Chapter 9 I'm do tried

Stem looks around. "That's Lerts voice. But I've never been here." I couldn't help but notice Craterdays calmness here. How can he stay so calm in this place? Coil too seemed somewhat calm but still jumped at the slightest of noises.
"That's because this is the main part of Infernum. Where they do not really rule but kinda do at the same time." Craterday explains. "I've been here before, many times actually." Which probably explains his calmness.
"So you can lead us to find them?" Leaf asks the same question I was hoping no one would ask.
"Yes I can. Everytime I enter this place it's somewhere new. Follow me and stay close." Coil goes behind us without a word of authority to him. His shoulder was better but he still had a small limp. Same limp he had as we were climbing all the rocks. Great and the whole group is here as well. Lert continues to complain. It's not all that bad. Really. Besides, I do believe that one of them owes me a favor. "Neako, Lert, if you two had some brains you'd know I won't or anyone here won't do anything for you." Craterday tells them calmly. As I look over his shoulder I can see the two brothers. One wolf was black with unseeing black eyes where the other was brown with unseeing black eyes. I couldn't tell who was who but once the one spoke I could spot them.
Ok so you won't. Neako told Craterday. So Neako was brown and Lert was black? What? I thought you wouldn't let him get away with not giving you anything back. Lerts anger went from us to his brother in a matter of seconds. That spell was never meant for him. Maybe we owed him his life back. Neako claims. I knew he got the curse from the last battle but this was new information. Did Craterday really know what had happened with the whole counter curse thing?
"What do you mean Neako?" Coil asks him. Leaf and I were probably going to let the wolves who knew one another decently good do all the talking. I know they were enemies and all but they knew one another decently good still. So he didn't tell you. I knew the counter curse and after Leaf left I undid the spell. Simple really after years of trying to figure out how to do it. Lert looks at his brother in surprise. And Coil looks at Craterday then at Neako. So you helped the enemy? Lert continued to look confused. No, I fixed our mistake. And you know I don't care what you say. I go with what I believe. Not just what I was told. Neakos reasoning was better then Lerts' just going to attach everyone.
I hadn't realized that Craterday had reopened the portal and was waiting on me to go through. Once I did he followed me. We were back in the cave that had the portal in it.
"So how do we kill them? Like I know Neako is kinda on our side but I still don't like them disrupting my dreams." Leaf asks like I knew how to.
"You really don't know how to kill the dead? Wow, I thought they would've told you there was a way to kill them in the Real World. Then again they probably don't have to worry about that all that much." Craterday tells her.
"And you know how?" My tone had an edge to it. More of a 'sure you know how to' voice.
"He probably does. It's one thing they learn in Kill Grounds. Which is where we are." Coil nods to Craterday telling him to tell them how to kill them.
"We can't kill them in Infernum we have to kill them when they come to this place. Not this place here but in the Real World or this world. That's the only time we can kill them. So they tend to stay in Infernum. " He explains to us.
"So we have to wait till they come out? When do they come out?" Leaf asked. I couldn't blame her for asking so many questions. New here and odd things happening.
"Yes," Craterday looked away and there was nothing around us. "And they only come out when there's a war. Not one or two battles or a small fight, but a full on war." This time his ears perk. But I still didn't see anyone or hear anything. Coil must have heard it as well. Leaf seemed just as confused as me at their sudden alertness.
Next thing I knew I was on the ground with a sword on my throat. Leaf was against the cave with a larger looking fox pinning her on his hind paws. I looked up at the animal that had a sword on my throat. It was a cat. A cat. How can a cat pin a wolf and not get it not stand up? Coil was still able to fight but was pinned down by another wolf. Craterday was nowhere to be seen but a stick with feathers on the end and some sort of rock or metal in the ground. The feathers were dyed black.
There was a whine and a small fight before Craterday and a wolf came out on their hind paws. A stick with a string of some sort was drawn back with that stick-feather thing on it.
"perché sei qui" the wolf fighting Craterday asks in another odd language. "tu chi sei"
"im dopo Lert e Neako. il mio nome è Craterday." Craterday tells him. "Dopo la morte del mio branco, mi è stato insegnato a essere un Assassino come te. Possiamo deporre gli archi, le spade e mettere via gli artigli. Rilascia anche i miei amici."
"Lasciali andare. parli inglese come i tuoi amici?" The wolf puts down his weapon and Craterday puts his away as well.
"Yes I speak English. Do you?" The rest of the group allowed us to get up and they put their weapons away.
"Yes Craterday, I can speak this language. You must have been trained as an assassin if you can speak that language. You are fast and smart. How's the side?" As I stood I could see the stick-feather thing that came through to us.
"I'll live." He grabs the stick from the ground and gives it to him. "Want your arrow back?" The other wolf shakes his head.
"No, you keep it. It's a sign of respect from us. My name's Dito. The cat is Mroto. The fox is Tinko. And the other wolf is Kinto." The fox pulled down his hood. To reveal a common looking fox, he was older but not all that much. His hood was completely black with a red outline and a claw rip spread around it. Small ones and only like one or two. All of their hoods were ripped a bit. Ditos was a grey hood with golden outlines. Mrotos was dark grey with black outlines. Kintos was light grey with black outlines.
Mroto was a brown tabby with yellow eyes. I couldn't see her face at all. It was covered by her hood. Kinto was dark grey with slightly lighter grey spots around his body. His eyes were a dark cyan color. Dito was black no other color and he like Craterday had a black and a red eye but they were opposite of his.
"We did not know you were an assassin, friend. But what you have to do with Lert an' Neako?" Mroto came forward to ask. His voice still had a heavy accent to it. Most likely he usually spoke the other language. Though she was a cat she had strong forpaws and was quite tall for a cat. Not tall enough to be a Big Cat by any means but tall for a common cat.
"Lert has more of a score with me but both have gone into our dreams. Though Leaf and Stem," he points to both of us before continuing. "Have never met them here they both met both by going into the Underground Portal and in their dreams." He points to Coil "This is Coil, Lert too has a score with him."
Kinto comes up a bit. ''So you main problem is wit' Lert?" He looked a bit confused though we couldn't see his face. He had his head to the side a bit.
"Yes, Lert is out for blood and Neako has helped us in some ways. He keeps to what he thinks though he still agrees with Lert." Now Coils comment had confused me and Leaf looked like she was just too excited to even pay attention to what was happening.
"Make sense. Neako has alway been thought centered. He base everythin' off of thought." Tinko tells them. "Maybe could help one another? We need to watch cave to make sure they no come out. To cause destruction anyway."
I didn't know what to say. Tinko made no sense half of what any of them said made no sense. But it did explain Craterdays occasional accent.
Mroto jumped into a branch above her. Tinko runs into the cave and hides. Dito hid on top of the cave blending with some rock shadows. Kinto hides in some sort of bush and almost looks like a rock except his breathing. Leaf had gone with Dito, her fur appearing as a rock. Dito talked quietly to her but she was listening well and doing as he said. Craterday had gone somewhere toward the trees. Coil dragged me into the cave with Tinko and the three of us hid in the shadows not saying a thing or moving. I didn't know what was happening or why it was but it seemed like a good idea to just listen to the animals that knew what they were doing.

Most that talking language is in italian but yeah.

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