Prison Break

Stella and Wix made their way down the long halls of the dungeon freeing the Piglins that were being kept captive. They had freed a total of 7 people including themselves. Luckily they hadn't met any other Brutes while freeing the others but that quickly changed when Stella came upon the main entrance. There were 4 Brutes, 2 standing guard at the door, and another 2 using another 2 of the prisoners in the area near the entrance.

"I should be able to handle 2 of them. Can the 6 of you handle the other 2?"Stella whispered

Most of the Piglins nodded but there were a few who didn't look confident.

"That's good enough, if you can't kill them then just stall them so that I'm not in a 4v1."Stella whispered

Stella turned towards the Brutes and took a deep breath feeling the searing pain where she was stabbed earlier. She quickly activated the taint and dashed at the 2 Brutes that were occupied, taking the large metal stake and stabbing at the left temple of the first Brute.

Much to her dismay, the stake didn't kill the Brute in a single hit, and as she tried pulling the stake out of its head it wouldn't budge. "Fuck." Stella muttered as the Brute backhanded her into the nearby wall sending cracks splintering up the wall. She quickly ordered the spiders to attack the Brutes while she dodged another punch.

She quickly looked around for anything to fight with and saw a large ax sitting up against the wall, Stella grined and lunged for it. The Brute saw her go for the ax but was preoccupied smashing the spiders that were slowly eating away at his flesh. As Stella lifted the ax up she quickly blocked another strike from the other Brute that was in the room and dived through his legs to gain some room. She saw that the Brute had killed a fourth of her spiders and quickly had them change targets to the armed Brute in front of her. While doing so she sliced downwards with the ax and watched the blade sink into the Brutes flesh.

Stella quickly moved to the side to dodge another swing from the armed Brute and made her own attack severing one of the arms of the Brute. She heard the other Brute roar and quickly turned around only to be grabbed by the neck. She could see that the Brute was bleeding quite badly and was missing a good portion of his flesh, but his grip was still firm. Stella quickly pulled more power from the taint with it now covering most of her chest and most of her neck after 3 years of using it to sustain herself.

She gripped down on the arm choking her hearing it snap under the force and air quickly came back to her as she fell to the ground coughing. Stella quickly jumped back to avoid getting hit by the other Brute's attack and countered by kicking the arm that swung with the ax, upon hearing a snap she grabbed the weapon that the Brute dropped and threw it at the Brute that was bleeding out, and watched as the weapon embedded itself into the skull of the Brute, killing it.

Stella ducked a blow from the brute she disarmed and grabbed the ax that she dropped earlier and swung upwards disemboweling the Brute and spraying her with blood. "That was gross. Spiders please go stall the other 2 Brutes." Stella could see that the Piglins were struggling against the 2 Brutes, she quickly grabbed the 2 axes and quickly ran over.

"Wix catch!"Stella said throwing one of the axes toward her

Wix caught the weapon and used it to parry the Brute allowing her to stab the Brute in the throat with the sword killing it. "Boost me!" Stella yelled while running towards the Brute, one of the Piglins crouched down and readied themself. Stella was launched into the air, and she swung downwards at the last Brute.

The Brute was too busy trying to deal with spiders and other Piglins to react to the attack from above, and as it looked up all it saw was a rapidly approaching blade. With all the Brutes dead Stella relaxed and counted their losses, Stella was fine due to the taint but 2 Piglins died and 4 were heavily injured. They had 7 people total now that 2 had died Stella, Wix 3 more spec ops, and 2 criminals.

"Grab their gear, we are leaving this place."Stella said

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Word Count: 766

Short chapter today, sorry about that! Suggestions and power stones are always welcomed!