I opened my eyes and saw the furniture move towards me. I quickly got up and leapt towards the table as a right hook moved toward me from the right. I dodged it and rolled forward under the table, grabbing my chain and hitting with my fist upward, beneath the table. The furniture stopped moving, and the table started to shake as it split in the middle. My chain got loose, with silence taking over for a few seconds in our surroundings. The chain circled my wrist, and I turned around and ran towards the other end with both the girls in battle with the furniture. I moved between them and jumped with my foot towards the door as it crashed down. I rolled forward, seeing a big black creature that roared in a high-pitched sound with three weird eyes. It moved towards me as I leaned with my right upper body back, my right fist catching in black fire as the creature opened its mouth; I hit with full strength inside the mouth. I kept following my movement to the next door, crashing it down. When I turned to the left, I saw ground without any walls covered in all red. I opened the door and started running East as fast as possible.
After a few minutes, I approached a building with a chimney and smoke coming out from it, and two red creatures, who looked like guards by the entrance, noticed me and charged towards me. I met up with them and easily dodged when one of them tried hitting me with the spear; with a fast move, I guided the spear towards the other one's throat, with red blood splashing everywhere. I hit with my fist on the one with the spear, and I kept hitting it with the chain as a glove towards the red lizard's head as blood splattered around me. I entered the building and looked around. This area didn't look like what I saw with Sterk. Which one do I choose from the two directions, left or right?
I opened the door to the left, and there was only a room with several red lizard creatures looking at me.
"Eh! Sorry, wrong room!" I said and ran in the other direction, hunted by several red human-like lizards that didn't make sense.
While jogging through a long corridor with doors to the left and right, I was sure this must be the place. In the end, a big green creature looking like a goblin on steroids opened the door, and I think I made it in time to save the children. Something behind me screamed a weird sound, and when I was just going to look behind me quickly, a damn lizard came flying toward me, and I bent back as much as possible to dodge the hit, but I made it...almost hitting the ground on my back and made a forward flip to get up fast. I felt the right side of my chest and noticed my shirt had been cut from my stomach to my shoulder, with a thick red line of blood dripping on the floor. The damn lizard had a knife in its hand. Okay! Think Zark!... One covers the road ahead, moving towards the children, and a couple moves from the other direction. The chain released its grip around my wrist, and one end fell to the floor. My right fist caught on black fire as it spread through the whole chain. I monitored the children when I saw the little girl staring in my direction.
"I TOLD YOU THE MAN IN BLACK WOULD COME!" She screamed out loud.
I pulled back my arm and swung the chain as a whip, grabbing the leg of the knife lizard and swinging it towards me. I ducked as it hit a couple of lizards behind me. I kept running forward towards the children when I saw the Goblin hitting the girl as she swung right into the wall before it grabbed the child and guided them out from my view. I looked back, and a freaking axe just missed me, hitting a door as the lock broke, and I backed a couple of steps backwards as the door smashed one of the lizards, as a couple of small...red babies with round big heads wearing diaper like underwear came out as they screamed:
"FAZDAH!" Looking at me and giving a thumbs up.
Are they demon babies?
They prepared for battle as a little girl came out last, looking at me and said:
"It is okay, mister. The demons will make sure they can not move any further. They may be small and short, but they are warriors."
I was hesitant to keep moving but quickly decided to move on as I heard the small minions scream and jump on the walls, attacking the lizards with the girl standing in the back. I came around the corner and went through the door with the sound of the machine making me boil of rage. I ran towards the stairway as one green Goblin charged towards me. I leaned my upper body again, and my fist hit this time from above downwards as the Goblin hit the ground. I quickly followed with hitting through the head, covered in even more blood now on my suit with different colours, and moved up the stairs as the Goblin was holding the boy above. The other children ran down the stairs to move away, and I took slow steps, trying to de-escalate the situation, showing the Goblin I wouldn't do anything. I got closer to the Goblin as I noticed it was holding a knife to the boy's throat and moved closer to the machine. It was grunting, and from the expression, I suppose it told me to keep my distance or the machine would shred the boy to pieces. I put my hands in the air, showing nothing would happen. The Goblin bent down and picked up an axe from the ground. Of course, it needed to be a more effective weapon because I was a lucky guy. Why do these things happen to me only?
The Goblin pushed the boy towards the machine, and I reacted quickly and moved forward when the Axe swung towards me. I pulled my right arm as cover with the Axe, hitting my wrist, but with immense force, it dug through the chain and went through half my wrist with me screaming out in pain as the boy was losing his balance and was going to fall into the machine. I grabbed the Axe with my left hand and cut the head of the bastard, and I swung the chain that circled the boy's leg as he fell off the edge, and I pulled back, holding with my left hand as my right hand was shaking. I could feel the weight on the chain. The boy has not reached the shredder as long as I keep hold of it.
"You alive still?" I asked.
"YES...YES...BRING ME UP!" He screamed back.
The other children came up the stairs and noticed my shaking right hand, and they started to pull the chain back together to help get the boy up. I saw his foot as the other children went to the edge and helped pull him up on the platform, and when I saw all of them on the platform, I released the chain from my hand. The children hurled together and moved down the stairs as I followed them. My vision became a little bit blurry as I fell to my knees, and something exploded on my left shoulder. I coughed up blood and tried to coordinate myself to try and get up when the door opened.
"ZARK!" I heard someone scream out in the air.
As I was going to fall, someone grabbed me, and I tried to see who it was, but it was too blurry. I saw green, so it must probably mean that it is the brat.