looked over at Travis once more and smiled to wish him luck.
"Ahhh!" Hikaru yelled as she stuck in the middle of the herd. The impact created shockwaves that blasted away the Bighorns around her. She then sets her battle position and decapitated a few Grimm that were charging at her.
"Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda!" Flamma chanted as he punched his way next to Hikaru.
"Muda?" Hikaru said confused.
"My new chant," Flamma said as he suplexes a Bighorn, "What do you think?"
"It's...loud." She replied as she hacked away the upcoming Grimm charging at her.
"Then good! It's suppose to be." He cheered.
Then a Bighorn attacked Flamma's blindside and was about to tackle him down until an arrow darted past Flamma without him noticing. The arrow that struck the Grimm and exploded nearly on contact, engulfing the monster in thrashing flames. Karina fired the fire dust arrow and for this fight it seemed perfect for the blazing heat. It also helped that these Bighorns were highly flammable and some of the monsters were able to spread the flames onto the others. She also used some normal arrows so that she didn't have to use all her dust supply for this battle. Karina had a limited supply and didn't want to use that much of it unless it's absolutely necessary. She would shoot at all the Grimm that came close to her and the car as well as covering her teammates blindspots. Her semblance made shooting easier because she teleported the arrow at the exact location she wanted them to be
"None of you are touching my team," Karina grumbled under her breath and fired away. She made sure every shot count as each arrow took a kill.
Travis knew that his team was doing alright as he could hear and smell the battle in back of him perfectly. Flamma's "Muda Muda" was sort of new. This wasn't his first chant. First it was Ora Ora then Hora Hora but now it's Muda Muda. Just how many battle chants does that guy go through. Travis soon hears Hikaru folding up her Oumagatoki into its assault rifle form and then gunfire in the background. This was Karina's usual strategy and all. She would send at least two of them to do the close combat while she covers them with her sniping. Sure she can fight close up as well but this is the plan and so far it hasn't failed them yet. It looked like their doing their part properly so now it's time for Travis to do his.
He was storming towards the Girdled as fast as he could but had to be careful because the Grimm was flailing it's arms everywhere as it still roars. The roars suddenly stops as the Grimm noticed Travis charging at him. It gave Travis a wicked smile and a ferocious chuckle as its eyes were locked on to him. Travis had to slid on his knees across the dirt to avoid the monsters first swipe at him. He had to plan this accordingly. Of course the Grimm wanted to grab him and rip his guts out but with Travis's semblance, he could dodged every attack as if he was reading the future.
The Girdled wasn't making this easy for Travis was the creature sent a barrages of slashes at him. Travis was able to maneuver himself away from the attacks but couldn't think straight. He hated not coming up with a plan when he fights but for now he'll just had to wing it. The next swipe the Grimm did was the second Travis made it move to attack. He then dug his knife into the Grimms claws and used it to to climb onto the monster head. The Girdled in response thrashed his claw around and slammed it on the floor and walls of the canyon in hopes of injuring or throwing off Travis. Travis had to change his position on the claw a couple of times, grabbing and letting go of his grip so that he didn't get squashed like a bug. After being thrown around for a bit, Travis still hung on the claw and tried to recover the air that escaped his lungs.
"I-is that all you got?" Travis huffed, "I was just having fun."
While he was still catching his breath the Girdled snatched him with its other claw and attempted to squeeze the life out of him. However the Girdled's palm had enough room in it for Travis to transformed his explosive launcher into its melee form, a short curved sword. When the monster began to close its claw shut, Travis sliced off its fingers with flick of his wrist. He then lodged his knife into the fingerless claw again and still dangled on it.
"Alright no fun," Travis sighed.
Travis used his knife to swing himself onto the Girdled's claw again and used it as a road towards the Grimms head. He also cleaved up the arm as he ran, chopping off pieces of its arm that dissipated into red mist. Girdled howling in pain but didn't roar. Travis was highly grateful for that because howling doesn't attract other Grimm like the roar. The Girdled attacked Travis with its other claw but all Travis did was backtrack his path by jumping backwards and hopped on the other one like it was a detour. Travis continued to hack away at the arm until he was jumping distance to the head and leaps towards it.
"Maximum effort!" Travis shouted as he drives his knife into the Grimms right eye.
