Toxic Tales: Chapter 18

Dawn

Eris woke up at the break of dawn, she peered down at the sleeping allosaur below her. She considered jumping on him, but decided that it wouldn't be very smart and used her wings to slow her fall, landing just in front of his snout. She squirmed though the bars and took the stolen keys out of a crevice she had hid them in ages ago, then climbed up the bar, holding the keys in her jaws, and inserted it into the lock, turning it until she heard a click. She did the same to Achilles's, then walked down the hall, explaining the plan and unlocking cells belonging to anyone she knew would listen. Finally she got to a poison wyvern's cell, she was leaning against the bars, a burn crept up her tail and onto her back, it clearly wasn't treated.Eris whispered the plan to her, who only nodded in response. She unlocked the door and continued unlocking them until she had freed everyone she wanted to, then she crept into the room where the bags were kept. She grabbed the two pouches before stuffing even more things she found in other bags. She crept back to Achelois's cell, before squirming through the bars and told her, "I brought something for your burn, can you move your tail over here."

Eris struggled to open the bag, each of which was almost as big as her, until it fell open, she grabbed the herb and mashed it into a paste before rubbing it onto the burn. Achelois flinched as Eris touched the angry, red, burn, majority of the scales were entirely burned away while some barely remained. Thank you Eris, we don't have long so you should stay here," the wyvern said.

A hour or so went by before the sounds of doors creaking open and footsteps coming up the hall. Achelois pushed the door open, "get on," she said, kneeling down for Eris to climb on her back. Achelois took a step out of the cell as creatures emerged from the hall. She walked with them to the main exit, taking a step out of the dark hall and into the rising sun.

- Sol