"I'm sorry sire, I must've misheard you. Did you just order us to kill one of the people that saved your life just now?" Amethyst asked and the King growled in displeasure at their lack of response.

"Yes, now get to it or I am going to put you all in the dungeons and rip it apart myself and then you." He smiled smugly thinking that would scare them into submission.

"No," Lilith growled, "until we know what is going on here and how to deal with it nothing is going to happen to anyone on the team." The King once again just growled with displeasure looking at me with a hateful glare. As there was nothing even he could do at the moment.

"If everyone else isn't dead already, you can take your rage out on them, but know that Umbra is going nowhere nor are we going to let him just be killed for no reason." Amethyst said and the others nodded, I was surprised, they actually cared now whether I lived or died.

"Fine then." the King growled also slightly shocked that they were defending me. "Human, you may live, but only because I do not feel like ripping out your heart myself."

I rolled my eyes at his sudden change on tone and this caused the King's lips to curl up in anger slightly as he looked at his claws in 'boredom'. The only way I would know he was paying attention to me specifically was because his tail twitched every time I looked his way.

"Isn't this human going to say anything to defend himself?" The King growled, "he's just staring at me and it's annoying."

"Umbra isn't able speak your highness" Blaze said making the King look at me with surprise and slight curiosity.

"Why?" He growled not looking away from me.

"We don't know, but its probably connected to the nasty scar he has on his face" Blake said and I looked at them, and then put my interest into my FN Scar 16.

"Okay then human answer me this, do you have any more scars that I or your team can't see?" the King drew everyone's attention to me and I internally growled, annoying King. He was using tactics of secrecy to try and tear the others away from me, but I nodded looking him in the eyes, that wasn't something I was hiding intentionally. Scars were scars, and nothing I could do would get rid of them.

"How many of your body is covered in scars underneath all of that clothing?" the King was prying and it was getting irritating, but I made a circle motion with my hand and the King smiled, for some reason me saying that my entire body was covered in scars made him think about something that he like.

"Did you all know about this?" the King asked and the others nodded, surprising him. Ha! Take that punk.

"We knew that he had a rough past by what the commander's told us," Lilith said and then turned back to me.

"What are they from human?" the King was still prying. Really?

"Whips?"

I nodded

"Claws?"

I nodded

"Are they...from teeth as well?" I looked at him glaring, so that's was prying for all along. Why?

"I see" he said and it was silent in the room, for a long while. I looked at the King trying to find the reason in those feline eyes of his, but he wasn't giving away his thoughts.

"Well that make this interesting," He suddenly purred and I looked at him confused. "I can't wait to see what happens to you first hand."

This time everyone looked at him with confusion and then turned to me with the same expression, but I couldn't do anything about it. So I just glared at everyone until they got the point.

What that was about I didn't want to find out, so I just pushed on the door and stepped into the hallway, before closing it behind me and sitting against the wall beside me. With just enough space for the door to open and close without touching me.

The pressure in my chest was starting to make me uncomfortable now, and now that twisted King was interested in me just because I have been bitten by his kind. I did not want anything to do with him. I adjusted my Sniper Rifle to rest on my shoulder, flush with the wall, and I put my rifle on my lap and closed my eyes. It had been a long day, and I think that I was safe enough to take a quick nap.

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I woke up to the sound of the stone door leading to the King and my team sliding open, and Amethyst came into view. I motioned at my watch and then pointed my thumb down the hall, but she just pushed the door closed behind her and shook her head. I tapped my wrist again and she looked at her watch.

"It's one in the morning" she said before taking her sniper rifle off from her back and setting it against the wall. Then she bent down, and sat down against the opposite wall of me with her Scar also in her lap.

"I understand that what you went through must've been tough" she said and I mentally scoffed, it wasn't just tough for me, it was literal hell. "But were all here to help, at least those of us on your team that is, I don't know what the King is trying to go for. I just wanted to let you know that"

I stared at the opposite wall in front of me, and decided that when we got back I'd let the commander tell them my story. My full story, and then I'd see how they thought of me after that. I closed my eyes again and drifted off into my second nap.

Amethyst woke me up by kicking my foot, and I opened my eyes to see her up and strapping her sniper rifle over her shoulder. I guessed that meant it was time to go, so I got up as well adjusted my rifle, and nodded to her that I was ready. She nodded back to me and pressed the rock button to open the door. I saw the twins resting against the left wall drooling on each other, Lilith was resting against the opposite wall, and the King was laying against the back wall, but not sleeping. I guess he heard us open the door, and that made me surprised the others hadn't. Hopefully they went to sleep at a decent time, we didn't need three sleep deprived soldiers coming back to base with us.

Amethyst didn't even bother talking aloud, she just shot the three of them in the vests, where the electricity wouldn't get to them. It worked, they all jumped to their feet alert and scanning around for threats. Once they realized that it was just us, they relaxed, yawned, and stretched before checking their weapons absentmindedly, and looking over to see that the King was already on his feet.

