After finally getting a few feet near them, the monster leapt into the air. Everybody shut their eyes closed as they braced themselves for impact. It never hit. When they opened their eyes the monster was far left from them. A coffin flew from the monster's body and they followed it with their eyes back to Grim.
They let huge sighs of relief and some even cried, the young man could not help but smile even as tears rolled down his face. Some girls came from inside the emergency centre and hugged him. They complained about being worried and him instructing his friend to hold them down. The friend also felt embarrassed about not being able to mobilize with everyone else.
"What's this I see? I thought you said that you were not afraid of death." Grim said as he removed the skull mask from his face.
The boy did not answer and instead kept his face down.
"HEY! Tin is still small, everyone would shake in the face of death." Yelled out one of the girls next to the boy.
"Yeah he is ugly," Grim said to himself while stroking his chin.
The old men that heard him laughed and told him they were thankful that he came just on time.
Hey, aren't you that kid from earlier who stole my watch?" He asked ignoring the old men. He walked over and the girls stood in front of him with their arms spread out.
"It's okay I am not trying to hurt him or anything."
"How can we trust you?" The first girl said.
"Yeah, you're a pirate." The second girl added.
"From one thief to another, you will just have to take a blind leap of faith."
The boy stood up and pushed the girls to the side. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to do it, it slipped out your pocket and I was too afraid to tell you." He said as he presented the watch with a bow.
'I could have sworn he paid for that leg with it, plus he looks cleaner now so...' Grim thought as he closed the boy's hand over the watch.
"Keep it, I believe that one day you will make a great warrior and I want to be known as the man who recognized you."
The boy's eyes widened and he excitedly thanked Grim while bowing even harder than ever. The girls behind him also smile and thanked Grim for the watch, this is because the watch was a trojan and the girls could sense its power. Tin was clueless and Grim hated having a power he never got the chance to use.
GRRRR!
The monster got up and roared again, the fire around its body had gone out due to the impact from earlier. It was not fully healed, its bones were showing and blood was dried out on its skin.
The lot that had gathered outside and a sum of them retreated inside.
"What is that mister? I thought you killed it." Tin said as he prepared his digging fork for action.
"What are you going to do with that?"
"TEDDY!" Tsame called out as they started to emerge from the distance along with Neo. They were out of breath but still held out strong, Neo for her people and Tsame for her teddy.
Everyone who remained outside turned to look at them and the monster charged forward. The monster did not get far until it started slowing down and falling to its knees.
"What's happening?"
"What is this?"
"Is it dying?"
The people were asking a lot of questions as they gathered around it. Grim turned and looked to where the monster originally came and saw a burnt up chocker holding tongfas in his hands. His hair hung over his eyes, his clothes torn, his body bleeding and barely standing.
It became apparent to Grim that he was the one that cause the monster to fall. Whatever he did was amazing but it wore off quickly since the monster got back on its feet again.
Neo seeing Choka in that state ran over to him without any delay, the monster seeing a new threat emerging ran towards it. Tsame took out their blades and ran to intercept it, Choka also readied his weapons for attack and Neo activated her regent.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
The first pair of bullets blew off one leg, the next pair blew off another leg, the following pair ripped the monster apart and the last pair blew its head off.
Everybody froze and looked at Grim with terror, he put the gun away and walked away from the crowd with his hands tucked in his pockets. Tsame looked back at him and smiled.
"Choka, right? That was a cool attack, can you tell me what it was." Grim said as he bent over to look Choka in his eyes.
"He doesn't..." Neo tried to speak but Choka signalled for her to stop. She lowered her gaze and continued to heal him.
"Waves, I am yet to find out how but these things can produce waves like the one I fired earlier."
"Can I try them?"
Choka reluctantly nodded yes, it was as if he did not trust Grim and was at the same time afraid of him.
Grim took the tonfas and swung them around until the air around him felt like it was bending, he pulled them back and then did a heavy strike forward. A huge crater was formed as an aftermath of this test.
'Yeah, I want these too.' He thought to himself as he gave them back to their owner.
[Activating skill peerless]
[Please hold on to the weapon as I use the skill to scan it.]
Grim paused with the Tonfas and Choka held onto the other end, not knowing whether to let go or to just hold on.
[Scanning completed]
[Analyzing results.]
[Imitation possible.]
[Would you like to imitate the weapon?]
'Sure.'
[Error]
[Comand could not be processed]
[Host needs to absorb weapon in order to replicate it.]
'Yeah, forget it.'
Grim let go of the weapon and Choka received it with both hands.
"We need to go and find the others, who knows how many of those things they could possibly be facing at the moment," Neo said.
"Sure, did you see where they went?"
Choka pointed in the direction of the big ship and an explosion went off there.
"Could have been a second sooner."