09-27-2016, 10:01 AM
As Guu slowly shook awake, she already knew something was wrong. Orcs, hundreds of them, surrounding them from every angle. She looked towards Melanie to see if she was the only one to sense them, but was annoyed to see she was still asleep.
Scott, Bani, and Pitchen were awake. The bunny girl was stirring the remains of last night’s fire, the demon ninja was folding up the tents and shoving them down Guu’s throat. He realized the pink one was awake after the last tent went in.
“Oh, good morning Princess. Sorry about that, I didn’t want to wake you.” He stated plainly.
Pitchen seemed to be nursing a stomach ache, over-eating with the snacks the previous night seemed to be taking its toll now.
Guu redirected her attention to the orcs. They were quickly gaining ground on them, closing in, no means of escape. Even the tree line was surrounded with goblins taking up the canopy. She looked towards her group who was still none-the-wiser.
“The summit will be a pain to cross, but if we get a move on, we might make it to the bog before nightfall.” Said Check as he went to shove more camping supplies into Guu’s mouth.
“Uh guys?” Said Guu, finally decided it was worth warning them, though not much they could do about it, surrender is imminent with the practical army approaching.
“No need to wake up just yet Guu.” Said Bani. “Chuck and I have got this.”
“No you guys don’t.” The pink princess said bluntly.
“Yeah, I’m doing all the work here Bani, you’re just messing around with the campfire.” Argued the demon.
“Pfft, I’m just ensuring this thing doesn’t shoot any embers. Fire safety is important, considering what happened to the last two routes, that seems to be a theme on this trip.” Bani reasoned as she buried the ash into the dirt under where the campfire was sitting.
“Eh, point taken.”
Guu facepalmed, how do ninjas get this inattentive. The bunny goes over to shake the melon girl who stirs awake, and immediately flies into a panic.
“What’s wrong Melani?”
“I think she’s just worried about the thing I’ve been trying to warn you about.” Said the princess.
“What are you talking about Guu?” Asked Chuck as he shoved the last shovel down her throat.
Suddenly, from every direction, a horde of orcs appeared from the trees, spears drawn. Goblins appeared in the leaves above, bows and arrows pointed down on the group.
“That. Tried to warn you about that.”
The five slowly inch away from the green-skinned men until they were all back to back and the spears were still less than a foot away from slicing them open.
The group was all tied up, being lead through the jungle surrounded by the swarm of orcs, all of them ready to to attack if a single one of them made a move against them. They tied up each of them, though oddly enough, only Melanie was gagged. Guu could escape from her ropes, but she knew it was pointless. Even if she could escape her captors, there was no chance she could save all her friends.
“If we get out of this alive, Guu and Melanie really need to exchange night watch.” Said Chuck.
“Why were you both asleep to begin with, I thought neither of you actually need it!” Yelled Bani in a hushed voiced.
“I dozed off.” Said the pink one.
They were lead to a sizable orc encampment deep in the thickest part of the jungle. It was a hundred or so bamboo huts with animal bones strewn everywhere from past feasts. The smell of rotting flesh was pungent in the air, many of the animal corpses were eaten raw and left to rot on the ground nearby.
In the center of the village was a campfire that a team of goblins maintained on a constant basis, chopping firewood and paying close attention to the dying of the flames. Sitting nearby the fire was an elder orc woman dressed in long full body robes and a hood that was a dark shade of red. From the look of it, it felt like it was dyed with blood.
The orcs surrounded the fire and made the captives stand in a line in front of the old lady who looked towards the five with a perverse curiosity. She stumbled over to them and gave them a smile, her teeth crooked, stained yellow and black, her eyes pierced from under her hood, bloodshot.
“Welcome to the Blood Heart tribe my lovelies.” The orc woman said in an unusually raspy voice.
She waddled over to the five with a chuckle, her eyes rolling over each one.
“My kind worship fear. My mind’s eye can see your greatest terror and share it with my tribe. It is our greatest pleasure.” She said, her voice waving in out.
She looked over the tribe who obediently stood in a circle, eagerly waiting for any word from her. She turned her attention away from the her fellow orcs and towards Bani, who was looking very uncomfortable by the woman’s presence. She extended a palm toward her, who caused her to wince from the odor.
“You fear the lustful eyes of others, the expectations of your skin. My tribe knows your fear.”
The other orcs nod in recognition. There eyes shut as they appear to receive the old orc woman’s vision; a visualization of Bani’s fear.
The woman waddled over to Melani and extended a palm towards her.
“Mistakes of the past, things you can’t possibly redeem yourself for. My tribe knows your fear.”
The watermelon girl look scared, either from being a captive or from the woman being spot on. The image spread to the rest of the tribe who chanted in response
The old woman approached the the cybernetic moogle.
