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Chapter 6: Massacre

Jesse struggled to get off of the horse that was taking her away from her friends, But her attempts were in vain. Her arms and legs were tied together securely, And there was a rag in her mouth that prevented her crying out for help. every so often she would attempt to cry out for help and throw herself off of the horse, only to fail and get slapped round the face by the rider. 

Eventually she gave up fighting and just limply laid on the back of the animal and quietly cried, Eventually they neared a large camp filled with hunters and gang members, As they entered a lot of men took notice of Jesse, giving her weird looks. Eventually the horse stopped and the rider got off hitching the animal to the nearby fence before taking Jesse off of the horse and throwing her over his shoulder. 

She struggled a bit before relaxing, Her kidnapper then took her into a large tent where he tied her to a pole before cutting the rope around her legs Allowing her to move her body from a standing position to a sitting position. He then left leaving Jesse alone in the middle of a camp full of hostile people.

Meanwhile the sun had started to rise while Cal, Julia and a hungover Chris rested at their small makeshift camp. They had devised a plan, Chris was gonna check up on their main campsite before joining the other two in the hunt for Jesse. They had to be back by nightfall to report their findings. The time was now 7:39am and the group had no clue on if they were actually gonna find Jesse.

Jesse had somehow managed to fall asleep even in her uncomfortable position before being rudely awakened be a kick to the leg. As she shot Her head up she was met with the insane German doctor examining her Face, however unlike his photo he now had one eye due to a long knife wound across his left one. "Hello there my dear" He said as he let go of her face after removing the rag in her mouth. "My name is doctor Von Carl, I'm sure you have heard of me from your dear friend Cal Blackburn" The man spoke as he made his way over to his surgery instruments.

 "No he hasn't" Jesse told him trying to sound confident. "Well then would you like to hear my side of the story before you hear his?" The german asked as he washed his hands. Jesse at first was sceptical but eventually gave into curiosity and nodded.

 "Well then lets start from the beginning, One day on a business trip to Africa, Me and my friends came across a large area that was rich with resources, so we politely only harvested small areas allowing the habitat to survive. However Cal tricked the locals into thinking that we were bad and got them to attack our resource locations." The doctor told her as he grabbed a bucket a cloth and alcohol and a incision knife, "Eventually after way more than enough warnings we killed them and sent the children away to be educated in the ways of being a good African citizen. Cal was angry at us for his mistake and vowed to kill us all, And as you can see I've tangled with him before" He added on motioning to his scarred left eye, "Anyway as much as I have loved our little one way talk I'm afraid I cannot resist the urge to cut you anymore so I'm afraid I need to start" "Wait wha.." Jesse never got to Finish her sentence as the rag was shoved back into her mouth.

Jesse re awoke later in agony her arms ached from where the German had cut sexual slurs and her back stung from where the man had carved the words 'Rich bitch' just below her family crest. When she heard the front of the tent open she slowly looked up to see a young black woman and her daughter holding a tray of water and rags. 

The pair proceeded to carefully and gently clean Jesse and her wounds before feeding her. The woman after she had done this went down to the nearby river followed by a gang member. While she washed out the bucket The woman heard something get thrown followed by a snap an gurgling, As she turned she saw her escort with a bear trap on his head and next to him was an angry man dragging her escort towards the woman. 

She watched as he threw the body into the river before turning to face her, "Where is she?" He demanded pulling out a hatchet, the woman was able to keep her cool before saying "Follow me" She walked him to the ridge over looking the camp and pointed to where the gang was staying, As the man pulled out his binoculars he asked "Are there any more women or children in your camp?" "No we are the only ones who live there." She watched as the tall man reached into his satchel to produce about 90 dollars, "Take this and get out of here" He told them, the women went to protest but he pulled a gun out and aimed it at them.

"Now!" He growled sending the woman and child running, He then turned his attention back to the camp, where he saw gang members setting up a area to sacrifice Jesse, Cal knew that he would need the others to successfully rescue Jesse, so he called over his horse and rode away to fetch the others.

As soon as the sun had set Cal made his way into the camp the other two were on overwatch and when Cal has rescued Jesse were going to meet him in town, he had left his hat and most of his other clothes apart from his trousers on his horse and he had covered himself in mud to hide his skin. A lone guard stood watching the camp from a distance, suddenly a blade pierced through the bottom of his jaw, skewing the mans tongue to the roofing his mouth, Cal ripped the blade out of the dead man's head and moved forward slowly he made his way around the camp, it was very large and wide so Cal spent a really long time searching the camp and still had no luck.

Meanwhile Jesse has been cut free from the pole holding her still and was now being dragged towards the sacrificial post, in one last attempt of freedom Jesse hit one of the gang members and managed to get free of the other one, as she ran a few meters she removed the rag from her mouth and screamed for help before being grabbed again and dragged more forcefully to the sacrificial post where she was tied up. 

Cal watched from the trees with sticks of dynamite in hand, as Kyle Robert, Dr. Von Carl, and Charles Croft sprinkled blood over The terrified Jesse. As they reposition her gag, Kyle took out a long sacrificial blade, on that note Cal lighted the dynamite and threw them into the crowd and several tents. When they detonated, Cal jumped down and cut open Kyle's stomach allowing his intestines to fall out, he then stabbed Charles multiple times before cutting off Carl's lower jaw and stabbing him in the eyes with it.

 Each one of the men gave a blood curdling scream before dying, none of their minions heard them over the fire's and explosions.

Cal saw Jesse hanging limping by the pole as a fire slowly spread across the grass, He ran over to help her but was knocked to the side by a large force. As he sprawled across the ground he caught the bullet wound in his side allowing blood to start leaking out of it. As Cal slowly got to his feet, a sabre was thrown in front of him, Cal looked up to see Carl's assistant in a sabre fighting pose. As much as he wanted to go help Jesse, he knew that he had to deal with this guy first.

As soon as Cal's hand curled around the blade, the assistant lunges forward so fast that Cal was barely able to block the attack, He repeated the attack and nicked Cal's Chin, drawing blood. As the assistant carried on his relentless onslaught of attacks each one nicking him. 

Eventually the assistant hit Cal's sabre just hard enough to break it, the assistant gave a twisted smile before lunging forward, however Cal had wanted this to happen so he was able to go to the side of the blade before driving what remains of his sabre into the assistant's neck, Cal let go of the man and booted him away.

As he approached Jesse who was now just a few feet away from the flames, Cal drew his knife and cut the bonds and carried the weak woman away from the heat. Once away from the heat and danger, Cal washed off the mud and blood off of his body before whistling over his Horse. Cal turned his attention back to Jesse, she still had the gag on, alongside a bloody and torn undershirt and ripped trousers. 

After Cal had gently removed the gag and remains of ropes Jesse caught Cal off guard by hugging him. Slowly Cal pulled Jesse closer to him, he heard her start to cry causing him to hug her tighter alongside stroking her head. Suddenly to Jesses surprise, Cal started to speak in a soothing voice.

 She could tell that it was a story she couldn't tell what he was saying as he was speaking in another language however that didn't matter, it was still his voice and very quickly Jesse fell asleep.

Once he felt Jesse's deep breathing against his chest Cal picked up the the girl gently like a toddler, so the girls head could rest on his shoulder. He then walked to a large rock that his horse was waiting next to and used that to mount the animal without disturbing Jesse.

 He then proceeded to head back to town, he felt the Jesse press herself into his body emphasising that she was cold, in retaliation to this Cal took his coat out of his horses satchel and placed it over Jesse making sure that she didn't freeze.

Cal had never felt like this before, what was this feeling in his chest? Love? It couldn't be!

Could it?