Chapter 7
They're here, all the hunters are here. We're surrounded, we have no means of escape, and worst of all, they got Yuki. She's on the ground, held firmly by another hunter, with a dagger ready to be plunged in her chest. The only reason she's still alive, is because Adjoda, chief of the Floran tribe, ordered the hunter to stop. Why the chief would do that confuses Floran. He must be angry for Floran's betrayal, and probably for injuring one of his best hunters.
"Floran should have expected this from you, but it's not entirely your fault. Floran should have known that Idalla planned this whole thing. She probably knew that you, the least Floran of us all, would decide to free our prey, our food, but most importantly, my food," says Adjoda, and starts to walk towards Floran. He signals the hunters around me to leave, and they do without question.
"Then kill Floran, and eat Floran if you must, but leave Yuki alone. She doesn't deserve this," Floran says, and Adjoda responds with a laugh.
"Ha! You think you have the right make demands? Don't worry, you will be killed, but you will not be eaten. Your flesh might be rotten, it could make us all as strange as you," says the chief, as he continues to approach Floran. "She will be eaten of course, and Floran will enjoy it. However, before Floran kills her, Floran wants her to see you die." Adjoda stops in his tracks, and signals the hunter holding Yuki. The hunter takes Yuki away, and while she struggles to escape, it doesn't work. She's simply not strong enough to do it.
"Yuki!" yells Floran, and Floran was about to run after her, but Adjoda stops Floran.
"Hold it right there. If you run after her, Floran will tell them to slice her neck," says Adjoda, and Floran stops. "Now, Floran is a good chief, so Floran will make a deal with the likes of you," says Adjoda as he points at Floran with his hammer. "If you manage to defeat Floran in battle, then you and the fish girl will go free. If you lose…well, Floran is sure that it's pretty obvious." This is no kindness from his heart. Floran has never seen the chief fight, but the fact that Adjoda is still the chief, means that he's strong. He could order the hunters around us to just kill us both, but he refuses, and Floran knows why.
He wants Floran to suffer, he wants Floran to beg for mercy, to cry in despair, but Floran will not give him the pleasure. However, Floran is not the only one he wants to suffer, he wants Yuki to see Floran suffer, wants to show how, her only means of escape, is about be killed in front of her eyes. Floran doesn't know if Floran can do it. Floran doesn't know if Floran can get Yuki out of this mess, but Floran knows this for sure. Floran will do anything, to save Yuki. Floran points Floran's sword towards the chief, and speaks without fear.
"Floran doesn't believe in your word, Adjoda, but you can believe this," Floran prepares to fight, "Floran will save Yuki, even if it gets Floran killed." Adjoda starts to laugh, and when he stops, he grabs his hammer with both hands.
"Floran will remember you as the funniest traitor to have ever existed in this tribe," says Adjoda with a smile. There's no need for words anymore, the hunters have started to hiss and to cheer. They want to see the blood of the traitor fly, and it will, but Floran will shut them up with Adjoda's lifeless body.