Caylin's Monsters - Ch. 6: The Brood

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  Caylin's Monsters

   

   

  Chapter 6: The Brood

   

   

  

  As I entered the cave, I immediately knew something was off.  We were told a group of bandits was in here, but I wasn’t so sure.  For one thing, the smell was atrocious. It smelled like rotting meat.  Surely no human beings could stand living in a place like this. I thought maybe I had come to the wrong cave; maybe this cave had been abandoned and left to the animals.

   

  

  Then I heard something.  It sounded like a woman speaking.  As I inched forward into the cave, I saw who the voice belonged to.

   

  

  She spotted me at the same time, and it was obvious that this was no ordinary woman.  I could see it in her eyes, and when she bared her fangs, there was no longer any doubt.  I had never seen a vampire before, but I had heard about them. Fear rose up in me. Why did I want to come here alone?  Could I really face this creature by myself?

   

  

  Thankfully, she wasn’t as well trained as I feared.  She rushed at me, but not with her weapon. She came at me with bared teeth.  She was quick, and she barely caught my arm as I dodged to the side. Her defenses were very poor, though, and she fell quickly to my blade.

   

  

  I was relieved at first, but then I heard more voices.  I looked around and saw a doorway at the top of a set of stairs.  As I listened, my heart began to race…

   

  

  From the sound of it, there were at least five or six voices coming from the chamber within.  I began to panic. If there were five or six more vampires, how could I possibly hope to survive a confrontation?  I remembered Farkas’ advice, “Just stay sharp, keep your shield up, and everything will be fine.” So I took a deep breath and started to come up with a plan.

   

  

  I shot an arrow into the chamber to get the vampires’ attention.  As they rushed toward me, the hallway leading to the main chamber created a choke point.  This gave me the slight advantage of being able to fight them one at a time. My plan seemed to be working until the last couple of vampires.  I was forced back into the main chamber, but they fell to my blade in the end.

   

  

  The adrenaline was pumping through me as I looked around at what I had done.  I could hardly believe that I had bested seven opponents on my own. I had a mix of emotions.  I felt a sense of pride in myself, but I also felt a twinge of guilt. For some reason, though, the guilt was far less than what I had felt the previous day with the bandits.

   

  

  I decided to check the inner chamber just to make sure there was no one else hiding in there.  What I saw, however, turned my stomach, and I thought I would be sick.

   

  

  There was blood everywhere, and I was pretty sure there was a human heart sitting on the table.  What kind of horrible monsters were these? As I looked around the room, any guilt I felt vanished instantly.  A lump formed in my throat as I thought about the people who were murdered by these creatures.

   

  

  As I made to exit the cave, I paused for a moment to reflect.  I decided that these were not human beings. These were beasts.  They may have been intelligent beasts, but they needed to be put down all the same.  I wouldn’t feel guilty for slaying creatures like that ever again.

   

   

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