I suggest you all run. We got a little trouble following us." Damon said to the group in front of him.
He didn't recognize the few people in front of the group but once he passed by others a little ways behind them his eyes met with Cali the red haired girl from before.
They all were on guard at first knowing people were heading their way, but once they saw the group running. They also heard loud sounds and it sounded like a ton of them.
"Their running from lemurs. Ha, ha, ha. What the hell. Those things are harmless a dark haired boy shouted with laughter.
Ughhh' Cole, another boy said to the black haired boy grabbing his shoulders twisting him around to face the direction they came from.
Looking up hundreds of lemurs could be seen screaming with anger. A large group of them stopped and began circling the purple puppets.
"Woah, I never seen so many of them before. The same boy said.
A male figure that wore all white stepped in front of them. His eyes were blue in color and his hair was blond and cut short. He didn't wear any armor but instead simple clothing with a gold cloth belt around his waist.
"run. He said to the others. What. Lee are you serious. We can eliminate these beasts with ease. The black haired boy responded.
I said move it. Now." He said while taking a single pair of nunchucks from his belt.
Forty or so leaf blade lemurs launched at him and with two quick whips in the air a white curving light was seen.
One would expect to see the lemurs split in half but instead there bodies disappeared completely like they never was there. Just white particles floated in the air.
Many more attacked at once and the same occured. While the boy called Lee was doing this he was taking back steps preparing to run. Many of the lemurs continued surfing the grass ahead still going after Vora's squad but mainly garren.
Damon and vora were in front as they took a hard left turn. It was now a mixture of their squad members and the purple puppets running together.
"What in the hell did you guys do to piss them off. They aren't usually like this. Cali, the red hair girl shouted at blane running beside him.
Nothing, we didn't do anything. They just started attacking us out of nowhere.
As they all ran they would bump against the high grass blades moving them slightly. Looking at it from an aerial view it was like a crowd of people running in a cornfield.
Vora and Damon were the first to exit out the high blade grass plain entering in a red forest.
"Do we keep running, how do we know they won't keep coming. Vora asked him as they stopped and turned to make sure the others were with them.
Because, this isn't their territory." He responded.
Sure enough after everyone entered the red forrest the swarms of lemurs stopped their chase and just stayed climbing and jumping back and forth on the grass screeching and carrying on with angry body language.
"Just what in the heck is going on. What did you guys do. A girl with black and red armor spoke.
They claim they did nothing. I asked that already. Cali responded to her squad member. Ha, that was fun. What a rush" another girl said with blue and pink hair.
All the members of the purple puppets gathered together talking loudly about what just happened arguing amongst themselves.
Vora and her squad looked at them weirdly. They all argued back and forth like a bunch of kids fighting for toys until a figure fell from one of the trees.
The same blond hair boy dressed in white.
"Enough." Was all he said and everyone closed their mouths.
He walked forward confidently and in a calm way to his squad while saying a couple of words and they all walked a few feet away and began setting up camp.
He then walked towards vora's group. "sorry about all of that.
They can be a handful at times. They all immediately knew he must be their squad leader considering what they just seen.
Damon was looking at him curiosly as he didn't know the guy was high in the trees until just before he landed. Vora on the other hand knew he was there and wasn't surprised when he jumped down.
"My name is Lee, but many people call me knuckles. He said holding out his hand greeting everyone with a hand shake.
Lee was totally different from many on his squad. He gave off the vibe of a gentleman and with the type of Shaolin monk clothing he wore he could be mistaken for a monk of some kind.
His voice wasn't deep but had a strong feel to it every time he spoke.
Everyone introduced themselves and Lee asked to speak with whoever was the squad leader in which vora stepped forward.
"Easy now, you don't have to be on guard so much. I just want to talk. Ya know, captain to captain." He said.
Vora stopped for a moment hearing this as she was surprised he noticed she was ready for any type of trickery. She had made sure to hide any intentions that she was on guard but yet Lee still was able to tell.
"He's pretty good." She thought as they walked away from everyone.
"I guess we can set up camp for a couple hours." Damon told everyone in which they began doing.
Kimbo made a ring of rock around them with two entry ways. The rock wall was around eight foot high and four foot thick that circled them.
He made it pretty big circling the trees as well that were near. There was plenty room inside it as they began taking out materials.
Glee took out a bag that had many metal parts inside it and began assembling it while Tara took out a few things of her own assembling them as well.
Garren sat down beside a tree reaching into a brown and red bag pulling out dried meat while next to him was a metal box around the size of a crate. It was very cold to the touch. He opened it grabbing a flask out turning up its contents.
Blane and kimbo helped glee and Tara and soon they had multiple chairs, a table and a small fire pit and something that looked like a griddle.
After putting a thin slab of steel over the fire all of them brought out different kinds of meat. Tara was in charge of seasoning the meats and cutting them up.
Damon had stepped away after telling them to set up camp and walked further into the red forest.
He released Javalin after walking for a few minutes and found a fallen tree. He sat down while pulling out seven little fury bodies that were green in color with yellow in them.
"Here ya go girl. I thought about you while running from these little guys so I easily killed a few for ya." He said tossing the grass lemurs to her and laying down on the trunk of the fallen tree with his hands behind his head.
He closed his eyes and began focusing on the area around him. After a few minutes he could feel the life energy the natural things around him carryed.
He was trying to test out his theory once again with increasing his ki pool percentage.
The last time he gave up because he was short on time and ended up fighting a soul master that attempted to rob him.
"Hmmmm, I can even feel the fallen tree I'm laying on. I can feel it fading very slowly. Like it's very existence is seeping away. I believe that is so because it's now dying." He thought.
Damon couldn't see anything he could just feel it. Each form of energy coming from the forest had its own unique feel to it no matter if it was the same thing.
The red forest trees were all the same type but their life energy was different. Being able to tell this he decided to focus only on how different each of them were.
Around ten minutes past and nothing changed. His plan was to absorb the energy somehow through focus but he didn't try.
Instead he decided to feel and just focus on finding the natural life energy that was around him. He felt doing this constantly would open the door for what he really wanted.