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Quotes and meanings below.

"Speaking aloud"

'Speaking telepathically'

Subconscious thoughts, deep in the mind and cannot be heard by others at all.

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Also I guess from now on I will call the sewn-skin outfit that Pyramid wears an apron...since that is what other people tend to call it.

I have no idea what the right word for it is, if anyone knows the proper word for it either message me or leave a review telling me what you think it would be called haha. I feel weird calling it a 'cloth' because it isn't fabric. I feel weird calling it an apron as well...

Chapter 10: Captured

The next morning I wake up and it already seems as though things are back to the way they usually are. Waking up alone in the room, like pretty much every morning.

Every morning I can't help but worry about Pyramid, along with all the other executioners. Who knows what shape he will return to the room in today, if he is even able to come back to me today.

Uncovering myself I am quickly reminded of my current clothing situation, still completely nude. I climb off the bed and walk over to the stand the food is sitting on, underneath it is a drawer that I filled with clothes from some of the abandoned clothing stores in town. Underneath that drawer is another one full of drawing supplies and sketch books, along with some books that I have already read a number of times.

Picking out some underwear, a hoodie and sweatpants I put them on, feeling very comfortable in them. The room always tends to be chilly, so the drawer is mostly full of warm clothes.

Once finished I begin eating breakfast and reading, restarting one of the books I have had for a few years.

The book is about a girl who lives in a village, the people in the village have always feared going beyond certain boundaries away from the village. The villagers have been raised on horrible stories about those who have gone past those boundaries and never returned. Some stories also describe a creature that lurks beyond those boundaries that snatches up anyone who ventures too far from the village. The girl was raised to fear what lies beyond those limits, but due to the village running out of food and game to hunt within their safe limits the girl's mother and siblings begin to starve. The girl believes there a plentiful amount of food beyond those limits, more animals to hunt and more fish to catch. She does not believe the stories the villagers have lived to fear about what is beyond those limits, and that her family means more to her than some legend. She sneaks off one night and goes beyond the limits, coming to find that her speculations about there being plentiful food is true. She gathers as much vegetation and food as she can for the village, by the time everyone in the village wakes up she had brought enough food for everyone. Everyone was happy for some time, even daring enough to go past the limits themselves to get more food when they got low. Everything quickly turned sour for the village once everyone began to get ill, the more that people ate from the food beyond those limits, the quicker they died. The village quickly turned against the girl for bringing them tainted food and that she should have never disobeyed the rules. The girl's family ended up dying from the tainted food, along with most of the village. Soon the girl was banished from the village and forced to live on her own beyond the limits, she never ended up becoming sick from any of the tainted food. Living on her own out in the wilderness she soon came face to face with the creature from the village's lore, a large, bloody black stag with no skin on it's head. The stag spoke to the girl, telling her that she never got sick from the food because she was the one who stole from the stag, and her consequence for that is to live the rest of her life alone and to die alone.

I'm not sure if the stag represents death or plague, but the book keeps me distracted from worrying all day.

Hours pass while I reread the book, laying sprawled out on the giant, comfortable bed. Soon I start to hear something quiet, at first I didn't realize the sound was real until it begins to get louder.

Moving my attention from the book, I look in the direction of the noise, the door. It sounds like quiet scratching or scraping against the door.

Still entwined in the book, fear begins to rise inside of me. I quickly sit up and close the book before staring at the door, hearing the noise getting louder.

It becomes apparent to me that something is trying to get in.

Maybe it's the stag…

I move my hands to my mouth, becoming more scared because of my thoughts.

What if it is here to judge me as well…

The sounds get louder, my fear begins to get more intense. I begin to think that maybe it's whoever, or whatever was trying to get in here yesterday and not an evil stag.

I remain silent, listening to the sounds of metal scraping against metal on the door. I begin hearing something being pried between the door and the wall, the sound soon stops and all goes silent.

I stare at the door, not knowing if it gave up.