“Rejection, how cliche. My tribe knows your fear.”
Pitchen’s face displayed his shame, the old woman’s words stung like raging bees across his body. The orcs all grunted in annoyance.
The old woman approached the demon, raised a hand towards him.
“What you failed to become, what you still fail to be. Our tribe knows your fear.”
Chuck’s face didn’t change, it simply displayed contempt for his captors. The orcs stomped a single foot in unison in recognition of the old woman’s vision.
She approached the pink one.
“And I saved the best for last. Princes Guu of Ambrosia, our most honored guest.”
“If this is how you treat your honored guests, I’d hate to see how you treat your enemies.” Guu said sarcastically.
“What is it you fear?” The woman said as she began to raise her palm.
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” Warned the pink one.
She raised her palm entirely but looked disappointed.
“Why do you fight to conceal your fear? Are you that ashamed of it?”
“Trust me, this is me at my most merciful.”
The old woman straight up place her hand on Guu’s forehead and pierced her way into the pink enigma’s mind. What she saw was transmitted to the rest of the tribe and they all knew true terror.
When Guu regained consciousness, the tribe was in chaos. Each and every orc had gone completely and utterly mad, rampaging, bumbling, screaming, a full range of different forms of insanity broke out as hundreds started to slaughter each other just to distract themselves from the horrors they just witnessed.
The pink one slipped out of her ropes and grabbed one the blades that had been dropped on the ground. She moved to each of her friends and cut them free. Her party now loose, it was now a matter of escaping the village full of insane orcs.
“What the hell did they see?” Said Chuck, but he honestly didn’t want to know the answer to that question, none of them did.
One of the larger orcs charged into his fellow orcs, causing a hole where the five could dash into. They tried to look away as the charging orc got chopped apart by his fellow comrades, all of them screaming about the horror in their heads
They slowly made their way through the crowd, taking advantage of each new opening that would present itself. Luckily for them, their small statures would make them unnoticeable to the muscle bound mad men. Blood and body parts would fly everywhere. The group tried hard to avoid the non-stop gore, but each member inevitably got at least a little bit of blood and guts on them.
Eventually, they made their way out of the village. When they made it a safe distance away, they looked back on the carnage that was taking place. In the distance, they could even the children were not spared from the insanity, as they could see a group of children stabbing the hell out of a woman orc. One woman was bleeding out of her breast as it appears her baby took a large bite out of her after the vision hit.
“I tried to warn them.” Guu said.
No one else said a word, just shocked silence.
Scott, Bani, and Pitchen were awake. The bunny girl was stirring the remains of last night’s fire, the demon ninja was folding up the tents and shoving them down Guu’s throat. He realized the pink one was awake after the last tent went in.
“Oh, good morning Princess. Sorry about that, I didn’t want to wake you.” He stated plainly.
Pitchen seemed to be nursing a stomach ache, over-eating with the snacks the previous night seemed to be taking its toll now.
Guu redirected her attention to the orcs. They were quickly gaining ground on them, closing in, no means of escape. Even the tree line was surrounded with goblins taking up the canopy. She looked towards her group who was still none-the-wiser.
“The summit will be a pain to cross, but if we get a move on, we might make it to the bog before nightfall.” Said Check as he went to shove more camping supplies into Guu’s mouth.
“Uh guys?” Said Guu, finally decided it was worth warning them, though not much they could do about it, surrender is imminent with the practical army approaching.
“No need to wake up just yet Guu.” Said Bani. “Chuck and I have got this.”
“No you guys don’t.” The pink princess said bluntly.
“Yeah, I’m doing all the work here Bani, you’re just messing around with the campfire.” Argued the demon.
“Pfft, I’m just ensuring this thing doesn’t shoot any embers. Fire safety is important, considering what happened to the last two routes, that seems to be a theme on this trip.” Bani reasoned as she buried the ash into the dirt under where the campfire was sitting.
“Eh, point taken.”
Guu facepalmed, how do ninjas get this inattentive. The bunny goes over to shake the melon girl who stirs awake, and immediately flies into a panic.
“What’s wrong Melani?”
“I think she’s just worried about the thing I’ve been trying to warn you about.” Said the princess.
“What are you talking about Guu?” Asked Chuck as he shoved the last shovel down her throat.
Suddenly, from every direction, a horde of orcs appeared from the trees, spears drawn. Goblins appeared in the leaves above, bows and arrows pointed down on the group.
“That. Tried to warn you about that.”
The five slowly inch away from the green-skinned men until they were all back to back and the spears were still less than a foot away from slicing them open.
The group was all tied up, being lead through the jungle surrounded by the swarm of orcs, all of them ready to to attack if a single one of them made a move against them. They tied up each of them, though oddly enough, only Melanie was gagged. Guu could escape from her ropes, but she knew it was pointless. Even if she could escape her captors, there was no chance she could save all her friends.
