I woke up to a sound of a shrill scream. Right in my fucking ear. Here's how the little conversation went down.
"EEEP!"
"Dah!" I jumped up and knocked Bon-Bon out of my arms. "What tha fuck!" I shouted at Spitfire.
"AH?!" She pointed at me and Bon-Bon.
"Ah?" I said...or asked?
"AH!" She pushed her finger at Bon-Bon. Spitfire had an enormous blush on her face.
"WWHHAT?!" I shouted at Spitfire.
"D-did...we?"
"Oooh..okay no nothing happened." I looked over at Bon-Bon, who somehow managed to stay asleep during the shouts. "Is Bonny okay?" I pushed Bon-Bon a bit. "Bon-Bon?"
"Fmpmremint." Was her reply. I looked over at Spitfire, she shrugged at me. I put my mouth next to Bon-Bon's ear.
"WAKE THE FUCK UP BONNY GIRL!" I shouted into her ear. She opened her eyes and lifted her head, she scanned the room for a minute and let her face drop back into the bed.
"What's her problem?" Asked Spitfire. I shrugged and poked Bon-Bon's side. "Hey, I got an idea." I looked over at Spitfire.
"You do?" I asked, she nodded in response. "Then get to it."
"Hey don't boss me around!" She retorted.
"Just get to it." I replied, I looked at Spitfire creep over to Bon-Bon, real slow like...like a hungry predator, the scary part was that I was watching her, yet I couldn't even hear her footsteps, I knew she was there and no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't hear her.
Spitfire crept up to Bon-Bon and began to tickle her sides. A loud squeal rang in my ears, but Spitfire didn't let up, unfortantly because I was so close to Bonny at the time I received a kick to the jaw, I recoiled and fell off the bed.
"Oh shit!" I heard Bon-Bon say.
"Is he okay?" Asked Spitfire.
"I didn't try to kick him, so he should be fine." Bon-Bon replied. I held my jaw, which felt like it was fucking shattered. A tear tried to escape my eyes, not from pain but from like body reaction, I mean if I get hit square in the nose, no matter how soft or hard it usually brings a tear to my eye.
I tried to talk but my jaw wasn't ready to cooperate just yet. "Ramblfrsg." Was what came out.
Spitfire was the first to help me up, of course. Bonny girl was just looking away and whistling. Guilty bitch. I messaged my jaw for a good minute before I heard a pop. "Ow fuck!" I held my jaw. "That hurt Bon-Bon." If she didn't mean to kick me....gawd I would hate to feel what her real kicking power is.
"Sorry." I heard Bon-Bon say. I smiled, even though it was still kind of painful, and walked over to her and gave her a quick hug. She didn't hug me back, when I pulled away I saw why. Bon-Bon stood there slack jawed.
"What?" I asked her. I looked over and saw that Spitfire was a bit shocked to. "What?!" I said again.
"Why have you been so....happy lately?" Spitfire asked me.
"Why not?" I said.
"Well, from the stories that Lyra told us, you weren't exactly the touchy type...or the happy type." Bonny girl said. Oh...yeah, why have I been so happy? I closed my eyes to think. I saw images of the short times I have spent with Bon-Bon, Spitfire, and even Lyra. I smiled.
"Because, I know I have friends." It was true. I had. Friends.
The two girls smiled, only for a moment before they looked at each other and shared a glance. "What?" I asked them. "Why did you two just get all serious?"
"We have to talk about Lyra don't we?" Spitfire asked, Bon-Bon tensed up.
"Nope." I flatly said.
"Huh?!" The two girls said in unison, their faces shared a confused state. It was like a comedy skit from the 90's. All we needed was a live audience for the laughter.
"Let's just say...I had a very...very revealing dream."
"Wait what?" Spitfire asked.
"I was visited by Luna." I saw the two girls panic for a second before they looked around the room. "What's wrong?" I asked.
"If she could visit you in your dreams that means she knows where you are!" Shouted Bon-Bon.
