Agony.
Fear.
Despair.
Pain.
Four feelings together in one. Tears took hold of her eyes. Her paws involved her snout. The horror was present in her expression. Nick, on the other hand, tried to keep a calm feeling, but something deep inside him, burned with fury. A fury never felt before. Why this feeling? He didn't know it.
The currents fluctuated according to the movement of the priests. The melody only increased in intensity, in a deafening tone. The blood left its trail as the agitated body, trying in vain to free itself, was dragged upwards without any mercy. The screams that came out of the poor female's snout were agony. Tears, once transparent, were of blood. The white kimono was stained with dirt. The chains held two wounded wrists. But worst of all, was the large chain wrapped around her neck. With each pull, she suffocated.
"You will all die!" The screams of desperation were also of anger.
An anger felt in her gaze that was sometimes closed with force due to the pulling.
However, Judy's tears were already running down her cheeks. The feeling of loss seized her body. That female, in her heart, in an unknown feeling, was very important. Her body wanted to react, in a desperate attempt to release the female and embrace her, to say that everything was just a bad dream and that she would be fine.
"Nick..." in a soft tone, Judy's paw grabbed the fox's shirt tightly. He stared at her, also with a burning desire to save that poor creature.
Alisha's despair made her fury take over her cries for help. Only her echo answered her. Frustrated, she knocked her fists closed on the big wooden door.
"How this is possible?"
Looking around, there was no justification for her to use and break the lock.
"Damn idea to come here. Argh!"
Suddenly, a strange sound echoed over the great hall.
"What?"
Alisha turned towards the sound, but saw nothing. Besides, the darkness at the end of the hall prevented her from checking what it was. Even using her night vision, almost nothing was visible. And the small light from the candle in the corner did not have any effect. Another big bang was heard, but closer. Alisha walked a few steps back, hitting the wood of the door with her back. Her runaway adrenaline was in full swing. Her heart, already excited, reached an unusual rhythm. Her open paws, went to meet the door, in an unconscious attempt to grab something to defend herself, where nothing existed.
"Who?" she questioned, swallowing it dry.
Obviously the answer was silence for a few seconds, another bang being even closer, echoing again through the hall.
I have to get out of here. I have to hide. She repeated to her conscious. But where? Focusing more on her night vision, she searched somewhere where she could hide. But... There was nothing. It was a large hall, with stone walls and only a candle in one corner. There was no escape. Again, the bang and then her attention focused on her front. When she did, her heart stopped.
The screaming. The melody. The beating of the sticks on the floor. The tlim, the bell's tlim. All this, was driving Judy crazy. She just wanted it to stop. That the scene she was witnessing disappeared. But that wasn't the case. The cries of anger and pain were ignored by the priests. Until, someone's thick voice stopped that horror. Both Nick and Judy looked in the direction of the sound. At the bottom of the stairs, the wolf they had seen with the twins previously, ran desperately up the stairs. The mission was to help the twin, but he was intersected by the other twin, who grabbed him by his wrist, nodding, negatively, with her head so he cannot to do anything stupid.
"We need to stop them. It's not Sae's fault" the red eyes stared at the twin's blue crystals. The anger was visible.
"If you do, they'll kill you?!" she screamed, begging him not to do anything wrong.
"It's your sister, for God's sake. We have to do something!"
The wolf free himself from the paw that was grabbing him and, in wide steps, climbed the stairs in an attempt to save the other twin.
"No!" Judy babbled.
"What?" Nick faced her confused.
"She'll kill him!"
"Carrots?"
"We have to save him."
The violet eyes were fixed on the scene. Their natural glow had disappeared. Nick turned and put himself in front of her. He took his paws to both the bunny's arms, wagging her trying to get her out of a kind of trance in which she was.
"Carrots, come back to earth."
"We have to save him. We have to save him."
Judy kept repeating the words. Nick tried to get her attention. That's when, without any warning, Nick was pulled with all his might against one of the trees on the other side of the stairs. The crash made the poor fox take a deep breath and cough up blood. At that moment, Judy's trance disappeared. Stunned, she saw Nick on the ground. Distressed, she tried to run to his, but was interrupted. The twin she saw at the entrance to the clearing, positioned herself in front of her. The evil smile was wide. Her eyes, all black, stared at her. And the words that were spoken made Judy's heart break.
"He's mine!"
What happened, was so fast, there was no reaction on that moment. Judy ran to Nick, but it wasn't in time. The twin raised him by the neck, where the fox's paws tried, in vain, to remove the wolf's paws from him. How he could touch her and vice versa, was another matter.
"Say goodbye to the one you love," and with that, she disappeared along with Nick.
Shocked, her knees gave way and went to the bloody ground. Her tears flowed fiercely. And everything collapsed. Judy already understood what was going on. All the pieces were beginning to fit together. She knew that saving him would be painful, but if she didn't, the twin would end up killing him.
To be continued...