On the way back, I was in the front and Amethyst was in the back. I was glad that I didn't need any signals from the King, as he didn't give any as I navigated us back through the tunnels, towards the secret door leading to the throne room. I held up a hand telling the others to wait there, and I pressed the button, raised my gun and stepped outside to look around. There was nothing waiting for us on the ground or near the ceiling, so I just walked in the doorway with my gun down, and walked off again. Hopefully the others would understand, even if they were tired.

Blake understood and I saw him come out of the doorway, followed by the King, then Lilith, Blaze, and Amethyst. They all looked around bored, were they expecting the other people to still be here, waiting?

I pushed away the thought and went around to the front of the room, and frowned. There, were all of the people that we had electrocuted, each with a bullet in their head, all except for one, who seemed to be tied up to some sort of explosive. I held my hand out for the others to stay there and motioned Amethyst to come over. Once she did, there was a small gasp and she turned back to the others.

"There's an active bomb still here" she growled to the others, "make sure you are ready to dive back into that hallway if there's an explosion"

Then she and I went up to the mass of bodies, climbed up, and dragged down the unconscious male Fur strapped to a bomb. He started to wake up, and when he opened his eyes, the bomb's count-down started. Three minutes was all that it showed before counting down.

"They--They killed everyone, they made me watch as the executed everyone, and then they told me that they were going to be killing more royals if they didn't get what they wanted" the male Fur was completely terrified, and the timer was down to two minutes, "they knew someone would come back, so they told me that I would get three minutes to tell you everything, and then they knocked me out"

"Okay first of all calm down, secondly, tell us about these other people. What did they look like? Did they say who they were? What is their plan?" Amethyst asked and the male Fur looked at me and then her and shuddered.

"It was a mix of two different species, his and another that looked like us, but reptilian" the Fur pointed his snout at me and I watched the timer hit a minute and a half left, "they said that their group was called, something called The Free Republic of the west. And they told me to tell you a name, they didn't say what title they had, they just told me to tell you a name, President Black."

"Thank you" Amethyst said, "we have to go now, I hope that you have a good afterlife" she then stood up and I followed her back to the others. She told the others go g back into the passage for a moment. A half minute later an explosion rocked the ground and caused a little dust to fall from the top and sides of the passage. I would've put a bullet in the persons head, but the timer was already down to a minute and there was no more time other than retreating.

When it stopped Amethyst and I stepped out first and checked the area. Then motioned the others out, and now came the most annoying part. Once we stepped out into the open, outside with the King. There were already a bunch of reporters and journalists storming around us. If I had a good I would've put it up but we weren't even given helmets, and that annoyed me. Most of them made up of Deer Furs, but there were a few Wolf and Panther Furs among the Sheep.

"What happened yesterday?"

"What's going to happen now that you've--"

"Who are these new people besides you?"

"Is that a human--"

"Are you okay, you highness?"

They didn't stop until the King put up his paw for silence, and when they did quiet down, the flashes and snaps of cameras didn't stop.

"Thanks to this group of people, I have escaped an attempt on my life today, one that this group of operatives have protected me from." The King said and every Fur reporter there captured every word and motion he made, "I want you to meet my new personal guard."

At that the King turned and walked through us back to his castle and the reporters surrounded us, seeing new prey to pick upon. Most of them were directed towards me more so the others but we all shoved our ways through the crowd and formed a partial circle around the King. To keep the reporters from getting in more so than in our faces. Once us and his 'highness' was inside once again. With the doors closed firmly behind us to keep the mob out. Everyone let out breaths of relief.

"You better learn how to ignore them if you're going to be my personal guard," The King said without turning around as he navigated his way through the now empty building and into the kitchens. Where he promptly opened a few cabinets and grabbed a few things from one of their two fridges. He set stacks of meat on the counter, picked up a thawed one from the fridge, and tore into it while turning the dial on the oven to four hundred degrees Fahrenheit.

And he put the other pieces of meat inside as the oven was heating up, putting them directly on the rack without a care for what that might do to the oven. He then stacked up all of the meat trays, and put them in the sink near the fridges before sitting down on a stool. Tearing off another piece from the steak that he held in his claws.

"You've all had a rough couple days, so whenever you want to, you can grab a piece of steak from the oven" he paused, "or the fridge."

My teammates rushed forwards and grabbed plates, before opening the still heating oven and grabbing the meat from it. Leaving two in, and then putting four more in they sat down at the counter and dug in. The twins closest to the King, and the female Furs closest to the middle of the counter. I waited a little while longer before grabbing one of the plates from the counter, then a fork from the drawer, and stabbing a piece of meat from inside of the oven, and then grabbing a knife, and sitting down a chair away from Amethyst and Lilith.

I didn't even notice that the meat hadn't even gotten to a rare grade of preparation before ripping into it.

I was going to put a picture that I found on my Pokémon book, as it would've made more sense, but today is Super Bowl Sunday, and I'm too tired to make a fake chapter.

I just caught this today on Pokemon Go, yes I play that, may add my tag later if you really want to know. Anyways I wanted to share this because this would describe me down to the wire, if I had that much freedom.