"Really? Good thing she's on our side." The girls stared at me dumbfounded. "Oh, yeah...umm so long story short, Luna wants to help."
"Why would you trust her?" Spitfire asked.
"She seemed nice." I joked.
"Really?" Bon-Bon deadpanned.
"No, heh..she helped me see who I should trust, and that's you two and Lyra." The two girls shared a look.
"If she is going to help...will she join our rebellion?"
"I think secretly, but not publicly." I took a gasp. "It would be like having our own secret agent!" I exclaimed. The two girls giggled. "What?" I asked them.
"Your such a dork." Bonny said.
"A dork that can kick some ass!" I said as I jumped up.
. . .
It was finally time for us to leave the inn, that solid grey dull and confining room, yet, another good memory was made there. Funny how i dark and lonely places still can offer great things.
"Yo Alex time to go!" Shouted Bon-Bon, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Coming!" I called back to her. I caught up to Bon-Bon and Spitfire. "So where to?"
"Were going to our base." Hmm, these anthros can sure get together if they all work together against something, pr someone.
We continued on the dirt road. "Can you tell me like exactly?"
"Were going to city called Manehatten, it will probably only take a few hours to get there."
"Hours! I wish we could just be there already." It's been boring lately, peaceful and nice....but still boring.
"What's that?" Spitfire said. I looked at her, she was pointing towards an overturned caravan. Looks like an ambush. Which means.
"Were in bandit territory!" I shouted. Bandits, brutes, idiots, tough, and usually fighters. Tough bastards.
"Way to give away our positions!" Shouted Bon-Bon at me. I looked around, it was morning so everything was clear and obvious. I could see footprints in the dirt, scattered and everywhere, this group was very unorganized, which didn't make it any better or worse. I heard a tree ruffle. I looked into the tree tops, ropes were tied to trees. A thin wire was connected to the ropes and trailed down into the dirt.
"Some sort of tripwire?" I asked out loud. Bon-Bon and Spitfire looked at me. I leaned over and grabbed a rock. I threw it into the lines. A snap was heard and two trees fell, one in front of us and one behind us. This trap was meant to stop wagons from escaping. Smart move, but what if the caravan was protected.
An arrow dug it's way into the ground in front of me. I broke off into the tree line. Bon-Bon broke off to the right and Spitfire flew into the air.
"Idiot you missed!" I heard a deep masculine voice yell.
"Shut up! I just got this bow from the last caravan! It fucking sucks!" Another deep masculine voice replied. Amateurs.
I saw an orange streak in the sky and saw Spitfire land next to me. "There's three in the tree tops, five in the ground and I think theres one in the bushes."
"How did you spot-" she cut me off.
"Im a flier, we have to have great sight." She told me.
"Okay, go warn Bonny, I'll try to take care of some of the ground ones, after you tell Bonny, try to take out anyone who has a bow." Spitfire nodded and leapt up into the air. I didn't like how obvious of a target she was in the sky, bit at least she has speed so it would take a very skilled archer to take her down.
At least I could take that small comfort in this situation. I put my back against the closest tree and waited for the idiots to do something. As if on cue, they did.
"Where the hell did they go!"
"I don't fucking know! It was your job to watch them!"
"No it wasn't!"
"Shut up!"
"You shut up!"
I peeked my head around the corner to risk a look at the two voices, two behemoths of anthros were walking past some of the trees, slowly getting further away from me. I waited for my opportunity.
"You want a mouth full of my fist!" One of the men, red coated, turned to the other and held a fist to his face.
"Want a broken face?!" The other one, grey coated, shoved the red coated guy back. Now!
I sprinted towards the red coat first, as I drew nearer I jumped up and grabbed his head, while in the air I used my momentum to slam his head into the nearest tree. I fell and landed on my feet and turned towards the grey coated brute.
