“Where the hell is Milan!” Malik keeps shouting whilst looking around. After seconds of this, an old gentle man hunched over with a with a walking stick, starts making his way towards Malik. As Malik turns around to see the man, he starts yelling out whilst on the brink of tearing up “Old man where is Milan, how does he send us out and he is not here, we…we need to go back and get Boz, or else he’s… he’s dead” he says as he falls onto his knees with the blood that was gushing out his grazed wound drying up.

  The Old man continues to inch closer to Malik, but then suddenly stops. “Boz is not like you young Malik, or any of us for that matter, he is gifted, one of the chosen few, just like Milan and the purple haired boy. He has been bestowed with Tags Meraki, the things I have seen him do when he was pushed into a corner as a little boy… it is beyond your capability to imagine it, Understand? Believe me he will tag his way through to get back here” the Old Man says with a frail and shaky voice.

  “Milan isn’t here Malik, who knows where he could be, that wild cat. Guys come and get all the injured, including this one down here and treat them in the infirmary. Put those two young men and that girl in the cage and bring the purple haired boy to my den” the Old Man says. Every young child, man and woman start to get back into their scrap made buildings. Meanwhile, as some of the skulldem troops grab Dean Alana and Chris, Dean starts struggling and shouts out “Don’t touch me with your dirty hands, I will get up on my own”. Whilst struggling, he kicks red sand onto the skulldem members face who are trying to get him up.

  THUD.

  Dean passes out and is easily dragged over to the cage with Alana and Chris both in there already. Vince on the other side is guided by one of the other skulldem members into a den, and the Old gentle man is sitting on his chair decorated into leopard print fur with gold trinkets and a feather pen on his table, on the other side of the table is a rundown chair made with metal scraps. “Sit him on that chair for me. Thank you” The Oldman says whilst the den was silent. He stares at Vince for a few seconds, then proceeds to ask “Why exactly did Milan want to get a kid like you? I can think of any possible reason unless…” he said whilst drawing nearer to Vince’s face.

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  Dean in the cage starts to wake up from his manufactured slumber and starts to ramble on and on to the skulldem members who seemed to be guarding the cage. “Excuse me, hey, excuse me you dummies, could I please talk to your boss buddy” Dean shouts out. Alana, who was sitting down, quickly jolts up and grabs Dean from his uniform collar and pulls him down. “Sit down and shut up you idiot” she says. Whilst all of this is occurring, Chris looks at both Dean and Alana and starts mumbling “you vermin’s, Absolute Vermin’s, DAMN VERMINS!” he shouts out with every word incrementally getting louder.

  SWOOSH, SWOOSH.

  A strong gust of wind blasts past the surrounding area, the lock on the cage begins to rattle and can’t stop. Everything freezes for a second as the skulldem guards who face forwards turn back to glance into the cage. As they turn around their jaws drop in awe. “What is that noise?” the Oldman questions. “You stay right here boy, don’t get any ideas” he says. As the Oldman is about to step out his den, he tells the guard to keep an eye on Vince. As the Oldman steps out, something feels different. “Why is it this cloudy?” he thinks to himself. As he continues to step closer to the cage, a droplet of water hits his nose. “Rain” he whispers.

  Within seconds, darkness had shrouded the surrounding areas of the cage and as the Oldman continues to step closer and closer, his foot hits something, and as he looks down, not one, but both of the cage guards had rope marks around their necks, and as he looks up once more, there a misty shadowy figure was fully covering and devouring someone who was suspended in the air, and with him, two other people were hanging in the air as well with misty shadowy ropes around their necks.

  NEXT CHAPTER – TBD