Marcus Triun - Part 51, The Mirgun

"Do you see anything suspicious Mabel?" Samuel asked.
"Nothing since five seconds ago, stop asking you coward." Mabel said.
 Mabel, an elite Witch Hunter, took her colleague Samuel with her on a patrol.
Mabel, a woman with a strong believe for justice and striving for her honour and pride.
Her long blonde hair , green eyes and cute face didn't show anything of her true image.
A dangerous enemy, but powerful ally.
On the other hand, her colleague that went with the name of Samuel, was cut out of different wood.
He was more a shady background person.
He didn't like to be in the center of attention, neither did he care about honour or pride. Although he did care about the Witch Hunter's pride.
Normally Samuel would be focussing on paperwork, but because of the short amount of people around the Arishalore Witch Hunter headquarters, Samuel had to help Mabel on her daily routine.
Samuel had an average body.
Not too muscular or too fat. Just so - so.
He wasn't used to fighting, and you most definitly could see that because of his arms.
His long dark red hair covered his upperface and his lowerface was covered by his shirt, that whirled up as somekind of wrap.
He held his flintlock tightly in his hands, as if any moment a monster could jump out of the bushes, not that that would happen though. "You're such a wuss Samuel." Mabel snickered.
Samuel shrugged. " Atleast I'm not as careless as you are ! Remember when that Ayakashi sneaked up on you because you weren't paying attention !?" Samuel said.
"You know that wasn't an Ayakashi, but a fox, and I can hardly forget it since it happened some minutes ago." Mabel said, frowning one of her eyebrows.
 "I know ! But what IF it was an Ayakashi? You would've been taken by surprise , and you wouldn't be here anymore !" Samuel shouted.
"You're overexaggerating, calm your panties and just move on. I like to have this done before midnight if you please. Wuss." Mabel snickered and turned her head towards Samuel to show him one of her rare smiles.
Samuel whistled quickly, on a high pitch . It meant he had found something.
Mabel frowned her eyebrow and quickly ran towards Samuel.
"Look at these markings, I've never seen them before." Samuel said, pointing at several trees near each other.
The markings looked like somekind of clock perhaps? No, a circle with two stripes? Unsure what it meant.
Mabel walked closer to it , grabbed her flintlock from her belt and held it close to her.
"Whatever it is or was, it left it's track on the ground. Footprints I presume, they're not human, but at the same time I can't think of an animal or creature that has these kind of footprints." Samuel said, crouched on the ground inspecting the prints.
"Strange, I've been walking this daily routine for a very long time now and even I have never seen this. How long ago do you think "it" has walked past here?" Mabel asked.
"Hum, very frequently I recon. The prints are still fresh. "It" is probably more then ten minutes ahead of us?" Samuel said.
"Let's make haste then and find out if this thing a friend or an enemy is." Mabel said.
They both ran as fast as they could, and at the same time as silently as they could, following the tracks of the creature that had been snooping around here.
Left, right , left and left again.
The creature was obviously making a run for it, it was zigzagging through the whole wood.
Samuel and Mabel ended up in an open space, where no trees were standing.
 The bright light from the sun was shining on Mabel's face. Probably one o' clock now.
"Mabel, it is a dead end. The track seems to stop here."
"Darn it, just as I thought --" Mabel stopped talking in the middle of her sentence.
Samuel was positioning himself to say something but Mabel held her hand up. She slowly walked to a near bush, slowly and carefully .
She aimed with her flintlock and shot off three bullets, one after another. Her reloading abilities were amazing, but what else would you expect from an elite Witch Hunter?
She sighed, obviously relieved nothing was in there.
"Did you find anything?" Someone asked.
"Not really Samuel, what about --" That wasn't Samuel's voice , Mabel just noticed. In just a matter of seconds she quickly turned around aiming directly in front of her.
When she turned around, she was looking towards a face. A human, no , not a human face.
She couldn't comprehend what kind of race or species it was.
Mabel blinked and directly started shooting in front of her. The creature was gone, did she hallucinate it? Probably a lack of sleep, she thought.
"Samuel , where are y--" Samuel was lying on the ground.
Mabel's heart suddenly started to pound very quickly, and fear became master of her mind. She quickly ran over to Samuel and held her ear on his heart. Still beating, she let out a sigh of relieve.
So she isn't alone here, her sixth sense took over and she focused on her surroundings.
"Who or whatever you are, come out now and surrender ! " She yelled with confidence.
She ran to where she first encountered the creature.
"Turn around, no sudden moves and drop your device." A voice said.
Mabel slowly turned around and saw the creature was holding Samuel, and she directly dropped her flintlock. She held her hands up in the air and asked "Now tell me who and what you are." The body from the creature was covered by Samuel, as the creature held him as a human shield. She noticed the creature was holding a small knife against Samuel's neck. "My name is Logibein, I'm Mirgun." Mirgun, where did she hear that before? She remembered.
The Mirgun were a proud race, once walking the land of Arishalore. However, they were banished in the second great war to the underground. Mirgun were like humans, but a little bit shorter, faster and stronger. They had pointy ears and they could travel in time. Just for a second though, but it was just enough for them to warp from one place to another, that's why they were often mistaken for travelers. "Easy there, drop the knife, we mean you no harm ! " Mabel said.
"No harm you say, your badge says otherwise. You filthy Witch Hunters are hunting on us, killing our people. I'd wonder what you would do if I did the same to one of your people." Logibein said. "No ! Don't, please ! We're not the badguys! " Mabel screamed. "That's what they all say, leave now and don't come back. You'll regret it, take this human with you, have a nice day." And he vanished, and then she could hear him walking in the very far distance. Samuel fell with noise on the ground. She quickly ran towards Samuel, which was still unconcious. She would set up camp here, she couldn't let him alone here and she wasn't strong enough to either carry him.
Logibein huh? I'm going to remember that Mirgun, she thought.

