Rahan. Episode 33. The Monster from another Time! by Roger Lecureux. A Puke (TM) Comic.

Rahan.

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Episode Thirty-Three.

The Monster from another Time!

The son of Crao knew that hand to hand combat with the charging gorilla would be fatal to him.
That was why he threw his knife, hoping to stop the assailant.
Ra-ha-ha!

Grargh!
But he had launched his cry of victory too soon!
Although the ivory blade had stuck in the hairy chest, it had not reached any vital organ.

The pain increasing its rage, the animal snatched the weapon and threw it away.
Rahan is lost! He will die like Toak and Crakaa!

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Rahan remembered a hunt during which, still a child, he had witnessed the end of two men, suffocated and crushed by one of these monstrous "Four-Hands".

Gragh!
While the gorilla hammered his injured chest, Rahan, disarmed, sought refuge in the thickets.

And it was then that he stumbled upon the root that the weeds hid from him!

He was about to get up when he noticed that this root was not a root.
But the handle of an ax!!

A huge axe, longer and heavier than any he had seen.
It may not be Rahan who will join the "Territory of the Shadows" "Four Hands"!

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The son of Crao, although robust, had to make an effort to lift the unusual weapon.
The gorilla was charging at him furiously.

And it was a violent and terrible blow.
The thick flint of the ax plunged into the monster's chest.
Ra-ha-ha!

The victorious clamor was this time justified.
You should not have tried to steal the life of Rahan "Four-Hands"!

Rahan hates killing.
Especially those who look so much like "Those-who-Walk-Upright"!
But Rahan must defend himself! Rahan wants to live!

Such is the law in these fierce times.
To kill in order not to be killed oneself.
To steal the life of an Adversary to preserve one's own.

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The providential axe still stupefied the son of Crao.
The hunter who lost this weapon must be much bigger than Rahan!

Would there exist, on this territory, stronger men than this "Four-Hands"?

Abandoning the heavy axe, Rahan went in search of his knife.
The ”Four-Hands” threw it over there. Over there in the thickets.

He quickly found his weapon, but a new surprise awaited him.
No! It's impossible! Rahan must be dreaming!

The knife was stuck in the ground in the middle of a gigantic imprint.
Similar footprints dug into the ground thirty paces away.
Rahan does not know any animal that leaves such large and deep tracks!

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Intrigued, and with a beating heart, the son of Crao followed this strange track which led him towards the forest.

To what territory had his destiny led him, where everything was so disproportionate?
Oh! A herd of "Two-tooth" couldn't have wreaked more havoc!!

But the tracks proved that only one animal had passed there and yet, over a width of twenty paces, the trees had been broken, uprooted!

Rahan wants to know!
Rahan wants to see the beast more powerful than a troop of "Two-tooth"!
The son of the fierce ages walked a long time in this trench dug in the jungle!

And suddenly his throat knotted.
He had the certainty of living a nightmare and, for the first time in his life, he felt overcome by dread.

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In a clearing, within an arrow's reach, stood a fantastic monster!
The head, the legs, the tail, everything about this unknown animal inspired horror.

Crao believed that giant beasts once haunted forests and rivers.
But he said that those monsters of times past had disappeared!

Could Rahan have in front of him the last survivor? Oh!
The gaze of the great saurian had just fixed on him!

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He could gobble up Rahan like a frog gobbles up a fly!
As the monster moved heavily, Rahan fled.

He heard the ground shake behind him and.
Argh!

A loose bamboo had suddenly straightened up and slammed him into the trunk of a tree!!
He freed himself quickly.

And resumed his mad dash.
This escape is also useless because the saurian.

Perhaps considering this prey too tiny and too agile, and unworthy of its voracity, it had turned back!

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But the son of fierce ages still fled unable to drive the horrible vision from his mind.

He was still running when loud laughter resounded in the thickets.
Ah! Ha-ha-ha!
The little man has met the "Karaka"!!

The hunters that sprung up around Rahan were far taller than him.
Do not be afraid, little man!
If the "Karaka" had wanted to devour you, it would have already been done!!

He must have found you too puny, "Little Man"!
Stop calling me "Little man"!!
I am Rahan, the son of Crao!!

Yes! Rahan was afraid of "Karaka"!!
But he is not afraid of you!
All those sardonic looks directed at him irritated Rahan.

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You hear! This puny stranger dares to challenge Gurg!! Ha-ha-ha!
These words were addressed from the one who seemed to be the chief of the clan.
Ha-ha-ha!

Laughing, with a simple push, the colossus threw Rahan to the ground!
I could break your spine in one fell swoop!!

Like this!
With one blow, indeed, Gurg broke a strong branch on his knee!
Crack!

Strength is not everything, Gurge!
Flexibility and cunning often triumph! Rahan can prove it to you!!

Ra-ha-ha!
The laughter redoubled when the son of Crao, crouching like a beast, dove into the chief's legs.

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Gurg did not even waver!
And it was Rahan who, thrown back by a violent kick, found himself on his back, a few steps from his adversary.

Rahan has not lost this fight yet, Gurg!
The astonished hunters saw the "Little Man" leap towards a vine, knife in hand!

It only took him a moment to cut through the vine, form a loop, and return to Gurg.
What do you hope for, "little man"!?
To knock you down!

The colossus rushed forward.
But as soon as he had lifted his foot. Rahan threw his vine.

No sooner had the knot tightened on Gurg's ankle than he was already spinning around him, entrapping the other leg!
Ra-ha-ha!

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The clan's cry of amazement turned into a clamor of admiration as Rahan unbalanced the leader.

The son of Crao circled again, using the vine with marvelous skill.
Gurg's arms were in turn bound.

