Girls Und Panzer Parabellum

BURNING CROSS (Part 2)

The last two Cromwells mysteriously left them, going off the sides, and slowing down. This frightened Erwin, and she looked forward through the view hole to see a tank at the end of the main street.

It was a Manticore aiming right at them. The amount of time it got to aim in was substantial.

"We had a hell of a lot of fun, and I enjoyed every damn minute of it," Erwin said before closing her eyes.

BOOM!

The Manticores gun fired with the mighty roar of its lion name. It sailed not in the direction of the tanks from hall, but towards the right tracks. Hitting the front sprocket, it went right the front sprocket and hit the back before exploding. The explosion was so great, it wrecked and took off the bottom and top wheels.

Spinning out, they had no control and hit a massive Japanese Red Pine.

The impact was so great, they were all knocked unconscious. Vision fading to black, the only thoughts before total darkness were "Will I wake up again, and if so... Will it be in hell"

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Erwin was the first to wake up to a dastardly surprise. She was in her underwear, and so were Caeser, Saemoza, and Oryo. It brought on the question 'If they weren't being hanged by their feet or hands, then what would this mean". In terms of their body health, no bruises that were not from the crash were there.

Erwin's vision had settled, and what she saw wasn't what she thought she would ever see.

It was night, absolute pitch darkness, but it was illuminated with colorful lights. It was the Christian boy's celebration of some sort. Tables upon tables of their students sat at eating food and drinking wine that looked it came right out of the last supper.

The cold air upon their naked body was broken by the warm delicious smell of food being cooked by the dozen. It made them hungry, as all they had been eating on the trip were MRE's. What kept them from moving was securely tied rope around their arms and legs.

Five students with their helmets on came over to them. They were all relatively tall and built well.

"You should all feel a great pride that you are to do," The middle student said, but to Erwin and the god she knew that was no longer a student, but a knight who followed his leader.

The others had now awoken.

"You will dance in front of us to the beat of our holy music so the cleansing shall begin, and once done, you all will satisfy the pope. Such great bodies must be cleansed of what's in them. Now, let's begin"

The students who were now known as knights grabbed them softly and brought them over to the side of a Tog II with a staircase leading up to the top of its body.

"We will not dance for you filthy people that call your selves holy and just!" Erwin yelled in fury as the others wouldn't speak up.

"The Parabellum is being led by a power above our pope speaks of. That is god"

"GO FUCK YOURSELVES!!!!!!"

The five knights brought out their fancy rifles and aimed it at her head.

"SHOOT ME! SHOOT THE ENTIRE CREW!"

The main Knight put his hand back to signal them to put their weapons down. They did so and just looked at her. She could feel their invisible eyes from within the darkness of the helmet look at her.

That light that was called the life of a person was dark within them.

"If you don't. We will resort to torturing you and your crew"

"With what?"

"Give a tiny demonstration of the first stage number five"

The fifth student grabbed Oryos right arm and twisted it back so hard, it was about to dislocate. She screamed so loud, Erwin was surprised to see that a human being could produce a sound so loud and terrifying.

"STOP! STOP!"

"no"

Knight five twisted her arm further, and within a couple of seconds, dislocated it. The scream became a banshee cry in fire. Tears falling from her eyes, and body trembling like a building in a horrible earthquake.

He could smell the fear.

"SAY IT! OR ELSE NEXT WE WILL CUT HER WITH A HOT RUSTY KNIFE!!!!!"

"WE WILL!"

The knight brought her arm back around and performed an objectless way of getting her dislocated arm back in.

"say it, you subhuman... A person lower than a living thing"

"We will"

"Like I said, exercising the demon out"

Oryo screaming died out to sobs of pain. Erwin too began to cry. Tears tasted and felt different when it was ones of realization. Excepting one's fate to such an end was not comprehensible in words, but only to the person to wright it out.

Grief, Atrocity, torture, Parabellum, tanks, god... War, Peace.

They made their way up onto the stage. A DJ was on the turret, ready to blast the night rave music.

"Are you guys ready to worship our leader the Pope and the ones he prays with us combined to the one above!" The DJ said in a disturbingly happy voice to the crowd.

They lost it in booming appraise and clapping.

CHIK CHIK!

Behind them, they heard the load of a gun. She only peaked back glance but saw the knight beside him warming a rusty knife with a blow torch. Its red and orange colors being a neon glow against the darkness that swelled behind them.

The music boomed with its bass and beat.

Erwin and the crew did the dance their entire school team would do if they lost, the Angler Fish Dance. But there was a difference between losing, and surrendering.

All of the bobbing metal helmets reflected the beaming neon lights like a million moving mirrors. The smell of strong wine mixed in with other substances made them feel sick, the complete opposite to the rich food they smelled before.

They tried to hold it in but began to uncontrollably cry. Apparently rock bottom had a basement.

The tears that were shed became fuel for the knights as they had fits of unholy laughter.

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