Chapter 12: The Dark Robed Creature

Dean had questioned a few more bandits showing them what would happen if they did not comply to their questioning, the dead bandit was tied on the tree the whole conversations, after having questioned multiple of them, they decided for the day the best thing they could do is return to the village since it was becoming dark quickly, and that they would get back to bandit hunting at first light the next day, it would be to dangerous to stay in the forest when their could be bandits anywhere here.

After they returned to the village they locked up the bandits and stationed the guards around the village, there was barely enough guards to cover every side of the village, let alone if they would attack full force, but then again maybe they did not have that big of an army to begin with, maybe they were bluffing and trying to rob our village while they were just a group of around thirty, nobody had seen their main camp as of yet, but one thing was for sure, they had around six bandits in their scout camp, most likely their main camp is at least five times that, with scar as their leader, and if ‘They’ are there it could be a massive problem.

Dean, Vanessa and Jessica made up a new plan, they needed to know how many there was first, before they could strike at the bandit camp, and if ‘They’ were there they would have no chance at all, since one of those could kill twenty guards alone if not many more, so they only had one option that was to scout the camp, hopefully before they find out that their scout camp has been captured, since if they noticed or already found it, then an attack would just be a matter of time, they would slaughter the whole village, and probably kill Maria before then.

Dean had already sent someone to scout the main camp, since they spotted it before, to their ability of scouting from the sides, they found out there were around thirty bandits in their main camp, that is besides Scar and one person in a dark robe.

As the scout reported this Dean was visibly thinking hard, ‘So there is one of them there’, the scout nodded, Dean sighed, ‘this is going to make it all a lot more difficult’

-Meanwhile In The Bandit Camp-

One Of The Bandits: ‘Sir they attacked our scout camp, they took all of them!’

Scar: ‘I see, they took our men as prisoners from the scout camp, you know what you have to do’

The Figure With The Black Robes nods at Scar, before disappearing into the shadows, appearing just outside the village where Dean, Vanessa and Jessica were at, the guards were patrolling loudly all around the village, looking around carefully, but how will they prepare for a literal shadow.

-Meanwhile In The Village-

‘AAAAHHHHRGH!’

Loud screams from one of the outsides of the village, Dean quickly grabbed his sword, he still had his armor on just in case, as Jessica and Vanessa both grabbed a bow, while running with him to where the screaming was coming from, as they turn the corner from where the screams was coming from they could see one of the guards beheaded on the floor, blood was still spurting out of his neck, as the other guard was standing there almost frozen, he tried to grab his sword to swing it at the dark robed figure but before he was able to he was stunned by the red eyes looking at him, as the black robed figure throws a knife right into his throat, killing him instantly, as the figure looks at Dean, it would step back for a moment, clearly knowing Dean somehow it was scared of him, it would disappear into the shadows, but right when it seemed to be retreating it appeared right behind Dean who was prepared as he clearly had fight those kind of things before, almost with ease blocking the knife that was going for the back of his neck, pushing the creature away, both Jessica and Vanessa try to shoot arrows at it, as it backs off, disappearing once more into the shadows.

This time it seemed to be disappeared for real, but just to be sure they stayed close to each other on their guard for a good few minutes before able to move again, as the creature waited to strike again, and again it did strike, but this time Dean was prepared, as the shadow this time would appear behind Jessica, dean would smile, as within a second they swapped places as he blocks the knife once again with his sword, sliding the dagger to the side as he within a millisecond stabs the sword right into the creature, the creature looks at him coming closer as he pushes the sword in deeper, the creature lets out some kind of distasteful sound attempting to swing its dagger at Dean once more, but before it was able to dean would twist his sword, finally killing the creature in the process.

The creature finally falls to the ground not moving anymore, as the dark hood of the robe falls off, both Vanessa and Jessica were shocked, it was just a normal human?!

Dean nodded at them, ‘they are human, but I would not call them normal, they are very skilled with a rare ability to move with shadows, these kind of people are called, ‘Night hunters’, basically specialized bounty hunters, or mercenaries for hire, mostly these would never team up with bandits, so I do wonder what they are actually after’.

To Be Continued.