Dim Knights Online (Discontinued)

CH 22 Escape the Witches

Am I really going to die here without giving a fight? Of course not!!

The green witch came closer into view. I was full on viewing her face. The witch stared at me while I glared at her. "Ruka...", she whispered.

"Bitch.", I whispered back.

The witch suddenly sighed, which sorta startled me...

"Slayer... I need your help...", she whimpered.

"EY?! How'd you!! What!! How do you know my old name!?!"

"You're so popular that even npcs know who you are.", she replied.

I had a minor flashback of Kumari telling me the same thing, but soon turned my attention toward the witch. "What do you want?"

"Clear my name. Clear all the rumors about me. About me killing people. It's not true. I just want someone to talk to. But one day I made a mistake. Please... Can't you?"

The witch stared at me with pleading eyes. One red demon eye the other green. Is she telling the truth?

"I don't even know. Rumors spread. No one can do anything about it."

The witch suddenly had a cold voice, "Then slay them. Slay the ones who started the damn rumors, 'Slayer'. If you won't your friends will truly be dead."

"Tsk! Killing is wrong! I'll never do it!!"

"But, didn't you kill someone in Dim City a couple years ago?"

"The guy is still alive. He is a bastard..."

Silence was in command and the witch walked over to Izzy the kitten. "Meow!!"

"Do it or else Ruka... Or bye bye to the youngest..."

"No!! Get away from her!!", I screamed.

I noticed a small pair of wings in my view, it was Mazi the butterfly! Mazi escaped from the cage because of his size! He landed on the lock to my cage and went in it to unlock it. The witch noticed the pair of wings and dashed back to my cage but I was released. I pounced onto the witch and grabbed her eye-lids and pulled them downwards, so she'll be blinded. "AAHH!! Get off of me!!", she screamed.

Meanwhile Mazi was releasing everybody else from their cages. Everyone started pouncing on the witch head on. Ricky then grabbed Drogo the turtle and threw the shell animal toward the face of the witch. "OWW!!", the witch cried. Jean bit, Izzy scratch, Ricky kept throwing Drogo, and I was barely hanging onto them eye-lids.

I finally had the feeling of letting go since the strength in my grip fainted. I fell down the witch's face and gravity pulled me falling towards the concrete.

"Timothea!! What on earth is going on?!", a voice echoed around the room.

I opened up my eyes from the fear of falling to see me fallen a fluffy tail of Ricky the fox. I turned my head towards the voice and saw a blue colored witch standing by the exit door.

"Sabrina!! I'm just trying to clear my name!!", the green witch, called Timothea echoed back.

"You think capturing innocent people, turning them into animals, and threatening the all mighty 'Slayer' a way to clear your name?!"

"But! You know how I am!! This is how I was programmed... To threaten people to get what I want...", Timothea whispered the last part.

Sabrina the blue witch sighed, "Ruka-slayer-san, I'm sorry for all the trouble my sister has given to you and your friends. You know how us witches are right?"

"Sure...", I replied back towards the witch. Then a snap of a few fingers turned everyone from animals to their normal forms.

Another witch was present within the room, the red witch Alma.

"Alma! About time you showed up! Poor Ruka-slayer-san almost got eaten by Timothea!", Sabrina yelled.

"Hey! I wan't going to eat them! I wanted to play with them! Like... Toss them around the room! Thats all! I had no intention of eating anything! If anything I'll rather eat a frog!!"

"Hrm... You're right... Frogs are sure more delicious than a cat, a dog, a fox, a turtle, or even a butterfly! They have too much fur! I can't stand but I can use it for blankets!" A turtle can be used as a bowl! Then the butterfly could just be a decoration!", Sabrina exclaimed.

Then TImothea agreed, "I know right!! But what animal would Ruka be?"

"Hrm... Who knows! We just have to find out don't we?!', Sabrina said as she held up a stick like wand in the air.

All vulture members panic to protect me but then the mad witc was stopped by her red head sister.

"What the?! Alma! What the hay!!", Sabrina hollered at her sister.

"Just stop this nonsense already...", Alma calmly said. Then she sighed, "Ruka, you could've used that time to escape you know, stop being dumbfounded and leave already..."

"No!!" "Ruka-slayer-san!! Don't leave us!!", the two blue and green sisters shouted as the red mature sister held them back.

We all parkoured our way out of the witch's territory. AKA the swamp.

We finally reached the river and faceplanted the earth from exahuastion.

"Waah! I can't move any longer!!", Izzy whined and then Jean groaned, "Urgh..."

Ricky panted, "Drogo you... Need... To lose... Weight... You heavy..." Drogo interupted, "Shut up!! I tripped over a rock in the swamp!"

"Ruka, you okay?", Magi asked with concern. I tried catching my breath for a couple minutes before speaking since Drogo fell on top of me when he 'tripped'. "I'm... Fine... Just need... Air..."

Dark demon clouds formed the sky into utterdarkness, as heavy drops of liquid fell.

"Ahh!!" "It's raining!!' "Look a cave!!" "Let's head over there!!"

We managed to reach the cave before more drastic rain fall appeared from the clouds.

"It's raining so hard!!", Jean exclaimed. "I wanna lick it!", Izzy said as she tried to stick her tounge out in the rain. Then Ricky chuckled, "Izzy, you could get sick from doing that you know." Then Izzy questioned, "How? What's in it?" "Dirty stuff.", Ricky gave a blunt statement. "Ewwwww!!!!!"

We all took a breather when I felt like someoe was missing from the team. I looked at Mazi who formed a confused face. "What's up?", he asked. I stared blankly at him a while but then looked at the guild's members option. I scanned through while checking if they were all here or not and noticed someone was missing.

I turned my head towards Mazi once more and informed, "Zai is missing! Where did he go?!"