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Chapter Four
Chained
The cave was tall and wide, but a light came from the left; a golden light that I approached carefully. I was unable to examine the room, so much in that it was so dark that I had not even noticed how I had walked three steps in. The sight before me caused tears to roll down my face.
He was an angel. That's all that really registered in my mind. A chained angel in fact. I realized it could be a trick to see someone so lovely.
But that did not mean I was heartless enough to turn a blind eye. There was an overwhelming sense of pain and sadness radiating from him. I forced my self to come back to my own senses and made sure my eyes were not swollen from the tears I gushed moments before.
"Why are you chained?" His eyes having been closed until this point snapped open and they where a pure white that somehow let me know he was real.
"Kronius." He whispered the torches lighting the cave flickered.
"Kronius?" I asked confusedly.
"Kronius is the demon trapped inside the Oracle's catacombs."
"You mean the smokey black demon who likes trying to drag me down stairs?" I questioned, his gaze was fixed on me.
"You are an Oracle." He said simply.
"I don't predict the future. I will see it in about an hour but that's about when it happens." I stated and looked at his pure white wings.
"An Oracle has many different talents."
"Like attracting the paranormal?" She wondered.
"Paranormal?" His face showed confusion, the word rolling oddly out from his tongue.
"Magic, ghosts, demons, monsters... the Paranormal of the twenty-first century. Humans mostly think that it is all myth, and some who know it's real can be really dangerous to the paranormal. Whether they are good or not." I explained and looked at the chains covered in pure and hollowed with shadows.
"Only the key will unlock me." He seamed to read my expression.
"How do I know you're not an evil angel? Who's super sad about not being able to terrify people?" I questioned he had distraught about him, that and he most likely wanted to get clean.
"I can't ask you to retrieve the key. It's too dangerous all who have come before have died."
"His power grows stronger with every generation of the Oracle. Their is only one during their life time. It would be another century before another Oracle came about." He said I paused that meant the basement was the hiding spot. "Swear to me you will not risk yourself. You must leave." He warned.
"I swear." I crossed my fingers and toes, but then realized I was facing a demon. "Who's grave is that in the first part of the cave?"
"Alina the Oracle who trapped him in the house, and the one I failed to protect." He explained with no small amount of grief. I nodded and turned away.
"How long have you been trapped?"
"Since the age of the Greek Titans." He whispered I paused that was...
"That's a long time." I muttered and headed towards the house. How lonely would it be, to be trapped so long with only the thought of his companion's death.
I grabbed some clothes and some shoes, I avoided the cameras going down. I opened the door I had been dreading since the moment I walked into the house the first time.
"You're the first to figure out what is going on and willingly come into my domain." I heard his voice echo from the attic.
"You know your really are dramatic." I informed. So what if he killed me? Someone tries to four times a month.
"You have a deal for me?" He stated and I realized why he hadn't started attempting to kill me. All full demons have to at least listen to the deal, half demons held the urge but they could decline.
"It's more or less a game." I said calmly and leaned on the wall. Well aware the camera was seeing this, I also imagined the door was being demonically locked.
"Do go on...I enjoy games." He whispered vanishing and appearing beside my ear. The hair on my neck stood on end but I rolled my eyes.
"You know you can only do that so many times to me before I stop reacting to it right?" I questioned and he curled his mouth into a wide grin.
"You're rather dramatic as well." He mused and began walking away with a shrug and his arms out his claws retracting into human like hands.
"The key is my prize." He appeared in my face with a creepily evil grin.
"I thought you would react to that one." He pouted my lips twitched upwards. "How about if you scream, puke, or try to back out after entering the catacombs I may do as I please with you."
"More like you may kill me how ever you wish. This is still America." I said dryly the smirk on his face grew.
"Fine."
"You can't attack me or keep me from the key, in fact you have to lead me there without any tricks and you have to let me back out alive until I exit out side." I stated he tapped his lips in play thought.
"Vary well." I paused.
"Let me see your hands and feet when you agree and no crossing limbs!" I stated obviously I saw his hand slip behind his back.
"You noticed that?" His grin widening if it was possible.
"I just used that trick 30 minuets ago on the angel that I forgot to ask what his name was." I stated crossing my arms. "Oh and swear on your existence while your at it." His head was thrown back as he laughed demonically.
"I knew I liked you better then the others." He stated and circled me.
"I can be sarcastic and pull faces." I added he smirked.
"That's a lot, I'll add something my self, if you fail you will become mine."
"I thought I said no slavery?"
"Do you want the key or not?" He questioned.
