The Killian curse: After the close
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I do not own 'The Killian Curse' this is just a little bit of fun for me. Do not read any further if you have no clue what 'The Killian Curse' is about.
1
I looked up at the portal as it closed. I looked up with everyone surrounding me, looking up to the now, non-existent door that would've gotten us home.
"Now what?" asked Johnny.
We all looked around at each other. There was a roar and everyone jumped, one of the demons, in the room next door. Everyone turned to Jack for an answer.
"Umm, Celia got the chant to unlock the chains, maybe she has another idea" he pointed out.
Everyone turned and stared at me. I could feel my face burn. I just shrugged. "Give me a minute to think, you know I'm not at my full capability under too much pressure" I told my classmates, in room 21.
I guess I should probably explain.
Our classroom has a curse on it. Everyone in our class has had to face a demon; some of us lost our souls.
Last year I managed to defeat my curse and, with the help from the people in the class, who has also defeated their curse and got to keep their soul, get back anyone who had lost their soul to Charles Killian, who swore revenge on the people who had caused his death in 1906.
We thought we defeated him last year, but he returned, this time with someone in our class on his side. Everyone thought it was Billie, because she was new to the class after Chelsea had left without a trace.
Jack and I got our souls taken by a moth after the traitor shone a torch in my eyes (Just one of the many disadvantages with having glasses). We got sent down to Killian's world were Byron was in a chair covered in chains (and for some reason, he was wearing a pink, flower helmet).
After that some of our classmates joined us, first it was Miles whose soul got taken by a werewolf on school camp. Next it was Te Aroha (or TP for short) who got her soul taken by some ghost bullies, then Lucy, who got her soul taken by a medium. David, who got voted to get his soul taken on Killian Island when they had vote for who soul Killian would be taken, Charlotte, who got wasted by a china doll, Karl who got wasted by a rabbit and then Keith whose soul got taken by a comic book character.
We all decided after being chained to chairs by Killian that we would somehow escape from his clutches. At first Charlotte thought if saying the chant Killian said that locked us up backwards might work. She can be mean but she always thinks ahead. When we tried it didn't work, we tried different ways of saying it, like using a deeper voice and saying it really quietly.
While during all of this I was thinking about the words, they sounded like Latin (the chant Killian used to chain us to the chairs, in English, translated to 'Lock Chains'), and using my past knowledge of the subject , we escaped from the chains and tried to found a way out of Killian's world. Later, we found out that there was one way out of Killian's world and that is through the portal back in the other room.
So we had to go back to the room where we were trapped and have to possibly face Killian.
We were all in for a shock when we got there, the rest of room 21 (who faced their curse and beat it) was there, getting their souls sucked out and absorbed by Killian. "Libreo Canatre!" (The chant we used to escape the chains) Jack yelled many times but the chains would not budge.
"Guys" we heard someone say, faintly. Jen! "I was the traitor" we all looked at each other in horror.
She explained to us, with her last ounce of energy that there are demons in the other room that would do as told if someone freed them.
That was hard for me, I knew my demon couldn't hurt me, but it still made me uneasy being in the same room as the moth that wasted me. But I was willing to put that to the side while the others were getting their souls sucked out.
Using a spell on the wall Jack freed the rabbit that took Karl's soul in his curse. The rabbit attacked Killian, he disappeared and all the people whose souls were almost sucked out were saved. But then Billie pointed out that the portal to our world has been shut off.
So back to the present. Everyone was looking at me for an answer, I just shrugged, and I don't know what to do. I may be the class nerd, but that doesn't mean that I always know the answer. Everyone broke up into their groups, greeting their stolen friends, who they haven't seen or talked to in weeks.
But I think I've been spending too much time with my best friend, Charlotte, who got taken as well. Since Billie was all by herself, I walked over to her. "I am, we all are, sorry that we blamed all the things the traitor did on you." I said.
She nodded. "It's okay, I would have done the same if I was in your shoes" she smiled and we hugged each other.
Jack came up to me "Now what do we do?" he asked. We looked up at the portal. It was still there; just we can't get through it. Then it hit me. "Say the chant."
"What?" Jack queried.
I rolled my eyes "We've heard that chant Killian uses went he summoned a demon at least 18 times. We should say it." Jack smiled. "Why didn't we think of that before?" he said.
He got up on a chair "Guys shut up!" he announced. Everyone stared at Jack, waiting for him to say something.
"Celia and I, well mainly Celia, came up with the idea that maybe, if we say the chant Killian said when he was summoning a demon to go to our world. If we say it, we may be lifted back to our world"
"How did it go?" Owen asked, hidden in the crowd. I guess someone who had never heard the chant was bound to ask eventually.
"Arhungt meerina eeenah or something like that" chanted Byron, doing a really good impersonation of Killian. I looked at the ceiling, the portal opened slightly but closed as soon as Byron stopped saying the chant.
"Well Byron is really good at the chant, maybe he should say it" said Keith.
"Here, let me help" said Jen.
"Like we're going to trust you now that we know what you really are" said Elizabeth
"Oh come on, I was possessed by a demon, and Killian chose me, not the other way round" Jen said, getting into defence mode. And when Jen gets defensive, you should back off right away.
Everyone began arguing on top of each other, except Jack and me. Jack jumped down from the chair he was standing on and came over to me.
"This isn't going to work" he said, I could hardly hear him, even though he was almost yelling.
"Wait, I have an idea" I told him, almost yelling. He nodded as I felt around in my skirt pocket. Phone, iPod, coughs lollies...aha! There it was my whistle. I used to coach a kids netball team after school (Hey, I may be a total nerd, but I really like coaching kids netball), until my soul got taken.
When I was down here, in Killian's world, I commanded my soulless body, back in the real world, resign from anything I had signed up to, so that way I couldn't scare the kids on the netball team.
Oh and in case you're wondering, adults can't see the curse, but anyone under 19 can, so even though kids saw us as zombies, adults saw us as unusually, well behaved, normal kids.
'Good idea' mouthed Jack after he saw my whistle. I got up on a chair and blew into it. The whole room covered their ears, turned and stared at me.
"Thank you" I said, almost yelling in frustration "Jen is now her normal self so it should be fine to trust her" as I said that, a few people rolled their eyes, I just ignored that and continued "Now, Byron, are you able to say the chant?" I said. He nodded. "Good, I think we should all somehow become one in order to get out of here" I said.
We were all silent for a minute and then David piped up, "I got it"!
We all stood in a circle, holding hands, I was holding Jack and Karen's hands, and Karen squeezed my hand. She leant over and whispered.
"I'm glad you're okay" she smiled. I smiled to that; gee I guess I do matter. Byron began the chant. I just stood there, hoping for the best. We slowly got lifted up in the air.
We all looked up, to our door to freedom was slowly, but surely opening, Jack squeezed my hand, tightly, and I squeezed Karen's.
The light from our world was pouring into the room, we all smiled and Byron kept on chanting. We were almost half way through the portal, with Byron saying the chant louder and louder the closer we got to our world.
We were almost through when we heard a familiar voice. The voice was booming, strong, and really angry. It could only be one person.
Killian!
"I WILL GET YOU KIDS IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO" he yelled at us, Byron responded by saying the chant even faster. Then suddenly, darkness.