A.N: Hello reader! I just wanted to remind you for this one that it's rated T for a reason! Gore, yes, gore. It isn't suggested for a weak mind, lots of blood, severing, I think there's some bone in there. You get the idea, but at least this is a sort of long chapter! The main thing in here is the death of Clawshard, like in the chapter title. I don't own the Underland series anything or place that's in this fanfic is from the original series. I only own my many OCs and the plot. Enjoy this gory chapter!
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I was laying down in the cave I had found while looking down at the lights lighting up the city of Regalia. It had been about three weeks since I met that Gnawer, named Ripred. I was still thinking hard about joining the Killers, but I didn't completely know if it would be a good move.
Because, I had also been also thinking hard about tracking down Clawshard, and killing him in his sleep. But also I wondered if maybe Ripred could help me, he was a Gnawer after all. He should understand why I would want to kill Clawshard, and he was also a Rager like me.
I stared at the bright lights, I smiled deciding what I was going to do. I walked out of the cave and down to Regalia. I went to where Ripred left me to go to my cave, a Killer guard was there guarding it with a spear. I went up to him and he turned it to point at me.
"I know Ripred." I said in what I hoped was remotely Killer, he hesitated but turned around and motioned for me to follow him. I followed him through the hallways and we soon came outside again and into an arena.
Fliers were flying with they're bonded Killers on top of them, a few Gnawers were in the middle of the arena fighting the Fliers that were swooping down and attacking them. I saw Ripred in the mix and I had to admit, it was a fairly good fighter. I waited until the exorcize was over, the guard had already left and Ripred came over.
"Bloodscar, you're back." He said like he was expecting me. I nodded. "And I realized something." I said, trying not to smirk at my gory plan. "What's that?" He asked not really knowing what to expect.
"You want a Rager, and I want some help." I said, just scratching the surface of my plan, he motioned for me to follow him away from the others. "What kind of help?" He asked interested. "I want to kill my ex-mate." I said bluntly, he nodded. "Sure, but why?" He asked. I thought for a bit.
"Maybe I'll tell you later." I said not ready to tell him anything about me. "All right, where is he?" He asked, and I shrugged. "No idea, he was in one of the camps that were part of the war." I said, knowing I was making it hard on him, he narrowed his black eyes.
"Find him, and then I'll help you." He said, and I thought about it. "Deal, I'll come back. If I'm still alive, that is." I said walking away towards the exit.
Before I knew it he was right next to me. "I'll help, but you have to have seven of your clan join us." He proposed, and I nodded. "Deal." And we were soon going into the dark tunnels of the Underland.
I thought about where they would go, and wherever the Gnawers before us lived that's where they would be. I thought for a moment that they might go back to the Dead Lands but I reminded myself that Clawshard was in charge of our small clan and he always didn't like it there. Ripred led me to the Gnawer lands and since they had lost the war they were in there deep.
We found ourselves in The Labyrinth. "It's a maze." I said aloud in thought, and at the giant stone walls. Ripred nodded and I followed him into it.
We made twists and turns that our noses told us to make, the strong sent of Gnawer came into my nose and I knew they were right around the next corner.
We were close but Ripred didn't stop, I yanked him back by his tail, and my reflexes dodged his claws which came with him. I went forward with him following, while hissing something under his breath which I knew was some sort of an insult towards me.
I peeked slightly around the next corner, and I smiled when I saw several of the remaining camps. I came out and headed for where I saw Dewclaw, she looked surprised and happy when she saw me.
"Ssh, I don't want Clawshard to know I'm here." I whispered, she nodded. "You came back to kill him, didn't you?" She asked, and I nodded. "How did you know where this was?" She asked, and I looked over my shoulder where Ripred was making his way over.
"I went over to the Killers' side." I said almost guiltily. She gasped. "The Killers?" She hissed, and I quickly put my paw over her muzzle to make sure nobody else heard. "Listen, they're not hostile. They captured me but then let me go after asking if I would join them." I began explaining, she started listening.
