Hiya! See, that wasn't a very long wait lol. It would have been sooner but some stuff happened and I just wasn't in the right mood to write… but I SWEAR I had half of this chapter written the day after I published chapter 8. I'm not even joking lol. And plus this chapter is super-duper long! :D Just remember: The more you guys review, the more encouraged I get to write, and the faster my updates are… So.. yeah. You should review a lot :P
I also need to stop reading so many fan-fics and actually work on mine xD
It had been hours since I last saw Leon. All I could think about was him and how I shoved him away like that… what was I thinking? All he wanted to do was comfort me, and I had to act like a five-year-old and run away from him. The parasite must have been messing with my brain, because no sane person would ever run away from someone as nice as him. That's just common sense.
I wished I could tell him how sorry I was— I wasn't sure if he had heard me the last time, but even if he did, I wanted to tell him in person. I didn't even know if he would find me… It never occurred to me until then that he might not be able to, and if he didn't what would happen? Would I be stuck here until I die, or would Salazar or Saddler come and take me away?
Before my thoughts could go any farther, I heard a door from the upper floor open. Well, it wasn't much of a 'floor', more like a balcony looking down onto the floor I was on. I couldn't see who it was from the angle it was at (exactly to the left of me), but I could hear soft footsteps. I stayed quiet and still. There was a chance it could be Leon, but an even higher chance it was one of Salazar's little minion freaks.
Suddenly, the door opened again and I heard a voice, thick with a Hispanic accent, and I knew immediately who it was.
He said, "Leon," So Leon was there!
I opened my mouth to yell out, and let him know I was down there, but Luis interrupted me. "I got it!" Suddenly all motion stopped. Confused, I listened more carefully for what was going on and then I heard Luis screaming in pain.
My eyes grew wide. Did Leon hurt him?
My question was quickly answered when the agent shouted "Luis!" as if he wanted to help, but he couldn't.
Out came more cries of pain, and just when I thought I couldn't take any more of it, there was a loud thump, and then a thick, creepy voice said "Now that I have the Sample, you serve me no purpose." It was Saddler.
My eyes were even wider now (if that was even possible) and I was filled with an outrageous amount of fury. Leon wasn't too pleased about this either. "Saddler!" He shouted.
"My boy, Salazar, will make sure you follow the same fate!" Saddler said and, from the sounds of it, left.
I couldn't hear much more after that. I hung my head as a very few amount of tears slid down my cheeks. I was actually surprised I could still cry after all that's happened.
A few minutes later, Leon walked in my view and I quickly shouted his name to make sure he saw me.
As soon as he looked down, he shouted back. "Don't move!"
I obeyed as he pulled out his rifle and began shooting the bars off. To my absolute surprise, they broke and after three shots I was freed.
"You better watch where you aim that thing, Leon." I said with a small wink that I wasn't sure if he could see.
The man just stood there smiling, and I smiled back. I could tell he was glad that I was okay. I could see Ashley standing off to the side by the door, but she looked rather sad and depressed, and, even though I knew, I didn't want to think about why.
Before anybody could say anything else, a door to my right opened and out came a group of the cloaked freaks.
"I got it!" I shouted to Leon and pulled out my gun. I aimed for the closest guys face and- click!
"What the fuck?" I shook my gun as if it would solve the problem and pulled the trigger about eight more times; nothing.
"I'm out of ammo!" I hollered to the man above me.
"Shit… alright! I'll cover you, just stay back!"
I did as I was told, and every time one of them got too close, Leon would shoot their head off. Eventually they were all gone and I ran for the nearest door, which happened to be locked.
"The door's locked, I can't open it!"
"I think the red one dropped a key!" He shouted back, and he was right. I ran over to where the guy in the red cloak was killed and there lay a shiny silver key.
"Kay, I got it!" I ran up to the door, unlocked it, and said "I'll try to find my way back… wait for me okay?"
"You got it." He said, and I opened the door.
