30 Inside the cave (1/2)
It was dark. No sunshine reached the depths of this cave. On the way deeper, they encountered countless of these bats only to be killed by the group. It seemed to be an easy mission as the beasts were quite weak on their own, but they had numbers on their side. There were countless of these giant blood suckers.
If one of the Saiyans were to be on his own it would have been tough but now in a group of 4, they were bulldozing through the cave in the search of the nest of these bats.
They were instinctively attracted towards special blood crystals which they used to enhance their body. The group was ordered to find this crystal and eliminate all the bats inside. They were to bring back the crystals as prove of their success.
2 hours in, they were seeing different bats with 4 wings on their backs. They remembered Broly of the pokemon Crobat but it was still no match for them.
Another hour passed, and they finally made it to a big hall, deep underground. On the walls were some blood crystals scattered around but strangely they didn't see a single bat inside. All they could find was a few bones, unknown from what it stemmed from, and a blood trace towards the opposite exit.
”We should follow the blood trail, maybe they were killed off by a stronger beast.”
Alea said in a quite voice as they observed the surroundings inside. Broly found it funny that she was completely calm during the whole ordeal but Taro, the self-proclaimed strongest, was quite nervous from the get-go. He seemed to get anxious underground. He was easily started by anything that moved. Quite amusing to see a Saiyan, the warrior race, shout out because of a little rat.
”I- I think we sh-should just pick up a blood crystal an-”
”And leave? The village has problems with the bats, that's why they asked for assistance! The bats were probably chased out because of whatever is deeper inside. We have to kill it, so it will be safer for them. We can't leave just because we fulfilled a mission's condition, we have to be through and through with this or there will be bad consequences.”
Alea rebuked as she was more out to help the villagers than complete the mission, uncommon for normal Saiyans, but Broly figured that the new generation would handle their business quite different in the future.
”Let's first follow the blood trails, suppress your ki. We will first check out what we deal with and then decide our future moves. So, for now be quite.” Aize was quite solemn, still being vigilantly about the surroundings as he moved towards the blood trails.
Affected by the mood, Alea and Taro stopped arguing and put on a more serious face. They followed Aize who was leading them to through the exit.
For half an hour they moved through the 5-meter-high tunnels. After some time, they started to hear something snoring, moving closer to the end of the tunnel which was shining in a red hue.
The closer they got, the heavier the stench of blood was.
The stepped through the exit, their eyes adjusted to the light after more than 3 hours of darkness. Naturally they still used their ki sense, so they had a general idea what was inside.