wolfbane isle: chapter 2
"Twitchy ma'am, this one is still alive!" said a voice in the darkness.
-Huh?-
"Is that so? Hmmm what a surprise."
-where am I? Am I dreaming?-
"Should we kill her ma'am?"
-What? Kill who? Me?-
"No, put her in one of the prison cells. She might prove useful later on."
-Prison cell? Useful? What are they talking about? I must be dreaming-
"Yes ma'am."
-Yes I'm definitely dreami...-
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Ruliim woke to find herself on the floor in one of the castles many prison cells. She sat up and looked around, taking in her surroundings, the cell she was in was small and dirty looking, with a small straw mattress in the left corner next to a large pile of straw which, she presumed, was meant for relieving one's self. She shook her head, a look of disgust on her face.
-This is pathetic. Not even a dung beetle would live here... So... why am I in here?-she thought, then she remembered- Oh, that dream, it wasn't really a dream then... SHIT- she pounded her fist on the floor in anger -well hitting the floor isn't going to help me at all. First I need to get up off my ass and see if there's a guard I can interrogate- Ruliim slowly climbed to her feet, gasping for breath as she felt a sharp pain in her side-shit, something must have been broken, but how? - When she was all the way standing, she made her way to the cell door, wincing with every step she took. When she reached the door she grabbed onto the bars for support, and looked as far up and down the passage way outside her cell as she could.
"Hello?! Is anyone there?! Hello?! Anyone?!" She waited for an answer but there was none. She tried again but still got no answer. She sighed and looked down at her paws.
-Well I guess I'll just wait for someone to show up- she turned and walked to the straw mattress and sat down. After a few minutes she began to nod off, ten minutes later she was fast asleep.
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Keth stood with his back turned towards her, his gaze directed towards the ground. Ruliim jumped up and down with joy and ran towards him, happy that he was alive and safe. "Keth, hey Keth!!" she yelled happily. Keth looked up but didn't turn around. When Ruliim reached him, she gently put a hand on his shoulder and smiled a huge happy smile "Hey keth it's me, your little sis" she pulled her hand away as he turned to face her. The smile on her face vanished as she saw the broken table leg sticking out of his chest.
She looked up at his eyes; they were cold and lifeless...
Ruliim woke up screaming from her dream, the image of Keth's dead eyes burned into her memory forever. When she finally stopped screaming she sat with her knees pulled to her chest and cried quietly, remembering the events that took place on that night, Ruliim cried herself back to sleep. She slept for hours, tossing and turning on the uncomfortable mattress, dreaming of her life before the naming ceremony, dreaming of a time when she was happy, and safe.
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Twitchy was walking down the castles main corridor, the blade of kings gripped firmly in her hands, followed by Jeffery, two other wolves and a human. Jeffery was wearing silver armor he took off the body of one of the kings personal bodyguards and he had two short swords hanging from his waist, the other two wolves were clad in heavy steel armor and carried large claymores strapped to their backs by thick leather cords and wore helms that blocked their eyes from the view of others, the human was dressed in similar armor as the two wolves in front of him but had a dragon carved into the chest plate and instead of a sword he carried a strange handheld, rectangular metal object with a hole in one end and a switch like object connected to the handle. Jeffery looked back at the human.
"Why do we keep him here with us? He's totally useless to us with that little toy of his." He whispered to twitchy so the human wouldn't hear. Twitchy gave him a sideways glance.
"That toy" she said forcefully "is more powerful than anything you and your men are carrying and we keep Igorn with us because I need his help with something" she stopped and turned to face the two wolves and the human "both of you, kill the human now!"
The wolf soldiers looked at each other and grinned, reaching back to grab their swords. Before their clawed hands even touched the hilts, Igorn whipped up the strange weapon and pulled the switch twice. The weapon made two loud bangs and both the wolves fell to the ground dead, a hole in each of their foreheads. Jeffery gaped at his soldiers bodies.
"H-how did he...?" he looked from the dead soldiers to the weapon held in the Igorn's hands "what is that thing!"
Twitchy smiled and put a hand on Jeffery's back "That is why we came here in the first place" twitchy turned and continued walking down the corridor "one hundred and fifty years ago a large metal ship was spotted coming towards the island, it had somehow broken through the barrier reef that surrounds wolf bane" she looked back at Jeffery and Igorn "aboard that ship were strange creatures who called themselves humans"
Jeffery looked at Igorn "they were his kind" he looked back at twitchy what happened after they landed?"
