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Chapter 5: Escape from the Pack
Susan sat in her dark cell, awaiting the time when the Pack would bring her back to have more fun with her, the bastards. But she will escape, and eventually be able to make the Pack pay for what they did to her and Jimmy. Oh yes, they will pay….
"Hello? Are you….uh….Susan?" came a voice from the door that opened. She turned and saw another human like herself. He was very good-looking, tall, muscular, shining green eyes, and he had short red hair. His teeth were abnormally long though, it vaguely reminded her of the Pack's fangs. Susan wondered who he was.
"Uh…who are you? My name is Susan." She asked back to the guy. The guy nodded, agreeing with something in his mind.
"My name is Kane. I am another prisoner here. I am breaking out but I couldn't leave without knowing if a pretty looking lady like you would like to come with me." Kane said with almost a purr in his voice. Susan was stunned. She knew that tone. It almost sounded like the low seductive voices the Pack males always go into while in lust. She heard that enough yesterday to recognize it. But this was no Pack member; he did not look like one of those monsters with a very furry upper body and a scaly lower. He looked human. But still….this was very suspicious. But she needed to escape and if he proved untrustworthy, she could always get away. She made her decision.
"Yes, I would love to escape with you Mr. Kane. But I am warning you I will leave if I see anything suspicious." She replied to him. He made a bow.
"Well then, this way Ms. Susan. I know where they are keeping your boat. After we get away, do you mind if I examine it? I would like to see how it works." Susan turned to him incredulously. Kane started and fixed what he said. "I-I mean I am very interested in different types of boats. Is there a problem with that?" Susan stopped. Kane looked at her.
"Why did you stop? We have to keep going before a Pack member finds us. What are you looking for?" he asked, seething. They had to keep going! That was the plan. Jeb and Ari could only keep the Pack away from them for so long, every minute counted. If they were discovered out of their cells, not even the master would keep the Pack from killing them.
"I need to go get my Pokemon." She said.
"Oh, okay. They are in those red ball things, am I right?" Susan stared at him.
"You're weird. How could you not know that?" Kane just shrugged.
"They are already in the boat. The Pack left them there. You should be glad they didn't throw them in the ocean. Now, let's get going already." They hurried and ran through many twists and turns of the cave. When they were almost at the area where the boat was being held, an alarm rang and they heard the pounding feet of the Pack, looking for them. Susan and Kane jumped into the boat, just as the first Pack member came in. The Pack member yelled and made a swishing motion with his hands. Kane pushed Susan down and ducked as a beam flew over their heads and exploded a stalactite on the cave wall above them. Dust rained down upon them. Before it could do it again, Kane started the boat and they roared out of the cave into a little inlet. More Pack members were there but they didn't stop. More of the spells were cast and fortunately they weren't hit although there were a few close calls. If any of them had hit, the boat would have sunk. They roared out into open water and they watched the Pack members yelling angrily at them as they receded into the distance.
"What were those beams?" asked Susan a while later. "They exploded that solid stalactite easily."
"Those are a special weapon of the Pack. They are called the Dark Beam. A long distance attack and it is very painful to be hit by it. You saw what happened to the stalactite." Kane said in a dull voice. He had a blank stare in his eyes and Susan was a little nervous.
"Do you have Pokemon?" Susan asked curiously.
"No….no I don't. Where are we headed to?" Susan checked the map.
"The nearest place is Orre. It will be a couple days till we get there though, that's how far out of the way we are from civilization. How did the Pack get you?" she asked.
"I don't know. As far back as I can remember I was with them. I lived in a little cave where they chained me up. Frankly, it was amazing I lived for so long as they want to kill me but Jeb lets me live because I was useful to the Master." He replied in answer to her question.
"So…..like who's the Master that everyone keeps talking about?" Susan asked. A flash of annoyance went across Kane's face but it quickly disappeared and he looked impassive again.
"Nobody knows. He is the real controller of the Pack. Jeb and Ari make sure to obey all his wishes. No one has seen what he looks like or whether he even exists. Jeb has been slowly losing his mind and is becoming more and more erratic. Ari…..well, Ari always was rather insane. He loves pain and delights in it. They are wishing Jeb to stay Leader because if Ari becomes Leader…." Kane didn't finish that sentence. He then sat in stony silence while Susan kept peppering him with questions that he didn't answer. Eventually, she gave up and put the ship on auto-pilot and she went to sleep. Kane sat staring at her, wondering.