To Capture A Cabal

“You hear that?!” asked the skittish Cabal member in the back as he turned around and stared at some bushes.

“Once again, nobody heard anything, Fred,” said the brutish looking Cabal member.

“There it is again!” Fred repeated as he swirled around to another bush and stared directly at it. He squinted his eyes in hopes that it would allow him to see what caused the mysterious noise he kept hearing.

“Oh.My.Fucking.GOD! THERE IS NO GOD DAMN NOISE YOU FUCKING RETARD!” yelled the guy next to Fred.

“Come on, Alex, you had to have heard that too!” pleaded Fred as he spun in a circle to see if he could catch the creature as it moved between the bushes.

“No. No I didn’t. Neither did Tim or Chad. Now shut the fuck up and get back to looking for Warden shit for us to take,” Alex told Fred as he continued his search. The four continued walking forward through the wooded area of the Brighton Estate, in hopes that it would keep them from being found by the mysterious scouts that they saw in guard towers located near the barrier around the estate. Fred kept looking over his shoulder just in case the mysterious creature attacked him from behind only to run into Alex, who had ran into Tim, who had run into Chad.

“Oww!”

“What the fuck?!”

“Why’d you stop?!” the three men behind Chad all said as Chad stood still, his eyes locked onto a bush.

“Fred is right. There’s something here...” Chad said as he pulled a sword out of his dimension pocket and took a defensive stance. Fred pulled out two daggers from his own and got ready for a fight as the other two went back to back as they prepared to cast a flurry of spells at the first thing they saw.

A piercing screech echoed through the forest right before a gargoyle swooped down and grabbed Alex.

“AH! HELP! SHOOT IT DOWN! DO SOMETHING!” screamed the frightened man as the gargoyle carried him back into the forest.

“WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT, MAN?!” asked Tim as he put a barrier up around himself.

“It..it swooped down and grabbed him, man!” Chad said as his head jerked from left to right trying to see where the next attack would come from.

“Swooping is bad, man! We gotta get out of here!” Fred said as he turned tail and ran away from his two companions. He didn’t get ten feet away from them before a ghoul burst forth from a bush and lept at Fred. All Fred could do was look on in horror as the undead creature’s teeth dug into his neck and ripped it out, blood spurting all over the creature.

“THEY’RE HERE, MAN! WE GOTTA RETREAT!” Alex yelled as he began to sprint past Chad only to be cut in half by Tanya as she stepped out from the brush. Tanya heaved her sword back onto her shoulder. The gargoyle from earlier landed on blade, blood and guts dripped off it’s talons onto the ground below.

Chad slowly backed away only to bump into someone, or something, behind him. Chad slowly turned around, his entire body shaking as he did, to see John now standing in front of him. The scared remaining Cabal member shakenly raised his weapon in a vain attempt to defend himself only for John to knock his weapon away.

“P-please don’t kill me!” he begged as he dropped to his knees. “I’ll do anything you say! Tell you anything! But please, just don’t kill me!” Chad clasped his hands together above his head in hopes that his enemies would show him mercy.

“Lucky for you, I need you alive,” John said as he raised his hand out and used King’s Mark to brand him a prisoner of the Kingdom. Magical cuffs appeared across his wrists and ankles to show his new status. A chain materialized from the wrist and ankle cuffs to John’s hand.

“Who are you?” asked Chad as he slowly got onto his feet.

“Your new king,” John said as he and Tanya began to walk back to the command center.

“So, what do you think, Fran, can you make him talk?” John asked as he tossed the Cabal prisoner down at the feet of Fran and her apprentice, Sam.

“Like, oh my god, It’ll be supes easy to get the info from this punk, right boss?!” Sam said in her happy-go-lucky voice.

“Yes, Sam, it will,” Fran said as she placed a hand on her apprentice’s shoulders to pull her back behind her. She looked over the beaten Cabal member. “Looks like he didn’t put up much of a fight,” Fran said as her hand moved the man’s head around to see all the damage done to him.

“Him and the rest of his crew were pushovers,” Tanya told Fran. “Our ghoul and gargoyle did most of the damage to them,” the ebony warrior informed the Grand Inquisitor.

“I see. Well, that means our job will probably be very easy. You two can go ahead and go about your business. We’ll inform you when we are done,” Fran told her king and his companion.

“Very well,” John said as he turned to leave. “You two have fun,” he said as he waved his hand at them as he left the room. Tanya nodded to both women and followed her king out of the Inquisitor’s Halls.

“Will those two get the information needed?” asked Tanya, who had yet to see the two women work.

“Oh trust me. They’ll get everything they need from him and then some. And he’ll never get what he wants in return. Those two are sadists when it comes to acquiring information, always remember that.” John informed Tanya, who still had a skeptical look on her face. “Would you rather go back and watch them in action?” asked John when he saw the look on her face.