…
The room was dark. All I could see was a faint light coming from the end of a hallway in front of me. I looked around for a table or something, when I saw a typewriter and something sitting next to it. I slowly walked up to it and saw a flashlight. I quickly snatched it up and turned it on, the light was bright, as if there were fresh batteries in it. There was a strap on it to place it on a belt, and that's exactly what I did. After doing a little mental happy dance, I proceeded down the hallway, and stopped when I saw someone standing in the room it lead to. Instinctively, I reached for my gun before realizing I had to bullets.
"Aii esta…" The thing said and it slowly began walking towards me.
I had nowhere to run. Turning around and heading back to Leon would be useless, so I just ran. I sprinted straight past the thing. I figured since they were usually slow I'd have no problem getting past him, and I didn't. I saw a few book cases and tables, and two of the tables had lanterns on them. My eyes grew wide and I suddenly got an idea. I ran over to the closest table that had a lantern on it, picked it up, and chucked it at the guy. The lamp immediately burst into flames and after it died out, he began dissolving into the floor as they usually do when they die.
"HAH!" I laughed, sticking my tongue out at the spot where the body once lay.
I turned back around and looked for a door. Instead, there were bars blocking the path to the next room, and a crank behind one of the tables. I casually hopped over said table and began turning the crank. It was hard to turn at first, but after I loosened it up a bit it took about fifteen more turns before the bars were completely raised off the floor. I hopped back over the table and was surprised when I saw another cloaked freak in the next room. Spotting another lantern on a table in the back of the room, I sprinted for it. He was down before he could even finish saying "Mátelo!" There were two more cranks on the walls and I hurried to turn them. One pulled back the vertical bars, and the other horizontal that was finished, I ran straight for the door in front of me.
"Great… more bars…" I said aloud to myself. There were bars covering every path to get to the door on the other side of the room. But beside all the bars, there were pillars with gaps in between them big enough for a person to fit through standing on a wall almost as tall as me. I figured I could climb up the wall and squeeze through them and I did. Once I was standing in the middle of the room, I noticed a square shaped stone placed on the mantel piece above the fireplace. Unaware of its purpose, I felt the urge to pull it off and keep it, something about the tablet felt important. I climbed the wall again and quickly left through the door.
This hallway was dark. I could barely see anywhere my flashlight wasn't pointed. Slowly, I crept forward, ready for anything to jump out and scare me as I rounded corner after corner. Finally, the last part of the hallway was lit well enough that I didn't need my flashlight, but the room it lead too was even darker than the hallway. I couldn't see much in it, just a few random suits of armor, and a little dais standing in the middle of room. On it were eight squares, and an empty slot in the middle. It kind of reminded me of those puzzles I could never figure out as a kid… that's where I got the idea to try and rearrange them.
Sighing and thinking I would never figure it out, I just started randomly moving the pieces around. I started with the middle left piece, and moved it to the center. Then, I moved the bottom left corner up, and followed order, moving them around clockwise. After I moved the pieces nine more times, I was shocked at what I saw; the puzzle was solved, and you could see an actual picture in it. That was the very first time I ever solved one of those. But there was still a piece missing.
I pulled out the stone tablet from my back pocket and looked at it: it was exactly the right size and shape, and looked like it would complete the picture. I placed it in the slot carefully, and suddenly a door on the wall in front of me rose up.
"… I DID IT!" I exclaimed, but then remembered I had no one to share my joy with. It still didn't wipe the smile off my face, though.
I walked through the doorway and shined my flashlight on everything in the room. There was no door, making me wonder what the point of making it so hard to get in there was, when suddenly I saw a flash. My flashlight was shining on something in the back of the room. I walked over to it and examined it carefully. There was the upper part of a knight suit sitting on top of a fireplace, with something shiny and circular embedded in its chest. It was about the size of my palm, and I carefully plucked it out, then nearly dropping it when I heard the door I had come through slam shut and the part of the wall the armor was leaning up against flipped around and revealed a blue and gold chest. I opened the chest and inside it was a blue piece of stone shaped like an animals hind legs, and a serpent for its tail.