"You swear first then." I said it rather childishly he floated and kept everything from crossing.
"I Kronius swear on my existence to obey this contract." His sockets flashed a dirty gold and returned back into their usual red.
"I Aio Suna here by swear my soul excluding the Oracle part to obeying this Oath." My eyes brightened and dimmed making spots flash in my eyes. "That just feels weird." I muttered he looked annoyed at something then I realized he would have had control over the oracle part, he would have even been able to make me give it to him.
"Tricky aren't you?"
"Meh it go's both ways between us." I stated he stroked my face with a shadowy claw.
"I'll make a bet you'll lose the moment the doors open." He stated I rolled my eyes.
"How far do the catacombs go?" I questioned curiously he gained a crooked grin.
"It branches out far enough to reach Las Vegas." He stated I stared at him.
"How far is the key?"
"A few miles, if you don't sleep and stay in tiptop order you'll reach it in three hours." I paused before shrugging.
"You kill Oracle's for fun and power?" I asked might as well.
"That sums it up nicely." He stated she raised an eyebrow.
"Oracle's I suspect have to come here at least once in their lives."
"Actually they have always come to be killed, considering back when Oracle's started getting powerful some times they would be rather evil and nothing besides old age would kill them." Kronius stated. "I think it's such a waist though. All that power cut off before the peak." He tutted as we approached a really old stone slab door.
"Not every Oracle had as awesome a personality as me then." I stated his teeth grew wide.
"Perhaps not, some where such goody goody's, others had to be dragged here before the age of 10 such bad eggs they where." He tutted slightly. "You know some even tried to set me free in order for me to become their slave."
"Figures, it's just like those demons who escape hell and then turn around. All like I hate hell but I'ma gonna let Lucy out anyway, because demons are just so loyal." I said amusedly he turned to me his face was emotionless for a moment, maybe not it was hard seeing anything but his eyes and teeth.
"How is it that I hate you, and yet we have so much in common?" He asked curiously I shrugged.
"Dark humor, we can see the stupidity in almost everything, and I bet you'd like anime." I stated he opened the door and I was hit by such a stench I took out a paper mask. "Figured it would be crammed full of dead body's." I was unable to see, although he left the door open I was kinda shocked by that then again we where talking even in the darkness his teeth glowed.
The smell is disgusting, their all just rotting how disrespected did they take my former Oracle's? I get the demon, but humans started the killing.
"Prepared." He mused.
"It's a catacomb, those are usually full of dead body's, obviously... Wait that one is resent. Well as resent as three years before I existed." It was obvious by the bones, and the decayed flesh, that and it looked as decayed as a zombie...
"No one makes it, five others found this cave and tried to run away."
"They got their things, dumb asses." He grinned my eyes finally adjusted enough to start walking again.
"Your heartless."
"No I'm not other wise I'd have left to japan with out telling anyone." I said. "Still haven't told anyone yet though."
"You wont make it." He stated I rolled my eyes.
"They always say that." I was stepping over rotted corpses, some where chained up.
"These are my victims, the ones who killed the Oracle's before me allowed the angel to place his companion in the cave before they chained him." He stated I ducked around a body.
"Their all young girls, what is this Oracle thing sexist or something?" He laughed.
"Actually the ones who started the tradition of killing Oracle's where men, their reasoning being women shouldn't have such power." He explained I stopped and gained a sour look weather or not he could see me I didn't care.
"That annoys me." I stated. "So she's the one who trapped you here then?"
"Yep since before hand I was targeting Oracle's willy nilly, it just happened we crossed paths here." He stated. "Of coarse I killed off the ones who started the Oracle killing."
"Didn't want competition?"
"They annoyed me."
"You get annoyed?" My voice was dull surprise.
"So do you." It unnerves me how laid back I feel, with all of these body's.
"Meh." I shrugged but paused looking at a corps that had swung down I paused and diverted the scream into a laugh. "You did that." I said, while doing my best not to show a grimace.
"Actually no, I neglected to mention the deeper you go in the more they move. By time you grab the key they'll develop into a hoard of zombies." He stated I paused before shuddering slightly.
"That's fucked up you know that?" I questioned I knew he was smiling crookedly.
"Meh."
"Copy cat." I stated dryly suddenly torches lit themselves. "Bright light." I vaguely noticed he was also blinking rapidly.
"I forgot about that.. The torches light up the ones before this are disabled." He said annoyedly. "I haven't been back here in ages." He added.
"You know where the key is don't you?" I questioned he seemed to give me a look.
"Of course I do! We go left." He stated I knew that tone.
