Chapter 272 (1/2)

Book 3, Chapter 8 – Oddball Attacks

The three h theand onto the roof ledge below From there, they slipped overhead until they could drop down unseen onto a quiet street They took furtive looks to the left and right before quickly racing off They almost made it out of the settlement before their plans were unceremoniously halted

The loud twang of a bowstrings caught their ears Arrows started screa passed

“Careful! It's an ambush!+”

The sudden attack took Gibbon and the scarred thug by surprise They were too slow, and both were al with arrow shafts One screamed in pain and fell to the floor The other was pinned to a nearby wall It happened in the blink of an eye

Their leader was also caught off guard and one of the arrows caught hi away now

It was only a fewattackers

A entlemen approached, with his thick arirl, and we'll let you live”

The insidious reed, but here he was Gritting his teeth, he dragged the tightly wrapped body of Autuht “This bitch is mine, who the fuck are you to keep all the profit for yourselves? Take one more step and I'll kill her I asked already, and she told et shi+t!”

“Look at this one, acting like he can make demands” The burlyan intricate weave of tattoos across his chest “Try it If you've got the balls”

The thief's eyes ide “Highwaymen!”

The hwayest criminal enterprise in the borderlands They had eyes and ears in every outpost, that's how they were able to pick off roup was a cell who operated in the Sandbar, and one of them had been in the variety shop when Autumn came in He saw the parcel she flashed and had immediately told the others

Their leader growled dangerously “You know us, e can do, andout Kill her, if you think you can”

“Fine! I give up Ruthless fucks!”

The hwayressiveness If he really killed the wo toabout it for a minute he decided his life wasn't worth it So he stepped back until he was a few ht he was safe, put the girl down

“Kill him”

“You – Ah!”

With his leg injured, the man couldn't avoid all of the arrows that cah him as he screamed, then met his violent end

His dee hwaymen”

All of the noise had stirred Autu-induced haze, but the anesthetic still made her weak She could hardly le onto her back to see as happening

“Bring her!” The big man waved a hand “Let's move”

“Who are you? I don't know you!” Autumn saw the corpses and fear crept into her face “What are you going to do with me!”

Two of the thugs walked over to her, but not to chat One brought his hand back to knock her out

Just then there was a flash of yellow that swept across both men's throats Their heads lurched back as pillars of blood spat from newly-made holes in their necks Autumn was quickly soaked in hot, red fluid The men were dead before they knew it

“What the fuck?!” The big man yelled

The flash of yellow returned, landing on the ground Finally the ood look, and what they saw baffled them

It was a bird, about the size of a fist Its neck was almost comically short, with the head and body of an owl Its whole body was covered in golden feathers and a pair of big round eyes stared unblinking at the crew They were bright and intelligent, and as the bird flapped its wings blood splattered off its right side

A bird? What the fuck kind of animal was this?!

The creature slowly blinked its big eyes At rest, the goofy-looking thing see about it hinted that the bird could e

The look on the bigdidn't see about it “Shoot it,” he ordered

It was just a bird, right?

Mes There was no lack of decent fighters in their ranks The little golden bird would ht, as they reset their crossbows