The Wannabe Warrior
Chapter 67

Madison POV

‘Alpha, how about we give some communicators to them, so they can hear what we are doing outside, and they can tell us what is happening from the inside. We can give them some of the polish and explain to Anton what it is and how to use it, and maybe we can send food parcels down the shaft and feed them.’ I suggest, getting excited that we maybe saving a whole pack.

‘Sounds good, what do you think Anton?’ Alpha asked kindly.

‘Food sounds good, we are on tight rations at the moment, as we had no idea what we could do and for how much longer we needed to be hidden.’ the boy said as he considered what we suggested.

‘Come with me lad, let me show you something else.’ Alpha said.

We followed Alpha to the monitoring room and let the boy look around, his eyes wide at what we had hidden in that room.

‘Wow sir, this is amazing, you don’t have all the caves covered, but recognise the ones you have.’ Anton says with a pleasant smile on his face.

‘Anton, this one here is the mine site, at the top is the vent shafts.’

‘Yes, Madison, we know of this place, but we did not go there. There was some poison in the water that made us very sick, so we stayed away. If they bathe in that water, they will get sick too, not just drinking the water. Contact is dangerous. It is in the lower levels, if they stay up near the surface, they will not come across the water’

‘What type of poison? Sick how?’ I asked, wondering if I could make an antidote.

‘People will replace they start to get a chest infection, that will slowly eat them from the inside, and if you bath or drink the water, your stomach will rot and you will get a lot of pain. Some are known to have their stomachs explode.’

‘Tell me more about what you know of this water?’

‘The first thing if you bathe in it, is you will not smell. After three or four days, you will get stomach pain. By day five you are in so much pain and will die by the end of the week. If you drink the water, you will be in pain after four to six hours, and die quicker. If you just wash your hands in it, you may last a week to ten days before you succumb. It is very bad water.’

‘Wonder if that was in the container, a small medical room?’ Zane suggests as we ponder everything.

‘Okay Anton, this here is a communicator.’ Zane says as he picks one up.

‘Gerome will activate them so you can talk to us here in the monitoring room, and we can talk back. You use a magnet like this.’ And he put one on Gerome’s ear, ‘and you can shift back and forth and the mic will stay put until you take it off.’

‘Wow, can I take some to my people?’

‘Yes, son, you can. How many do you need?’ Gerome asked.

‘We have about two thousand warriors. Do you have enough for us all?’

Stunned by the volume of warriors, Gerome’s mouth dropped open.

‘How about giving you one hundred and you can have the leaders put them on? We have not made enough for that many people, we have only managed to complete the communicator yesterday and have not had time to make that many.’

‘That will be plenty, sir. We can have fifty if that works, as we can give it to each warrior leader and they can direct our people,’ Anton said with confidence.

‘Anton, here in this pot is a polish that you can have the warriors put on their toenails. It is made of silver and wolfbane. Anyone you scratch with those painted nails will get pain and won’t be able to heal quickly. I have clothes in this box, to remove the polish when no longer needed, and it is an antidote if you accidently scratch one of your own.’ Madison, shows Anton what she had prepared.

‘Wow you people are great; this will help for sure. Thank you for sharing this with us.’ Anton looked excited at all that had been prepared.

‘You can stay tonight with us and we can get into the kitchen to cook a lot of bread and cakes that we can put down the shaft for your people. We will work out the best way to get you home and the items for you, Anton, I know this will sound strange, but please do not mention this room or the other room we have shown you, as we still do not know if we have found all the spies yet and, best, we keep it a secret, until the fighting is done.’

Anton nods his agreement and Alpha leads the way back out of the monitoring room and down to the dining room, where Anton will get to meet others that will be part of the fighting team Alpha’s. He is a pleasant young boy. I liked him the moment he revealed himself to us.

‘Madison?’ Anton queries. I nodded to him to continue as we walked towards the dining hall, side by side.

‘How did you know I was nearby in the woods?’

‘I am a born tracker, there is not a person that can hide from me for too long, I smelt you.’

‘I smell, but I cloaked myself, how could you smell me?’ he was shocked by my statement.

‘She is special, Anton, my mate surprises me every day, with her ability to do things and to work out problems.’ Zane says with pride.

‘You are special then, because few can replace us when we are cloaked, but I cannot sustain it for long periods of time, it wears me out. When I get older, I might be able to, my dad can stay cloaked even in his sleep.’ He says proudly.

‘Who is your dad? Anton.’ Alpha asked.

‘Oh, um, I guess it is okay to say now. My dad is Alpha Alex.’

This did not surprise me in the least, his aura was of latent power that will bloom when he matures into a man.