Hey guys sorry for the late update. My Internet disappeared again :(. But it's back now so here is Chapter 11. Hope you Enjoy!
Chapter 11
With Butler and Skulduggery
Skulduggery turned around slowly. After years of being attacked by magical monsters that were protecting whatever Skulduggery was trying to investigate, he had learned that sudden movements can startle them. He had also learned that 99.9%, startling monsters is not in your best interest if you want to live to see another day. When he did turn around fully and looked up and stared. The thing was ENORMOUS, it looked like someone had gotten different parts of the most disgusting and horrifying creatures and stitched them together. It had no eyes just layer of thick scabby skin where they were supposed to be.
It had a scorpion's tail which it must have used for attacking.
It opened its mouth (which had four rows of very, very sharp teeth) and let out another scream. Then it charged towards them! The tail whipped for them but Butler and Skulduggery jumped out-of-the-way.
Skulduggery wasting no further time, snapped his palms together and sent a ripple of air towards the monster. The displaced air hit the creäture; however it did little more than focus its attention on Skulduggery.
"Damn it" Skulduggery cursed. (Okay he might have said something a little stronger but I can't be bothered to change the rating.)
Butler seeing that Skulduggery's magic (at least that was what Butler thought it was) didn't work, he pulled out one of many guns he always had on his person and fired at the creäture. The bullet didn't have much effect on the monster but the sound of the gun firing did. The creäture seemed confused for a second or two but soon snapped out of it and darted towards them. However Skulduggery was ready for it this time. He snapped his palms this time not at the creäture but the walls around it. The walls exploded and in the process made a huge bang. The creäture was stunned. Quickly Butler fired 6 bullets into the monster's skull. Then the monster collapsed.
Skulduggery nudged the monster gently with his foot.
"I think it's dead" he stated
"Hm."
"Oh look there's something tied to its tail."
Butler glanced over. There was a small pouch with a string tied around the bottom of the stinger. Skulduggery carefully made his way over and untied the pouch.
"What's in it?" Butler asked.
Skulduggery smiled. 'Yes! He finally said something other than 'hm.''
And Skulduggery opened the pouch.
With Shikamaru and Artemis
"This is too easy." Artemis stated.
Shikamaru looked over at Artemis. He had looked at the ceiling at clouds, it seemed whoever designed the labyrinth had kept his entertainment needs in mind and had painted clouds on the ceiling. Not as good as real clouds but they would do.
"What do you mean?" Shikamaru asked.
"We have just been walking through corridors for the past hour or so, not exactly challenging unless the challenge is not to die from boredom. I expected that there would be puzzles or riddles to slow us down or something." Artemis explained.
"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. For all we know something could be behind those doors." Shikamaru replied lazily.
Indeed there was a pair of small doors in front of them which looked like they lead into a small broom closet.
"Do you want to enter first?" Shikamaru asked.
"If you don't mind" said Artemis as he pushed the doors open. The room inside was decorated like the inside of the Egyptian pyramids, on the walls were hieroglyphics and dotted around were humongous statues of the Ancient Egyptian gods.
"Interesting décor. What are the pictures on the wall for? It looks like a different language" stated Shikamaru.
Artemis stared at him.
"Problem?" Shikamaru asked.
"You really have never heard of hieroglyphics!" Artemis said skeptically.
"Hi-ro-what?"
"Hieroglyphics. You know, the Ancient Egyptians, the ones who built the pyramids, one of the wonders of the world!"
Shikamaru just stared at him blankly.
"I guess there were no Ancient Egyptians in our world." Shikamaru said in his usual monotone.
"Fascinating. Could you tell me if…"
Artemis was cut off by a low growl. The two boys turned around and spotted a creäture that had the face of a beautiful woman but had the body of a lion. A Sphinx!
"Hello my darlings, how about we play a game." She/it purred.
With Ino and Valkyrie
"Uh how many flipping doors and corridors are in this place?" Ino complained for the hundredth time and Valkyrie agreed for the hundredth time. However Valkyrie was worried, she could have sworn she felt Skulduggery's magic awhile ago and if Skulduggery was using magic that meant he was fighting.
'Maybe Butler attacked him!' Valkyrie's brain shouted at her.
Even though Valkyrie knew that Skulduggery could easily defend himself, Valkyrie didn't know how he would fare against a half-human half-gorilla.
"You know your friend Skulduggery will be fine, even if he did use his chakra it's probably nothing to worry about." Ino said.
Valkyrie nodded. During the time they had wandered around Ino had explained everything about chakra and ninjutsu and Valkyrie about magic and its different types, so she understood what Ino meant by chakra. They turned around yet another corner but when the looked up…
"It can't be! No way t-t-that shouldn't be possible" Ino gasped.
Valkyrie stared with her mouth open. "This has to be a dream."
Thank you to Namna-dono and lidh for reviewing. I hope I didn't mistake the Sphinx with some other mythical creäture. I have a terrible feeling that it's Greek or something. I get them mixed up easily. lol.
