The Shadow Oubliette
It was time later that in the silence between Keegan and I, we began hearing soul wrenching whimpers. We exchanged looks that said it all as the wisps darted ahead.
Angel is in trouble—big trouble.
We cut the corner without looking and suddenly the ground went out from under us. As I screamed in fright, the wisps too began screaming—only in exuberance and laughed as Keegan and I finally struck the black depths of the Shadow Labyrinth.
"Ow!" someone shriek underneath me. I felt squirming under me then I hit the ground hard. I rose to my feet as the wisps floated down laughing like a bunch of idiots and illuminated my surrounding.
Rough walls full of black fungi and alien bones littered the floor. Keegan was just getting to his feet and sported a faint red mark across his jaw where I had apparently struck him when I landed. Angel was cowering in a corner surrounded by sickly yellow goo.
"It's the oubliette." The wisps cackled. "We're in the oubliette!!" They fluttered over to Angel and began tugging her hair and received no reaction what so ever.
Keegan rushed to his sister's side and shook her roughly, "Angie!"
I came over and took in her blank stare, glassy eyes and small quivering form. I saw Angel like this only one other time. It was the time Stefan, Elena and Damon carried her in right after she was rescued from this closet that her in-laws locked her up in. She had spent untold hours locked in that small room, forgotten, and scared. The worst part was, Angel is claustrophobic.
"She's claustrophobic, Keegan." I told him. "Her worst fear is any place like this."
Keegan said something very ugly, suspiciously sounding like a cuss word in some ancient Nordic language.
"I'm going to kill Raziel whenever I get my hands on that winged bozo." He muttered. The wisps laughed and he shot them a nasty glare.
I tried pulling Angel to her feet, "I think if we can get her out of here, we might be able to get to the root of her claustrophobia and get her to face it."
Keegan pulled her up and into his arms. "Okay smart one, we're in the Shadow Oubliette. How do you propose we get out?" he demanded.
Dumb blond, I screamed at myself. Think! How do you get out of an oubliette in a realm of impossibilities and monsters? Something seemed to click in my mind.
"Sarah got out of one by using a door!" I said excitedly and began searching for a slab of wood.
Keegan began following me, "Sarah? Sarah who?"
"Sarah from the movie Labyrinth!" I exclaimed desperately searching for anything in the shape of a door. "Raziel has seen the movie, I've seen it. So logic dictates if Raziel is in control of this Game in the Labyrinth, and even said that the rules are similar to the movie then.." I found a piece of wood and slapped it to the wall then opened it like a door revealing an exit.
Keegan grinned, "Then everything in the movie can happen here."
I laughed as we both exited the Oubliette.
"You're beginning to think like Madelyn." Keegan told me once we were outside back where we left off. "I don't think I like that."
"Why?" I asked as he laid his sister gently down on the ground.
"Because you might start getting onto my Games I play." Before I could say a word, Angel groaned and became aware of her surroundings.
She looked at Keegan then studied me so hard I shuddered. Her eyes cut to the wisps, which were in turn flitting around studying her.
*What* are those things, she demanded in my head.
"Those things are wisps, they're our guide to getting out of the Labyrinth." I explained.
And how did we get here, where is here?
"Okay long story short, this walking feather duster named Raziel, he's Loki's messenger boy and he has this idea that I'm hot stuff." I said before Keegan interrupted.
"You are."
I ignored him and continued, "Anyway he's pullin' a Julian on us and dropped us all here in the Shadow World's Labyrinth and now we have to find everyone, face their fears and get out to 'Goblin City' or something like that." I frowned, "I never got that part, he mind have been messing with me."
Angel looked over at her brother and spoke in both of our heads.
Are we stuck in that wacky David Bowie flick?
Keegan nodded, "With an aljinnu twist."
She shook her head and we got immediately to business.
"Know why you're afraid of tight spots?" I asked and added, "Originally, before Mina and Morigan locked you up."
Angel thought for a moment and then replied.
It must have started when I was born. I remember when that twist Trinidad gave Momma his blood thus changing me. Angel sighed, Then all I remember is tightness and not being able to breath and strugglingandnotbreathan'
Keegan cut her off before she started freaking out. "So then you were cut out of mom?" He asked it like a question but he probably knew the answer.