Suddenly a hard slam comes from the door, causing me to almost jump out of my skin on the bed, my eyes wide.

Another slam hits the door, I stare at it, get off the bed and slowly approach the door.

Another slam hits the door, I stop a ways behind the door and watch it.

Another slam, I watch as the door very slightly moves a bit toward me.

I begin to get very nervous, knowing that whatever is out there is going to get in here at some point.

I back up from the door as another slam hits it, not knowing what to do.

'Uhhh Pyramid…? Someone is at the door trying to get in…what should I do…?' I say to him telepathically.

'Don't move, do not speak and do not come out of that room.'

I frown a little, continuing to listen to the slams while the door continues to move inward each time, almost to the point where I am nervous it is almost going to come open.

A familiar dragging sound hits my ears and immediately the slams stop.

'It stopped.' I tell him

The dragging sounds stop too once I tell him, I begin thinking he might have put his weapon down so he can sneak up on whatever it was.

Minutes pass, nothing.

'There is nothing here.' He says.

'They were just here! They heard you coming!'

I begin hearing the dragging again as I hear him leave the building.

'Don't leave!' I say.

'I'm not.'

'...The door is almost open...should I jam it again…?'

'No. Do not make a sound. It knows the door is almost open.'

I walk away from the door and sit against the wall where his other Great Knives are, in case something gets in.

Time passes, but eventually another slam hits the door, making me jump. The door is now practically open, whatever it is just needs to shove the door hard enough to get it to move along the ground at least big enough that whatever it is can fit through the opening.

I remain against the wall, moving more toward the corner.

A crowbar slips its way through the small opening and begins to pry the door open more while another body pushes against it, the door grinding against the ground loudly while it moves open very slowly.

I begin to hear a struggle coming from beyond the door and the bodies move away from it, followed by the sounds of bones cracking and screams of agony.

Hearing a few other voices and more struggles, I yipe loudly at the sudden sound of a loud gunshot. The first gunshot gets followed by two others. Knowing exactly who is being shot, I scream out while running to the door.

"NO! Pyramid!" I reach the door and use telepathy to yank it open the rest of the way, seeing three men wearing protective suits standing near the door, two other men with their skulls crushed on the ground at the feet of Pyramid, who has three gunshot wounds in his chest.

I watch the blood run down his chest and body from the holes, seeing he was shot in the heart at least twice.

The blood runs down the skin apron of his as well as dripping onto the ground, losing a lot of blood within seconds.

For me it feels like everything is in slow motion, I quickly force my feet to move as I run over to him, he seems as though he is struggling to remain standing. I quickly wrap my arms around him once I reach him and begin to cry loudly, not knowing whether or not gunshots to the heart would kill him.

The man holding the unique, powerful gun shoots off three more rounds, each shot just barely missing my head by a few inches as the bullets get shot into his heart to join the others.

Pyramid loses his balance and falls over and onto the ground on his side, I turn around and look at all the men, the man pointing the gun at me now.

I scream loudly out of pure rage and raise my hands to them, instantly they are all in the air screaming. I quickly tighten my fists and all three of them burst into an explosion of blood. Everything falls to the ground and I look at Pyramid and continue to weep.

I crouch down next to him, tears falling uncontrollably. He begins moving, moving his arms and trying push himself up off the ground.

'...You don't have to cry...this won't kill me…' He says to me, his words and telepathy sounding very weak. He slowly begins to push his chest up off the ground, blood pouring out of the hole in his chest each time his heart beats.

"...How do you know…?" I say between sobs, moving my hand to his wound and receiving a very deep, inhuman growl of pain once I touch it. Instantly I pull my hand back.

'This isn't the first time I have been shot…'

"...In the heart…?"

'...This is my first for that…' He says, now able to push himself up into a sitting position, his wound bleeding very badly and still slightly gushing each time his heart beats, beginning to form dark puddles of blood on his lap and on the ground around him.

