Black Mountain

Augh!

"Talk! Where is the damn egg, Tell me!", the warrior shouted, striking Jacob with a quick strike to his jaw for the most pain. Blood splattered from his mouth, but that didn't stop the warrior from continuing.

He drove another strike to his stomach.

Eugh!

"How long do you think you can keep this up? Do you think you're still the same as you were back then? You're nothing!", The warrior slammed his fist into Jacob's stomach, making him groan more incoherent noise.

Jacob felt sore as he was being punched and kicked on the ground. His head would bob from the ground and back to the soldier's fist.

Jacob started bleeding a lot, "Now tell me where it is. Before I kill you " the soldier ordered.

"Ack... ergh" Jacob coughed blood through his nose as he reached into his bag. The soldier smiled, "Looks like you still haven't lost all your brain cells". He looked at Jacob's hand to see him holding a middle finger flipping him off.

He clenched his teeth out of pure anger, "Good..good, You don't seem to value your life. Jessa, Skewer this imbecile to the tree and slash him 1000 times with your knife"

The female soldier nodded "I will make sure he doesn't die". She grabbed him by his neck and pressed him upon the tree. "You have one last chance before I crucify you to this tree"

Jacob though kept his tongue.

Hmph!" the female soldier coldly snorted and drew a long sword.

"Arghh!"

She stabbed her sword through his hands and into the tree, "Are you ready to talk? Or do you want me to go further?". She continued to add more pressure onto the sword.

"Arrrgh, My arms!" Jacob screamed in pain.

"I don't give a damn about your arm. Tell me where the Egg is!"

"It really did hatch and ran away... Don't you see that black mountain, you will find it there" Jacob was in immense pain as the sword grounded against his bones?

"Are you lying to me?" the warrior started to turn her sword through his wounds.

"Arrrrrgh! I'm not, I...I was just afraid to c-chase after it", Jacob stuttered in excruciating pain of her sword. His pierced flesh made him experience agony and dizziness.

"I told you where it is now, STOP!" He berated with visible anger and torment in his expression. Beads of sweat ran down his face and started panting.

"Jessa, stop!"The soldier who spoke first shouted. "Let's talk about it first, Come over here"

The woman looked at Jacob as she scoffed. "Hmph! Fine", Jacob fell to the ground in pain while clutching his hands.

The female soldier walked off while wiping off her sword. The soldier's spoon gathered around and started discussing.

"What do you think about what he said sir Enroy, Do you think he could be lying?"

"He seemed pretty genuine to me"

"Right I doubt that he would go through the trouble for an ant"

"He still tried to hide it from us, that means there are still things we don't know"

The warriors said their piece and waited for Enroy's analysis, "Hmm, torturing more would kill him. I'm not sure how an Ant with Golden Chimera genes should act, so anything could be the norm. Though there is still the possibility that he is hiding something from us"

Enroy then said his final decision, "There must be something at the mountain if the Ant really ran there. I'm not sure if this is normal behaviour, Still, we should bring him along to brave the dangers first. We still don't know much about that mountain. Go restrain him"

"Yes sir!" The soldiers shouted, soon the first soldier walked back up to Jacob. "Stand up vermin, you gonna show us where it went"

Jacob was still holding his hand in pain, "I only know the general direction, I have no idea what is there. It's too scary, I'm staying here".

"Hmph, like hell you are" The soldier pulled out a metal cuff from his side and threw it into Jacob's arms. The contraption bound his hand together, "You will walk in front of us and lead the way".

"Really I can't, I don't know where it went" Jacob never finished his sentence.

Eugh!

The soldier struk him in the mouth, then grabbed his hair as he coldly said, "Let me hear that again from you and I will cut your arms off".

"Now lead the way"

Jacob now had no other choice but to lead the way. He was being used as cannon fodder for anything dangerous that might harm them.

"Using a cripple as bait, I've never even seen bigger pussies in porn" Jacob murmured under his breath.

"Whatever you say, Just keep walking" The soldiers took him hostage and toward the black mountain. Jacob's straddled like a zombie while tripping over his own feet.

"Stop walking so slow and tripping on nothing" Enroy shouted, "Just walk what kind of cripple can't even do that right. Next time think before stealing what's not yours", he pushed Jacob whenever he walked too slow.

They continued to walk when the female soldier noticed something weird. "Hey, why are your knuckles so bruised up? What caused that". The warrior in question tried to hide his hands, but it was too late.

He chuckled nervously "haha, I must have hit something while I was beating that punk. Don't worry about it".

"It seems serious, Maybe I should take a look at it, she reached out her hand to hold his when she struck it away. "No! I said it's fine. It will heal quickly, I'm not weak" His hands were swollen red and blue, she knew it wasn't ok, but he was too stubborn to accept help.

"Why are my hands so swollen, What kind of witchcraft have I been hit with" he glared into the back of Jacob, "I'll be damned if you think I will believe he did this to me. There must be something that he's hiding."

He wrapped his hand with some bandages, then walked with his squad. They continued closer toward the black mountain. The closer they walked, it seemed to be devoid of life.

It was silent, not a single chirp of a bird or the croak of a frog. No rustling of the trees or the swooshing of the wind.

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