Chapter 9: Too Easy?

After they shadowed the camp for a while, they noticed a pattern of patrollers, two on each side going back and forwards, as multiple tents were quiet, probably having bandits sleeping inside, the massive guy who was their leader did not come back, even after waiting for over an hour, Jessica followed him from the bushes, like some kind of ninja she was silent sneaking behind them, as she sees him leave the forest on a horse, ‘why is he leaving?’, she wondered, but she quickly realized this would be the perfect time to take over the camp, and Maria should be captured within one of the tents, she stopped worrying about the massive guy who just left on a horse and went back sneaking to the others, she told them she saw him leave on a horse, and that he probably wont be back any time soon, as he seemed to be in a hurry.

Dean uses hand signs to his men who split up into multiple smaller groups surrounding the camp, five on the left five on the right, and the others would sneak toward the tents and try to capture all the bandits without them making any noise to alert the other bandits, the main group waited till, the two smaller groups of five would ambush the patrollers from behind, the bandits had no idea what kind of danger was looking over them from everywhere, as one of the guards totally by accident falls out of the bush, as the two bandits rush toward him, they wanted to yell at him who he was, but both of them would get easily knocked out from behind by the other three guards, who tied them all up, and put a cloth in their mouth, the same happened on the other side, as both sides sign to Dean that they captured the patrollers the main group invaded the camp, there was no blood shed that day, all the bandits got captured, but to their surprise there was no Maria in the camp.

Dean questioned all the bandits one by one, making them talk one way or another, he knew how to break them, Dean had a past life of doing things like this, but he did not want to talk about it further until they found Maria.

It was very strange, it almost felt like Maria never was captured by these bandits, since none of them knew who that person was, but somehow Dean felt like they were hiding something, he would use harsher methods to make them talk, Vanessa could not watch what Dean was doing, but she wanted to know as well, so she stayed and questioned each and very bandit, but still no answers from them, until… one of them misspoke, he accidentally said, ‘they will kill me if I say anything’, once again someone said ‘they’, but who were they? None of the bandits wanted to say anything about ‘they’, they rather died then talking about them, which Dean gladly helped them with, but Jessica and Vanessa would stop him, Dean steps back from the current bandit that they were questioning he whispers to Vanessa and Jessica, ‘This is useless, they will not say a thing, and that massive guy from before can return any moment’, two of the guards rushed at Dean, ‘Sir! There is a bigger group of bandits nearby, apparently this is only the scout camp!’, the bandit who was tied up on the tree started to laugh loudly, ‘you fools thought this was the main camp? Just a few tents and a campfire? Hah! The main force will slaughter the whole village, and ‘they’, will come as well!’, Dean had enough of this bandits talking, ‘well, let me set an example of what we do here with bandits’, he walks slowly toward the bandit, who started to laugh more, ‘you better let me go, or they will kill you very painfully and slow’, Dean smiles, ‘Threats are worthless to me’, as he grabs a dagger he clearly took from Jessica her pocket without her even noticing, he slits the bandits throat, without giving him a shred of attention more he turns back to their group, as he wipes the blood of the dagger, before giving it back to Jessica, ‘this is yours, I should not have taken it, my apology’, Jessica did not know what to say, she simply nodded to him, as Dean walks past her to his men, ‘You heard the guy who is now dead, there is a bandit camp nearby, which is the main camp, they probably have way more patrolling there, and Maria should be there as well, as an example I had killed this bandit, the others we will bring to the village, there we can see what we will do with them, as for today, we need to regroup, and quickly make a plan how we going to get Maria back, and even worse is ‘They’ are there, which will make this way more complicated, since not only Scar is there’, Dean cant help but smile, ‘if it comes to fighting let me take him on, I have fought him before’, as for 'They', if they are all there we have no chance...

To Be Continued.