The metal door to the cell slammed shut, echoing throughout
the whole, otherwise empty, block, as the large lock clicked in place. One of
the two guards spit on the floor of their cell, “Y’all’ll pay for what you
done.” He grimaced at them and left with the other guard. They slowly closed
the large and insanely thick steel door behind them, sealing the party in the
most secure zone of their prison.
“Well…shit.” Rede finally exclaimed after they were alone,
“They didn’t even tell us what we were charged with! Those bastards!”
“Probably something along the lines of running an illegal
alchemy shop, stealing from their bank, and slaughtering a third of their city
guard when we dealt with their street gang problem.” Calie forced a chuckle,
“But I’m no expert.”
“It’s not our fault their own guards were part of their gang
problem!” Rede shouted at her.
“Calm down, Rede.” Calie said softly, “Getting pissed off
isn’t going to change the fact we are fucked.”
“No, dear, sorry.” Calie shook her head at her, “No one here
is actually going to do that right now. It’s a saying.”
“Hum.” Gorgos closed her eyes and went back to resting.
“Dammit!” Rede cursed to himself, “I wonder how long we have
till they are going to carry out our sentence.”
“Depends.” Walker spoke up as he studied the whole cell
block around them, “If they want to see our criminal records we are looking at
a month plus probably, if they care not about that and simply want to prosecute
us on what we did here…probably by the end of tomorrow.”
“And since they’re confident enough in hanging us for simply
what we did here…”Rede groaned, “We’re dead by tomorrow.”
“Well if someone had a hair pin I could get us out of this
cell…no promises on that large ass door though.” Walker told them.
“Sorry, they get in the way of my helmet.” Calie shrugged at
him.
“We all know Gorgos won’t have one.” Rede shook his head,
“So we’re doomed.”
Shade pulled her hand out from under his cape and held out a
hair pin towards Walker, “Will this work?” Shade asked.
Calie and Rede stared awkwardly at Shade as Walker simply
smiled at him, “Thanks, Shade, as long as you don’t want it back.”
Shade smiled and chuckled, “No, it’ll work better if my hair
is down anyways.”
“For what?” Walker asked as he quickly got to work picking
the lock to their cell.
“Getting past the other door.”
“HOW?” The three of them asked in shock simultaneously.
“You’ll see...you’ll see.” Shade licked her lips as they
waited for Walker to finish.
The lock suddenly clicked open and Walker let out a small
cry of excitement, “Easy as pie.” He shook his head as he stepped back from the
door, “I’ve known house locks to be more difficult than that.”
Shade took a deep breath, “I suppose that makes it my turn
doesn’t it?”
“All yours.” Walker gestured towards the large door to their
cell block, “You better have some magic up your sleeve.”
Shade chuckled, “Nothing of the sort.” Reaching into his
coat pocket she quickly pulled out a large bottle full of a pink and purple
liquid, followed by a small vial full of a cotton candy pink liquid. Shade
immediately downed the vial.
“Didn’t they take everything from you?!?” Rede asked
confused.
“My pocket of holding has two settings, one for when I want
to use it, and a fake one.” She took a deep breath, “They only found a handful
of coins.” He took a deep breath and reluctantly, for the first time any of
them besides Gorgos had seen, pulled down the hood of her cape. Shade’s face
was surprisingly fair, with sun-kissed skin, long and silky auburn hair, and
sparkling green eyes.
“Divines above, Shade!” Rede called out, “All this time I
thought you would have been some pale and sickly looking guy…not…not…”
“Not a gorgeous and stunning woman?” Calie whistled at
Shade, “Why do you hide that face?”
Shade chuckled, “I’d rather people think I’m a pale and
sickly being. Then they will call me he or she without a second thought. Like
this…I’d only ever get she.” She slowly looked over at Walker, “You don’t seem
too phased.”
Walker forced a chuckle, “I’ve seen…more dramatic changes.”
They could see Walker was looking into his past, something they all knew very little
of. Walker quickly snapped out of it and smiled at Shade, “But you are indeed
quite the sight. What’s your plan?”
Shade shook her head, “Gorgos, dear…” Gorgos quickly looked
up at Shade and smiled at him, “When Walker tells you to, I need you to rip off
the heads of the guards. Understood?”
“Gorgos do, Shade asks.” Gorgos nodded at her.
Shade smiled at Gorgos and turned to Walker, “You’ll…you’ll
know when to tell her to go.”
“If you say so.” Walker shrugged.
Shade forced a cough, “If…if I hear a single word about this
afterwards…”
“Uh…okay…?” Calie shrugged at her.
Shade shook the anxiety out of her head and in one swift
motion hurled the potion across the block, shattering it on the door. It made the
sound of a large explosion and a pink gas cloud formed right in front of the
door. Immediately the door started to slide open, just enough for one guard to
squeeze through at a time, and the pair came barging in, “WHAT IS GOIN-“ The
lead guard stopped suddenly as the pink fumes entered his nose. The second
guard didn’t have time to speak a single word before his face too glazed over
in a trance as he breathed in the fumes.
