Enemies. [Creek..?]

three

   I am awoken from my sleep by a hand pushing and prodding my shoulder. Subconsciously I elbow their hand away and roll over.

"Dude get up." They continued poking me. I finally was fully awake and rolled onto my back. I open an eye to see it was Clyde standing above me.

"What," I mumbled groggily. Clyde told me to get up once more before leaving. I slowly stood up, wishing I was back peacefully sleeping. I look into the mirror hung just above a dresser with four small drawers. My hair is crazily sticking up in some places and entirely flat in other places. I use a brush to comb it all back before shoving my hat on. I then put on the rest of my clothes and use the clips on my pocket knife to put it on my belt, making sure my cape was hiding it.

I push open the door to my room and make my way up the ladder that was placed just a few feet from my room. I can see Jimmy sitting at a table with Tolkien on the opposite side and Clyde was leaning on the edge of it.

"Craig, I was just telling them about the plan. Clyde here has helped me with figuring out that we technically are all prepared for this fight. Just need our people back on the ship to explain our plan and ready into action. We don't want to rush into it, we'll get the people on here in a few days and Jimmy estimates we should be ready in a week and a bit," Tolkien updated me. I nodded and stood next to Clyde.

"You got captured? What was it like down there?" Clyde asked.

"Like a dungeon. And i'm not just talking about the cell. It was dark too, only lit up by torches. Looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie," I explained, remembering the prison like feel the place had.

"Woah. Yeah they do seem like little dungeon hobbit people. What if we nuke them? Guys do we have nukes? How can we get nukes?" Clyde suddenly got louder as he introduced his nuke idea.

"No, no, and legally we can't do that," Tolkien was quick to turn down his idea.

"Rude," Clyde mumbled but didn't say anything more.

They all started discussing their plan again. By 'they all' I mean Jimmy and Tolkien. Clyde just looked boredly at the two.

"I'm going to the store," I said suddenly. Everyone glanced at me before saying okay and getting back to the plan. Before I left I grabbed a pouch and tied it off to my belt. In there I put a box of matches, a compass, and a pen.

I climbed off my ship and started walking in the opposite direction of the store. Yes, I lied. In the opposite direction was the forest. No, I don't have a death wish but I do have a wish to observe the barbarians. After I had walked about thirty minutes into the forest at around the same pace I was last time, I could tell I was in the same spot as when I was caught.

My plan is to climb a tree and sit in a branch while watching what the barbarians do outside and see if some are stationed outside the base to stop anyone or thing that tried entering. I walked to the closest tree and before I could make any attempt on climbing I heard a rustling noise from behind me.

I instinctively turned around and my hand reached my knife. I pulled it out and flipped it open.

"What are you doing here, Feldspar?" A voice said. It was coming from straight ahead. A figure walked out of a bush and I recognized it as Tweek. He was wearing the same thing as yesterday but this time he had a dark gray stripe across his eyes and one triangular shape  at the bottom of each cheek. There were more marks across his body like that. I also noticed that this time his hair was combed and gelled back.

I kept my knife slightly held out as I responded, "Don't come near me. I'm here for.. stuff." That was all I managed to say.

"What stuff?" Tweek had pulled out a knife of his own.