“If we get out of this alive, Guu and Melanie really need to exchange night watch.” Said Chuck.
“Why were you both asleep to begin with, I thought neither of you actually need it!” Yelled Bani in a hushed voiced.
“I dozed off.” Said the pink one.
They were lead to a sizable orc encampment deep in the thickest part of the jungle. It was a hundred or so bamboo huts with animal bones strewn everywhere from past feasts. The smell of rotting flesh was pungent in the air, many of the animal corpses were eaten raw and left to rot on the ground nearby.
In the center of the village was a campfire that a team of goblins maintained on a constant basis, chopping firewood and paying close attention to the dying of the flames. Sitting nearby the fire was an elder orc woman dressed in long full body robes and a hood that was a dark shade of red. From the look of it, it felt like it was dyed with blood.
The orcs surrounded the fire and made the captives stand in a line in front of the old lady who looked towards the five with a perverse curiosity. She stumbled over to them and gave them a smile, her teeth crooked, stained yellow and black, her eyes pierced from under her hood, bloodshot.
“Welcome to the Blood Heart tribe my lovelies.” The orc woman said in an unusually raspy voice.
She waddled over to the five with a chuckle, her eyes rolling over each one.
“My kind worship fear. My mind’s eye can see your greatest terror and share it with my tribe. It is our greatest pleasure.” She said, her voice waving in out.
She looked over the tribe who obediently stood in a circle, eagerly waiting for any word from her. She turned her attention away from the her fellow orcs and towards Bani, who was looking very uncomfortable by the woman’s presence. She extended a palm toward her, who caused her to wince from the odor.
“You fear the lustful eyes of others, the expectations of your skin. My tribe knows your fear.”
The other orcs nod in recognition. There eyes shut as they appear to receive the old orc woman’s vision; a visualization of Bani’s fear.
The woman waddled over to Melani and extended a palm towards her.
“Mistakes of the past, things you can’t possibly redeem yourself for. My tribe knows your fear.”
The watermelon girl look scared, either from being a captive or from the woman being spot on. The image spread to the rest of the tribe who chanted in response
The old woman approached the the cybernetic moogle.
“Rejection, how cliche. My tribe knows your fear.”
Pitchen’s face displayed his shame, the old woman’s words stung like raging bees across his body. The orcs all grunted in annoyance.
The old woman approached the demon, raised a hand towards him.
“What you failed to become, what you still fail to be. Our tribe knows your fear.”
Chuck’s face didn’t change, it simply displayed contempt for his captors. The orcs stomped a single foot in unison in recognition of the old woman’s vision.
She approached the pink one.
“And I saved the best for last. Princes Guu of Ambrosia, our most honored guest.”
“If this is how you treat your honored guests, I’d hate to see how you treat your enemies.” Guu said sarcastically.
“What is it you fear?” The woman said as she began to raise her palm.
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” Warned the pink one.
She raised her palm entirely but looked disappointed.
“Why do you fight to conceal your fear? Are you that ashamed of it?”
“Trust me, this is me at my most merciful.”
The old woman straight up place her hand on Guu’s forehead and pierced her way into the pink enigma’s mind. What she saw was transmitted to the rest of the tribe and they all knew true terror.
When Guu regained consciousness, the tribe was in chaos. Each and every orc had gone completely and utterly mad, rampaging, bumbling, screaming, a full range of different forms of insanity broke out as hundreds started to slaughter each other just to distract themselves from the horrors they just witnessed.
The pink one slipped out of her ropes and grabbed one the blades that had been dropped on the ground. She moved to each of her friends and cut them free. Her party now loose, it was now a matter of escaping the village full of insane orcs.
“What the hell did they see?” Said Chuck, but he honestly didn’t want to know the answer to that question, none of them did.
One of the larger orcs charged into his fellow orcs, causing a hole where the five could dash into. They tried to look away as the charging orc got chopped apart by his fellow comrades, all of them screaming about the horror in their heads
They slowly made their way through the crowd, taking advantage of each new opening that would present itself. Luckily for them, their small statures would make them unnoticeable to the muscle bound mad men. Blood and body parts would fly everywhere. The group tried hard to avoid the non-stop gore, but each member inevitably got at least a little bit of blood and guts on them.
Eventually, they made their way out of the village. When they made it a safe distance away, they looked back on the carnage that was taking place. In the distance, they could even the children were not spared from the insanity, as they could see a group of children stabbing the hell out of a woman orc. One woman was bleeding out of her breast as it appears her baby took a large bite out of her after the vision hit.
“I tried to warn them.” Guu said.
No one else said a word, just shocked silence.
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