It was just like when my brother was trying to be macho and things he normally was good at ended in an epic fail.
"Right we go then." I said dryly he looked ready to murder me again I didn't exactly feel comfortable around him but while he was bound by contract I relaxed. "My brother always ends up doing an epic fail when he uses the macho man tone. I know demons who have the same thing. Actually most males in general have that problem." I said amusedly. "Kinda like when a guy has a map and can't read it right, but just refuse to ask for directions."
"I know women who do that to." He returned I shrugged.
"Meh." I noticed a doorway and saw a bronze chest. "Wow.."
"Nice job you found the Oracle's belonging box." I realized most of these girls had nothing on. I had figured the clothes had deteriorated along with them as a please don't let it be true.
"Did they-"
"Rape the Oracle's? Yes on more than one occasion they had them bare children before their deaths."
"You?" I asked morbidly curious.
"Not into it." He stated. "Although the darker ones I did enjoy their bodys."
"Huh?"
"They let me." He dragged that out amusedly, this was confusing since when did demons hesitate to defile humans?
"One moral at least." I mused he pretended to wack himself.
"Just the one." He stated annoyedly I blinked before grinning. "I might make an exception though." He growled I kept my grin he was obviously bluffing.
"As long as your not as pathetic as a corps humper." I put in he pulled a disgusted face.
"Nasty just nasty." I laughed and looked threw the books laying around. "Those I keep safe from the damaging corps air." He stated I did feel a darkness keeping the smell at bay from the room and allowing decent air to come in thru a crack in the sealing.
"Did you know Oracle's never get decent life time partners?" He questioned. "They always end up killed before any romance, the only ones who even knew the feeling where the more recent ones."
"Huh?" He pointed at the statue of a bearded man who was just plain ugly.
"That man placed a curse on the Oracle's, that statue holds the key." Kronius stated.
"Your being literal aren't you?" I questioned he smirked and floated upwards.
I heard footsteps and scurried up I opened the box and found three keys. I looked at Kronius confusedly.
"You can take all off them, not like you'll make it out." He stated confidently I looked at the crack and realized I was skinny enough.
"Wanna bet?" I snatched the key's and charged the emerald chandelier in fact the place was kinda slytheriny.
I jumped and caught hold of the chains. It swung and I let it go back and forth before jumping onto the next one. I climbed up and put my hand onto the grass made sure I had a good hold.
"Damn." He muttered I didn't know he was staring at me oddly. "But not fast enough!" I knew he found a loophole in that instant.
"Fuck." I pulled myself out ignoring how my wrists were strained from the sudden jolt. I rolled onto the soft grass, and allowed the noon sun to bathe me in warmth.
"Damn it!" I heard him hiss angrily.
"Yah did it!" I panted breathing off beat.
"You better run, their following you." He chimed I heard the chains shaking from the weight and realized the ground I was on might fall in.
"Ahhh!" I raced towards that recently familiar sadness.
I heard footsteps rapidly approaching. I jumped desperately into the cave and rolled, and I saw the most horrible sight.
"It's worse then the movie Paranormal!" It really was because all of them were rotten and to fast for a corps to be able to move.
At least they were stopped by the barrier, they started to smoke and they retreated back the way they came. I let my head fall back onto the mossy cave floor. I was nasty, sleepy, smelly and most likely going to have a heart attack before the age of 21. Damn stupid demons and their catacombs full of rotting zombies. Zombies that moved way to freaky fast and I honestly wanted to hurl what ever was in my stomic.
"You came back?" It was a question, I held up the three keys.
"I jinxed the swearing thing with you. Then I luckily remembered all demons have to obey the contracting system." I stated still out off breath his eyes widened almost comically.
"You have all three."
"I didn't know which one would work." I then realized his chains where really freaking high. "Damn it." I muttered, mentally cursing my luck until the silver key floated out off my hand.
"Alina?" He muttered I stared at her she was gorgeous no wonder they where companions.
"Jarale." I did my best not to gag at the intensely rommantic greetings.
My stomic was still trying to do the flips against my will. I snapped out off my ignore it and you'll be emotionless thing when he started to drop. I caught him but he was surprisingly heavy for an angel. My back slammed onto the ground. I gasped my wounds causing a round of agony to corse threw my system.
"Damn your heavy." I grunted annoyedly my back ached painfully.
"Sorry." He murmured but didn't move.
"Jelly locked?"
"My arms and legs are extremely heavy all of a sudden. Don't even wonder about my wings." He was complaining that was a good sign... I guessed.
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