Capítulo 3: Organization
The stalemate between the remaining stained eventually broke as the tension faded and we began to busy ourselves attempting to manage the new underlings we had acquired. It finally allowed me to get a proper count of the number of rats that had chosen to follow me.
51 rats now stood in front of me. Each had already been named including the new ones. We had picked up a few stragglers who had yet to have chosen a horde to join.
This break also allowed me to properly get a look at the surroundings since my birth. My first week consisted of either drinking my mother's milk or being taught. It had not given me time to get a proper bearing on my location.
During the first week, we had been told this room was the breeding room. This is where new rats are birthed and subsequently raised for the first week of their meagre lives. The Silver Fang clan had only 1 breeding room. How many rats inhabited the clan hole I did not yet know.
The room was spacious with plenty of room for the 500 hundred-odd rats that still stood within it. In fact, its size was staggeringly big for an underground hole. The walls were hard rock and you could see where the claws of thousands of tiny rats had chewed away at the lower parts of the wall. The occasional rudimentary wooden support stood holding the roof of the cave up and preventing a rockfall.
Small pools of water were also dotted around the room. Assumingly for the mothers to drink from during birth.
The room was a large rectangle with one of the shorter sides having a large opening in which the mothers left and the males had entered prior.
The occasional vegetative creepers hung from the roof down however all of them stopped well short of reaching the floor. From these creepers hung small fruit which glowed a starchy and subdued white colour.
However despite these lights darkness still ruled the area. However, most of our eyes had long since adjusted.
My eyes landed on the passageway which led away from the breeding ground. A daunting proposition.
To leave the familiarity of the breeding ground, however, seemed to be becoming necessary. While from quick observation it seems my fellow rats hold no problems eating their kin this will not last us long. Already small fights had broken out amongst the subordinate rats in the other groups fighting over the odd corpse that had been left over from the small white rats war with other groups.
Speaking of which she now held a force as strong as around 70 rats however even with the added numbers was still among the weaker group considering their size and stature.
The great black rat held a force of around 40. Falling just short of my horde.
The smaller black rat and the brown rat both sat around 25.
Most of the other stained had forces ranging from 25 down to only 15.
Still coated in the blood I was originally showered in and now further drenched by the rat I had gouged to death I stood at the front of my group.
Turning around I began to address my group.
'Splinter and sniffy come' I ordered
Not a moment after both the rats scuttled out of the group and sat before me.
"I herebyes announces yous as Vermins commandments"
this declaration clearly excites the two young rats as the begin chittering their teeth together.
My intention is to establish order amongst the horde by using rudimentary positions of higher power.
"Yous represent my power, those whos gos against yous gos against mes" I screech out so my whole horde can hear.
"Wes thanks you kind masters" Splinter chittered out and Sniffy gave an approving nod.
The two rats did a sort of bow to me despite both still walking on four legs. A habit ill have to beat out of them in the coming days.
Immediately I went about ordering them to split the group into three groups. The stronger and larger rats, the smart rats and then the disposable rats. It took 10 minutes before the rats had made it into their three groups.
I assigned Splinter to care for the smarter rats. These rats would come in useful however were too risky to have join fights if not completely necessary. The last two groups I split into two and then combined them so half the strong rats and half the weak rats made up one troop and then the same for the other troop.
The split was roughly 20 : 20 : 10. With the smarter rats being the smallest amount.
I would lead one of the troops and sniffy would lead the other.
But first I needed to crown myself. Nothing wrong with a little pride.
'Listens you vermins, From this days onwards I am to be knowns as Schreech head taker'
A loud screeching erupted from the crowd of 50 rats as they repeated the name.
I had come up with the name Schreech prior and had added head taker onto the end to add a little intimidation to it.
My dominance in the group was now evident. The rats looked up to me and I looked down on them. Exactly what I needed it to be.
Now leading a more well-organized horde I pushed forward towards the passageway in the wall. The first of the stained that had begun to make a movement to leave the breeding grounds.
Entering into the passageway I acknowledged the eyes and glares from the other stained.
Sniffy and Splinter both walked to either of my sides. A pep in their step as if the world would bend their knee to them now that they had been given a loftier position.
The large black stained glared intensely at me as I pushed forward into the passage. Not bothering to stare back however gently acknowledging that sniffer had begun to stick his rear end in the direction of the black stained and Splinter was sticking his tongue out. You could almost see the fire that had begun burning with his eyes however he held back from making a move.
Despite his great size, I was still the second largest rat only being beaten out by a few inches. Our fight would be brutal on both of us and my horde was now larger and more well organised. A fight would be unlikely to go his way.
Finally, I had completely passed through the entrance to the passage way. Three rats could fit in the passageway together and so my horde slowly filtered in behind me moving steadily in triple file lines. The rats at the back are some of my stronger rats in order to discourage attacks from behind. The smart rats had been positioned at the middle of the line creating a large wall of stronger rats around them.
It took around 30 seconds for the passage to begin opening out. Finally leading into a humongous cavern. At least several times the size of the breeding grounds. The cavern was several tens of metres deep with several layers and walkways made out of wood extending around the cavern leading off into different sections and different rooms.
There was also a large opening near the top of the cavern which appeared to lead up to the surface. Our passageway was located around the halfway line of the cavern.
Throughout the cavern, hundreds of rat-men scuttle along the passages and walkways.
Finally at the floor of the cavern was a large Throne with many smaller chairs dotted around it.
The throne room.
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