"Oh, durn," I said before quickly picking up my plasmada and shooting it at the cloaked ghoul, The Ghoul parried it .... with a straw.
"How did you," I began but before I could finish my sentence 7 straws were in both of my arms. I let out a scream of pain before I fell to my knees while dropping my plasmada, I looked back and saw escalate getting up out of the sleigh while lifting up and extending his ladder only to receive a straw in his right eye.
"Escalate get back in the sleigh and defend Roby," I Screamed at Escalate, I then received 4 straws in my left leg which brought me to the ground. After that nobody moved, nobody said anything, everyone just froze, that was until Pazzo pulled the straw out of his neck and slowly stood back up.
"Okay man let's all just calm down and talk," Pazzo said as he slowly lifted his scythe and shield and slowly placed them down to the ground.
"Did you talk to troll before you knocked him out," The ghoul said as he readied his hand.
"Yeah," Pazzo said calmly.
"Really it looks like you feast on human bones and burn down villages for fun," The ghoul said while looking at Pazzo sideways.
"No, he just looks like that, he's the one who debated to let the Troll live," I said as I sat up and began to pull on the straws out of my arms.
"Don't take those straws out without medical attention, no telling were those straws hit," Vinessa yelled out to me before I could pull one out.
"Ay, all you need to stop all of that moving before these straws be found in y'all's frontal lobe next," The Ghoul said as he grabbed 4 straws, Thats when I noticed the ghouls eye's, one of his eye's pupils were shining red with no pupils like Pazzo's and the trolls, but the other eye was normal, what could that be.
"Can eye at least go over and help her with her wounds, I'm a doctor," Vinessa said while pulling out her stone and began to make it glow. The Ghoul looked around for a few seconds and took a deep breath in before letting out a chuckle before he pointed at the ground.
"Drop all of your weapons, and don't try anything funny," The Ghoul said while standing straight up, after we all dropped our weapons and Vinessa healed my wounds with her holy magic, we all decided to sit down on the grass facing the straw ghoul.
"..... So, how was your day," Pazzo asked trying to get the conversation rolling.
"What," The Ghoul said in confusion.
"Don't mind that, why did you and that troll attack us, we didn't even pull our weapons out on none of you before y'all attacked us," I asked while looking back to check if Escalate was still in the sleigh only to Roby repairing Escalates eye.
"The reason why I attacked was because I found that roll knocked out and unconscious back there.... and because this guy looks like something that just crawled out of satin's draft," The ghoul explained while pointing at Pazzo, I think we should buy Pazzo a cloak to cover up his face in the near future.
"And also because of that weird flower bud of Eden," The ghoul answered while holding his left eye that was red.
"Wait what, there is a flower bud near here, and if you know about it does that you guys delt with it already," I asked. But one question aroused when he asked that, why is he still sentient and able to talk, he's making it sound like this flower bud has been here for years.
"Oh, it was delt with a long time ago, but not entirely," The Ghoul explained as he his reached his throat.
"What do you mean by that"
"It's been so long that I have seen the sun you know, been trapped in the asylum for so long that I forgotten what it looked like," The ghoul laughed while tearing up, Pazzo then leaned up a little and got ready to charge at the ghoul, something's wrong.
"Do you know the location of this asylum you were in, even if we don't go there ourselves?" Pazzo asked.
"Oh why, so you all can just put us in another asylum, and just trap us down there when everything crumbles," The ghoul said coldly while uncovering his face revealing his other eye getting darker and darker with in the moment.
"No, it's to help," Pazzo said, He immediately stood up as the ghoul opened his robe along with me quickly getting behind Pazzo and pulling out a blood veil I had in my pocket.
"You can try but there is no saving most of us, All I wished for was I got to kill that Elephant skull wearing corpse before she corrupted us and sent us up here," The ghoul said as he let out a very long sigh, Like he had taken his last breath, That's when all the color left the ghouls eye's. The ghoul then threw 3 straws directly at Pazzo and before he could throw a 4th, I managed to hit him with a paralyzing orb so Pazzo could tackle him and subdue, after that Christopher and Pazzo managed to hog tie the Corrupt ghoul and throw him in the sleigh.
After that we got our gear back on and began to wait on the guards in the sleigh while try to talk to the ghoul. But he all did was act like a wild animal and head but the floor.
"So is this sort of thing's normal for people who were affected by a flower bud of Eden," Pazzo asked as lifted back up the feral ghoul from the floor and laid him down on one of the seats.
"Hell no, not one creature acts like this when there affected by the flower bud Eden, this is something different, something way worse," Christopher said while examining his arrows and sharping them with a smooth stone.
"He said something about an Elephant skull wearing corpse, and he also kept saying words like down and under, it sounds like that asylum he was in was underground," I said while examining his outfit, I know were in a swamp but why is he so drenched.
"Underground what, this swamp has been here before Eden first appeared, This Flower bud must have been in another state near this place or something because if there was an asylum under this place, how is there so much life around here," Christopher explained as he pointed at the group of turtle's swinging in the nearby creak. He may be right, this place is too alive and full of normal nature to be affected by a flower bud of Eden, but that still raises the question, what is affecting these two ghouls.
"Un.... Underneath.... the undead tree," The ghoul mumbled before going limp and passing out in on the seat in the sleigh.
"What the heck is an undead tree," I asked while looking around the trees that were surrounding us that's when I noticed a flash of something shiny coming out of the trees.
"Hey Pazzo, there coming in hot from the tree's so you might want to already have your hands up," I told Pazzo. Pazzo didn't even look back, he just put his hands up with a sigh as he stood up from the seat of the sleigh. Sure enough 10 guards slowly came out of the tree line with their hands on their weapons ready to be drawn.
"Are you the guys who fell out of the sky, bought equipment from two merchants, and went to fight a person with an automated weapon," The main ghoul asked while having his hand on his spear.
"Yeah," I answered while standing up.
"We're going to need you guys to come with us, will you comply," The main ghoul yelled.
"Yes," Christopher said while throwing his bow and arrow out of the Sliegh. I then let out a sigh, something tells me were going to be staying for a long time.
"Hey Sebrisha," Pazzo called out to me.
"Yeah," I replied.
"You mind getting these straws out of my back," Pazzo said while showing his back which revealed 3 straws.
"I got ya," I said while pulling them out, and licking the blood unknowingly, welp I guess the vampire evolution is proceeding, Perfect.