The soldiers were having a great time in the haram at Kong, in the Alpha's palace, where he is now being held prisoner in his own dungeon.
Sitting under the shade of the canopy of trees on the inside beside the five-foot solid cement wall in the yard, munching on raosted meat, sipping Tea and coffee from steaming hot pots, chatting and smoking, taunting and jeering at each others jokes, reminiscent about past idiosyncrasies in failed and suceessful missions, one will conclude they are having nothing short of good old times.
They were panther and humans combined. Their brotherhood however, was solid without bias, although, a party from each side wish they were the other. They were all Rygna's men.
One of the panther picked up the scent, the grumbling breath, and sound of marauding brushes, approaching the wall swiftly.
Like him his brothers sensed and followed his movement to take defense at the walls ready to defend it against whatever that was coming at them. They started to shoot at the tall hairy ugly creatures running towards the Haram from the woods.
" Damn! some fucking ape shit!" a man hissed at the approaching gorilla squad, cocking and aiming the AK he had strapped to one shoulder.
Magnam, the leader of the attacking gorilla rebel had anticpated this and forewarned his men against assault of firearms that will assail them on open ground.
"Use the trees and boulders for cover you idiots!" Magnam bellowed at his men with agitation, as couple of them drop to the ever greens, bleeding to death.
More gorilla rebels went down under a hail of bullets but most of them were able to scale the wall and mangled the defending soldiers of Rygna.
Close up, the gorilla had the advantage. They pounded away with fist that seems to be made of steel, overwhelming and confusing their opponents. They use the arms of the defending soldiers against them.
Magnam and five of his strong men managed to break away and lose themselves into the palace space, hearding where the compulsion leads them, an impulsive compulsion so strong it made Magnam want to penetrate a wall to get to his designation, Where the call from the Alpha panther originates.
They followed the long corridor to the left as the magnetic field draw them in with more vigor, and they roar wildly in response, as though possessed by goblins.
They shared the same pain and fury with whatever that was calling out to them. The pain felt crucificial.
The Alpha was being nailed to the ground. A horrific execution method use by the panther to prevent him from turning into a demonic panther at death.
Magnam led the way panting grievously. Another pang hit them and they crumbled to the ground, crawling to their destination.
As they drew closer, they got to understand what is causing them distress. Through the large opened iron cell gate, lay the source of their pain.
Two men were holding The Alpha to the ground, restraining him with chains, While the third drive a 5inch concrete nail through his chest with a mallet.
Kanka stood up with the mallet in his hands studying his handy work. He wanted to kill the man slowly. He wanted to break him before killing him. But what he saw in the hybrid-Alpha's eyes was not encouraging.
Letting his right palm overlap the left one, above his head, Kanka drove yet another nail through the Alpha, locking his hands permanently together to the floor.
That way turning to a panther' will be impossible. But as a way of protective mechanism, his body will edge towards turning, causing him to lose so much energy and power.
Rygna and Kanka exchanged a look of bewilderment on seeing the unexpected visitors who now grumbled and roared in fury.
Rygna aimed at the chest of the leading gorilla, and pulled the trigger. In quick reflex, the gorilla swerved, but his brother right behind him took the impact of the close range slug and went down.
The first gorilla delve Rygna a hammering blow to the temple.
Kanka was at ease against his opponents who came at him. He fought with ease with the mallet, knocking out two gorillas out of their misery.
But the third gorilla got him. He lifted Kanka off the ground, causing his head to smash the rocky jagged ceiling.
His head shattered explosively with a white hot pain, but Kanka kept perspective and hammered hard on the spine of the gorilla with the mallet, frustrating the gorillas intention to smash him on the hard floor.
The effect of the blow reduces the impact of the fall when Kanka hit the floor. This gave him a fresh start at his opponent.
Kanka went for his gun, and pulled the trigger on the gorilla that knocked out Rygna and was angling for another attack on him.
Kanka got him on the thigh and he came down ranting in pain, and feebly shape shifted back to man like his defeated brothers.
Soldiers run in to the cell to help Kanka and Rygna out of the cell after having defeated the gorilla rebels in the courtyard, forcing a bunch of them to run back into the woods where they did come from.
Looking through the iron gates and windows at the grinning Alpha nailed to the floor, it dawn on Kanka and Rygna that the gorilla visit is probably not a mere coincidence.
"Do you think it's her doing? I mean the gorilla princess?"
"No, I think its his doing, Rygna" Kanka replied still looking at the grinning Alpha.
"But that's impossible. How can a mere hybrid panther performed such a feat?" Rygna argued.
"So I did think initially. But I am sure he did this, even under torture. He had the mental strength to do something like this under agony. This could mean one thing though..."
Kanka paused. A mercurial grin brightening his perpetual solemn face.
"What's it, father?".
"The hybrid had harvested from the gorilla queen, the raven hair beauty of Kong." Kanka said undoubtedly.
"Gaining ape power to control the gorilla, drawing them here to save his own skin."
"Yes Rygna, I think we've been underestimating the man for far too long."
"Why not simply chop his head off father, like you did his grandfather."
"Rygna! Now listen! I keep telling you we aren't butchers. Let that register on your twisted mind. We are an order with laws... becareful son, because when it comes to taking even our own life's for the sanctity of our order, we must oblige gladly."
Kanka sighed when he reached the grand hall, taking a seat at the dinning table. Nothing can soil his ferocious appetite. Not blood, not death.... "we are all doomed anyway" he said absently.
Rygna sat across from his father. He pour them each a bottle of cognac.
A soldier moved into the hall, his movement nimble, as he cross the distance to where the two lords sat. He bowed to them in grave regard, and said solemnly;
" If my lords will permit me the honor of speech."
"Speak soldier.." Rygna said cutlly.
"The body of the gun man is no where to be found, you mean to say. Eh, soldier?" Kanka interjected candidly, leaving a dumbfounded expression on the soldiers face. The man nodded mutely, wondering how the Lord managed to read his mind before he ever got the chance to talk.
"It must be the work of the escaping rebel gorillas. Kong will not try something like this."
"No, it's the work of the rebel gorilla clan in the Saba caves, controlled by a man called Magnam, an ape Alpha in his own right.."
" where did you attain this information, soldier?"
" From a dieing gorilla rebel. He claims Magnam came inside..."
" He must be one of the defeated gorilla men in the cell, father. I will go and interrogate them..." Rygna said and stood up to leave.
"Sit down, Rygna. No need for that. He is the tall one whom I dropped last with a bullet to the thigh.. excuse us soldier.." Kanka ordered.
The soldier bowed and retreated soberly, placing one palm on his chest.
After the man retreated and the two of them were alone, Kanka let the full reign of his imminence bore unto Rygna.
" Tell me the truth Rygna, why you want the man dead...?"
"What man? what are you talking about father?"
"Like hell! you know what I'm talking about..."
The two men stared at each other in silence.
Rygna was contemplating on what to say. Are his emotions so obvious to his father?
" Yes father. I want the man dead. He is a threat to all that we stood for..."
Kanka never blinked. His glance penetrated the very being of the young panther sitting across him. Obviously, he didn't believe him...
"Okay; okay! what do you want to hear, father...?"
" The truth my boy, for your own good..."
"Okay! I want the man dead because of her. he fucking took the makilla, Ruby from me, under my very nose and now she has sired him a child! is that what you want to hear! Given the slightest chance, I will strangle Kuga the Alpha to death..." Rygna hissed like a viper short of venom.
" Fair enough... but you try anything like that under my roof, and have the full force of vengeance of the whole panther clan on your neck. Remember one last thing my boy; we still need Kuga, the Alpha."