One Year After 3
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“The time has finally come.”

Nick said those words with a heavy tone.

 “Really, I thought you were going to wait a while longer?”

 “I did, but I have made up my mind that I leave tomorrow. Have you decided if you want to come with me or not?”

 “Heh, you are just being polite. You know really well that I didn’t give you a definite answer before because I didn't want you to rush and end up dead. But that is not an issue now is it?”

 Nick smiled

“How did you know?”

“My sensing abilities  and also if you spend so much time with a person you definitely will notice. So, you finally achieved the “seedling stage” did you?

Congratulations.”

“Yeah I finally achieved it. It took a long time to, almost a whole year.”

“One year....

Haha, you say it as if it was a long time when in reality you completed “sprouting stage” in 1/3 of the time it takes others.

You really are lucky!”

 

“ Enough of my achievements , we have to get ready for the battle that will ensue and then bye-bye Forest of Hundred Perils and hello Elanor Empire.”

“You really are eager to leave aren’t you?!”

 Nick looked at Munnji in the eyes and steeled his resolve.

“I know what concerns you my friend. You are afraid of the world because all you’ve known is centred on this forest. You are afraid because you don't know if the world out there will have a place for someone like you and if it will accept you.

I am sorry my friend, but I must go and find out about this world.”

 

Munnji smiled whirly. He knew that Nick was only telling half truths.

“You have nothing to apologise for. You are just doing what you think is right and following your heart, there is nothing wrong with that. You may think you have fooled me with all this talk about the outside world and the adventures that await us, but I really know that isn’t your only motive.

You are afraid. You are afraid that if you leave without me I will succumb to death as my father did before me, fighting everyday for my life until I make a mistake and end up dead in the hands of a stronger creature of this forest.

The survival of the fittest.”

 

Nick opened his mouth to say something, but Munnji stopped him with a wave of his hand.

“You don't have to say anything else, my answer is yes.”

.....

 

The next morning they woke up early  preparing for their journey. 

They had decided to leave the forest and to go to the Elanor Empire . The fastest way there was by river so he and Munnji had had built a wooden raft by cutting down tree branches in the forest and tied them up together with some sturdy vines. The raft they made was not that sturdy or manoeuvrable, but it did its job of just floating downstream.

Everything was set, but they had a big problem blocking their easy. There  was that a giant crocodile like creature was blocking the way. The creature had made its home in a critical juncture of the river making them unable to pass through there. They could easily bypass its home by walking on land, but that would just take them into the territory of more dangerous creatures, so they decided to just kill it. 

The way they were going to do that in was by luring it from its nest and into dry land where they had prepared a trap for it.

....

The arrived at the spot where we had hid our raft and begun to slowly drag it towards the river bank not far from the crocodiles nest.

“You remember the plan?”

Munnji broke the silence with a unnecessary question , but Nick just answered casually.

“Yeah....

I'll become bait luring the crocodile out of water and into land towards our trap.  You will activate the trap remotely and then we simultaneously attack it until its dead.”

After dragging the raft for about five minutes they arrived at the creatures nest.  They then got ready.

 “Okay. Ready?”

Asked Munnji.

“Ready.”

 Nick head out towards the crocodile that is quietly lying in the sun and without waiting any further he attacked it.

"WATER JAVELIN."

Hea call forth water to gather in his hand, give it the shape of a 1.5 mjavelin and with all his force threw it at the crocodile.

*BOOM*

The water javelin hit the crocodile in the side with tremendous force, but that was not enough to even scratch its sturdy scales.

"CROOO...

It immediately got up, saw his attacker at the river bank and  gave chase. When it started chasing him the earth started to shake from its heavy steps.  

The crocodile was like a prehistoric dinosaur with its height of 3 meters and length of more than 15 meters including its tail. It had a shorter snout than the crocodiles of earth with a mouth filled with four rows of teeth two up and two down making it look just terrifying. Its scales shined an emerald light when the sun hit them giving the impression they were carved from precious jade and then placed carefully on its skin. Those were the crocodile’s impenetrable shield that neither Nick not Munnji  could pierce even a little with their power right now.

