A/N: The second part of chapter 1! Please R&R!

CHAPTER 1 PART 2

THE CHURCH OF SATAN

I twisted at the last second and grabbed onto the cold stone with both hands. I managed to clamber back onto the stone walkway.

The door I was in front of was closed, I thought it was just the wind that had knocked the door and knocked me. So I opened the door and walked into a very long corridor with many windows along the walls on either side.

I walked down the corridor staring out each window. I was now about thirty metres over the ground. There were some amazing sights out of these windows, you could not see further than the forest. The green canopy was shrouded in mist from the piercing cold rain falling in a constant sheet, but the wind was getting stronger and the rain was getting wilder.

Down over the forest there was no more birds, only the random crow or two.

My footsteps echoed loudly through the corridor, but then I noticed that not only my footsteps could be heard.

I slowed my pace and sure enough there was another pair of footsteps behind me. So I spun around, and down at the end of the corridor was a figure dressed in a black robe that covered their face, hands and their feet. But they were slowly walking towards me. I tried called out "Who are you?" but my voice faltered with fear as the figure kept advancing, and I saw a glint of silver in its belt, it had a knife!

I started to back away slowly but the figure continued to advance. I turned and ran all the way down the corridor and rounded a corner. There were two different doors around this corner.

I quickly ran through the door on the left and quietly closed it. Inside was a small store room with a spiral staircase at the end of the room. I ran behind a few crates and barrels that smelt like very old and out of date wine.

Maybe he wouldn't find me, maybe he would walk right past and go through the other doorway, but as I thought this I heard a rattling on the door.

I acted out of fear then. I grabbed barrels and crates and pushed them in front of the door and ran up the staircase. He wouldn't be able to get in now; there was too much weight against the door. But then I heard a resounding crash as all of the things in front of the door came crashing down!

I didn't stop for a second and sprinted up the staircase two steps at a time. I burst through the door at the top without even stopping.

I was in the Tower of Satan now. There was a ladder attached to the wall going straight up to the top where there was a small platform, without hesitating I started to climb.

When I was halfway up the ladder I looked down, and the figure was at the bottom of the ladder! It started to climb and I frantically tried to speed up, but it was no good. When I was only a few metres from the top it reached me, and it pulled out its dagger and swiped at my leg in one swift movement. It left a long gash down my shin.

I cried out and pulled myself up the last stretch to the platform at the top of the tower.

The figure jumped up beside me and I ran. But there was no where to run, he was blocking the exit, the only other way out was the arched windows that surrounded the room, but we were up so high that the fall would kill you no matter what.

I backed into a corner as the figure slowly advanced upon me.

What do I do, there is no where to go, I thought. Then it spoke.

"Why are you intruding on this land, this ruin is property of the Dark Lord! For trespassing you will die!"

Then I felt warmth against my chest in the freezing cold weather with the occasional bit of rain getting in. I looked down and saw a slight black glow, only visible because the glow blacked out some of the other colours around me.

The figure slowed his advance until he completely stopped. The glow started to grow in intensity and warmth. I grabbed it and held it out in front of me, the figure seemed scared by it, so I would send it running, but when I held it out in front of me there was a very loud caw that echoed around the small room.

Then all of the birds swooping around the castle stopped flying and just hovered there flapping their wings, then they all flew into the old windows around the room at the top of the Tower of Satan.

They started pecking and swooping at the figure sending it reeling back. But the birds didn't stop their attack, they kept pecking and swooping and clawing at the figure until finally it toppled backwards out of one of the windows, screaming all the way down to the hard, muddy, unforgiving ground. The body lay still on the ground spread eagled.

I peered out the window in horror, I was close to being killed and somehow the necklace I wore called forward the birds and made them attack.

Then the birds swooped back in. Then they all landed in front of me and bowed their feathered heads.

I was shocked and I started my way down the ladder.

When I got out of the church I started toward the forest, but I couldn't help but look over to where the black figure had fallen, but there was nothing there, not any sign someone had just fallen from atop the tower.

I looked at the spot where a mangled body had laid, but now there was nothing. I started to walk into the forest, but I didn't know that the forest would hold the same amount of terror that the Church had.