With only a tomahawk for walking stick, Nevjuul walked on through the forest. When he came to a river or spring, he drank and collected the water, and when he saw or heard an animal... such as a Rat or even a Paramite, he hunted it down for food. But he never seemed to hunger for it, he could walk for many days and not hunger.
The first odd set of tracks appeared when he had just passed a spring and came into a fertile grassland, with a large plateau blocking his way. As he searched the ground for footprints, he found only very small footprints, 1/5 the size of a normal Mudokon footprint.
"This is strange..." he said.
"Attack!" he heard a shout.
Walking to the sound of the noise, he realized that he heard the sound of battle. When he came to the battle ground, he could hardly believe his eyes. The shout he heard was clearly Mudokon, but these were Scrabs! There was fifteen of them in all, but eight were red and seven were black.
It was then he realized the source of the sound.
Upon each Scrab was attached a sort of 'wagon', a box-like shape made of wood that was fastened by straps around the Scrab's back. In each of these wagons were six or more tiny Mudokons, no bigger than Nevjuul's leg!
"Surrender to the Mountainbreakers!" the red team shouted, while the black team urged on with a different warcry.
"To the Forestdoom you will fall!"
"Our gods have given us the blessing of endurance!" the red Scrab-Riders yelled.
"Our goddess has given us the blessing of accuracy!" the black Scrab-Riders replied, and so they fought.
What was very silly though, was that after fifteen minutes, the Scrabs got very tired. They could not fight any longer.
"Break-Time!" both sides said in unison.
So all the Scrabs lied down, sleeping, including the small Mudokons. Both sides put their Scrabs to sleep. Some Scrabs of the different color were side by side, but they did not fight. Both armies decided that they would both benefit from this rest.
As Nevjuul walked out into the battlefield to investigate, thinking the small Mudokons were asleep, he heard a shout.
"A Giant! Our gods will praise us for its sacrifice!" the Reds yelled, pulling their Scrabs up.
"No! We'll have this Giant! Our Goddess will surely exalt us if we capture and bleed it!" the Blacks yelled back.
And so they fought again, this time, for Nevjuul. As the waves of Scrab Riders advanced upon him, Nevjuul realized only one thing could save him.
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