Chapter 11
Minke eyed Comu as they stalked down the halls. Reanly walked beside his buck confidently, but threw cautious glances at Nyal and Minke from time to time. They reached the corner and suddenly Comu snorted. Nyal flattened against the wall, her vision sharpened and she glanced around the corner. Two soldiers and two prisoners were walking together. The prisoners were tied at the hands, and blindfolded. She ignored the papers on the walls that said all sorts of evil plans for the Conqueres. Reanly had plucked a few important ones from the walls.
"Two soldiers with prisoners." Nyal whispered. " We have to sneak up on them, we don't want to raise the alarm. Put Comu in passive state for now. Or else his hooves would clack against the tile too loudly." Reanly nodded and Comu disappeared in a flash and both slunk around the corner and towards the soldiers. They got within a few feet and Minke's talons tightened painfully. Nyal gripped her knife and mouthed to Reanly, 1, 2, 3! They both leapt at a soldier and hit them over the head. Nyal's fell to the ground, with her help from Minke she was very strong. Reanly's turned looking dazed and Reanly punched him in the gut. The soldier swung and Reanly dodged then kicked his head. The soldier fell to the ground.
The prisoners were frozen in place. Nyal gently touched one of their shoulders. "It's okay, we are here to help." They untied the prisoner's hands and blindfold. They were two girls. Nyal pulled off the cloth and found that they had a shrew and a bear. Their names were Dreanyl (Drean-l) and Friakci (Fri-ack-e) their sprirt animal's names were Quoy (Qu-oy) and Zyathe (Z-ay-th) they took the keys from the two unconscious soldiers, then slung them over Comu's back. They reached the closest room, and retrieved the prisoner and left the two soldiers in the cell. The group was gaining in strength and numbers. Soon around two dozen prisoners were running through the halls. A large variety of animals running, or flying, beside them.
They unlocked another cell and the guy who looked up stared at them, and started screaming. "What are you doing! Alert! Alert! The Greencloak scum are escaping!" Before he could say more, someone clamped his mouth shut. But the damage was already done. Nyal turned and tensed ready for a wave of soldiers. While someone explained to the man what was happening she spotted the first sign of the man's yelling. A soldier was running followed by many more. A prisoner turned and told her that the guy didn't want to come.
"Leave him. We have better things to do than sit and try and convince him that the Conquerors are liars." She heard the cell door slam shut, the man behind it yelling about Greencloak scum. Nyal turned back to the soldiers, they were gaining. She alerted her group and they got ready to defend. Some spirit animals that were too large to travel quietly through the halls appeared. Minke squeezed Nyal's shoulders gently then, as if by some unspoken agreement, the group charged. Minke jumped off her shoulder and flew at a soldier raking at him with her talons. Comu knocked down several soldiers with his antlers, the bear Zyathe barreled into a few more. She even saw a mouse scurry up someone's pant leg causing them to hop around slapping at their leg.
Nyal pulled out a mace, one she had got from a soldier, and swung it at someone, she hit their legs and they fell to the ground. She punched their head, and they slid into unconsciousness. She leapt at another soldier, but they dodges her mace and jabbed at her with a knife. They nicked her wrist, causing some blood to spill. Suddenly Minke was there she raked at her enemy's face, they flung their knife at her and Minke went down.
"NO!" Nyal screamed leaping forwards to help her animal. But the soldier was in front of her. But, they were unarmed and Nyal knocked them out quickly. She slid over to Minke, a knife was buried her ribs. Minke managed to get to her feet. Blood trickled down her chest and dripped to the floor. Nyal gently pulled out the knife, the wound dripped blood but, Nyal ripped some cloth off an unconscious person's shoulder. She pressed it to the wound, after a minute, people fighting around them and Nyal keeping watch. Minke chirped and hopped away. The wound had stopped bleeding. She flew off, her spirit animal was okay.