As soon as I picked it up, the door rose again and I heard clanging coming from the next room. As I moved closer, it kept getting louder and louder. When I reached the door, I shined my flashlight into my room and saw that the suits of armor were moving! They had somehow sprang to life, and were now walking towards me wielding axes as big as my face, on poles about as tall as me. Suddenly the closest one stopped and began raising this axe. I screamed loudly, and dropped my flashlight as I ran around them and back out into the hallway. I could hear them following me, and I kept running. Then I remembered seeing more suits of armor in the hallways and began sprinting even faster. Every time I passed one, I would jump out of the way just before it sliced me in half, and then crumpled to the floor. Finally I reached the room with the pillars. I jumped over the wall and through them in record time, before stopping dead in my tracks in front of the door; there was another suit or armor. I carefully backed up and stepped to the right, hopping it wouldn't sense me there, but it did. Right as it swung its axe down, I fell on my ass, sure to leave a bruise. Once the thing had crumpled, I bolted out of the door.
Back in the area after the room with the second zealot in it, I stopped to catch my breath. My heart was pounding. When I could finally breathe normal again, I noticed a blue door to my right that I hadn't seen before. I slowly prodded it open with my gun, ready to attack the next person who dared to try and mess with me. Even though it was empty, I figured I could still do some pretty serious damage if I hit someone upside the head with it.
There was no one in the room, only a large painting on the back wall and some sort of bird-bath-looking thing in front of it, with a pole coming out of its side. But as I got closer, I realized it wasn't a birdbath, it was another dais, this one circle shaped, and you used the bar to turn it. I took a closer look and saw a hole in the center about as big as my palm. Immediately after I placed the round insignia I had gotten from the top half of the armor, the wall with the painting rose up to reveal a ladder. After eagerly climbing up it, I bolted straight down the long hallway, running as fast as I could, hoping the next door I walked through would lead me to Leon.
I took two rights and a left before I came up to a door. Something about it just seemed… right. Like Leon would be waiting there for me after I opened it. I reached my hand up and turned the lock. I slowly pushed the door open and looked up; a blonde man was nervously pacing back and forth in front of me.
"Leon!" I exclaimed. I had so much excitement built up in me at that moment, I ran up and glomped the man. Not the kind where you fall to the floor, but I was hugging him tighter than I'd ever hugged anyone else before in my life.
He was laughing. "You did good…" he said as I buried my face in his chest.
I slowly pulled away after another second. "I'm… sorry for… well yeah…" I said, looking down at my shoes.
"Hey, don't worry about it."
"I was so worried about you!" Ashley ran up.
"Well there wasn't much to worry about." I smiled, and then continued. "Unless you count the giant suits of armor that kept trying to cut me in half… I'm not even joking." I said after seeing the confused looks on their faces.
Leon shook his head. "Well, come on. Let's move on." He said that with such a big smile on his face, it was hard not to smile back.
Then, suddenly his walkie-talkie thing went off. I thought that didn't work?
"Aww… what a touching moment we have here…" I heard Salazar speaking from the other end.
"All spoiled thanks to your interruption." Leon replied, making my face turn a deep shade of red. "Why don't you just do us all a favor and leave before the audience gets pissed off?"
The man on the other end laughed. "You're nothing but an extra in my script, so don't get too carried away. Your biggest scene is over."
"I don't ever remember being a part of your crappy script." Leon replied sarcastically. I was in awe at how awesome his comebacks were.
"Well then, why don't you show me what a first-class script is like; through your own actions." And with that, he hung up.
"What… the actual… fuck." I said. "Who the hell is that guy, anyway?"
"You were there. He owns this place." Leon said.
"Yeah but he thinks he's such a badass! Compared to a cat, maybe. But compared to you? He's gotta be smoking some pretty serious stuff."
Ashley full out guffawed and Leon shrugged. "You know, I'm not as awesome as you think I am." He said.
I scoffed. "You keep telling yourself that, cowboy." I said while patting his chest as I walked past him. Ashley followed me, still giggling, and Leon followed too, after a short laugh.
After stepping through the big, golden, double-doors, we all stared down in shock at the magma filled chasm below us.
"Wait here." Leon said after stepping on a very small platform with giant wheels.
"Wait, you're actually going across that thing? Are you insane?" I hollered.
"I have to agree with her on this one…" Ashley said.
"See? It's too dangerous, Leon."
