When the big pussy finally came out from the copse I had already lined up the iron sights and was in the process of squeezing the trigger.

BAM
*tink*

He had a brief look of fear and confusion from the loud noise but as I said, brief. When he hit the ground I was found in bone crushing death grip by an avian female, when I pointed out that I needed air she let go and continuously spouted off that it didn't happen. I made my way over to the corpse to get a better look at the creature.

"How in the name of Discord's testicles did you do that?" she stated, rather loudly might I add.

I ignored her for the most part focusing solely on the corpse. At closer inspection I see that the giant lion has wings and a scorpion tail.This has to be somekinda monster from the 7th circle of hell- cause FUCK that looks painful. I mentally stated, looking over the claws and barbed tail.

"HEY!" The chick shouted, "I'm talking to you bub!"

"Hmm? What?" I carry on innocently as I take the machete to the tail and begin cutting it off.

"I said WHAT'S YOUR NAME!" She bellowed, obviously irate about me ignoring her. "Or are you not going to tell me because you're some kinda criminal? Huh? Well?"

I flashed back,I'm sitting strapped to a wooden desk chair two sizes too small, with a couple of people in sandy clothes carrying weapons from around the globe all trained on me."الاستماع لأعلى-(Lt. Col. Solomon R. Johnston, is hereby charged with the following crimes-" Another man came up next to me with a red hot knife tip. "-several accounts of murder-" Knife tip goes to my face and gets pulled down from the left corner of my left eye down to just above my mouth."-Battery, arson, and assault with a deadly weapon." two more cuts, one starting above my right eye and ending just below it, and the final cut, a notch carved into my left ear. I snapped, blacked out, and when I came to I was holding a cheap handgun to face of one of my kidnappers. When I come back to the real world I see that I've pinned the avian girl from earlier and had the Webley to her forehead. I jump off of her and holster my gun quickly gathering my supplies.

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF ARTYS ARRYN WAS THAT!" A new voice boomed, Male by the sound of it. afterwards a bunch of jangling and clanking was heard.

I turned to face my new arrivals, Oh great, more bird people. I begin to take notice of my present company. About five of them are decked out in grey plate mail save for an emblem on the cuirass. A circle with a pair of wings and talons embossed on the front. The one in front was in dark blue plate mail minus the helmet, One of his wings was missing and replaced with what appeared to be a robotic prosthetic.

"Gilda! Are you all right?!" The man in blue called out to the chick, Gilda. "How did you escape the manticore?"

"I didn't Dad-" Sarcastic much? "This- Uhhh- thing- here killed it."

"That scrawny thing? But he was at your throat a second ago!" shouted one of the guardsmen? guardsbird? Whatever.

They carried on this for quite some time before I got tired of it. I'll probably regret this. I thought as I pulled out my Webley and fired off a round into the air ceasing all conversations. I quickly holstered it under my green jacket.

"Now then, If you lot are done with your mindless bickering, I'd like to know where I am." I stated with as much implied violence as possible."

Author's Note

Emblem for the Griffin Kingdom courtesy of Emkay on Deviantart

Sorry for another long wait I typed it, erased it, and typed it again so...yeah. (That and I got sidetracked playing STALKER : Call of Pripyat)
Solomon Is not my name btw.
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