Warriors: The New Era
Chapter Five: Into The Fire.
Scourge has returned, and Bone has made his appearance. So let's pick up right were we left off, shall we?
Sorry for disappearance, but was held up by personal challenges. I'll explain later.
"BONE!"
Fang stood up cracking his neck and pushing The Stranger and Sparkeplt out of his way "Hang back... I got this..."
The Stranger tilted his head "Wait I though-"
"LOOKIE 'ERE FOLKS!" Scourge bellowed, cracking open a beer bottle and drowning his face in it "IT LOOKS LIKE THE SCOTTISH FANG IS READY TO FIGHT!"
Bone cracked his knuckles "I will melt you down and fashion your bones into earings!"
Fang cracked his knuckles "I will beat you down into a pulp of juice!"
Scourge was as giddy as dog with two tails "KILL THEM! SAVE THE QUEEN FOR ME!"
"Flattering," Poppyfrost spat.
Bone charged at the exact moment Fang charged. The two collided into a thunderous boom, pushing each other back. Fang was vastly stronger, pushing Bone back to the now closed gate. He slammed his fist into Bone's head very hard.
Bone hit the ground, and his eyes rolled back. He was out.
Silence. Dead silence. No cheering or roaring. Every one was so silent.
Scourge was the one to break the silence. And he was furious "WHAT?! ALL THAT HYPE AND BUILD UP AND YOU'RE ONE HIT KO'D BY A REBOUND GUY?! BONE, YOU'RE USELESS!"
Fang puffed his chest out "THIS ISNT A THREAT TO ME! TO ME IT'S JUST PRACTICE!"
Scourge turned to the followers "ALRIGHT YOU LOUSY MUGS! TIME TO EARN YOUR SUPPER! KILL HIM!"
The gates opened as some crowd members tried to kill Fang, how dare he KO their best fighter and use of amusement?!
Fang grinned "Let's go!"
The Stranger was about to help, when Poppyfrost held him back "Stop. He's got this."
Fang smirked as ten men rushed him. He allowed himself to be crushed into a dogpile, only to use amazing feats of strength to lift himself up and fling them away like flys.
"Woah," The Stranger said, eyes wide.
Fang grabbed one by the throat and hoisted him in the air, chucking him at two of the other fighters like it was nothing. One fighter got lucky and aimed a good punch at Fang's face...
Unfortunately for the fighters hand to crack and fracture, as Fang didn't feel a thing. He clutched his now broken hand, as Fang smirked, slamming his fist into the man head, knocking him out cold.
"Has he got super strength?" The Stranger asked.
Poppyfrost smirked "Nope. All natural. He's just that strong."
Fang proceeded to beat them up, as Scourge watched from the balcony in fury.
"Three minutes!" He called back to Poppyfrost.
Sparkpelt tilted her head "Three minutes till what?"
Poppyfrost smirked "In two minutes and fifty four seconds, Brightheart will have crashed a truck into this compound, with seven soldiers that have been instructed to take No Prisoners on anyone who opposes them and capture Scourge."
"How do they know we are here?" The Stranger asked.
"Tracking Device," Poppyfrost shrugged.
Sparkpelt scoffed "That's a terrible idea, what if Scourge hacked the tracker and used it to find you?"
"Who said I had the tracker on me?" Poppyfrost smirked "It's on you two."
"WHEN?!" The Stranger asked.
"The first time we met, during the handshake, same time I put one on Sparkpelt when we first met," Poppyfrost informed.
Sparkeplt crossed her arms in annoyance.
Meanwhile, Fang was pounding his chest with one hand, the other raised to the sky "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! I KNOW I AM!"
Scourge's robotic eye glowed red, and it began to steam. Suddenly, a beam of energy shot out of the eye, through the gate's lock. He stood up from his leathery chair, and hopped to the gates entrance "BEAT IT! They're mine."
The crowd complied, making a path for him.
He opened the gate and slammed it shut "The eye wasn't the only thing that got upgraded! Me arm has got some nifty little implants. Like this one."
He outstretched his palm, and the palm split in half, revealing a small tube, glowing red.
Fang rolled out of the way, just in time to dodge a shockwave of energy, hitting and rattling the fence. He tried to grab Scourge, but Scourge got his arm with his metal one.
Scourge began to squeeze his hand, crushing Fang's hand. The Stranger had enough and aimed a blow to Scourge's good eye, but Scourge caught it with his fleshy one, and twisted it, incapacitating The Stranger.