"I'll be fine girls. Just stay here. I promise I'll come back."
"What have I told you about promising things like that?" We locked eyes for a second, before he sighed and looked away.
"Fine. I'll try my best to come back, okay? If I'm not back in ten minutes, then you can come looking for me or whatever. But for now, just stay here."
Ashley and I nodded and a few seconds later, he was gone.
I turned to her tentatively. "S-so… what happened while I was gone?"
Her eyes got wide and she suddenly seemed to have enough energy for the both of us. "Oh my god, it was so freaky! First there were these BUG things, and then there were these big axe things swinging from the ceiling! Oh! And then after that, there was this huge freaky maze, and these dogs that had these weird tentacle things coming out of their backs!" I laughed at her explanations. "Oh, and then there was this woman in a red dress—"
"Wait," I interrupted. "Who is this 'woman'?"
Ashley rolled her eyes. "Well, if you wouldn't have interrupted me like that, I would have gotten to that part!" I motioned for her to continue. "Anyways, she was some Asian chick. She was all 'Leon… long time no see…' Like she was trying to seduce him or something. After that Leon tossed me a whole bunch of money and told me to go upgrade my gun. You will not be-lieve the firepower on this thing now!"
"So you didn't even try to listen or anything?"
She snapped her head up in confusion. "What? No… why would I?"
I face-palmed. "Ashley, they could've been having SEX for all you know!"
"Ew, gross! I don't want to think of Leon like that!" She complained.
"Ash, he's like twenty-something years old. He's had to've at least done it once."
She quickly plugged her ears. "Shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shhh… I can't hear you."
"… What, do you want me to say 'Aye, aye, Captain!' or something?"
She took her fingers out of her ears. "Just… don't say any more stuff like that. It makes me feel like a pervert or something…"
I laughed. "Hah. Okie dokie, then."
Just then, Leon emerged from the door on the other side of the chasm and made his way back to us. When he did, he chuckled and said, "See, that wasn't so bad, was it?"
I completely ignored what he said. "Are you a virgin?" I asked, nonchalantly.
It took him about two seconds before he fully processed what I had asked him. "… What??" he yelled.
"Jeez, calm down. It was just a question." I said, rubbing my ear because it was that loud.
"Wh-… calm down? Y-you're only seventeen! You shouldn't even be thinking about this stuff right now!"
I laughed probably louder than necessary. "Are you kidding me? I know at least four pregnant girls in my grade alone!"
"That's not the point. Yo-you just shouldn't be asking that kind of stuff." He kept stuttering, and if I didn't know better, I would've said he was blushing too. "What on earth brought this up?"
Mine and Ashley's faces turned beet red and we began backing up, failing horribly at playing innocent. "Uh-um, nothing! Nothing at all! D-don't worry about it…" We gave nervous laughs and ignored the 'what-the-hell' look he was giving us.
"…Uh huh…" He said. "Well… anyways… I found the Lion thing… Now all we need is the Serpent and we can get out of here."
Wait… Serpent? I quickly reached into my back pocket and pulled out the 'legs and snake tail' stone found back in the room with the knights and handed it to Leon. "Here you go."
"Where'd you find this?" He asked, astonished.
"Back in the room with the knights before they turned all alive and stuff." I said casually.
"Well, this is it then! Come on."
We all three walked to our left and stood in front of a strange, out of place trolley. It was blue and there were red-colored velvet seats on each side.
"Sh-should we get on?" Ashley asks, looking very tentative.
"I don't see why not." Leon says as he steps on and sits down. Ashley sits on the opposite side of him, leaving me with a huge dilemma; sit next to Leon, or sit next to Ashley? I decide to take the latter and avoid a lot of awkward silences.
As soon as the door shut, the trolley began moving. It wasn't very fast, but fast enough.
"So…" I said awkwardly. No one said anything. "You never answered my question, Leon." I said, remembering our earlier conversation.
He sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Why do you want to know?"
"I dunno… just curious." I said in a sort of sing-song voice.
"Well frankly, I don't know if that's any of your business."
Ashley shifted uncomfortably in her seat.
