THE LONG LOST LOVE - Chapter 73

“Princess..” Zoro talks to Athena using his earpiece.

“Hm?” She still focuses looking down calculating the best time to pull the parachute.

“Pull your parachute in another 5 seconds and cut your rope once you near the ground.” He reminds her.

“Okay Z..”

She looks at Shon, this is his first time going into a mission like this. Especially when he needs to use the parachute.

“I’ll guard him, you should not worry about him,” Zoro said again when he sees that Athena look at Shon.

“Mm.” she nods her head and pulls his parachute to open, just like what Zoro instruct her earlier.

All of them start to do the same thing. Once she near the tree that she should be landing, she pulls off the parachute.

Thud!

She landed on the huge tree branch.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Another three of them also land on the near tree with her. She touches her katana handle from behind her back of the body, ready to take out her black blade katana.

This katana is one of her favorites, it’s easy to use and very very sharp. its been designed by Zoro using the best materials in the world. it’s a bit old school because this katana can’t close like other Katana, but this one is a very effective one to go on the mission like this.

“Wait, don’t pull out your katana. We observe first.” Zoro said through the earpiece.

Athena retracts back her hand. All of them wear a spandex suit including Shon, except Ralph. He said he will look like a group of power rangers. While actually the suit is protected by the material so that it will not be easy to tear up or cut through.

“Don’t bother with him, he just uses his ability to find us a way to the right place.” Ralph said through the earpiece.

Athena and Zoro nod and wait for him to finish his talk with the squirrel.

After a few minutes, he finally has done talking and turns back at them. His eyes color changing back to normal color.

“Mr squirrel said that the area is now guarded by some of the wild beasts around this forest and some of other are too are now in a move to the place.” Shon starts to explain to them what he just asks the squirrel.

“How many? Can you handle it?” Ralph asks him.

“Too many and there is one problem more.”

“What problem?” Athena asks him.

“There is blood hunter group in this forest. They also expected us to come and get the extract. So, I guess they want to ambush us while we were busy with the beast.”

“Hmm. They always try to find a way to catch her. I think if they knew about your existence, they also will hunt you down.” Zoro shows his worried face.

“We can split into two groups. I and Zoro will attack the blood hunter while Shon and Ralph go and take the extract. Once we have done with the blood hunter, we will come and help back you guys up. How does that sound?” Athena tries to give a suggestion.

Zoro agrees with her and Ralph too. But Shon seems a bit hesitate. Maybe he was a bit scared to handle so many beasts alone until she returns. His skill is not to polish like Athena. His abilities too are not too advance like others.

Athena saw his hesitant face. She jumps to the branch tree where he was standing, she stood up and pats on his shoulder.

“It’s okay. I won’t take long to come to you. Just hold them down first okay. Do what you can first.” She tries to comfort him.

“Okay… I try what I can.”

“Don’t worry okay. I do as fast as I can.” she smiles to him and she turns to the other two.

“Should we get down now?”

“Yup. let’s go.” Ralph jumps from the branch to the ground and land safely. Followed by Zoro and Athena and Shon.

“So, which direction?” Zoro asks.

Shon shows the west direction while Ralph looks at his map. “Hmm, Shon was right. it supposed to be in the west.” He confirms it and they start moving to the west direction.

The forest is so silent with the chirping sound and sometimes they can hear river water flow near them. Zoro and Ralph lead the way while Shon and Athena guard from the back.

Shon uses his abilities to make all the wild animal not coming close to them or attacking them while they in the deep forest. They walked until afternoon and reached one of the native villages.

They all look at them like they were aliens. Most of the woman and children hurriedly went inside the house and close their window or door. While the men guard their village entrance with a wooden spear.

“Mau apa kalian di sini?” one of the man speak in native language.

Shon and Zoro look at each other. They do not understand what they said. While Athena and Ralph understood what he said.

Athena turns to look at both of them. “He asks, what our business coming here.”

Ralph look at one of the man and said. “Kami hanya lalu di sekitar sini.”

Again, Zoro and Shon look at Athena. “We just want to pass by here.” Athena does the translation.

“Kalian hati-hati disekitar sini malam ini. Ada haiwan buas yang sedang berkeliaran.”

“They said we should be careful at night here, there’s a wild animal lurking around here.” Athena said again and after Zoro and Shon nod, they follow behind Ralph and went passing the village.

They find a good hiding spot and rest before they start their mission tonight. They make a simple tent, Ralph laid his maps on the ground and all of them gather around the maps.

“Okay, so now we are here.” Ralph makes a circle on the maps using his marker before he continues again.

“So based on Shon information, the blood hunter is here.” He makes another circle on the maps and Shon nods his head.

“So, we split into two teams. Zoro and Athena will go here first, while I and Shon will go this direction.” he looks up to Athena and Zoro as both of them nod in agreement.

“We meet back at this point.” he circles the location of Moonflower.

“If you can, take them down within 15 minutes top. Because the Moonflower can’t hold on later than 30 minutes. it only sends away the scent for only 30 minutes to lure the beast all around this forest. If not…i guess we have to be the beast dinner for today.”

Athena smiles. “Don’t worry, I’ll revive you after that.”

“Oh no, please… I don’t know what will happen to my soul if you do that.”

“Okay, so we need to move out earlier than you, right?” Zoro asks.

He gives Ralph one device which is looking like a teardrop, small and very natural look. No one will think that was a tracker.

“This is a tracker. put this on your shirt or any part in your body. Once we’re done, we’ll come right at you.”

“Oh, thanks..” Ralph and Shon took the device and put on their inside pocket.

They finish their discussion and Athena went to her tent. She takes a nap and saving her energy for tonight’s fight.

…

“Hey princess..are you ready?” Zoro walks to her tent and looks at her who is currently checking on her weapon for the last time before she closed her katana with the black cover.

Zing!

“Yup. Let’s go.” she stand up and only carry her katana and her backpack. She looks at Ralph and Shon who also ready with their weapon. All of them uses their night vision contact lens to make it easy to move in the night.