The astrals before Blox Watch

Chapter Eight: The unbeaten enemies

Now knowing the true extend of the General's plan, the squad knew they had to get a move on. They were able to get some good sleep, but unfortunately, due to the intense fighting the previous night, the Jeep's motor had died. Molly, having a bit of mechanical experience checked. She had no luck, as the motor was heavily damaged, in danger of caching fire if forced. So they all had to go by foot. 

The journey was uneventful. The only downside was Cerise's complaints. Although they were rare, she kept complaining about the journey  being boring, her feet hurting, the journey taking too long and so on and so fourth. 

At one point they reached some tough terrain, with a gradient, with not much space for people to walk, so they had to go one at the time. Cerise was the most frightened, so Daisy helped her , since Molly needed a bit of help herself keeping balance sometimes due to her leg. 

After passing that small proportion they arrived at some better leveled ground. Daisy went slower with Cerise, due to her being frightened , so they had to catch up with the rest of the group. When doing so , they saw someone trip. Daisy picked up the pace. This turned out in the funniest thing she had experienced: 

"Molly, are you ok?"

"Gee, I wouldn't have ever thought you would have mistaken your daughter for a good friend of yours"

Daisy realized her mistake, and then noticed Molly a bit further ahead. She burst out into laughter.

"Sorry, I've mistaken you two. Your hair is so friking long that I couldn't properly see you hoodie, you and Molly have jeans about the same color , and you've grown up quite a lot"

"Indeed. We have a pretty tall girl" remarked Guest.

"Teenager!" Corrected Charlie giggling, while getting up.

"Right." Interrupted Rose. "Can we please carry on? We have an emergency on our hands"

And so the group picked up the pace, not knowing the danger they would get themselves into.....

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A couple of hours went by, and they arrived at a very strange place where the grass and earth in the area were a bit dried off. They could barely see a formation of tree, making up a forest. Rose began feeling very VERY uneasy. Then , she spotted something that made her freeze. There was a prison-like fence close to the trees. Rose gulped and began shaking in fear.

"Rose, are you alright?" asked Molly.

"Th- th- th- The- The bacon empire" she shrieked.

Everybody , with the exception of Cerise and Charlotte froze. Everyone, excluding Charlie, who was too young at the time to properly understand,  knew just what the people that once roamed the empire did. Just then, they saw a man walking up to the fence that held Rose as a prisoner may years ago

"Oi! , People could you help us?"

Rose turned to the man behind the fence, in a prison suit similar to hers.

"Why are you here?"

"After the war, this became a tourist attraction, And one day , about three weeks or so ago, we were surrounded by soldiers, and me, as well as the tourists that were unfortunate enough to come with have been trapped here, mining and moving stone, chopping trees, and they barely give us enough food."

Again , the adults froze. 

"They're back" said Guest under his breath.

"But how did they escape?" asked Molly.