I quickly get up and run into the room, throwing my drawer open and grabbing whatever cloth I can grab first before running back out to him.

I quickly bundle the shirt up and press it against the large hole in his chest hard, causing him to let out a loud, deep howl from the pain. Instinctively he grabs my arm and grips it tightly, causing me to whine in pain.

Realizing, he quickly moves his hand from my arm and balls his hands into tight fists.

"I'm sorry…!"

'...You are doing good…it's better to not pass out…'

I frown at him, continuing to press the cloth into his chest, the cloth quickly soaking up a lot of blood. I begin to worry and become fearful again.

'Please don't be scared...it will heal quickly…' He says, moving one of his hands to my cheek and gently rubbing it.

"...I can't help but be afraid...you took a lot of bullets to your heart...they are still inside it…" I say, tears flooding my vision.

'They will make their way out of my heart as it heals…'

Pyramid quickly moves his head to the left of us, beginning to growl loudly in frustration.

'More humans are coming…'

I look down the hall he is looking down, I look at him again, "We need to get inside the room…" I stand up and try to help him get up.

'...I can't stand...get in the room, I can't die, you can.'

"I'm not leaving you out here!" I say, he begins to try and stand up just as more men of the Order turn the corner down the hall. All of them holding guns pointed at us.

Gunshots immediately ring out, at the same time I reach my free arm out at the men and my telepathy catches as many bullets as it can and immediately makes the bullets fly back at those who shot them.

Pyramid gets hit with a bullet I was unable to catch in time, that bullet hits his shoulder causing him to hiss out in pain.

A searing pain explodes from my leg, causing me to cry out in pain, realizing I have been shot.

The remaining men continue pointing their guns at us, not shooting for some reason.

Arms quickly grab me from behind, dragging me a distance away from Pyramid and forcing me to stand while I scream out in protest.

This makes Pyramid quickly force his body to stand, having to use the wall as support, the cloth dropping from his wound and making it bleed again.

He quickly tries to get close enough to kill whoever is behind me but immediately freezes in the same moment I feel the cold barrel of a gun against my temple.

I immediately stop screaming and begin to start fearing for my life, staring at Pyramid in fear.

"Get any closer and I'll shoot this pretty girl of yours' brains out all over that wall right there." I hear a woman's voice say from behind me, my eyes begin tearing up.

Pyramid begins to deeply and loudly growl at the woman, the pure anger and hatred in his growls sending chills up my spine.

"This thing understands English, right sweetheart?" The girl says to me, pushing the barrel harder against my head.

The movement of the gun makes Pyramid's deep, inhuman growls get louder to where I can guarantee he is baring his sharp teeth at her inside his helmet.

"...Y-yes…" I say, tears beginning to fall.

"Good." She says, moving her attention back to Pyramid.

"What we're gonna do here can go the easy way, or the hard way. That's up to the two of you. Of course, if you do not obey, executioner, your precious little girl won't live to see the next five minutes. And you," she says, tightening her hold on me, "if you try anything with your little superpowers, just know I am much faster than you and you will be dead before you even have a chance to lift anything."

"Now that the rules are laid out, let's get started." She says, motioning toward the remaining men for them to approach.

The men walk to us and one gets behind me, the woman lets go of me and walks to where she is standing in view of both of us to watch over the situation, continuing to point her gun at me.

The other men keep their guns focused on Pyramid, since he is the biggest threat to everyone.

The man behind me grabs ahold of me, pulling my arms behind my back roughly while he begins tying a thin rope around my wrists, the tightness causing me to yelp and cringe from the pain.

Pyramid continues growling, he darts forward about a centimeter, almost losing control when seeing me in pain, but he quickly takes control of himself and holds himself back.

The woman watches him, laughing, "He's got a real loose trigger on him don't he?"

I continue to stare at him, tears running down my face while having to try and balance on one foot, unable to put pressure on the other leg.

