silence is all we have (Rewrite in progress)

Chapter 5

It was silent for the rest of night. When I woke up Rockie was gone from the tent. "Rockie where are you?" I call out.

"roof roof" Came the reply from the water. Of course he's in the water that dog is like a swimming athlete I think to myself. Stepping out into the morning sun I start preparing breakfast. Rebuilding the fire was a bit difficult as it was still wet from when we doused it out in the middle of the night. Once the fire was built I pulled out some sausages from the pack Dirk had given us and started cooking them. Almost instantaneous Rockie comes rushing out of the fire soaking wet and sits down putting his head in between his front legs, looking at me with eyes that shouted "I want a sausage"

Laughing my head off by how cute he looked I replied with " Don't worry you will be getting not just one sausage but two sausages, you did save my life last night after all." I throw 2 sausages at him and he started chowing down on them. Smiling to myself I eat my sausages and then started packing up the campsite. After camp had been packed up and we had burned the corpses I was ready to leave, but Rockie had other ideas. I feel something hit my feet and I see it's the tennis ball, with Rockie sitting next to it with those playful eyes of his. Something changed inside of me and I found myself playing fetch with Rockie for the next hour.

We started out on our journey back to the old jail facility, I had Rockie lead the way because if I was honest with myself I had forgotten the way. Good thing I had Rockie. We arrived in good time and the place looked empty from the outside, but I could've swore that I heard those guttural voices from last night. Rockie didn't seem to act like their was any danger so I just put it down to my imagination. Once we closed the door and entered the dusty kitchen I knew that we would need to be on our guard the entire time, as far as I was concerned this was enemy territory. Heading into the eating area I look around and spot a hallway that I didn't see when I was first here, Rockie started heading that way straight away so I followed.

As we went down the hallway it looked like we were entering a block that had lots of small rooms that looked like they used to be offices with old computers on the desk and papers and writing tools all over the floor. That's when we heard the voices, crouching down I listen carefully.

"We've lost contact with the patrol sent out to the oasis, we must be on our guard because the chosen one is most likely on his way here." They had the same guttural voice that the soldiers that ambushed us at the oasis did. Drawing my sword from it's holster and sliding my shield off my back I stand up and announce my presence.

" This is the most piss poor welcoming reception that I've seen in my entire life, don't be shy I don't bite." I yell out cockily. I hear many pair of boots running toward us. "now that's what I'd expect from people I am a celebrity, am I not?" I finish thrusting my sword into one of the soldiers and blocking a axe swing with my shield. We were outnumbered 10 to 1, just the way I like it I think to myself. I took my time killing them all testing out new techniques along the way showing them how unpredictable I was. In the end I killed 6 and Rockie mauled 4 to death. "good boy Rockie." Rubbing his chin I smile, " we make a good team, we are unstoppable."

Wiping the blood off my blade on some paper nearby, I then sheathe my weapons and we continue on till we come to the security room. The room had many monitors in them and all were lit up waiting for a users command. I head to the central one which looked to be the one that would contain the information I need.

"lets see what is so important a voice in my head told me to go here is about" I mutter to myself. The home screen had many folders with names and files in them but I didn't have time to look through them all, I found one that said final meeting and found a video in it and I pressed play.

The video projected the exact room we were in with 2 people in it one looked to be a business man and the other the warden of the prison.

"the time is near, soon 90% of the world will be under our control." The warden announced triumphantly.

" Yes soon the gods will lose all say about what happens in their precious creation except Lord Hades, as we speak the dragons are being loosed upon the world breathing their mind control breath" the business man said.

" good. My question is what about the chosen one that is locked up in here? Should we terminate him?" questioned the warden cautiously.

"No leave him be. Even if he does wake up which our doctors say he won't he won't remember anything of his past. Continue on as planned." responded the business man.

BOOM!!!! Gunshots are heard and the video ends abruptly and the monitor screens turn off an a alarm sounds.

 I stood there in shock, why would anyone want to silence the beings that have protected us? Hades is the only god with any influence from the sound of things, Hades has always hated mankind and has tried to destroy us time and time again. But this time it seems he is actually succeeding, I don't have time to think about this right now any other soldiers in the building will be on their way. "let's go Rockie time to move" I say, but just as I say that I hear boots running down the hallway and unless we hid we'd be caught. I quickly duck under a desk and Rockie does the same.

"Everyone spread out! They will still be in the building, we can't let them escape they have seen the video that these idiots were meant to be guarding!" I hear him kicking the dead soldiers in frustration. I count at least 20 out there, though based off the amount of footsteps I'd say there is more than that. We can't hide here forever but we can't really fight them either. Actually we need to fight them even if we don't succeed they most likely will take us captive. I look at Rockie and say the saddest thing in my life " well the odds are against me but you can get out there and warn others, I've downloaded the video into this drive take it back to Millderton. I will distract them, you will run and don't look back you must get to Millderton." Rockie looks at me with sad and understanding eyes and I tape the drive to his fur and kiss him goodbye.

I step out of the room with my sword and shield drawn and yell out " come here stinkers!" and I charge into battle, I was instantly surrounded with soldiers carrying all assortment of weapons and I began fighting for my life. My first enemy was a dual wielding swordsman, our swords clashed and I looked into his eyes and saw nothing but darkness. Shaken but not undetermined with my shield hand I dig it right into his side making him lose grip on one of his swords which disappear in the masses of people in the room. He tries to feint me by acting like he was going to slice from the left but last second he swings to my right and I barely block it with my shield, the impact of the sword hitting the shield made if drop his guard and I cleave his head off. Out of the corner of my eye I see Rockie weaving his way through the masses and into the hallway, I had done my job now I just need to make them work for their capture. 1 down 19 more to go, though no one else was stepping up to face me seeing how easily I disarmed and beheaded the previous soldier.

"come on is that all you guys got? I didn't even break a sweat!" I taunted. Seconds later I was sizing up my new foe, his weapon was a massive long sword. As long as I'm quick and don't try to block that sword I will be able to get past his guard. The soldier stares at me briefly before swing his long sword in a attempt to slice me in half, once the sword was moving at a rate that can't be stopped I slide under him slicing my sword into his privates making all of his intestines fall out. He looks briefly down at his nether regions before collapsing to the floor.

"anyone else!" I shout. The soldiers all look at each other before two more stepped up each with a sword in hand, 2 down 18 more to go. They both come at me at the same time one going right one going left, I throw my shield like a Frisbee into the left soldiers head knocking him out cold but at the cost of losing my shield. I parry the sword blow coming from the right and i swing my feet at the soldiers feet knocking him down which I then proceeded to stab him through the head. At this point I'm breathing heavily I'm covered in blood and I know that I will not win this battle.

" I just took out 4 of your men without receiving a single blow to myself, are you even trying?!" I taunt. Right away a double dagger wielding soldier dash in catching me off guard and cutting me right across my waist, blood spurt everywhere. I look the soldier in the eyes waiting for his next attack since he had backed off and as I thought he charged again, but what I wasn't expecting was him to throw one dagger into my foot pinning me to place. With the other dagger he went to cut my leg but I parry and stab him rough through the chest. Just when I was going to say something cocky I am hit over the head with the pommel of a sword and I black out.