"Welcome to the Jungle" A Side

"Ok, so......why are we here again?" said Satanica, swatting away a mosquito. "You should ask our fearless leader here," said Gerry, her tail swishing away a mosquito on her back. Edea, grunted, clearly annoyed herself. "Oh, fuck off. Yeah, it's humid as fuck, but I've got a feeling here!" "Right......and what's this feeling again?"said Satanica "Shale gave me another vision...there's someone here!" "Here...in the Deep Marsh...the fucking armpit of Tykera..." "Oh come on! This place is full of ruins and ancient treasures! Think of all the cool shit around here waiting to be found!" "And you think that includes..." said Gerry. "I dunno. I keep hearing about cool stuff out here. We need inspiration!" Satanica immediately piped out "And we couldn't have found it someplace...oh I dunno...COOL and DRY!" "You have to go to the far-flung corners! Really search out that vision!" "You can find it in cities too...with clean food...and baths," said Satanica before being cut off. "MALAKA! WHERE'S THE THEOPNEUSTOS IN THAT?!" Satancia looked at Gerry in confusion. "It means 'inspiration'," said Gerry dryly.
 
"Ugh..." Satanica scoffed, "You're the level-headed one right?! Why do you just follow her around like this?" Satanica grilled Gerry, Edea oblivious as she plowed on through the jungle. Gerry twisted her face up, one of her sharp fangs protruding from her lips. "'cause sometimes you need to follow someone with the tharseo to plow on ahead and make things happen...it means courage by the way." "I don't..." "I'm not done. Our situation sucked. We both became friends and just wanted to make music and make people happy. Our culture loves music...but ya wanna know what else they love...fuckin violence...why?...not to defend the people you care about...not even to get resources...nope...just to prove you're BETTER! Fuck that noise!" Gerry continued. "Yeah...she doesn't always think, but she has more courage in the tip of her tail to do what she wants and bet everything on it...and sometimes you need that...and she knows it too. If I can temper it a little with a little common sense, then we're an unbeatable pair," said Gerry with a smile.
 
"Aw, that warms my heart!" said Edea looking at the two of them from the small hill she was standing on. Gerry turned to look at her friend, flustered and blushing. "Ya like me! Ya really like me!" said Edea, "but of course she does! Gerry and I will always be heitairoi...companions for the barbarian..." said Edea flashing a grin at Satanica making the latter grit her teeth a little. "Oh don't take it so hard! I think I found something!" Satanica stopped dumbfounded. "I just see trees...and bugs...and vines....and bugs..." "Malaka! LISTEN!" she shouted.
 
The three quieted down. At first all could be heard was the trickle of water, the the birds fly over head, the annoying insects buzzing around, the leaves blowing in the trees...but then there was something else...so faint at first...not something one could just hear...but feel in the pit of one's stomach. A rhythmic thrumming of a string, deep and gutteral as if it came from the Underworld itself. "Is that a..." Satanica started. "You know it! It's a bass! This has gotta be it! Whoever that is...is gonna be our bassist!" said Edea with a huge, toothy grin. "Yeah, but that could be coming from anywhere..." started Satanica. "Don't just hear it, FEEL it!" said Edea cutting her off. "She's actually right...we can track it by how it vibrates..."said Gerry. "Yeah! Let's go!" Edea replied before breaking into a run. "No! Not that way!"
 
Minutes or maybe hours past as the three made their way through the jungle, hopping streams, swinging on vines, dodging nasty insects...but something came into view. "There!" pointed Edea. Above the jungle canopy stood the top of a massive ziggarut. From which the deep thrumming sound could be both heard and felt. Satanica squinted and looked up. "Someone's up there!" Indeed, a figure could be seen but nought except the horns on his head and the instrument in his hands. "So that's them! Come on! Let's go meet 'em!"