This chapter may contain a little bit of language.
Curtis struggled against the shadow-chains but it was useless . They were too strong. He glanced down and saw his sword on the cave floor, he reached his foot out to pull it closer. He managed to hook it around the cross-guard but he had already spent most of his energy trying to reach it. He couldn't get it closer to him over the rough floor. He stopped stretching his leg and focused on the air particles around his sword then he flicked his not-broken fingers and the sword flew into his hand. Now he positioned it so the blade ran length ways down his arm. He was sweating. One wrong move, just a tiny scratch would kill him. The blade scraped along the shadows and they started to break down, he kept cutting and they broke. One arm was free. Now he could cut the other shadows much easier. His broken fingers twitched and sparks of pain shot up his arm. He looked over at the fountain and a thought came to him. He walked over to it and dipped his fingers in, they tingled and the pain was gone. Now back to business, he sprinted back the way they came, out of the cave and into the forest. He ran back to where the Cleavers were and found nothing but bodies. Not only his Cleavers but Vengeous and his men. They all had small must have tested out his abilities on them. Curtis decided to go back to the field.
Valkyrie, Dexter, Fletcher and Amethyst were all there. The others were injured. Curtis ran through the edge of the forest and up to them.
"Where's Vile?" He asked, panting.
"Which one?" Dexter asked
"I don't know! One of them forced me to take him to the fountain, he went in it. If he so much as scratches someone they're dead!"
" holy crap..." Fletcher said under his breath.
"Where'd he go?" Valkyrie demanded
" I. Don't. Know. Why'd you think I asked you? He tied me up in the cave, killed my Cleaver squad, killed Vengeous and his friends. And now I'm looking for him."
"Okay, that doesn't matter for now, we need to work on stopping the Faceless Ones," Dexter said
"Okay then, but how are we gonna do that?" Amethyst asked
"I've absolutely no idea," Dexter replied
Just as they were talking about him, Vile shadow walked out of nowhere.
"Shit!" Dexter said raising his hands,along with Amethyst and Valkyrie. Fletcher raised his fists in a futile effort to look tough and Curtis unsheathed his sword in one hand, the shadows already dancing around and he summoned a ball of fire into the other.
Vile glanced round at them, he was about to attack when a loud blast sounded. They all looked round and saw the flame from the explosion forming into a circle...they were too late.