"I can't leave it here!", I replied.
"Leave what?!", he asked irritated.
"The snake?!", he added with an even uglier expression.
"Yes! I have to!", I said reluctant to leave.
"Why?! It's just a bloody reptile!", Davis said obviously irritated.
On hearing Davis's remark, I got p_ssed and replied aggressively: "It's Derick's! And from the looks of things it just saved my life, I can't leave her here! So if you can't get us both out, I'll have to reject your offer!"
He looked sideways, sighed and jumped in through the hole he had opened for me.
"What are you doing?", I asked surprised to see him come in.
He ignored and closed up the hole he had previously opened.
"The guards are coming! If I ran off they would have seen me", he replied.
"If the guards are coming doesn't that mean they'll come here?!", I said as my mind quickly thought of that.
"Yeah!", he replied now realizing.
"F_ck! F_ck!", he exclaimed.
The cell's main gate suddenly opened abruptly.
The door remained opened and the sound of footsteps were heard coming towards our direction. They were definitely coming for us, after all we seemed to be the only prisoners in this place.
"Xender!", the commanders voice resonated.
"F_ck, it's the commander!", Davis exclaimed a bit terrified.
We both contemplated what to do as the sound of the commanders footsteps got louder.
Suddenly, we heard hisses, and then looked towards Medusa, who had moved closer to us.
"Medusa!", I said, understanding what it had in it's mind.
"No way!", Davis whispered seemingly also understanding.
"This is the only solution we have now!", I whispered back.
"I rather talk to the commander than do that!", he replied.
"About what? What could you f_cking talk to him about? How the f_ck are you going to explain to him that you and you are in the same cell with his daughter?!"
He gritted his teeth and exclaimed: "F_ck!"
"Are you dead or deaf?!", the commander asked again now standing in front of our cell room.
"Neither!", I replied and spat.
"I expected a cat and mouse race in here, turns out you did more harm to her than she did to you..", he said smiling and looking at Medusa, who had swallowed Davis and at the time was lying helplessly on the floor.
He then turned to me who looked at him in hate and said in a teasing manner: "Warrior princess; if you aren't deaf or dead why didn't you answer my call?!"
On hearing this, I gave off a fake smile.
"Did you hear that?", I said and paused.
"Hear what?", he asked as he looked around.
"That's what I thought, it's pointless to answer the call of the wind!", I replied.
One guards who was next to him chuckled and tried his best not laugh out.
"You.....", the commander said in anger as he looked at me in the eyes. i too without wavering looked back into his eyes not shakened.
"I see your time in here hasn't thought you anything yet!", he replied.
"You are wrong, as always! It thought me how wicked you truly can be. For the sake of your pride, you locked up a human in such a place; not just any human but one you call your own daughter!", i replied.
He looked at me, smiled and said: "You still call yourself that! I thought we were no longer related."
I looked at him irritated by his words and said: "Are you deaf! Did you hear what I said?! I said one you call... And by the way, we were never related!"
After speaking I spat.
On hearing this, the commander's rage had risen to his head.
"Open the gate!", he replied.
"Sir?!", the guard asked acting like he didn't hear the commander's words.
Pow!
He received a slap.
"Are you deaf?! I said open the gate!", he commanded.
"I'll remind you once again, if you dare lay as far as a finger on me, I'll break it!", I said with a death stare.
The commander has been stepping on my nerves since childhood. I've always wanted to be close to him, but no! All he wants is control, all he wants is to be respected, he never cared about how others felt, just himself. He has gone too far this time! Sent the innocent boy out in this zombie infested forest without a means of defending himself without critically looking into the case. And now, he locks me up in this dark cage with an ill-treated snake with no food, water or light. What kind of monster does that?!
If he dares open this cage and acts forceful towards me, I'll make sure i break his arms and legs.
Just as the gate was opened, we heard a large thud outside the cell.
"Commander!", someone called as he ran inside the cage.
"Sir, sir... Commander, our... Our..", he said panting.
"Speak out!", the commander said annoyed.
"Our end has come!", he finally finished his sentence.
In as much as the commander can be a pr_ck at times, the one noble thing he never did was accept defeat, so hearing this made him really mad.
He kicked the messager and spat on him.
"Your end has come!", he said and took a sword from one of the hands of his guards.
"No commander!", the messager began to beg.
"Why beg now, didn't you just claim to have seen your end? What's the point of begging now, is it coming faster than you expected?", the commander said as he walked closer to him.
"No sir, the number of zombies outside, I have never seen such number in my life!", he said now crying.
"They've killed more than half of our troops!", he added.
On hearing this, I couldn't help but think about Derick and the sub commander Ping.
"Your daughter.... Your daughter...", he said as he stood up panting.
Before he could get on his feet, the commander had grabbed him by the collar and asked furiously: "what happened to my daughter?!"
"Helen... One of her legs have been broken!", he added in fear.
"Where is she?!", the commander asked.
"On the field with sub commander Ping!", he replied.
"Quickly, let's go!", he said to his guards.
"Lock it back, now and stay here!", he said to the guards who looked at him in confusion.
"You, go get her a bow and a kit of arrows and bring it to her!", he replied.
This man's a f_cking clown, he doesn't treat us like he wants us to live, yet he doesn't want us to die, what a sad thing it is to be his offspring.
He walked out of the cell with viscously pacing away.
After he had gone with the messenger, we were left with the 2 guard he came in with.
"Bastards, open the cell now!", I commanded.
"We are sorry ma'am, we can't defile the commander's orders!", They replied.
"If you don't let me out now, I'll make sure you both loose an arm each!", I said seriously.
On hearing this, one of them chuckled.
"Both your arms are going within an hour.... I promise you that!", I said as I patiently waited for the messenger to return with the bow and arrows.
In a few minutes he was back with a girl.
As he walked towards us, we could hear him say, "let's stay hear Perry, we are going to be safe!"
What a coward.
After that he immediately began to yell as though we were very far away.
"Sub commander, I am back!", He said aloud as he walked closer to us.
"Please you'll have to let I and Perry stay here till the storm is over, I beg of you! By the way, here's your bow and a kit of arrows!", He said about to pass it through my cell gate when a hand held his hand.
"Don't!", The guard who held him said.
I was highly p_ssed by this but had a plan in mind.
I could easily go out with Davis through the back, and none of this nitwit could try to stop us. But, I needed the bow and arrows, so I could only wait.
Seeing that this guy was closer to the cell's gate and was with the bow and arrow, I gently snuck up to his back while he was talking.
"Jersey!", The other guard yelled, but before he could turn, I had my arms around him neck, held tight to the cell gate.
He began to sweat and I began to speak coldly and directly into his ear: "The bow and arrows now! Else, aside losing an arm, you'll also loose the only neck you have."
What good is a man without his neck?
To be continued....
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