User blog:ExdeathsBagel/Decoy City (WWYD by Bobruffians)

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As soon as news spreads that the walls have been breached, chaos erupts throughout the city. Men and women, presumably couples, hold each other tight, some collapse give a thousand yard stare at the sky, others pray, and the worst leap from their buildings, believing death to be better than husbandry to the beasts.

What the hell is wrong with these people? I’ll admit, I consumed Order propaganda like any other that mamonos are lust ridden abominations that seek to enslave men, but as our resources have dwindle and news of the breach reached my ears, I realized that this was a bait city. These so called righteous heroes put innocence at risk in a battle many know are losing, and all the while took more and more of our resources away leaving the very old and the very young to die. And now, in this grand betrayal, they don’t need to passively kill us, in our propaganda ridden fear we will do that for them.

What if, in a sick way, this is another desperate tactic to win a war many are sick of living in? Feeding the people propaganda so gruesome they would rather die that confront the living image of those macabre posters. Well, I believe holding onto my life, even if its enslaved to a beast, is far better than dying with a knife in the back from the Order.

Even from my locked room with sealed windows, I hear the dome shattering. It is a near deafening shatter that mercifully muffles the screams and cries of men and women if only for a brief moment. I braced for the glass to fall, but in the distance saw it was being moved, blanketed by a darkish aura as if moved away from above the decoy town.

While I accepted my fate, I certainly wasn’t brave about. I hid under sheets, jumping at every harpy speeding across my view from the window, peeking at the scene below of men struggling as mamonos grabbed them. What brought disgust up from the pit of my stomach was that these men, in their struggling, would take their life in the mamonos grip. The mamonos release them in shock, some fleeing and others simply stared at the now corpses. I couldn’t but feel bad for these beast.

Some men however, would accept their fate, and even though I could not see their faces, their body language spoke of utter defeat and fear of a presumed fate worse than death.

I jump at the shaking from my floor, noticing a part of it in the center of my room being forced upward. With the sound of wood breaking and what appeared to be a shovel piercing through. The head of a woman with short black hair came popping out, though I knew she was no woman. For as soon as we locked eyes and she crawled out I saw that she was a Giant Ant.

Where I expected an expression of maddening lust was only a look of tension, and she approached me cautiously. She either assumed I had a weapon, or I was going to try to take my life.

“I’m not armed, take me to your Queen to be raped.” I say, defeated and accepting of my fate.

The Ant stops in her tracks, and though she appears to relax, she still looks tense, “I’m not here to do that. I’m here to get you out of here. Human, uh, you know this is a decoy city, right?”

I rise up and glare at her, “No, I didn’t. I just assumed the constant reduction in supplies and security was just standard protocol.” I say, though immediately feeling bad at my harshness, “Sorry.” I say tiredly.

“It’s fine.” She says, “If you’re not hurt, come down with me, we need to get you out of here soon. Take what you can, but please be quick.”

I take what I can, though confused by her haste I don’t question her urgency just yet. With my Weresheep blanket, pouch of coins, food and water in my backpack, and the clothes on my back, I hop down into the tunnel with her. I stick close to her as we begin to move. From light provided by the holes above, I noticed many other men with me sharing the same defeated expression, each with a different mamono captor. Though unlike them, who hang their heads in silence from shame or defeat, I choose to speak to my captor.

“Why the urgency to flee? You’ve defeated the Order stationed here right? This decoy city tactic was a bust.” I ask her.

She looks back to me, her expression one of surprise and sorrow, “You don’t know? The Order obliterates decoy cities. The breach was intentional, we’re trying to save as many people as we can.”

As I feel a pit in my stomach, I could tell the air in the cave changes as I see fellow humans tense as that reaches their ears.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Bullshit!” A man yells from the crowd.

<p class="MsoNormal">“They’re just trying to break us even more! Make us easier to rape!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“No! It’s true!” I hear a mamono call out, “The Order just used you, they’re monsters!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“You’re the only monsters here!” A man shouts.

