" Use another seismic shock bomb." A soldier jumped off a car and started running.
Behind him, the sand rose like a moving mound, he knew it was chasing after him and it was moving fast.
" Prepare the harpoon guns." Harpoon guns mounted on the military trucks pointed towards the running soldier.
The rising mound got closer turning into a sand wave, the soldier stabbed the seismic shock bomb in the sand and jumped to the side.
He jumped just in time, a massive worm nearly 2 metres thick jumped out of the sand right where he had been.
Looking at it razor sharp teeth spinning like chainsaws he knew survival in there was zero.
He immediately pulled out his gun, the worm turned towards him as if it could see him then dived.
" Ahhhhhh!" Bang bang bang, he fired three shots rapidly but they bounced off its thick much covered skin.
Just as the giant grinder mouth was about to devour him, two harpoons pierced through its skin.
They latched into the worm, it shook its massive body and roared, a grinding screech pierced through their ears.
" Pull!" The leader shouted and the trucks started pulling on the worm. The worm tried to shake off the harpoons to no avail.
The trucks pulled it back, the struggle lasted for nearly 25 minutes. " Damn, this fucker is a hard one." The leader cursed.
He too was just as confused as his soldiers about this situation, such a large worm should not exist yet it did.
" Shoot it down." He ordered and guns started blazing. While the damage dealt by each bullet was not much.
Thousands of them were flying it at one after another, blood gashed like rivers from its massive body.
Even its rapid healing could not keep up, the worm struggled and screeched loudly. This made the soldiers more confident.
" Can you see that boys? The bastard can die, put it down for me, remind it of the might of our country’s military."
" Yeah!" The soldiers shouted back as one, they were more enthusiastic now even though they’ve lost some people.
They were soldiers, losing comrades was part of the job description, moping over it wouldn’t help anybody.
They three grenades at it shaving off even more of its flesh. The two trucks holding it down struggled, a testament of its strength.
Snap, suddenly one of the cables snapped in half, the truck skidded back before they were able to stop it.
The last remaining truck failed to hold back the worm on its own, it dived into the sand and started swimming.
The truck was pulled across the desert no matter how hard they tried to drive backwards ot use breaks, nothing worked.
The worm was too strong but still, the truck managed to slow it down and prevent it from diving too deep.
At it currently depth, the bullets from heavy machine guns could still reach it even if their effects were lowered.
Grenades dealt even more damage, the worm started slowing down as if losing strength.
Its blood painted the desert sand black, eventually it stopped moving and the truck pulled it back up.
They could hear low cries from it but it was obvious it no longer had the strength to fight back.
Its wounds were not even regenerating anymore. They finished it off and after confirming it was dead.
The leader took out his radio to report back to base. " Good soldier, bring back the body for examination."
" Roger." He hung up then turned towards his soldiers. " Congratulations you maggots, you just took down a monster.
Now load it up, drinks are on me tonight." His words made them work even faster, they loaded the worm in the back of a truck.
The worm was huge, 1.6 metres thick and nearly 14 metres long, its body was surrounded by strong muscles and thick mucus.
Touching it felt disgusting but they had no choice, it was their job. They had to roll it up to fit in the truck.
The back of the truck sunk from the weight of the worm. They started driving back and singing.
All the soldiers were in a good mood. " To our fallen comrades." They shouted honouring the soldiers who died.
After they sat off, the ground shook where the worm has died and a sharp object revealed itself from under the desert.
The object kept rising until a massive scaled head showed itself. Its vertical slit eyes blinked then went under again.
The ground rose by a few centimetres leaving heading in the direction of the soldiers.
Upon closer look, the trail was along the line of the worm blood that left a trail on the sand.
After that, two people appeared and looked in the same direction. One sniffed the air and frowned.
" Disgusting, she was here, we should report this."
The soldier driving the truck at the back of line looked at his rear mirror, a standard practice when looking out for ambushes.
They had figured since there was one such thing, there was the possibility of another and remained vigilant just in case.
Suddenly he saw something through the mirror, it looked like the sand was moving towards them but then it disappeared immediately after.
’ Was I imagining things?’ the soldier wondered but decided to report it just to be safe.
" Sir, I think I saw the sand moving behind me."
" You think or you’re sure soldier?"
" I..I’m not sure sir." He decided to tell the truth, if he lied he knew he would be punished.
He heard their leader bark out orders to remain vigilant, the trucks split up taking a formation.
The truck with the worm was at the centre guarded by all of them but the other trucks had machines guns covering their backs.
Especially the one at the most rear position. BOOOOOM, the sand exploded beneath the rear truck.
In front of everybody they saw a giant black sword pierce through the truck nearly cutting it in half.
The driver was unlucky and was cut in half. A giant creature jumped out of the sand. The soldiers froze.
" Oy oy oy, you’ve got to be kidding me, this is a completely different emo." The creature before them looked nothing like the worm.
It was a pitch black lizard with a three metres long sword like horn on its head. The lizard looked even more menacing than the worm.
" FIRE!" dididididididi, bullets drew red streaks through the air, all landing their mark on the lizard.
However the sight of blood and the wailing of a dying beast did not occur. Instead their eyes were blinded by sparks that flew through the air like fireworks.