Chapter 7: An Action

Hong and Turner move through the rocky hills with caution whilst they talk.
"Why did you come back for me?" Turner asks.
"Returning the favour, you could have just as easily escaped the stronghold without me"
"I guess you did return the favour"
"I've also been meaning to ask you something"
"What is it?"
"Why do you want this 'Jack' dead so much?"
"I guess I should come clean. The only reason I'm on the run is to kill this man who betrayed my entire village, he slaughtered my wife and daughter, this man is Jack"
"Woah, well I'm sorry for your loss"
"It's been a long time, when you first met me it had been 3 months since I had been to Khan village"
"Do you know why Jack did it?"
"I was trying to connect the pieces before, Jack seems to be leading the raiders and the raiders seem to be taking orders from the dogs so that leads me to thinking that Jack is taking orders from the dogs"
"Well that does seem most likely"
The two stop when they begin to hear the noise of a crowd and then spot the entrance to the cat village.
"Oh, here we are! Tsong Village!" Hong exclaims.
Turner with curiosity begins to walk into the village, the stone houses with hay roofs surrounding him, Turner notices an unusual amount of people surrounded something in a circle, chanting. Turner pushes his way into the crowd and looks over a cats shoulder to see two cats strafing around a circle in fighting position.
"That's my wife you're talking to!" One cat yells.
"And what are you going to do about it?" The other cat yells back.
"I'm going to feed you your teeth!"
The two run at each other, one tackles the other in the gut but is elbowed in the head and drops to the ground, he is grabbed and pulled up to his knees and then kneed in the face and drops onto his back. The cat walks over to him and grabs him by the collar of his shirt, "And for dessert you can eat my knuckles!" The cat yells and then punches the other cat out cold. Turner is grabbed from the crowd by Hong and pulled back out onto the road.
"Does that happen usually?" Turner asks.
"I wouldn't be very sure, I haven't been here for 21 years" Hong replies.
"We should be heading to the inn"
"Yes we should"

The inn was busy and noisy, rabbits and cats sat on the bar stools and chairs as they drank themselves to death. Some came to forget bad times, others came to have good times they wouldn't remember. The door swung open as the bell rang and two figures walked into the room, Turner and Hong they were. Hong walked up to the counter as Turner hung behind at the door, behind the counter was a cat who wore dirty, brown clothes under their tattered, white apron. Who looked up at Hong as he cleaned the counter, " 'Ello" The bartender said casually.
"Uh, hi, could we get two rooms?" Hong asks.
"We?"
Hong turned and pointed at Turner and Turner looked up at Hong and waved.
"That will be 20 gold for the night"
"Okay, just let me grab my coin"
"Oh, before I forget, you and your friends name"
"My name is Hong lee and my friend's…"
A hooded man blasts from his seat causing the inn to go silent, the hooded man slowly turns to Hong and begins to approach. "Well if it isn't the Most Wanted criminal in Lugaru!" The man boasts.
"Most wanted!?" Hong asks, flabbergasted.
"That's right, you're coming with me" The man says as he plants his hand onto Hong's shoulder.
The man smirks at Hong before having his head grabbed by Turner and his head smashed into the counter. "You want him, you'll have to go through me!" Turner states. The man gets up and throws two punches at Turner which he both blocks, the man then follows his attack with a kick which Turner grabs and then throws the man back into a table which smashes under the man's weight. Turner grabs the man by his collar as a rabbit on a table watches over his shoulder with curiosity. The man pushes Turner back and then Turner throws a punch but he blocks it. Turner kicks the man in the stomach and the man falls to his knees, the man goes to get back up but Turner grabs a chair and smashes it over his head, knocking him out cold.
"Not in my establishment, get the hell out!" The bartender screams at Hong and Turner.

Turner and Hong quickly flee the inn and move onto the streets.
"Well that's perfect, where are we supposed to get a room now?" Hong asks.
"Hey, it was either I beat the crap out of him or he takes you away!" Turner replies.
The two begin to hear steps behind them and turn around to see the rabbit from the bar.
"Hello?" Turner says being confused why the rabbit had followed him.
"I hear you're looking for a place to stay?" The rabbit asks.
"You are?" Hong asks.
"Kenneth Cheng, Captain Kenneth Cheng" He replies.
"Well Kenneth, what can you do for us?" Turner asks.
"This dog invasion is atrocious, I have a resistance movement that plans to force the dogs out of Lugaru, if you're in I can get you a place to stay"
"I'll take you up on that offer" Hong says.
"I guess it's better than nothing" Turner says.
"That's the spirit, here follow me, I've got some fine rooms for some good fighters like you!" Kenneth says whilst turning to escort them.

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Author's Note: Happy Easter Guys! Sorry for the short chapter, it being Easter and everything, anyway guys I'll see you in April…April 1st that is :D