Chronicles of the Qrath

Chapter Two. ESCAPE.

BOOK ONE (DAUNTLESS)

CHAPTER TWO

ESCAPE

Running had always been a part of what they'd grown up with but as they ran, they had no where they were going to. How they were found out was what baffled Bassam. Who could have known?

Ijaya had stolen a carrier from beyond the Watch Gates in order to let his family know that it wasn't safe anymore in Reingart. They had only stayed seven moons and three days in the settlement and they had been known.

Another shot came from behind them. They ran because they were chased and they had to get a place to wait them out. Fighting back was no good either. Udne knew nothing of what they were because she was not old enough to. She was still a minor.

Another shot passed the series of boulders before them. Utterly disfiguring one not too far from the path they were going through.

"Don't look back. " Bassam shouted to the Nogreans he was running away with.

The Reingart Guards had found them out and a chase like this was either going to end in the death of them or the chasers but they couldn't use what they had.

Another shot whispered right passed Ijaya's right ear. The shock wave accompanying it grazed right across his cheek turning it red.

"Ijaya?", his mother called to him to see if he was fine.

"I'm fine, just don't stop", he assured them.

From behind the guards chased hard as though they chased wild animals that had massacred their live stocks.

"Don't let them go".

"Dead or Alive?"

"Just get them". The Troop commander shrieked his orders but right before his eyes, three of his men disappeared. One, then the other.

The commander stopped and held his Graft Bow up and looked around him. The other guards behind him came around. Leaving the vanguard fighters to take the runners down.

"Something's here"

A guard was taken swiftly. The Commander aimed his bow. His men followed after him. He shot multiple times. He would have sworn he saw something in the trees.

Another Guard disappeared, then another.

The commander moved his weapon but he was not fast enough to catch whatever it was attacking them.

He was alone now. Still he c****d his Graft Bow hoping to take whatever it was hunting him down. He moved slowly but surely spun round. Nothing.

He waited. He could still hear the power shots from his men chasing the Nogreans.

"Come out goddamnit", he thought.

Then before his eyes came something with nearly light speed came at him. He aimed his bow and shot again and again.

He had missed it. He fell back. Moved as quick as he could. He lost his footing. What ever was on him was gaining ground.

"Ahhhhn!!"

He was on the floor.

Then he saw it. It was a human. He saw the ratio on his Neck.

Another one of them.

He had no option.

He was going to die at the hands of Nogrean.

Written By: Shontan Daniel

Edited By: Fajobi Moyosola