And the colossus could not react when his opponent knocked him down.
Was Rahan not right when he said strength is not everything?!

No one before you has held Gurg at his mercy!
You can kill me! You have the right!

Rahan only steals the life of "Those who walk upright" when his own is threatened!
You did not want to kill Rahan, Rahan will not kill you!

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A dull hammering suddenly shook the ground.
The hunters scattered screaming in terror.
The "Karaka"!
The ”Karaka” is coming!

The terrifying head of the saurian appeared above the trees.
In a moment, the monster would be in the clearing.

Flee Rahan! Flee!
The time has come for Gurg to join the "Territory of Shadows"!
The son of the fierce ages could certainly have thought of his own life.

But the thought did not even cross his mind.
The ivory blade sliced through the vine in which Gurg was still entangled.
We will flee together, or we will die together!

Gurg was free when the monster of times past arose, in a noise of trampled thickets and shattered branches.

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Don't move Rahan!
Do not move! The "Karaka" almost never attacks hunters it believes to be dead!
It prefers agitated prey!

Huddled together Gurg and Rahan saw the saurian rush into the clearing.

When our men are thus surprised, they do as we do.
Alas! It happens that the "Karaka" sometimes crushes them, without even having seen them!!

The monster rushed straight ahead, stupidly, no doubt aimlessly.
He was only a hundred paces from the two men.

These, as if petrified, held their breath.
Should the "Karaka" deviate on its course, they would be crushed under its terrible paws!

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They felt like the ground was going to open up beneath them.
The huge crested tail of scales dug a trench in the tall grass.

And the monster disappeared in a new crash of branches.
And so it has been for seasons and seasons!

This "Karaka" lives alone on our territory but his threat constantly hangs over our clan.
Each time we tried to destroy it, we lost several of our own!

Why not lure him into a trap! Why suffer?
It's impossible!
The "Karaka" always follows the same tracks! He never departs from it!

Come to the village, Rahan.
I know my brothers have admired your agility.
I will tell them about your courage and loyalty!

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The son of Crao was indeed warmly welcomed by the clan of Gurg.
The mockery had given way to respect.

I despised you because you were small.
I was wrong!
Yes, Gurg! You were wrong.
Rahan has known many clans and many hordes!

He met hunters smaller than him, others bigger!
And he knows that strength alone is not a sufficient quality!

The size of "Those-who-walk-upright" is of no importance, if they know how to show courage, intelligence, kindness, and loyalty!!

Thoughtfully, Rahan fingered the necklace that Crao-the-wise gave him before he died.
The necklace, each claw of which symbolized one of the qualities he had just mentioned.

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What will Rahan do now?
Go to other territories, meet other clans?
Yes Gurg.

Rahan will leave, but he will not leave until he kills the "Karaka"!

Kill the "Karaka!
Rahan has lost his mind!
No! Rahan will kill it, if Gurg and his brothers will help him!

You said he always uses the same path?
It is on this track that we will set a trap for him!!
Rahan still does not know what trap, but he will think!!

That night the son of fierce ages turned over a thousand ideas in his head.
And.
As often, it was from a reminiscence that the best idea sprang.
He saw himself again, pursued by the "Karaka", stuck between a bamboo and a tree.

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And his imaginative spirit did the rest.
At daybreak, he had convinced Gurg, who in turn convinced his people.
All the hunters went on the track of the "Karaka".

It was easy for these sturdy men to carry out Rahan's orders.
All the branches of two flexible trees were cut like spears. Then.

Between these trunks spread to their maximum, was wedged a long and solid branch.
The "Karaka" will avoid this trap!
Not if Rahan lures him there, Gurg!

It was at dawn the following day that he son of Crao came up the trail.
He discovered the motionless monster in a clearing.

You are living your last day "Karaka"! So?
What are you waiting for to attack Rahan!?
There was something fantastic about this monstrous animal.

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The saurian observed this tiny man and moved.
A moment later he charged furiously at the son of Crao.

Gurg and his hunters on the lookout near the trap stood ready.
Rahan has made it! The "Karaka" is chasing him!!
Leaping between the thickets, Rahan felt the monster behind him.

He dove between the trunks of the trap.
The Saurian, head first, rushed there in turn.

It was then that the hunters let loose the branch that held the trunks apart.

His neck pierced by the branches, the "Karaka" whipped the ground with his heavy tail.
But it was impossible for him to get out of the trap!
Rahan promised to kill him! He will kill him! Lend him your axe, Gurg!

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The hunters, transfixed, witnessed a stupefying exploit.
Armed with the heavy axe, the son of the fierce ages avoided the blows of the monster's tail.

Ra-ha-ha!
Taking advantage of a moment when it stopped, he jumped on it!

A moment later, he was climbing the crest of the large scale-plated spine.
The thrashing of the "Karaka" could throw him to the ground.

But he knew how to cling to the scales and climb up the neck to reach behind the head.

Ra-ha-ha!
The heavy axe fell repeatedly, crushing the monster's skull.

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A little after.
The "Karaka" could have been in agony for days and days!
Rahan does not like to see even the most appalling beasts suffer!

The clan of Gurg, rid forever of this monster from another time, would now know security.

What are you doing?
Rahan kept his promise, he will leave you!
The blade of his knife will show him where to direct his steps!

A radiant Sun embellished the hills when the son of Crao saluted this Clan.
A volcano thundered in the distance.
Come back one day, "Little man"!
Farewell "Little Man"!
The words "Little-man" no longer held anything derogatory.
They were grateful, friendly, and brotherly.
Rahan was happy because, in these fierce times, these feelings were still rare in "Those-who-walk-upright".

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