"You fucked up little boy!" The brute shouted at me as he charged. He threw a fist at me and I ducked under it, his fist hit the tree behind me, with a sickening crunch I pulled away from the brute. "My hand!" The giant bellowed. He pulled his now broken hand away and looked at me. "Boys! I found one!" He shouted.
"Snitch!" I shouted as I rushed him, he swung his arm at me, I jumped back and avoided his swing, next. I drove my foot into his gut. He just stood there and laughed.
"You should have known better!" I should have, he grabbed my foot and yanked me off the ground. I fell onto my ass and looked at the man, he drove his foot down towards me, I quickly rolled over and stood up, only to catch a fist to the side of my head.
I heard a ringing sound as I spun out, I went reeling back a few feet and feel onto a knee. I heard footsteps coming towards me. To heavy to be either of the girls, I turned and ran off the best I could. The world spun as I ran, I quickly found myself on the ground after stumbling over an exposed tree root.
"He went this way!" A new voice shouted, lighter but still masculine. I looked around for anything. I spotted a bush and quickly dragged myself into it.
I heard loud and heavy footsteps pass me up, next lighter ones came near me, I looked out, able to see from the bush. A new figure stood in front of the bush I was hiding in. He was a lighter blue coated man, his hair was fashioned into a mohawk. He stared directly into the bush. Directly at me, my heart skipped a beat, the world spun a bit faster for me.
"Dude, you might be able to hide fro, the idiots, but I assure you I am not an idiot." I held my breath hoping he was bluffing. "I can see how you dragged yourself into the bush, the dirt is a dead give away." Fuck. The man leaned over the bush, he dug for something in his pocket. I saw fish out a sharp pocket knife, it glimmered in the sunlight. "Got y-" as he thrust arms down, knife held firmly in his hand he was cut off.
I saw a knee make contact with the side of the guys head. I then saw Bon-Bon take his spot. The man recoiled back and landed in the dirt. The world finally stopped spinning for me, I rolled out from the bush and gave Bon-Bon a smile.
She grinned and gave me a thumbs up.
"Thanks for the save." I told her.
"No problem." She replied,
"The BITCH IS OVER HERE!" Yelled the blue coated man. He reached for his knife, but I ran up to him and gave him a swift kick to the face, he slumped over. I bent over and grabbed his knife. It felt unpleasant in my grasp, but it was necessary right now. It wasnt anything special, just a six inch pocket knife, I folded it then put it into my pocket.
Bon-Bon screamed as a man grabbed her and shoved her against a tree. I turned to look at her but was cut off by a kick to the gut, then someone slammed into me with what felt like the force of a train. I went flying back into the dirt road. I scrambled up panicked. I lost sight of Bon-Bon.
A certain grey anthro stood next to a smaller griffon. I hated griffons, swift little bastards, sharp as talons, and sharp ass fucking beaks. I was probably going to get gutted, the griffon moved, but was cut off by a streak of orange. I saw Spitfire slamming her fists into the the griffons face.
The grey coated anthro held his good fist and brung it down towards Spitfire, only I was there to stop him, I kicked his arm, directly on his elbow, I heard a sickening crack followed by another one of his angry/pained howls.
He turned to me, his arm limply twirled along with his turn. He looked directly at me. "You freak!" He spat at me, I jumped uo and brought my knee to his chin, he fell back, I didn't let up. He laid on his back groaning, I stood next to him and slammed my foot into his face, over and over. Until I heard a pop and his breaths stopped. Dead. Now wasn't the time to think about it though. Bon-Bon was in danger. I head a scream from the trees, I quickly darted off towards it.
I stopped behind a tree. I lucked a tree branch off from the ground as I made my way over here. I held it tightly in my hands and peeked around the corner. I saw two anthros laying faced down in the dirt, Three were huddled around a tree, one held Bon-Bon against the tree.
"You took out three of my men." He must have been the leader, I looked at Bon-Bon, her hair was a bit tangled, she was a bit scratched up but nothing major. She didn't get caught without a fight though."I usually kill people who hurt my men...but for a pretty lil thing like you I think I can make an exception." He put his hand on her breast, Bon-Bon tensed up.
