Love Is Never Ugly

Chapter 67

With a deafening crash, the castle doors fell and the mob barged in. But they stopped short because they someone had to have been holding the door yet the room appeared completely empty. Empty and dark. They proceeded with caution.

"This place gives me the creeps." Baxter trembled, knowing for a fact that darkness and silence was never a good sign.

"Shhh!" Seviathan hissed at him.

"Well it does."

"Shut up."

"I really think we should reconsider this. I have a very bad feeling about all this."

"If you chicken out now I'll show you something much scarier than this. My sister in a rage."

Baxter did not say another word but nothing could make his fears cease. He along with every other man in that room had their eyes and ears open for anything suspicious. The lot of them had gone hunting and even fought some wars so they were familiar with ambushes and sneak attacks. However nothing could have prepared them for happened next.

Suddenly torches were lit up and a thousand sets of eyes were on them. Eyes of wild felines, rodents, arachnids, lizards, and moths. A whole army of stood in each direction of the castle and the leaders of each species was an unimaginably larger version of the specimens. The human sized feline pulled a battle horn from his coat and blew it.

Bubba-bum-bum-bum!

"Charge!" Shouted the over-sized female lizard.

The battle was on. First lynxes, European wild cats, squirrels, chipmunks, door mice, lizards, and geckos came rushing toward the men. Pouncing on them and tackling them to the floors, biting and scratching. Next came the spiders setting up giant traps for them with their webs or injecting the men with harmless but paralyzing venom. Then came the moths who swooped down and confused them by blocking their vision with their swarm.

"Fly my fellow moths!" Vagatha commanded the moths. "Fly! Fly!"

"Go for the legs guys!" Anthony instructed the spiders.

At first the regular animals seemed to have the mob overpowered by their huge numbers but they started to cower back when some of them began to breakout the firey torches and guns. This resulted in their more advanced leaders to bring out their own weapons.

"Yoo-Hoo! Up here you scurvy scum!" Niffty called, the men looked up to see her and her rodent friends with cups full of boiling tea. "Now!"

Down came the scorching liquid.

"Ah! It burns damnit! It burns!" They cried.

"Oh I'm sorry, do you fellas not like your tea piping hot?" She said feigning ignorance.

Cherri gleefully unleashed something that she had been saving for just the right occasion. Homemade bombs constructed from specially plants known to cause temporary blindness. She loaded them up into a sling shot that Anthony built with his webbing. The two them drew back the web's line and released it, the bombs came down, exploding in a powdery substance.

"Ah! My God I've gone blind! I'm blind!" Shouted the men who were effected by the powder.

"Let's do the catapult next!" Cherri suggested.

They pulled out the old catapult and filled it with more bombs and stones.

"Ready, aim, fire!"

With Anthony giving that phrase, he and Cherri pushed the catapult over the ledge, sending it crashing to the ground.

"Are you sure that's how it works Cherri?" Anthony asked her.

The catapult sprang, sending the cart bottom on top of some men.