“Eben though I had nebah meet these “uncibiwized twibaw’s” Equin heawd many stowies about them. An’ fwooh aww of them, one thin’ am bewy cewtain. Unwike dah steweotypes of them bein’ stoopid’ an’ incompetent, dey know what dey want’ an’ what dey am doing, an’ can do it bewy weww.”
[A paragraph from the Outer Motor section from the book, Book Of The Known World. Authored by Equin “The Adventurer”]
[Pov Emily]
As I started to wake up, I felt the bruise on the back of my head still hurting like hell. And I Could feel myself tied to a tree and as I opened my eyes I saw that I was in a empty forest with me seeing my Mom, Aubrey and Kri also tied to trees, with them still unconscious. Who had done this!? Where is Dar? I remember before it happened, one minute I had just awoken the next I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head… What was I thinking, not having a lookout! No matter, I have to do something right now. Seeing that the attackers weren’t here I called out, trying to wake up everyone else.
“Mummah, Aubwey, kwi wakies!”
I saw Kri’s head tilt a bit with a few groans and for a moment I had hoped she would wake up and be able to burn these ropes off, but them she fell right back to sleep and worse… I started to hear the sound of multiple hoofSteps approaching me…
I saw 3 fluffies enter and instantly I recognized one of them, Dar! He was unconscious, but looked unharmed. And as my head turned to look at the people carrying him, I was completely surprised. Both of the fluffies wore strapped wooden armor with multiple strange carvings on it and carried metal spears, with me seeing that they had long hair and were covered in scar tattoos. With one of them being a dark green Pegasus with a brown mane, and the other being a earthie with a slightly muddied white coat, dark circles under their eyes and had dark yellow mane. As they start to tie Dar to a tree I pretend to be asleep, and I hear one of them with a scratchy voice speak.
“Tuupaw doesn’t undewstand why Madanak won’t wet us kiww these twespassews!”
I can hear them finish the knot and the other one speaks in a tired voice.
“Bibi thinks fwuffy wan’'s to intewwogate them fiwst, especiawwy dah stwange scawie one.”
There is a sudden silence, than one of them whispers for a few moments before I hear hoofsteps approach me and I feel a jolt a pain at my lower right hoove as the one with the scratchy voice speaks.
“Tuupaw knows 'ou am awake, am not an idiot!”
I open my eyes to see the dark green Pegasus staring at me and I speak.
“Wet go of me an’ myentouwage nao, we am on bewy impowtant business!”
The green Pegasus “Tuupar” cackles as the white earthie “Bibi” comes up to me and speaks in a aggravated voice.
“Entewed ouw wand ‘ou did, spent dah whowe day an’ dawk time fowwowin’ 'ou!”
I speak confused.
“What am ‘ou tawkin’ about!? Dis entiwe awea am dah Kingdom of Motow!”
That name seemed to deeply upset both of them and Tuupar speaks.
“Tuupaw has nu woyawty to am wotten nation! dis was awways ouw homewand, befowe any of that Motow manuwe!”
Out of the corner of my eye I could see Aubrey begin to wake and Bibi speaks, sounding annoyed.
“Nu nee’ fightin’ wiff dah pwisonews Tuupaw! We nee’ to watch obah them, untiw Madanak awwibes…”
Slowly everyone began waking up, and because of them constantly watching over us we could do nothing. But one thing interesting did happen thought, around 30 minutes after I woke up Dar did, and Tuupar and Bibi had a unique reaction once he was awake.
“Whewe did 'ou get those tattoos!?”
Dar looked agitated and confused, with him speaking.
“What do 'ou mean? Daw am a Twibaw, am fwom Maximus.”
Tuupar gave an especially nasty look, as he spoke in a condescending voice.
“Oh Tuupaw heawd of Jawset, ow by it’s assimiwated name “Maximus” ‘ou an’ aww who wibe dewe am fakes who pwetend to be twibaw’s! 'Ou nu pwactice ouw faith, 'ou nu know ouw histowy, not eben dah weaw name of dah city 'ou wibe in! 'ou desecwate that symbow on am face…”
I am everyone else were speechless hearing this and I saw Dar look down, not saying anything. Bibi suddenly speaks.
“Tuupaw fwuffy’s hewe!”