His eye glowed red "You're a pathetic rebound guy if ya ask me."
Fang snarled "I didn't."
A laser shot out of the eye, hitting Fang in the chest.
"This beam can cook a chicken in seconds. I wonder how long a human takes...I've never tried cooked human before...might taste good," Scourge kept the beam on Fang's chest.
Fang groaned, as his jacket and shirt began to produce a hole where the beam hit.
He huffed and puffed, but didn't cry "I guess we'll never know...DUCK!"
Poppyfrost grabbed Sparkpelt and shoved her to the ground, falling down along side her. The Stranger broke free of Scourge's grip, just in time to duck under flying debris that flung off the wall.
A truck had crashed through the wall. The crowd became frightened and began to flee in terror, accidentally making a path for the armed men, entering through the gap in the wall.
Scourge snarled "SHITE!"
Fang broke free of his metal arm, and punched Scourge in the throat, and ripped his robotic eye out, it's wires and parts showing.
"YOU BITCH!" Scourge roared.
The Soldiers cut the gate open with cutters, and Brightheart stepped through "Strip him. Triple hand and leg cuffs! Add a muzzle too.
"Ooo, Kinky," Scourge groaned, as they locked him up.
By now all the of the crowd was gone, save for some bodies who foolishly thought they could take them on.
The Stranger grinned "We kill him now?"
"No," Poppyfrost snarled, looking at Scourge's eye "I want him to suffer. He will be hanged and gutted like the serpent he is. His cold body will serve as a message to all who oppose the Court of Miracles."
"We should kill him now," Sparkpelt retorted "He'll escape again. He always does. That and bringing him back to base, means bringing him back to C-"
"I'm aware, and I don't care," Poppyfrost snapped, as Scourge was forced into the truck.
"They'll be in danger..." Fang nodded "I'll head back and look after them."
"Thank you Fang," Poppyfrost hugged Fang, who towered above her by at least a foot.
"Take care," Fang hopped into the bed of the truck, as it drove off.
Ravenheart sighed, breathing deep breaths.
She and her siblings were out in the woods, camping along side the river. She was busy meditating, honing her magic prowess.
Crowflight threw the logs down, starting a campfire while Tigerjaw was busy setting up the tents.
"You're doing it wrong," Crowflight scoffed, not even looking at the monstrosity that Tigerjaw made "The stake goes three feet away not two. It'll collapse in a storm."
"Well do you see any storm?" Tigerjaw shot back, proud of his work "Ravenheart! Tell me the tent looks alright."
Ravenheart smirked "The Tent looks alright."
"It does?" Tigerjaw's eyes lit up.
"No it doesn't," Ravenheart chuckled.
Tigerjaw pouted and set himself back up to working with the tent.
Crowflight created a spark, and blew on it, making a fire "HAHA! Done! Add fire to list of survival skills I'm great at!"
"Father will be so impressed," Tigerjaw rasped sarcastically "Remind me why we're here again?"
"Remember? It's our week off," Ravenheart chirped happily "What better way to use that time then camp out in the outdoors?"
"I don't know, play Call of Duty, Battlefront, Battlefield, Telltale Walking Dead, Resident Evil, Undertale and Deltarune, Assassins Creed, to name a few," Crowflight bit back.
"Oh I'm sorry that you miss your PlayStation so much!" Ravenheart teased, while Tigerjaw chuckled.
Crowflight scoffed "We are 1.24 miles away from The Three's house. If one decides to go for a stroll, we are easy pickings in this forest."
"We're fine," Ravenheart smirked "Who the hell walks a mile from home?"
Tigerjaw smirked, rustling through his backpack for something, and his eyes lit up "Gotcha."
He pulled out a plastic container full of bacon, opening it up "Who's hungry?"
"Me," Crowlfight grabbed the container from Tigerjaw and had a slice, while Ravenheart politely declined.
Tigerjaw ate a lot, while Crowflight smirked "We should go hunting. I brought a scoped revolver."
"To hunt rabbits? It'd obliterate them!" Tigerjaw asked.
Ravenheart shook her head "We'll just hunt the old fashioned way."
"Bow and arrows?" Crowflight asked.
"Clubs?" Tigerjaw asked.
"Magic," Ravenheart answered.
Crowflight snarled "Funny, but people originally-"
BANG!
Ravenheart collapsed to her knee in pain, as it exploded in blood as a bullet went through it. She screamed in pain as Crowflight and Tigerjaw instantly took cover in the many trees.