"There's another Gnawer here to help me kill Clawshard, his name's Ripred. He wants a Rager on the Killers' side, he also says that I need to convince seven Gnawers to go to the killers' side for him to help me kill Clawshard." I explained, she processed this information.
"I need your help, to either come yourself with your pups or to help me get some other Gnawers." I said, I didn't like really asking for help but I really needed it.
She looked at her pups, and I noticed they had grown quite a bit though it felt like just yesterday I had seen them.
Shadowstreak had grown to be the leader of the other two since he was physically bigger and older then the others.
Nighteyes seemed to be a shy yet hotheaded middle child that liked watching her brothers fight.
Blackclaw was the youngest but the most rebellious of them, he liked getting in fights with Shadowstreak by taunting him.
I smiled at them, I wanted to have pups, and a family. But it scared me, what if the pup was a Rager? A caged monster ready to strike at any given moment. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, especially a small pup.
She smiled. "I'd love to help you out, besides, I don't like this clan anyway." She said, and I smiled at my good friend. Ripred came up behind me. "Dewclaw, Ripred. Ripred, Dewclaw. She's going back with us with her pups." I introduced, and they both nodded.
"You still need three more Gnawers to join before I help you kill your mate." Ripred said, reminding me, and I nodded. I started to go over to a small group of female gnawers but stopped after a couple feet and looked over my shoulder. "His name's Clawshard." I said in a lowered, voice and continued to the group.
I smiled at them and sat down slightly outside their circle. "I hate Clawshard." I said getting their attention. "Ssh, you shouldn't talk about him like that." A black Gnawer hissed, it took a bit but I recognized her as Bloodeye. "Why not?" I hissed back, she looked back and forth making sure no one was listening.
"He's gone crazy with power, he orders everyone around like we're solders. It's even worse when Bane was in charge." She said worriedly. I couldn't believe at first that Clawshard had gone crazy, but then I accepted it and realized it's exactly what Clawshard would do.
"My name's Bloodscar, and I'm going to set all of us free. I'm going to kill, Clawshard." I said confidently, Bloodeye looked skeptical. "How? He's overprotective of everything and has Gnawers on both sides of him." She contradicted.
"I have help, but I'm going to need three of you to help me by going back to my home." I said, Bloodeye narrowed her crimson orbs to slits. "Where's your home?" She asked. "I can't tell you, but I promise that it'd be better then this. Much better." I said pushingly. She nodded. "If you kill Clawshard then I'll go, and so will my pup; Midnight." She said, more out of the doubt of me killing Clawshard.
Midnight was light black with one black eye and the other dark red.
I nodded. "And I'll go." Said a voice behind me, I turned around and who I saw made my mouth drop. Fangtooth. My eyes turned to green daggers and I tackled on her.
"You stole my mate. You put me through depression. And now you want to help me? Why should I trust you, and not kill you right now on the spot?" I growled at her. The monster inside started scratching up at the walls of it's mental prison, but I pushed it down to hear Fangtooth's reply.
Before I poured her guts on the ground.
"I didn't mean to, Clawshard forced me to. He said that if I didn't do what he told me he would kill you." She tried to explain out of fear. I wanted to believe it, she used to be my best friend.
"I'll give you one chance, if you tell Clawshard or anyone who might tell him. I'll kill you, and the Gnawer you told." I said darkly, I still didn't trust her. I led Bloodeye, her pup; Midnight. And Fangtooth, back to Ripred.
"I got three more, but I don't trust Fangtooth. The grey one. We've had, problems, in the past." I said in a lowered voice to Ripred who was looking at the three, he nodded. "Tonight." Was the one word he said, and it told me enough.
Soon everyone was in their own groups curled up next to their pups or mates, or for some like me, bye themselves. I however, wasn't asleep. I was fantasizing about how I was going to kill Clawshard.
I thought of going for the throat, grabbing his jugular and ripping it out like I had done back in the Dead Lands. Then, I thought about going for the stomach, spilling his guts and wrapping his intestines around his neck hanging him. Or maybe making him suffer a bit. Clamp his muzzle, then dig my claws into his chest and rip out his heart.
