《My Only Lorelei》Chapter 12 - The Escape Plan
Advertisement
It was in the middle of the night. The sky was cloudy with only a soft blue ray of light from the moon to reveal the land beneath. In the village of Sebraten, only the few guards on their posts were wandering about.
The ground still had snow all over, making it hard for Din to move about without making too much noise. He was wearing a dark cloak over his usual leather armor and used his hood to cover his face.
I was moving ahead to spot the positions of the guards, allowing Din to move through the village with ease. The guards were moving in a predetermined path so it was easy to guide Din. The biggest problem were the guards on each of the four towers. The height of those towers allowed the guards to have a view over most of the town. I was only thankful that the guards above would mostly spend their time looking outside the village into the forests and the roads that led to the village.
We were only a bit away from the outer perimeter of the village now. Once Din reaches that, he should all set. He just had to walk past a few houses at this point.
I looked around the houses to see if any guards were patrolling the area. Not seeing any guards around, I motioned my hands to Din that it’s safe.
Right as Din started moving, a guard turned the corner and entered the same path I was on. I immediately yelled in Din’s direction.
“Go back!”
Luckily, Din managed to hide behind a barrel as the guard passed through. The guard appeared tired and let out a yawn before turning a corner away from us.
“Okay, it’s safe now.”
Din peaked out and then checked his surroundings for himself, after confirming that he was safe, he rushed towards me. It was then that I realized one grave error that we hadn’t taken into account. His footprints were clearly visible in the snow.
Advertisement
A guard was following the footprints and then noticed Din as he looked at where it led.
“Stop right there!”
Din turned around to check on the sudden noise before turning back. The guard was running towards him at full speed, almost slipping at one point. Din made a dash towards the outskirts of the village, but right as soon as he passed a house, a guard suddenly jumped towards him, knocking him on the snow floor.
“I got him! Someone help me hold him down!”
Din struggled as the guard pinned him down, but he was unable to get up. As more guards arrived, Din finally gave up and then laid there with his face on the snow.
“Damn it…”
—Even though it was the middle of the day, Din still laid on his bed. He wasn’t sleeping, he was just staring at the ceiling of his room. For some reason, his uncle wouldn’t allow him to leave the village and wouldn’t tell him why either. Tal and Mun were still planning on leaving tonight, with or without Din.
With a knock on the door, Tal’s voice asked, “Hey Din, are you in there?”
After collecting his thoughts, Din got up from his bed. He lazily walked towards the door and opened it.
“What is it?”
Mun was standing behind Tal. They were holding circular bread with some type of red jelly on the inside. Tal handed one to Din as he entered the room uninvited.
“Well, as you know, Mun and I are going to be leaving tonight just as soon as we get some food for the road. Oh also, your uncle told us that the weather will be clear tonight so we shouldn’t have to worry about a rough journey.”
Immediately after entering the room, Mun sat down on Din’s bed while still eating the bread. Din closed the door and then sat on the chair that was located near a desk close to the bed. Tal remained standing.
Advertisement
After realizing that he wasn’t going to get any response from Din, Tal continued, “You know, the two of us are trained in the arts of stealth.”
That caught Din’s attention.
“Does that mean… you two are going to help me escape?”
Tal leaned against the wall next to Din.
“You seem to have the ability to activate your Spirit’s eye at will. There’s also the fact that you can see the ghost of your old friend as well. There’s no way we can just leave you stuck here for God knows how long.”
With a pat on Din’s shoulders, Tal said, “We’ll bust you out of here tonight. Mun and I’ll cause a distraction on the north side of the village while you escape from the south side.”
“How’re you planning on doing that?”
A wide smile formed on Tal’s face. He opened the pouch he had been carrying to reveal multiple circular objects.
“They’re light bombs.”
“What?!”
I yelled that out on impulse. Although Tal and Mun couldn’t hear me, Din was startled by my sudden yelling. I clasped my hand together towards Din.
“Sorry about that, Din. I didn’t mean to yell.”
Changing my focus on the bombs in Tal’s pouch, I continued, “I don’t think using bombs here will be a good idea. We don’t know why your uncle wants to keep you here, but destroying his village will only cause more trouble for him.”
Din nodded.
“I agree.”
He then turned to Tal.
“Lorelei and I are against this plan. I appreciate you wanting to help me escape, but using a bomb is a little too much. We’ll find a different way of escaping.”
Tal started laughing.
“You don’t have to worry at all! These things aren’t just your regular bombs. They don’t cause an explosion or anything. These are what I like to call light bombs. They release a bright light so strong that it blinds anyone that was looking in its general direction. Of course, their eyes will only be blind for a few seconds and the damage won’t be permanent either.”
“That sounds way too good to be true… a perfect distraction weapon.”
Tal proudly rubbed his chin while standing up straight.
“I think you’re forgetting who we really are. Of course our job needs us to kill our targets sometimes, but they mainly require us to gather items or information. We don’t just go around bombing people. And just in case our plan goes wrong, we have these light bombs and smoke bombs to help with our escape.”
