Chapter 37

The monsters came out in ghostly forms first. Then they went from a gas to a solid as soon as they hit the ground.

!!!! (They roared, but the stupid website won't let you see it.)

No matter what it was, no matter where they were, you could hear it across the Earth.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????" I screeched at the top of my lungs. No matter how hard and high I yelled, it looked as if I was just mouthing it.

So far, at least eight million were loose. All free. Free to roam, kill, eat, destroy, create a pure Hell on Earth.

You couldn't hear anyone. Just nonstop thunder and lightning.

I felt an overwhelming sense of lightheadedness. I almost fainted when Sam caught me and tried to take me somewhere safe.

Suddenly every noise stopped.

The island shook harder. "Gorgrog." Said the Sphinx.

The demons made a crazed laugh. I looked up to see the biggest demon yet float to the top of the never-ending hole. He was a glowing red, spikes that matched the size of seven Loch Ness Monsters put together reached the top of his head to the point of his tail. He had a terrible smile on his face, and his eyes were yellow.

"Sphinx!" He yelled.

The Sphinx walked up and said, "I did you a favor by helping you out of that hole. Now do me a favor and kill them!" He pointed to my family and I.

"Sam! Sam run!" I screamed while I could. Sam and I turned around, and I realized, "Wait! We can't leave anyone behind!" When everything went silent again.

Up ahead, the island shook. The shaking got closer and closer, and up ahead, figures showed themselves.

Dwarfs, dryads, hamadryads, meliads, melids, oreads, nephaeaes, satyrs, centaurs, brownies, astrids, cyclopes, all dragons to ever be born—sort of—, griffins, phoenixes, chaemaras, ogres, trolls, grendels, gogs, fog giants, gargoiles, gnomes, golems, giants, minotaurs, alicantos, rocs, Celebrant the Just, and Raxtus came through the dark mist, ready to fight.

They weren't the only ones who showed themselves. A faerie army came through. Not just any faerie army. No, all the faeries in the world. Every faerie I'd ever seen was there and more. Ugly or pretty, skinny or fat.

Leading the army was the little girl from my nightmares. The fifteen-year-old me. She smiled and whispered, "It's time to battle." And I heard it perfectly. Then, she disappeared; floated up to the sky and vanished.

Sam and I looked at each other and knew we were going to survive.

"Charge!!!!" I female voice said. I looked up to see the Fairy Queen herself. Not a moving shrine, not a maniquinne, not a puppet. Her herself.

She had unimaginably pale skin, beautiful brown hair down to her shins, and was wearing a pinkish-white gown, with the sleeves like veils closing around the wrists like bracelets. On her head was a crown the color of her gown.

I don't know how, but I heard her thoughts. She said, Gorgrog killed my King. And I'm going to kill him.

The creatures charged and fought. Sam and I looked at each other again and got out the knives the Sphinx never took away. "Let's go!" I yelled. I couldn't hear myself, but he could read lips.

We ran toward the demons helplessly with the rest of the light creatures. Sam and I were working on a black serpent-like demon. It hissed and tried to scratch us, but he was down in minutes. We made sure he was dead by starting a fire and throwing in the body.

We moved on to another demon. She was a triclops with nineteen legs, three arms, and seven tails.

She took a little more force, but we got her.

The more demons we killed, the madder the Sphinx got.

Gorgrog was furious, killing as much as possible, including light creatures and the Society. My family and I were trained professionals, and knew how to get out of the way.

"I'm going to go hide my parents." I said to Sam.

"No, let me do it." He paused. "Go over there!" He pointed behind a boulder.

"Okay." And on my way to it, Gorgrog's giant claw gripped me, and pulled me to his face. As soon as we were eye level he roared so loud, I went deaf for three minutes.