Marcus Triun - Part 50

"I'm done." Cucurion said. The blind seer, Ankhet turned to the direction where the young man was speaking. He pulled up one of his eyebrows. "Done with what?" He asked. "Just with all of this, this crew thing is nothing for me. I want my revenge right now, not waiting another two years for Akastria's sake. We went all the way over here to find some other fool just because a seer tells us to do so!" Cucurion blasted out. "You had something better planned then?" Volfram said while he walked out of the door, towards Cucurion. "Do you really think we can stop Marcus, no wait, the whole Ayakashi army with some physical strength?! Are you that blind? Grow a pair of balls kid and use your damned mind. You don't have one for not using it. " Volfram said. Cucurion grumbled something and sat down on the sand. "How is he doing?" Ankhet asked to break the silence. Volfram grabbed a small satchel from his belt, opened it and put it to his mouth to let the cold water flow in his mouth. Volfram swallowed and said :" Honestly, I don't know how he's doing. I think his mental condition is getting worse of what has happened with him. Those Gubh - Liunk ... I thought they were extinct?" "So that's how those creatures were called ... Interesting." Cucurion said. The blind seer didn't reply, he was staring towards the sun. Weird, like he knew where he was looking at eventhough he was blind. Up at the horizon, where the sun was shining, a figure appeared. A small figure. A person? It was a girl, a young one. Maybe sixteen or seventeen. Cucurion directly focused all his attention on the girl , Volfram noticed and directly glanced towards Cucurion. Fits. After the girl, others followed. And within moments of seconds the whole town was surrounded around the house, they must've heard the ruckus and went for a sneak - peek to find out what was going on. The girl that walked up front confronted the blind seer. "What happened !?" Ingia asked. Ankhet didn't reply, he whistled and his crow came back to lean on his shoulder. He turned around and walked inside the house. Ingia glared towards the seer. Strange one that is. She ran towards Volfram to ask the same thing, but just before she could he held his indexfinger towards his lips as a : Ssht. I know what you want to ask, I'll explain later. She understood and sat down next to Cucurion. Volfram took another large sip from the satchel and attached it back to his belt. Here goes nothing. The crowd was there and Volfram took out his Witch Hunter badge. "It's all right people , calm down ! I've started an investigation around the house and we had some argueing but we've all sorted it out now!" A random man, proposably because of his heavy voice, said :" That good for nothing Mortem 'aye ! What did you Witch Hunter's take so long?". Volfram directioned his eyesight to the man. He could see the direct terror in his eyes, afraid for the mysterious Witch Hunter's. Their headquarters were after all stationed in Niarlore, and this part of Safilore was just on a grid next to Niarlore. Very close to their headquarters. "I could ask you the same thing. Why didn't you people inform us earlier about incidents that happened earlier? Otherwise you wouldn't have been so negative about the boy, am I correct?" Volfram asked. The man nodded thoughtfully and stepped back into the crowd. "Any more questions?" All hands went up into the air, people were screaming all their questions up and down. "No questions? Good." Volfram said and blindly ignored the big crowd asking all sorts of questions and nodded to the two to enter the house. They went inside and Volfram closed the door behind them. After several minutes the crowd left. That day the boy woke up now and then, asking for something to drink or to eat. He was getting ill. He had a terrible fever, and this would slow the group down. Cucurion and Volfram cleaned up the bodies from the Gubh - Liunk earlier that day and had cleaned up the house. Ingia was sitting next to her ill friend all day, everytime he woke up and asked for something she would fetch it for him. So caresome. Volfram sighed. He opened the door and walked outside, it was night and the full moon was shining bright. Darn it, today I could've been werewolf hunting he thought. He sighed even deeper. He pulled out a pipe from his belt and searched for the small box filled with tobacco. He filled the pipe with some tobacco and lightened it up with the campfire Cucurion had made. He then inhaled the pipe and puffed it out again. Volfram sat down before the campfire and looked over to his left. He could see a shade going up and down. It was Cucurion doing his night workout. Push ups, sit ups, sword fighting, archery . You name it. Later that evening Cucurion passed by to apologize for his behaviour earlier that day, he went inside to catch up some sleep. They had some rough nights after trying to track Mortem down. Sometime later the tobacco in the pipe was all smoked up and Volfram returned his pipe onto his belt. He slowly started to lie down on his back, watching the stars. And after sometime, he fell asleep.