Chapter 19: Chapter 19 – Creature
At first glance, it looked like a huge worm.
It was around half a meter in diameter and about ten meters long, but that was where the similarities ended.
It was purple in color, and its head was... a sight to behold.
Its head was just a huge sphere, almost two meters in diameter!
It looked like a huge ball that grew a long worm tail!
There were no eyes or ears on the beast's head, and Kyle couldn't be sure how this thing perceived its surroundings.
'Also, I don't see any teeth. Did I misremember the word for teeth?'
When Kyle saw that thing, his body told him that it was very dangerous.
However, he also felt excitement.
It was like his body was telling him that this thing was beatable but dangerous.
'But where are its teeth?'
Kyle looked at the small hole in the front of the big ball that was the weird worm's head.
He got an idea.
'This is a retarded idea, but I don't see any other way.'
Kyle took a deep breath.
And then, he jumped out of the bushes.
He landed a couple of meters away from the worm and waited for it.
'Gotta make it open its mouth, and it probably will only open its mouth when it thinks food is here.'
Kyle's entire focus was on the strange ball in front of him.
From this position, he couldn't even see the worm's actual body since its gigantic head obscured it.
When Kyle stood in front of the head, he felt his hair stand on end.
The huge ball moved to face Kyle.
The next moment, two small holes beside the big hole opened.
An instant later, a powerful wave of black gas came out of the holes and covered Kyle in an instant.
As soon as the gas hit Kyle, he felt his nose, throat, and eyes burning.
Kyle had to close his eyes, and he jumped to the side just to be sure.
BANG!
He heard the sound of something hard and powerful hitting one of the sturdy trees from behind him.
Kyle was outside of the smoke, and he barely managed to open his eyes a little bit.
What he saw made a cold shiver run down his spine.
A bone spear!
The huge hole had unleashed a bone spear that was over five meters long!
The end of the bone spear was insanely sharp, and if this were a normal tree, Kyle was sure that it would have been split in two!
'It disorients its prey with the gas before killing them with the bone spear!'
Kyle watched as the bone spear retreated into the body.
Its speed of retraction was much slower.
Kyle's eyes recovered, and he took a deep breath.
'I guess that's its tooth.'
'And my job is to destroy that.'
Kyle watched the sphere carefully as it slowly turned to face him again.
His body immediately told him to jump to the side, but Kyle kept it under control.
'Shut up! Even if it skewers me, as long as I eat it after, I can recover! Sure, I would need to kill it for that, which is something I shouldn't do, but it beats dying! Also, Samson is here!'
However, if emotions listened to logic, there wouldn't be so many people with mental illnesses on Earth.
Kyle was still terrified, but he kept his fear in check as well as he could.
A moment later, another cloud of gas was shot at Kyle, but this time, he forced his eyes to stay open despite the pain.
Then, he jumped to the side, but not as far as before.
BANG!
The bone spear shot past him, and Kyle jumped to its side.
Then, he held the spike gun to the bone spear.
Yet, Kyle just gritted his teeth and jumped back without activating the spike gun.
'I already know how it attacks. If I can do it twice, I can do it thrice!'
There was a reason why Kyle decided against using the spike gun.
This time, Kyle stopped only about two meters away from the sphere.
After the bone spear retracted, the sphere turned to Kyle again.
Just like before, it enveloped him in an irritating gas, but Kyle forced his bloodshot eyes to stay open.
He saw the big hole opening.
'Now!'
Kyle stepped to the side and bent his torso away from the bone spear's trajectory.
BANG!
The bone spear didn't hit a tree this time and just stopped about five meters away.
Kyle quickly jumped towards the sphere and grabbed the bone spear at its base.
'I have to do the job well! Halfway breaking it isn't enough! Samson told me to break its tooth, and I will do just that!'
Earlier, Kyle had been near the middle of the bone spear.
Now, he was at its base.
Kyle put the spike gun at-
A hand grabbed Kyle's arm.
He looked over and saw Samson keeping him from destroying the tooth.
"Not here," Samson said.
Samson grabbed the tooth, and the sphere began to warp.
Kyle could hear the sound of the worm's body moving behind the sphere.
It was trying to retract its bone spear, but Samson's grip completely stopped it from doing so.
Samson slowly loosened his grip on the bone spear, and it slowly retracted.
Then, he grabbed it harder again to stop it.
"Here," Samson said, pointing at a spot about a meter away from the base of the bone spear. "Beast hunt. Beast need food. No tooth no food. Leave little tooth."
Kyle nodded and put the spike gun at the spot that Samson indicated.
BOOM!
The spike shot out, and the bone spear exploded off the spot that Kyle had hit.
Samson let go of the bone spear, and it completely retracted.
Kyle and Samson watched as the big sphere lifted off the ground, exposing the worm's body.
Then, the worm swung its head around like a flail.
It kept spewing gas this entire time, and Kyle jumped back to avoid it.
From a distance, Kyle watched nervously as the swinging became faster and faster.
And then...
The worm threw itself away.
It threw itself past the trees, leaving a trail of irritating gas behind.
Kyle had to blink a couple of times as he watched the worm literally rolling forward.
The sphere spun, pulling the body over it.
When the body hit the ground in front of it, the sphere was lifted up.
And the body threw it forward again.
'What a strange creature,' Kyle thought.
But the next moment, a feeling of accomplishment hit him.
'But I did it! I fought this thing and did my job! Sure, it was the wrong spot, but I know the right spot now!'
'I can actually be of use!'
Samson walked over and lifted the bone spear before looking at Kyle with a smile.
"Good job!"