Ares: Never Grow Up
Slime eradication efforts!

..."Ares ... can we still escape?"...

POV: Ares

"Don't ask me, I don't know either" I said, gulping violently. How not? In front of me is already plastered slime that is as big as a stadium for football.

What exactly did he eat to this size?! Though I believe the living things in this city are very limited. The animals? A plant? Whatever it is, what is certain now the size is not kidding.

GREB.

I clasped Vani's hand tightly, as the mucus started to sit right above my head. I can hear my heartbeat racing.

Tests.

"AREST!" shout Vani. In a matter of seconds, I immediately pulled Vani's hand to fly with me. The mucus that was originally on top of me, fell down as if it wanted to pounce on us.

"Sorry, Vani. This way it will be easier" I said and hugged Vani's waist and brought her closer to me. I was flying at a low altitude, probably only about 3 meters above the ground. As I meandered, I dodged the falling slime droplets.

Even the droplets he dropped, the size was not playful. Maybe the size of a small bus? For sure, once I touch that slime. Maybe I can't get out of there.

"Ares! We have to fly higher, I can't see the road from this height!" vani said while pulling the shirt on my shoulder. I nodded, but even so. I can't fly higher than this for now. That slime still covered the sky above me, as if he himself had turned into his sky.

"Patience, if we fly up now, I'm sure we'll just stay by name" I said, still avoiding the fall of the red mucus.

"I'm sorry, my strength is useless in this situation" Vani said with a sad look.

"It's okay. We still have more than a thousand ways," I replied with a smile. I continued to fly until my eyes saw an open drain.

If not wrong, this is our previous gathering place right?! Goody! I can direct it through here!

"Hold Van! We're going down now!" I said and hugged Vani's head. I immediately flew down a sharp cornering, straight down towards the bottom.

Whunggs!

The sound of the rushing underground water had already entered my auditory senses. Right, I got into the waterways to inhibit that mucus in our pursuit.

Plung! Plung! Plung!

"As I thought, they won't be able to get directly into this waterway" I said, lowering Vani on the waterway. This hallway is indeed stuffy and smelly, but this could be one of the experiments on this slime weakness.

"Vani, let's do the plan!" I said and took out the lighter I made yesterday. This is a gas-type lighters, so it's pretty easy to light them up.

"All right!" vani said then opened another water channel. More precisely, the dirt channels. As soon as Vani opened the channel, a foul smell instantly filled this place.

"It's not an ordinary stench of course, it's a gas released from this accumulated dirt," I said and prepared to start a lighter. Vani saw me ready to start the fire, he immediately grabbed my hand and lowered the lighter.

"Are you stupid?! We'll die if you turn it on now!" furious Vani. I was silent for a moment. Right too, am I not still inside this gas area as well?

"Oh! Waita minute!" I said then gave the lighter to Vani. Imagine a grenade with a seal still stuck.

The cring!

"Granat? What's for?" ask Vani.

The tring!

The grenade glowed for a moment.

THE DUAR!

THE WHUSSH!

The impact of the explosion was like it was spreading throughout this passageway. It must be because of the dirt gas that made the fire spread further. I continued to fly while holding Vani, until my eyes had found a bright spot. That's the drain point of the waterway, the river.

I flew out of the hallway, followed by a fire that spread out like a tornado. After arriving on the mainland, I put Vani by the river, while seeing if it could kill the slime or not.

"Have we succeeded?" vani asked while gulping nervously. I was also nervous waiting for the results.

"We can't see it from here, let's go back there!" I said to Vani.

"Wait on! So you keep flying! Won't your chast be full soon?!" ask Vani. I realized, right too! I did not pay attention to my chast and instead continued flying! My eyes immediately looked towards the chast in my right hand.

"What's? Not ... up to half a loh?" manya admire.

Though from there I flew there to here, but my chast is only filled a little. In this case, I can fly even longer! Why would ya? It used to be full fast.

"Hmm, looks like Ken's theory is correct! The more you use your strength, the better your chast endurance will be!" vani said with a smile. I nodded slowly, then took Vani's hand.

"Come?" I asked Vani.

"Come on!" vani.

We flew again and headed towards the previous place. From a height equivalent to a skyscraper, Vani and I watched from above. The mucus was motionless, there was some mucus also invisible to dry up.

"Did the effect of the explosion work?" muttered.

"That's mempan! Look at! The dried up mucus can no longer return to its original body!" vani said while pointing at the dry mucus that just stayed still and started to evaporate. Due to the effect of the explosion earlier, the originally slime was the size of one stadium. Half of the stadium is now.

"And it seems, the slime also fainted?" I asked when I saw that the mucus was no longer reacting. He was just silent like a red jelly that was floating in the middle of the city.

"Then what now?" ask Vani. I stared at Vani for a moment and decided to lower him on the edge of a tall building. Tired of also carrying him there to here.

"We wait until he reacts" I said and sat down on the edge of the building. The wind here is quite strong, plus the air is hot because it is daytime. No, the air's not too hot. Maybe because human activities are drastically reduced, so give nature a chance to improve themselves.

"I became sleepy because of this wind" said Vani then leaned his head in his hand.

"Don't get sleepy, we'll fly again after this" I said and stood up. Vani looked at me confused.

..."Look, he's up."...

TBC.

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