"Is that a no?" I asked, getting childish-ly excited.
"I'm not saying anything."
I turned to Ashley. "Hah! I told you!"
Ashley turned away, her face redder than mine has ever been, and Leon snapped his head up. "Wait, what?"
"Um… Nothing." I said.
Leon just sighed again. "I swear… the conversations you two have when I'm gone…"
I smiled. "You know you love us…" Another sing-song voice.
He just laughed and didn't deny it. Mine and Ashley's faces just about matched the color of the seats.
…
As soon as we stepped off the trolley, we headed straight for a familiar looking blue door. After unlocking and stepping to the other side, we realized it was the locked door in the lobby that we couldn't go through. We stepped up to the wall with the indents for the stones and carefully placed them. After the last one was in place, the wall rose up, and revealed two big doors that we took the liberty of entering.
There was another trolley ride in front of us, and I couldn't help but think about Salazar when he escaped through here a few hours ago. It didn't surprise me that the little guy ran off to ride roller-coasters right after we first met him. I could almost picture him giddy with excitement as he got on, the two giant robed monsters behind him sighing and rolling their horrible mutant eyes as it was the twelfth time that day they had to go through that.
I shook the random thoughts out of my head as the ride began moving. No one really said anything, I just kept stealing glances at Leon every now and then and when he would look back I'd blush and look away. God, it was like third-grade all over again.
The ride slowly came to a stop and we stepped out of the trolley. We exited the only door in the room, and looked around in curiosity. This room was decorated like a medieval castle (which I guess it was), and there were many different ways we could go. There was a door to our left, a long hallway with a door to the right, a door to our immediate right, and another long corridor straight ahead.
"Which way do we go first?" I asked.
"Straight?" Ashley suggested, and so we went.
We ended up in a long, drafty hallway with large open windows blowing in the cool breeze. I shivered, wishing I hadn't given up Leon's jacket back in the village. We walked to the doors at the end of the hallway, but there were bars in front of them. There were two statues of a man and woman on either side of the doors.
"What do we do now?" I asked as Leon examined the statues.
"A Toast to our Royal Majesty…" He read aloud.
"It says the same thing on this one." Ashley pointed out.
"What, do we have to find something to give to them or something?"
"I guess… Only one way to find out…" The agent said and we turned around and walked back.
We decided to go right this time, taking the long hallway with the door at the end, but as soon as I saw the knights lined up in rows on the side of a red carpet leading down the hallway, I screamed. Loud.
"What the hell?" Leon asked, frightened.
"I-I'm sorry… It's just... the knights…" I said the last two words in a barely audible whisper.
"They don't look very alive to me." Ashley smart-mouthed and I glared at her.
"Alright, calm down." Leon said. "I'll go first and we'll see what happens."
He began walking down the carpet and when he got to the third knight, it began moving, and swung its axe down right at the man, and he did a super-awesome back-summersault out of the way just in time. He continued walking and dodged the same way two more times, and then he motioned for us to follow him, assuming it was safe.
"That was so awesome!" Ashley and I exclaimed at the same time, making him grin.
"You have to teach me that!" I begged, and he laughed.
"Maybe if I have some time after we leave this hell-hole, I'll think about it."
"Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome!" I said, with a huge smile on my face.
We turned right and stopped in front of a doorway to a circular shaped room.
"You girls stay here." Leon said and we obeyed.
There was a fancy looking cup protected in a cage in the center of the room. As soon as Leon took it out, a door slammed down, blocking us from entering the room.
"Leon!" Ashley and I both shouted.
Suddenly, you could hear gears turning and next thing we knew, there were three knights moving towards Leon, weapons ready. Leon pulled out his TMP and began shooting away at their heads, exposing a Plagas. Once all three heads were out he threw a flash grenade, killing them instantly. After another round of Plagas infected knights, the door rose once again and Leon passed safely to the other side. Well, as safe as one could be in this place.
"I told you!" I shouted as we began walking back to the doors.
Leon rolled his eyes and Ashley waved her hand at me. "Yeah, yeah." She said.
When we got back into the main room, we took a right this time entering a golden door that was way too fancy for its purpose. The only things in that room were four pressure plates in the floor, a statue, and two other doors. One had no handle or anything, and the other was locked from the other side.
