“Rap,rap,rap.”
They woke in complete darkness. A banging somewhere. It sounded to Bessie like someone was trying to break into the farm silo. A sudden panic overwhelmed her remembering the boss enemy knocked into drowning in the millions of grains below. She threw off Jed to start crawling forward. The cold metal catwalk was lined with bumps swaying on wobbling lines from the darkness above.
“Jed?”
Jed felt the cold without her warmth and looked around with a confused expression. He opened his mouth with a feeling of disappointment.
“What are you doing?” he stuttered.
Bessie turned with a smile as the coast was clear.
“I can’t believe we got em. All those enemies were slaughtered. Now some well deserved honey,” she said, suggestively.
“I can't hear anything at all dear." He shrugged. "My hearing is completely destroyed from combat but I’m still good as a seat.” he winked.
Jed might not have heard her tone but liked the shacking boogie in his face.
“Shit well if we get the money again those techno witch doctors will fix anything,” she said to herself. “It’s gonna have to be from robbing a train or something though ain’t nothing growing in these hills.”
“What?” he asked.
“Nothing.”
“I can’t hear?” He yelled.
[Smooch!]
She could tell he was getting tense to something stupid so she turned on a dime and started kissing. The previous intense use of abilities to defeat multiple bosses had completely drained their energies. They had been knocked out for an unknown amount of time. His legs rested more before they could even summon the energy to walk home. Passionate lovemaking was also off the table so they made due for slowly exploring.
There would probably be easy zombies to farm when the rooster crows. He whispered dirty things in her ear in the dark. She tried the same but he had become deaf from her ultimate ability. Jed trembled on realizing he would be unable to ever be able to hear the phrase “I love you” and it was very depressing. She started using her hands as love language. He shed a couple tears but forgot about it. The sickly sweet love was hairs stand, thighs twitch, and armpits sweaty. At least he could still smell and taste her.
Their lovemaking made a magic aurora around them. It was like a convenient plot device rapidly returning their lost mana super quickly. It felt good to be playing by the rules while pretending to be cheating. Victories came too easily to get too big for their britches.
For as much fun as Bessie was having in the moment they had gone from great communicators to her partner being kinda like a caveman. He was grunting like a wild animal now. Oh well yeehaw.
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[Jed Smash]
The door to the outside was kicked open at full force.Jed used his new found strength to break through while knocking away a horde of zombies crowding the other side. It had taken a long time for them to get to this point. Now the two seemingly super powered knights walked into the moonlight.
Bessie turned to him looking fearful.
“What is it?” He said, peering over the edge of the environment below.
The former farmland was an apocalyptic zone. There was nowhere to hide nearby except a soup of steaming asteroids and craters that had pulverized the tators. His eyes moved further back towards the even worse zone one of the witches had cast [napalm death] ruining it in green slushy forever chemicals.
“It should be well into the morning.” He stopped as the alarm bells started ringing. “Maybe we slept 48 hours.”
She tapped his shoulder and shook her head in strong disagreement. He turned back to the battlefield to see zombies sprinting.
“Sigh that last armored witch is still around and until she’s gone these lands are under her dungeon spells that’s why the other bosses on the scene after are weaker. They are in her magical arena.” Jed theorized without anyone able to correct him.
She tapped on the blue box on his chest and tried sign language for the first time. Jed couldn’t read himself or her very well and looked confused. She pointed back inside the silo and then at his watch. He saw she was getting frustrated trying to mouth words. Oh she was saying “no XP.” What does that mean?
Suddenly the silo began to shake violently like an earthquake. Jed couldn’t hear the howls but he saw her face white as a ghost and filled with horror. It was like a small cyclone was building as the air was sucking them backwards towards the opening to the angry shifting sea of grain. At that moment Jed realized the werewolf was still living. He grabbed her arm and jumped over the edge while all the air was sucked.
“Crash.”
They tumbled into a zombie smushing it underneath their combined weight. It helped break the fall but they were still very disoriented.
“CREEEEEEAAAAAAAK!”
The ear splitting sound effect was right next to them and had Bessie shielding herself. Jed only noticed the increasingly growing cracks forming in the metal silo.
“Man we can’t catch a break… Let’s run back home now,” he yelled, climbing to his feet.
They sprinted away at full speed.
“I’ll huff and I’ll puff until I have my revenge HOWL!” growled the angry animal still contained in the grains.
Bessie ran ahead with more points allocated in quickness than Jed. He was persistent and stayed running even with aching joints and muscles. The air began carrying them back towards the silo. It was a full on turbo suction like a shop vacuum. They grabbed and hugged onto rocks whilst zombies collided. The werewolf gobbled air like a pig gulping everything including the dirt for a root. Jed was being pulled backwards and losing grip. He couldn’t see if Bessie was alright either. Just had to keep fighting to hold on. Suddenly they fell to the ground as the suck stopped as quickly as it started.
They found each other entangled but this time it was annoying when they had limited time to run. Bessie slithered away sprinting back towards the home where she was born on ground no longer familiar.
“PUFF!”
“CLANG,Bang, Tang!”
With a great burst of air the grain silo was split apart at the seams. Some flying chunks of metal catapulted into the environment while others were dust.The next phase had started and it was looking like the difficulty had doubled. It was funny it was raining popcorn when that wasn’t what they had seen on the surface until she heard a whistle.
“Ooof.’
Bessie rugby rushed Jed knocking him out of the danger close impact. Where they had just been was a giant chunk of razor sharp heavy metal.