The Gambling Hero

Chapter 20: The Lost Humans

I awoke in a panic I was in a dark room it was cold, and I felt an immense pain coming from my stomach. I was unable to move properly because I was being restrained in what seemed to be some sort of hard bed. The only light shone through the bars of what seemed to be a door. If I had to guess it would seem that I was locked away in some sort of prison. My wounds had seemingly been treated by someone while I slept, I had no idea what day it even was. I waited in the darkness hungry, scared, and cold I felt a deep fear in my gut as I laid in utter silence. Finally after what seemed like at least an hour I could faintly hear what seemed like voices coming from far away. I waited in my cell for what could possibly be my salvation, or my execution depending on who came in. There were humans living down here the dream I had showed me at least that much, but I was unable to predict what their response would be to outsiders.

I felt a chill as the door swung open two people came in carrying something heavy in a bag they walked up to my body. I heard a man's voice say "Alright inject him with more sleep agent he seems to have waken up judging by how hes moved around ." Before I had time to protest a peace of tape went over my mouth, and I was injected with a needle. I quickly felt my eyes go heavy again, but I heard one of the men say something about a procedure. I quickly fell back asleep, and this time I didn't dream of anything. I felt a weird sensation passing threw my body as I slept very uncomfortably.

The next time I woke I was in a much brighter room, and I felt a deep cutting pain in my eyes I had something over my eyes it felt like bandages. I wanted to remove them, but my hands were tied down, so I was unable to move again I shouted out, "What the hell where am I." I was shut up by a smack on the head a gruff man barked, "Shut up heretic if you value your life just stay in that bed, you'll be transported later for your execution." Execution? What the hell I was about to shout again, but tape was reapplied to my mouth so I just made pained moans. The man punched me in the stomach to shut me up, and I let out a pained moan, and didn't say anything more. After about an hour of lying there had passed while I lay in anticipation the man who had punched me spoke up again, "Get up heretic were leaving." I did as I was told to avoid getting hit again, and he led me by my rope restraints pulling me roughly while we walked. He would occasionally yell at me, "This was unholy one." or "Hurry up heretic." 

We finally reached a room that seemed to be deeper inside the save judging by the long walk that seemed to be doing downwards. Weirdly as we seemed to approach our destination loud chanting seemed to echo off the walls once we seemed to be fully in this room the chanting was now ear piercing. It seemed like there were hundreds of people on all sides of me, but a familiar voice greeted me instead. I heard Bastrin's demon voice among all the others in the crowd he called out "Dante! Kid what happened to you whats with the eyes?" A large mans's voice overtook him, "Silence!" Everyone in the room shut up at once waiting for the booming voice to start talking again. He shouted out "As you all know I am the king of our underground village of Exeter I shouldn't have to tell you who I am." The man paused for a moment and said, "But I am sure you have heard of our trespassing guests the demon, dark elf, and a human weaseled into Exeter two days ago. I am sure you are all very outraged, and what just punishment for these ghastly evildoers."

I couldn't even begin to argue since I my mouth was tied, but it seemed Bastrin tried to since I heard some deep muffled growling, but was quickly silenced by someone. The man spoke again, "Normally I would give them all just punishment in the form of a swift death, but today everyone I bring you a spectacle. You see today's execution is not like the others we have a special guest." He seemed to pause again maybe to point, or make a scowl I couldn't tell. He said excitedly, "This human boy has been traveling with these two monsters seemingly of their own doing." The crowd gasped. The man spoke again, "This boy is of a special breed hence we made a few changes to his looks as I am sure everyone here can see. That false angel that we executed a few days ago well we decided to transplant her eyes into this boy using some of this muffled dogs magic." He seemed to be pointing or something again. He harshly stated, "This dark elf can bind the eyes of an angels into a human, so this boy is essentially the calumniation of everything we hate. This hell spawn has traveled with a demon, contracted with a dark elf, blinded with a curse ring, and now even took on a false gods powers. I don't think I need to explain to you the good people of Exeter that this boy is a culmination of evil.

The man paused, and stated, "This boy is friendly with races of pure evil, and now has become the spawn of a fake god. I think this calls for a special event I have decided that I will give this hell spawn a special execution he will be fed to a special monster. I will feed him to the Orc that we have kept captive for over 30 years now he will be more than delighted to make this boys death as painful as possible." The crowd cheered and he finished by stating, "My own daughter will accompany him, and will make sure he doesn't try to run from our little friend in our little sealed off cave. My daughter will unlock the seals, and throw the boy in where he will meet a very gruesome end, and after she gets back she will personally execute his little friends." The crowd cheered, and after a few seconds an arm roughly grabbed my rope tugging me along to follow making a show of it. The man ended with, "The boys corpse will be taken back, and displayed in town as we remember the cleansing that will occur today." His voice grew fainter, as me and what I guessed was the man's daughter took me further into the cave. She removed my tape after we had traveled a couple mins, and a small voice said "Keep walking, and keep quiet."

I recognized the it was the girl who had struck me down two days ago, but then took it upon her self to try, and help me. I couldn't just keep quiet roll over, and die that wasn't in my list of things to do. I spoke up, "Hey why are you even doing this? You saved me why are you trying to execute me now." The girl spoke up indifferently, "Father's orders, now shut it or ill cut you down before you even get to the monster." I shut up, and begrudgingly continued walking in silence there seemed to be no way to talk myself out of this one. We eventually came to a stop, and I heard her chanting, and releasing what seemed like the seals they had talked about. I felt something weird for a second, and I felt a deep anger radiating off the save walls. Once the last seal was removed I felt the anger directly, and almost ran away on instinct, but I stopped myself cause I would rather not die to the girl either. Suddenly I felt an impending dread, as the girl approached the source of the anger I felt. Once her nearly untraceable emotions got closer to the monster I noticed a sudden change in the anger it seemed to flare up as she approached. Oh no it was gonna strike her first, and then it would kill me afterwards I yelled out quickly, "Dodge!"

Her emotions flared up all of a sudden in what a recognized now  as surprise she seemed to quickly move away from the monster's strike. She let out a gasp, "W-what why is this thing attacking me father said it was properly under his control." The surprise seemed to turn quickly into her own anger flaring up, and it seemed she had drawn her sword. I heard a quick clang, and then a sharp scream seemingly a females scream. Oh no she might be dead, and now im next fear seemed to consume me as I waited in the dark a couple seconds. I didn't feel death overtaking me instead I felt a hand on my shoulder and a girl's voice rang out in anger. "Father! Did you lead me here hoping I too would be killed!" This hurt my ears, but I was quickly relieved once I felt another emotion that I didn't need my powers to understand the girl was radiating a deep sadness that I figured she had been holding back for a long time. The sadness seemed to overtake her, and she started crying in the cave deep underground. I decided now was my chance sensing her state of emotions I threw some fire into the mix, "Hey girl." I smirked, "You want revenge right?" It seems Bastrin had rubbed off on me because I said with demon like intentions, "If that's the case I could be your new best friend, and help you take care of your dearest father."