#hercules beetle
Incredible Hercules beetle pupa Hirofumi Kawano
Chapter 3, Page 36 (3.36.148)
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Start ID: The Angra boy fires the arrow, which seems to divide in air, several flaming bolts falling down to leave the beetle still and smoking as the boy lands on the ground again, and glances at the bug’s corpse over his shoulder; his expression neutral.
Meanwhile Elian is now at Nania’s side, holding her up as she lies prone. The blood covering much of his front smears on her face and clothes.
“Nia?” Elian asks. “You okay, you awake? Can ya talk?”
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Chapter 3, Page 35 (3.35.147)
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Start ID: Elian is the first to leap into action. Fuelled by pure adrenaline, he rips a leg off of the beetle’s body, blood spattering across his front. As the beetle stands destabilized, he body slams it again, flipping it onto its back. For a moment he stands backlit, as the Angra boy jumps up behind him, nocking another flaming arrow.
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Chapter 3, Page 34 (3.34.146)
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Start ID: Nania stands between Elian and the beetle, as it finally hoists the tree out of the soil. Before either Elian or the Angra boy can move, Nania is whacked by the tree trunk and thrown across the clearing, as both boys look on in horror.
“NANIA!” Elian yells, but the Angra boy only looks focused.
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Chapter 3, Page 33 (3.33.145)
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Start ID: On the ground, the beetle barrels into one of the trees in the forest, its upper horn piercing clean through and becoming stuck. Elian is thrown clear of the crash, as the Angra boy stands watching and Nania races towards them. She catches Elian and steadies him, watching with a vengeful glare as the beetle lifts the tree’s roots straight out of the soil. Clearly this won’t keep it trapped for long.
She releases Elian, and gets between him and it.
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Chapter 3, Page 32 (3.32.144)
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Start ID: Cut back to Elian, still desperate holding onto the massive hercules beetle. He thinks to himself, (Maaaaaaybe I was a little too impulsive…) then covers his nose with one hand, desperately hanging onto the beetle’s horn with his remaining arm.
(What’s that smell!?) he wonders, glancing back down towards the ground, then notices something. (? It’s turning around?)
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Chapter 3, Page 28 (3.28.140)
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Start ID: Nania does not back down, meeting his gaze and glaring back. “If he falls from that height. He might die,” she states.
The boy is silent for a moment, then breaks eye contact, looking up at the small figures of Elian and the hercules beetle.
“He’s strong. He might survive,” he says. “If they escape, you might never see them again. The Deep Forest is impossible to map or navigate, it’s like the landscape is always changing somehow.”
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Chapter 3, Page 26 (3.26.138)
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Start ID: The beetle takes off– and already grappling it, Elian is forced to hang on tightly as he lifts off the ground, the trees below becoming tiny.
Far below, Nania looks on in shock and alarm, and yells “ELIAN!”
The Angra boy appears annoyed, as he mutters “Stupid idiot…”
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Chapter 3, Page 25 (3.25.137)
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Start ID: As Elian keeps grappling with the monster, the Angra boy realizes Elian did not come to his aid alone.
“You brought some girl to the Deep Forest!?” he demands.
“Little busy–” Elian says. And then the beetle spreads its wings. “AH, SHIT–”
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Chapter 3, Page 23 (3.23.136)
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Start ID: Movement.
The boy tries firing his arrow, and it instantly ignites. The beetle jerks its horn, sending the arrow totally off trajectory, missing the beetle entirely. Then the beetle, too, is shoved slightly away from the boy as Elian slams into it with his full body weight.
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Chapter 3, Page 22 (3.22.135)
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Start ID: The Angra boy’s opponent is now revealed.
It is a massive hercules beetle, far larger than him. Its upper horn rests directly in front of the boy’s arrow tip, both paused… for the moment.
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Chapter 3, Page 21 (3.21.134)
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Start ID: The view pans out, first showing that the Angra boy has changed in appearance somewhat, since we last saw him. Red and orange tattoos creating symbols reminiscent of flames now adorn his arms, and he has a very different bow, ornate with warm brown, red, and orange shades, and set of arrows he fights with. The arrows seem to be made of bone, fletched with red feathers.
Across from him is revealed some kind of massive black horn, blood smeared across it.
Vertically along the page, Elian and Nania’s feet beat across the ground as they race towards the scene of the fight.
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