Back at Rey’s side

The sun has already risen up from the horizon when I reach the former camp. But I don’t see anyone. The riders are no longer there. I don’t see anything at the place where they camped. Suddenly, in my ultrasonic vision, I see a human silhouette. It is coming to me at a fast pace. It is running.

Have I been found out? Half panic, I was about to run when I heard a familiar voice.

“Rey, wiat. It’s me Larry” I heard.

I looked at the direction of the voice and I saw Larry. ‘It really is Larry.’ I thought to myself and stopped my steps.

She came to me leisurely and said “Why has you come back alone? Anything important left forgotten?”

By looking at her behavior, it is sure that she doesn’t know what has happened. So, I told her about riders’ betrayal and the reason why I am here.

She was panicked and shocked at the same time. She was behaving like she doesn’t know what to do anymore. It takes her about five minutes before she snapped out of that state. Then, she ran in a direction without talking anything. She ran at her full speed.

I was surprised. It took me some time to figure out what has happened. If she has been spying on the riders at night, she would know the direction they have departed. So, I immediately followed her. On the way, I found some fresh blood stains. I’m sure those must be from Black’s served arm. And looking at the state, it hasn’t been long since the riders have left. I was just a bit late. Now that I’ve seen some clues, I’m sure I would see their new camp.

But since it took me some time, I haven’t found Larry just yet. I only found the clue that she has departed from the places, such as still shaking small branches and occasionally, a blood stain. I’m sure with my yellow monkey-mok soul fusion, I’ll catch up to her before long. But before I see her, in my ultrasonic vision, I saw a snake slithering in Larry’s direction.

“Da Fak”, she doesn’t even care to keep quiet or keep herself undiscovered. If the snake catch up to her, she might get injured. With her state of mind, I don’t believe she would be able to think correctly, even if I suggest. So, I decided to distract the snake mok.

I picked up a small stone and threw it to the snake mok. The stone hits the snake. The snake just looked in my direction for a moment and didn’t give a da*m about me. It took me 5 small stones to irritate the snake mok and draw its ire. When the snake change its prey from Larry to me, I ran backward. The snake followed me. I can easily outrun it with my soul fusion. But I maintained my speed to level that of the snake mok for a minute before facing it and ran to it. The snake eagerly make “sizzz” sound and slither to me as fast as it can. I ran at my full speed and when I reach to it, I jumped over it and followed my original plan to follow Larry. The snake looked kinda silly to me. It was acting weary as if I’m about to use some of my secret techniques or weapons. But, I’m not a damn brainless guy to not know what is important and not. At the moment, what is the most important is Larry’s safety and the rider’s location. So, I abandon the battle and follow the direction Larry went.

It took me quite some time to find her track. But luckily, it was not that difficult since she was running at a straight line. I saw some paw prints on the soft ground. Although we(travelers and humans of this soul world) can’t make anything to the nature of this soul world, moks can. I followed the paw print and not long afterward, I found Larry as well as a cat-like mok trying to ambush her. Was that mok the one from last night? The shape looks the same in my ultrasonic vision. I picked up some stones and throws at it. It jumped in fright and looked in my direction. Initially, it was about to ambush Larry. Its attention was fully on Larry. Now that I’ve disturbed its hunt, it becomes irritated. It ran to me at a very fast pace. I do not try to out run it. Since I know it can run faster than me. This time, I will have to face it head on.

Just as I thought yesterday, the cat-like mok is not a good fighter when faced head to head.

It ran at a fast pace and try to jump on me and bite me on my neck continuously. I knew it. This one is the mok I met last night. But I’m prepared this time. Taking out the pointed bone, I place it above my head in the direction where the cat-like mok is supposed to be. With the speed it jumped and as well as being in air, I’m sure it wouldn’t be able to change direction. But to my surprise, using its right hand, the cat-like mok deflected my pointed bone. But it got a slight injury on its belly. When its plan has failed, it does not try to attack immediately. It slowly walks around me. Looks like it is trying to find my weakness. After about 3 minutes of circling, it suddenly pounce at me. I raise my pointed bone and put it on my head. But the mok just past my left side and continue running. It didn’t really aim at me. When it reaches a certain distance, it looks back at me for a moment. Then, it ran off.

That cat-like mok seems to be pretty timid. It ran away to a random direction when it knows that it can’t win. But suddenly I heard “sizzz” sound from the place I got passed. “Oh, sh*t, that snake mok is following me.

Without waiting for another second, I followed my original path. But along the way, I don’t encounter anymore moks. After about 5 minutes later, I started to hear some sounds. A girl’s scream is what I heard clearly. Besides, I also heard some laughter. The scream sounds very familiar to me. Is it Larry? Has she caught up with the riders?

I was worried. But I reduced my speed and carefully moved forward where I heard the voices. Just as I worried, Larry has been fighting the riders. Black was tied with vines. And WatchDog is preparing to tie Larry with another vine. She is lying on the ground looking very weak. Her right arm has been cut from the shoulder just as Black’s left arm has been cut. I want to save both of them. But I’m sure I would end up more miserable than them if I rush out right now. So, I just prone in a bush a bit far away from them. Of course, I can see them.

“Larry, why did you?” Black asked weakly.

“Larry? Huh? You weren’t honest as well. Having an affair with another girl on my back.” Glyph said in a mocking tone.

Black looked at her and said very weakly, “No Glyph, I has been punishing her the whole decade for reporting you.”

“She was the one who reported? There is a pretty exciting feeling going on my mind after hearing that?” Glyph said, “Eagle, we would count her in in the sacrificial ceremony. She should contribute something to pay back her deeds to our tribes. Right?”

Black looked very solemn. His weak brows are frowning. But there is nothing he can do.

“Honey, whatever comes out of your mouth is my command. Moreover, I also want her to be a sacrificial object after knowing that she was the one.” EagleEye replied, “By the way, is this place good enough to perform ceremony?”

“According to the landscape as well as the fact that it is a little bit open that both sunlight and moonlight can shine here, make it a good place to perform our traditional sacrificial ceremony here. Prepare everything today. Tomorrow, we will perform the ceremony. And make sure to keep the sacrificial objects alive until the ceremony.”

At that certain time, WatchDog’s pet mok sniffed some air and started to glare at my direction.

“Sh*t, the pet mok can smell me? That’s a pity that I can’t spy on them for much longer. But it is enough that I know there is still some time left. I better get back to the cave and met Cank and Brick.”

“Greow, greow, greow” WatchDog’s pet dog mok is growling looking at a direction.

“WatchDog go and look at that direction and see if there is anyone else left to come out.” EagleEye commanded.

WatchDog went there and found nothing.

“May be your pet is being a bit too weary.” EagleEye just brushed off without thinking much since they were very through in their plan. They have arrested everyone except the three weaklings. And the weaklings were so scared that they didn’t even cared about their employer. They just put their tails between their legs and ran.