Abomination Contract Loving The Enemy - Chapter 106

The filled with long high trees woods that surround the city are currently filled with ragged breathing coming from everywhere as the ghouls that, on contrary to their own instincts, stood still and waited for orders below the cover of the trees, watching, waiting, mixing together in the shadows and becoming part of it.

And yet the veil of darkness did them no good as my red eyes took all of that in, and with a single click of my clawing teeth all would brighten up as if coming from a sonar, so even with my big body I could find a clear path to slitter by, and if needed swing about above their heads, using the strong long trees to climb my way around.

When we arrive at the meeting spot the Warrior Queen and her team have already positioned themselves over a cliff, far enough to see but not be seeing over the bushes, overlooking the entrance of a cave down below, and I’m not surprised to discover that is the same entrance we have found beforehand when I almost fell off the cliff because Asher was being stubborn.

I wonder what would have happened if I had succeeded in taking him away that day, just how different things would have turned out… and how now I had him on my back by free will.

Once we arrive and my four armed figure comes to view the other two give a step back in fear at my overbearing presence, and are about to raise their weapons when they see Asher at my back, leaving them to stare in shock for a while.

Warrior Queen however only smirks, aware of my presence before I arrived, differently from the other two, and simply says: “Long time no see Captain.”

“Queen, hope you got some good news.”

“Well, I hoped for that too.” She says, moving a little from her uncomfortable crouching positioning and pointing down. “They are hiding over there, and we barely manage to catch a few glimpses of her, slithery fuck. Now they change troops there, at night her ghouls come out to guard the walls, and at day the other big ones come from the forest.” She starts saying her report as we pay close attention to her words.

“Continue.” Asher says with a frown.

“The thing is, we followed them one day, and the things we saw… well, makes me think that we will need more terms to describe these creatures as, because just as ghouls is feeling like a cheaper and cheaper term.”

Spy continues with a deep voice resonation under his hiking mask: “These new creatures are very different, and they can live under the sun normally, but they do not appear as the other ghouls, being infected humans, but instead are made.”

“…Made?” The Captain questions, so Spy comes closer to him, avoiding my sharp fangs and cowering a little under my iridescent red stare, but still manages to show some pictures for his Captain without trembling…much.

And what he shows is far from what I expected to see.

Because there is a big, humongous, stallion ghoul there, laying on the floor, no head beyond those sharp horned tentacles coming out as the gates of hell, only that, differently from the other Stallion similar ghouls, this one had a huge opening on its belly, and as Spy changed from picture to picture, we see it, ghouls walking in, literally among its internal organs, but coming out as the Stallions Ghouls, resembling a sick version of birthing.

And this is bad, very bad, for it means that as many Stallion Ghouls as wished can be made, and the peace the sunshine brings will be destroyed.

Asher has the same thoughts in mind, for he says: “Is a priority to have it destroyed as soon as possible. How many are there?”

“We agree, there is only one as far as we know, that’s why we already searched some things and, not only that, but the Stallions have a strange behavior at night.”

“How so?”

“Well, you see, when the ghouls come out at night the Stallions rush back to that creature, all of them at once, and just stand there together all around, shoulder to shoulder in a single mass, and no new ones are made at night either, they have to rush between sunset and sunrise to do it.”

Well, that’s a little better, they at least have some limitations in making those, otherwise it would have been a disaster, though they hiding at night… why would that be? The sunlight hurting the ghouls and blinding them is one thing, but how could the night bring harm to them, shooting a warning through their systems that makes them gather up like that?

“They only join up with the big one?”

“No, we found smaller groups that could not reach there together too, all clustered together as if sleeping.”

So it may not have something to deal with the big one uhm… but definitely something to do with the night and with gathering together like one mass…

Is not the sunlight… perhaps the lack of it? No, otherwise their behavior may be affected by the moon cycles, but they did it every night… perhaps it numbs their senses, but do they even have eyes to see? Or perhaps they work the same way as I with the clicking sonar…

Hard to say, but I’ll have to save those thoughts for later for now is not the time to try to discover their weaknesses, but to destroy the core of the ghouls army, their mind linking Snake Queen.

But all the better for us, I soon think, and I’m glad to be synchronized with Asher for he says my thoughts out loud:

“All the better, we may deal with most of them in one blow. Change of plans, Queen, you still have those explosives with you?”

“Of course.”

“Them go make a fire pit with them, I bet they will burn really well.” The others nod, eager to put the plan in action.

“As for us…we have other matters to attend to.” Captain says, looking down at the gaping hole at the foot of the cliff, getting ready to enter it once more.

To that I growl in agreement.