“Hey there, boys.” Shade spoke seductively as he grabbed
onto the bars of her cell. She had undone the top few buttons to his trench
coat, showing that she wore nothing underneath it giving a fantastic view of
her endowed cleavage. Walker, Calie, and Rede all looked back and forth between
each other in shock and confusion. “You two look nice and strong, unlike my
comrades back here.” She tilted her head slightly back towards the rest of
them, “Think you could…help a girl out…?” Shade licked his lips as she pressed
up against the bars of their cell.
The guards were massaging their heads and blinking
constantly trying to keep their composure, “We don’t…criminal...” His words
were slurred as he struggled to find them.
“I’m even a better criminal in between the sheets.” Shade
gestured for the guards to come closer to him, “You’ll have to shackle me if
I’m to behave.” The guards slumped forward as if under a spell, Shade smiled
and slowly undid a few more buttons of her trench coat.
The lead guard shook his head violently, “No!
Captian’ll…flog…” He fought tooth and nail for his thoughts.
Shade immediately pulled the coat off of her shoulders,
letting it drop down exposing his top completely. “Captain will…?” The guards,
finally consumed by the fumes in their systems, flung open the door to their
cell. “Before you boys get too loud with
me…shouldn’t we close that door a bit more so your captain won’t flog you?”
“Yes ma’am!” The younger guard nodded his head and quickly
ran back, closing the door almost all the way.
Shade had left their cell and the lead guard closed it back
up, setting the lock, but not noticing that it was already broken. “Come on
boys…let’s go have some fun.”
As soon as both of the guard were facing away from the rest
of the party, Walker silently opened the door back up and nodded at Gorgos,
“Go.” He whispered.
Gorgos’ large body shot off of the far wall flying out of
the cell. The pair of guards had only started to look around at the noise
before Gorgos had planted each foot on one of the guards’ feet and her hands
gripped tightly around their heads. Her muscles bulged with tremendous strength
as she effortlessly ripped off their heads before a single sound left their
mouths. Shade casually pulled his trench coat back up and started buttoning it
back up as the trio who remained in the cell slowly came out.
“Holy...”
“Not. A. Word.” Shade cut Rede off.
Walker handed Shade her cloak which she immediately put back
on, hood up as well concealing his face. “Now what?” Calie asked.
“Our gear should be just right outside that door, probably
in the control room for watching this block” Walker told her, “After that I
guess we fight our way out.”
Shade quickly pulled out an orange potion, “Or we blow a
hole in the wall.”
Walker smiled at her, “I’m startin’ to wish I had you back
when I was a crime lord. You’re handy.”
Shade laughed, “I know.” They quickly all went out of the
block and into the room next to the door. Sure enough their gear was in chests
right there. As the rest of them finished putting on their gear Shade spoke
back up, “Walker, was our cell next to an outside wall?”
“95% sure, yea, but…but…”Walker shook his head, “Pretty sure
it leads off that large ass cliff the city sits on.”
“I can cover the fall.” Rede chimed in.
Shade finished strapping Calie into her incredibly thick
armor, “Think that’s a new record.” Calie smirked to herself.
“You all ready then?”
Rede looked over their party and nodded at her, “Hit it.”
“Stay in this room.” Shade reached her arm out and hurled
the orange potion as hard as he could, immediately jumping away from the door
as he did so. The explosion rocked the whole prison as it echoed down every
single hallway. “LET’S GO!” Shade screamed out over the sound of the alarms
going off.
The party burst out of the control room and booked it
towards the blast hole that Shade created. They could see that Walker was
right, this led right out of the side of the cliff face. “KILL THEM!” They
heard the captain of the guard scream from behind them. Calie immediately took
up the rear and turned around as she jumped out of the hole, holding up her
shields blocking everything they fired at the party as they fell through the
clouds.
As soon as they passed into the clouds and their captors
stopped firing at them, Rede’s hands lit up as he summoned a pair of wings for
everyone to sit down upon. Calie started laughing heartily, “That was
fantastic!” She cried out as they slowly floated in the air.
“A shame we didn’t get paid.” Rede shook his head, “Some of
our finest work.”
“What do you mean we didn’t get paid?” Walker smiled at them
and pulled off his backpack opening it up for them to look into, “Remember, I
stole from the bank?”
“HOLY…” Rede’s eyes lit up as he gazed upon the two huge
gold bars in Walker’s backpack.
Gorgos let out a cry of success as Shade chuckled and
clapped in approval, “Yes we did.” He took a deep breath, “Any idea how long
we’ll be falling?” She asked Rede.
Rede looked down at the ground far…far below them and he
sighed, “It’ll…It’ll be awhile.” His eyes suddenly opened wide, “Wait!” He
quickly pulled his pack around and opened it up, “A-HA!” He cried out in
excitement.
“What?” Calie asked him.
Rede quickly pulled out a summer sausage and tossed it to
Calie, who caught it, “Got one for each for each of us.” He said as he
continued to pass them around to the party. Calie eyed him curiously he
shrugged, “What? That tavern had some damn good sausage! Also I paid for it.”
Everyone let out a slight chuckle as they dug into their food, high up in the
air floating on their wings of light.
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