<p class="MsoNormal">The once silent, sorrowful cave erupts into shouts and rage. The sounds of struggles and strikes echoes as numerous bodies move and charge around. I instinctively move to the wall, afraid of being trampled. The Giant Ant help me there and presses herself up against me, and in the chaos I couldn’t help but find her scent a little intoxicating.

<p class="MsoNormal">Ahead I see men and women resisting their captors as they climb through holes above to the surface as mamono try to stop them and plea with them not to go. Unfortunately, some of the people came prepared and fired shots from otherwise simple riot weapons meant to inflict non-lethal harm, though their kicks and punches were far more dangerous than the weapons they were packing.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You’re going to die! Come back!” A Lamia with numerous shoe shaped bruises on her face shouts.

<p class="MsoNormal">“No! The Order will save us!” A voice from above shouts.

<p class="MsoNormal">The cave was full of much less humans now, and weeping mamono comforted each other as we pressed on.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Thank you,” I say, “for helping me to safety.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I should be thanking you.” the Giant Ant says, “I was terrified that the human I came across would take his life. My name is Claire by the way.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’m Thomas.” I say.

<p class="MsoNormal">A few moments of silence past between us before I speak again, “I don’t know what you intend on doing with me, but taking one’s life is a thing is something no man or beast should have to see, no matter what the Order says.” I say.

<p class="MsoNormal">“What did the Order say we were going to do?” Claire asks.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Assuming not eat us? Rape and kill the men when they were dry, change or kill the women if they refused, and kill the human children, only allowing mamono children to live.”

<p class="MsoNormal">As the Giant Ant turns pale in shock, the voice of a presumed mamono speaks from behind me, “And you believe that madness?!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“When you’re born into this war, everything they say seems true.” I say to quell her. I turn to Claire, and whisper in a drained tone, “but now I don’t know what to believe. The Order, who were my heroes since childhood do something as terrible as this and convince their citizens to do worse.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I know you probably won’t believe me, but, things will get better.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Like hell it is.” A man says, “I’d rather die than meet whatever terrible fate you’ll bring us to.”

<p class="MsoNormal">The crowd suddenly stops, as a Wererabbit in front twitches her ears. “Oh shit!” She shouts, “We need to move! The Order is getting ready to bomb this place!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Claire takes my hand as we being to run with the crowd, but the last of the dissenters make their presence know by one last attempt at freedom and climb the holes to the surface. This time their mamonos captors don’t let up their attempted rescue, even in the midst of stops and shots.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Leave them! We need to go!” Fellow mamono say as they pull their comrades away, “They made their choice.” They say solemnly.

<p class="MsoNormal">As we continue to run, our footstpes, slithers, and skitters and soon drowned by booms in the distance.

<p class="MsoNormal">“They’ve begun bombing! We’re almost to safety! Double time everyone!” The Wererabbit shouts.

<p class="MsoNormal">We begin to run faster as the ground around us begins to shake and the booms grow louder, behind us I could hear screams, but Claire tells me to keep running. Soon, holes above become scarcer and instead lanterns that shook with the booms provided illumination. A loud crumbling erupts from behind us as the screams of men, women, and mamono become louder and more frantic. Things become a fog at this point, as if my brain tries to spare me from the horrible fate that was transpiring behind me.

<p class="MsoNormal">At some point the Wererabbit told us to stop, as I realized the sounds of the bombings had ceased. Against Claire’s wishes, I turned around. Although a slight crowd was in front of me, in front of them was a wall of rock and dirt.

<p class="MsoNormal">While many humans stared at the wall in shock, many mamono wept, and one Lamia, a Shirohebi began pounding and digging at the wall.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Racheal! Racheal please hear me! Sis!” After a few moments of digging, she let out a loud wail and turned to us.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Why?! Why are we doing this?! For these stupid humans! The ones who would rather die than be with us?!”

