Confronting the Hunting Captains

Polemos was sitting atop of Rose's head as he meditated as Rose headed towards the destroyed Giant Centipede nest. Rose's speed since she had increased her strength to a Special Elite Centipede which made the trip to the destroyed nest a lot quicker.

But when Rose was getting closer towards the nest she started to slow down as she was able to feel a presence that could threaten her. When she felt this presence increase as she got closer she stopped and hissed to wake Polemos.

"Hiss. Hissss. Hissssss. Hissssssss."

Polemos slowly opened his eyes as Rose's hissing continued to get longer as she was trying to get his attention. As Polemos opened his eyes and saw that they were close to the destroyed Giant Centipede nest he was a little confused until he saw a group come out of the destroyed nest.

"Now isn't this a surprise is this the welcoming party, welcoming me back for an excellent hunt or, a different type of welcoming party. Oh how I hope it's the other." Polemos was getting a little excited until Rose brought him out of his dream-like illusion.

"Ssssssssssssssssssss…"

Rose let out a very low and angry hiss as the group was getting closer.

'Shit, the only people from the tribe that could make her act like this would be the First Hunting Captain or? The Tribe Leader. And I doubt that the leader left the tribe so this must be the Hunting Captain, along with Alyan, Ashern, and Hassan.' Polemos was not expecting to confront the First Hunting Captain as he rubbed his chin.

Polemos then smiled as he rubbed the top of Rose's head to try and calm and comfort her. Then spoke with a devilish look in his eyes as well as that devilish smile.

"Thank you Rose, and thank you again for breaking me from an illusion of my strength. Will take care of this together, just slowly head towards them til it's enough for us to hear each other."

Rose was still very cautious of the individual who was heading towards them but, when she felt Polemos's hand rub the top of her head she started to calm down. As she slowly headed closer towards the group. When she was close enough Polemos yelled towards the group to introduce Rose and himself.

"HELLO! You probably don't know me, First Hunting Captain but I'm Polemos. I'm from the tribe and this is my partner Rose. But the three besides you definitely know me. I mean no harm just heading back from my hunt." Polemos smiled as he stood atop Rose's head as he introduced himself and Rose to the group.

The First Hunting Captains face didn't change as his attention was more focused on the centipede, as Ashern and Hassan's faces twitched. But Alyan had a very ugly expression on his face when Polemos introduced himself and said that they knew who he was. Alyan tried to get the First Hunting Captains attention but wasn't able to as his attention was on the centipede.

Polemos was getting a little angry as he was being ignored as Rose was even annoyed as the tiny ugly looking human just stared at her.

"Hey, I know Rose is strong as well, but could you please acknowledge when someone speaks and was even kind enough to introduce themselves with no intent to cause harm." Polemos had an angry expression on his face as he crossed his arms across his chest as Rose hissed.

"Hissss."

The First Hunting Captain finally turned his head towards the individual who was standing upon the centipede's head. As he took a good look at Polemos and was even surprised when he heard the anger in his voice.

The First Hunting Captain was a middle aged man with short black hair in a military style, a solid build, two meters tall with scars all across his face that made him look like a demon.

"I apologize for being rude, you may call me Captain because of my face I've accumulated quite the plethora of names, and you say you mean no harm but, the three behind me report that you've come to destroy the tribe with." As he nods towards Rose. "Rose, correct?" When, Captain spoke he sounded like thunder rumbling in the distance.

Polemos was a little surprised but smiled when he heard the First Hunting Captain's response.

"Yes her name is Rose and she is my partner, and what the three definitely told you is definitely a lie. I was out hunting and tempering myself out in the desert. Rose was definitely a stroke of luck as I should definitely be dead, and again whatever they told you to take with a grain of salt. I mean Alyans group did try to kill me awhile back."

When Polemos spoke about Alyan and his group, what was left of Captains' brows furrowed as he was starting to get angry. Then he heard Alyan speak up behind him.

"Don't listen to him, Captain he is lying, kill-."

The First Hunting Captain's voice rumbled like thunder in Alyans ears.

"You will address me as First Hunting Captain as I did not give you permission to call me Captain, Second Hunting Captain. What else aren't you telling me as you obviously lied during your report."

Alyans face was getting uglier and uglier when he heard the First Hunting Captains voice. But before he lost himself in anger he took a deep breath and spoke with an ugly expression still on his face.

"I have on suspicion that he is responsible for killing three of my members; Ellios, Resam, and Nesam. I didn't report on this as this was something I was going to handle myself. But I'm not wrong as he will cause problems for the tribe he needs to die, he's a curse of the tribe."

Captain never looked away from Polemos when Alyan spoke. When Alyan spoke about Ellios, Resam, and Nesam Polemos had a devilish smile on his face but, when he was called a curse his eyes changed to a devilish purple color.

"Did you kill-."

"Yes. I did mention earlier that Alyan and his group did try to kill me before so that's just karma and I'll be killing the rest later just not now as well…." as Polemos gestured and spread his hands towards the group, with no change on his face. "Plus Alyan, your death will be glorious as it'll be a gift towards Death herself."

"Then that's taken care of."

Captain's voice didn't change even when Polemos spoke about killing and going to kill Alyan and the rest.

But it was a different story for Alyan, Ashern, and Hassan. Ashern and Hassan got a little pale when the First Hunting Captain spoke next. As Alyan only got angrier.

"Did you tell anyone about your hunt? As this is normally done by the Hunting squads, or those who are able to survive out here."

Polemos responded with a smile on his face.

"Yes I did, they were both Elder Spear and Carl, I told them the day before I left that I was going out to hunt as I needed to train and get stronger."

But when Polemos spoke about Elder Spear and Carl everyone had a different reaction. Captain was still the same as only his eye opened slightly when he mentioned Carl. Alyan looked like a lightbulb went off in his head as something seemed to click in his mind. Ashern was shaking as he felt something was staring at him and was making him extremely uncomfortable and scared. Hassan had gone wide eyed and looked down towards the sands and felt his heart stop, when Polemos said Elder Spears name.

The first to respond was Alyan.

"Hand over the notebook, I know you have it, it doesn't belong to you, you definitely stole it before you left as it was missing from my tent." Alyan demanded.

Before Captain could respond Polemos spoke as he saw everyone's reaction when he spoke and when he saw Hassan's response he had a very bad feeling as he even felt his heart churn.

"You can shut your damn mouth Alyan as you can't speak about demanding anything from me. Ashern I can see you shaking. Are you okay or does Rose make you uncomfortable? I mean I did tell her plenty about you. Hassan, look at me."

When Hassan heard Polemos he acted like he couldn't hear him and continued to stare at the sand as he only got paler. Then he heard the First Hunting Captains voice.

"Hassan, do as he says, no one is dying with me here, as if I'm right about what he's going to ask you and how he responds."

"Yes, First Hunting Captain, sir."

When Polemos saw the look of fear and sadness in his eyes, Polemos shook and fell to his knees as tears fell from his eyes, as he felt his heart disappear. As a dark and accursed aura erupted from Polemos, terrifying everyone present aside of Rose as she hissed a very demonic like hiss.

But the moment everyone felt that dark and accursed aura it disappeared as Polemos was still on his knees and tears falling from his purple eyes spoke.

"It's ok Rose it's ok." Polemos spoke to Rose first to try and comfort her, then looked over towards a very terrified Hassan. "If you tell me who killed him or who ordered it I'll make your death quick as I saw the sadness in your eyes, but if you don't then I'll make sure you experience hell."

Polemos spoke with no emotion as tears continued to flow from his eyes as he stared towards Hassan looking for his answer.