Snow
Chapter Ten: Unsettled Business
By: Aeris
I was reading my story and realized that I left out a lot of lost threads. I mean I started writing about things I never finished. Like Alison, or the bat demons that where under ground or what happened to other people/things.
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"Gods, it's a gold mine down here." Neal said and moved the torch so that the others could see the gold and weapons down in the cave. Piles of gold, sliver, and weapons and other things that where stolen from the bat-demons hundreds of years ago. "Didn't King Jonathan say that there where more demons here?"
"Yeah, but where are they?" Alanna asked and moved her hands over the gold engravings on the walls. "This place is wonderful." She picked up a bow and ran her fingertips over it. "They don't make bows like this anymore."
Numair looked at the treasures. "These are worth more then the whole royal family is." The three walked down the hall to see even more. It was like a pirates treasure that had been recovered. "Make that the whole country, this can take Tortall out of debt for the next hundred years."
"Yeah, and me too." Neal agreed and got a hit on the head from Alanna. "Hey! Why can't we get a fair cut of this? I mean we are risking our lives to do this-" Neal was cut off. A voice from the back of the cave made him jump.
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The king sat with a frown glued to his face. "Did the Own and the Riders that where taken ever come back?" Sir Raoul shook his had sadly. "Fine, then they won't get their men back."
Raoul sat next to the king at the table. "Are you sure that's wise?" He took a drink of his water.
"Yes, they won't start another war. If they are smart."
"You talk like King Jordan." The king turned and looked at his old friend. "You remember what Numair told you. That King Jordan was a great king but he held one flaw. He was cocky. Don't get cocky Jon." Raoul paused. "You should repair the tare in the veil between here and the demon world. I have better be leaving, meeting and such you know."
The king nodded and let Raoul's sink in. Don't get cocky Jon.
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"Who are ye? Why ye come and see us bats?" The voice was loud but the speaker wasn't in sight. "We `ave no business with ye all." The three of them slowly moved to the back of the cave. The speaker came in sight he looked like a middle-aged bat demon he was in a cellar with about four others. There where at least fifteen cellar's in all. Woman men and young children sat in them all.
"I though Jordan only stole a part of their army, not families." Neal whispered to Numair who just shook his head.
"You know that their armies held both males and females and always have. They've been in here for four hundred years by now they could have made families by now. See all the children are young, only a century or two." Numair informed him.
"That's young? Okay, he just wanted us to bring back them and the treasure right? We need more men. Like a hundred to get all the treasure. We can start by bring back a dozen or so of them and come back, it's only a few miles underground of the palace." Alanna told them and they nodded. "Course you have business with us. We are here to give you freedom."
One of the women spoke up. "But you are human! You'll just kill us all."
Neal sighed. "No we won't miss. We are going to bring you back to the palace and let the king decide what to do with you."
"And he'll kill us!" The woman argued. "We where locked here for no reason. We where labeled traitors by our own people! Because we though King Jordan was the one who was in favor. Then we where to the mortal world. THEN Jordan though us as an army and sent us down here to rot. It's bad enough we ain't got no sun down here. "
"You like light?" Numair asked confused.
"Of course we do! The queen just blocked it! She doesn't like light."
"What should we do?" Neal asked.
"We're doing what we came here to do. Come on lets get start getting these people to freedom." Alanna said and put her key in the lock on the main door and led them into the other room with more cellars. Numair used his magic and opened all the doors. One by one they all got out and followed the three to freedom.
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King Jon heard a knock on the door. "Jon let me in!" A voice cried from the other side. Jon smiled it was Alanna. She opened the door herself when he didn't come. She was followed by a hundred bat demons. "Jordan didn't lock an army down there! He locked the only bat demons that through him in favor of winning. They liked him, Jon. They are on our side."
Jon sighed. "Well, I wasn't expecting this. Jordan was known as quite the idiot. We certainly can't house them here at the palace. I guess we could build a village of some sort. I mean we already have immortals here, why not demons? Numair, do you think that you and a few other mages could use your powers for good for once and get a village up somewhere near the palace?" He finished with a smile.
"Yes, in fact I have the perfect idea…" Numair went off to his chambers to work on his perfect idea.
"Jon about the treasure…"
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A scarlet cat lay on the floor of the hall. Arram. It though. I can't believe you made me a cat. I will get you for this. A girl walked by the hall and almost stumbled over the cat.
"KITTY!" The girl said and scooped it up. It had a piece of paper next to it. It read:
Please take care of my cat, for I no longer have the time. Her name is Alison…~~
There! I finally finished this for real. I want to thank all my 23 nice reviews out there.