The Girdled howled again as Travis delivers a barrage of slices with his sword to the Grimms face. As he was doing that, Travis launches more explosives around the Grimms head and the walls of the canyon. He didn't hold back as he used all of the explosives that was in his sword. Before Travis was satisfied with his work the Girdled tried to claw Travis off but he lunge away from it, dodging the strike and rolls on the ground.
"Hey!" Travis yelled at the Girdled as gets up, "I wasn't done! But since you're so eager here's your present."
He then pressed the button on his knife and ran away as fast as he can with the little energy he could muster up. Travis had to gain some distance so he isn't caught up in the aftermath. The bombs works exactly like last time but not only did it bury the Gridled even more, the detonation around the head also send its head flying past Travis. That as new to Travis as he witnesses it zoom in front of him and dissolves into red mist. It was definitely dead this time because the body also faded into a batches of red mist. Now Travis can focus on helping his team with the Bighorn problem.
However by the time he got there, Flamma was drop kicking the last Bighorn and it was sent flying, hitting the wall and making a goat shaped crater in it. Hikaru relaxed on a nearby rock, and Travis could tell that the sun was killing her. Wearing all black into a desert was probably a bad idea. Karina was writing notes inside her book and she evaluated the major and minor points of the battle. Checking on ways she can improve on what worked and didn't.
"I'm done." Travis called out as he caught everyone's attention, "How do you guys do?"
"Easy as it gets." Flamma replied as he posed, "What about you?"
"A few close calls here and there but I did it."
"You say that a lot," Karina said as she closed her book, "Great job today team, that was some amazing work you all did."
Her teammates smiled from the complement and were relieved that it was over.
"Now Travis," She continued, "can you check if there's anything Grimm that we might have missed?"
"Got it," Travis responded and used his sight to evaluating the area. He smiles as he realizes where they were. "I know this place. There's an exit at the end of the canyon and a oasis near a cave after that. We can crash the night in there."
None of them noticed this before but the scorching sun as setting and they had to get some shelter soon.
"Flamma can the car still drive?" Karina asked.
"It's engins fine," Flamma answered while posing, "The Puma was specially built to for disasters and anything that might happen when I'm driving like that sandstorm."
"Shall we...go?" Hikaru spoke and split apart her weapon, tucking it under she sleeves.
"Almost, Travis didn't as it's clear yet." Karina replied looking over to where Travis was standing but he was missing.
"We're clear," Travis called out when he was already in the car.
The cave was farther away from the canyon than Travis remembered. It was a long drive, maybe an hour, but luckily the entrance was big enough for a human to crawl in and too small for any Grimm to notice. Flamma hid the car next to the oasis and covered it with tree leafs just in case some drifters, people of the desert, were to find and steal it. The dark cave was quite refreshing compared to the burning canyon they fought in. It wasn't that cold compared to outside and there wasn't much sand inside as well. Its rocky formation was rough and difficult to lay on but the sleeping bags helped a lot. Once they changed into their sleepwear and ate dinner, Karina grabbed her Rising and walked towards the entrance.
"I'll take the first watch," Karina told them, "Again you guys did great today so rest up."
Flamma had no objection and passed out in his Pyrrha Nikos pajamas. Hikaru laid across from Travis and as much as Karina tried get her to be next to him, Hikaru ended up on the other side. She still admired from him from afar but had a devastating glare mixed in. Once she was asleep and Travis's shivers from her were gone staring at him, he looked over at Karina.
"Karina," He called for her attention, "There was another group out there but they were behind the Lizzy."
"Another team?" Karina said confused.
"I don't know but they weren't far behind the Grimm but I lost them after I detonated the walls of the canyon."
Karina pondered on this new information. It could have meant anything really but she definitely have to make note of it.
"Thanks for telling me Travis," Karina said, "If you sense anything like that next time please tell me immediately."
"Got it," Travis shook his head in response and noticed Karina rubbing her eyes, "You should get some sleep. It's pretty safe in this cave and I use to live here for a couple of months before I went looking for Vacuo."
"If you say so," Karina replied yawning, "I'll go to bed after I do my journal."
When he heard that, Travis got himself comfortable and his eyes immediately felt heavy. He studied the ceiling and remembered that he carved his emblem, a monster eating the moon, on there. A thousand thoughts ran across his head as he remembers why he did it and smiled. Soon Travis finally got some rest and he semblance slowly turned off.
