Beauty and the Beast

3

The hunters travelled the forests and reached the hills. The gorgeous vegetation and wildlife surely would have provided the perfect hiding place for this intruder.

"A lot of asuras seem to be around at this point. I see them." Some of the hunters pointed out.

Chenchita and Aja looked at each other. A grin passed their faces. They both hunted humans and animal very well but they were ready to see if they would hunt asuras just as well.

"Let's see the count." Chenchita answered.

"Split up, people. Wherever you find the intruders, kill them." Aja ordered.

All the hunters spread out to corner the asuras. The hunt had begun. Sure, the Chenchu didn't have much of experience with hunting asuras but if things went for the worse, they knew the forests more well than anyone else so they would easily escape.

The Chenchu are divided into two groups. The hunters and the gatherers. The gatherers also reared some wild dogs to help them. The dogs and the gatherers would retrieve the hunt.

Hanging the spear on her back, Chenchita pulled out her bow and steadied the arrow on it. She aimed it at one of the asuras she spotted. Hiding among the forest bushes, she set herself.

The arrow left the bow and pierced through the Asura. Before the Asura could retaliate, she moved but unfortunately, he was sort of fire breathing demon. The flames that caught up the bush had to be put out or else it would start a forest fire.

"Indra dev, please let some rain pour down to put out the fire." Chenchita prayed to Indra, promising him to offer a part of her hunt as an offering in return.

The clouds roared in response and rain poured down. The rain put down the fire.

"Let's see what you do now, fire demon." Chenchita muttered and attacked him with several more arrows. After almost emptying her quiver, she managed to kill the demon.

Moving to the demon, she picked up the additional arrows, leaving only one of them for identification.

Moving off to look for the others, she found two of them. She set two arrows at once and shot one of them quickly. The second looked around to proceed and attack. She moved swiftly and attacked the other from another position. Again, her quiver was emptied trying to kill the asuras.

"Okay, we need a better strategy. These asuras are taking way too many arrow to die. If we go by this then it will be difficult to get them." She said to herself, trying to find a better solution. She moved forward. As itself, the rain was making her job a bit difficult. No, she was not blaming Indra. She needed the rain to put out the fire but the forest floor got slippery and the visibility was lessened.

Once again retrieving the other arrows, she moved ahead to find the other demons. Her eyes fell on another. What kind of Asura was that? From behind, all she saw was dark skin. Almost like the sky had wrapped itself around him. The hair was almost reaching the mid of his back. It almost seemed like he had tiger claws but only sharper. Perfectly turmeric yellow dhoti around his waist, he even wore a gold waist belt. Large bulging arms which could hold on even the earth on them. The shoulders which seemed like they had been hardened with weight on them.

Chenchita aimed an arrow at him and shot it. The arrow fell down after hitting the demon. Almost as if his skin itself was some kind of shield. The arrow couldn't pierce him. She quickly tried to shoot many arrows but the result was the same.

A growl resounded from the demon. Chenchita wasted no time. She turned and started running off. The sound of growling didn't end.

Who ever this demon was, surely it wasn't scared of any damn thing because of how loud he was. Not scared if he could alert the creatures or the asuras around of his presence.