Frozen Basin: Disagree Twenty four hunters and Omega, all were standing in the compact frost shelter ready to decide the fate of the traitor.
The hunter denied again and again, repeating same words.
Few believed that he cannot be a traitor and someone else was trying to frame him, they stood beside him to support and proposed another way to find the truth.
"Will you still support him if the guardian beast appeared here?" the Omega was infuriated at the hunters who wanted to support a traitor.
His words brought a sense of insecurity.
The hunters were facing each other, if they could not reach a proper decision, there might be a war among them, their divided opinion was prove of their present broken collaboration and following.
This was also a sign that they no more trust each other, they were suspecting, and it made everyone to be alert.
The fellow standing next could be a traitor, it caused all of them to suspect and work separately, if it happened there would no more be a caravan but scattered hunters.
No one could tell what would happen next moment.
The situation got tense, "If he is traitor then I don"t believe each one of us, the Omega should give it a second thought," a hunter who was scared out of wits spoke, he was waving his weapon in the air, ready to answer whoever attacked.
He was right, none could escape if the guardian beast was really around, but they did not see it yet, if he was around he should have appeared long ago and killed but here they were facing frost storm and never ending weather the where was guardian beast, it seemed an excuse.
"Are you implying that someone is playing with our wits?" the Omega who was not as dumb understood what this hunter wanted to say.
The Omega looked around with his blood burning eyes, his facial veins pump-up, if this was true then they were played by someone very well, this might lead them to their death soon.
"Whoever is traitor among us would be exposed, everyone will tell the exact number of his counting when he was sent for this caravan," the Omega brought all of them out of the shelter, as soon as he would discover the traitor, all of them would attack and kill him.
The exact number of the counting was told to the hunter and the hunter when joined the caravan would report to the junior and senior Omega so all five Omegas were aware about them, all those who were sent with other leaders also bear the counting.
This was worrisome for Jen, were these hunters sent with the numbers? How composed and trained they were and the experts who were preparing them deserve an acknowledgement from her.
One by one all of them came out, the Omega was strictly keeping eyes at all of them, Jen was ready to face the worst.
The custodian creatures were flying around the mountain, when they saw the hunters coming out of the shelter, they were little astounded, it seemed suspicious.
Jen was almost dragging her feet, this etched their suspicion deep, there was something wrong and serious.
They dissolved immediately and came closer to check the situation, all the hunters stood in rows and with the gesture of the Omega, they started to speak out their counting number one by one.
Jen was standing at the last row.
"Expert black devil, number 111," a hunter spoke his counting and then the other, "Expert black devil, number 402," and it went on, initially Jen thought that she could copy the sequence but it was not as simple as she thought.
"Zero level, Night hunt…" another voiced, in this sequence the follow up was impossible.
Now it was her turn to speak her counting but she was silent, the hunters and the Omega looked at the frail hunter, they were not sure why he was keeping silent, "Its" your move," the Omega reminded, still there was no response.
The hunters and the Omega got suspicious, they brought out their weapons, many of them were thinking the time this hunter spent among them, few of them remembered the revoking words spoken by this hunter, others thought how this hunters showed them the path to this mountain and told to make a shelter, everything can turn in to favor if he speaks the number count and all of them would kill him if he failed.
Jen was left with no choice, just a move and they would attack at her, could there be an excuse? Like that she forgot the count? How ingenuous.
She shook her head and the custodians immediately flew toward her, the hunters could only witness a gust of black smoke and then the hunter disappeared.
The Omega and the hunters looked around to attack but there was no one.
"We should have considered it long ago, how a hunter could be frail like a human, and he was misleading all the time? Whoever followed him and disturbed the pace of caravan was mistaken," the Omega was pointing himself.
"We even don"t know what place we are standing, if it is safe or not, and who was he? Would he bring someone else too? What would happen to the remaining hunters?" a hunter who mostly listened to this hunter was at his wits end.
"This is not the actual concern, just think this hunter came to tell that dark region was now under the hunter leader, that means it never happened in reality and we were following only shadows, if we have left for the dark region, who knows what wonders were waiting there?" the Omega perhaps got scared now, his words were no more rational, and he seemed to be affected with the present situation.
The actual concern was whether they would be able to survive in the frozen basin? Or they would perish?
There were more serious concerns too, like who was in the disguise?