I begin to notice Pyramid is no longer bleeding from his chest, the holes in his heart are healed but the hole in his chest is not.

"I'm so glad we were finally able to slow your protector down, he is quite a tank isn't he? I heard so many stories about this one," she says, watching Pyramid, "this is the very first executioner that Alessa created, correct?" She asks, looking at me.

I slowly look at her before hesitantly nodding.

"No wonder so many of my men were killed." She says, slowly stepping closer to him to get a better look at his towering, seven foot tall figure.

"It is truly amazing to be this close to such an old, powerful creature." She says, looking over his helmet then down his chest.

She stops and looks at the wound on his chest, along with the blood all over his skin and apron. "Man, my guys really got you good didn't they? It's good to know that a few shots to the heart is enough to slow you down." She says, looking up at Pyramid's helmet before stepping away from him.

Pyramid slowly begins to shift his weight off the wall, being able to stand on his own now that his blood is quickly regenerating.

The woman watches him, "It really doesn't take you long to heal, does it?"

I watch her, she looks at the men and they all shoot rounds into Pyramid's chest and straight into his heart like the others, doing this to keep him weakened.

A loud, inhuman roar of pain erupts from him as he is being shot, having no choice but to stand and take the hits.

I scream out in agony while I watch, "NOO! Please stop hurting him, please! I'll do anything you want me to just stop!"

Blood begins to pour out of Pyramid's heart again, this time much worse than before. The gunshots stop once he is on the ground again, landing on his side and quickly bleeding out.

The woman watches Pyramid and I, "You actually have feelings for this monster?" She asks me.

I look at her, my face soaked with tears while more continue to fall, "...Yes…" I admit to her.

She begins laughing, "You fell in love with a creature in this hell hole? Let alone an executioner that will kill you once it gets bored with you. That creature is a monster, created to only inflict pain and suffering to those in it's way."

I listen to her, continuing to stare at Pyramid who is still on the ground motionless, the blood soon slows its flow and his breathing stops, along with the bloodloss.

I cry out loudly in agony while I watching him, struggling hard against the restraints and the man's hold on me to try and get to him and somehow bring him back to life.

"Man, I'm beginning to start feeling sorry for you." She says to me, walking over to Pyramid's body.

"DON'T TOUCH HIM YOU FUCKING BITCH!" I scream out at her, my voice full of pure anger and sadness.

She looks at me before laughing a little, "Look who's angry now." She says to me, turning her attention back to Pyramid and kneeling down, putting her hands on his helmet's nose. She begins moving his head a little, the sides of the helmet grinding against the cement floor.

I watch her touch him, my anger peaking to levels I have never felt before, I scream out in anger loudly. All the ceiling lights in the basement turn on, although they haven't operated since the town lost power forever ago.

The lights remain on for about a second before all the bulbs in the whole basement burst, in the same moment the lights turned on the men who shot Pyramid get thrown against a wall hard and immediately fall from the wall with gravity.

Quickly the guy holding my restraints shoves the barrel of his gun against my head, ready to blow my brains out like the woman said they would do.

I begin feeling a skull-splitting headache from using up all of my telepathy in one moment, the anger gone along with all of my energy, barely able to remain standing.

"Don't!" The woman says to the man behind me, "We need her alive."

The man keeps the gun against my head, I watch the woman return to messing with Pyramid's helmet. I watch as she begins to move his head to the side, not stopping until the loud sound of his neck slowly snapping fills our ears.

I watch and immediately feel the anger returning, hearing his neck snap I begin crying again while also feeling very nauseous from hearing his neck snap.

"In case he isn't truly dead, just to buy us more time without having to worry about him looking for you." She says, moving her attention to me.

"...My face is going to be the last thing you see before you die…" I say to her.

"Oh, definitely." She says,

In an instant a bag is over my head, my mental exhaustion forcing me to lose my grip on consciousness.

The last thing I feel is my feet leaving the ground, before everything goes black.