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PERHAPS it was an ape. Or perhaps a demon, swathed in an ape’s form and mimicking an ape’s gait. It shambled out of the ferns and bamboo, shaking rainwater off its fur and snorting like a bull. The ape-demon stood eight feet tall on its knuckles, with an orange-red coat and pitch-black skin. Tiny crimson eyes sat deep within its shadowed face, and large white incisors hung limp as the creature swiveled its massive head towards the party.
It roared.
The horses screamed and bucked in fear and confusion, and the party tried desperately to get them under control. The monkeys in the trees screeched deafeningly, and the adventurers yelled, adding their small noise to the anarchy of sound. The ape-demon beat its chest in fury and strode back and forth atop the ridge, claming dominance and challenging the newcomers. Lei shouted “Dismount! Dismount!” and dove off his war-horse, hitting the mud and rolling to his feet, longspear in hand. Vinh jumped nimbly off his steed and landed in the ready position, his kama-do poised to strike. Most of the others also dismounted as they could, although Tran firmly refused to get off his horse, terrified as it was. Hien wasn’t sure who was more frightened, horse or rider. Mai slunk to the right of the road, intending to hide in the trees.
The ape charged.
It thundered down the ridge, a guttural roar echoing in its wake. Its fangs glittered, and saliva trailed behind it as its powerful forearms dug for traction in the moist earth. The creature crashed towards the closest intruder: Long Lei. Fourteen hundred pounds of raging ape descended upon the one hundred sixty pound mercenary with death in its eyes. Lei whipped his longspear around desperately, planting it in the soil at his feet. He braced his legs, whispered a prayer to his ancestors and gritted his teeth, snarling as the demon bore down upon him. Somewhere behind him, someone yelled. Then the world went black and red.
The ape crashed into Lei’s spear like a meteor from heaven. The point drove through its stomach, intestines, and right lung, finally exiting three inches right of its spine. A red explosion consumed Lei’s vision; blistering fire lanced up his arms. His legs buckled, and one knee collapsed, sinking deep into the mud as a hellish weight crushed him to the ground.
--- ForceUser's Vietnamese Adventures Story Hour!
PERHAPS it was an ape. Or perhaps a demon, swathed in an ape’s form and mimicking an ape’s gait. It shambled out of the ferns and bamboo, shaking rainwater off its fur and snorting like a bull. The ape-demon stood eight feet tall on its knuckles, with an orange-red coat and pitch-black skin. Tiny crimson eyes sat deep within its shadowed face, and large white incisors hung limp as the creature swiveled its massive head towards the party.
It roared.
The horses screamed and bucked in fear and confusion, and the party tried desperately to get them under control. The monkeys in the trees screeched deafeningly, and the adventurers yelled, adding their small noise to the anarchy of sound. The ape-demon beat its chest in fury and strode back and forth atop the ridge, claming dominance and challenging the newcomers. Lei shouted “Dismount! Dismount!” and dove off his war-horse, hitting the mud and rolling to his feet, longspear in hand. Vinh jumped nimbly off his steed and landed in the ready position, his kama-do poised to strike. Most of the others also dismounted as they could, although Tran firmly refused to get off his horse, terrified as it was. Hien wasn’t sure who was more frightened, horse or rider. Mai slunk to the right of the road, intending to hide in the trees.
The ape charged.
It thundered down the ridge, a guttural roar echoing in its wake. Its fangs glittered, and saliva trailed behind it as its powerful forearms dug for traction in the moist earth. The creature crashed towards the closest intruder: Long Lei. Fourteen hundred pounds of raging ape descended upon the one hundred sixty pound mercenary with death in its eyes. Lei whipped his longspear around desperately, planting it in the soil at his feet. He braced his legs, whispered a prayer to his ancestors and gritted his teeth, snarling as the demon bore down upon him. Somewhere behind him, someone yelled. Then the world went black and red.
The ape crashed into Lei’s spear like a meteor from heaven. The point drove through its stomach, intestines, and right lung, finally exiting three inches right of its spine. A red explosion consumed Lei’s vision; blistering fire lanced up his arms. His legs buckled, and one knee collapsed, sinking deep into the mud as a hellish weight crushed him to the ground.
--- ForceUser's Vietnamese Adventures Story Hour!
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