Chapter 20: Spectator

-Aaaaaaaaaaah! Who?!

-Get him down! DOWN!

The sudden screams startle Dust out of his thoughts.

He was already shivering half naked on the ground for a while. At least for one or two hours .

He is on his two feets directly after the first scream and as fast as an arrow shot he is at the threshold of the cabin when he hear the second.

The piercing shrieks give him the creep.

Half-running he bypass the leather hanging like a curtain to come back under the rain.

The drop of waters are less than before but every one of them are as cold  as a needle of ice.

Breathing fast the moist air enter his mouth while his gaze catch the frenetic scene in the other cabin.

An unknown man, slim and half clothed is pushed out of the cabin crossing the curtains like thing. Stumbling because of the powerful push he stop at the end of the terrace. Just half a step away from falling down below.

The man who come after is Potatoes all fuming from fury.

Dust think that it should be him who pushed the stranger.

What really catch the breath of Dust is the startling color of the stranger's skin on his neck and on his arms: Blue grey.

His blue hand keep his grip on a short axe  brandishing it menacingly.

 Another one of this strange human climb fast the ladder. Howling like a beast.

The axe slash in the mist but Potatoes doesn't wait for it to fall on him. Like a bull he lowers his body and push his opponent while charging with his shoulder. And this time succeed to make the other fall

The body of the savage man twist furiously during the short fall and plunges in the white fog lurking.

Some silhouette in the mist appear. five maybe six individulas. Only the top of their faces can be clearly seen in the fog.

As if to answer their comrade who has fallen they shout in unison.  Some of them litteraly jump on the cord to climb it. The whole thing make the ladder to swing violently both way.

Potatoes reach the place where the ladder is linked to the terrace but the second attacker succeed to stand up on it before anything and block his way.

Another axe fall and this one force Potatoes to back off. His reflexes save his face from being split. He growls:

-Help me to make them fall!

Behind him Pony who was petrified in front of the debacle snape out of her horrified daze when the huge man yell.

She come to stand next to him. In her footseps  Charismatic. Who has on her arm some twisted strips of clothes from her torn dress to stop blood.

While Potatoes block at his best the blue man from going anywhere Pony take the axe left by the fallen savage.

- Move!

Potatoes has a second of hesitation but the enraged man doesn't give him time to think more about it. He moves and Pony hit.

The intruder nearly trip over himself when he avoid the attack but succeed in being unscatched.

And now stand at the left of Potatoes just a few feets away.

He howl like his fallen counterpart and the others below answer him with more vigor.

The noise alone is heart chilling.

 The cord still squeal under the added weight of the enemy.

Another agressor appear. His face just above the terrace.

However before he can climb on it Potatoes react startled and kick his head.

Dust watch as the blue face contortion under the hit. His head reversed to face the grey sky.

His skin on his sheek is like rotten, bulging like some kind of wart with an hole who let appear the yellowish white of his cheekbone.

All around it the the meat of his muscle sweat of pus and decay.

The ladder move following the impact but the man in itself seems unmoved.

As if he doesn't feel pain he continues his previous attempt to climb up. He grin and his skin blue-grey skin tear just a bit more on his sheek.

One of his hand crawl on the terrace floor to take support. Slapping at the same time his axe on the wooden floor.

Potatoes tries to hit him again but the other, the one who succeeded in climbing up, step in. 

Being attacked at his right Potatoes has no time to busy himself with the threat below. Pony  however is free. With an high speeched scream her axe fall and and the sharp edge crash into his skull.But do not cut deep.

With horror everyone realise one second later that the man seems quite …fine despite everything.

The arm who was previously taking support on the wood leave his axe and catch the trembling arm of Pony while she still hasn't retrieved her weapon from his head and his other hand  held on the ladder.

He pull back as if he wants Pony to fall with him.

Old man come fast despite his dead leg.

His thin frame slither around the youngers one in silence.

The stick in his hand accurately pierce the eyes of the aggressor.

And without an other word he start to push too.

Potatoes is too busy to do anything with the other savage on the plateform. 

But Purple-belly who until now stayed far from the fight grab the clothes of Pony to prevent her from being dragged down.

The man with his pierced eyes squeal but it's difficult to know if its from pain or ire.

His hand let go of the woman and instead come to circle the piece of wood.

In deadlock old man and the now one-eyed barbarian stare at each other.

One trying to take the stick out of his orbit the other trying to dig his brain out  with the piece of wood.

Fortunately for Dust he isn't near enough to see all the gorest details of the scene.

Pony tries to take her axe back but the blade is stuck in the head skull. She fail and so growl in frustration nearly hysteric. The insults she spits has an acidic aftertaste .

-Fucking mad man I will cut you in mincemeat if you can't fucking grow a brain in this hard skull of your and fuck off!

Charismatic bend her back, pass under the raised arm of old man. 

She take out her own knife that come from under her dress... However her weapon isn't used to attack instead she cut one of the two cord linking the ladder to the terrace.

She cut despite the chaos around her.

One second, two second.

The ladder still swing a bit under the movement provocked by the fight.

Three second the first cord let go under the knife.

The man on the ladder lose balance and try to take old man in his fall.

But old man is as fast as a snake stepping back as if nothing happen.

Letting his stick follow the one eyed madman in his fall. 

Purple belly nearly kneel to counter balance the weight of the women who doesn't react Soon enough his arms encircle  Pony's waist in a reflex when the cloth start to tear.

-Let go of the axe! 

The bold girl jolt herself and let go of the axe's handle.

Soon the second cord tear too old and too infested to support any more weight alone.

The ones belows growl.

Axe, stick, and one eyed man meet the ground with a crash.

-Help me!

They have no time to rejoice and come to

help Potatoes with the other agressor still on the terrace.

They work together like a true team. Protecting each other and cornering the enemy by encircling them.

When the barbarian swing his weapon in the direction of one, the other lunges themself at him to make him back off.

Of course they yells and screams it isn't fawless but they only get some shallow cuts while the madman has no other choice but to jump down.

Dust stay motionless. When the scene return to his deceptive tranquility  he exchanges a glance full of meaning with the tired group in the other  cabin.

Then his eyes trail off to the habitation at the opposite of his and meet the indifferent gaze of Two behind his glasses.

Two, Princess, Handsome and Follower just like him has assisted in silence to the incident like spectators.

Then he lowers his eyes and look at the people below.

They howl unsatisfied in the fog and start to whisper between each other.