Pretty weird chapter. It's been raining here, so I've been writing. And drawing stuff too. Yay.
Funyun – People told you that? Nowadays, it's the ONLY way to make friends! Internet is my master! I'm glad you like Talley and Talon (I'm so happy, today I found out that Talley is a real name!), I've grown quite fond to them as well. And kill Remington...? That would actually be quite surprising for people, wouldn't it? Hmmm...
Anyway, here 'tis.
Mmmyes...
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Adria hurried down the gangway and onto the street. She walked quickly, staring at the ground. When she felt she was at a safe distance from the ship, she began to jog and hid behind a wagon. She looked up from behind it to check if she were followed before she sighed in relief and sat down on it. She ran her fingers through her hair and thought about what she had just done. She hadn't killed the guard, so everything was alright, wasn't it? She wasn't a prisoner after all, why would she be treated as one then? She looked up on the sky. It was just an hour or two until nightfall. She looked at the bypassers and took a deep breath. She was just going for a walk, she'd be back before it was dark. She stood up and corrected her clothes before she began walking slowly up the street, giving everything she could see a curious look. She lay her hand on the door to a shop and were about to enter when she heard a strange sound. Something that made shivers run down her spine.
A howl. She turned in the direction of the sound and began to follow it. She didn't seem to think it was strange that she went in the same direction as the League.
Infact, she didn't think anything was strange. Everything was just the way it was supposed to be.
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Talon opened the door and stepped up on a table. Everyone in the room turned towards her, some of the women already praising the childs beauty before they had seen it. Sladjana and her husband remained in the other room, trying to get some peace and quiet. Talon uncovered the infant and showed it to the crowd. The small, sleeping child was very small for its race, but it was healthy.
"I present to you, the first newborn of our clan, Mentor Ishmael Rrustanemi!" she exclaimed and raised the child above her head. Every person in the room cheered loudly, applausing. The small boy squirmed uneasily in Talon's grip. She let him return to her steady arms and returned to the parents in the other room. Sladjana shone like a lantern when she took her first-born son from Talon's arms. Talon clapped the father on his shoulder before she left the room again. When she came out, she saw Talley standing on the table. Surprised, she stopped in the doorway, looking at him.
"Brothers and sisters!" he said loudly to be heard in the mumbling. "I have something important to tell you. Jones is dead!"
Everyone instantly fell silent. They stared at Talley.
"That's right, and do you know what that means? It means we no longer have any reason at all to do what we're here to do. You are all capable fighters, but now that we have everything we could ever want, why should we fight? We have homes, plenty of food and large plains to roam, then is there any need to fight about it? I say no! I say that we stay here and leave the rest of humanity to it's fate. What do you say?"
It was obvious that no one had seen it coming, they stood silent and stared at Talley. Some youngsters in the front of the crowd suddenly broke into cheering and clapping. It infected the rest of the crowd and before they could say something else, everyone shouted out their agreement. Talon leaned against the wall and applaused him, he caught sight of her and motioned her to come up on the table. She rolled her eyes and stepped up on it, just to be swept up in his arms and kissed in front of everyone. This made some laugh loudly and the rest to cheer even more. Talon broke free from Talley's tight grip and grinned at him. The noise was interrupted by the door being kicked open. Everyone turned around to see who was coming.
Remington stepped in through the door, with the League closely after him.
"Hello everyone." He said and bowed his head towards the crowd in the room. Everyone stared at the group of intruders. The tense silence was broken by Talley.
"And you are the League, I guess."
"Yes, we are." Mina replied to him. "And I assume that you know exactly why we are here."
"Yes, I do, but there is no reason at all for you to stay now. No one of us wish to fight you now. We give you our word that we will not bother any human that does not bother us. We don't want to fight you, understand?"
Before anyone had any chance to say anything more, a man broke free from the crowd. He glared darkly at Remington before he howled loudly and leapt at Remington, changing in mid-air. Remington quickly brought his rifle up and shot the werewolf in the air. The half-transformed man crashed on the ground, spitting blood for a second before dying. No one in the room said anything, they just stared at the corpse.
"Not a good move..." Skinner mumbled behind Remington. Remington ignored him.
"Anyone else that want to try that?" he asked. Mina closed her eyes and sighed. They had been close to a peaceful solution for once.
A woman in the crowd let out a high shriek and threw herself down beside the man on the ground. She sobbed loudly and hid her face in her hands. She whispered a non-english word over and over again before she looked up at Remington. She said something to him sharply. Remington gave her a puzzled look.
"The Murderer... The Silver Murderer." Someone in the crowd said. It was repeated by others until it became like a chant.
"Murderer, murderer, murderer, murderer..." they whispered as one, while those who could slowly transformed. They advanced upon the League who prepared themselves. Skinner let his coat fall to the ground and tried to get out of the way while Jekyll went outside to drink his potion. Those remaining readied their weapons. Mina looked at Talley who looked back and shrugged.
"You should've left." He said. As if it was rehearsed, one of the werewolves pounced. He was immediatly shot and collapsed to the ground. The League quickly spread out to make it easier to fight without getting in the way of each other. Skinner quickly snuck into another room, trying to be useful without actually risking his life this time.
And so the battle was started.
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Ian Ashton stood upstairs. He listened to the noise downstairs and nodded slowly.
"I better be paid well for this." He said to himself and opened his package.
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Hyde smashed in through the door with a loud roar. Some of the fighters in the room stopped and stared at him for a moment, before they returned to the frenzy. Remington turned around and caught sight of him.
"What the bloody hell?!" he screamed. Mina took a tight grip on his shoulder to get his attention.
"Don't shoot Hyde, he's with us."
Remington spent another moment staring at the hulk in front of him before he quickly had to replace his attention on the fight.
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Adria stopped in front of the three large houses. She gave each of them a curious look and wondered why she had felt to desperate to get here, there really wasn't anything special about them at all. She heard the noises inside one of the houses and walked up to a window. She looked in and ducked quickly. She yelped when the creature came crashing through it. It rolled on the ground and got up on its feet again almost right away. It shook its head and caught sight of her. Adria whimpered when it came closer. It leaned down towards her as if it tried to see what she was. It sniffed the air in front of her, grunted and leapt back in through the window. Adria looked in after it.
"Was that a...?" she whispered. That book she had tried to read, it couldn't be true, could it? She decided that this place was not a good place for her to be, with the fighting and shooting. She didn't exactly want to get hurt because she was curious. She tried to sneak away and a couple of meters away, she realized something. Dr. Jekyll had given her that book, maybe he had tried to warn her about that? That they were going to meet these creatures?
But in seconds, she realized why she had been given the book.
She had understood that they were made/infected by wounds.
Wounds, chest. Check.
About their restlessness before the first transformation.
Check.
And about...
She looked up at the sky in the same moment the fullmoon rose over the horizon. She closed her eyes, kept them tightly shut and knew that it was going to be painful.
And yes, it was painful when everything in her body changed.
But it was a enjoyable kind of pain.
