Dragons : The Dragon Hunt

70. The Exploration (Part 3) - Swamp Fever

(You know where this reference came from? - Swamp Fever ; Hint, it's a game)

"Oh the swamp, never been beter", Sairo snorted at me, as he stared still at the swamp, checking every piece of detail that he could gather.

"I really hate swamps when I was a kid though", I said at them, as they all chuckled at me.

"Really need to say that twice? ", Dusty snorted, as he looked at me and frowned, raising a brow. I never looked at him, instead I gave a sigh at myself.

"We should be continuing our walk towards the east, we still east? ", I implied them asked Kent, who was on my right side, I turned to him and he brought out his compass. As his conpass spun left and right until it finally stopped on a straight direction.

"Yep, were still going east", He said looking at the swamp, "Do you mind that I need to get a bug spray? ", He asked me sarcastically, as he looked at me and grinned, I gave chuckle at him in response.

"You could use some citronella. Even though there is no citronella here", Dusty said, turning at Kent. As Kent sneered at him and rolled his eyes away from him.

"Hey, that's rude, I'm just giving a tip", Dusty snorted, as I glanced at the men and separted them using my hands. They always argue, which I am worming to it still. Kent did grit his teeth and glared to Dusty, Dusty also glared back and clenched his fists readying to fight with him anytime.

"Hey, hey, hey! ", I warningly repeated to them, as they still glared at each other and didn't even waste a time to glare at themselves, I looked at the both boys grimacing in disapproval at them. As minutes passed, they finally calmed themselves down and finally didn't make a move hurting each other. They finally ended their arguement and shook hands.

"Okay, that's enough, we should be get going. Keeo your eyes open and be alert for the marshland creatures, we still don't know what creatures are we up against", I bellowed at them, as they all glanced at me and nodded quickly, as we finally started to walk towards the swamp cautiously.

After a minute later, we finally arrived on the marshland, we saw that the trees are like the trees on the overworld but their foliage is more denser. There were vines hanging everywhere, almost hanging high as me. Plants and some mangroves thrived in the area, the marsh was not so silent, noises from any animals or insects that could be found everywhere broke the silence around us. We also heard some bug sounds and even frogs, we also heard some small growlings far from us which is I think, that there are alligators on the area. More and more plants, covered the ground almost completely, shrubs, herbs, everything! You name it, some of the plants would be there. We also saw some plants ghat aren't familiar to us, but we didn't give a thing about it. Puddles of swamp water are present in different sizes, from as small as manhole, to as big as a swimming pool. They also vary and differ in depths, some of it were just deep as an inch, but some of the puddles are deep as a half of an average height of a man. I do say that the alligators thrive in that deep part of the puddles.

As we kept a move on, more and more dense, large, and even greener plants had been on our path, so we shoved it very slowly to not disturb other unknown creatures that live here. More and more animals had been present creating a noise that likely disturb us, we heard a screech from a wild racoon a while earlier. But we didn't show fear for them, we only still keep a move pn until we reach the end of this. We had stepped also in some puddles, but our step is very calculated. The other men had their guns raised, pointing everywhere if they heard a noise, but my MK14 is only hanging on my front of my body, having sling on it. I would only use my gun if there is large threat movments on us, this gun is particularly the most highes amount of damage when fired at a human.