Chapter 24: Exposition, Exposition, Rush it Out ASAP
While I was unaware that my remaining so-called friends were on the way to save me, DeDe was exhibiting that she didn't covet the best set of hospitality skills.
"Listen up, verminette! Until further notice you're gonna stay up in that cage under lock and key." DeDe threateningly explained. I never knew someone could never stop talking, yet end up say nothing at all!
"Why are you doing this?" I questioned although I already mostly knew the answer.
"Well, I guess I've kept you in suspense long enough."
"You see Zaí, your inferior species has been a plague on mankind for too long.
Society would call you a famine, I would call you an infestation."
"Really? Society would call zombies a famine?" I questioned not believing it entirely.
"Well us witches would and that's close enough. But that's beside the point, we have a goal, a dream if you will, to eradicate you unholy creatures and cleanse the world."
"And now..." DeDe pulled an ominous looking object from a small satchel she wore on her belt.
"thanks to this little trinket, were closer than we've ever been before."
"What is that?" I asked clutching the bars of the cage. It looked like a brooch shaped like a precious gemstone filled with a sort of magic potion, it glowed a brilliant bright magenta like a magnolia flower in bloom. Despite its beauty I knew it to be toxic, or even worse lethal.
"This is the source of all the power that belongs to witches, with this we can finally eradicate the verminous undead that have plagued us for years." DeDe explained with a vile grin.
"What happened to you DeDe?" I asked her with my voice trembling. "We used to be best friends".
"Emphasis on 'used to' Zaí. Times change, our environments change and even the people around us do. We may have been close before but everybody has to make sacrifices, I sacrificed your friendship and gained the admiration and loyalty of all my fellows. Unlike you I finally gave into my primal instincts and went through the changes that every witch eventually goes through. Lucky for me I was able to adapt to my new surroundings and now I'm in a very powerful position within the witch hierarchy. Heck, you may as well start calling me admiral of the fleet." Once DeDe had finished her drawn out exposition I spoke up.
"You're never gonna get away with this you know!" I said not entirely sure how, but I was still optimistic.
"Well if you still think that way perhaps you need a demonstration of the power I now have..."
She produce a small gun from her dress and fired a dart directly at me and it went directly through the bars of the cage and into my neck. Once it hit me in the neck I knew what it was...
A tranquilizer dart.
and then everything went black...
and we'll end it there for now. Hope you guys are enjoying the suspense so far, and I hope you appreciate that I'm still committed to finishing this story unlike some other fanfic writers.
K, Peace out homies!