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CHAPTER 13

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Newark was on the ground. He perceived everything in bullet time. The Garfodius came running towards Elena, she bent down and swung in a complete circle, striking a Garfodius in its stomach. With the strike of the sword, Newark started perceiving everything in a normal speed.

Elena kicked a Garfodius, making it bang into the opposite wall and stabbed another one on its heart. The remaining two Garfodius made strange growling sounds; one of them was really frightened and ran outside. The other one grabbed Elena's throat and started choking her with an enormous force. The sword fell from Elena's hand. She tried fighting the creature off, but a long tapered tongue appeared out of its round mouth and tied Elena's hands. Newark had been spectator all this all this while. Everything happened so quickly that he never got a chance to react. He knew he had to do something fast. He was facing the Garfodius's back. All he had was a spear. He gathered courage, raised his trembling hand and just managed to touch the creature with the blade. This alerted the Garfodus. The moment it turned back, Elena swung her sword and beheaded it.

Newark saw its lifeless head rolling on the ground like a giant dice. That's when they heard more growls outside the cell.

"Pick up the bag. We're getting out of this shit hole" Elena growled like a lioness staring ahead.

They headed into the cave. They could see Garfodus's off springs hanging from the top. The Garfodius had turned defensive as they growled at both of them from the ceiling. After crossing the habitat boundary, Newark and Elena started running towards the cave's opening. On reaching the end, they both carefully climbed the waterfall. Elena reached first, Newark was a little slow. He finally reached the top and saw Elena looking at the view in sheer disbelief.

It was a slope which let to plane land. However, the slope was fog-covered. "What is this?" asked Newark.

"It's the quicksand of blood" whispered Elena. There was a loud roar of thunder which made Newark tremble. He uttered a short babyish cry.

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It’s exactly 11:30 PM! I’ve somehow finished today’s chapter on time. Was busy in making a presentation. But commitments are commitments. : )

Chapter 13 it is. I guess the number justified itself by delaying today’s post.

Correct the typos yourself. I'm too lazy as of now. Cheers.