chapter 2 : Fight in the forest

When they passed the main gate of the temple, they were dazzled for a moment. Once accustomed their eyes, the sight that met them cut their breath gigantic trees worthy of American sequoias rising so high that they were dizzy, their large branchesassez to accommodate entire villas and where many flowering vines hanging, their gnarled roots forming a natural labyrinth ... they felt small, lost amidst sylvan giants crushing all their height.

"- A strange mixture that forest, says Sig.

- That's all you have to say ? replied his cousin with wide eyes.

- No, that's not all ... I want to climb ! he said with bright eyes.

- You're such an animal, retorted the mestizo.

He had hardly finished speaking than his monkey of a cousin was halfway through three jumps. He stopped and turned to hail Nero but nearly fell of surprise.

- Dude ! The temple !

- What the temple ? He said, turning around. Shit, where it went ? You see it ? he said, turning to Sig with a big fat WTF in the eyes. But where did he left too, that monkey !

- On top ! heard the mestizo through the branches. Come over here ! ".

Nero joined his friend in the canopy, and together they saw the edge of the forest was not so far.

" - How about we try that way ?

- Well, it's not like we had a choice: the temple wetn on his own way. "

They set off, Sig jumping effortlessly, more comfortable in the air than on land, while Nero was moving with speed to the ground following his cousin as a faint shadow. Suddenly they heard a scream, Nero stopped and Sig landed beside him. They looked at eachother then start to spring towards the origin of the noise, not really knowing why ... Driven by the strange and often silly curiosity that drives horror movie characters to watch what they foresee as a danger behind the door ... After a good race between the sylvan giants, they came to a small clearing, strange element in the middle of this forest so dense. In the middle was a huge stump around which focused creatures blue and gray, looking like Velociraptors, with small scarlet crests. There they saw someone, a young woman from the screams, which had taken refuge in a hollow of the stump. She was trapped and the repeated assaults of the creatures opened each time a little more the gap in the wood weakened by rot.

The girl cowered, thinking her end was coming when a carnivorous rushed into the hollow, fangs and claws forward. But fely nothing... no pain.. then she slowly opened her eyes, the creature lay on the ground a few meters away. Before the captive stood Nero, his superhuman speed allowed him to arrive in time and stop the creature with a long stick with which he make it fly away. Congeners of the beast hadn't had the time to understand the situation taht they saw other creatures fly over them, projected by Sig. The pack split in two to try to overcome those who protected their prey. Sig grabbed one by the tail, though armed with spikes, and threw it on another beast before smashing the skull of a third with a backhand fist. For its part, Nero blocked the onslaught with his stick before the stump to prevent the young woman from being attacked, but before such creature and with the little practice he had, he could only defend. Together they fought the creatures, protecting each other somehow ... Sig was doing better, more used in combat, but the situation seemed so unreal that he was moving by instinct to survive.

Suddenly reptiles fled to the edge of the clearing and pushed a long complaint by vibrating their crest. They watched them without moving, trying to regain their breath and understand what they were doing ... Then it was silent, they content to observe from afar the two cousins and their new protected one.

"- They called their leader ! We must flee from here ! screamed the young woman in tears.

- Chief ? Not good...

- Sig ... They're blocking the clearing ...

When Nero finished his sentence, a long cry more serious and more powerful than those of small carnivores sound not far away.

The ground trembled: they heard the leader of the pack approaching. Suddenly the silence was total and the creatures made way. The cousins looked up: there he was, perched on a huge root to observe the scene. I one jump he passed over his pack and landed in front of his prey. It was much larger than his camarads and his crest, more prominent, seemed to pulsate.

"- Damn that thing is at least ten meters long and four meters high, blew Sig

suddenly less sure of his strength.

- What do we do ? We barley and we're already in deadly danger ...

- And this is the first time we fought with our new body against something other than ourselves ... and that's a fucking dinosaur, what is this shit situation there ...

The young man quickly thought for the beast in front of them sized up the look.

- Well, ugly mini-are down, I'll draw them further into the forest. You, get de fuck out and take the girl with you and put her somewehre safe. OK ?

- Okay, try not to do too much bullshit while waiting for me ! replied the dark swordsman while throwing him a worried look. His cousin got into a sprinting position :

- Don't worry bro, see ya ! exclaimed Sig rushing to the large alpha.

He ran right to him and slipped between its legs on the moss carpet, dodging a bite .

- Come on big guy I am here !

Vexed to chew thin air, the giant reptile roared and charged with other carnivores.

Nero took the opportunity to go into the forest with the young woman, the latter protesting when he caught her and throw her over his shoulder.

For his part, Sig was moving in the air by jumping on the giant trunks, avoiding the repeated assaults of the pack and their leader by diving between excessive root or by hanging on the vines. At the corner of a tree he had just enough time to lower his head, seeing a blue flash from the corner of the eye jumping at him but, taken in its tracks, he stumbled and gave a series of rolls before catching . Then he saw the huge tail of the alpha coming at him, he tried to put his arms crossed in front of him to protected himself. The strike force of the beast threw him back, his flight stopping on the hard bark of a tree. The second shock was the worst : all the air was shipped out of his lungs and he felt that his head would burst open. He fell to the ground, stunned, and he remain alive just thanks to his reflexes: he saw a blue shape upon him and jumped aside with his four limbs. He dived under a root to hide and avoid further attacks and regained consciousness. A thin trickle of blood ran down his skull.