*Boom* *Boom*

 The crocodile continued to chase him for about 40 meters before it looked like it was having second thoughts. It started to slow down, but it was to late as it had already fallen into their trap.

 

“Munnji, do it now!”

As soon as he shouted, the ground below the crocodile caved in and it fell into a hole 6 meter deep and 20 meter wide filled with pointy earth spikes. It was the trap that Munnji had been working for the last three months without stop.

It really was a masterpiece.

 

The ground caved in and the crocodile fell into the sharp spikes below . The sharp spikes pierced the soft underside of the crocodile that wasn’t covered with scales leaving it with multiple wounds. The crocodile tried moving in order to break the earth spikes and get free from the hole, but there was one big problem. The spikes were specially created in a cone shape being significantly wider in the bottom. The cone shape of the spikes made them not that deadly, but it made the crocodile hover in the air not letting its short legs touch the ground.The crocodile struggled heavily trying to escape, but only managed to widen its wounds.

It was time for attack.

"Come on. Let's kill it before it gets free."

He and Munnji started attacking it with elemental attack simultaneously.

 

STONE FIST

WATER JAVELIN

EARTH BLAST

WATER BULLETS

 They continued to attack it with little result, but the damage started to pile up.

"Craaaaaa~

The crocodile was distressed by their continuous attacks, but it quickly regained its wits and attacked Nick. It swelled its belly taking a deep breath and fired a huge torrent of water towards him.

“Not good.....

Nick immediately created a WATER SHIELD to stop the attack, but it was not enough. The water torrent broke his shield easily and sent me flying like a ragdoll toward the walls of the hole.

*cough* *cough*

He coughed some blood from my mouth and tried to get up but he couldn’t. That attack had damaged his organs from the impact making him bleed internally and also railed up his brain quite good. He was dazed and couldn’t move fast enough to dodge the crocodile’s next attack.

“HOLD ON!

STONE HAMMER."

*Boom*

It was not the sound of the water hitting Nick this time, but the sound of Munnji hitting the side of the crocodile’s mouth with a rock hammer as big as him and redirecting its attack elsewhere.

 

That gave Nick the time to regain his composure and immediately head towards the soft belly of the crocodile. He arrived there in the blink of an eye and stabbed it with two sharp knives made of teeth and immediately retreated leaving the knifes lodged in its belly.

.......

The battle continued for five minutes of constant clashing, but not any other significant damage to either side. They pestered the crocodile with ranged attacks that did not that much damage, but kept him busy and not able to make any big attacks like before. The crocodile didn't know it yet , but his fate was already sealed.

 After a while, the crocodile started to slow down, its attacks slowing down significantly over time.

“Good .The poison has finally started to kick in. Prepare for the final blow.”

“Okay.”

 Munnji started to attack more frequently and ferociously attracting the crocodile’s attention towards him, while Nick started preparing his killer move. He started gathering huge amounts of water from the air to the palm of his hand and started to compress it until he held in his palm a deep blue coloured ball the size of an eye. It was the water he just gathered but just super compressed.

 

“Munnji give me an opening right now, I can’t hold it any longer.”

“You got it.”

 Munnji reached towards the ground with one hand and pulled up a huge chunk of earth which he threw at the crocodiles head.

*BANG*

The impact was loud, but the damage not significant as it was ment to be a cover for the real attack.  During the ruckus Nick arrived underneath the crocodiles belly stealthily and thrust his hand into one of the shallow wounds.

“It’s over, DEEP BLUE IMPACT.”

 He stopped putting pressure on the ball of water in his palm and redirected it to expand to its normal size towards the insides of the crocodile.

*BAM*

A huge one meter wound appeared instantly in the belly of the crocodile making its organs be seen from outside. The fast expanding water had destroyed most of its internal organs making the crocodile bleed from all of its orifices.

....

"Hah hah... It's finally over, we  won."

Nick announced their victory in a low voice between the grunts of pain.

"Yeah I see that....

The crocodile had bled to death in less than one minute ending this brutal fight.

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