"We are here" Okuagu whispered as they stopped at a tree with a red skull painted on it. Emerald simply nodded in reply, bringing her daggers to her front. The whole place was littered with skulls and bones along with signs of a far more recent hunt. "Can you 'see' it" Emerald asked as she tasted the air. "Obviously not" Okuagu replied with his eyes turning bright orange. "I meant your sixth sense doofus" Emerald said with a sigh. "On it" Okuagu said as everywhere turned to shades of orange, red, violet and white. After some time scouring around he noticed the presence of not one but two Komodos under the swamps some meters from them. "Right there" howled Okuagu as he scorched the swamp with hot flames from his hands. Roars echoed across the swamps as two green Komodos lunged from the swamp, smoke rising from their body. "Neat" Emerald said as she rushed towards the lizards her daggers shining in the sunlight. With a flick of her wrists she sliced the Komodos throats or at least that was what she hoped to achieve. The Komodos laughed as a metallic noise was heard when Emerald had attacked them. "Useless, such simple weapons can't put so much as a dent on us" snickered one of the Komodos.Emerald retreated back to Okuagu's side with a frown on her face. "If we can't kill them, we will simply tire them out" Okuagu said with a growl. "I'm not really built for endurance "Emerald said with a sigh. "So I'll simply use speed" she added her pupils turning serpentine. The two Komodos charged meeting the hunters head on with snarls and roars. Okuagu stabbed the green komodo and as expected the spear simply bounced off as though it had struck granite. Emerald like an infuriated snake kept on striking the Komodo repeatedly giving it no option but to be on the defense. Okuagu's komodo and him seemed to be locked in a stalemate with neither of them able to land a serious wound on the other. On the other hand, Emerald's komodo seemed on the surface to be faring far worse than his comrade though no signs of Emerald's strike could be noticed on his body. Okuagu delivered a kick to the Komodos side after which he followed up with an uppercut throwing the Komodo off balance. The Komodo rolled out of the way dodging an attempted stab by Okuagu. "He evaded the attack, meaning he considered it could harm him" Okuagu thought as he channeled more heat into the now red spear. Emerald meanwhile was panting severely, for the series of slashes had taken far too much energy leaving her spent. The Komodo licked its lips as it turned the table scratching and snapping at Emerald with its horrendous slimy maw. Emerald could only manage to evade the far deadlier strikes leaving her body littered with numerous claw marks. Okuagu took up his "Leopard stance" growling and circling the Komodo. "That's new" The Komodo thought for it seemed that this human had been holding back. Okuagu roared and soon enough the Komodo was struggling to protect its vitals as numerous stab wounds and cuts appeared on his green body painting it red.Okuagu had now realized that the Komodos skin was simply tough, and all he needed to do was to burn the skin to get to the flesh underneath. "Hold a little bit longer Emerald" Okuagu thought as he glanced at Emerald who was fleeing with a Komodo hot on her trail. The Komodo roared in fury with its eyes taking on a crimson hue. Okuagu laughed as he increased the pace of his attacks burning the Komodo all over. "Die" shouted the Komodo as it too started to attack with bestial fury with no regard whatsoever for its own wellbeing. Okuagu dropped his spear, and grinned as he noticed the violent swirling patters on his body. "Two can play at that game" Okuagu shouted as he too seemed to go berserk punching. Biting, kicking and clawing with glowing red hot fingers. The Komodo began to feel weakness in its limbs as lactic acid had begun to build up, with a swipe of his tail he turned around and started running blood dripping all over. Okuagu gathered large amount of heat into his legs and then burst forward catching up with the Komodo, delivering a final kick to its spine sending it sprawling to the ground dead.Emerald ran and ran slowly recovering her energy as she hid from the searching reptile. "How can the predator-prey ratio be turned so easily" she thought as she caught the scent of the lizard fast approaching. The komodo ran forward drooling as it pounced on Emerald. Emerald dodged the attack, throwing a small wrap of paper that exploded in green fumes. The Komodo coughed, trashed and roared in fury before it collapsed face down, dead.Emerald had of course planned using this poison since, but didn't use it due to her close proximity with Okuagu. Though she never expected to tire out before the reptile, but whatever all that mattered is that she was the one standing alive. "Two B ranks, I wonder what the rest are facing" Okuagu said as he appeared from the clearing fumes holding his nose with his body bloody from scratch marks. "It means it's only two the villagers knew about" Emerald said as the fumes rushed into the burst paper which fixed and wrapped itself after which she picked it up. "Next time let's be more cooperative" Okuagu said as he tied the two heads into a small sack. "Agreed" added Emerald laughing. "Let's take care of those scratches, Okay" Okuagu said with a smile. "Don't sweat it my wounds heal a lot faster than normal humans" laughed Emerald.
"Though I will need to rest for some time before I can proceed" she added with a smile. "I will simply carry you" Okuagu said as he helped her stand on her feet. "Sure that will be great. I mean if you insist" Emerald said with slight color rising to her cheeks. Emerald hopped on his back as Okuagu piggybacked her across the swamps. "You weigh heavier than you look" Okuagu said faking a groan. "You don't tell ladies or women such things, no wonder they say chivalry is dead" Emerald said with a sigh. "I was literally trained in chivalry" laughed Okuagu though this time he was replied with snores.