<p class="MsoNormal">A Lich walked up to her, “I know this is hard Rebecca, but calm down-”

<p class="MsoNormal">“My sis just died for a bunch of ungrateful assholes! Fuck you! These human’s want to die?!” She suddenly summoned numerous blue orbs, “I’ll grant them their wish!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Screams from mamono and humans alike erupted as Claire grabbed my hand and pulled me away, the last thing I saw before we turned a corner was the Shirohebi being subdued by numerous mamonos, but her message seemed to have got across as some equally angry mamonos began attacking the men they were with.

<p class="MsoNormal">Claire took me to a much larger room, along the few humans and mamono who weren’t caught the brawl behind us. The room was large, large enough to house the Echidna in the center and the numerous large mamono and humans comfortably with plenty of space to spare. Judging from the Echidna’s expression, she was expecting more of us.

<p class="MsoNormal">She turned to the Wererabbit, “Are these all the humans you could get?”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Wererabbit ear’s drooped, “Yes. Many fled back to the surface, and many still were lost when the bombings began. We lost the entire section of cave used to get into the decoy town, along with many humans and mamonos.”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Echidna sighed, “I see. Take a break Mariah, you are dismissed.”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Wererabbit hopped off, her ears still drooped, and the Echidna turned to us, “Humans, listen up! We aren’t here to hurt you, rape you, or whatever the Order has told you! If you want to escape to the surface, so be it! Follow the Slime out.” She motioned to the Slime standing at the hallway to her left.

<p class="MsoNormal">Most of the human’s ran the Slime, and after a few moments, she turned to lead them out. I looked back to the crowd and saw there was about only a handful of humans left.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Echidna spoke again, “Tell me humans, why did you stay?”

<p class="MsoNormal">After a few moments, the first human, a man, spoke up, “I was taken from my bed and have no idea what’s going on! One moment I’m asleep, the next an Arachne is leading me down a tunnel and the Order bombing my town!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“The Order has left me with nothing!” A woman shouted.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I was forced into that God-forsaken town, and now I’m stuck in this cave, but you know, it seems better than there!” An older man shouted.

<p class="MsoNormal">Claire looked to me, expecting me to speak. Images and sounds of the bombings and screams were burnt into my brain, “Because-because I want to do something about this!” I say and turned to human’s behind me, “The Order betrayed us, they’ve lied to us since day one! Mamonos sacrificed themselves for us, the Order sacrificed others for their sake!”

<p class="MsoNormal">I felt all eyes glued on to me, and couldn’t help but feel like shrinking under their stare. As I turned, I saw Claire smiling, so was the Echidna, “That’s right! Have you human’s seen the light? The Order is only interested in saving themselves now! So what do say? For those who’ve they’ve sacrificed, will you help us?!”

<p class="MsoNormal">While I nodded, I heard the voice of the old man, “They took my home from me, for a war that’s been fought since I was a kid! If you can end this war before my grandkids get stuck in it, you bet I’ll help you however you can!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’m sick of starting over, sign me up!” The man shouted.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I swear to God if my family is in another these decoy towns I will happily be converted to a mamono if it means I can pay them back. Sign me up!” The woman shouted.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Echidna smiled and nodded, “Very well! Humans, from this point on you are on the side of the mamonos! While allegiance to the Demon Lord is optional, we will still expect you to fight for both human and mamono kind against the Order. From this point on, I am your commander, Elise. You will be kept here for a while, until we can determine the best way to make use of you. Mamonos! Show the human’s there living quarters, unless they are comfortable living with you that is.”

<p class="MsoNormal">I took Claire’s offer to share her room, and after a few weeks, I was determined to be best as a rouser, someone to go into decoy towns and sneakily inform the truth as to the fate of these towns and to the true nature of mamonos. I was not alone in this job, and as time went on we got better and spreading the truth and successfully rescuing as many humans as we could before the cities were bombed.

<p class="MsoNormal">Once word began to spread further, less and less decoy cities were populated, and more and more people stood up against the Order. They are on the verge of losing, and Claire and I, on a rare day off, are sharing some time together on the surface in a monster friendly city, awaiting the day this war will end.