Panic set in quickly as sounds got closer. It sounded like more than one person too. He quickly ripped the purple book from the shelf and ducked down. Pushing his back against the broken table with a book in hand. Voices and footsteps entered the room. Feminine voices entered the room. The first words he heard were. “What do you smell, faunus?” The voice sounded commanding and demeaning in nature.

“Nothing much…the air is stale.” The voice that replied was not as deep and…sounded defeated.

“Then what use are you! Do not forget we are on a mission from her highness. You are already on thin ice, beast. Spread out and search” The first voice sounded not that friendly to Anon’s ears. Also that order made his whole body go stiff. Even with that feeling he couldn’t help himself. He peeked around the edge of the table slowly. Spotting the group that entered the room.

This day was getting weirder and weirder for him. They were….humanoid-ish. They stood up on two legs but they looked more horse-like in the face and they had fur on their bodies. There were three of these creatures along with a fourth that was….a cat girl. She had black hair and black cat-like ears on top of her head. She was dressed in white over-coat with black leather suit under it. She had a slim figure with golden eyes.

The others were different. They dressed in blue and black armor that hugged their figures.They covered in plate mail. The armor had a sharp almost jagged design with a single eye in the middle of it all. Two were men or they looked male. The final one looked to be the source of orders. A female of these horse people had…horn in the center of skull. Her fur was blue and she had sharp piercing red eyes. The two males were wielding well crafted halberts in their hands.

Not only that they looked…tough to say the least. Pure muscle on top of muscle. They looked like they had been bred for war and violence. Anon was pretty good at telling when someone was strong. Those guys were strong and the woman leading them was giving off a hell of an aura.

The cat girl turned her head towards the table. Anon quickly ducked back thinking about all his opinions and how crazy everything was. Maybe this was a dream…nope to real to be a dream he could feel his heart about to come out of his chest. The sweat on his palms and his thoughts racing a mile a minute in his skull.

The two soldiers began to inch towards the back of the room. Anon could hear their heavy footfalls echoed in his ears. He felt his throat dry up. Closer and closer Anon was running out of time when all of sudden a noise filled the room. Buggo was awake after all. Attention was drawn towards the closet.

“Warriors, see what is going on.” The commander called out.
The commander's eyes were still locked onto the cat girl. In her eyes this was but, lowly beast she was burdened with taking care of. The two guards walked up the closet. Anon found himself peeking around the corner again to see what was going on. One guard moved that chuck of the table with one arm as if the rock weighed nothing at all. That was disheartening altogether to our hero.

Once the doors were opened the insect creature leaped forward not learning last time. It was met with halberts that slammed it into the ground. Pinning into the floor. It made a god-awful noise of hissing and clawing at the floor trying to get free from them. The commander walked over standing in front of the wiggling bug. She turned her nose up in disgust. “Vermin.” She uttered, looking towards the guards. Giving but, a simple nod as one of them raised their halberd into the air to swing it down as others kept it in place.

“WAIT.” The cat girl cried out as she saw what was going on. “We don’t have to kill it. That’s not our mission. We can just take it back with us.” She tried to reason with them.

The commander turned back to her. “Are you questioning my orders already? Do you not remember whom you serve?” She took a step forward towards her as she pulled a yellow crystal from her back pocket.

Her ears went flat on her head as she stared at the crystal. “No I…”

She was cut off by the commander gripping the crystal. Yellow runes lit across a black band that was around her neck. A surge of golden lightning pulse through her body. It was visible to the naked eye. She fell to her knees in pain screaming out as the commander just smirked down at her.

“If I say something dies. It dies. If I say for you, jump. You jump. Do I make myself clear?” She spoke, still holding the crystal.

Author's Note

Important Choice time already:

1. Do Nothing. Wait for them to Leave.
2. Stand Up Throw the Book at Crystal.
3. Rush the Command.
4. Make a Run for it.
5. Stand up and Call out to the Command.