The Capture Part 2

Carnage opened his eyes and looked around, slightly groggy after being knocked out. He could feel chains bound to him tightly and he struggled, wanting to get away from this ghastly clan. He wanted to yell, but his maw is stuffed with a cloth, preventing him from saying anything.

“Take the prisoner here.” commanded a voice somewhere in a tunnel. He looked at the tunnel in pure fear, shaking like a leaf. Two Imperials walked towards him and picked him up, carrying him towards the voice.

Many eyes stared at him as he was carried towards two dragons and thrown in front of them. One of the dragons, a strange looking Ridgeback, looked at him with disdain.

“Shame that you were caught here, prisoner,” the Ridgeback sneered. “Put the prisoner in shackles and let him roam freely within the cult.”

Carnage looked at the Ridgeback with suspicion as he was dragged away with muffled screaming in his wake to be bound in chains.

The Ridgeback and the Imperial walked away into another tunnel, with the Imperial looking slightly confused.

“Scourge, why did you let our prisoner roam free?” the Imperial asked out of confusion.

The Ridgeback laughed.

“I have plans for our prisoner, Daeva”

The Capture

A Ridgeback looked at the Wyrmwound as sat near the edge, eating some scraps he had scavenged earlier. As he continued eating, he was worried. His supplies were running dangerously low, he had to raid a clan or a dragon to replenish them. Keeping the remaining scraps, he turned back and continued travelling around the Wyrmwound.

As he continued finding a clan to raid, he saw several dragons walking towards a tunnel in the distance. Target spotted. He smiled to himself, glad that he had something to raid. He stalked them, not wanting to be spotted by them.

As they walked into the tunnel with two guards letting them in, Carnage ambushed them. Ramming into one of the guards, he quickly ran into the tunnel as fast as can to find anything that he can take, with the guards chasing him from behind.

Carnage ran into a ginormous cavern and saw a pile full of food in the distance. Diving into the pile of food, he grabbed as much as he can, even stuffing some into his maw.

When he turned around for his escape, one of the guards, a guardian slightly smaller than him appeared behind him and glared at him, with his sword pointing at his neck.

“Come with me peacefully, or perish.” the guardian threatened him.

He was cornered. With the guardian and the other guard close to him and some of the members of the clan surrounding him, he could not escape.

In desperation, he spat out the food he had stuffed in his mouth at the clan members and ran, though it had only bought him little time. While he was running, he could feel something strike his back.

Glancing back, one of the guards he saw was throwing chains at him, with one of them hitting his right leg while he ran.

He saw the light at the end of the tunnel and was about to dash for the exit when he felt something tugging at his leg. Looking at it, he saw chains wrapped around it and he desperately clawed at it, trying to get it off. He fell and clawed at the ground while the guard pulled him back towards the tunnel.

The last thing he remembered is the angry face of the guardian before he knocked him out with the back of his sword.

All of my guardians’ charges

Walker: Blood

Erebus: Akhlys

Fen: A rotten branch

Vision: The Scarred Wasteland

Lucas: Ren

Enakai: Adventure

Enyo: Zazi

Kaja: A skull of an imperial (which is already dead before she was born)

Akhlys: Her birdskull headdress

Salvia: A fossilized fang

Unnamed stained boy: Righteousness

Pyrite: Trickery

A lore starter for my clan! I plan to do more once I do more planning for the lore.

The hidden tunnels near the shore of the Wyrmwound lies a cult dedicated to Plaguebringer, a cult not known by many. The favour of Plaguebringer, they wish to gain, for the ability to survive all that might come. Perseverance, War and Power are what they value, for they believe that without them, they will not survive in the harsh terrain of the Scarred Wasteland.

Led by a Ridgeback and an Imperial by the names of Scourge and Daeva, the cult is all trained in the art of combat. Life in the cult is hard and unforgiving for only the strong will survive in the cult and the Scarred Wasteland.

Thaw

A chunk of ice near the Fortress of Ends snapped and fell into the ocean and floated. A shape trapped inside the ice began to awaken from its long slumber, from times long passed, as the ice began drifting towards the Windswept Plateau.

The creature inside could only look while he began to process what is going on. How has it been when he was trapped in the ice? His memory was foggy from the long time he was trapped in the ice.

As the ice got near the waters of Ashfall Waste, he could feel the ice slowly melting. He wanted to get closer to the heat to melt more of the ice from him and be free from the icy prison he was trapped in. However, the ice began to get swept away towards the Starfall Isles instead.

He began to try to remember his past, what he was before being encased in it. Then he remembers. His name is Icewing and he is a Gaoler, a jailer of Icewarden. A prisoner tried to escape and stabbed him, leaving wounds that were too serious to be cured. While the prisoner did not escape, his own life certainly is. The last thing he remembers is the faces of his fellow Gaolers looking at him as he was encased in ice to prevent him from dying.

He could feel the chunk of ice wash up on the shores between the Wandering Contagion and Crystalspine Reaches. When the chunk of ice broke, he freed himself from the ice and staggered towards the Wandering Contagion, hoping to find a way to properly heal his own wounds from a long time ago and return home.

Tiant, the second-in-command
While she might look beautiful, Tiant is anything but beautiful on the inside. From the time before she came into Crimson Scar, she was power-hungry, wanting to be a leader. She sought it by murdering those that got in her way.

From the moment she entered the cult, she wanted to be the leader. She murdered plenty of dragons that got in her way in secret, until the day she was promoted into a second-in-command. Even though she is the current second-in-command, she is not satisfied with it, wanting to take the position of leader for herself.

She now plots her plans to topple the leadership in secret, waiting for the day that she could execute her plan.