~Loving Embrace~ By Saiichi Bloodbane

[Bloodbane]

chapter 3

"Saiichi are you daydreaming again? erm-why are you blushing?- why-why- are you sweating,are you ok?"Aneko said as noticing he was sweating severely and red as a beat while they were walking down a narrow path inside the said cave,they were in search of the Valhalla tears(The Grandius Emperium Fragments).
"Oh...ehh..not..really..uhh.. Il be fine.. ehehe" He said while looking in a different direction embarrassed as his dirty thought kept clouding his mind.
She takes her staff and lightly taps him on the head as shunning him for such perverted thoughts,altho they were a couple, she seemed to dislike everything that lead to perversion when it was not in the right moment,mood, etc.

As they kept walking Aneko suddenly stops to stretch her arms a bit,that's when she notices there's something strange on her dress, a small Andre Ant was clinged from her side of the dress where the legging is and she stared at it nonchalantly in disbelief for a few seconds then lets out a loud terrified scream,her fear for bugs was quite funded since in her childhood she had alot of bad experiences with them.Saii as soon he hears her scream,shoots in her direction impaling the insect and cleaving it to the wall with an iron arrow,the creature thrashed in pain violently letting out hisses and weird noises and suddenly came to a stop as its life drained away.

"I dont think... you gonna like this Aneko-chan" Saii said as he looked in all directions and his senses kept telling him there was something coming their way,something dangerous and big.

"Thank you so much Saii, those things are so disgus-" She pauses and notices the ground is shaking,theres small ripples in the water and suddenly the walls come alive.Andre,Pierre,Deniro And Vitata swarm under their feet and the walls were alive and moving as if they were inside some kind of living giant animal,Noxious fumes were puffing from some small little volcano like tubes on the floor and the sound of a much larger creature roared in the distance, Aneko was terrified beyond comprehension and almost petrified as the countless bugs kept passing under her.

"Aneko please bear with this for a small while,itl be over before you know it." He takes off his blindfold exposing his bad eye and risking himself for her comfort,depriving her from sight and taking her hand he sets out to find an exit.

A Young man on a peco with glamorous armor,silky silvery shoulder weight hair and a shining golden blade zooms past Saii and Aneko whom was blindfolded and shaking in fear due to the over abundance of bugs.

"Get out of here while you can, the ant demon has re awakened after its 100 year sleep,and is quite hungry!"He ran past the duo as his voice echoed across the halls and he seemed to get more distant and distant as he ventured deeper into the cave.

After 10 minutes or so they finally manage to find and exit and crawl out what seemed to be a mouth like structure cralingly full of ants and several other inssects that seemed to be scavenging for food and many other things.Surprisingly they came out unscathed, contrary of what Saii had thought, the ants were quite harmless unless provoked.Saii removes the blinker from Aneko whom still was in shock and continued to shake in fear, he holds her close wrapping his arms around her back and patting her hair in an attempt to calm her down, but to no avail.He Places his blinker back to protecting his cursed eye, he was close to the time limit and began to feel a burning sharp pain due to over exposure to sunlight in it.As he placed his blinker back on he hears a voice from the cave entrance,along with the sound of the insects,he sees a young man struggling against the ants.

"Off with you inferior arthropods, or il make you research samples" Said the young alchemist as he fought off hordes of ants whom were trying to get into his cart for some reason, he kept swinging his over sized axe as if it were a mere weightless toy,his??athletic and slender appearance along with his cocky smirk led to many believing he was a regular rough country boy,but in fact he was a genius,that's how we met Zraxus.

He continued to fight the insects along with his pet,a sheep that seemingly enjoyed the combat,it kept bashing the ants and stomping them as if they were mere toys while defending its master and his cart from them.that's when Saii noticed what the ants were after,the cart contained a glow,something strangely glowing yet familiar.

"Hey there,Need a hand?" Said Saii to them as he approached nonchalantly while crossing his arms behind his neck in a relaxed fashion.As he extended his hand in a greet like fashion the ground starts to shake and break apart as both start to loose balance Saii in instinct Grabs both the young man and the sheep and jumps away from the entrance as an enraged Gigantic ant like creature emerges from the ground with the young man in armor from before in one of its claws as he continued to fight back its other claws,Saii quickly sets them on the floor and screams at the top of his lungs as he notices the ant was headed to where Aneko was sitting still in a daze: "ANEKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She remains in a daze and he instinctively dashes to where she is grabbing her by the waist and chucking her onto his shoulder then starts running in the opposite direction from the enraged demon ant as it thrashed and created huge turmoil fighting the armored young man.

The Young alchemist yells at the man in armor:"GUILLERMO USE THIS!" as he threw a white potion in his direction and he drinks it immediately as he catches it recovering from his wounds almost instantly.

"Zraxus Im gonna need more than one to kill Maya at this rate" He replied as he continued to fend the incredibly fast barrage of claws that the demon was assaulting him with,using only a shield and a blade he continued fending it until the demon catches the blade on its ant like jaws and snaps it into pieces as the sheep continued to fight of the incredible amount of larva like creatures that were spawning from its underside.

Saii sets Aneko on the ground and begins to pat her face in a desperate attempt to wake her from her daze,on closer look, he notices she has a small puncture like wound on her knee.

"One of the ants might have poisoned her, I have a remedy for that here"Said the young alchemist as he approached the two."but there's a catch you see, I might need a bit of help back there with gui-HEY!!!!"As he was taking out a small bottle from his bag Saii quickly grabs it from Zraxus hands and places the bottle of the green foul liquid quickly on Aneko's lips, about 5 seconds later as the potion slid down her throat she started coughing violently and slapped Saii hard with the staff to the floor as she seemed to be in disgust.
"THAT WAS SO FUCKING GROSS SAI, HOW COULD YOU FEED WEIRD CRAP TO ME AS I SLEEP!!!"
She notices the young alchemist is wide eye staring at the too and he points at her knee and then he takes another of his green potions and points at it.

She looks at Saii and pokes him embarrassed upon realizing he just saved her life.

"Gomenasai..." she said in a soft tone as he stood up with a backspin and replied in his serious tone." No time for games, lets keep our end of the deal and help!"

He said as the desert wind blew small amounts of sand and made it look like an epic moment but upon closer inspection saii still had the staff mark on his face as he dashed towards the demon, he leaps up and took out his bow with his left hand from his back as he took over ten arrows out with his other hand from his side right quiver and immediately started strafing the demon with all his might.As soon she saw that saii had begun combat she dashed towards where he would land for his second leap and immediately casted agility and blessing spells on him as he thanked her with a wink, he seemed like a real bum most of the time, but when the going gets tough she always knew she could always count on him.

The Demon ant began to thrash about as Guillermo held on for dear life, Zraxus had forgotten the cart and the Maya demon was quite near it, as he notices the cart was in jeopardy he whistled at the top of his lungs and the sheep ran with all its might and pushed the cart out of harms way slowly as Zraxus dashed towards it.

The young man picked up a bottle of acid from the cart and tossed it in Maya's direction but missed and it landed on the sand as he looked quite embarrassed at the feat he just pulled as Saii had noticed what he was trying to accomplish he lands on the bottle picking it up and leaping back up with a black fip smirking at the ant.

The ant demon opened its mouth while Saii was still in mid air and charges a light beam aimed at him while Aneko screams to dodge it.

*Thunderous Flashing Light*

"Ugh!.." *thud*

To Be Continued...