"Tell me, what happened here?"
The leader of the search party said to the tough guy. His nose was splurting rage and zeal. The tough guy could had mistaken them for phlegm if he wasn't skilled and thoughtful.
"He escaped with Lude. He escaped with him."
The leader of the search party walked up to the base of a tree and sat. The tough guy was alarmed. Like surprised. Who does that?
"You aren't serious, are you? Why would you sit after what I just said."
The leader spat into a pavement between two fallen brown leaves. He picked up the two leaves and covered the saliva with them. Then he turned to the tough guy.
"If you were this Zealous, you should had gone after it. You should have even killed it. It shouldn't have taken the boy with him."
<"Please just let me go." Lude flipped the pages of his eyes open. He had been having a dream. A dream about being kidnapped, abducted and taken captive and tortured mercilessly. He was glad that he was back to reality. But reality seemed to suck. Seemed to suck eighteen bags of ridicule. He looked around. His neighbors were trees. There were fallen twigs all around him and he had no idea how he had gotten there. If he was familiar with the formation and breeds of the trees he would say which was which and of course arrive at a sane conclusion. But he actually had no idea of what they were. There was a less throdden path glazed with shrubs. He saw footprints from the rear but couldn't be sure if twas humane or just some animal's. To his left was another pat
"What's up ahead?" He looked closely. The creature was standing erect. Not like some panther or beast. Twas standing on two legs and was kinda naked. He could see the bum. At the first sight, he tripped and fell on his face. Lucky for him, he was hiding behind some pretty tall shrubs. He had gone beyond expectations. The creature looked back and he could capture its face. Its face was long and ugly. Somewhat bold and oblong too. Two curvy cum husky horns sat on his head and what looked like a golden strap reached from the depth of the rising of the head to the fall between the nose. Its eyes were gold and and its nose sharp. It growled and the hideous, sharp and short teeth flexed the sticky gums. Twas obviously a male and could be ref
"I won't die. No! I won't." He kept tumbling through the climbers and creepers. He ducked as many twigs and trunks as possible but couldn't help bumping into many as well. Twas the fate of running through a forest. He began to wonder why the creature actually let go of him. It simply could had killed him or something but he had let go. He couldn't understand. On several occasions during his course of tumbling and running had he fallen victim of wild cats. Not in person, to say, but very close enough to be in person. Most times he just escaped the direction of the noise. For he to had gone that far, he kept himself rest assured that he was going to live. He allowed himself to believe that. The trees were wearing out and the twigs were getting lighter. He could feel the rays of
"That was a hell of a fun." The leader of the seven said. He was dripping. He was damped and drenched. Water was tracing track across the top of his nose, chin and every other plain patterns on his body. They had just returned from their impromptu tour of the forest the Imp used to live in. They wanted to be sure that there was nothing there. They'd actually accosted several other wild cats, good for them, they could fight their ways around the whole thing. "That crazy leopard almost bit off my biggie." The last man who walked out of the waters said. The leather he was having on should be water-proof but that was nothing close to it. He joined the remaining sect and they all converged as the leader hopped on his discourse,
"You don't say that about a man, you have no idea what a typical man can do. Let alone the one who's so pressed. Bet with me, he's even going to poo in your food." Light laugh serrated, like the saw do to the wet tree. Then the leader of the Six said in mockery, "Spill that. What'd you mean by saying that? To ridicule him? He's a man of course. Or you meant to say he's a woman?" There was a struggle to make humor out of it by the six, but since he was their leader, whether humorous or not, they were bound to laugh of course. Then at once, one of the two fellows who seemed to have this distinct flow stopped. He raised his hand to shun all who were feigning the laughter. "You don't boss around, man. Put your hand down, I'm the boss here." The boss stepped for
"How do we explain to them?" Lude said as he tried to catch up with the tough guy. One thing was the fact that he somehow felt safe around him. Like the feeling you nurse when you're around someone who you know can take care of you. They were few metres away from the village, there was a border. A border which could be lit and burnt into ashes by some tongues of felon flames. Twas made from lots of trees, mostly strong and undaunted ones such as cedar and boabab. There was also a good feeling to drawing closer to the village. Meant only one thing, he wouldn't have to be worried over anything anymore. If he would he worried, then twould be over eating or having to resume the craftsmanship he had been given to. But going t
"There's a monster closing up pace and might come to hunt our village down." The tough guy said as soon as he bowed to the Monarch. His heart which had been thumping knew peace and his ears erect. Twas known to all of them that the Monarch had no mercy of words. He would speak gently for only few who could make meaning of it. Many had owed it to the fact that he was suffering from some disease no one had an idea of and no cure to. But some said, twas genetic and that he contracted it from his grandparents. The Monarch was sitting on an elevated chair made from boabab and there were two men standing by him, fanning him. The tough guy and Lude were standing before him, while on their right and left were chiefs who championed the course of the Monarch.
"Where are you taking me to?" Lude tried to ease himself off the grasp of the tough guy. He had been dragging him since he had gone out of the Monarch's Palace to call his sister. What was reasonable was the fact that they were going to their house but that wasn't enough. The tough guy was acting odd. He had been, by the way, only that there was a new twist to it. He hadn't said anything yet and they were dragging towards Lude's house. The tough guy's left arm was wrapped around Lude's body as he pushed him through and they entered into the compoud. The house of Lude's father, who was one of the Chiefs of the Monarch was typical of all houses of those with reverence in the village. There was always a fence made from bamboo stalks and raff