The Last Apprentice Story of the Lost
Chap. 2
"Alice!" I screamed afraid that my best friend would be gone. "Are you okay?"
"Tom, oh Tom help me, Tom." Alice was talking, but it was not Alice choosing those words.
"Spook that's not Alice, it's…..it's got to be Bony Lizzie or something" I said still trying to find Alice. I ran to the Bony Lizzie's pit. When I looked inside it was a horror. Bony Lizzie had Alice by the hair. She held her long, nasty nails against Alice's neck. I called for the Spook and he looked in horror. "What do we do?"
"Hand me your staff boy." The Spook sounded calm, like he'd it happened before. The reason he wanted my staff was because mine was made of rowan wood, especially for taking care of witches. The Spook started to jab at Bony Lizzie. She screamed in pain of the stabs.
"I'll only give up the girl if you give up me!" she screeched under the pain of the rowan wood.
"Tom, Tom," the voice continued, "give her what she wants. She will use my blood and bones!" Even though Alice was the spoke, those were not her words! Alice looked possessed she showed no emotion, she was like a doll under command.
"She is possessed under some sort of dark magic." I said, "If only I could undo it!" Bony Lizzie was still screeching from the pain started to cut in to Alice's skin. Alice was now, too, screaming under the pain. Now Alice had awaked from her possession.
"Get away from me!" Alice now had shoved Bony Lizzie the ground of the pit, then took the staff from the Spook and stabbed Bony Lizzie in the leg. Bony Lizzie screeched with pain and horror. "Help me out Tom, before she comes for me again!"
"How you can't fit the space between the bars is too small!" I said shaking with fear.
"Well try any way!" She screamed at me. I started to tug and pull Alice through the bars. She was starting to slip through and the Spook started to help too. Finally, Alice slipped all the way through.
"Now I need new bars to put over her pit." The Spook said really melancholy like. Soon Alice had made an ointment from her pouch of herbs and once again the Spook shook his head in disapproval. He didn't like that Alice knew the ways of a witch. Soon the Spook sent for someone to help with the bars.
When the man came to fix the bars over the pit me and Alice went inside. "Like the bar-man, I don't." Alice sneered as she started to copy down one of the Spook's books.
"Why not Alice?" I asked, I mean he seemed like a good guy.
"He doesn't smell right. Smells like the dark, he does." Alice said. Now I became afraid for my master. I got up but Alice stopped me. "Don't go trying to save him it's no use."
"Wait, you knew he was in trouble and didn't say anything! Alice, how could you do that?" I started to yell at Alice, but then it wasn't Alice anymore. It was Bony Lizzie. "What did you do to Alice? Did you kill her?"
"I would never kill kin, but I will kill you." She said with a grin. That's when I ran outside to find the Spook and the bar-man in battle. I ran to my master's side. "You can't run away boy."
"Tom, burn her it's the only way to put an end to her." I could her Alice yell from the pit and I realized she was probably hurt but I need the Spook's help to help her. Two against one wasn't easy for the one and he went within seconds, but when Bony Lizzie came and joined we had enough trouble for the both of us.
"Get Alice, boy!" The Spook yelled at me. At that moment I saw how bad Alice looked and I never want see her that bad again. It was horrifying. Though was no time to gasp at her. I grabbed her waist and lift her through the small hole. I laid her in the grass then started to help to help the Spook fight off Bony Lizzie. She was strong, not strong enough to fight off two people. She was soon on her knees, screaming, but Alice was screaming even more. She was screaming words that sounded like Old Tongue, she was using a spell. I was very confused, but I wasn't the only one, the Spook looked just as confused as I am.
Alice broke the spell and talked to me again. "She is trying to possess me, Tom. Burn her, burn her now!" Alice was angry and started to mumble words instead of yelling.
"Should I burn her?" I asked the Spook.
"Do it boy!" The Spook yelled. I picked up a stick and my tinderbox and started a fire. I ran after Bony Lizzie. When I caught her I lit her on fire. Cries of came from her. When I looked at Alice, there was no Alice it was Bony Lizzie.
"Well done boy, now it's your turn." Bony Lizzie laughed.
"Tom, Tom wake up!" Alice said. Then I noticed that I was dreaming. Though one nightmare just ended another started. Two men were walking at us with nasty clubs in hand.
"What happened?" I asked.
"I woke up to see the Spook gone, you asleep, and two large men staring at us." Alice said getting ready to defend herself. Then more men came out of the woods and me and Alice knew something bad was about to happened.