Chapter 12
Nyal gripped her mace and dove into the crowd of soldiers. An alarm rang out as more and more soldiers flooded into the hallway. Nyal hit one with her mace on her head. The soldier's eyes went back into her head and she fell. Nyal hadn't hit her hard, she only knocked her out. Minke, who was fine, despite her wound, which wasn't very deep, she circled the fight, her eyes darting back and forth, then she seemed to have found someone and she dove at them, her talons stretched out, scratching at their face. As the soldier pulled his sword up to slice her in half she flew off.
But, the escapees were helplessly out numbered. Though they took down dozens of soldiers more just kept coming. Nyal saw Comu collapse, his antlers knocking the feet of another escapee, they fell and were quickly hit on the head by a soldier. Nyal ran forwards, the escapee was dazed, her spirit animal ran up to her, it was a jackal. But the soldier kicked it away with their foot. The jackal went flying as the foot his it's chest, it was knocked unconscious, in danger of the bear Zyathe trampling her. Minke saw this and dove down to the animal, she grabbed it with her talons, and, with amazing strength, lifted it up and took it over to a safe corner.
Meanwhile Nyal ran forwards, towards the girl. She was still dazed, unable to do anything about the soldier looping a rope around her wrists. Nyal dove at the solider, feeling a spurt of strength and speed and dexterity. She angled herself in the air and kicked the guy in the jaw. He fell onto one knee, a hand on his jaw. He glared daggers at Nyal then flung a knife at her, right towards her heart. But, with her increased dexterity she easily dodged, then as he swung a large hammer at her head, she dropped the the ground, and slid under his legs. She had thrown her mace into the air, over his head, she pushed herself to her feet, caught the mace and whacked him in the shoulder.
He gave out a cry of pain, then grabbed another knife and swung it at her head, she ducked, but he thrust his hand that held the hammer forwards, right into her stomach. She grunted as waves of nausea racked her body. She fell to her knees, and the soldier sliced her arm with his knife. She held back a yelp as she felt warm blood trickle down her hand. Minke was busy, she was fighting another hawk, but this one was much bigger than her. They would lock talons peck at each other then fly off, only to circle back and do the same thing. Soon both were bloody, Minke having the worst end of the deal, while she had covered the larger hawk with scratches, large scratches were on her chest, she was losing.
Nyal's increased senses faded as Minke focused everything she had on the hawk. Nyal was defenseless, her mace was gone, kicked away by the fighting crowd. The soldier grinned to himself, then swung the hammer down on Nyal's head. She yelped this time and fell onto her side. Stars covered her vision. The girl seemed to have recovered. She glanced at the soldier the ran. Nyal cursed at her in her mind, she had just risked her neck for this girl and she ditched her! The soldier knelt besides Nyal.
"What, you the leader of this operation? Well, darling, back to the cell for you!" He drew a much longer dagger from his belt and pressed it against her neck. "Unless you'd like to object?" Nyal didn't say a word, she knew her life was on the line, the thought of Minke's crazed look when she discovered a dead Nyal made her shudder. But she glared at the man with all the hatred she had been building up over time. The man grinned then pulled out some shackles. "I was ordered to put these on someone that looked like you. Is your spirit animal that seahawk over there?" Nyal didn't answer, but the man aimed another knife at Minke and as he was about to throw it she shouted.
"YES! She's mine." The soldier nodded then unraveled the shackles. They were made of chains, there were four holes all together, two for her wrists and two for her ankles. A long chain connected them all. He was quick to clip them to her wrists and ankles, then she felt him tighten the chain, she couldn't move her limbs. With a grunt he hauled her to her feet, she hadn't noticed that there was another chain connected to the shackles, the man held it. Minke finally spotted her she let out a cry so sharp that everyone had to close their ears, of course, Nyal had to deal with the pain. But the soldier had let go of her "leash" she managed to hop a few feet away, but Minke was on top of him, her talons raked his face, he yelled and ran. The hawk that had attacked Minke dove towards her. His talons outstretched for a killing blow.
Suddenly Nyal knew what to do, her knees were still able to move. She bent them then sprang into the air and whipped around. Somehow, someway, the "leash" hit the hawk. It wrapped around it like a whip. The hawk dropped out of the air with a cry of pain. It didn't get up again. Nyal suspected a broken wing. Then strength flowed through her. With some straining she broke her hands free, then her feet. All that remained were shackles around her ankles and wrists, small bits of chins protruding from them. She was ready to fight again.
Hey! Hope you like this chapter! I decided to update so soon because...TOMORROW I'M GETTING AGAINST THE TIDE! Yes, it's so sad, I haven't read it yet. Long story, I had it on hold at my cities library, for months they didn't get it. Then I got an email saying they would never get it. UGH! Then I saw that my school's library had it. So I put that on hold. It was due the 3rd. I still don't have it. So tomorrow if I don't get it at school I'm going to buy it. Barnes and Nobel didn't have it either, so hopefully another store will, or I'll just get it on my phone. Anyways please review and follow! Thx for reading! :)
