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Chapter 21 - [21] Bad timing

"So what's happening?" I asked no one in particular, as I came close to biting my tongue off several times as I spoke and ran."It's most likely a raid." Drake answered. "But the NPC raiders know better, so that can only mean...""Other players?" I guessed."Yeah. And not just any player guild. It has to be one strong enough to stand a backlash from the Legionaire. And I can only think of one..." Drake said, his voice rowing grim."Who is it?" I asked curiously, as I was lacking within this area of the game research.Just as Drake opened and his mouth and began to answer, another explosion went off in the distance."We're on the path to the hill now, quick!" Thomas urged, as we took a detour onto the main road. And as soon as we hit the road, a column of words appeared at the top of my screen:[Entering war zone]From here we managed to get a better view of the hill, which was covered in several dark spots from the explosion. And the fortress its self looked barely able to hold its self together. And even from the distance, it was obvious to tell that the gate was gone. As a swarm of ant like figures swarmed inside the fortress. "Shit, those bastards!" Drake cussed. And just as we thought the situation couldn't get any more worse, a series of hooves, came rushing from behind. But unlike the ground shaking hooves of the Minotaur, those were more rapid, and much more numerous. And it didn't take a Sherlock to figure out it was a group of Calvary heading towards us. "Quick! We have to hide-" Before Thomas could get another sentence off his tongue, an arrow wiz by and buried its self deep into the side of his head. And with a look of shock that mirrored ours, Thomas fell back to the ground and shattered into a million pieces of red 3D pixels. "I am sorry, I can't do this..." Said the player's name who I never got, as he backed up a few steps and hit the log out button. Dwindling our numbers down to just the 3 of us."Fk that coward!" Drake cussed, although you could hear his was voice was trembling as well. A brief moment after that, as the 3 of us stood frozen in the middle of the road, as the enemy Calvary emerged into the view. There was about a dozen of them, and most of them were dressed in black armour and robes. And as soon as they saw us, the leading horseman came to a halt, with the rest of his group following his example. "Oh my, look at what we have here..." said the leading horseman, as he pulled up his dark hood. Revealing a pale skittish face, that made me once again question whether vampires existed or not."YOU FKER!" Drake raised his club and charged without second thought, and before he could even reach 10ft near the 90% looks discount Edward, whom responded by simply raising his staff, causing an arc of lightning to leap out and tackle Drake. There was a painful spark of light, and as soon as the light ended, Drake fell onto the ground, his body blackened and sizzling with smoke."Drake..." I muttered, as I subconsciously reach out a hand towards him. But before I could get out the words properly, the vampire guy zapped him again. And this time Drake didn't even fight back, he just simply disappeared into a million red pixel blocks..."Tragic." the vampire guy looked to me, "are you not going to avenge your friend? go on."I looked down, and dared not to move a single muscle.Silence."Boring. But this chick here..." the vampire guy licked his lips. "Are you her boy friend?""Shut up you creep!" Enju yelled, her voice confident, but her body trembling. "I didn't hear you clearly..." the guys pulled his horse closer to us. "Can you repeat your words again?"Enju lifted her head and spat at him: "I said shut up-"Before the Enju could finish repeating herself, the guy raised his staff and smacked Enju in the side of the face with it, knocking her to the ground. And all the while this happened, I can only stand and watch..."You think I am scared to hit you? This is the war zone bitch!" the guy's lips curled into a malicious smile, as he climbed off his horse and raised his staff towards Enju."Sir, lord Ivan said in particular to keep prisoners of those won't don't fight back and bring them to him." said one of the players in the dark armour. The vampire guy looked like he was about to do more, but decided not to in the end. As he climbed back to his horse again and ordered:"Tie those two to the horses. If they try to run, kill them."Two guys came and tied us each to one of the horses and thus began our slow march to the fortress.Q: What would you do if you encountered a raiding party?