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King POV
[Sir... the door...] said a random member
[I know! Just pry it open!] demand the king
As the cold doors slid open, before the king and his men, they felt a chilly wind blow past them. As they hovered their lantern lights to see a sight that doesn't resemble their home! For As they touched and studied the blackened walls, that were once colored in beautiful white, their noses were assaulted with the most disgusting of smells!
As they flashed their lights onto the dry bloody floors, they stepped past bloated bellies and bony limbs! With shivering nerves, they sweated, with shivering nerves they pushed forward, while their king studied the rats that ran to and fro, from body to body! With sticky shoes they checked from room to room, with sticky shoes they heard groans and scratches!
As dark corners breath fear, the king set red flares to lighten the mood, with glowing red light, they saw a child holding her knees! With guns at the ready they approached, with guns at the ready the kid yelled:
[RUN!]
As the kid yelled, she ran past the men as they stared horrified at the monster that now stood in the red light! Annoyed, the alien hissed and roared as it charged forward into a hail of gunfire! As it screamed and bleed it died giving one last cry! As the men lowered their guard, while looking at the corpse of the creature they just killed, they asked their king:
[what is this thing?]
[I don't know! But we have worse things to worry about right now than what this thing is!] replied the king as they all heard dozens of howling voices from deep within their home!
As the king stared scared into that darken corridor, the fear he felt didn't come from all the screeching, nor was it the fact that his entire tribe was wiped out, but from the deep primal raging roar he heard from within the depths of the cave that overshadowed everything! Realizing the trouble, they were in the king yelled:
[GET BACK TO THE SHIP! NOW!]
As he ran with his men, they heard the monstrous steps that followed! Knowing they couldn't outrun them; they stopped in groups of three to provide covering fire! A strategy that works to buy much needed time until one of the men is suddenly pulled into a hole in the wall as he was running! With one man down the five continued to swap and run, until the ground beneath their feet gave way! Causing another three of the men to fall into the depths!
As two of the three woke up, they rushed to look for the third, when one of the two felt something drip on his head! Frightened, the man shined his light above his head to see their friend was hanging upside down with a hook through his chest! As the blood slowly drained from his body, the goblin said in a weak voice:
[Help me]
Realizing the two couldn't help their companion, they stood side to side, back-to-back as they heard the chains that dangled above their heads shake, they saw the walls of the rusty cage they were in move! For they realized that they were in a death cage they watched their slaves fight for their entertainment! As they shot a flare above the cage, they saw a horde of those alien monsters climbing down! Scared, they looked at each other as their broken lanterns slowly dimmed into nothing!
As the king ran with his last man they fired into the darkness behind them, as they made their way to the exit! But as they ran the last of the king's men tripped over the corpses of the people the king once called his own! The king ignored the man as he screamed his last! For at this moment in the king's mind, if a man falls behind… he stays behind!
As the king stood outside the exit, he made his way to the ship when he suddenly stopped! For he heard a crying voice! A crying voice he was all too familiar with! Instinctively he turned around only for a brief moment to see his wife! She was alive! But she was in the hands of a big metal-looking alien!
As the alien stood at the exit with the king's wife in hand, another alien appeared like a ghost right next to it, with a small hand-like creature in its hand! Seeing the creature, the wife knew full well what it was and what it meant, pissing herself while screaming she looked to her husband and with a lovely voice, she begged him to shoot her in the head! But how could he! Without fully understanding what was going on! He watched as the small hand-like creature jumped onto her face! He watched as she squirmed on the floor like a common goblin!
Angry and without reason, he ran while shooting at the metal one! As those cursed doors closed! But thankfully his wife was outside those doors! As he rushed to her aid, he tried to pull the alien off her face, only to be meant with the realization that the creature would squeeze her throat harder with every attempt!
[If pulling it off isn't possible, then I will just cut it off] he thought
Only to soon discover the alien creature, acid-like blood! For it melted away his knife! As he stared at its melting tip, did the memories of his wife's childhood ran through his mind! But not wanting to dwell on times past, the king picked her up to take her to the ship infirmary. When a few of his fellow men came running off the ship to say:
[sir what was all that screaming we heard over the inner coms? Where is everyone else?... is that… is that the queen?] ask one of the men
Annoyed by his man's rude question, but not having the energy to deal with it, he simply carried his wife in silence back to the ship when he saw that child that was inside their once lovely home!
[YOU! YOU Brat! You used us as bait!] said the king as wish he could strangle the poor troll child with his bare hands
[ Men! Lock this 'troll' in the brig! After I'm done taking care of my wife, this child has a lot of explaining to do!] said the king angrily
Hours later
[so let me get this right… after we left on our campaign these strange monsters came in and killed everyone right?] said the investigator while staring at the child before him
[Yes…] replied the child
[Then tell me, how did you manage to live all alone for weeks?] asked the investigator
[I wasn't alone…] replied the child
Seeing the child not wanting to cooperate further the man left the room to report to the king, who was watching their entire conversation on the monitors on the bridge.
[So... What do you think? It's obvious the kid isn't telling us everything] said the king to the investigator
[well… How can I explain this… it's like… there's something off about her… but I can't place my finger on it… anyway her ability to retell the event so vividly at her age… something is differently wrong with her.] replied the investigator
[That's not what I ask! I care not if she's a freak! I just want to know if everything she said is true!] replied the king
[well, everything she said seems to be the truth but…] replied the investigator with a pause
[well, what?] replied the king
[well, her story about how she managed to live all this time in that hell hole is kind of... too unbelievable! I'm sure she mixed in the truth with half lies to try to convince us of something!] replied the investigator
[But why would she do that? What would she gain from hiding anything from us?] replied the king
[ I don't know but either way there's one thing I'm sure of] said the investigator
[OH, and what's that] asked the king
[Her hatred for those things is just as real as yours. Whatever truly happened to her in there, must have been traumatic.] replied the investigator
[I also recommend we keep an eye on her for now… I got a sinking feeling she might do something stupid.] continued the investigator
As they escorted the young child back to her cell, the wife of the king suddenly woke up! Panicking, she looked around to see the hand-like creature was dead on the floor next to her medical bed! Screaming she said:
[Help! Help get it the fuck out of me!]
Hearing her screams, the medical personnel on board the ship ran into the room!
[she is hysterical! Quickly sedate her!] yelled the medical manager
[No! You don't understand!] said the woman as she slammed her head against the glass windows in the medical room!
[if you can't get it out of me! Then kill me! If you don't then you're all going to die!] she continued to yell
Ignoring her wishes the men tackled her back into her bed and sedated her.
[how is she doc… give it to me straight!] said the king
[I'm… not sure… her vitals are fine, and she doesn't appear to have any major injuries…but without Gig… I… suggest we take her to see the orc shamans to the east!] replied the doctor
Meanwhile back in the brig
[hey! Be quiet there!] said the guard as he hears incoherent chanting noise
[What did I just say? Are you deaf! Brat!] yelled the guard
[incoherent chanting noise...] continue
[look here kid] replied the guard as he approached the child cell
But as he looked through the child cell, the sweat on his back turned cold! The bumps on his skin raised their ugly heads, as he stared terrified at the young lass with dead eyes. As she drew some strange letters on the cell walls in her own blood! As the letter formed words in a language he did not understand, they continued to form symbols of a time long spent, as the child tore her shirt revealing a blood-soaked tattoo of a God on her tender purple back!