It was dark. No sunshine reached the depths of this cave. On the way deeper, they encountered countless of these bats only to be killed by the group. It seemed to be an easy mission as the beasts were quite weak on their own, but they had numbers on their side. There were countless of these giant blood suckers.
If one of the Saiyans were to be on his own it would have been tough but now in a group of 4, they were bulldozing through the cave in the search of the nest of these bats.
They were instinctively attracted towards special blood crystals which they used to enhance their body. The group was ordered to find this crystal and eliminate all the bats inside. They were to bring back the crystals as prove of their success.
2 hours in, they were seeing different bats with 4 wings on their backs. They remembered Broly of the pokemon Crobat but it was still no match for them.
Another hour passed, and they finally made it to a big hall, deep underground. On the walls were some blood crystals scattered around but strangely they didn't see a single bat inside. All they could find was a few bones, unknown from what it stemmed from, and a blood trace towards the opposite exit.
"We should follow the blood trail, maybe they were killed off by a stronger beast."
Alea said in a quite voice as they observed the surroundings inside. Broly found it funny that she was completely calm during the whole ordeal but Taro, the self-proclaimed strongest, was quite nervous from the get-go. He seemed to get anxious underground. He was easily started by anything that moved. Quite amusing to see a Saiyan, the warrior race, shout out because of a little rat.
"I- I think we sh-should just pick up a blood crystal an-"
"And leave? The village has problems with the bats, that's why they asked for assistance! The bats were probably chased out because of whatever is deeper inside. We have to kill it, so it will be safer for them. We can't leave just because we fulfilled a mission's condition, we have to be through and through with this or there will be bad consequences."
Alea rebuked as she was more out to help the villagers than complete the mission, uncommon for normal Saiyans, but Broly figured that the new generation would handle their business quite different in the future.
"Let's first follow the blood trails, suppress your ki. We will first check out what we deal with and then decide our future moves. So, for now be quite." Aize was quite solemn, still being vigilantly about the surroundings as he moved towards the blood trails.
Affected by the mood, Alea and Taro stopped arguing and put on a more serious face. They followed Aize who was leading them to through the exit.
For half an hour they moved through the 5-meter-high tunnels. After some time, they started to hear something snoring, moving closer to the end of the tunnel which was shining in a red hue.
The closer they got, the heavier the stench of blood was.
The stepped through the exit, their eyes adjusted to the light after more than 3 hours of darkness. Naturally they still used their ki sense, so they had a general idea what was inside.
Lying on the ground in the center of the hall was a 4-meter-tall giant humanoid. Looking like the mythical creature, a minotaur. As if it was waiting for them it jumped up, looking towards the group with blood-shot eyes. His mouth and large parts of his body were covered in blood, evidently from the countless corpses of the bats around him. Behind him was a river, it also gained a deep red color through the bodies.
The group started spreading out, trying to surround it. Taro and Aize ran to the left side and Alea to the right. Broly dashed towards the minotaur straight ahead. The others shot ki blasts towards the minotaur from the sides, but it just tanked through it, only having Broly in his eyes.
They both punched out colliding with each other. The ground was crushed by the shockwave generated, while Broly was throwing back to the entrance. Before it could follow him up with anything, Alea was already above it dropping on it with an axe kick, hitting it straight on the top of his head. She stomped hard on the head again, jumping away from the approaching hand.
The minotaur barely turned around as two ki beams headed towards it from two different directions. The minotaur blocked the beam with his two arms as it growled clearly angry on the joined attack.
Suddenly it was sent flying towards the river, but it didn't land in it but instead shot towards the 20-meter-high ceiling, as Broly appeared under it, kicking it upwards.
Broly but both of his arms upwards as he charged up his ki in his hands. The minotaur was embedded inside the ceiling. It struggled to get out but as soon as he pulled out his head, it was struck with a fierce green beam, pushing it even deeper into the ceiling.
Broly exhaled deeply but he new not to drop his guard. He believed the attack should be enough for this beast, but it was common to die when one dropped their guard. He waited for the possibility that it would crawl out.
Taro already started boasting. The brighter and more spacious environment seemed to have improved his mood.
"Hahaha. Way too easy! It couldn't even resist."
"You idiot! Stop raising flags!" Broly shouted at him.
With a rumble the minotaur abruptly shot out of the hole to the ground.
"Ah. Great. Let me guess, you are even stronger now."
As if on cue, the minotaur started to give off a tremendous amount of ki. A red flame-like aura surrounded it. Its muscle mass increased even further and its horns began to grow. With a deep growl it started to dash towards Broly, who watched it approach with a wry smile. With every step the ground trembled and slightly gave in as it accelerated. A few meters away it leaped up, then crashed towards Broly with a punch.
"Well here goes nothing."