Tayo(7) slowly walked off teleportation platform into the green grass, taken in everything at once, his senses excited by the beauty of the environment. It smelled like flowers and rain. The rest of his team also walked out admiring the beauty before them.
"How could such a beautiful place be home to monsters, it doesn't seem right." Tayo(7) thought to himself.
17 who was one of the members of the group couldn't hide his confusion. "This place doesn't seem as dangerous as colonel...."
But before he could finish his sentence, a very massive snake like creature lowered his head from a tree and snapped 17 in half. swallowing the upper half, while the lower part of his body laid motionless on the floor.
17 Warm blood was scattered in the air and fell on the rest of the team like red rain. This immediately caused pandemonium, everyone ran in several directions without any plan making it more of an easy picking for the large snake.
It went after them one after the other, killing e five more people immediately. The fact that it colour perfectly blended with the environment made it hard to detect. Tayo(7) soon realized that they needed to come together to have a better chance of taking down the giant snake. So He looked for 9(David) is friend who was also the leader of the team. He found him trying to help someone who had his right leg bitten off, so he rushed towards him help them out. As they were pulling the injured soldier to a safer place, Tayo(7) told David (9) that they all needed to come together and form a circle of defence so that they could monitor the snake movement better and cut out all blindspots. This would give them a better chance of defending themselves and attacking as well. So They gathered in a circle with the injured protected in the middle of the circle. They started using their powers to deal some damage to the snake except tayo(7) whose powers hasn't activated yet. The snake couldn't sneak up on them again because every path to attack them was monitored. David(9) fire power was doing the most damage, and so was 14 chains of likan power Which was used to restrain the snake for members with the best offensive powers to blows to the creature.
It was at this moment, Tayo(7) looking around realized that mary(25) wasn't part of the circle or within it. His heart skipped a bit, "where could she be" ? He thought to himself.
Then suddenly as if to answer the question his mind posed, she screamed in pain from behind some trees. She had mistakenly fallen into hole during initial commotion caused by the snake killing 17. She had fallen, broken her ankle hit her head and pass out.
When she woke up, the sharp pain she felt from her ankle was enough for her to scream. But unknown to her that hole she fell into was home to most the dangerous bugs in paradise garden, The Brain devourer.
They feast on the brain of their victims first, then slowly painfully devour the rest of the body. They sleep in the day hunt in the Nights.
They have been cursed with endless hunger.(This means as long as they are awake they thirst for flesh) This is why they sleep most of the day and hunt at night. That earlier mary(25) scream woke them up and they were on their way in swarms.
Tayo heard that scream, and even tho his power hadn't activated yet, he broke out of the circle and ran towards direction of the scream, with David(9) yelling at him to come back.
When he got to the hole, he saw that the bugs were already attacking mary(25), He immediately lowered himself into the hole with the help of some the vines that were hanging around. Thankfully for both, mary(25) Ice powers had activated and she was using it to keep the bug at arms length.
Tayo(7) quickly rushed to her side, helped up slowly as she screamed in pain. Her left arms around Tayo's(7) neck, her right arm shooting ice at the bugs. But this was their domain, and they were so many avenues to get to Tayo and mary including telepathically sending their kids to attack through the small holes behind them.
One of them was about to attack Mary(25) from behind. That's when tayo's(7) magical ability activated, speed god, and he was able move mary out of the way in time killing the bug in the process. He then blitz the rest of the bugs in the hole, took mary out of the hole, and they walked towards the rest team who had already dispatched of the snake.
David(9) quickly ran and hugged Mary(25) and Tayo(7). "I'm glad you guys are ok." He said expressing his relief.
Mary(25) took her healing pill just as the rest of the injured did, and in less than an hour she was back to full health. I
" A moment of silence for our fallen.," he announced.
After that has been observed.
He continued..
"Today we lost some of comrades, our fellow soldiers and our friends. What we just experienced serves as a reminder of our dangerous this place is and how important this mission is.
We are humanity last hope to fix the mistakes of our ancestors. If we fail, it's over, The world ends. Now we can sit here and mourn, feel sad for ourselves or we can make sure the deaths of our comrades won't be in vein by finding the boxes. So what do you say? Are you guys in? "
Yes captain. The rest of the team screamed.
" Good" David(9) replied. The boxes give off a certain kind of radiation, and thanks to the tech given to us we can see where are they are located. We are not splitting up even tho that would make our work faster, but if killing this huge is anything to go by, we are stronger together. So we go to the nearest location, get the boxes and move to the next together. Let's move".
As they move towards the first location. Mary(25) walked up to Tayo(7).
"so super speed that's cool." she said nudging him in the shoulder.
Really coming from a person whose ability is literally coolness. Ice powers, I'm a bit jealous. Tayo(7) replied.
Nah super speed is more fun. She replied. Too bad we can't use it every time. We have to recharge, she added.
That's why we have our weapons. And we have to on them for now as everyone in the team is recharging. Tayo(7) explained.
But He had no idea, that he was so different. 7 wasn't just any number spirit, there is why it wasn't given out to just anyone. He would soon find out why.