Vikram clung to the ceiling once more. He turned towards the sound, scanning for the bull.
The moment he saw the rumbling creature, he felt joy in his heart.
For no matter who looks at it, that is not a bull.
It could be Ankylosaurus, AnchioSaurus, or a thousand other 'Saurus', but definitely not a bull, except for it's patched black and white skin and having four legs.
Hells, it even has a thick tail twice as thick as it's legs. It had triangular spikes extending all the way from the middle of it's back to the tips of its tail.
It's horns spread out from its neck like a frill neck lizard's hood, like wide fans, covering it's neck from direct slashes or bites. They extended all the way till its humps.
The bull's legs were short , a mix between a reptile and a horse's. There are even three curved claws instead of toes.
Few of the men attempted to run towards the exit.
Vikram was feeling very angry at these men, for torturing the calf and cow. If you want to kill, kill without cruelty.
What in the world is wrong with these guys ?! torturing docile animals !
Indeed, it had been docile animals.
The calf and cow both did not hurt the men, only the current dino-bulls hunted them down.
Vikram flicked his hand, and the fastest running man fell down.
The terrain within the portal is similar to the city's terrain.
It's a lot of fertile flat land, enclosed with boulders like a maze. There are specific entry and exit areas. If you are walking around leisurely, it's very easy to find your way around.
However, when you are running in a panic with beasts of hell behind you, If you missed that small gap between the boulders, one won't be able to get out.
One would get ganged up and die while you try to find another crack in boulders to exit through.
In that single moment, the bull herd moved to the entrance, locking the people in.
Unable to escape, the men started swinging their swords, trying to carve a bloody path towards the exit from the portal.
A brutal fight ensued, neither party giving in easily.
The men are used to killing cows. They knew where to stab to make an injury, and they worked well as a team, at least for a few minutes.
However, dino-bulls are not the same as docile cows and calves.
They fought back.
Their skin is hard to crack, their horns too strong.
" Yusuf ! To my right ! Shoot ! Shoot ! SHOOT ! " The man without a gun shouted, while the man with the gun was fumbling with it. Yusuf had a simple rifle, while Ali had the shotgun.
Ali, the man holding the gun, is not at all good at shooting or even loading.
Rightnow, he was the only one who could do an AOE damage, as he got the shotgun with pellet style bullets.
Sure, it injured all the animals, but the men besides him were not very willing to go to even these downed animals to kill them.
" Ali ! Give me the gun ! I can aim better ! " One of the men shouted at the man with the gun.
He made a motion to grab the gun.
Ali seemed to have been in a lot of such fights.
He slipped away from the man like a loach.
" Give the gun to you ! The first person you shoot will be me. " Ali said, as he ran away from the man.
The man who called for Yusuf survived by a hair's breadth, while the man who came to rescue had died under hoofs of the bull king.
Some of the cows stopped to rip open bodies of fallen men.
Vikram watched in surprise as the dino bulls ripped into men to eat them just like prehistoric dinosaurs.
While everyone was shouting and fighting like this, Momon slipped away. He secured himself a position atop the boulders.
The men were still running and fighting in the field.
Momon did not direct them at all, despite his well established authority over those men. He only watched the group from the sidelines, making sure none of them could spot him.
His actions are more like a trained soldier than a random poacher, as he slipped away from the group of men.
Yusuf used his sickle sword to kill another of the smaller bulls. His rifle was long since abandoned, as there were no more bullets to refill.
He rushed angrily to Ali.
Ali, who ignored his initial request to shoot, decided to shoot just now, right in the face of Yusuf.
He took out Yusuf, along with four other cows.
The look of surprise was forever etched on the face of yusuf.
The man who had an okay relationship with Ali scolded him from the back.
" What the hell, Man ! What are we going to tell his wife ? " He was pissed.
" That she is welcome to any of us.You wanted his sister, did you not? Now you have a chance. " Ali snickered.
The man frowned. However, with the way things are going, he doesn't have many chances to live.
At this time, a gunshot ran in the entire portal.
It's from the sniper rifle in Momon's hands.
He shot the second most troublesome bull on the field.
The most troublesome bull in the field, a giant mass of muscle twenty feet high, and thirty feet long, was still running around, making every one's heart's skip a beat in fear.
Even Vikram, who was hanging on the ceiling, could feel the power of the bull just from the way it's muscles moved.
It's phenomenal.
If this is how a raging bull looks, those bull fighters must have one stout heart, Vikram thought, as he wiped his sweaty hands on his pants.
The men were just as spooked as Vikram was.
Fear makes one do crazy things.
The men, who seem to have been best of friends, had but an ephemeral relationship when it came to the crux. They were a relationship established for benefits. It showed up in the worst form of betrayal.
Yusuf died, and his friend has become alone.
The man, who was left out by all his friends screamed madly, running for the boulders where the men were hiding.
The boss dino-bull rammed with all its strength into the boulders.
Granite stones crumbled into gravel at the three-ton worth of bash.
The boulders which are precariously hanging upon to the top rolled on to the crushed stones, burying the men alive.
During all this, Momon the spy has taken another shot, this time, right at the boss bull.
Shockingly, the dino bull turned its head at the last minute, as if it had eyes behind it's head.
The bullet ricocheted off the horns, right into the face of the dino bull.
Had it been a shot straight to the eye, the bull would have died, however, the armor piercing bullet had lost its steam, only injuring and angering the bull.
No matter what, the bull rushed off into an angered rampage, bashing the gravel here and there.
Vikram had the aerial view of this entire scene.
For a moment, due to extreme stress, his mind went black and white.
The dino bulls have become black rock bulls, the people have become white pawns.
The boulders have turned in to black blocks, the empty space has turned in to white blocks, like a board.
As the bulls, men and boulders vanished, in a moment, Vikram saw what Momon wanted to do.
He wanted to kill all the dino bulls but the boss, then escape.
Every man who escaped from the portal raises the portal's difficulty.
While the improvement for the minions is in the scale of fraction, it is in the scale of whole numbers for the boss monster.
The boss bull is already a creature which calls for a missile.
Such a creature, rampaging in rural India - Vikram could imagine the damage it would cause.
Sure, there is a military outpost, and there's a team coming down to his own town which is not far from here. However, this entire plain consists not just of a safe zone, but also a strategically important limit for the missiles that could be fired from the borders of India.
I.e. If there is half a bazooka or guided missile station here, then, the entire land of india is within purview of the enemy countries.
Even he himself wondered if he was overreacting … but he is not a pacifist.
Vikram would rather kill by mistake than let go of suspicious people. For the first time, he moved before he could think it through.
The men may die or live, but the spy could not live.
Vikram dove down, his hand reaching straight for Momon's neck.
Even from this short of a distance, even with these many genetic advantages, momon was able to dodge. Just with that, one could tell how talented Momon was as a soldier.
Momon's bayonet slashed upwards at Vikram's right hand, while Vikram slashed with his left hand.
Pain tolerance and indifference to damage to himself is probably Vikram's only strength. It is the only detail that sets him apart from civilian fighters.
That single difference came to his rescue as he killed the best mercenary the terrorists have ever sent in to the country.
Vikram could not rest assured till momon was cut into a thousand pieces.
Then, he tossed these pieces to dino bulls, just to be sure.