CHAPTER TWO: FIRST ENCOUNTER.

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The strangers; a purple looking biped with four arms. Most of them are at about seven feet tall. The strangers as I'd call them were not in any record book of mysteries creatures found in our world or ever heard of, I would know cause I live for mystery, but fact is they were here in our space & time.

GREEN BRIDGE.

Days after our great escape I & lady Chloe had found refuge in Green bridge, the wildest of all woods in all of Padogan. Every open season of every year Green bridge was home to a lot of hunters from around the globe, they would come together & with their combined forces make a bountiful catch of whatever nature offered. I & lady Chloe had found an empty shed deep in the wilderness of Green bridge & for the time being it was safe so we called it home.

Every morning lady Chloe woke up with hate in her eyes, I could tell she would kill if she could but since she could not, she sent me into the abyss of silence, she stopped talking & that hurt. Lady Chloe took the little room in the shed & every night I sat right out the door just to be sure she does not hurt herself cause she cried to herself, every night & that hurt. Tonight she hates me & her parents, I hope someday she gets to understands why it had to be the way it did. Whilst I sat there I watched the logs of wood crackle & pop while the flames danced. Moments later I realized the light was getting dimmer & the shed was getting colder, I stood up from where I had sat, pushed open the door of the little room gently just to check on lady Chloe & I was pleased to see she had slept off, I picked up a blanket made from wool & laid it over her after which I stepped out the shed to go get some dry woods. On my way back to the shed after the acquisition of some pieces of dry woods I heard a sound deep in the black, I could not really see much cause it was dark out but I couldn't risk us being cornered by the strangers so I stepped into the shed, placed five dry logs into the fire, picked up a lantern & was about to head out for a perimeter check when I realized the lantern was probably a bad idea, it could easily give away my location so I left it behind.

Heading out into the black the voice in my head spoke to me & said, "why take the risk when you know it dangerous...", I replied saying why should I sit around awaiting danger when I could take the risk & attempt to save a life or two.

Diving into the unknown ended up being a stupid idea, I thought to myself what are the chances that the strangers could see at night, then being with a lantern or without one made no difference whatsoever. Seeing how I could end up dead I derived a crazy plan, on the top of my voice I screamed 'help!' & quickly climbed my way to the top of the tree nearest to me. Moments later, seven strangers showed up at the origin point of the sound they had heard. I sat above being the mysteries oversight whilst I watched the strangers speak in a dialect I had never heard before but it did sound similar to mandarin. The show finally got boring & I descended from the tree in a rush, my landing was rather very dramatic. My entrance into their little party was really unfortunate for them, as soon as my foot touched the ground the strangers all reacted to the sudden sound they had heard in their midst but I was a second faster, I quickly grabbed the weapon they used in vaporizing the people of Padogan, pointed it on the head of one of the strangers & with hand gestures I made the rest of them stand right in front of me & the stranger I had pulled a fast one on. With such action the abyss of silence was reborn, the strangers all stood there calmly staring at me making no movement whatsoever. At first I thought I had won this but I was wrong & made a big mistake. The stranger with my weapon on it's head opened it's mouth & it spoke, the others reacted immediately by suddenly turning their back on us & that confusion was a really good distraction, after that the next information my brain processed was pain of being slammed into a tree & I could tell I had broken a few rib bones. The stranger I had pointed the weapon at spoke to the others whilstlll ppl they all looked at me as I kept on trying to stand up even with all the pain travelling through my body & it did look like they were laughing but what do I know.....

Pain; another revolting feeling.

"Hey!", I screamed at the stranger & that did me all the favor I needed at the time. The stranger walked to me & in attempt to grab my head I froze it's hand utilizing a martial art technique known as chi-blocking. A few jabs to it's hand with my knuckles & the stranger's hand became unmovable, I was definitely surprised the paralysis had worked but I had no time to celebrate, not untill I had taken them all down. The stranger standing right in front of me was an excellent test run, the stranger could not understand what had happened & in the awe of the unknown I went after the three hands left after which I went after his legs. The stranger fell down like a log of wood & the others were all pondering what had just happened till the stranger I had paralysed screamed, "Bisha jastri!", I had no idea what that meant but it's probably going to be kill her.

My swift exit from that circle was unseen. The others sure did chase after me & whilst I ran & dodged for my life I saw stray beam bullets from their weapon vaporizing trees beside, behind or in front of me. My speed was remarkable but seeing how I could hear their steps right behind me I knew they could move as well. Trying to outrun six strangers practically had no sense in it, hence I used the moonless night to my advantage. The chase was brutal till I went missing in action, I stopped running & flew into a bush that had enough cover to hide me & the moment the strangers lost sight of me they all stopped running cause they could tell i was close by, just hidden. The first stranger to pass by the bush I had hidden in seemed to have had an accident which led to blindness, I really did not hesitate to hit the stranger's temple with my knuckle & the stranger did scream right after that encounter to give up my location & the rest of it's pals did not hesitate to open fire but I was sure that back fired cause I was already gone by the time the fire works started & they ended up killing one of theirs.

Death; some say death is life, some say death is the completion of a human, some say death is the infinite sleep while I say death means you are dead.
With five more strangers on my tail I still had a battle to win.

THE SHED.

Thirty minutes ago, right after I screamed in order to pull the strangers together.
My scream had woken up lady Chloe & she wandered out into the wilderness in search of me with a lantern in hand. Lady Chloe walked in a straight line with the shed right behind her as her centered pivotal point as she searched.

Meanwhile I was in the battle of my life against the strangers.

After dealing with the second stranger I had hid in a ditch, the five strangers left were about to find me when I heard her sweet little voice calling out to me, it was lady Chloe, but I knew I wasn't the only one that heard, the strangers all turned around heading towards her call.

The rage of a protector; the overriding instincts of a mother.

Adrenaline pumped into my whole body starting from my brain the moment I thought about what could happen to lady Chloe if the strangers found her, I jumped out the ditch & rushed towards the strangers head on. The first I caught up with ended up with a broken neck right after I lifted myself of the floor & whilst I was in the air I grabbed unto it's jaw & the back of it's head after which I snapped it's neck. The snap was definitely no quiet feat, the four strangers left definitely heard & turned around. I picked up the weapon of the stranger I had killed & took out two strangers before another stranger shot the weapon out of my hand. With just two left I knew I had outdone myself but it was a real tragedy cause I was at gun point but right before the stranger could pull the trigger a big stone came flying in & the moment it hit one of the strangers I saw an opening cause that did distract the both of them. I rushed towards the closest one to me & hit it's throat using the chi-blocking technique after which I didn't hesitate to dash after the other one. Getting to the stranger it's finger had already squeezed the trigger of it's weapon & it fired at a simultaneous speed with my attack 'Protecting eight trigrams sixty-four palms', the technique i used to put down the stranger.

The shot the stranger fired had left me in a bad condition, but what do you call a graze from a hot beam of light. I fell to the floor & called out to lady Chloe.
Lady Chloe heard my call & came to my rescue. On our way back to the shed I made sure I took out the last of the strangers I had left paralyzed at the first encounter. It was certainly shocked to see me alive & it's squad gone.

THE MOTHERSHIP.

Report had made it back to the ruler of the strangers that a squad was entirely decimated in the woods of Padogan.
"Find whoever is behind this", the ruler said.

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