" - Shit they will be able to track with that ! " He said, feeling the injury.

He knew he readily responded to the whole situation, but he did not know why ... He had new knowledge because of the spheres, at least he thought it was it that allowed him to think and act like that ? He suddenly felt the roots tremble: the chief was there, calling his pack.

" Damn ... Ok finished running freaking band of lizards on steroids ! " He sprang suddenly from his hiding place, ejecting two beasts while passing by, setting off a series of excited cries of their comrades. Sig conjured a machete in his right hand and a tonfa in the left, he jumped and cut a low vines, grabbing it. The alpha on his heels, he ran around the tree where he caught the vines while getting the small beast out of his way with the tonfa, and jumped, wrapping the vine around the trunk. The predator saw his prey go over his head, forcing him to suddenly stop to watch him. The raptodrome, expecting to see him coming from the other side of the trunk, only saw the vine swing without his prey, only with the heavy tonfa tied at the end. Suddenly a violent blow on the opposite side of the skull brought him down, screaming: Sig made a diversion with the vine and his weapon to attack the monster by surprise. He planted his machete in the trunk and had then jumped over a low branch lying about ten meters above the ground. From there he thrown himself to hit the alpha head with all his weight. On landing, his legs gave way because of the violence of the shock. This moment of equilibrium loss brought him to receive another blow from the tail with spikes that tore his flesh and made him fly again. His torso without protection of any kind had the flesh torn and below, the bones were broken by the second shot in a row. The bloodied fighter got up and began to run again, ignoring his injuries and without knowing that they would have been mortal for any normal man. Too busy to avoid direct face-to-face with the pack leader, Sig did not realize until too late that other predators had ambushed He was now surrounded, alone in front of the alpha in the center of a circle of claws and fangs ready to lacerate at the slightest misstep. Realizing that there was no possible escape, Sig prepared to engage body and soul in its first and final battle ... the few rational thoughts he might have were foged now, as his vision , with blood ... his blood ... it seemed to boil in his veins ...

The giant reptile launched the assault. The young man slipped away somehow, despite his aching limbs. Seeing an opening, he tried to run but was stopped by a scratch on his back and put one knee on the ground. He turned around, annoyed by this cowardly attack, he crushed the skull of his assailant. When he turned, he saw the pack leader throw a bite at him, he knew he would not be able to dodge in time this one and protected the face behind the arm. Suddenly he heard the animal howl in pain. Opening his eyes, he saw an arrow in the left eye of the monster.

" - So what ? I was thinking that you had a least kill the small fry by now ! Saying this, Nero jumped from the branch where he shot the arrow and landed near his cousin.

- It's good to finally see you here, started to believe you were having tea with her!

- Not really, but it's safe. Now we can get down to business. "

The two cousins put back to back and shouted a war cry, a cry of despair two cornered prey .... Responding to provocation as if they understood the message, carnivores fell on them, Nero turned his bow into sword and Sig materialized two tonfas. Small predators were the first to suffer: Sig massacred three in seconds, forgetting the injuries he sustained, his rage for survival greater than anything. Nero then beheaded the last two in a swing a sword. There remained only the alpha, blind in one eye and hatred boiling to have been abused. The monster threw himself to Nero, who nicked it flanc with his blade without being attained, but it was only a scratch in the thick skin. Sig adds with a powerful punch to the head, but he felt his bones screaming doing that. The monster fell to the side:

"- Chance ! " Says the swordsman who catapulted into the air and stuck his blade into the skull of the monster.

However, the skin and bones extremely hard prevented the sword from going to deep and the predator ejected his assailant against a tree, leaving the sword half buried in the skull of the beast. Sig attracted the attention of the alpha, giving time for his cousin to get up and when he saw him standing, he gave him a chain with a weight after he had materialized, his side having a small sickle:

"- Catch !

- To do what ?

- Run around his legs ! I take care of the head ! "

Immediately, Nero complied. The beast did not know who to watch and Sig start to wrap the other end of the chain around the jaw of the monster.

"- pull all your strength ! "

The giant reptile fell heavily to the ground, members locked.

"- Throw me ! " shouted Sig leaping above the alpha. Nero therefore threw him in turn, he grabbed the arm of his cousin and start to turn like a shot putter throwing a weiht, right on the reptile. Sig turned over and landed on the partially planted sword in the skull of the predator with his right foot, pushing it completely. The beast roared but the chains retain him. After some jolts life left his eyes.

"GG! " said the two gamers of cousins as they bump their fist, as having fought a game boss. Saying that, they saw in the corner of their eye the young woman they had saved together with other people running towards them. They immediately collapsed, exhausted by their first fight for survival...

Author's note : well, second chapter, translating my story is hard but as always, taking any advice, correction etc... and of course if you have any feedback it would be cool :)