Feast of Veritas (Continued)

The hand gripped tightly around Dalikos' head and started to pull him into the muck.

Dalikos quickly threw an air bubble type thing around his head so he could breath, but he couldn't get out of the grip of the hand. Deserax tried to help him, but he was gone before he could slice the hand.

"Dalikos! Dalikos!"

The hand pulled faster and faster as Dalikos was immersed in mud. Twenty feet down in a hollow bubble of hands, a set of giant rotten teeth waited greedily to tear the man's head off.

"Holy fuck!" Dalikos shouted. He formed a small fire dagger and started slicing at the mouths and hands, not wanting to die.

The decaying arms and hands seared black, but the monster felt none of it. The nerves in most of its body had long been dead. The jaw detached itself to try and fit Dalikos' entire head inside.

Dalikos grabbed the head and stretched the jaw to the point he thought the skin would rip apart.

As Dalikos hoped, the skin ripped off and the tendns tore; leaving the jaw unable to close.

But just when the man thought he had avoided danger, the monster's toungue flew out at an incredible speed and went to wrap itself around Dalikos' neck.

Dalikos grabbed the slick tongue with one hand and used the sharp fire dagger to slice the tongue so he could breath.

"That is freaking sick!"

The tongue burned black and snapped off under the dagger's heat, but what remained continued to attempt to strangle the life out of Dalikos.

(Kinky...)

Gwene didn't know what to do, she just stared clear of the mud.

Deserax quickly cut off the rest of the tongue and gasped for air.

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Deserax in the mean time was tossing some of the mud out of the way to try and get to Dalikos.

(Kinky indeed. )

Dane tried to look around for something to help the situation. The dead trees were covered in vines that seem to have starved the plants to death.

He pointed to one of the nearest trees. "Get those vines! We can dive down there, rescue Dalikos, and use them like a rope to pull ourselves up!"

Deserax ran to the tree and ripped of a very lengthy vine. He wrapped it around his waste and had the other end in his hand.

"Who wants to be the person to pull us back up?"

Dane nodded and went over to grab the vine.

"I've got nothing to fight with and our 'friendly host' did quite a number on me. I'll pull you guys out."

Deserax nodded and waited for Dane to grab the vine. Once it was grabbed, Deserax put on his own air bubble thing that Dalikos taught him to do and dove in after Dalikos.

Some of the hands keeping the mud at bay abandoned their posts to attack Deserax, while others charged Dalikos. Even if the creature drowned in the filthy soil, at least it would take the two wolf-men down with it.

"Hell no! Not in the mood!" Deserax sliced off the hands and heads with his fire sword and slowly made his way to Dalikos.

The hands broke off more and more to keep Deserax at bay, while more hands went to suffocate Dalikos.

Deserax snapped. He tried being calm, but with his brother being in trouble, he lost it. He took off his second glove and put it in his pocket. He charged up energy and in the blink of an eye, He expeled a massive amount of fire energy that could be felt through the mud and floor.

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Dalikos was to focused trying to keep them at bay to worry about the sudden heat change.

The mud soon began to dry, creating a large dome of hot and very compressed air. As the temperature rose, so did the pressure of the air. It was not long until the pressure got too much and the dome exploded, like a hollow ceramic in a kiln.

Dalikos heard something happen and threw up a quick veil of fire but even then he felt a few pieces of ceramics cut him. He hoped the montsers would get cut up by them. Dalikos wondered what did it and saw it was a glovless Deserax. Wait... No gloves?!

"Some one get Deserax back up there! He has no gloves!"
(sorry... )

(Better.)

The explosion hit the monster hard, ripping its body apart as well as its limbs.

(Better?)

The thick wall of dried mud began to crumble away, filling the hollow dome with muck once more, but jurastically lowering the mud's level. A good ten feet of mud had gone away.

Dalikos was able to sort of swim up to grab the vine. He tugged on it several times saying, "Get us the fuck out of here!"

Deserax was holding his head trying to prevent himself from blasting everything.