[Story] Immune (Chapter 4 + Chapter 5)

[Kuhaku 87]

Hello, I_Am_Unkown here and I will be continuing my story: Immune. Here are the next two chapters:

 

 

Wanna read the beginning of the story, as well as the previous chapters? 

Prologue + Chapter 1: http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=353453

Chapter 2 + Chapter 3: http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=353500

 

 

 

Chapter 4

 

Hailey took so many twists and turns, the cloud of doubt in my mind grew larger and larger. But finally, we entered a long tunnel in which she told me,”This will lead us all the way out of the castle walls, hopefully we will be safe.”.

 

As we quickly traveled through the tunnel, I realized it must be some sort of a back passage, or rather a secret path where royalty would secretly escape during a time of war.

 

It took us nearly 10 minutes to reach the end of the tunnel, but when we did, we were on the west side of the castle, far beyond the walls. This was one of the greatest moments of my life! I had successfully found a way to safely get out of the castle without any of the guards seeing me. This would help me steal stuff much easier! Well, I didn’t find it, but at least I knew about it. But either way, we were safely out of the castle. Quickly, I took her to the farmer, but in my rush, I completely forgot to wash in the river.

 

Chapter 5

 

“Boy!”, the farmer yelled at me,”Two things things that you have done that has angered me! One, you forgot to wash in the river, so that will kill all the villagers near us, and two, why in heaven's name did you bring the princess here!”.

 

“Well”, I said shamefully,”I thought we would be ok, plus I was scared and got out of the castle as the plague had already killed everyone in the palace-”.

 

“Wait, the whole entire palace is dead already?”

 

“Yes, but don’t you think it is interesting that Hailey and I both haven’t been affected? Based on what she has told me, I was in the castle for at least 6 hours, and the King and the Queen were killed in less than a twelve hour period. Plus, Hailey has been there for at least a whole day already.” Seeing the confusion in his eyes, I told the day’s adventure to him. About how Hailey and I found each other, and about the secret tunnel.

 

“Well, isn’t that interesting?”, the farmer told me. Well, if what you are saying is true, then we should assume that we will need to evacuate. Now the questions is, should we escape through the Endless Woods, or should we evacuate to the village of Village of Temore?”

 

This would be one of the hardest decision of my life. The Village of Temore was a village that was highly populated. However, if others caught word of the plague and wanted to evacuate like us, they would probably evacuate to Temore. And if that was indeed the case, the result would probably be most of the village die because of the sickness. However, if we did indeed go to the Endless Forest, not only would we eventually run out of food and water, but we would indeed most likely be killed by the criminals and monsters there.

 

The Endless Forest was in fact, endless. Well, at least to the human extent. See, the problem was, we knew that it extended at least 250 km out, but nobody could bring enough water to journey past that point and have enough for the return journey. Another problem was that the forest was so thick that you couldn’t bring horses or donkeys, or anything else that could carry stuff to be able to journey through the forest. In fact, certain areas were so thick that one might have to travel a long way around to get past a certain area.

 

But even if you did bring enough food, there were always monsters.

 

Monsters were the most curious things. Most could turn themselves invisible. We knew because expeditions that were sent from Castle Ebro, some would say that some of their men would suddenly be killed by a hole opened in their chest. The only known way to kill one of these monsters was to either have a line of soldiers with pikes or with a line of torches and look at the monsters shadow. As far as most people who saw the monsters shadow, said that they looked more like a giant bear-wolf animal. But much, much bigger. Some said that one was almost the size of a war horse. Another said that that one of the monsters actually spoke in a low deep voice, but couldn’t be understood.

 

However, if we were to travel to Temore, what would become of us as the plague would definitely spread there? Based on the movements of the plague, it often strikes within populated areas. If the farmer, and I, possibly Hailey too, were to travel to Temore, not only would I be risking our lives, but the Princess’ as well.

 

“We will head to the Endless Forest, and take our chances there”, I solemnly said.

 

 

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As usual, comment any thoughts below! Any tips or suggestions? Any ideas for me to add to the story? Comment below!

Edited March 27, 2017 by tweezers

[tweezers 1,034]

Approved.

 

-A few grammar and spelling corrections.

-Some rephrasing. 

-Underlined the subtitles.

 

It's starting to get quite interesting, this  ;)

[Kuhaku 87]

Thanks

[QuinnP 105]

Nice

[VaudeVille 1,428]

I come to AWC just to read these type of stories. :)