I could feel my blood boil, anger. I heard rumors about bandits and women, the reason there was never a female in a bandit group was because they would get raped. Tossed back and forth between the men until she was broken. My eye twitched constantly, I felt hatred for him.
"I'm going to have the first go at her, alone. Anyone else can do whatever to her after I'm done." I reached down for his pants.
A primal scream escaped my lips as I charged into the crowd of men, I didn't even know I was moving until I heard the crack of the branch. The anthro that stood furthest from the group fell back, splinters of wood and a nasty gash was now engraved on his forehead. He wasn't getting back up. I was moving again, a half broken branch in my hand, the tip coming to a nice sharp point. I launched the brach like a javelin into the back of the anthro the held Bon-Bon.
"GAH!-KILL IT!" The leader shouted, his grip never faltered as he held Bon-Bon. I jumped at the next anthro, slamming my fists into his face, over and over. I could feel my knuckles bruising, yet I kept going even when I felt the crunch of the antro's skull. I turned and looked at the next anthro, he was swinging for me, I side stepped his swing and drove my elbow into his face, he stood back dazed. I kicked at his kneecap, I felt his bone give way as I drove the heel of my boot in. The man fell forward, I rolled over out of the way, only to get grabbed from behind.
"I caught him!" A deep voice came from behind me. He held me wrong, I could still move my arms enough to do something, but the reasonable part of me had nothing to think of.
"Hold him still." The leader grabbed Bon-Bon by the neck and shoulder then pulled her over in front of me. "Yo u wanted to save her? Huh! Well to fucking bad! Now you're going to watch as-" he stopped mid sentence and fished out a knife from his pocket.
'You have a knife in your pocket!' A voice, threatening and foreign yelled from within my head. I felt it pulling me onto it's primal instincts.
"Your going to watch me defile her dead body!" He flicked the pocket knife, the short blade coming unsheathed. "Then I'll kill you...slowly."
snap. Something in me snapped
I reached down and pulled out the pocket knife that was in my own pocket, in a heartbeat I flicked out the blade and drove it into the neck of whoever was holding me. I leapt forward as the anthro dropped me, himself dead, I lunged at the leader and tackled the last anthro, the leader, I tackled him down. Without any way to kill him quickly the primal part inside of me gave me an answer.
I lunged my face into the leader's neck and bit down, I shook my head away from him and tore out a chunk of his flesh, I spat out his fur and flesh and looked at the horrified expression that was plastered onto his face. He was staring up at the sky, his eyes glazed over, his mouth ajar. I found sick pleasure in knowing he was dead.
I pulled away from him and stood above his body. Blood dripped from my lips, I quickly wiped it off and turned around, my eyes searching for another enemy. My eyes found Bon-Bon.
She stared at me, her face filled with horror. I felt a shover run through my spin as I realized what scared her so badly. I just killed these anthros...but not normally, I killed them as if I were an animal.
I turned my face away from Bon-Bon. Ashamed I looked towards the trees. Back at the woods. Where I belonged, just like the animal I was. "A-Alex?"
I flinched when she spoke my name, her voice quivered. She was terrified of me. I slumped my head down. "P-please don't tell Spitfire."
"Okay...let's go." I felt her arm snake it's way around mine, she gently tugged me away from the horror I left behind. I was lead towards the dirt road, where I saw a dead griffon laying in the middle of the road. Spitfire stood above it. Her lips were moving, her eyes were filled with tears.
"Spitball?" I asked.
She snapped out of her stupor and looked at me, her mouth dropped. "You're covered in blood!"
"Not mine." I said flatly, she winced a bit.
"We need to leave!" Bon-Bon pushed with her words. I nodded and Spitfire mimicked me.
We left the bloody mess behind. I hoped I left more than that behind, I hope I left that beast behind. I couldn't let anyone else see that side to me again. Primal. Like an animal.