Triple posting isn't fun. And so is waiting for another bloody chapter.
The Rage
Skincrawler groaned as he woke up with the warm patter of jungle rain on his face... well, atleast what was left of his face. His arm was chopped to the bone, his nose was broken and torn, and his right eye was partially blind. It was a pain in the ass to get up, especially when his shooting arm was all messed up. He limped to a pack he hid in a hollow tree and pulled out a medkit. He cleaned his wounds and bandaged them. He swallowed a few painkillers, grabbed his stuff and followed tracks into the jungle.
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Slusk had a new coldness to him. He didn't say a word as he hacked his way the through the jungle. He kept Redge's laser carbine, afterall his Blitz Packer ran out of ammo. Mochy didn't even make a noise other than his rough panting. They marched in the jungle even at night, leaving muddy footprints and torch stumps. One day they crossed a village. Mudokons from the tiny mud huts peered outside. A skinny, brown skinned mudokon approached him.
"You looking for a way out, yes?" The mudokon asked with a slight lisp.
"Yeah." Slusk replied examining the mudokon.
"Then you must slay Rage the Scrab, whom terrorizes us!" The mudokon exclaimed.
"Fine, a scrab shouldn't be too hard."
"He lives in a cave near the mountains, that way!" the mudokon pointed somewhere north.
"Alright, I'll do it. Just hold onto my stuff and my pet slog and I'll go kill your bloody Scrab." Slusk said as he threw off his pack.
The mudokons took his stuff and Mochy and kept them safe somewhere and gave an Elum for him to ride on. The skinny mudokon accompanied Slusk on his trip to the cave. Around half and hour later they arrived at a massive cavernous cave entrance. Around the entrance was a huge clearing and boulders in every direction. It looked like a battle arena.
"This is where I leave" The skinny mudokon chittered.
"Ok, go ahe-"
*RAAAWWWR*
A massive beak clamped down on the skinny mudokon and his elum and shook them wildly. The Scrab had emerged from the cave with lighting speed and swallowed the elum and the mudokon guide whole. It stood nearly two stories high and probably weighed several tons. It released another deafening roar and charged for Slusk.
"Yikes!" Slusk screamed as he rode his Elum on the far side of a huge boulder.
Luckily, the Scrab didn't see Slusk hide behind the boulder and start searching the clearing for any sign of him. Slusk dismounted the Elum and climbed the rock. He peered over and just happened to be staring at the Scrab's muscular back. He took this as an advantage. He unsheathed his machete and drew the laser carbine in a deadly duel wield he had done many times before. He screamed and jumped onto the back of the Scrab. He chopped into the monster's back and started crawling towards the Scrab's head. Rage yowled and started bucking and thrashing in an attempt to throw Slusk off his back. Slusk held on and let go no matter what. Rage tried to skewer him on his beak but couldn't reach. Slusk carved some foot holds on the Scrab's back, causing it to bleed, and continued to climb. Rage howled some more and bucked. Slusk finallt got to it's shoulders and finally onto its head. He started to wildly chop and fire his carbine into Rage's skull, bone and gore flew into his face. The Scrab lost its balance and collapsed in the clearing, dead as a doornail. Slusk fell off and managed to pull of a roll as he landed. He got to his feet rather shakily and walked to his Elum to ride back to the village.
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