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Sakharine's Revenge

Chapter 9

Satan was reclining near his fireplace, enjoying the company of his hellhounds, who were playing around the fire.

"Daddy!"

"Leave me, hounds!" he commanded. The hellhounds scampered off. Then Satan turned to see his daughter, Sakharine, and an unknown stranger. Living, judging from his aura. "Jamie! Where were you? I told you to play only near the castle!"

"But I never left, Daddy," said Jamie, "I ran into Archie over there and Sugaraddictive." The princess gestured to the two men. "And you're about to make a big mistake, Daddy!"

"Mistake? What mistake?"

"Sugaraddictive's about to offer a living soul!" Jamie pointed to Sakharine.

"And that living soul is one he just brought in!" Captain Haddock added.

"WHAT?" Satan roared. "Now you KNOW a living soul cannot be offered! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" He glared at Sakharine, who slowly backed away. "Sakharine!"

"Yes...my lord?" the Rackham descendant regarded Satan sheepishly.

"Is that soul...still...ALIVE?"

"Well, my lord..."

"You'd better answer him, Sugaraddictive," Jamie said, smirking impishly.

When he didn't answer, Satan called out his guards. Haddock watched as several skeletal soldiers appeared. "Bring me that soul!"

The soldiers nodded, then left the room. Several minutes later they returned with the orb that was still holding Tintin prisoner. Satan approached the orb, then sensed the spirit's blinding white aura, which was unusual for a spirit. Especially a LIVING one! He then turned on Sakharine, furious.

"THIS ONE'S STILL ALIVE!" Satan roared. "You imbecile! I gave you an opportunity to get revenge on Haddock, not steal a living, innocent soul!"

Sakharine chuckled. "Well, that's too bad, because he tried to interfere with my plans. So now I'm putting this boy out of his misery!" With that, the Rackham descendant shattered Tintin's prison, then dragged the still-unconscious soul upstairs.

"He's headed for the keep!" Jamie pointed out. "AND I know what he's going to do to Tin-can!"

"The Chasm," said Satan, "If he throws that soul in there, he ceases to exist, living or not."

"THAT SOUL-STEALING RACKHAM!" Haddock was seeing red now. Tintin did NOT deserve to die. At least not yet and DEFINITELY not like this. "I have to stop him! Tintin doesn't belong here, let alone there!"

"It's over for you, boy!" Sakharine was holding Tintin's spirit over the dark abyss. "And Haddock will soon follow!"

"Hold it right there, you lily-livered, body-thieving son of a toad!"

Sakharine turned around to see Captain Haddock and Jamie behind him.

"Let go of his, Sugaraddictive!" Jamie shouted.

"And give my path to revenge?" Sakharine spat. "Not a chance! Now, if you value this soul so much, you'd do well not to take a step! Especially you, Haddock!"

No, Sakharine! You will release Tintin and let him and Haddock leave hell in peace!

Everyone turned to see Remi descend from the dark sky.

"How did you..." the captain started.

I was able to enter hell when I sensed Tintin at the brink of death, said Remi.

"A guardian angel?" Sakharine questioned. "No matter, you're too late!" With that, he released Tintin, sending him into the chasm.

"TINTIN!" Haddock jumped off the keep after him.

"Archie, no!" Jamie screamed.

"Save your breath, princess," Sakharine spat, "Nothing will bring back those two fools! Not even your father! Or you! So I can say my regenge is complete!" The Rackham descendant was laughing madly.

I can't believe it! Remi slammed his fists on the ground. I failed! I couldn't protect Tintin!

"Archie..." Jamie was at the point of tears. "We were gonna play together." Then she started to tug angrily on Sakharine. "Give him back, Sugaraddictive! It's not fair!"

"Did I not tell you there was nothing anyone could do, you little brat?" The Rackham descendant grabbed Jamie by her dress collar. "'Archie' is gone, along with Tintin!"

"Release my daughter, Sakharine!" Satan's voice was heard. Everyone glanced around to see the demon lord appear from the ground, in his true form.

"Gladly. As a matter of fact, she can join them!" Sakharine held Jamie over the chasm, which enraged Satan even more.

"SAKHARINE!"

"That voice," Jamie looked down to see a blinding light emerge from the abyss. She was relieved when she saw Captain Haddock rising up from it, with Tintin's spirit in his arms.

"WHAT?" Sakharine screamed, "That chasm should have swallowed you up! Unless..."

Unless it rejected Tintin's purity. Remi finished.

"And as for you Rackham..." Haddock approached Sakharine (not before releasing Jamie), then knocked him off the keep and into the chasm, where he was no more.

"Archie!" Jamie hugged the captain, who was blushing pink, "You saved me. Thank you."

"It was no problem, lass," said Haddock.

"Yes, you saved my daughter," said Satan, then said. "And I suppose you want to return that boy to his body."

"Aye. He doesn't belong here. And neither do we." Haddock gestured to Remi, who had already vanished.

Say hello to Tintin for me. he said as he disappeared from sight.

"I can get you home, Archie," said Jamie, "But this is NOT goodbye! You still have to play with me sometime!"

"I will, lass," the captain promised, then watched as the princess raised her bunny up to the sky. The stuffed animal's eyes glowed again, then a red, beach ball-sized vortex formed. But before he stepped through...

"You gotta REALLY promise to play with me," Jamie whispered in Haddock's ear before giving the captain a quick kiss on the cheek, which caused him to blush red again.

"And we will." With that, Captain Haddock stepped through the vortex, giving father and daughter one last wave.

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