Chapter 3: Arm-ageddon
King Of The Forest
Chapter 3: Arm-ageddon
*boom*
'Wha..' I was speechless. I just saw a man go through prison bars as if they were legos. Admittedly I didn't know what they were made of but that didn't make it any less surprising and that completely washes the feeling of water around me out of my mind as I focus on the now.
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5-5-5 groans for a while but then pushes himself off the ground looking left then right. 'Holy shit I'm free!! I'm..no…I..I have to get out of here.' He quickly realises.
He stands and starts sprinting right, going down the hall outside the cell leaving a startled 5-5-6.
'Wait…don't leave.' "Haaagh" I try to speak and finally realise I may have not been able to speak at all because my throat is dry as shit. 'I have to move…I have to get out of this cell.' I declare.
Now determined to escape, I move my left hand slightly to test the level of pain I have to prepare for. 'Ohh…that's actually not that bad.' I comment, relieved. 'Compared to before it's much more bearable….mmhmm yeah. I wonder why?'
I move a little more and find that the feeling of cuts and bruises is reduced to strong aching all over my body.
*pat pat* My attention is caught hearing the footsteps of 5-5-5 get further away, I turn over to my right and lift myself up to a crawl position. I try to stand but the pain flares up making me go back to the crawl and I breathe while hissing to reduce the pain.
'Come now. You can do this.' A small pep talk and a few breaths later I crawl to the broken bars picking up speed around the same as a sugar rushed baby. 'Lets goooo'
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In the 4th floor office. One of the male wardens approaches the table at the centre from a wall that has circular squiggles glowing on it and some of them dimmed down.
Coming from the to the left of the large window where the wall is, he stops at the edge of the table and reports. " The magic power circuits from the third floor to the ground have been cut off, Ma'am. The converter should only be powering the fourth floor. Should we bring it down from the tip?"
"No. It's fine just there. It's not like we'll need it after this." Replies the Vice Head, Violet. " hahhh," she sighs, 'our inmates probably think it's their chance for freedom but really, it's just a death sentence….' she declares, as if downcast. "Okay, we've given the grinks an opening by cutting the circuits, let's make this quick." She says looking at the people around the table before focusing on a grey spherical object in the middle of it.
She chants with her hands over the orb, "Ouvert. Point De Passage. Quarrct"
This weird language she used was clearly heard by the others yet strangely in their head they knew what she said was "Open. Waypoint. Quarrct."
'I can't believe we're going to the main prison, Quarrct, in the capital' comments the last unidentified woman excitedly as she stares at the now levitating, glowing orb that made a sky blue light fill the room.
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'Just a little more come on.' I think, an arm's length away from the broken bars.
*boom* *crash*. The room shakes as if something just hit the prison I'm in and it makes my left arm buckle as I'm reaching out for a broken bar with my right, causing me to fall on my face.
'Fuck. I can't die here.' I ignore the pain and push forward to grab the bar. The hall comes into view and the crystal becomes more vivid to me.
Looking down, I see the broken pieces of the bars in front of me and grab the one closest to me with my right hand thinking 'since I can't yell, let me make some noise so that guy can come get me.'
I pull my head over the bars and turn my head right while painfully swinging my hand down to hit the bar against the floor and then….'fur?...blood?....'
*chomp*
The image of fur and the smell of blood in front of me quickly gets wiped out by a pulling force and a pain on my right arm that makes me scream out loud for the first time.
I pull back and fall on my ass. Reaching out to my right hand I feel a warm liquid on my palm and look. 'No no no fuck ahhh!!'
My right hand was gone. From the fingertips to around half the bicep area.
I clutch what's left in hopes of stopping the blood flow and while I struggle to do so, I hear a slow deep growl. I look to the entrance of my cell and a monstrous figure faces me.
'What the fuck is that!!!' I scream in my head pushing myself back deeper into the cell until I hear a buzz and crackle at the entrance.
New bars begin to grow from the broken ones restoring the cell to its previous locked state separating me and the beastly figure.
Looking at the thing that just ate my arm I was in disbelief.
A 2 meter pitbull dog like being with no eyes but folds all over its face, scars all over its body and a mouth dripping a mix of saliva and blood. This thing was hideous.
'There's no way that thing exists in earth man, where the fuck am I?!' I ask, terrified and a panic attack ensuing.
The creature bangs its head against the bars and I see an orange light fill the gaps between them like a glass pane.
The banging continues and my heart pounds. A slow chill creeps up my body and it gets harder to breathe. A couple seconds inside the cell and I pass out.
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The glowing orb started to spin, its speed increasing fast and a light hum sounding from it.
"Okay now focus your magic on the rings, you should feel it resonate with the transit orb." Said Vice Head Violet with her hand over the orb
Everyone looked to their ring on their left hand and guided their magic to it.
Feeling a sort of empty space within her ring, Forls pushed magic into it and then suddenly, a feeling as if stuck in a viscous liquid permeated through her with a blue glow surrounding her.
Knowing that it was supposed to feel like this, she shrugged it off and quickly got used to it. 'Still feels weird.' She complained. Looking around, she saw everyone with the same glow and furrowed brows.
"Activer '' called out Vice Head Violet, and light blue ethereal cords connected from each ring to the orb.
Forls looked to the Vice Head but focused behind as if reflecting on something. 'Goodbye Arkshu, prison for the magic-able.'
Then suddenly, as if a black hole in front of them, the people around the table were pulled into the orb with a small pop.
A while later and the orb stopped spinning and glowing, and it fell on the table with a soft thud before rolling off and falling to the floor. Right after landing, the wall that had some of the squiggles glowing on it changed, to all the squiggles glowing but they were immensely dimmed down as if low on power.
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Eyes fluttering open, I see the black ceiling of my cell. Remembering what just happened I try to quickly sit up but I fail miserably. ' My body feels weird. Why can't I move the way I want?'
I try again, this time the pain on what's left of my right arm flaring up and giving me an idea of why I feel off. 'A missing eye and arm, no wonder. I think my sense of balance is fucked now, I have to adju…the dog!!the fucking DOG!' I quickly turn to the entrance and see the creature has left.
Cheering inside, I realise 'holy fuck I almost died. Infact, I should be dead. I lost a fucking arm and I think most of my wounds opened when it happened. I should've lost a lot of blood right?' I try to make sense of why I'm still alive and move my head around to look for traces of blood.
'Ohh fuck that's a lot of blood. That's…wait did I stop bleeding?' Looking at my right stub, I reach out to the spot where it got cut off with my left hand.
A slight touch and I immediately pay for the stupidity of my action. 'Ahh fuck, why did I touch an open wound?.' I cry out.
A few breaths later ' Okay so the bleeding stopped. I think that's why I'm not dead. And everything hurts less now…maybe because of that feeling of water.' My thoughts becoming clearer, I start to analyse my situation.
I focus on the flowing water-like sensation 'Hmm..The feeling of water has been reduced but I can feel it slowly coming back. What is this….' *rumble*.
'Huh..The earthquake is still going on? No, maybe it's because of that dog thing? Maybe it has friends…. Shit. Is it the end of the world? Armageddon?'