Ophidia

CHAPTER THREE ( Trouble at the cliff.)

       When they plummeted off the cliff their fall was stopped by vines that had grown on the edge

of the cliff. The vines were wrapped around his ankles while he still held on to her calves. They were

dangling upside down for a while.

      "You fool !",the girl exclaimed. "This is all your fault!"

      "How in Ophidia is this my fault?"

      "If you had just given up and let us steal from you we would not be in this mess."

      "Are you being serious?"

      "Yes I am, you had to be so damn persistent."

      "Persistence is the key to victory."

      "There you go again with that nonsense."

      "What nonsense?"

      " That stuff that you s- "

      "Shhhh."

      "Did you just shush m-"

      "SHHHHH", he shushed her with more emphasis. "I heard something" ,he whispered to her.

"What? What are you talking about?" A loud screeching noise came from a few meters above them.

It was a mountain crawler,a blind carnivore that resides in the hilly or mountainous areas of Ophidia

it's dark green with scales all over its body, except where it's ear wholes are, it has a slender body

with sharp claws and an extra claw on its tail (which was poisonous) and it had razor sharp teeth (it

looks like a large scorpion but without pincers and instead of eight legs it had four).

       The creature did not move it stayed on the cliff slowly waiting for them to make a sound. As soon as the girl looked up  and saw it she kept her mouth shut. They dangled there until dawn, with Mupo still holding her leg. An  unhealthy amount of blood had rushed to their heads over time so they had to move quickly. But the  crawler wouldn't move away. Mupo looked down and he spotted a ledge about four meters below them  and came up with an idea.

       Mupo slowly hoisted her up with both hands so that they wouldn't make any noise and held her tight

so it was like they were hugging upside down. He had one had wrapped around her waist and the other

on the hilt of his sword. He then whispered to her in the quietest tone possible. "I need you to be as quiet as possible,can you do that?" She nodded at him. Mupo drew his sword and  cut the vine. They fell and landed on a ledge, Mupo broke her fall and also his leg. She rolled off him and said.

      "That was -"

      "Shhh it's still up there."

      The mountain crawler was crawling down the side of the cliff. Mupo's leg was really messed up, so

much so that he couldn't even stand. The girl tried to pick up the sword but it was too heavy for her

to swing it . The crawler got closer and closer, Mupo was sure they were done for. But just when the

crawler was about to pounce a club came swinging from downward, hit it in the head and knocked it

out. The crawler fell down the edge of the cliff but the club landed on the ledge which they were on.

The girl wondered what was happening, Mupo looking like he was about to black out, said, "My name is

Mupo by the way" and then blacked out.

      "He saved me",she said under her breath. "Why would he do that for some one he doesn't even

know?".

       Then a hand appeared clinging on to the ledge. It was a beefy man 193 cm tall,who looked about 25

years old,had dark brown skin,with long dreadlocks, a thick beard and a vest which looked like it was

made up of some sort of animal but it's fur was bronze, of which his boots were also made of. He had

on a long loin cloth covering his trousers that looked like they were made of leather and he looked

like he could pick fight a bear and then win.

      After he climbed onto the ledge he saw that Mupo's leg was swelling through his boots. He picked up

his club which had two large tusks sticking out of it, he had another club in his other hand that looked

the same as the one which killed the crawler.

      "My apologies I did not mean to hit your suitor in the leg" the man said."I was aiming for the crawler, I

was simply trying to hunt ."

      "He's not my suitor!" She replied.

      "Well he seemed like it."

      "Yeah well he's- ",she fainted.

      Behind her was a mountain crawler with it's stinger lodged in her back. The man knocked it out

looked at both of them and felt guilty for their injuries, so he picked up the girl and flung her onto

his back and climbed down the edge of the cliff using his two clubs,he would penetrate the side of the

cliff with the tusks on the clubs,leaving small holes and tiny falling debris. He carried her to his boat

and laid her down on some soft piece of animal fur. He then climbed back to the ledge to retrieve

Mupo, but when got there he found five crawlers surrounding him,ready to feast on him.

       "Get away from him!",he shouted. But the crawlers kept moving towards him. When he started to

climbing faster, the crawlers also descended faster. He finally reached the ledge but one crawler

had also done the same. He swung his club at it throwing it off the ledge,screeching as it fell to it's

death. The as the rest heard the screeching and started to descend even faster, eight more of them

appeared from the top. He then grabbed his axe, which was hanging on his back and stood his ground.

        One crawler reached the ledge and he swung his axe, splitting it's head into two. Then another one

jumped down from the side of the cliff and he pierced it in the chest with his axe. Two jumped down

at the same time, while the other two rushed down. He chopped one's head off in mid air and smashed

the other one's head with his club. Just as the other two reached the ledge, he tossed his axe at one

and then as the other one tried to pounce on him he grabbed it by the throat. It scratched him on

his forearm and he got angrier and squeezed it's neck until it became immobile. Then just as he was

plucking his axe out of the crawler's head. About 20 more descended from above.

"s**t!", he exclaimed. He grabbed Mupo and tossed him over his shoulder and made a run(or climb)

for it. He had no time to climb down so he jumped off and waited until he was close to the ground for

him to sink his clubs into the side of the cliff.

          When he sank them in, he started to slow down when,while they were being dragged down the cliff

edge,until they reached the ground. He picked up the first crawler he knocked out and carried it onto

the boat. He cut of the crawler's head,hurled it at the crawlers to distract them and set sail.