"What do we do?" I asked.
The agent thought for a second, then snapped his head up. "Emily, you stand on that plate… yeah like that. Ashley you stand on this one… And I'll move this here…" He pushed the statue onto one of the pressure plates and I shook my head once I caught myself staring at the way his muscles were flexed while doing so. Finally, after Leon stepped on the last plate, the door with no way of opening it rose up off the floor and we carefully entered it.
The little midget was standing in the middle of the room and in his annoying little voice said, "I think you've lived long enough…" Leon stepped forward in case Salazar was going to attack, but he didn't. "Let's see if you can survive this time…"
He threw his hand in the air and the door behind us slammed shut. My heart was racing. Then, the ceiling started lowering and spikes shot out of it. It wasn't until then that I noticed the holes in the floor.
"No!" Ashley screamed in agony, realizing what was about to happen. I heard Salazar rush out of a door beside us, laughing as he scampered away.
I didn't know what to do. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Leon rush towards the door Salazar had escaped from, but it was no use; he had locked it behind him.
"I'm gonna get that bastard, I swear!" He shouted in fury.
Suddenly, I saw a red glint of light coming from one of the corners. Then I saw more in the other corners, too.
"Leon, look at the ceiling!" I shouted. He immediately caught on to what I was telling him, and shot all four lights, making the ceiling stop and the door Salazar escaped to open.
We were all breathing abnormally heavy and looking around at one another.
"I thought we were going to die…" Ashley whimpered.
"Me too." I added and Leon looked at the both of us.
"You girls shouldn't be saying stuff like that. We need to stay positive. I mean, we've made it this far, haven't we?"
We both nodded. "Yeah," he said. "Now come on. Let's keep going."
You could see the look of relief on his face as we were walking down a long, narrow hallway, making it obvious he thought the same thing we did.
Right when we got to the end of the hallway, and Leon walked through the doorway, bars shot down, locking Ashley and I in the hallway. Confused at first, we looked at each other, but then we heard the crash from behind us and screamed; two freaks were riding a big power drill, and driving it straight for us.
"Girls, get down!" He shouted and we obeyed. Two rifle shots later, the two men were dead and the bars were raised.
We carefully stepped into the room and Leon began checking for injuries, even though the thing came nowhere near us. "We're fine, Leon." We both kept insisting, but he still checked anyways, making us both blush furiously. But maybe that was his plan.
…
"What's the point of this?" I asked once we were standing back in front of the statues of a king and queen with each of the Holy Grails.
"I dunno. Maybe once we give these cups to them, they'll be nice enough to let us through these doors." Leon suggested.
"That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I said, and he rolled his eyes. "I'm serious, that sounds like something I would say. I don't think that's such a good thing, Leon."
He laughed. "I guess you're just starting to rub off on me." I blushed and looked away, catching a glimpse of Ashley giggling to herself.
Once Leon placed both the cups in their places, there was a brief delay before the bars finally rose up and I stared in disbelief.
"Told ya'." Leon smirked as he opened the doors.
After walking down another long, breezy corridor, we entered two more doors and took in our surroundings. Almost half the floor in the room was gone, only leaving room to walk down a bridge type path to the other side. There were high windows at the top of the room, and a bridge raised up on the left wall.
We began walking forward, and when we got to the middle of the bridge I said "This is really creepy-"
Unfortunately, I didn't get to finish the rest of my sentence, because to giant bugs had swooped down, picked Ashley and I up, and began flying away.
"OH MY GOD, LEON!" Ashley and I shouted at the top of our lungs as we were being flown away. We just barely heard Leon shout Dammit! Before we were out of the castle.
"This is so fucking gross!" I shouted to Ashley who was kicking and whimpering beside me.
"It's useless, Ash. They're probably just taking us to that midget freak or something."
"What if he kills us?" She asked, in a panic.
"Didn't Saddler say he wanted you alive?" I reminded her. "The worst that could happen is they turn is into one of those parasite freaks."
She became quite for a second, and then said, "I'd rather be dead turn into one of them."
