There were many crates in this building, each crate containing many different weapons but I still couldn't find my BAR and it doesn't look like Elizabeth can find hers either.

“Have you two found your weapons yet?!?!?”

Alexandria was cutting through the magic balls thrown at her by the two creepy guys as they disappeared out of sight.

“Not yet!.” Elizabeth yelled out.

I rummaged through all the various swords, axes, and bows. We were basically playing the lottery with a bunch of crates and weapons.

Alexandria shouted once more.

“Have you found them yet?!!?! I don't think I can hold them any longer! There a bit tricky to deal with!”

In the corner of my eye, I saw a long golden barrel of a gun, I'm pretty sure there are no guns in this world so it might be my BAR.

And to my surprise it was.

“I found my sword how about you Antonio?”

“I found my BAR too, get ready to kick some ass Elizabeth!.”

“Alright!”

I aimed at one of the two creepy white-haired guys but couldn't take a shot, he instantly disappeared.

Suddenly he turned visible mid-air performing a dropkick onto me. I blocked it with my BAR, he landed and jumped off, once he was in the air again I took aim and shot but he turned invisible again and the bullet hit the wall.

Fuck, these guys are really tricky to deal with if we can't hit them then what's the point in trying to fight them? We might as well just try and escape……..actually…...that might be a good idea.

Elizabeth wasn't faring any better, there wasn't enough space to swing her large sword so her swings were small, weak, and predictable.

Well, it's either trying to hit something that you constantly can't see and get our asses kicked or run past hostile people and possibly escape…….I think the choice is pretty clear.

“Alexandria! Elizabeth! Let's book it!”

“Book it!?!?!” Both Alexandrian and Elizabeth yelled out.

They watched me confused as I slammed into the door making it open and continued running.

Book it was a term I had picked up from the young guys in the gang back in the 70s, they'd use it all the time, and since they ran errands for me I talked to them a lot, so the phrase just stuck with me.

Not long after booking it I started to hear footsteps behind me, glancing back I could see Alexandria and Elizabeth running.

Alexandria was pissed, she stomped on the ground as hard as she could whilst catching up to me. Elizabeth, on the other hand, was more relieved to be not fighting those guys anymore.

“Can you open a portal now?” I asked while running.

“I'll try!............. I can't there's still a magic seal here!”

Well, now we have to run past all the building and hostile people and get back to the city we were in before.

The many cloaked people present stared at us as we were running, suddenly a loud bell started to ring, and one of the two red cloaked creepy guys yelled out.

“Catch those three! They are the prisoners who have escaped!”

“Pedal to the metal guys! Let's get a move on!”

We started to get chased by hordes of people in cloaks, it didn't take long for us to be surrounded by people in cloaks.

One side of the cloaked people were writing symbols while another side got in closer, there was a mix of different colored cloaks and different sizes of people.

I lowered my BAR to hip level, faced the people closing in on us, and pulled the trigger. Every second a cloaked person fell on to the ground leaving a bright red puddle.

On the other side, Alexandria and Elizabeth were fending off the cloaked people drawing magic symbols, one at a time they sliced them into little bits and pieces.

No matter how many I shoot and how many Alexandria and Elizabeth chop down, they just kept on coming, it felt like there was no end to the hordes of enemies.

I lean in close to Alexandria and Elizabeth.

“We might have to book it again.”

“I'm gonna have to talk to you about that later when we get outta here.”

She’s still mad about me booking it when we were in the weapon storage building? I mean, I didn’t ditch her, I said it loud and clear, they just didn’t understand it, not my fault.

The cloaked mages that were closing in on them stopped in their tracks, they started to back up and formed an opening to the middle.

The person across from me was Lord Ezekiel and his posse. They walked forward until they reached the circle in the middle.

“Quite a ruckus you’ve made here.” Ezekiel said in a posh tone.

“Oh! Glad to see you again mr……...heh, who were you again?”

Of course, I didn’t forget who he was, who could forget him and his posse. I just want to wind him up a bit, see what his reaction is.

“Hahahaha! I am Ezekial Lord Ezekial, try not to forget it when you die.”

“Die? Who? Me? I’m sure you mistaken, I don’t plan on dying anytime soon.”

“You may not have death planned but I do.”

We’ve really caught ourselves in a really sticky situation……...where’s my gang? They better be on their way cuz if not then we just might have to kick the bucket. I gotta have faith in them, I’m sure they’d go looking if their boss was missing without a trace.

“That weapon of yours………..what is it? I’ve never seen anything quite like it.”

“It’s cool right?”

“It is intriguing indeed, I’ll have the finest researchers and engineers take a look at that tool.”

“Woah there buddy, I ain’t gon give this to you, you gon have to take it from my cold dead hands.”

“So be It.”

Lord Ezekiel’s posse started to move forward coming closer to Alexandria, Elizabeth, and I, they held their weapons high and were ready to chop off some fresh meat.

But I have no plans on becoming minced meat so I’ll pass on that.

Alexandria leaned towards me.

“I don’t think we can take them, one would be fine for me but there’s just too many.”

It’s that hopeless to try and fight huh? Well instead of working out my arms I might as well work out my legs.

“I’d love to stay here and talk to you Lord Ezekiel but I’ve unfortunately run out of time so see ya later!”

I started to run pushing forward through the sea of cloaked mages, not long after, Alexandria and Elizabeth followed suit.

“GET THEM!!!!!”

The bell started to ring again the sound of footsteps multiplied every second. The ground started to shake and I felt a vibration in my body.

I wondered what this could be so I turned around, with one glance I instantly look straight forward, with that fast small glance I saw a sea of different colored cloaks as well as people riding horses.

