Chapter 75：Sorry, I'm Late

Once Ralph's watch turns to 12 am, the moon flower starts to let out the sweet fragrance from the pollens. The scent is quite nice with a bit sweet and it can make animal and people wonder about the scent.

Ralph signaling Shon to use his abilities to create a path for them to go to that flower.

Nodding, he starts to changes his eye color. He controls all the animals from his mind and makes all of them make a way for Ralph to approaching the flower.

All of the animal growling to him and Shon. The Tigers and lion start to dig the sand and showing their fangs. Their eyes hitching a color of golden and sometimes its change back to its normal color. Shon can't hold them down for too long because there were so many of them surrounding them both right now.

He took out his tweezer and small cutter like scissors before he took out an ampule glass for the extract. He cut the flower stem very carefully like he was doing some complicated surgery. Once he has done, he immediately closes the ampule and the scents start to fade out. It makes all the animal in a raging mode.

While Shon was busy controlling the animals, suddenly Ralph was attacked by one of the big Phyton. The phyton starts to convolute him and his hand which is holding the ampule lose his grip and the ampule fall to the ground. Another snake starts to twist the bottle.

"Urgh!"Ralph face almost turn blue. He couldn't breathe because of the Phyton grip on his body so tight.

Shon immediately turns to him and try to control the Phyton. While he was trying, his focus on the other animal start to lose and the tigers and lions take the turn to attack him.

Luckily Athena and Zoro come at the right moment before the Tigers start to attacking Shon.

Athena swings her katana to a few of them. Fighting with the animal is more challenging than fighting with humans. You can't guess what will the animal do and their pattern of attacks keep changing.

Zoro runs to the big Phyton. He took out his knife and jump to the body of the Phyton which is a size of hundred years old trunk of a tree.

Slicing the body, the Phyton release Ralph a bit and went to attack Zoro using his wide-open mouth and fangs with is a size of a tree branch.

"Whoa!" He helps Ralph which is now in slime state. He can't move at all. While he was not noticing, the snake wants to attack him.

Swooosh!

One person falls from the sky with a double edge sharp spear slicing the Phyton's fangs. She landing on the Phyton's body and just ten inches from Zoro and Ralph.

She looks up and smiles at both of them. "Sorry, I'm late."

She turns around and swirling her spear ready to attack the Phyton. Zoro was totally stunned with her appearance. 'Who is she?'

"Who...Who is she?"Ralph also asks the same question.

"Huh? You don't know her? Is she not one of your team?" Zoro asking him back. And Ralph shakes his head telling him that he doesn't know who is that woman.

"Weird." Zoro mumbling. But then, he brushes off the thought when he remembers they were in the middle of fighting right now.

"Can you get up? Where is the extract?" He asks.

"Oh damn! The ampule is.." He turns around and runs his eyes around their position. "There!" he wants to get up but his body feels so weak and a bit numb.

Zoro also looks in the same direction as Ralph. He helps Ralph to the side and he also brings Shon which is now a bit shaking and scared.

"You wait here with Ralph. I try and get the ampule. And Shon, try to control them from this point. Don't let Ralph alone. They look like they want to attack the one who takes the extract." Zoro said and Shon nods in understanding.

He then took out his arrow and aim at one of the snakes. The snake wriggled the body and the ampule release from it.

He went there and took the ampule. He slips it in his pocket and wants to return to the Ralph and Shon. But then there was a grizzly bear out of nowhere dashing to him.

"What the F.." he run and climb the tree. Not only the bear, the lions, the tigers, the baboons and also the bison from nowhere is surrounding him below the tree.

He wants to shoot all of them, but judging from the outside, all the animal is actually attracted by the moon flower extract. They want it so eagerly, that is why they behave like this.

"Shon, is there any way to make them go?" Zoro asks through the earpiece.

"They won't go until the dawn."

"What?!" Zoro almost shouted.

"The effect. They only turn back into normal once the sun is rose tomorrow morning." Ralph confirm it again.

Zoro turns silent, he then looks at the ground where Athena was still fighting the animal and that girl is also fighting the phyton.

He then took out his last arrow which is has a gas weapon at the end of the edge of the blade.

"Athena, bring that girl up to the tree branches. The higher the better. Ralph, can you stand up right now?" Zoro tries to sort out a new plan.

"I can. But if you want me to climb the tree. I think I can't." Ralph said helplessly.

"Then, change the plan. Athena brings Ralph to climb up the tree, while that girl goes with Shon. I will shoot in fifteen seconds." Zoro instructs them.

"Roger." All of them agree.

20 minutes earlier.

"Silver Fox, we arrive at the location." the pilot said through the aviation headset.

"Alright. Open the door." Rachael said while she zips up her suit. She gets an order from his father who sends her to secretly escort her sister in law in a mission.

"Be careful Miss Silver Fox."

"Thanks, Mr. Pilot." she jumps out from the jet and opens up her spear, slicing the tree and branch before she saw a huge Phyton in the middle of the battleground.

"Oh shoot!" she did not expect to land straight at the Phyton. However, she changes her spear direction and slashes the fangs before she makes an awesome landing.

Thud!

Her wavy and brown hair cover half of her face. When she looked up, she saw a man's face in front of her. So handsome and tall too.

She smiles suddenly and said, "Sorry, I'm late."

'I'm late? I'm late for what?' She blushed and immediately turn around and focus back on her real intentions coming here.

She fights the Phyton which is already badly injured. The animal starts to come at her once after she takes down the Phyton. The Phyton is really hard to deal with.

"Rachael?" Athena shout her name once she saw her and they lean their body to each other for a bit.

"Sorry, but this is a special request from my dad to yours. But don't worry. My brother doesn't know about this." She said and huffing a little.

"Are you okay? Is this your first mission?" Athena ask. Her voice was still soft.

"Yes, I'm okay. This is my twenty-fifth mission. Don't worry too much. I'm the best that my father's base got." She smiling at her sister-in-law before she swings her spear at the baboon who suddenly attack her.

Athena also defending herself from the attack from the lion and tiger which is coming to her at once.

"There's too many. We can't win against them with just us three who is in the battle. Shon can't use his abilities for too long too." Athena said and glance at Racheal to make sure she was within the reach.

"Athena, bring that girl up to the tree branches. The higher the better. Ralph, can you stand up right now?" Zoro suddenly said through the earpiece.

She just nods as agree and went over to Rachael before Zoro said again.

"Then, change the plan. Athena brings Ralph to climb up the tree, while that girl goes with Shon. I will shoot in fifteen seconds."

Athena looks at Rachael and signaling her to fetch the Shon and find the higher tree to climb up.

Rachael nod and dash to Shon together with Athena.