"… Amen to that." I couldn't help but agree.
About two minutes later, the bugs dropped us off outside a big tower. And when I say dropped, I mean it literally. It hurt like a bitch.
We looked up at the three people standing in front of us: Salazar and his two bodyguards.
"Thought you could get away that easy, huh?"
"What the hell do you want from us?" I said while coughing.
"I thought it was obvious now." The man-boy replied. "To turn you into Ganados and ship you off to America. Didn't Lord Saddler explain it to you?"
"He's no Lord." I retorted. "If anything, he's the devil! It isn't right what you're doing to people!"
Apparently I'd hit a nerve. "Up!" He shouted at us.
Sure, Salazar was just a small, puny little man, who probably couldn't even take a punch, but his guards' eyes were glowing red, and you couldn't see into their cloaks, just their mouths that moved ever so slightly when they would breathe. So we both followed Salazar's orders, terrified of what the cloaked things would do to us if we didn't behave.
After he tied our hands behind our backs and took any weapons we had, we began walking across a bridge and the second we stepped off, it swung around to another part of the castle.
Suddenly, Salazar pulled out what looked like a phone and began talking into it. "I wonder if you can see me, Mr. Kennedy."
I snapped my head up. Leon? Ashley and I exchanged looks; she was thinking the same.
Our thoughts were confirmed when we heard an angry voice coming from the other end. "If you even scratch them I'll break your bones."
We didn't have time to blush; we were too terrified of everything else they could do to us that would be a million times worse than just a mere little scratch.
"First we shall see if you can make it this far… I'll be waiting." And with that he hung up and motioned for us to go forward.
We entered the room and Ashley and I both gasped at what we saw. Two of those things with claws were standing in the middle of the room surrounded by about eight zealots.
"Relax," Salazar said. "They won't hurt you… they're here for Mr. Scott." He kept walking forward with an evil grin plastered on his face. Ashley and I kept stealing nervous glances at each other until we were finally past them and out of the room.
After being not so kindly escorted up two flights of stairs, we entered a room that was mostly empty except for a throne that sat against the back wall. The black cloaked guard took Ashley and sat her down on her knees on the left side of the throne, and the red one took me to the right. We sat there for about ten minutes, neither of us dared to ask why, until finally the door opened and in strode a very handsome man.
"Girls!"
"Leon!" We both shouted back. He ran up to us but stopped about four feet in front of Salazar's throne.
"Mr. Kennedy…" He said. "Don't you know when it's time to throw in the towel?" He lifted up his hand and pressed down on a red button on the arm of his chair. Suddenly, there was a draft coming from where Leon was standing and the floor dropped, making Leon fall to his inevitable death.
"LEON!" We both shouted at the top of our lungs. Could he be dead? What would happen to us if he was?
We sat there in shock, our eyes wide and filled with tears as our hearts beat mercilessly. Leon was dead. Our hero, our rescuer. The man who I had fallen undoubtedly in love with since this whole nightmare had started. I had finally given up hope, but then—
"Hmm… where's the satisfying sound of one's impalement?" Salazar was listening through an old-fashioned speaker that was connected to the side of his throne. And what did he mean he couldn't hear an impalement…? Did that mean Leon wasn't dead?
My question was quickly answered when we heard a loud gunshot and Salazar cry out in pain as the sound echoed directly into his ear. "AHH! How dare you! No more games, kill him!" Nobody did anything. "Kill!" He began stomping and the guard in front of me walked off somewhere to the left of me, but I wasn't paying attention. My focus was directed at the man who was shouting to his other guard.
"Quickly, we shall prepare for the ritual!"
Ashley and the other guard walked over to where I was standing, and he pushed me forward. I took one last glance at the whole in the floor and said "Leon… you better be alive…"
Yaaayyy! I iz finished! I really like this chapter lol and I'm sooo happy about how it turned out. Just as last time, I'll get to working on chapter 10 tomorrow… wait…. Chapter freaking ten… That seems like soo much since I published this back in October….. Well, I'll keep this short: I really hope you guys liked this chapter, and I'll be looking forward to your lovely reviews! You know how happy they make me! :D
