CHAPTER SIX: THE SMELL OF TROUBLE.

Earlier that day when Katrina and Roy had already escaped. One of the guards went towards the room that Katrina was kept. He went there so as he could assist his fellow guards while they took some rest, on reaching there he was so shocked to see the two guards helplessly lying on the ground.

While he was still wondering what happened to those men, another guard arrived,while staring at the two lying men, he said, "James, what happened to these two!"

" Gary, I am glad you came, I was also wondering the same thing, I am so confused, I mean how can anyone sleep on guard." James replied still looking at the men.

Gary and James were the assistants of the chief guard, his name was Malik but most of the people weren't aware of this name as he was known as ' Typhon ' this name is originally a name of the father of all monsters in the Greek mythology, he was the most powerful and deadliest monster.

Malik was the supervisor of all the guards, he controlled almost every activity in that area, he was the one who conveys the given orders to other guards. He was named Typhon due to his deadly personality, he was so cruel and hostile, any guard who broke even a simple rule would be punished brutally or pay with his life.

His look could even scare the most dangerous animals away, Guards consider him scary than even the worst nightmare, no one could even dare look straight in his eyes or glance at him for the second time let alone stand next to him unless that was their last day on Earth, only Gary and James were seen around him most of the time. only the fortunate ones made it alive once called by Typhon. He was considered a deadliest monster in that area.

The scary man that Katrina saw in front of the big black gate with a black eye patch, whose other eye was so red, with a burnt scar on the left side of his face, and his masculine arms were filled with snake tattoos was none other than Typhon.

Both Gary and James were fair skinned men with average height, but Gary was a little bit taller than James they were both agile with well built bodies. Gary was way more serious than James who was charming and had a friendly personality, most guards prefered talking to James rather than Gary. These two were so close to each other, they were more like brothers.

On knowing how the guards feared Typhon, and how rules were strictly followed, no one could dare being so reckless to the extent of sleeping while guarding, that just couldn't add up to Gary's mind. He was so deep in thoughts trying to figure out what exactly happened.

" Bro, what exactly are you thinking?" James asked Gary with curiosity.

" There is something fishy going on here!" Gary said while looking at the two lying men and then he faced James and said, " something is not right, Jim do one thing, can you open that room and check if that girl is in there."

James smiled, "here we go again, he's acting like a detective as always," he mumbled to himself while heading towards the small room.

" Did you say something?" Gary asked in a serious way.

" what? no way," he said while opening the small room's door.

On seeing no one inside the room, James popped his eyes out such that they almost fell out from their socket. He was so surprised, he wondered how did that small lady escape and what exactly happened, James slowly turned facing Gary with a shocked expression on his face, he was also so scared of what was going to happen next.

" Gary... I ..I am smelling trouble." James said while standing in a paralyzed mode.

On seeing James's reaction Gary smirked and said, " as I expected, she is not there, right?"

James was back to normal, he said," Wait, how did you know that! I mean I had no idea, by the way how did she manage to escape, she was tightly tied, and these guards.....I am just so confused."

" This was a planned escape, I am sure someone helped her, and whoever helped her is not someone to be underestimated, just looking at their mouths and eyes I can easily tell that someone spiked something they ate or drank, he used a certain special herb that when mixed in a drink or food can make one to pass out, and guess what, that herb isn't easily attained, only people from the royal families posses it, This only mean one thing, that person is not one of us." Gary said looking at James.

"Who on earth dared to do this, this is just too confusing." James was

still trying to figure out who had the guts to break in their campus like that, no intruder had ever made out of there alive so far, and that person simply didn't like his life, he thought.

" Listen Jim, before this matter gets out of hand, we need to find them, I am sure they aren't far from here. I'll go and inform the guard on the gate to not allow anyone out." Gary said, when he wanted to walk away, the two lying men started regaining their consciousness.

" Force them to get up before Typhon finds them lying there, then together we will search the entire area, Oh,and only a few of us should know about this, I'll quickly go now, If you find them inform me immediately." Gary said and then he left immediately heading towards the main gate.

Once Gary left, James looked at the two lying guards who were having a hard time standing up as their bodies were still weak so they were obviously so slow, they were even slower than slugs, but despite their slow pace, James considered their situation and patiently waited for them to get up.

One of the men tried his best to get up but when he almost stood

up still, he suddenly fell down again lying on the ground, that was just too much for James to take, he was running out of patience, he couldn't just stand there watching those men getting up and falling again while time wasn't on their side at that moment but then he couldn't use force to make them get up, he saw that as indecency so he had to think of a good way to make them active.

After a short while, he quickly carried out his plan, all he did was telling them that Typhon was heading that direction where they were lying with a sword on his hand, on hearing those words, those men got up so quickly than expected, they looked so terrified, their hearts were pumping so loudly that they could hear it, they were wandering their eyes around while looking for Typhon.

At seeing how those men became active all of a sudden on hearing Typhon's arrival made him smile happily as his plan worked, James thought that nobody wanted to die especially not in the hands of Typhon so their reaction wasn't a surprise to him. Inorder to cool them down as they were so restless thinking that Typhon was somewhere near, so he admitted to them that he was lying to them to make them active so they finally calmed down.

Yet again the two men were so terrified to death once they found out that the girl escaped under their watch, they clearly knew that their days were numbered because if Typhon gets the news, he would surely kill them. There was know way for them to escape death unless they found the girl before Typhon finds out. So they had to split up inorder to find her.

Time was running so fast, the guards didn't find Katrina, some few trusted guards were instructed by James to assist with the search but despite the increase in the number of the ones searching, still they couldn't find Katrina. That was the time when Katrina and Roy had taken the long corridor. No guard even dared to take the long corridor as they knew that it would take hours to complete it, after all, they totally underestimated Katrina, they didn't think that she had the guts to take the long corridor. Little did they know that Roy and Katrina had used the exact same corridor to escape.

One of the things that delayed the search was that it was the orientation day, so there were a lot of young ladies, only a few guards knew the Katrina's face. Also that area is so big with a lot of buildings with plenty of rooms and hidden areas. The few guards who were finding Katrina begun feeling tired. They cursed the one who helped her to escape.

Typhon was walking quickly heading towards Katrina's room, his eye clearly expressed his anger, the way he walked with a dagger in his right hand, his reactions clearly told that he was up to no good, it was as if he was about to murder someone, though he was always angry but today's anger was incomparable.

James saw Typhon heading towards Katrina's room. He knew what will happen if Typhon found out that Katrina escaped, so no matter what, he had to stop him, though he knew the kind of man Typhon was, he cared less about what could happen to him, he ran towards Typhon clearly knowing what he was getting himself into, He confidently stood in front of Typhon.

" You have got the nerves to stop me, how dare you!" Typhon said with extreme anger, his voice was more wild than the lion's roar.