When he woke up he was in a room, lit by red fires. He looked around and saw that the room was lavish in decorations. He heard the door open and his eyes widened as he saw a monster before him. It was hideous and blood chilling, fangs dripped with blood as well as claws. It had a bladed tail and massive demon horns fit for a demon king. A hole was in its chest allowing Asura to see through it. He was confused when he saw it was crying, tears falling down its face. As it turned to run out the door he tried to speak but was consumed by blackness. He woke up again this time in the real world "WAIT!" he yelled sitting up quickly, startling the others. "Woah what's wrong buddy?" He heard Yang ask. "I… I don't know." Asura said holding his hand over his eye. "Where are we?" He asked. "We're in the cave since the ship is pretty much inside the snake over there." Weiss said gesturing over to the colossal body that laid in the sand. "We'll wait for nightfall then well start walking back to Latoiabridge." Ruby said. "Can't Asura just make a portal back home?" Blake asked. Asura got up and tried to make a portal but instead his hands made fizzled effects. He collapsed his knees and coughed up blood. "Woah are you okay!?" Yang said rushing over to help him. "I'm fine." He barely managed to speak before coughing up more blood. "Stop lying!" Yang said. "What is wrong with you?" Weiss asked looking at Asura looking for a wound. "I swear I'm fine." Asura said before falling to the floor yet again. He watched through weak eyes as everyone crowded around him. "What's this?" Ruby asked as she picked up his arm and looked at his palm. Asura knew what it was but he couldn't tell them due to weakness. When he first stopped the Imoogi's mouth, its fang grazed his palm resulting in it infecting him. Asura mustered all the strength he had to whisper to them "Cut… it… off… arm… whole…" He muttered to them. "What are you serious!?" Blake asked. "Cut… it… off… please…" Asura whispered. "Are you really sure?" Ruby asked. "Do… not… make me… repeat… myself." He muttered to her. "Alright." Ruby said as she got her scythe and placed the blade on his shoulder. Asura knew since the poison was already in him for a while it was going to hurt like nothing else, he wouldn't be able to fully heal his arm himself, he'd just be able to close the wound. Yang grabbed a stone and put in Asura's mouth so he wouldn't bite his tongue. "Ready? 3… 2… 1!" Ruby fired her scythe cutting the arm clean off, it hit the ground with a thud. Asura, still weak, screamed in pure pain. He clenched down, biting the rock in too and writhed on the ground in pain. When he could speak barely he said "Fire… now…" Yang knew what he meant and grabbed a stick that had was in the fire pit and gave it to him. With the fire in one hand he put it to the wound and screamed in more pain as he used it to close the wound. After he closed the wound he flinched whenever something touched it. Asura and the others waited for nightfall. When nightfall came he was feeling better, enough to walk and talk… barely. "Asura are you sure you're okay to walk by yourself?" Yang asked. "Yes…" Asura said stumbling over the sand in the direction of Latoiabridge. They walked for hours. When Asura got to the top of a sand dune with the others he tried to walk down the steep slope and ended up slipping and rolling down the sand dune. "Okay that settles it. I'm holding you up buddy." Yang said as she ran down with the others and helped Asura up. She helped Asura up and they all continued onwards.
About thirty minutes later they were walking across a vast nothingness of sand. They all walked in a group close together. They walked over the cold sand and Asura felt the ground shift beneath him. "Don't… move…" He muttered. "What?" Weiss asked. "Don't… move…" He said. "We… aren't… alone…" Everyone froze on the spot. The ground a good forty meters in front of them started to rise slowly. Out of the rising sand a giant scorpion emerged and looked around. "Its…. Blind…." Asura whispered. The scorpion started to walked directly in the direction of the group, its large menacing pincers and stinger. As it got closer the group realized it was covered in extremely thick armor plates and its pincers had serrated blades on the inside, its stinger was forked. It walked closer and closer before going directly over the group. The others watched as this colossal beast walked over them, sand dripping off its body, and kept going. In about 10 minutes Asura spoke "Move… fast…." As he spoke those words they all started hauling across the sands. A while past the scorpion hole the ground caved in underneath them and they fell into a sand fall and were carried an undeterminable distance and they fell into an underground structure of some kind. "Oh for fuck's sake." Yang said. "Can we go the way we came?" Weiss asked. "No… too strong… sand… and… beast is… back…" Asura said as they heard stomping coming from above ground. "The only way we can go is forward." Blake said as she pointed to a dark doorway on the other side of the sand filled room they stood in. Soon their eyes became accustomed to the darkness and they noticed a light fog on the ground that filled the rooms with enough light to see clearly.