Kaiju ga Gotoku 5.4 - A Goal for the Future
"was this kama kurasawa...a mantis?" "yeah, he was. how'd you know?!" "that...that was the body i found. last month in the sewers."
Kaiju ga Gotoku 7.2 - His Fall From Grace
The medic was checking him over, a mantis drawing his long finger back and forth across his eyes before letting him sit up. "hey." murata bowed. "good fight, degoushi. you gave me a real hard time."
Kaiju ga Gotoku 2.6 - A Quiet Night
Then he saw the photograph of the victim when they were still alive, a sharp-eyed looking mantis, and he grabbed the paper immediately. "i'll uh, i'll take this too."
Kaiju ga Gotoku 3.6 - Red Eye
A mantis flashed in his mind with gasping screams through his memory. the sound of a bell, the light started to blink as he crushed the paper cup in his hand.
Brave New Realm: The Trials
The creature's attention snapped to him and it curled it's hands, looking very much like a large praying mantis. "oh, thank the gods." chitin scraped together as it pulled itself out of the fungal cocoon, "it is nice to talk to a friendly person.
Spaced Out
When Fran had been a kid, she'd often stare out the window aimlessly while her mom would drive. "Come in, Huston." Every new building and landscape would become a new playground in which to let her mind wander. "Houston, we lost you." She probably...
Kaiju ga Gotoku 9.3 - The Guardian
Lobsters played hanafuda cards whilst dogs clamoured round the dice, a mantis shaking the bowl for them to guess either odds or evens.
Lost Legend of Agrok Ch2
As he finally sank to lay down sleep struck like a mantis, or perhaps a coiled snake, siezing him ruthlessly.
Bear burdens of life (Chapter seventeen)
One cube contained a praying mantis that would require a weapon to defeat! it was the size of a freaking housecat. dead-still, it's eyes barely moving to blink as i approached it.
The Final Anomaly 14 - Tear Apart
[/i] he took the mantis' hand. [i]"you were...y-you......no."[/i] the boy grabbed the hilt of the blade. [i]"i-i...i have to be strong. for father."[/i] he raised the sword up high.
Working Title: Bullfight
When the door opens, turns out the doctor is not an especially welcome sight at all: it's a vlok, her white labcoat doing nothing to conceal the bruise-purple skin of her vulturelike head and disturbingly long hands, clasped before her like a praying mantis
Autopilot
'If work is so good for you, why don't the rich do more of it?' "Who said that?" "Some famous wolf writer I think," Fran's best friend had replied. "The same one who wrote AWOO." "I think that's AROO in fact," the jackal's roommate had chimed...