It was late at night back at the canyon where the moon was starting to set but still high in the sky. A team of four has just arrived at the wall of boulders Travis made when he fought the Girdled nearly exhausted.
"Fire in the hole." The masked guy said as he fired his howitzer at the wall, completely demolishing it.
"God damn it Anarken!" Prowler yelled as his dog barked. "Warn us next time you fire that thing."
"I said 'fire in the hole'" Anarken snarled.
Anarken stood just above six feet wearing a black vest over his crimson blood shirt and a sash along his waist with black pants but what made him very strange was the mask he was wearing. The mask had a monstrous design that had the bottom half a decaying human skulls teeth that had bleeding red gums. The top was a knight's helmet where you couldn't see his eyes but just feel his look piercing the back of our mind. However his mask wasn't the thing about him that stuck out the most. It was his arms and neck, the only exposed parts of his body. His arms were burnt all around with scars as if the burns were his actual skin and his neck was almost the same if it wasn't for the tattoo of a shield with teeth.
Prowler, on the other hand, was a inch under six feet and had light mocha skin. His attire was a long dark green trench coat that nearly draped to the floor over his black long sleeve shirt with blue jeans to finish. His green beanie had a stitched up picture of three lightning bolts next to each other, like they were clashing with against the others. The dog next to him was black pug with the dead eye was called Raider and was barking furiously at Anarken.
"Calm down Prowler," Riley told him, "We didn't get hurt so it's fine."
"My name it Michael," Prowler retorted, "How many times do I have to tell you guys my name is Michael."
"Hey don't yell at Riley!" Anarken shouted and pointed his howitzer at Prowler.
"I wasn't yelling at her!" Prowler responded as he pulled out his katana and prepared Raider to attack, "You wanna go?"
"Oh not again," Riley complained smacking her face.
Riley was a rare pyranha faunus with turquoise braided hair that was over one shoulder as well as scales that glistened in the moonlight. Her scales were nearly everywhere on her body in small batches but it made her glow even at night. She had a blue bikini top with swim trunks that had the design of a lake and drifting seaweed. Around her ankle was a bracelet of an anchor that looked like a smaller version of her her weapon that she was carrying. On her back, strapped along her chest was a turquoise and blue anchor that seems too large for her to even carry around.
"Don't mind them," Amazon chuckled, "It's funny."
"Not until Prowler dies." Riley commented.
"You really think I'll loss to this masked freak!" Prowler shouted.
"This masked freak is about to send a 105 millimeter shell up your ass if you don't shut the fuck up!" Anarken snapped and placed his finger on the trigger.
"Raider sick'em!" Prowled commanded as his dog pounced on Anarken and gnawed on his leg.
"Amazon stop their dick measuring contest!" Riley pleaded.
Amazon gave a estranged look at Riley and then jumped into the fray. She first tried to pull of Raider from Anarken's leg.
"This dog's not stopping!" Anarken shouted.
"It's called lockjaw!" Prowler shouted back.
"Prowler tell your dog to let go." Riley told Prowler, getting in the way between the two.
"Do you not know what lockjaw is?" Prowler replied.
Just then Amazon pulled of Raider that gave Anarken bite marks that were bleeding. The dog leaped out of Amazon's grasp and ran next to Prowler. His owner petting the dog for the good job he did.
"Are you alright Anarken?" Riley came to him with her first aid ready.
"I'm fine," Anarken growled, "We'll setting this later Prowler after we get them."
"I can work with that," Prowler answered as he sheathed his weapon, "Now where's Team KGHT?"
"Where do you think?" Anarken said sarcastically, "That canyon has two ways to go in and out. Do the math."
Prowler reached from his weapon again and ready to run it up Anarkens chest. However this was getting annoying and fighting him right now would be pointless.
"To bad our ride got demolished from when Girdled crashed on the ground," Riley said under her breath. "Now we have to walk to catch up with them."
"What's wrong with that?" Amazon asked as the only things she wore on her feet was bandages. "It'll be good training."
"Nothing. It just means that it'll take some more time."
Anarken transformed his weapon onto a gigantic shield and attached it to his back once Riley finished wrapping the bite mark.
"We should go then," Anarken said, "We have to get that package by any means necessary."