Though I was brought out of my thoughts by Ripred who was nudging me, I got up and we both headed to the middle of The Labyrinth where we made an educated guess on that was where he was. We slinked around the large rounded stone room, and then I saw him.
Clawshard was laying down on a large rock, sleeping. I went slowly and quietly up to his side, smirking. I cocked my head to one side looking down at him with calm eyes.
Then I brought my hands down onto his head, I thought about cracking his neck but I thought of something better. I clamped his muzzle shut but not harshly, gentle yet firm. I cut off his tail with one of my claws and it woke him up.
He struggled against me with anger and desperation but I was stronger than him. I tied his bloody tail around his muzzle to keep him quiet and then with the rest of it I tied his front and back paws together.
The blood coming out of where I cut his tail off was pouring out, his light brown and grey fur were stained with spots of red. I was going to leave him there, and let him bleed out. But it would take too long, so I had to make it speed up a bit.
I cut him, slashed him, his arms, his stomach, his back, his head. I made them deep enough to bleed profusely like a small deathly crimson river. Ripred watched me from the entrance of the room, I didn't have the face of someone who was slowly killing someone, if you looked only at my face you would only think I was looking at something deep and interesting or I was winning a game.
I then untied his muzzle and leaned into Clawshard's ear.
"I gave everything for you. I loved you. I still love you, but I wasn't enough. And you're going to die here, by my hand. But I want you to know, I'm so much better then you. You, are a monster. You've messed with me, but you've also messed with my monster. My monster, however, isn't myself. Goodbye Clawshard, I hate that I still love you." I whispered with no emotion.
"I always hated you, I just wanted you because you're a Rager. You were made to kill and I wanted to kill. So goodbye Bloodscar, the ultimate killer who doesn't want to kill." He whispered back, and then he was gone.
I looked over at him, his bleeding slowly began to stop. I untied his paws, wet with his own blood. I let his arms go limp at his sides and I dropped his severed tail to the ground, it used to be pale pink but it was crimson when I last saw it.
I walked over to Ripred who looked at me with compassion, it was like he knew what I was going through. "He's dead. He's not coming back, and he's not going to hurt anyone anymore." I heard Ripred whisper, I nodded silently and then went back to the small group.
I went up to them. "I killed him. If you don't believe me then go to the middle of The Labyrinth yourself, but if we start going back to my home now we'll get there sooner." I said to them, it seemed that I forgot how to use emotion.
They nodded in understanding and agreement. "Lets go." Bloodeye said standing up with Midnight, the others agreed. I nodded and we all went out of The Labyrinth.
I knew I had to tell them where exactly we were going, but I had a feeling that they would abandoned me. We were close to Regalia when I decided to tell them.
"You're all probably are wondering where my home is." I started, it was like my mouth was on auto pilot while my brain was shouting at me not to do it. "Yeah, where are we going?" Fangtooth asked, I glared at her for a second but continued.
"Regalia." I said, one word, and everyone jumped up. Except me, Ripred, Dewclaw and the pups. "What?" Bloodeye asked seriously, I looked them all in the eye "Regalia, is my home. But you have to believe me when I say, Regalia is a good home and the killers are not hostile." I said trying to persuade them.
They were obviously furious, I sighed. "Try, just try living there, and if you aren't happier then when you were back in The Labyrinth. You can leave." I said, not looking them in the eye.
They all looked at each other, Ripred was behind me. "Alright, we'll try it." Fangtooth said, the others soon agreed. I smiled at them, thankful that they would at least try it.
We continued to Regalia and soon we saw those bright lights, I smiled at my new home and the others looked at it with mixed feelings. Anger, hope, doubt, and worry. I gave them all reassuring glances and we headed down to the entrance. We were at the large entrance soon, I looked back at our small clan.
"Everyone, welcome to Regalia."
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A.N: I hope you liked it. Please R&R.