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Rhindeer

Scarab buried her face in her hands. "I'm going to get eaten after all!"
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DaGlobster

"Oh, for...Nobody's going to be eating anyone!

shaking his head, he nudged at Winterpeak's side with his boot, and their hunt resumed. At the moment, Winterpeak was moving at a light trot, but once she was warmed up, she started running properly.

Rhindeer

And once that kaadir started running, Scarab let out a squeak and twisted into the beast's neck, arms wrapping around it to hold on for dear life, afraid she'd fall off! Ah, this was madness! Maybe she should have taken her chances out in the desert, rather than get dragged along on this suicidal mission--with ogres, of all things!

She just hoped they'd catch their beast quickly! But in the meantime, she was too focused on keeping her eyes shut and hanging on to ask anymore questions!
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DaGlobster

It was the afternoon now, the sun hung low in the sky. They had been moving for a few hours now, following a trail of upturned sand. The only speaking the ogres had partaken in was the occasional grunt or alerted gasp followed by disappointed groan. However, they were making progress.

Finally, a voice came from Drex, the Ogre carrying the javelins. "There she goes, Sir! Off in the distance! She's breached the surface!" the weedy Ogre called, leaning forwards on his saddle. Sure enough, there was a large amount of sand being kicked up not too far away.

"She's goin' back in her burrow, we've got her now!" another Ogre chimed, and a few quiet cheers were shared.

Rhindeer

"Ah, pardon me." Scarab finally spoke up, raising her hand as though to get attention. "Ahem. Should I maybe wait back here while you all run up ahead to slay the beast? So I don't get in the way? I wouldn't want to hinder your hunt!"

Mostly, she didn't like the idea of being on the front lines during the upcoming battle!
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DaGlobster

"Aye, you should stay back here," Borzclubb said with a nod. The Ankheg off in the distance was massive, and it was still pulling its gigantic body out of the sand.

Winterpeak reared up as they stopped, eager to fight, and lowered her neck, so Scarab could dismount.

Rhindeer

Scarab started to slide down, but then she froze, half off, and clung to the kaadir's neck.

"Wait! What if while you're fighting something else comes and gets me? I hear there's sandworms, too! All this activity might attract them!"
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DaGlobster

Borzclubb looked down at Scarab, an annoyed look on his face. "Well, then I suppose you're coming along. Get on Drex's rhinox, he'll be the farthest one from the Ankheg." Borzclubb said as he motioned to the javelin carrying Ogre two riders behind him. Drex waved at her, motioning for her to come over quickly.

Rhindeer

Poor ogres probably had no idea what kind of high maintenance Essyrni they were dealing with!

A little reluctantly, Scarab slipped down from the kaadir and headed over to Drex, pausing before reaching his rhinox to eye it warily. She'd never seen anything like it, and those horns looked rather...unsettling.

She gave one last look back to the kaadir-riding ogre--Borzclubb, she'd heard the others call him--and then turned back to Drex and waited for him to help her up. "Thank you," she said, and looked out toward where the ankheg was. "Have you bagged one of these creatures before?"
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DaGlobster

"Nope, but I got some tips from someone who has. We do these kinds of hunts all the time," Borzclubb explained as they started to pick up speed. "Don't you worry, lady, I'll keep you safe!" Drex boasted as he drew one of his javelins. This was the very same ogre that had nearly hit her not too long ago.

Rhindeer

Not too reassured, Scarab ducked low against the rhinox as Drex lifted a javelin. "Just be careful of with that thing!" she said, and then added, "These hunts you do. Does your party survive them all?"
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DaGlobster

"We're all still alive, aren't we!?" Drex laughed, and shortened his grip on the javelin as he took aim.

"Drex! Kick her off for us, won't you!?" Borzclubb yelled in an excited voice, and Drex cocked his arm back, loosing one of his massive javelins. It soared through the air, and struck the Ankheg in the side. It turned its head to look at the approaching riders, its corrosive spittle dripping from its mouth.

"You might want to hang on a bit tighter."

Rhindeer

Scarab didn't need to be told twice! She clung on tighter and ducked down low, her heart beating fast with anticipation. She just wanted this to be over quick!

"I thought he said you'd be in the back!" she said. What did he mean hang on tighter? They weren't going any closer, were they?!
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DaGlobster

Drex didn't answer Scarab's question, instead preferring to ready another javelin. The Ankheg released a low roar that shifted the sands around it, and started galloping towards them on its thick, shelled legs.

"Fan! Drex, take the left!" Borzclubb ordered, and the group of ogres parted into two seperate groups, splititng up just in time for the Ankheg to go charging between them, running into a tall dune behind them.

Rhindeer

Scarab let out a shriek, feeling very lied to right about then as the ankheg raced right between the line of riders and passed right by her!

"I thought you'd be in the back!" she yelped, clinging on tighter. "That's what he said! But this is not the back! This is very much the front!"
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DaGlobster

"Dammit, woman we WILL BE IN THE BACK!" Drex yelled. The other riders peeled around, turning their mounts to head back towards the momentarily dazed Ankheg. Drex kept riding forwards, however, coming to a stop and turning his rhinox to face the Ankheg before he started riding towards it. His intention was to skirt around the fight at a moderately safe distance.

The others were busy laying into the Ankheg with their weapons. It was quick, however, and it blocked their strikes one by one with its thick legs.

Drex launched another javelin, striking the Ankheg in one of it's knees, immobilizing it just long enough for Borzclubb to score a hit across its face with his club. And still, it was not dead.

Rhindeer

"Ah! Kill it! Kill it kill it kill it!" Scarab cried, for though they were a good enough distance away, it was still horribly stressful watching this! And ogres or not, the last thing she wanted was to see one of those savage fools get killed by the bloody thing!

Besides, the quicker they killed it, the quicker she could go home!

Why wasn't it dying yet?!
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DaGlobster

The Ankheg, realizing it was surrounded and likely outmatched, started to kick up sand, intent on burrowing away. One of the ogres, however, was prepared for this, and hit the Ankheg with something that looked like a cross between a grappling hook and an anchor. The grappling anchor hit the Ankheg in the side, stabbing into and getting caught in the rigid plating.

Borzclubb rode by, and Winterpeak took the grappling anchor's chain into her mouth, pulling the Ankheg off balance and onto its side. As it scrambled to get up Drex sunk another javelin into the beast, hitting it in the softer carapace just above its mandibles. The other ogres took their chance, and went on the offensive, lopping pieces off of the beast as they rode by. It looked like the fight was in its last run.

Rhindeer

And Scarab had to look away, because even if it was a nasty, terrible beast, it...was still a pretty gruesome sight, seeing a thing get chopped up like that and leaking blood everywhere.

Feeling a bit queasy, though that could have also been from dehydration, she covered her mouth and took a deep breath. For someone who had moments ago shouted for the thing's death, she couldn't handle the actual killing!

On the bright side, this no doubt meant she could go home soon! Thank Hakeshna that had gone without a hitch!

That was Scarab's thought as, in the distance just behind them, the sand began to ripple.
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DaGlobster

The sand beneath them rumbled violently, and Borzclubb paused his assault on the wounded Ankheg to look. There was something else coming their way, something bigger. Behind Drex and Scarab, a much larger, much darker colored ankheg breached the sand, its monolithic black carapace casting a shadow over them. Before Drex could get his mount moving, it lunged forwards, knocking them both off of it as it snapped it up in its jaws.

Drex was on his feet in an instand, and he didn't even wait for Scarab to get up onto hers before he snatched her up under his arm and started running.

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