✔ The Hunters | Garou

TWENTY FIFTH HUNT

CATAPULTED

"There was no anger in her eyes now but a calm, heroic grief." 

- Nikos Kazantzakis (The Rock Garden)

I had dark forebodings about this whole thing.

But I swallowed down the anxiety, and revved the engines of my motorcycle. We drifted through broken roads and leaped over rifts and ledges; I enjoyed these acrobatic stunts, but Bad didn't. Poor guy was screaming his lungs off and using his boundless energy to scold me for being so reckless.

"As if you aren't reckless yourself!" I retorted with a playful grin.

"HAAH?!" he growled.

Before he said anything else, I revved my engines again and sped forward making him yelp loudly.

We were eventually stopped by a massive rift in the road in the city that couldn't be jumped over. Looking left and right, we saw that the rift cut through roads and buildings and traveled as far as the eye could see.

"What do we do?" I asked, looking over my shoulder at Bad.

"I guess we should turn around and take another route." he said, pointing at another road that went parallel to the rift.

And so we went that way, and to my passenger's relief, we went slower. I rode until we came across this huge, odd looking patch like the size of a bus that was a lot less clearer than the rest of the surroundings.

"Aye Tenrou, are you seeing this shit?" asked Bad as we stopped, "Is it just me or is there a blurry looking box over there?"

"I can see it too." I replied.

Both of us got off. While Bad cautiously inched closer to the box, I shrunk the motorcycle and followed behind him. We looked at each other and gulped. He put his arm in front of me as if to shield me (typical big brother), and we went around the huge blurry box.

"Who's there!?" screamed three voices as three people jumped out from the blurry box.

I screamed in fright and so did Bad, who was holding out his bat in the offensive in front of him while still holding his other arm out in front of me. We heard another person's scream too.

"Mohican and Pineapple?!" exclaimed Bad.

"Metal Bat, Infernogun, and King?!" Mohican, Pineapple, and Food Battler Futoshi exclaimed.

Mohican is a C-class hero with a blue mohawk, a blue star painted over his eye, and dressed in black leather and some spiky bracelets and choker, along with black gloves and boots.

Pineapple is a B-class hero who, obviously, was dressed in a pineapple themed suit. Circular pineapple slices on his shoulders served as shoulder pads. The crown of his suit had the green crown of a pineapple. He also wore black tinted glasses.

Food Battler Futoshi is also a C-class hero, dressed in a light pink hero suit, a maroon cap and gloves, and a cream yellow cape. I heard a bit about him and knew he was normally pudgy since he ate a lot, but man, he looked thin and haggard.

King is an S-class hero, and he was dressed like a normal person with a t-shirt, a flannel, and jeans. He has slicked back blond hair and tanned skin, and has three scars over his eye, which really indicates how dedicated he is to being a hero! He is also called the strongest man on Earth and I respect him deeply.