Magic bombs impacted the ground making the dirt and rocks fly all over the place. Each bomb nearly hit us missing only by a foot or two, so we’re lucky that we weren’t hit.

Suddenly a magic circle similar to the one that produced haze which knocked us out.

Aww not again!

I started getting drowsy and fell to the ground mid-run, Alexandria and Elizabeth also drop to the ground.

As I was slowly falling asleep the last thing I saw before shutting my eyes was Ezekiel, the bastard was smirking as his posse held on to us and started to drag us on the ground.

I couldn't do anything, even if I tried, my body just didn't want to move, I couldn’t feel anything, my mind wanted to move my body but my body denied access.

Damn those bastards……….I’ll get them…….at some point.

My eyes close shut.

……………………………………………...

“What should we do Lord Ezekiel? Should we throw them into the dungeon again?”

“You imbecile, of course, we shouldn’t throw them in again! Look at the outcome of that!”

Although my eyes were glued shut, and my body was completely immobile, I could still hear the things going happening around me. I’m not sure if Elizabeth and Alexandria can hear as well.

“Then what should we do? The execution starts tomorrow.”

“Execution…….tomorrow…….how about we shorten that to, um…….let’s say instead of tomorrow, we do it today.”

“If that is what you want then let’s make it happen.”

Impatient mother fucker, young people are always so impatient, never got time to settle down.

“But Lord Ezekiel, they’re still unconscious.”

“Don’t worry, it’ll wear off in an hour or so, in the meantime get ready the hanging station and our audience.”

“Yes my lord!”

——————-An hour later————-

I could hear the murmurs of many people, some male, female, some old, and others young. There were people in front of me, to the back, and to my sides, I was surrounded by people.

“Welcome ladies and gentlemen! Thank you for taking time out of your day to witness justice apprehend evildoers!”

Justice my ass, and evil doers? Now you’ve really left reality you fucker.

The familiar voice struck a nerve in my brain which caused me to wake up. When I woke up I found my ankles and wrists tied up with a tan colored rope, my head was through a rope noose.

Standing on a wooden platform I could see over the sea of different unique individuals, each individual had at least one other person they were whispering in their ears.

I look left and right to see that Alexandria and Elizabeth were both in the same situation as I, except for the fact that they haven’t woken up yet, or should I say gained back control of their body.

“These three individuals have done many wrongs and have risked the lives of many people. These three shall be put to down and once they are no longer active we can live a safe and peaceful life again!”

Safe? And Peaceful? Now he is out of his mind, I’m sure that all the residents of the city can agree that living this city was never peaceful noir safe. Good job with the manipulation tactics yah bozo.

“Who is with me?!?!? Who believes that trouble makers that affect our daily lives in a negative way should perish!!!”

“I believe!”

“Me too!”

“Right on!”

Those voices came from Ezekiel’s posse, and they were the only one who cheered for him, the audience currently present did nothing but stare or pass on messages.

Even though no one from the actual audience sheeted or said anything Ezekiel carried on as if they had.

“Now bear witness to justice at its work! But first, they will be granted their last words.”

At this moment both Alexandria and Elizabeth wake up.

“Oh just in time you two, you guys missed everything while you were asleep.”

“Antonio, what is happening?” Asked Alexandria.

“Well long story short were being executed right now.”

“Executed?!?!?”

They both looked around at their surrounding and finally realized where they were.”

“Oh, you two have finally decided to wake up, just in time for you to say your last words before we end your lives, now go on and speak.”

Well, might as well stall for as long as I possibly can…...maybe something will happen, maybe the gang comes to the rescue, or maybe the citizens will finally realize how shitty their government is and rise up. To be honest I’m really hoping for whatever at this point.

“I would like to say that we've done no wrong, where is the proof? Where is the evidence supporting your claim? Lord Ezekiel.”

“Evidence? I'll give you some evidence! That Dullahan matches the description of a criminal destroying villages around the capital! And also I saw you three walk out of a destroyed village, what more evidence do we need!?!?!”

“Is that what you have based your claim on? Just because two individuals might fit the same description it doesn't mean that they are the same person, many people look alike, like those two gentlemen over there.”

I steer my eyes towards two people who looked similar. Once they noticed what I was looking at the two men looked at each other.

“As you can see you can't always base your claim on mere descriptions.”

A little flustered, Ezekiel responded back.

“Then what do you have to say about that fact that you three were leaving a destroyed village?”

“Again just because we were at the same place at the same time does not necessarily mean we were the ones to cause it, I'm sure everyone in the crowd including you Ezekiel, have been mistakenly accused just because you happen to just be there. Say? Ezekiel, you also happen to be at the same place and at the same time, based on your evidence that would also make you an evildoer as well.”

“Nonsense! I am tired of talking to you! Let us continue with the execution!”

Ah, shit……

One of Ezekiel's goons put a brown sack over each our heads.

“Pull the lever now!”

I started to hear objects hitting the wooden platform, not long after I started to hear screaming and people running away. I couldn't see anything due to the sack over my head but something was clearly happening.

Then someone whispered into my right ear.

“We're getting you outta here boss!”

Oh, how many times have I heard that line throughout my life? Whenever I got myself into a sticky situation the people who worked for me would always get me out of it.

The man took the sack off my head and cut the rope confiding me.

I saw members of my new gang fight the capital city guards, I saw members flood in from every direction.

“Sorry we're late boss, had to gather the manpower.”

“Well, took ya long enough, any second later and id be sleeping with the fishes. Now get Alexandria and Elizabeth were leaving this place!”