Hey Guys, I'm so sorry about the wait it's been a crazy couple of months. I've moved up to college and have been settling in. I apologise as this isn't my best writing and is a bit too melodramatic but I wanted to post something for you guys. I hope you enjoy it and I may edit it and if I do I will let you know. :) Thanks for reading
Chapter Ten
On the outskirts of the town, Arriane lead Cam and I down rotting wooden stairs to the basement of a long abandoned hotel. I turned as Cam's hand caught my arm. "Luce, I want you to promise not to let this thing get under your skin and to try to 2keep your wits about you." He said, his emerald green eyes burning into mine "I won't." I said as I wriggled from Cam's grasp and continued down the steps until Roland, Annabelle and the creature that had dragged Daniel down came into view. "Well. Look what the tide brought in." It sneered before Arriane smacked it. "Arriane!" Roland scolded. "What?! It deserved it!" Arriane growled before moving back to Annabelle. I moved closer and circled it, assessing it. Black gooey discharge was oozing out of the shoulder -sliding in serpentine paths down it's black scaly side until the black goo dripped from it's flared hips to the flagstone floor- from which the creature had shed it's arm in it's panic when I had grabbed it and Daniel.
"What do you want with him?" I snarled as I stopped in front of him. "Just him dead." The creature shrugged as if a life was worth nothing. I clenched my fists and punched it hard on it's cheek. I felt Cam shift at my side, ready to hold me back if I lunged again. "The dark one has plans for you, Lucinda. Daniel is getting in the way of these plans and who-ever stands in the dark ones way always pays the ultimate price. I suggest you keep that in mind before any of you try anything heroic." It sneered. "Who is this 'Dark One'" Cam spat. The creature stared at Cam gloatingly while it's mouth stretched into a grin that was grinch-like as it began to hum. I froze.
"Leave us!" I said to the others. Arriane and Annabelle stared at me in shock. "You can't be serious?!" Cam scoffed as he turned towards me, looking at me as if I had suddenly gone insane. I wasn't paying attention, all I could think of was. Remember, Remember, The fields of white. Where you and the Dark One will certainly fight. Where One shall stand truimphant with all. The other shall fall and have nothing at all.
"Go, It won't talk with you guys around. Like it said, it's me that the Dark One wants." I said to Cam as I glanced at him. He brought his hands up and pulled at his hair. "You have five minutes with it!" He said "You can't be serious! We're leaving her with it!" Annabelle scoffed. "Luce is right. This is the only way we'll get answers." Roland sighed as he looked at me with a half smile which I took to be encouraging. I returned it as the others reluctantly moved towards the stairs.
"Five Minutes. Call if you need us." Cam reminded me before he followed the others upstairs
"Where did you hear that tune from?!" I hissed as I crossed my arms over my chest as I advanced closer. "Why everyone's heard it! It's a prophecy, you idiot." The creature smirked. "Prochecy, what prochecy?" I questioned. "Of the one with the potential of the purest of good and the potential of the darkest of evils. You." It sneered. "Me? Seriously?" I scoffed. "You are the one who heard the Dark Ones call and their warning, hence why you know the tune." The Creature gloated. I froze. "Basically, if you choose light, it will be the end of days. War will ravage the earth killing all that dwell upon it including you hence Where one shall stand truimphant blah blah blah. But if you choose the darkness. You and the Dark One shall rule the earth and all the other dimensions." It grinned
"Lucifer? The dark one is Lucifer?!" I hissed
"How dare you, you foolish child. Compare the grandeur of the Dark one to that love-sick fool!" The Creature snarled as it ripped free of it's bindings and threw me back against the cold stone wall and held me there.
"The Dark One is the one, who inspired Lucifer to revolt. Who smuts the light out of the purest of hearts. Who places the deadliest of sins upon the souls of mortals. Who has conquered more dimensions than you have had lives upon this wretched planet! Who will burn, beat and break you until they bend your very morals until you are on your knees begging for clemency, that you will serve them alone. You and your little friends have no idea what you are dealing with!" It hissed in my ear before releasing me and backing away,
"That warning will not last long. Until you turn to the darkness and take your place by the darkness' side. Your lover will never be safe. For the darkness' doesn't take kindly to it's belongings being taken from it! You belonged to the darkness once Lucinda and you shall again!" It smirked as it snapped it's fingers and disappeared in a poof of suffocating black smoke.
