Itekan smiled, metal huh, he thought, I can just burn it down.
He kicked himself from his hiding spot and shot towards one of the chimera ants near him, as he arrived, he swung a pair of pincers that we're coated with spiritual energy at the ants neck, immediately a thin film covered his neck, the pincers meeting the film bounced off, sending Itekan back, as he fell back, he removed to other pincers from the pockets in his joggers.
" Mini Chajama!" Itekan said in the air, as he flung the pincers, his hands joined to do the hand signs.
Upon landing, the fire balls formed this time only numbered two, but each were with no doubt much more hotter, he sent them, lighting up the pincers in flames, as they struck the metallic film, they burst into flames, causing the chimera ant, he'd attack, shriek in pain.
Thud!
It fell dead, it's fellow guard seeing, this opened its mouths and shouted, a sound wave at a frequency to high for Itekan to hear was uttered, in the same moment, Itekan had reached it, he plunged the pincers in his hands straight into one of its beady eyes.
Green fluids burst out, from its sockets as it shrieked in pain, it stretching it's pincers back, took a swing at Itekan, aiming for the ribs, he saw this and using the pincers stick in it's eye to hold himself, he jumped high, just as the pincers were swung.
He landed atop it.
" Gotya!" Itekan said smiling, he letting go of his pincer sword leaped backward, he pointed his hand on front of the chimera ant like a gun.
" Chajama!" Itekan said, his hands already forming the hand signs.
Immediately a rain of fireballs poured on the chimera ant, burning it, and killing it instantly.
Itekan got up and stood in front of the crispy insect, that was blackened from the fire, he had done it, just beyond this cave entrance was the queen with the eggs.
Itekan decided to rest before he moved because his spiritual energy had been sorely depleted, he turned around, looking for a place to rest, then it happened.
Before he could move, Itekan sensed it, all the pores of his body that underwent the near scrapes with death told him, he was one step too close to death, and she was coming for him, immediately he leaped to his side.
Less than a second later a pincer swung, literally cutting the air in two.
Itekan felt himself sweat excessively as he stared at the monster before him. It was a full grown chimera ant, he same type he had just killed, but bigger, much and definitely much stronger.
Itekan stepped back instinctively, he was out of weapons and his spiritual energy reserves had bottomed out.
Itekan knew he was cooked.
***
A few hundred meters above the forest, Carpathia looked down worried, he had felt the sonic call the chimera ant had made, it was calling for help.
For a second he contemplated going down there to get him and just when he was about to he peeked down again.
Through the dense forest, all the way underground through the caves, to the deepest parts where Itekan stood, he saw the look on Itekan's face.
He had not given up!, he was currently thinking of way to win. Carpthia immediately knew he had not lost, and made the decision to keep watching in the shadows.
***
Itekan looked around the cave for anything he could use as a weapon.
Nothing! The cave pass ways didn't have a loose stone large enough to do real damage. Itekan squared his shoulders, entering a stance he had learnt from his father.
He moved his right leg to his side and took it backwards, then moving his left forward, he moved his hands to rest above his legs, his entire body was tense.
The two creatures in that cave passage stared at themselves for what felt like hour, was actually less than ten seconds, before it moved, swiftly, in a second it swiped a Itekan's face going for the neck.
The stance Itekan had currently, was something his father had created, he called it, the indomitable fists stance, it was a defensive stance, that although defense had the capacity to give a since attack burst that was was high in offense power.
Itekan at the same time, moved his right leg backwards across the dirt, turning his body sideways, dodging the swipe for his flesh.
Itekan felt something warm trickle down his flesh and soak his shirt, it was blood, his blood. Dispite his efforts, the chimera ant was incredibly fast, much faster than itekan, who dodged another clean cut, to his side, with the ant only nocking Itekan's thighs.
Itekan hissed from the pain, he and the ant started dancing around, Itekan dodging the deadly cut, thrown his way, surviving with minor cut.
Then suddenly, he struck back, just as he successfully dodged one of cuts, he had moved back into his original position, his palm, coated with dense spiritual energy, hit the chimera ant, straight on its neck which, turned metallic, the spiritual energy seeped through and burst out, causing, the metallic neck to burst.
The chimera ant shrieked in pain as it stepped back, but itekan followed it up, with two more hits, anywhere he could reach, the body part bursting immediately.
The chimera ant by now had lost one of its legs, had a gaping wound in it's chest and a hole in it's neck, it's green fluids pouring like a fountain.
It seemed as if it were trying to regenerate, Itekan did not give it time for that.
One of the reasons he took the attacks from the chimera ant, was because he was waiting for his spiritual energy to recharge, in the past few days he had noticed that whenever he ran out of spiritual energy, it took about ten minutes to recover, so he had endured the cuts, waiting for it to fill back.
" Maximum Chajama!!" Itekan said grabbing hold of the mutilated remains of the chimera ants neck with one hand, on his second hand was a large fireball, so hot, the surrounding walls of the cave went black, and started melting, Itekan swung this flaming monstrosity into the chimera ant, bursting it in flames.
Itekan let go as the chimera ant shrieked in pain, and shook as the fire burnt it.
Itekan did not wait, he knew that more would probably be coming, he immediately rushed into the queens chambers.
Once inside he saw, a huge worm like creature, with a bee like head, it resemble a massive pulpa, it lay sprawled all around the cave, in a big mush, there were several eggs at its centre, all of different colors, but he did not see the golden egg he was to find.
He looked all around searching for it, then he saw it, it was under the body of the massive queen.
Itekan walked towards it slowly, he had not moved far before he heard movement, the queen was awake.
She shifted her long body revealing the egg, which was nearly as large as Itekan's head. The egg seemed to be radiating spiritual energy much pureier than those he absorbed at the mountain.
Itekan turned to see the Ant Queen staring at him, then she spoke.