The hit list.
Two hours later
In the north west part of the forest. Two tie up bodies were hanging, while a beat up torturess like girl stood beside them with a sadistic smile and a big stick. Though it would be more appropriate to call it a club since she has been using to hit her prisoners.
"Well Jonny, do you fanally understand why Artemis is the best choice for leader?" Fierce Martha coldly says. A wicked smile plastered on her face with shiny eyes. She looks like a demon right now. specially with the bruises she had to suffer to tie up the other two.
"Damm you and your bitch!!! Bunch of bitches!!!! Let us down!!!! We'll make you suffer!!!" The bloody mess of a spoil kid says. His eyes were purple as well pretty much anything Martha could get her club to score.
"hmm!! Hmmm!!" The gad Jenny seems to want to say something. I wonder why she is gad? No, actually were did Martha even got the muzzle?
Smack!!! Smack!!!
"mmmm....mmmm!!!!"
smack!! Smack!!!
"Yeah!!!, feels good doesn't it? How do you like my big rod?!!!" Shrieks Martha in ecstatic. Since a while ago, she look to have forgotten her adjective and is just venting her revenge.
I am sitting on a tree branch. My dark green uniform is a universal made uniform. Instead of a heavy steel armor my clothes provide a lighter fit But still offer the same protection as a steel armor. Father promised to not treat me specially and he did complete that promise. Only one uniform per group. The one wearing it means he is the leader of his or her group.
Judging that I have spected my equipment and the map as well the list and double check to make sure my belongings don't get mix with theirs. I turn my bored gaze to her and her prisoners.
"Martha" I call her.
"Yes, my lady?" She answers back with a flame in her ecstatic eyes. Her gaze is telling me not to spoil her fun. Too bad that is the plan.
"Cut them lose and gear up." I boringly told her.
She sulks but cuts them. Jenny and Johnny fall face first on the ground. Marth doesn't miss the change to hit them a few more times. I speechless toss them three bags with a different weapons tied to it, each bag lans in front of each person. While Jonny and Jenny are struggling to get out of their ropes, Martha grab her bag. instantly she pulls out her armor and wears it after she finish inspecting it. She takes out her weapon holder , She chooses to wear it in her back Then she puts her two scythe on her back. Lastly she looks at our hit list as she walks next to the tree I am sitting on.
"well, this is going to be hard." She mumbles. and I Agree as our list is as follow
Demon Zebra
Lion Tigre
Fire Lizard
Bia Gorilla
Pride Money
Lake Python
White Crocodile
Man-eating Horse
Lightning Fox
I turn my gaze to Jonny, he finally gets free from his bidding and rushes to get his healing doze. It instantly becomes noticeable how his wounds heal. He turns his glare at me.
"You and your bitch will pay for tha-" He was saying. But stops as my knife scratch his cheek
"If you keep talking I won't miss next time." I told him. My tone dripping with boredom.
He shrieks and quietly begins to gear up. In my mind I am calling him a Pussy. Really a failure and nothing more.
Jenny seems to learn not to cross either Martha and me. She quietly begins to dress but unlike like me or Martha, she doesn't go change behind the bushes or tress. She outright takes her dirty clothes off and wears her armor. During that time I finally understand why men go crazy for her. Her figure is voluptuous and despite being touch by many is still firm. I turn to look at Martha. surprisingly she looks jealous. She quickly cuts the parts the leather armor covers and tries to compete with Jenny on showing more skin. I hate to break it to her but she just can't rival Jenny figure with her figure. (She is somewhat out of the washboard zone.)
Still I raise an eyebrow at her actions. Showing skin won't stop a woman from getting marry. But woman usually won't show a lot of it. Those that do are either confident on their looks or just desperate. Also some man don't want to have their woman show off.
In this kingdom as long as someone wants to marry you, you can marry even if you aren't a virgin and since some nobles usually stay somewhat young through their lives age doesn't matter either. Of course there are differences between commoners marriages and nobles marriages. The nobles only care for bloodlines, wealth, and power. Where as commoners care for love, talent, and strength. After all no one wants to marry a useless partner.
After fifteen minutes everyone has gear up. [Well time to go work.] I jump down from tree landing in front of them.
"Our targets are difficult to find even with a map. Some of them are either very powerful or extremely good at surprise attacks. Attacking them one on one will likely get us kill. So, I suggest we attack them with traps and poison. In this forest there are natural poison flowers and beasts. Luckily based on the map, we are close to the lake. Two of our targets live there and are know for their poison. That is where we will start." Finish saying that, without waiting for their response, I turn around and begin running towards the lake.
I jump to the trees branches and begin hoping from branch to branch. From the sound behind me I can hear them following me.
During my spring I pass other teams fighting or chasing their list targets. Diamond gorillas and Cerberus were fighting them for their lives. I saw teams being victorious, wiped out or defeated surviving only thanks to the beast mistaking my team as reinforces and fleeing.
"Hey, Artemis aren't we going to help them?" Jonny finally seems like he can't take it and talks.
I chuckle and respond. "We are in the middle of an exam. We are supposed to show what we are made of. If this is all it takes to defeat these people then they have no place in my father army."
"But we are fellow country men, we are duty bound to help each other." Jenny says,arguing as she looks coldly in my direction for my indifference.
