Rise of The Conquest

Chapter 10: The Ness

The rest of the team sprinted after Spark as he ran down another long hallway. They were all alert, staying on their toes, ready for anything to happen.

A large trap hole began to form in front of them. Unable to break their pace so quickly, they jumped right over it. Rewarded by a flicker of light that led them to the next arena.

"Finally," Erika said, as she caught her breath. "We've been running forever."

The next area was an integrated forest in the ship. The team stumbled into trees that blocked their view of anything up ahead. Dense bushes grew on rocky, uneven terrain.

Before the energy shard users could gather themselves, they heard a loud noise in the distance. Something began running towards them from up ahead. The leaves above shook.

"Brace yourself," Mark said. "It could be our next enemy."

A creature jumped at them from the bushes. He stood like a unnaturally tall man and had human like features, but had a long, wolf snout, was covered in fur, and flashed sharp teeth. His yellow eyes held a threat.

"Well, well, well," Kaios said. "Look what we have here."

Erika approached him and equipped her weapon. Spark and Mark stared with curiosity.

"I haven't seen this before," Spark whispered. "I wonder what she can do."

"I'm not sure," Mark said. "But I think we're about to find out."

"My name is Kaios and I will be your opponent."

The enemy wasn't bothered by Erika's weapon. He charged right to her to start the battle. Erika quickly jumped away and dashed in another direction. As she was doing this, she placed small trap bombs on the floor and shot at her enemy.

Kaios easily dodged and reflected her shots. He also used an energy shield that protected him from damage.

"Try again little girl," laughed Kaios. As he ran, sure of his victory, he stepped on one of the traps. Red dust and smoke erupted into the air.

Erika quickly loaded her gun with her red impact bullets. Aimed and shot at the red cloud. When the bullet hit the red smoke, a huge explosion combusted.

Kaios was thrown back from the explosion. A loud crack reverberated through the forest. A moment later, Kaios struggled to get up, clearly injured.

"Gotcha," Erika said.

She began to set up her next attack and unleashed a barrage of bullets in Kaios' direction. Kaios, realizing that the same attack might happen again, began to set up a strong shield around himself.

Erika shot her last bullet and BOOOMMM!! The larger explosion went off.

Erika reloaded her pressure bullets and shot them rapidly. They exploded after a couple bullets land on the same target. All the smoke from the explosion got in the way and Kaios ran off into the forest.

"He's not that fast," Erika laughed. "I know I got him."

Excited from the battle, Erika looked back at her team. "Move on without me. I can defeat this guy on my own. There are more ships to conquer and I'll catch up."

Time was of the essence, so assured Erika would be alright, Mark and Spark ran through the forest and found the new door. The disappeared through it and onto the next ship.

Meanwhile, Erika slowly analyzed the forest for clues as to where her enemy may be. Out of nowhere a loud roar came from the distance. Kaios sprinted with tremendous speed towards Erika.