I looked to see about a dozen people entering, with them all walking expect one on a raccoon. A larger middle aged dark blue unicorn stallion with a black mane. He was wearing regal looking wooden armor splashed with dark red and green paint, had multiple necklaces around his neck and jewelry the pierced his ears and had crown made of a metal base with feathers on both sides with it’s frontal center have a wood carving of a galloping horse. Tuupar and Bibi kneel as Bibi speaks to the large stallion.
“Wewcome Gweat Chief Madanak, we hab dah pwisonews!”
Madanak get’s off and takes a deep breath speaking in a naturally low voice.
“These am dah onwy ones?”
Tuupar nods, and Madanak approaches us. He looks at each of us individually, with him especially taking his time with Kri and showing distain of his face when he came to the deeply upset Dar. Finally after a minute Madanak speaks.
“Madanak knows dis awmow, wown by dah Motow Woyaw Guawd it is. These am Enoch’s twoops, dey hab come hewe on a mission.”
I start to fear what he is about to do next, and I speak franticly.
“Wook we just wan’ passage to Chicago, we am on a bewy sewious mission!”
Kri chimes in as well.
Yes we are, it is quite dire!"
Madanak speaks
“Madanak doesn’t bewiebe ‘ou am that stwange cweatuwe! Madanak knows weww enough what ‘ou am doing, an’ fwuffy won’t wet scouts find ouw biwwages an’ destwoy them!”
I speak again, trying my best to get through to Madanak.
“Nu ‘ou get it!? dewe am somethin’ comin’ fo’ us in dah east, somethin’ mowe powewfuw den any of us! Dewe goin’ to attack us soon, thousands upon thousands of monstews wead by someone named Ewohim. If Emiwy doesn’t get hewp fwom dah west dewe won’t by any mowe Motow ow Twibaw’s, we’ww aww be dead ow enswabed! did 'ou undewstand 'ou thick skuwwed idiot!”
I shouldn’t have said the last, and I thought for sure Madanak was going to retaliate but something strange happened. He smiled and began chuckling, speaking to me in a softer more friendly tone.
“Got some backbone in ya? it’s nice to be cawwed out, when 'ou am sowwounded by yes-men. How about dis?”
The tribal’s around Madanak seemed a bit upset by his comment but I quickly lose focus as he speaks.
“Madanak actuawwy bewiebes ‘ou. Fwuffy’s scouts an’ spies towd me that a bunch of Motow sowdiews cwossed dah gweat sea, to ugh… Nickew city am it? Bad stuff happened dewe. Su madanak wiww wet 'ou go, as 'ou am not a fweat.”
I heard a sigh of relief cross me and everyone else tied up, and Tuupar and a few of Madanak’s guards look shocked, but Madanak keeps speaking.
“Buh Madanak wan’‘s one thin’ though.”
I speak quickly.
“What?”
Madanak clears his throat and speaks.
“A pewsonaw audience wiff Enoch”
What? Why would the leader of a group that sees the Doe-StrongWing dynasty as evil want an audience with them? I speak.
"Suwe, buh why though?
Madanak speaks.
“'Ou am a woyaw guawd su ‘ou know dewe king’ pewsonawwy, that’s aww Madanak wiww say. Nu doubwe cwoss me eithew, my spies wiww be on dah wookout.”
With that Madanak orders his followers to untie us and return our stuff, with Tuupar going up to Madanak and speaking.
“Why am ‘ou doin’ dis! Am goin’ to expose us aww chief!”
Madanak speaks, giving me a slight clue of what his intentions are.
“Tuupaw that’s a wisk Madanak wiww just hab to take. Dah wowwd am changing, ouw popuwation numbews am dah wowest dey hab ebah been an’ if we nu adapt soon. Extinction…”
With that Madanak orders Bibi to lead us back to our campsite, with the rest of the Tribal’s ready to follow him back to there home and he looks at me speaking one last time.
“Madanak wiww be headin’ to dah bowdah of Innah Motow, when dah fiwst weabes begin fawwin’. I wiww come unawmed, goodbye.”
With that we leave, heading with Bibi back to our campsite. Ready to resume our journey west. Fin
Thank you for reading my story! I hope to have the next part done in a few day’s to a week and of course constructive criticism is appreciated. May you have a good day!