Man Clad In Stone
I hope you've been enjoying this story so far it seems to be attracting a fair amount of attention hopefully that's a good thing. A quick update on my broken rib it's still broken but not too bad anymore which I'm taking as a good sign lol. But anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter and as always I don't own the Jak and Daxter universe but I do own my characters
As Valetta circled Ortz he couldn't help but stare into her mechanical eye, "Do you like it?" She asked him bluntly as she stood in front of him and locked the eye onto him whilst closing the organic eye; it was blissfully coated in a lilac eye shadow and had deep black mascara coating the eyelashes.
"It's….. Er…." Ortz replied just sounding very scared.
"It's hideous," She told him as she reopened the organic eye, although it took Ortz a few seconds to realise it had changed colour from brown to blue, almost identical to Panacea's.
"How did you do that?" Ortz asked her as he stared into the eye that he knew so well.
"I am a Seer, that is my gift," She told him as she placed her hand on his shoulder. As she did her figure transformed into a vision of Panacea, as she did Ortz jumped back and raised his fists. As her touch was broken she reverted back into her twisted elegant form.
"What the fuck was that?" he shouted at her.
"There is very little you know of the world, Váli," She told him as a loud explosion went off just outside the mountain. As it happened the marauders scrambled around and started trying to find every avenue of escape Valetta followed them knowing where each marauder was at all times.
"Wait…. what the hell is Váli?" Ortz called out to her but she was already gone.
Sig pretty much instantly got on the radio to Krew or atleast he attempted to, "Krew, you there?" He asked into the radio and only received static in return, followed by savage gunshots, "Awww shit, they're here!" He shouted as he scooped back up the rifle and fired back at the shots.
"Who the fuck is shooting at us?" Ortz shouted over to Sig as he fired the MG from the marauders in the direction which the shots were still raining from.
"These are Krew's guys they don't know we're here so we're the enemy as far as their concerned," Sig replied as the Ortz moved up on the direction that they had entered the mountain from.
"Well that's just great, I take it we try and get out the way we came in?" Ortz asked him as they continued to hold the area which they found themselves in.
"We can't move, we have to hold the area," Sig ordered as they continued to beat back the invaders.
"Well I've been here before and it didn't end well!" He replied as he pulled the remaining rounds from the box magazine, "I'm running low!" He shouted as he witnessed the remaining rounds run from the belt.
Panacea was over towards the other side of the well atrium firing the SMG into the enemy putting magazine after magazine towards them, when she got a break in the waves she shouted, "Sig cover me!" As she ran forward and pulled the other two boxes of ammunition off the heavily armoured marauder. When she started to run the boxes over to Ortz and the MG one of Krew's guys jumped her and slammed her into the floor, Sig ran towards the man who had his entire body weight on top of her with a knife to her throat. The man was clad in a dirty green tee shirt with a red logo on it and black combat trousers tucked into a set of military style boots, his short brown hair gave him a younger look but his eyes were covered by a large set of goggles.
"Hey motherfuck…" The man only got that far as he looked up at Sig who had a metal battle axe out and who instantly ripped off the man's head, left arm and part of his torso in one swing showering Panacea in the man's blood.
"You okay," Sig asked Panacea as she laid on the floor frozen, the blood trickled down into her hood and over her lips.
She sat up and wiped her lips and pulled her hood off, exposing her hair which had been stained by the man's blood, "Yeah I'm fine," She simply replied as she stood up and ran the boxes over to Ortz who was firing at the incoming men with the rifle Sig had given him previously, "Ammo's up," She told him as she reploaded her SMG and started to hammer down Krew's men again.
As she stood there pumping rounds towards the onslaught she couldn't help but slightly enjoy herself, however it was short lived as only two minutes later Ortz was running dry on ammo again back to his rifle.
"Sig when the fuck is this going to stop?" Ortz asked him as he fired the last round in the rifles magazine and ejected the spent clip.
Sig threw him another and he quickly reloaded, "Not much longer!" He then replied as he passed Panacea his last SMG magazine. But as he did she hit the floor hard no even having the ability to sound off, "Fuck! Panacea's hit!" He shouted over to Ortz who was taking out Targets on both sides.
He fired the last round in the clip of the rifle blowing a man's head wide open exposing the back of his skull, after he heard the click Sig passed him the big rifle, "Take this," Ortz shouted to Sig as he accepted the rifle, he tore off his cloak and threw it to Sig and Sig threw his belt which contained an extra three magazines for the rifle.
