The Scattered | Risen Book III

Chapter Seven

Internal Conflict
Ex Talon

Cyblow whistled impressively as we stood outside the front gate to the Dwarf Mines.

"Yeah it's impressive all right, and freezing" East spoke rubbing his arms and blowing into his hand.

"Murderer's trail goes cold here" Charity spoke looking at the gate.

"What so they just let some random chick in?" Cyblow asked, he turned and fed Cleaver a snack. She instantly sneezed and lit a bundle of snow and grass on fire.

Tyson warmed his hands on the fire.

"They probably opened the gate for them" Fredrick added.

We nodded, realizing that it was the Drawfs who were responsible for the murder of the Elves. Or at least, one of the Drawfs.

Charity knocked on the front gate, the walls surrounded the entire complex and were twenty feet tall, slabs of soild steel.

"So, these guy make all our weapons, armour and bullets right?" Seth asked.

I nodded, East explained further.

"The Drawfs mine things, but they have a knack for finding ways of turning something useless into something much more powerful."

The gate opened wide and a young Drawf answered it.

"Blakwall Knights? How may I be of assistance?" He asked.

Charity approached the Drawf and held her badge out, despite this guy clearly knowing we were Knights.

"We tracked someone back to this gate, would've been maybe five or six minutes ahead of us"

"Did you open the gate for anyone else?" East added.

The Drawf shook his head. "Haven't seen anybody for at least a few hours"

"Mind if we take a look around? Maybe bring us to Otis?" Charity asked.

The man nodded. "Sure thing, may want to leave the Dragon out here though" the man spoke waving us through.

As we all started walking inside, Charity turned back to us and spoke.

"Tyson, Seth stay out here with the dragon"

"But-" Seth began.

"But nothing, this is a dangerous criminal, and it's your first mission. Call us if you see anything" Charity added.

Seth nodded in agreement and checked his guns ammo. Tyson climbed into Cleavers back and pet her head.

"You gonna be alright Tyson?" Cyblow asked.

Tyson nodded, placing his gun behind his back.

"Sure, go kick some ass Cyblow" he smiled.

Cyblow gave Tyson a thumbs up and the rest of us turned towards the Mines. The man closed the gate behind us, and Cyblow, Charity, East, Fredrick and I made our way into the Mines Compound.

We were quickly met by Otis, who I guess was alerted of us being here.

"Charity! What do I owe the honour!" He spoke open armed.

"Well Otis, we need you to get your men together. Someone just came back from the City after murdering another Elf Commander. We need to locate the murderer"

He stroked his beard in thought.

"Well, my men should be on break, let's go!" He spoke loudly and lead us to the forge. This was one of the main rooms of the Mines complex. The air was hot as we entered the room. The room only had a few colours that made up the entire room, mainly Black, Grey and Red from the lava used to mould the weapons and armour that was being forged here.