THE DIVINE REALM SERIES: THE BEGINNING OF THE DIVINES

CHAPTER 4 - CAPTURED

Meanwhile Drake has just woken up, to being locked in a cage made of jagged bones and twine rope, his head spinning as if he had been struck in the head with a club. As he looks around through jagged bars of his cage, he can see filthy orcs loathing around, eating raw meat gluttonously, other orcs sharping their machetes and swords, causing a sharp ringing noise in Drake's ears. He scrunches his eye lids together until the noise stops, then slowly opens his eyes to a tall green masculine orc standing in front of his cage looking as if he was smiling "this puny human's awake" he growls sternly. Drake looks up at him in fear speechless, "fresh human for dinner" some of the orcs chuckle. Drake crawls to the back corner of his cage as the orcs laugh loudly watching him.

"SILENCE" an orc yells aggressively, suddenly all the orcs around the cage go dead silent. As a large brutish brown orc in a furry vest, holding a large battle axe, walks through the middle of the orcs towards a large throne like seat covered in what looked like human bones, his footsteps shake the ground with every step. Drake tries to peer through the cage to get a better look at the orc, that the rest of them seem to fear. As he gets a better look, he can see this orc is a lot bigger than the rest of them, he is covered in scars, like he had been in a lot of battles, large tusks protrude from his mouth almost level with his eyes, just as Drake looks at the orcs eyes seeing a large scar that goes down his face over one of his eyes, the large orc looks directly into Drake's eyes and grunts disdainfully, then turns to an orc sitting next to him who has a very long white beard "Where is Gowler?" the large brutish brown orc shouts fiercely.

All the orcs in the area look at each other as if they were hiding something and did not want to be the one to answer him. "Are any of you going to answer me?" The large brown orc grunts aggressively. One of the orcs slowly creeps forward, as the other orcs notice this, they slowly step away "Kar-Lax, Gowler fell to a human during our assault on the farmers" Kar-Lax (the larger brown orc) starts to grind his teeth together, as he stands up from his chair, clenching his battle axe's handle tightly.

"You mean to tell me that one of our best orc warriors fell to human" Kar-Lax shouts furiously, the smaller green orc standing in front of him, cowers down "yes, great chieftain" stutters the green orc as he looks up at Kar-Lax in horror. Kar-Lax begins to stare blankly at his battle axe in his hand as he slowly lifts it above his head, he looks down at the green orc with a furious expression, then lets out an extremely loud orcish roar echoing across Spiral Peak, swiftly bringing his battle axe down onto the smaller green orc cutting him clean in half, green blood splatters all over the orcs and the nearby cages, drenching the ground in a green murky blood.

Drake sits in silence as he watches the scene take place, a scuffling noise comes from the cage next to Drake's, catching the attention of Kar-Lax, chieftain of the orcs of Spiral Peak. Kar-Lax looks over at the cage furiously, slowly making his way towards the cage next to Drake's cage, inside is a young farmer boy just barely awake unaware of what is happening around him.

Kar-Lax stares at him with rage in his eyes, raising his axe once more "Puny humans" he sneers aggressively before he brings his giant axe crashing down, going straight through the bone cage, cutting deeply into the young boy's right shoulder, Kar-Lax stops his axe half way through the young boy. The boy's blood splatters all over Drake in the cage next them, though Drake makes sure not to make a noise as he watches the scene transpire with immense fear in his eyes, his clothes soaked in orc and human blood, he is fearing that he is going to be next.

Kar-Lax rips his axe from the boy's body, blood squirts from the wound as the boy collapses lifelessly, Kar-Lax slowly stomps back to his throne like chair. "Clean this up" Kar-Lax huffs in disdain, as he sits back down. Instantly the orcs who had been keeping their distance jump forward, grabbing the boy's body, quickly dragging it away and hastily begin cleaning up the mess from the cage.

Drake slowly scuffles his way back into the corner of his cage keeping as much distance from the gate of the cage as possible. As he watches the young boy's body get dragged away, Drake cannot stop looking into his lifeless eye's as if the boy's eyes were looking back at him as he is being dragged off into the distance.

Filled with immense fear, Drake cannot help but huddle himself up in the corner of the cage, with tears rolling down his face, fearing his imminent death.