Sig went to work on Panacea who was drifting into the black of unconsciousness on the floor with a gaping hole in her abdomen and an awful lot of blood on her stomach, however Sig couldn't determine which was hers and which was the man's he had decapitated. But all he could determine that she was in a really bad way. "Hang on in there!" Sig told her frantically as she coughed up blood. She was just about conscious enough to hear him, but not for long as she continued to descend into black.
The colossal man clad in metal armour tore up Ortz's cloak and started to place it on Panacea's wound. An attacker slipped Otrz's aim and almost made it too Panacea but Sig slammed the axe into the man cutting him in half, showering the blood everywhere which boiled when it hit the eco lying around the atrium.
Ortz continued to mallet the men not allowing anymore to slip his grasp and as he loaded the last mag Sig picked up the metal object he threw on the floor and it had started to blink rapidly causing Sig to exhale deeply and as he did heavy machine gun fire could be heard outside the mountain.
"What's that?" Ortz asked as he stopped firing the rifle as no more men were coming.
"Back up!" Sig shouted as he tried to scoop Panacea up, "Give me a hand!" He ordered to Ortz who had placed the rifle over his shoulders. He ran over to Sig and placed Panacea's arm over his shoulder. Together the two men continued walking towards the gunfire which was quickly subsiding, Panacea was slipping away and the two of them knew it.
The gunfire inside her head sounded like distant thumps like taps on a window. She could hear thumps like someone was trying to get her attention but she felt sleepy she only wanted to sleep.
As the two men made their way to the edge of the tunnel they were met by the barrels of rifles, very old rifles made of forged steel, handmade not stamped. As the two men looked at the barrels a single man placed his hands on the guns forcing them down. One hand had an almost stone like glove armour on whilst the other was bare except for three rings. Sig looked at the man and he simply nodded.
"Get a stretcher!" The man ordered as the machine guns continuously pounded the incoming vehicles belonging to Krew's men. The barrels of the guns went back to shooting at Krew's guys. A few seconds after the man ordered two women came towards Sig and Ortz and placed Panacea on a stretcher, they quickly wisped her on board the massive vehicle which had a range of heavy grenade launchers and machine guns.
Sig climbed on board and so did Ortz, who climbed right up next to the women who were working on Panacea. The machine guns were still pummelling the vehicles off in the distance but pretty quickly the huge vehicle started moving the machine guns rapidly stopped firing. A few seconds later the familiar sound of the transport vehicle that got them to the mountain could be heard. Ortz could hear Panacea moaning in pain so he went to grab her hand but was slapped away by one of the women.
"Don't worry, she's in good hands," The man who called the women up told him, however now he was carrying a staff. It too had a huge metal stone looking head on it, his left shoulder had a huge plate on it which was curved it had massive gouges carved into it not purposely carved but scars bought in battle. On his right shoulder he had a similar plate but it was endowed with large spikes they too were scarred from battle, the rest of his body was cover in leather style armour which was in pristine condition nearly new.
"Who the hell are you people?" Ortz asked sounding confused as he watched the women strip the wound on Panacea's body causing blood to erupt from it, flinching at the sight.
"I am Damas," The man told him as he gestured that the two men should walk with him, "I am the king of the wastelander stronghold of Spargus."
"The wastelanders are a group of cut throat bandits," Ortz outburst as he followed Damas.
"So why were you alongside our spy?" Damas asked him.
"Sig?" Ortz then asked.
"Yeah, I was sent to spy on the Baron, long story short Krew is the easiest way to get what's going on in Haven, and therefore the Baron," Sig explained to Ortz who was stunned at the sight of the men he had fired on only a few days previously.
"How did you find us?" Ortz then asked.
"You ask a lot of questions," Damas pointed out as Ortz walked awaiting a response, "Sig sent out an SOS and we always protect our own." He then went on to explain.
"We headed to Spargus?" Ortz finally asked only receiving a nod in return this time. As the huge vehicle lumbered across the desert a large mountain appeared the desert this side of Dushara was much flatter so the lumbering vehicle was able to move across it, Ortz didn't want to ask but he assumed that Spargus was in or around the mountain so he just peered at the Suns in the sky and admired the clarity of the air in the desert all be in extremely hot air.
I hope you enjoyed the chapter I'm trying to lead up slowly to a crescendo at some point but please feel free to review and give me some feedback on the story with constructive criticism, it will help me and the story. Anyway until next time….PEACE!