The Night of The Blood Owls Part 3

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Klay smiled. The plan was going perfectly. Vempor would be initiated into the Royal Guards. He then would do an act of bravery and be rewarded with the promotion of Head Royal Guard of The Silver Vault. Afterwards, he would ride back to The Blood Owls base camp and lead the entire gang to the castle. When they have reached their destination, Klay and Vempor would split up. Klay would lead almost the entire gang to the Waterfall Caves and create a distraction that would attract the attention of almost every Royal Guard in the castle. After ten minutes, Vempor would then ride into the castle while dragging two of The Blood Owls behind him. He would then announce that the two men were part of the rioters and he would take them down to the dungeons himself. What he really would do is take them to The Silver Vault, unlock the door that held the treasure and take all the silver coins he and the two men could carry. When that was done, they would rush back to their horses, Vempor would put down some sort of light source that could be seen from far away. Klay would see the light and then order his men to leave. When they arrive back at the base camp, they would count their riches and buy many things such as a bigger base camp, better weapons and armor, and perhaps even a priest. Tales will be told of The Blood Owls all throughout the land.

"When do we leave, brother?" Klay asked Vempor. He was anxious to leave and collect the treasure.

Vempor smiled. When Vempor smiled, it seemed as if all the lights, including the setting star Sol, had gone out. "We will leave when Jackal rises," he replied. There was a reason to the why Vempor chose the moon Jackal. Since Jackal was Vempor's last name, he wanted everyone to see Jackal and think of the leader of The Blood Owls.

Klay nodded. It would make sense to wait for the cover of night. No one would see their black coats as they rode to the castle. "I will make sure everything is prepared for our journey," he said as he walked out of the Main Hall. As he stepped outside, he was reminded of the reason they were going to steal over 40000 kgs worth of silver coins. The base camp was filthy. The dirt was black and stained from coughed up blood. Hacking coughs could be heard from every tent. A horrible stench filled the air, the stench of sickness and death.

Five years ago, a strange sickness known as Libila's Wrath had swept across the land of Independence. It is not known if the sickness had swept to the lands of Chaos, Xanadu, the far reaching lands of Pristine or Release. Not even the strange lands of Epic, known as the Four Deaths,have been considered to be filled with death. Not even the stranger Challenge island, rumored to be able to sink into the sea and change shape.

The reason why is because travelers are afraid of bringing the sickness to other lands or even get worse side effects. When you start coughing up blood, you know you're dead.

King Feger, who is rumored to own the cure to Libila's Wrath,won't share his bottle of life. He then seemed to go crazy, demanding that everyone give him their silver and gold coins. He then locked all of the coins in The Silver Vault. He said that he didn't want disease ruining the economy. It seemed as if he valued his own income rather than his own people's lives.

After a terrible incident, Vempor and Klay decided that they would take back the coins and eventually kill King Feger. And so, they founded The Blood Owls, a group of bandits that would take back the peace of Independence.

The two brothers ventured across the land of Independence, recruiting others for their cause. However, it seemed as if no one cared about whether they lived or died. Few men agreed to come along, just 50 men including Vempor and Klay. Not much, but all they needed is a little show of strength and perhaps people would see that their king is not on their side.

Klay walked to the stables. "Mister Fretop!" Klay shouted to the Head of The Stables.

Mister Fretop jumped in surprise, knocking over a bunch of metal objects in the process. "Klay! Sorry, you scared me for a second there!" Mister Fretop exclaimed.

"Are the horses ready?" Klay asked.

"Er, not quite, you see, it seems that the Libila's Wrath harms horses as well!" Mister Fretop explained.

Klay frowned. "How much horses are healthy?"

"Only 10 horses,"

Klay was worried now. If only ten horses could be used out of the twenty, then they would have to hitch them to the large carts, and those were poor quality and were rotting somewhere. "I'll have to speak to

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Vempor about this," Klay said as he walked out of the stables.

They were not ready.