"after they landed" twitchy looked at the ceiling and slowed her pace "they tried to enslave us all but we fought them and that was the beginning of the great war for control of the island, they were more superior both technologically and combat wise, we only defeated them by stealing their weapons and using them to destroy their ship"
"So, what did we do with their weapons?" Jeffery looked at Igorn's weapon "and where did he get one?"
"My great grandparents were some of the survivors of that war" Igorn crossed his arms and looked at Jeffery "this weapon is a colt forty five caliber model mark 3 hand pistol, my great grandfather hid it from your kind and it's been passed down to me from my father who died of a heart attack two years ago."
"As for what we did with the weapons" Twitchy stopped and turned to face a faded tapestry depicting a wolf fighting a black dragon with a black sword similar to the sword in Twitchy's hand, the blade of kings "they are hidden below the castle and this" she lifted the sword in the air "is the key to get to them" she grabbed the tapestry and pulled it off the wall with a swift tug, exposing a blade shaped notch on the wall "here we go" twitchy fitted the sword into the notch and stepped back.
The wall around the sword started to glow red, and a loud cracking sound echoed through the corridor. Jeffery looked in amazement as the wall parted right down the center of the blade, opening up a passage way into the dark chambers below the castle. Twitchy grabbed a torch from a nearby bracket.
"Let's go"
Jeffery and Igorn looked at each other fearfully, shrugged and followed twitchy into the dark.
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Ruliim awoke to find a bowl of porridge by the cell door.
-Damn I missed them- she looked around slowly then got up, went to the door and grabbed the bowl of porridge -ugh it's gross looking- she thought, picking a fly out with her claw. After starring at it for a couple minutes she bravely took a bite, but spit it out instantly -ugh it tastes worse than it looks! Damn those chefs need to learn how to cook-
"Come on lady eat it already so I can get back to the kitchens!"
Ruliim jumped, dropping the porridge and getting it all over the place.
"Oh that's just great, you wasted perfectly good porridge you stupid wolf! Now give me your bowl!"
Ruliim turned to find a scrawny human boy standing outside her cell door looking pleased with himself for calling a wolf stupid. Ruliim scowled-who is this human t talk to me that way? Oh I'm going to hurt him! - She thought, walking slowly towards the cell door.
"Hurry up bitch, I don't have all day!" the boy said, tapping his foot impatiently.
Ruliim stopped at the door and reached her arm through the bars, holding out the empty bowl. The boy reached out and as soon as his hand touched the bowl Ruliim let go of ti and grabbed his arm, jerking him into the bars. She reached around with her other arm and grabbed the hair on the back of his hair and pushed his face against the bars.
The boy whimpered fearfully "Please don't kill me please, I didn't mean to call you stupid or a bitch! I'm sorry j-just please don't kill me" he sobbed pathetically.
"Who are you and why are in my village?!"
"I-I.. My name is Cameron a-and I was sent here t-to work as a chef for t-twitchiarous, the n-new queen of this c-castle."
"Who is twitchiarous and what does she want?!"
"Sh-sh-she is a-a..."he stammered.
"A WHAT!? SPEAK DUMBASS!!"
"T-Tw-twitchiarous is a w-w-werepyer and I don't know what she wants! I'm just a c-chef."
Ruliim gasped "the werepyer at the party! That was twitchiarous!" Ruliim looked into the human's eyes "I can't let you go back up there, I can't have you sending the guards down here for that would cause problems."
The boys eyes widened "oh god oh god, she's going to kill me" he sobbed, tears running down his cheeks.
"No not kill" she slammed his head against the bars, knocking him out cold "knock out, hmmmm he's skinny enough to fit through these bars" she looked around quickly, making sure no one was coming and pulled the boy through the bars, she then proceeded to ripping strips off his clothes and tying his hands and feet "that should do it" she stepped back to examine her work "oh shit, I almost forgot" she ripped two strips of cloth from his shirt, rolled one into a ball and stuck it in his mouth then tied the other one around his head to keep him from pushing the other one out "that's better, now to hide him" she looked around and noticed the pile of straw "perfect" she grabbed his collar and dragged him onto the straw and spread it over him "there now your hidden."
Ruliim turned at the sound of footsteps sounding down the hall. A large man wearing a white apron stopped outside her cell.
"You shewolf! Have you seen my assistant?" he asked, bending to pick up her bowl.
"No sir I haven't, why? Did he run out on you?"
"No I sent him down here to retrieve dishes and he never came back" he looked around then at Ruliim "well guess I'd better go find him" he turned and walked back in the direction e came.
Ruliim turned and sat on her mattress and grinned triumphantly.
- I just obtained a prisoner-