He let out a sigh as he leaned back onto the wall.
“Too bad we ended up using all of our smoke bomb in that stadium. The stadium was way too big to only use a few smoke bombs so we had to use everything just so we could get you out of there.”
Tal laughed as a sudden realization came to him.
“Hey, are we like your guardian angel? This’ll be our second time helping you out on a pinch, huh?”
After thinking back, Din laughed as well.
“I guess it has been like that.”
Tal reached out his hand towards Din.
“Well, just make sure to return the favor one day. If you join our guild, that’ll be very helpful. I bet our guild leader would appreciate having another Spirit on board as well. We’ll be waiting for you in Newron so just meet us there.”
Din nodded.
“Sure thing.”
I couldn’t help but feel relieved after seeing Din back on his feet again after the failed attempt the previous night.
Meanwhile, Mun was already snoring as she laid there on Din’s bed, having contributed nothing to this whole conversation.
Advertisement
- In Serial25 Chapters
HATEFUL SIN
Sin was his name and hate was all he knew. Born under cruel circumstances and treated as if he was the lowest scum to have ever existed, it was impossible for him to know what love was. The only thing that kept him going was the thought, that one day he would be able to return all that he was given, ten fold. ^_^ >. As you can see i suck at writing synopsis, but if you wish feel free to read the first chapter and then you can decide wether you wish to continue reading my first attempt at this genre or you can turn tail and run, whichever you please.
8 75 - In Serial42 Chapters
Anchore (Re-Write in Progress)
Not everything can be done without a problem, even when the world come to peace a shadows always lurked to find the opportunity. The Gracia Continent a virtual world created to improve the Arificial intelligent technology have harassed by a constant Virus attack, A researchers along with a few selected students dive inside the Gracia Continent to make it safe with the Anchore. A special device created only to fight inside the new world. Can they keep this peace? Or will the Virus run berserk and make a Chaos on the Earth?# I am still new with this so I have some grammar problem. Please help me if I have some mistake. Enjoy.. note : My grammar is bad, beware of headache and confusion after reading my story...Additional tag : Slow Romance, Misunderstanding, War
8 167 - In Serial14 Chapters
The Devils Of The Biterrain
Zavier was an unremarkable suburbanite living just outside of Seattle. He was finishing up his final semester of high school and preparing to go to college despite a nagging lack of excitement for his future. In the blink of an eye, his life is thrown into chaos when Zavier meets a young man from an alien world named Yafu. Yafu has accidentally been thrown to Earth via portal while chasing the dangerous Poison Fang cult on his world. These two boys quickly come into contact with Arigo, a mysterious and powerful defender of Earth from various interlopers from Yafu’s world, known as the Biterrain. When Arigo discovers that Zavier was used as an unknowing and seemingly impossible vessel for the Fang to try to invade Earth, Arigo decides to send the two boys, along with his faithful assistant Anenna, to the Biterrain for answers on Zavier’s anomalous condition. In this new and dangerous world, Zavier weighs his own feelings of personal inadequacy against the backdrop of his sudden and mysterious importance. Meanwhile Yafu struggles with the limits to his thirst for vengeance and ultimately his future without it. Finally, Anenna must begin to confront a new identity as the last parts of her old one abandon her. In the background of their journey is the mystery around the Immortal King, the mythic founder of the Biterrain’s dominant religion who allegedly disappeared to Earth many millennia ago. Despite the planet being central to the dogma around their messiah figure, Earth has been relegated to myth and conjecture by the general populace of the Biterrain due to their inability to validate its existence in the present time. How will Zavier navigate in a world where he holds its holy grail within his own identity and who can he really trust in a world of such contrived obliviousness?
8 114 - In Serial15 Chapters
Lucky Me!
Story about some guy that was summoned in different world in first point of view.Pace: slow-modual...Update dates: Random.Note: t's going to be first attempt. Please understand if the plot and characters are too plain,shallow, no depth, or every other negative vocabulary to criticize terrible character/plot.**Mature Content** Just in case, and there may be more tags to be added or to be left out. Thank you for understanding.
8 103 - In Serial11 Chapters
【Super Paper Dimentio: Swap AU】 (SPM AU)
"The pure hearts are close in our grasp.. Lets keep going to find the- ...Dimentio? Are you ok?""..."......Dimentio finds himself needing to find the Pure Hearts to stop Count Timpani and her team from destroying the worlds and remaking them to their own world, but will he be able to do it with Blumiere- the Pixl of who he is by his side?(SUPER PAPER MARIO™ belongs to Entertainment System and Nintendo! I DO NOT own the characters, the Paper Mario series itself, and the game AT ALL.)
8 119 - In Serial13 Chapters
How to be a dragon [HTTYD Fanfiction] [Toothcup]
An AU. Where Hiccup was taken and raised by the bewilder king and where dragons have magic.And Toothless is a human on BerkDisclaimer: I don't own HTTYD.[Toothcup(Toothless x Hiccup)] pairing#Toothcup
8 207