The One True Hero

CHAPTER 13

Oooooh it's unlucky... 0-0

Stampy's POV
Well, that was definitely something worth checking out. Stampy turned to everyone else, who were talking amongst themselves, and silenced them with a wing.
"So, guys, the usual, we go in without a plan and try and get what we need?"

Squaishey grinned. "Definitely."

Amy's POV
After some waddling / sprinting behind banks, and cautiously looking round corners like spies in a low budget movie, they had all made their way to the side of the castle.

A turret rose up at each corner of the outer wall, along which the occasional skeleton could be seen patrolling. When the one they'd targeted, a young, seemingly bored skeleton - who'd barely even looked out at the plain - descended down the stairs of one turret, and out of sight, they all sprang into action.

Squaishey was the first one to take off, followed closely by her boyfriend, and then the others. It was a lot harder to fly straight up than it looked, Amy decided, as she furiously flapped her wings. But bit by bit, flap by flap, she was getting closer to her target.

She landed with a heavy "Oomph", and quickly straightened herself up. Stampy hopped along the side of the wall, gesturing with a wing for the others to follow, as he made his way to the stairs.

He was about to say something when they heard the twang of a bowstring being released, and then the sickening thud of the arrow hitting flesh. Then, a squark, unmistakably chicken. Amy turned around as quickly as she could, expecting to see one of her friends collapsing.

Instead, she saw a skeleton, its back to them, gazing with satisfaction at the dead chicken that it'd just shot way down on the plains.

"Guys!" she whispered hurriedly.
"What?" replied Squaishey "I mean, its horrible, but at least it wasn't one of us..."
"No! Don't you realise what it means?" she paused, waiting for one of them to get it, but when no one did, she urgently continued "Target's told them to kill chickens! If all of us are seen, even skeletons will be able to put two and two together!"

"That might be more of a problem than you'd think..." answered Squid, who was still looking over Amy's shoulder at the skeleton.
"What?" Stampy asked.
"The skeleton.. it's continuing on its patrol... it'll see us any second!"

There were a few seconds of ugly, scared silence, then Amy whisper-shouted

"HIDE!"

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