"What the fuck?!" Tigerjaw roared.
Crowflight tried to crawl from under his spot to get his sister, but a bullet almost hitting his hand put him in place "I'M PINNED DOWN!"
"I'm not," Tigerjaw snarled, removing himself from his cover and charging into the woods.
Crowflight looked at Ravenheart "Holy- You're gonna be okay...you're gonna be okay!"
Ravenheart whined in pain, not even focused on her brother as he applied a tourniquet around her thigh.
"GOT HIM!" The roar of Tigerjaw cried out, as he dragged a man by his ankles, tossing him into the ground.
The man had short black hair, and his eyes were green. CRowflight snarled "Who are you?! WHY DID YOU SHOOT MY SISTER?!"
The man grinned.
"Hail The Dark Forest. Hail Tigerstar."
He bit down on something in his mouth, and his wide eyes showed that he had ate something.
His mouth foamed and bubbled, suffocating him.
He was dead.
Crowflight ignored him and turned to a convulsing Ravenheart. Tigerjaw began to panic "What do we do?!"
"I don't know," Crowflight answered.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW?!"
"I MEAN I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! Our phones are back at the base, and there's not a doctor here for another twenty mile rad-"
Crowflight widened his eyes and snapped his head to Tigerjaw "Pick her up. We're going."
Tigerjaw grabbed her bridial style, and followed Crowflight, as they both went in a particular direction.
Icecloud would be lying if she said she didn't miss Jack at times. He always kept her spirits up, and made sure that whenever trouble arose, he was there either calming everyone down, or finishing up a fight. Nevertheless, she loved him.
And then he left.
Icecloud groaned, opening the door to the Foxcave and looking at her brother, entranced on the countless monitors and keypads, typing in and doing whatever he could to fight the boredom reaching his mind.
"Hey Bro," Icecloud looked at the screens, looking at blueprints of a kind.
"Sup Sis," Foxleap groaned, rubbing his eyes.
Icecloud smiled sweetly "Watcha working on?"
Foxleap sighed "A remote hacking device."
"Like Watchdogs?" Icecloud raised a brow.
"More like Batman," Foxleap added, typing in equations and code "I'm sick of having to hack in the Foxcave. Why not hack wherever I go?"
"Why not ask Midnight?" Icecloud asked.
Foxleap scowled "That's not funny."
"You haven't seen her in a year," Icecloud confronted "Why?"
Foxleap groaned "Why haven't you seen Jack?"
Icecloud curled her lip "Have fun in the dark big brother."
She turned and left the Foxcave, practically stomping up the stairs, anger fueling her every thought at Foxleap.
"How dare he?! He didn't leave me! HE DIDN'T! That smug son of a bitch! And yes Mom, you are a bitch!" Icecloud fumed, opening the fridge, searching for something to drink.
A thought popped in her head, and she reached in the back of the fridge, and pulled out one of Jayfeather's beers. She opened the cap and took a sip, and quickly put it down, immediately feeling nauseated.
"How does he stand that shit?!" Icecloud spat, rinsing her mouth out in the sink.
She was about to head up to the attic, when the pounding of the door caught her attention. She looked at the door, scared as the knocking got louder and more furious.
"OPEN UP!"
Icecloud gulped, grabbing a knife from the kitchen drawer, and slowly creeping to the door.
The knocking continued.
"PLEASE! OPEN UP! WE NEED HELP!"
Icecloud gripped the knife tightly, ready to open and attack if needed.
"Fuck this, move over!"
CRACK!
A large fist burst through the door, moving and grabbing the door handle, unlocking it. Icecloud let out a sharp scream of panic.
Jayfeather and Lionblaze had just ran down the stairs, eyes glowing and skin illuminated their respective colors. Ivypool raced out of the basement at the speed of lightning, glowing a whitish hue, unlike her sister's pink and green.
Breezepelt had slid down the staircase and was holding brass kunckles, Honeyfern had raced from the back porch, grabbing a knife from the kitchen, while Cinderheart raced down the stairs, brandishing her thieving sister's old sword.
The door swung open...
They all readied themselves.
What stood there was shocking...
Crowflight, along with a hulk of a man carrying a pale white woman, with a bleeding leg.
"Please... please help us."
Sorry for absence, but was caught up with Soccer Practice. This was all done in a day. So please understand.
How'd you like it? Some more screen time for the Triumvirate, along with some details on Jack's absence. Don't forget to review.
Be on the lookout for the next chapter, New Players.
Adios.