The Prince of Darkness

Chapter 13: Teamwork

While I perched on the side of the channel Lincoln worked his way getting up the channel.

"Are they even going to try and get in here?" I ask

"They're very primitive. That's what I meant when I said they didn't care if we were Big Brother, or Resistance. We're meat to them, and they're hungry." Lincoln says.

I nod. I saw the animals they were riding lunge at the ruins we were in. They managed to make a dent in the metal. Then I saw their teeth come through the metal, and the venom dripping from them start dissolving the metal. There claws were next ripping the metal to shreds.

"Lincoln!" I say.

"I see them, come on!" Lincoln says.

I look up, and see Lincoln had made it to the next level. I sigh, then start climbing up. Lincoln was in the channel going to the right. I perched on the one going to the left. Lincoln gestured for me to come over to his side.

I was about to when I heard the creatures getting in. The creatures started tearing the place apart. I saw the creatures looking up through the channel. Lincoln and I both pushed against the walls so we were hidden. I saw the creatures nose twitch.

They were smelling us. They would know where we were soon. Lincoln motioned for me to scoot farther into the tunnel. I did, and then he jumped over to my side. He ushered me forward. We crawled through the tunnel.

"Why don't we just use the crystals?" I hiss.

"Because for primitive beasts they're deadly, if we try to fight them, even with our crystal powers they'll slaughter us." Lincoln says.

I roll my eyes. We crawl through the tunnel as silently as possible. I was going to continue when Lincoln hissed my name, then grabbed my shoulder, and pulled me back. I shuddered as I noticed my back was touching his chest, and to my shock shivers ran through my body. But he saved my life, because seconds later a clawed hand slashed through the tunnel right where I would have been.

When the claw went away Lincoln pushed me off of him, and pushed us as far forward as we could go, because another claw came through right where Lincoln had been.

"We're going to have to fight them." I hiss.

"You're right but not in here. We don't have enough room, and they have the advantage." Lincoln says.

"Then what do you expect we do?" I hiss.

Lincoln smiles at me, then he turns away from me, and summons his swords. He plunges them into the metal, and cuts around himself. He falls through the metal. I roll my eyes. That's exactly where they were.

He just went right in to them. I peer through the hole he created, and see he's handling himself pretty well against them. I summon my swords, then cut a hole around me, before falling out of the metal, and onto the ground. They surrounded me. I narrowed my eyes, and waited.

One of them lunged at me. I managed to keep them away from me. My swords flashed in my hands. I was able to hold most of them off. At one point I was under one of the creatures.

Their teeth were chomping at my face. I was holding them above my face with one sword, but it wasn't hurting them. I saw a red-yellow sword cut through their neck, and was inches from my face. The creature was then beheaded and fell on me. I quickly pushed their body off of me before standing up, and joining the fight again.

The creatures that had veneomus teeth were a lot harder to kill then the creatures that rode them. It was because their hide was tough, and hard to penetrate. The only way to kill them was to get their underbelly, or in their eyes, although that just blinded them. I saw one of the bigger creatures advancing towards Lincoln. Lincoln was focused on three of the smaller creatures who were lunging at him with their teeth, and claws from all over.

I could of let the creature kill him, but something stopped me. I killed the two creatures I was fighting, and then I jump up, my feet touch the wall, then I launch off of the wall, and towards the big creature. I land on their back, and manage to get ahold of their reigns. I pull with all my strength to get away from Lincoln. The creature obeys, and then I turn it towards the smaller creatures.

The bigger creature manages to kill the group I turned it towards. I jumped off the creatures back before they noticed I wasn't their actual rider. When I land on the ground I take my sword and cut it across the creatures stomach. I reach Lincoln's side, and I see he was injured. I drape his arm over my shoulders, and I escort him out onto the planets surface.

I notice a creature lumbering towards us.

"Get ready we're jumping." I say.

I crouch down, and jump up with Lincoln. We land on the creatures back. I take the reigns and turn him towards the ship.