Before I answer back. I heard a snort coming from my right. "Yeah right, if you had such sense of patriotism then those extra rations, weapons, and bag of cosmos wouldn't be in your bag now, would they?" Martha cuts in.
In my mind [Ouch, She took the words right of my mouth down to the last. Well I personally have no qualms about talking weapons and rations from the dead since they no longer have a need for them.]
It seems Jenny wasn't expecting that answer. Her eyes look down and she falls silent. For the next couple of hours we stop every now and then to rod the dead. We don't have the option to burn them nor can we bury them as they will be dig out by beast and eaten. So, we throw the corpses in a bag. Nobody wanted to carry it. In the end it fall down to me carry it. I agree to do it. After all I might be needing desirable bait soon.
As we were traveling, the sky started to get dark. Frowning I thought [It might rain soon.]. Suddenly out of the corner of my eye i saw one of our targets. signaling my teammates to stop. With my right hand i make signals to remain quiet and with the other I point towards THEM.
Everyone (me include) are terrified into silence as we take in the view laid in front of us.
AARRRRR....ROAAARR!!!.....ROARRR!!
Gasp...Gasp....moan....moan...st....op...please...Gasp.
ROAAAAARRRR!!!!!
Ripped!!!....(sounds of clothes being rip)
NO!!! PLEA-ARRRRR!!!
Thum...(Big D being inserted)
ROOOOAAAARRR!!!!
AARRRRGGG!!!!! (Shouts of pain)
Tree bia Gorillas were pounding on a man and a woman. Two were gang banging the girl. Disgusting these beasts couldn't even take turns.
As for the last he was exploring the poor fellow rear end. Broken weapons and rip clothes are all around. Except something doesn't look right. This beast only eat after they finish playing. But two body remains are there.
"We should help them" Jenny says. For once Martha and Jonny don't argue. Well Johnny seems uncomfortable being near here. He is covering his butt with his hands and shaking.
I found his actions funny. But then I felt a presence with hunger. Turning to look at our surroundings to look for it. I spot them moving towards us. They must have caught this team by surprise. If my assumptions are correct the other two members of these team are already in their stomachs.
[Well this could be tricky. Just what is the correct actions to take? ] When I was complementing my course of action. Jonny and Jenny rush towards the bia gorillas below us.
[IDIOTS!!! If they do that....] no time left to plan. I grad Martha before she moves.
"Wait don't follow them" I tell her and pull out my weapon." At my signal, we kill them!!!!"
Martha was confused and before she even ask I shouted now. Still confused she jump with me towards the two man eating horses going towards the idiotic duo.
The horses move by instinct attack the wannabe heroes. I slash towards my prey but the horse was too fast, quickly dodging. It use hinge leg to kick me flying.
Smash!!!
After hitting the tree and falling face first into the dirt. I quickly get up with a severe headache. [Damm it] was all I could think. When I saw the scene in front of me. Some parts made sense, others didn't.
Jonny mutilated body was being eaten by the silver horse. The horse look to have a thing for brains. It was biting and shallowing big parts of it. Blood flow from his mouth and bits of brain could be seeing falling. It look to be in utter delight eating with gusto.
Martha and Jenny were battling the injured black horse. Martha sneak attack score but it wasn't lethal. Looking closely the horse seem to have score on Jenny as well. Most of her back hair appears to be chew away.
[I need to help them. Oh damm it. I hope if they can hear me, I had no other choice.] Without missing a beat I threw three corpses towards the starving silver horse.
Not bothering to look if he will eat them. Though from the chewing sound I can tell what he is doing. I threw my dagger towards the dark horse.
My dagger miss its eye. Landing on his chest area. it shriek and dodged Martha slash. Jenny not missing a chance follow up with her scythe impaled it into the horse ear. It comes out the other. The horse goes still and then falls down.
[Ok, one down four more to go. ]
SNAP!!!!
AAHHHH!!!!!
Two Bia gorillas are coming towards us. The one raping man snap his legs leaving him able to move. Other seem to get bored after not being able to have a turn and is now targeting us.
"Jenny!!!! Martha!!! Quickly take the horse core!!! As for the gorillas we only need to kill one and take it's fangs and core. That will show we kill one. After that we run away!!!!"
Jenny and Martha heard me but they don't move instead they look at each other and at Jonny corpse. Then they look at me coming close and being block by the silver horse. Again they don't move.
As I was coming close to them the damm silver horse stops in front of me. Thanks to it, I miss those traitors smiles.
[Damm this day, just keep getting better and better]
****** Jenny POV
I shouldn't even be here. I should be getting laid in the brothels by now. But that stupid daddy of mine decided to threaten me if I don't inflated the army of the Phoenix family.
My task is to seduce their young master and make him go crazy for me. As for the daughter, I am to kill her as soon as I get a change. And now my change is here. Signaling my teammate together we pull beast attracting pills and toss them toward our target.
She is a smart one. She doged them but is too late now. Soon this place will swarming with beasts and monsters. Their ranks will be in the Hight beast to middle Hybrid ranks. In human terms Sky 29 to Space 30 tiers.
I sign "Artemis in another life we might have been comares in arms." Martha turns and begins to run away. I follow her lead. Behind us we hear a massive battle of someone fighting with all her might. As we run we heard roars in the far distance getting closer.
Mission complete.