Chapter 4

His heart was beating erratically. Who was it? Why would they even go as far as using his ancestry to refer to him?

JUST WHO WAS IT?!

Gabe was starting to mentally panic as he he tightened his fingers around Tesa's arm. He was trembling and his hands started to get sweaty.

"You almost look exactly like the goddess herself, too. Except a male version."

Gabe shut his eyes, in hopes that it would help their situation. But it didn't. And it won't. The voice simply kept taunting them.

"But you lack Haliya's courage. You're weak. You can't even move from your spot or open your eyes. Ha, you're useless. But maybe you'll taste as good as one of those moon deities."

"This isn't funny anymore, damn it!" Gabe screamed and buried his face into Tesa's back.

"This isn't funny." He sobbed weakly.

"That's it, Gabe." Tesa suddenly whispered to him. Gabe tried to look at Tesa but when he opened his eyes, he immediately locked eyes with a horrifying creature.

Ridiculously large lips that nearly fills its face. A horse's mane that ran down from his head to its butt. It looked frail with its thin arms and legs. But it had a horribly large reproductive organ dangling heedlessly between its legs. Gabe wanted to scream, but even his voice was scared to come out of his mouth. He never heard of a creature that fit this one's appearance.

Say something funny.

He heard a female voice whisper into his ears.

He would, but he can't. He couldn't even scream for his own life, much less come up with a joke out of the blue. He may be good, but he wasn't that good!

All he could think about was that dangling thing and where Tesa could be. He was sure Tesa was in front of him, but now, she was replaced by this ugly looking black creature that had a huge mouth and an equally large male organs.

Make it laugh or else you'll have to consider your friend dead. And you, too.

The voice whispered firmly to him, but as much as he wanted to, Gabe was never a comedian. He couldn't even crack a decent joke to his sister. But he knew the theory with jokes. It would only work if the receiver of the joke could actually comprehend it or could, in a way, relate to it. He can't say something that would be out of this world.

But the thing is, he couldn't come up with a joke.

Hurry up, damn it! The voice was persistent.

Fine, here goes nothing...

"Juan: Tanungin mo ako ng English, sasagutin kita ng Spanish. (Ask me in English and I'll answer your question in Spanish)

Pedro: What is more important? Heart or Mind?" He paused, as if waiting for the tension to build.

"So Juan answered: Spanish!!!"

Gabe actually felt good with his joke, but when he looked at the creature, it's lips merely twitched.

Oh god, I'm going to die. I'm going to die, I'm going to die.

"Ah, you finally figured out what I am," the thing said and walked a step closer to Gabe.

I'm really going to die, oh my god, please forgive me for all the sins I've done. Please let me enter heaven, or something that looks like the heaven of a religious person... anything heaven-like, please. I'm sorry I didn't believe in you sooner. But please...

Gabe was mentally and spiritually preparing himself for his demise. But the voice came again and told him to pull it together and try again. It even suggested a joke to him. But this time, instead of reciting the joke to the creature, he kept bursting into small spurts of laughter.

"Oh my gosh, this is really funny," He said in between laughter.

You're a horrible comedian and you have a really shallow humour. The female voice remarked.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

The creature laughed. It kept laughing as it joined Gabe's awkward sounding laughter.

Eh, your laugh does sound funny and contagious. Grab your friend and run. NOW.

And that was what he did soon after Tesa appeared before his eyes. She appeared as though she got into a brawl and was fighting to keep her clothes on.

They ran as fast as they could as the creature kept laughing his head off.

Quite literally, to be honest. Because, as it laughed, its whole face is covered with its huge lips, thus it was unable to see anything.

When they reached a clearing, Tesa decided that it was okay to stop. They were both panting heavily.

"Ugh, I hate those tambaluslus." She grumbled.

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