Chapter 255 - Take off your Clothes!

They pulled the smaller Ratbugs through the floor and afterwards threw them through the little opening behind them, Dragging the Queen out however became troublesome since she is a lot bigger. They thought that she is around 100 Kilograms, but when they grabbed this 4 foot tall Ratbug to drag it out, it felt a lot heavier!

"Damn what has this thing been eating?" Complained Samantha, she is a bit smaller here and younger in age so she is having a bit of trouble when it comes to giving an even Contribution! "Dragging a Wild Boar would be easier than this!"

The fact that they are touching these disgusting creatures also tends to mess with their will power, necessarily partially defines how much strength they can give at this. Seeing the Queen's 6 foot long tail didn't make the situation any less uncomfortable.

"She probably ate her mating partners." Zelimia joked around and let out a little giggle after, it is important to keep a positive attitude after all of this I suppose.

Thanks to this joke, Samantha broke in to hard fulfilling laughter as well. "Hahahahahahahahahaha!" Her tone echoed across the den and behind them too, thanks to laughing this hard she lost a bit of focus and lost balance after.

Her foot slipped and she ended up knee deep underneath the Queen, they have been dragging her from behind since one of the Queen's feet is blown off at the front hands. Luckily this little slip didn't cause any damage but a little embarassmant and laughs getting louder from both of them.

Zelimia was holding her stomach out of laughter as she bent down with he face turning red and tears dropping, how funny could a situation based on Ratbugs get?

"Bite her tail!" Zelimia proceeded to joke around further after she managed to catch her breath, but only ended up being short of it when Samantha replied.

"Ew no! We don't eat the tail part what's the matter with you!" She did a little complain, grabbed the Queen's 6 foot long tail and whipped Zelimia around her upper leg with it!

Jumping around trying to avoid the tail, she bounced her way behind Samantha and pulled her away from the Ratbug even though she disagreed and wanted to fight more, but actually she was just trying to fight off her blush of embarassmant, the tail almost worked for such a case completely. Let's say her blush is hidden by the fact that they got red laughing.

She got Samantha on her feet and gave her a little hug from behind to calm down her vengeful attempts, to put this awkwardly adorable situation to and end, more Ratbugs popped out of the hole at the other end of this den. This time however, 3 came out at once.

"Let me show you how to shoot!" She grabbed Zelimia's hug as she was still under her hug, "Shoot when I tap."

By the time they were ready for battle, the closest Ratbug was about 2 meters away and coming in quick! Samantha tapped Zelimia's arm and shot! The aim before the shot was quick, she just moved Zelimia's arm slightly to the right and tapped.

The second Ratbug was further on the right and it clumsily smashed many of these fragile eggs as it ran through with a hint of rage! Samantha dragged Zelimia's arm further to the right and tapped on it right after!

The shot didn't miss at all and like the first it too was fatal, each shot is on the head. "It is the best way to kill most animals or enemies." Samantha often specified before they met with this situation.

The third Ratbug was further to the left so it required a bit of faster thinking, especially since it only is a meter away now! To make the situation worse it took a sharp turn right a split second before Zelimia was tapped on her arm to shoot!

The shot actually missed and the Ratbug used the carcass of its dead brother to make a big leap, jumping a meter high! Samantha tried to aim as fast as possible but had no luck, to herself she thought. "Oh I screwed up!" And closed her eyes awaiting the rat bug and its disgustingly filthy buck teeth.

She heard a set of Fire having a strong impact very close to where she was standing, she opened her eyes and saw the Ratbug in front of her feet with its head blown off! "I have two hands." Zelimia joked around as she grabbed Samantha's hands and straightened them down, giving a tight hug after.

"Thanks for teaching me how to shoot." She joked in a low intimidating tone, whispering in Samantha's ear actually. It was easy since she(Samantha) is a bit shorter, "Now let's get these Ratbugs out of here shall we?"

Samantha was left with her cheeks red boiling in a blush, but couldn't say anything about it as a result. Keeping her head down she grabbed the Queen's leg and started pulling!

When they reached the little hole of which they removed the bricks out of, they found out that the queen is a bit too wide to fit through! They pushed as hard as they could but no luck, that's when Samantha got a little idea!

"I'll try to pull from the other side!" She explained under a low tone and seeing the foot wide opening above the Ratbug Queen, she jumped head in and tried to slip through. She found herself in another slightly embarrassing situation, she became stuck with the Ratbug!

"Shit, I'm stuck!" Samantha told and heard Zelimia burst into laughter after!

"How can "The Assasin" trap herself with a Ratbug?" She joked around with an air poke, giggling her way through the sentence.

"Just shut up and push me out!" We should pay attention to the word play here, she said "push me out." instead of saying, "pull me out." A task of which would have been a lot easier strength-wise but she would have to reveal her boiling red cheeks to Zelimia.

"God this Ratbug smells even worse when torched!" Samantha complained as she tried to push herself out while Zelimia was still laughing from the top of her lungs. "Push me out!"

"Alright alright." Zelimia finally answered with a little giggle and lifted her by the legs just enough to push her arm underneath to get a better grip.

Giving a dash of a push after, Samantha slipped through as she dragged Dirt along with her. "This would have been a lot easier if you took your fur clothing off!" Zelimia specified with no impure intend, Samantha does wear full leather clothing underneath after all and this fur clothing makes her look almost twice the size, she looks like a walking fur ball.

"No deal." Samantha answered and to cease Zelimia's thoughts from jumping into conclusions, she added. "Its cold here."

They both knew that this was a little lie, the temperature here is good enough for her to fare well a few seconds without the fur coat. Eric is still walking around without one ever since he gave it to Bittore.

But getting back to the case, they squeezed the Queen through and afterwards spared no second to throw the smaller Ratbugs through. Giving them a little look, Zelimia considered this a bit of a win. They had no food but the one Mogranius and Eric provided. "After we butcher these Ratbugs, I think we can manage to get 200 Kilograms out of them. Enough to provide food for a week until we bring one or two Blue Eagles down!" Apart from the 15 ladies, there still are 42 people to feed. They can't base the food situation on luck.

All of the Rats are shot down, and it doesn't look like there are more of them. If they came here a couple of weeks later, they would probably have to deal with hundreds of smaller rats which can indeed prove troublesome.

"So what do we do now? Just burn the eggs?" Asked Samantha after calming her self down, looking for a solution from someone older and in some aspects smarter.

"Yes, but we also have to fill that hole across this tunnel there. Who knows how many others can pop out of there!" A good idea indeed, the last thing they need is to get attacked by these creatures at night when everyone is asleep.

"But how would we do th..." Samantha tried to ask, but her word was cut short by a Fireball raging through the air and hitting the 2 foot wide hole, shaking everything down.

It hurts both of them to kill so many unborn critters, but if these Ratbugs get into a food supply, 57 people can get infected and die! They have to keep the Ratbug situation under control! They could of course let this hatchery expand and hide the food well enough, but Ratbug meat tastes disgustingly sour.

Zelimia set a blaze of the eggs from below and surprisingly the fire spread quite quickly, these eggs are surprisingly flammable. They found their selves in between Fire from all sides, even from eggs attached above their heads. So to escape a possibly chance of being burned alive, they swiftly walked out of the Cave.

"What's the plan after the Fire shuns down?" Asked Samantha, eager to know if they can leave now or not.

Tapping Samantha's hat to shun a little Fire set on her shoulder, Zelimia explained. "We will just shake the place down and place these bricks on their former position."