7 Counterattacks

The three walked in the dead of the night.

Beaten by cold and the chilly air, they refused to stop for fear of been eaten by something so disastrous or diabolical.

Nate who had been in his train of thoughts was immediately distracted from it.

At first, Grayson and the other guy he learnt that his name was Jack were busy with a conversation about the magazines of women.

These two recalled details of the one they've both seen, the current ones, the previous editions and the old seasons.

They talked about it and Nate decided to drown himself in thoughts for these talks were never his business.

Besides, he did not like female magazines. He did not like reading magazines either.

But been suddenly cut off his thoughts got him upset, but he kept his head cool.

"Sisi, we haven't learnt what your name is..."

Grayson said.

Nate released a sigh.

"Is it necessary? Because I don't think..."

Nate paused in his statement almost immediately, but Grayson was able to read the statement without Nate actually completing it.

"You don't think we would survive? Are you the only one that is bound to survive?" Grayson's tone was clipped and Nate fired back.

"Well, I do not bully someone... I don't body slam my fellow human for the sake of fun and I do not pull on my fellow humans ears for absolutely no reason at all."

Nate made his point and Grayson sighed.

"Fine, sisi... sorry if I was such a jerk. Jack is sorry too, right Jack?" Grayson said and Jack nodded thereafter.

But although they apologised, Nate didn't see sincerity in that apology.

He clearly accepted it so that they'd stop bugging him and he revealed that his name was Nate.

"Nate buddy, I think it's high time we get this slack off us."

Grayson said.

Nate's brows creased.

"How? We have no keys..."

Jack immediately looked around and then spotted a large rock.

"I guess this will do." He said and pounded it on the chains which later broke separating him from Grayson.

Jack went and broke the chains binding Grayson and Nate separating them too.

The only thing for them to do was to wriggle their foot and wrists out if the tight compactness of the chains so that they'd be totally free.

Finally, the velvety color of dawn approached telling the tale of a new day.

The cold was slowly receding, although it was still there. But, it was no longer as worst, like in the dead of the night.

But as if their luck ran out almost immediately.

The creature that had killed the remaining slaves lunged at them.

Jack dodged.

Nate swiftly pushed Grayson in such a way that had his body slamming on a rock.

And then, Nate's feet crashing on the face of the Awakened Terror, pushing it a few meters away from them.

"Go! Go!!"

Nate screamed and the three of them darted off as the pounding sound of footstep trailing on behind them.

"Goddammit Nate, why did you push me that way?" Grayson hissed and Nate added.

"You should be lucky that you weren't crushed on the skull by that monstrosity. It was a near escape Grace."

Nate purposefully called him grace to annoy him.

"You should not have done that!"

A tearing sound of ripping stones amassed their hearing.

A large boulder was whisked their way at the impact of the Terror's tremendous power.

An awakened Terror was no laughing matter for crying out loud.

Then, ahead of them was a dead end and below was a large rocky plain that dropped 200 miles down.

One mistake and you would be falling to your own death.

Nate halted and quickly turned.

The others followed.

The creature was quickly advancing, not even slowing down for one bit.

"Ok guys, listen. It's either we jump down below or we make the creature jump below." Nate said.

"Are you out of your mind Nate? That place is like 300 miles down. We might die because there's no promising of safe landing in that unruly plain." Grayson said.

"Grays is right Nate... we can't just jump because we want to avoid being crushed on the head by the maws of a fucking Awakened Terror." Jack said.

"Then what the hell do we do in this situation that the creature is following the scent of the blood on us?" Nate screamed and Grayson stilled.

Jack too was speechless until they both remembered that back at the campsite, when the Terror had torn through the crowd of slaves, the blood of victims had spurted out and drenching them, but they had been oblivious of that fact.

"Damnation, Nate you're correct." Grayson acknowledged as he ran a hand over his hair.

The creature finally got to them, snapping it's maws at them, but Nate dodge that death and landed a kick on it's abdomen, tossing it a few distance back.

It was now or never.

Grayson lifted a large rock and slammed the creature on the head only to be met by a brutal revisiting of sharp claws sinking deep into his flesh.

Grayson winced taking many steps back and Nate Picked that same rock and slammed the creatures head, dodging an onslaught only to continue his assault.

But his carnage only lasted a few seconds and then, a devastating blow landed him away, his body scrubbing the floor almost dropping into the deep valley.

The creature roared at Nate, because it has been him all along that had made it suffered. So, avoiding both Grayson and Jack, it went to attack Nate. And Nate who was struggling to get up from that sudden push was met with a brutal collision.

He almost slid off and into the farther depth, but his hands grabbed a sharp coral, his hands bleeding as a consequence.

Then, he paused for a while and slowly dislodged the coral from the earth where it sunk deep, while trying to one handedly restrain the Terror.

Then, he turned the sharp edge on the opposite side, planting it into the Terrors eyes.

The creature suddenly whined and Nate pulled it back out, repeating same process on the other eye.

The creature tried to retreat.

But this time, Nate wouldn't let it.

He picked large boulders and crashed it on the creature.

Blood spurted out in large quantity, a constant consequence of his every throw.

And then, the creature stilled.

At first, there was only silence as even Grayson and Jack were shocked at the fact of Nate able to kill a Terror. An awakened Terror!

[You have slayed an Awakened Terror, Sinister Guad...]

[You have received a collection.]