Waking Up
Author: David Ogiriki
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

Sidney slowly opened up his eyes and found himself surrounded by masked people.

They all had varying heights, builds and weapons, from tall to short, muscular to fat to skinny, from swords to axes to makes and lances.

Each different person each had a different weapon of their own.

And each was fully dressed in black, with all of them wearing masks over their faces, showing only their eyes and everything above.

"you think he's dead?" said a short man, wearing masks, "nah, I bet you a hundred pebs he's wakes up" said the tallest in the group.

"your on!!!" said the short man confidently.

"guys shut up, I think he's waking up" said one with orange spiky hair.

"wait really?" asked the short man, "hahaha pay up Shorty!!!!" laughed the tallest one.

'... Huh?.... Bandits?!!!' thought Sidney as he began scanning all the faces around him.

"hey, can you hear me?" asked the spiky haired man, "wh-who.... Are you?" asked Sidney, "well that's obvious" said the tallest man.

"We're bandits!!!" said th
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