"Aiish!!", He face palmed himself in annoyance," I better get out of here. Maurice, you coming?", He asked as he got up and stretched. He reached for his black long sleeved shirt and slid in. Maurice got up and stretched too then jumped down from the table and followed him...
Aaron drove his shiny green Lamborghini to a screeching stop on the path in the middle of the woods, the same wood where he and Brandon escaped into from the cellar tunnel on his birthday. That was where the lady on the phone asked to meet.
He waited in the car looking out his tinted windows to see if he'll catch a glimpse of anyone, Anqa in particular but he saw no one near the old tunnel doors.
"You think it's a trap?", He asked Maurice who had been napping on the front passenger seat.
"Well we won't find out just sitting around would we now?", She answered rhetorically. Her little eyelids slid open slowly and she stretched and yawned, "Shall we?", She added as she placed her paws on the open window ready to jump out.
Aaron reached for the door handle when suddenly he felt a faint tremble and stopped halfway. He turned to look at Maurice to see if she felt it too. She had turned to look at him too. Then their gaze fell simultaneously to the cup of water in the car's cup holder and saw it was making ripples. Something was approaching. Something big. The continues trembling grew louder and nearer. Then in the distance came a faint feminine voice.
"Anqa?", Aaron muttered inaudibly. Then came a deafening shriek. It was not human this time. The trembling grew into a continuous giddy sound that seemed like a buffalo stampede.
"Fuck! fuck!! fuck!!! Maurice strap in!!", he screamed, freaking out. He hit the start button and the car revved, starting up.
He was about stepping on the peddle when he heard Anqa shouting something inaudible from the distant. He peeped out his window.
There she was, running with all her might towards the car. A gray Anatolian shepherd dog was right behind her almost matching her speed. There was someone else, Edge, he was far behind with a cloud of dust close behind him.
"Wait!!!", Anqa called out waving her hands. What he saw next almost give him a heart attack.
Right behind Edge from the cloud of dust rose the most uncanny beast he's ever set his eyes on. The beast screeched as it's thorny mouth opened to take a bite off Edge but he leaped out of the way and it ended up bashing it's spike filled head on a heavy rock shattering it.
"Is...is that a fucking giant centipede" he muttered, his mouth gaping. He froze with fear.
The giant centipede swerved it's large spiky eyeless orange head like it was dizzy and rose half it's body exposing it's orange abdomen with long spike filled clawed legs that seemed to go on endlessly. It gave a deafeaning shriek and galloped on after them.
Anqa got to the car first and opened the back door for the hound who jumped in. She unsheathed her sword and was ready to charge towards the centipede as edge was getting closer.
"Dafuq you gonna do with that tiny sword?! poke it till it cries and run back to its mama?!!", Maurice called after her. She was freaking out too. Meanwhile Aaron just froze, staring at his wheel, his hands gripping it tight. He was zoned.
Edge reached the car and jumped into the open back door. Anqa double up throwing her sword up and gave it a backflip kick towards the raging monster. The sword completely shattered on impact, dealing no damage on the beast whatsoever. She couldn't believe her eyes as she just stood there dumbstruck.
"Get in!!", the hound growled and pulled her in by her clothe with it's teeth.
"Drive!!!" Maurice screamed and dug her nails into Aaron's laps. He came back to his senses and stepped on the peddle immediately missing the monster's headbutt as it tumbled across the cleared path into the trees on the other side. It recovered almost immediately and started after the speeding Lamborghini.
Aaron clenched the steering wheel tightly with his feet pressing hard on the peddle as the car flew with great speed through the path.
He came to the intersection into the main road and swerved right into the road. He looked behind and just saw a cloud of dust and no sight of the centipede. Then came a resounding inhuman shriek from the dust.
He drove on with same speed. He was rattled with sweat beads rolling down his face.
"Wha... What the fuck was that!! Does anyone fucking care to explain what the actual fuck was just chasing us!!", Aaron asked, his heart heaving trying to catch his breath.
"Pull over", Anqa called out. Aaron looked back through his rear view mirror and saw Edge in moaning in pain. He was holding the side of his stomach and was bleeding.
"Oh shit!", He panicked and brought the car to a screeching stop by the side of the road. He got and opened the back door. He helped Edge out of the car as Anqa followed.
"Are you okay man?", Aaron asked helping him to balance on the hood of his car.
"Ahh I don't know. It stings. It burns", Edge replied wincing in pain. He was sweating all over. Anqa got a little dagger out of her boot and used it to tear up his cloth where he was bleeding. Aaron retched on the sight of his wound turning away. The wound looked rotten green and boiling. It was sizzling and blowing air bubbles which pops and splash blood droplets. Their were green veins all around the wound that seemed to be slowly spreading.
"He's been poisoned. Seems like the centipede greased him a bit. He's not going to live long unless we find out what that beast was", Maurice said as she jumped onto the hood right next to Edge. Anqa didn't seem a bit surprised that a cat just talked to her Aaron noticed.
"The codex of time, if this beast was sent by your father from the past then the codex of time has the answers on what it is and how to slay it. Nessus left it with you right?", Idris, Anqa's hound pitched in a deep voice.
"Idris", Maurice greeted.
"Maurice", Idris replied.
"You must be the other Almiraj ey? Maurice spoke highly of you", Aaron said patting his head. He growled.
"His name is Idris. Keep your hand to yourself if you don't want it bitten clean off", Anqa said still examining Edge's wound,"where's the book?", She asked turning to look at him.
"Oh you mean the book you left on the floor and disappeared without me right? Well that book was confiscated by the police. It's probably sitting on a shelf in their evidence room collecting dust", Aaron answered sarcastically scoffing.
"You would have rather I stayed and get caught with you?", She asked provoked.
"Well atleast you would have taken me with you", he retaliated.
"Can you both please cut the sibling bickering, I'm fucking dying", Edge said almost inaudibly. He was dizzy and felt like passing out.
"We'll continue this later. Right now we've got to get to that station and get that book somehow", Anqa said helping Edge up from the car's hood and leading him back into the car.
"Watch the seat please", Aaron called out as he entered the driver's seat and started up the car.
"We would need a helluva plan if we are going to pull this off with you both fighting like this", Maurice said heaving a sigh...