Bud , Richie and Jewel stared into the inky darkness of the cave. Suddenly , Jewel saw something in the cave , a dot. A single red dot that glowed in the darkness of the cave. To get a better look in the cave , she closed her eyes and thought of crystals in a dark and gloomy cave , sweat dripped down from her forehead as she focused , totally ignoring Bud and Richie's conversation on how she looks constipated .She thought of the crystals spreading , forming more clumps of crystals , shedding off light into the cave.

She heard a twinkling sound of crystals hitting into each other , she looked down at her hands, and saw little rice grains of crystals bursting out from her flesh in little clumps. She closed her eyes again and thought of the same crystals but this time they filled up the entire cave , shining off their radiance and filling the cave with light .

When she looked down at her hands the second time , her hands were lumps of solid crystal, shedding off cyan , pink and green light , she gestured for the Lush Dweller , the crystals amplified the light of the Lush Dweller, filling the cave with kaleidoscope of multicolored lights , as if a god from the 1970s just said " Let there be light" , if whatever monster in the cave had epilepsy , they would had immediately had a fit and started foaming.

When Richie , Bud and Jewel leaned in to look at the creature in cave , Jewel immediately regretted lighting up the cave , inside the cave was a lean deathly pale humanoid creature with red nuclear explosions for eyes , its body was rippled with muscles. The floor was covered with blood and feces and the smell .... oh god .... the smell .. it smelled like trash on a hot summer day , laboured breathing could be heard .

The beast had 2 long whips of muscle instead of arms , it had its tentacles of muscle with spikes pointing out of it wrapped around a deer or at least the remains of a deer. Its face was pale and smooth and then a thin line appeared , elongating and stretching until it formed a maw , it bit into the deer , like how a child bit into a candy bar .It chewed on the deer greedily , wet and sloshy noises could be heard from the cave as well as crunching , it crunched the bones of the deer with ease like how a person would eat a sardine.

After seeing the beast in the cave , the trio's faces were painted white with fear, they backed away from the cave , taking slow careful steps . As they were backing away from the creature , a barely audible " crack" broke the silence , Bud looked down at his feet , there was a broken branch on where his foot was . The sound wasn't loud but it definitely alerted the beast , with a fluid motion , it turned , squatting on its legs that were akin to a dog's and it pounced.

With one mighty push of its legs , it launched itself into the sky like a torpedo in water, it landed right in front of Bud, its eye stared intently at Bud like a laser from a sniper rifle. They were so close , that Bud could see the yellow of its saliva as it dripped from the Brute's mouth , its lips were too expressive more like one of a human , or even an Eden , its inky black lips were curled into a smile as it stared at a juicier morsel compared to the deer.

Bud could see the teeth in the Brute's mouth , they were tiny and curved with a sharp end like a fishing hook .He could imagine its teeth hooking into his skin and slowly pulling out chunks of his flesh, he would no doubt end up like the deer. His particles surrounded him , buzzing anxiously , screaming at him to "glitch" away from the creature but .. somehow ... he couldn't .He was rooted to the spot , his heart galloping like a horse, the Brute seeing his reaction , smiled , the inky lips curling up even more , the Brute's tongue or rather tongueS slithered out of its mouth like boa constrictors , they were black and pulsing with veins like entrails, they wrapped themselves around Bud and brought him to the Brute's lips.....

At that moment, Bud fell to the ground , the tongue that was grabbing him was no longer attached to the Brute , black blood oozed out from the tongue. Bud jumped to his feet and his particles swarmed his body and he disappeared , reappearing next to a tree, a good 30 feet away from the brute The Brute screamed , more in annoyance than in actual pain , it looked around in confusion , when , out of the blue , a fist landed smack-dab at the Brute's face , teeth flew out of its mouth , like salmon jumping out of a river.

The Brute , staggered but did not fall. Standing in front of him was another brute , it was dressed like a samurai composed entirely out of crystals , shedding off so much light that as if different forest critters decided to have a disco. The other brute had a pink oni-like face , permanently fixed into a snarl with protruding fangs and 2 onyx horns, the Brute snarled back and leapt into the air with its muscular dog like legs and swung its spiked tentacles at the opponent. Just when the tentacles were about to land , both of them went flying off , it turned at the opposite direction where its tentacles went flying .

It was Richie , he was standing at the branch of a tree , with a broken bottle in his right hand and another bottle in his left with a shiny gold like substance slushing in it. He tossed aside the broken bottle and broke the other bottle in his left hand , filling his hand with the gold liquid. The glass shards drew blood and the blood and the gold liquid mixed , making the gold liquid even more radiant .With a flick of his hand , he send the gold liquid into the air, they solidified , turning into a shower of bullets that landed on the Brute.

Tiny little black mouths appeared on the Brute, oozing out of droplets of black blood. The Brute staggered once again but did not fall , it opened its mouth, black snake-like tongues launched themselves at Richie , when another punch struck the Brute, closing its mouth shut , its tongues fell off and wriggled on the floor like dying leeches.

Jewel continued her onslaught at the Brute , sending punches after punches at the Brute, after every punch , bones would shatter and blood was spilled , bruising the Brute black and blue. Jewel pulled back her fist and struck with all her might... when the punch stopped. Her fist was inches away from the Brute's face , seconds away from carving a dent into the Brute's skull but her fist stopped.

Around her fist was vines , blood red vines holding her fist away from the Brute's fist. Her eyes widened as she stared at the Brute , at the Brute's torso were red vines of muscles , coiling up like a rope , they formed2 new tentacles for the Brute. Its face was a mass of scared and bruised flesh a few seconds a go but now it was replaced with a new layer of deathly pale skin. The Brute , seeing the shock on Jewel's face , smiled , its black lips curling up , the vines, like a cancer, spread across her whole arm and the Brute began to twist.