Chapter 2: That feels weird.

King Of The Forest

Chapter 2: That feels weird

The rumbling continues with sounds of debris falling and distant walls cracking. I fall onto my back. 'Ahh dammit; what now.' I protest and let out a small grunt.

"What in bloody hell's name is going on?" my prison mate blurts as it sounds like he fell off an elevated place. 'Did I hear a grunt just now or was that these old walls finally giving in.'

Just outside the cell a few steps away…

"Shit they're already here. At least I wasn't…" complained the female as she thought out loud. Hastening her steps down the hall. ' At least I got to taste that boy…anyway those grinks sure are quick. I was sure we at least had a day before abandoning this shit hole.' Her thoughts come to a halt along with her footsteps and in front of her is a wall.

This wall is in fact a door that is cut out on with a different shade and has a small square depression right in the middle of it. The female puts her clenched left fist in which the middle finger had a brown ring on it into the depression and makes a look as if focusing on something.

"Gate 6, Level G, unlock" she says after a couple of seconds and the cut out shape depresses and slides left out of the way to show a corridor. The female walks into the corridor wide enough to fit 2 able bodied men but this area has a unique design. It has one side a brick wall and the other, glass panes that if one looked down through it, they'd see an empty canteen like area.

The female makes her way through the corridor to find a similar 'door', this time changing her words to "Lifter, Level G, unlock." The door slides to reveal an elevator-like room which she enters and turns to face the closing door.

After the door closes, the female reaches out to push the only button in the lifter and says " Warden Forls Nihter, Level 4." and after a minute of soft rumblings the lifter begins to move upwards…slowly.

Back in the cell…

On my back now, the shaking ground politely reminding me of the pain in and on my body, I can finally see more of the prison cell I'm caged to. I turn my head to the right to get a look at the cell door and there it is…bars, but more importantly a man, a well built man with long brown hair that turned dirty gold whenever the source of light flickered. He was on the right side of the cell looking at the bars too but with much more interest and I thought…

'Why am I in jail with a swole Jesus.' I quickly get over it and study the room letting my eyes wander around. A mere glance at a body shaped object in the left end corner and boom…'hello Anna.' ' I'm in a cell with a dead body and there's an earthquake or something going on… what did I do to deserve this.' I sob

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The lifter stops with a slight jerk after ascending for some minutes and the door opens.

Just as forls steps out into a white room with chairs around, a voice calls out "Warden Nihter." and a really short man a few metres away facing her walks forward to stand in her way, a suspicious smirk planted on his face.

"We don't have much time left, maybe we could say our goodbyes before we leave." suggests the man with a slight bulge on his straight trousers that doesn't go unnoticed by Forls.

'This big headed imp thinks I'd lay with him because we might never see each other again. Dwarves sure are confident.' She inwardly sneers. Stepping to her left, she quickly passes him, ignoring the obvious advances and walks to the end of the waiting room to find 4 people standing next to a contrasting black wooden door with weird squiggles glowing on it.

'I guess everyone knows what's about to happen.' She remarks coming to stand next to the 4 figures, 2 men and 2 women. She nods at them and they do too as the short man arrives a beat later.

She approaches one of the women and asks "Do you think the prison will survive the attack Jules?" The woman, Jules, answers "the runes have been waning in power for 100 years now so I can definitely say we won't be coming back anytime soon. Even the trees around us feel it."

A strange saying, but even stranger was Jules. Wearing the same clothes as Forls, a black military like uniform with three stripes on the left arm sleeve, black shoes that had a hard sole. She stood tall and graceful as if by nature and her face showed an unparalleled beauty by earth's standards. It seemed… unnatural. Even her ears were pointy but that added a weird aesthetic to it.

'Well if the trees feel it, I guess I'm about to have a long vacation….' Forls declared.

Jules does nothing to further the conversation and so does Forls. 'As expected. These quiet women don't like speaking even if it's important.' These were the thoughts of those around them after listening on in their exchange.

A slight rumble and 10 minutes later the black door swings open accompanied by a shout " Get in here you fools!"

…

Not expecting that, Forls and the others pause for a moment which invites another shout. "Do you want to die here? We have to go, NOW!"

Inside a room with a table at the centre, a burly 6 foot man stares daggers at the 6 wardens behind the door. Even though that glare isn't meant for them they all tremble and immediately get inside the board meeting like room albeit on a smaller scale.

"Reporting to the Head PrisonMaster, sir!"

The wardens shout after standing at attention with both arms behind them, the left palm clasping the right fist, chest out and some bouncing.

The Head PrisonMaster turns to face a large window where a woman in uniform matching his is standing but hers has two stripes along the left sleeve whereas his has one thick stripe.

"Vice Head Violet, we need you to activate the waypoint" pleads the Head PrisonMaster.

'I can't get over this weird power dynamic.' Quipped the dwarven warden.

"Can you feel them? They're about to breach the ground floor" she simply said back.

Turning to the Head PrisonMaster, she walks to the circular table in the middle. "Bring out the device for me, Hendrix, and the rest of you; " she orders to the Head before looking at the wardens, notably focusing on one of the three men "...prepare your rings."

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'Is this my time' ponders 5-5-5. He puts his left palm to the floor and feels it tremble. 'Why is it getting stronger? What's going on?' He quips with furrowed brows.

'5-5-6 huh…. Now that I think about it…why does this cell look old? Like mediaeval old.' Logical thought coming back to me after calming down. 'I've never seen a crystal that glows like that and even flicker'

'Anyway. Now that the bitch who almost fucked me to death is gone, I can finally talk to this guy'

"He.." *crackle*.A sound as if a socket just blew drowns out my voice and I see the man flinch.

'What now?!' I hiss, annoyed.

'What was th..' 5-5-5 questions but pauses because he feels something. 'The magic is b..back!' He stutters, surprised. 5-5-5 suddenly stands as if provoked and with no run up, rams into the bars getting a flinch from 5-5-6 but more jarring, the bars at the entrance of the cell just breaking apart on impact leaving a rough man size shape and him on the side groaning.

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Just as I was about to complain more about the rude interruption, I saw 5-5-5 stand. I tensed up again because it's so abrupt but also because I felt something like water gently flowing around me and also…inside me, as if I could feel my own blood moving but I was sure it wasn't blood. It was something.

'That feels weird….'

*Boom*