Yeah, Branton said the doctor's didn't go about it nice since Momma was already dead. Angel told us.
I must have gotten close enough to death that the vampire blood in my newborn system activated making me who I am today.
"So now we know." Keegan said quietly.
And now she can face her fear.
***Next chapter**: Raziel begins seducing Piper. Will she stick with her guardian or will she give into her dark side.
It was time later that in the silence between Keegan and I, we began hearing soul wrenching whimpers. We exchanged looks that said it all as the wisps darted ahead.
Angel is in trouble—big trouble.
We cut the corner without looking and suddenly the ground went out from under us. As I screamed in fright, the wisps too began screaming—only in exuberance and laughed as Keegan and I finally struck the black depths of the Shadow Labyrinth.
"Ow!" someone shriek underneath me. I felt squirming under me then I hit the ground hard. I rose to my feet as the wisps floated down laughing like a bunch of idiots and illuminated my surrounding.
Rough walls full of black fungi and alien bones littered the floor. Keegan was just getting to his feet and sported a faint red mark across his jaw where I had apparently struck him when I landed. Angel was cowering in a corner surrounded by sickly yellow goo.
"It's the oubliette." The wisps cackled. "We're in the oubliette!!" They fluttered over to Angel and began tugging her hair and received no reaction what so ever.
Keegan rushed to his sister's side and shook her roughly, "Angie!"
I came over and took in her blank stare, glassy eyes and small quivering form. I saw Angel like this only one other time. It was the time Stefan, Elena and Damon carried her in right after she was rescued from this closet that her in-laws locked her up in. She had spent untold hours locked in that small room, forgotten, and scared. The worst part was, Angel is claustrophobic.
"She's claustrophobic, Keegan." I told him. "Her worst fear is any place like this."
Keegan said something very ugly, suspiciously sounding like a cuss word in some ancient Nordic language.
"I'm going to kill Raziel whenever I get my hands on that winged bozo." He muttered. The wisps laughed and he shot them a nasty glare.
I tried pulling Angel to her feet, "I think if we can get her out of here, we might be able to get to the root of her claustrophobia and get her to face it."
Keegan pulled her up and into his arms. "Okay smart one, we're in the Shadow Oubliette. How do you propose we get out?" he demanded.
Dumb blond, I screamed at myself. Think! How do you get out of an oubliette in a realm of impossibilities and monsters? Something seemed to click in my mind.
"Sarah got out of one by using a door!" I said excitedly and began searching for a slab of wood.
Keegan began following me, "Sarah? Sarah who?"
"Sarah from the movie Labyrinth!" I exclaimed desperately searching for anything in the shape of a door. "Raziel has seen the movie, I've seen it. So logic dictates if Raziel is in control of this Game in the Labyrinth, and even said that the rules are similar to the movie then.." I found a piece of wood and slapped it to the wall then opened it like a door revealing an exit.
Keegan grinned, "Then everything in the movie can happen here."
I laughed as we both exited the Oubliette.
"You're beginning to think like Madelyn." Keegan told me once we were outside back where we left off. "I don't think I like that."
"Why?" I asked as he laid his sister gently down on the ground.
"Because you might start getting onto my Games I play." Before I could say a word, Angel groaned and became aware of her surroundings.
She looked at Keegan then studied me so hard I shuddered. Her eyes cut to the wisps, which were in turn flitting around studying her.
*What* are those things, she demanded in my head.
"Those things are wisps, they're our guide to getting out of the Labyrinth." I explained.
And how did we get here, where is here?
"Okay long story short, this walking feather duster named Raziel, he's Loki's messenger boy and he has this idea that I'm hot stuff." I said before Keegan interrupted.
"You are."
I ignored him and continued, "Anyway he's pullin' a Julian on us and dropped us all here in the Shadow World's Labyrinth and now we have to find everyone, face their fears and get out to 'Goblin City' or something like that." I frowned, "I never got that part, he mind have been messing with me."
Angel looked over at her brother and spoke in both of our heads.
Are we stuck in that wacky David Bowie flick?
Keegan nodded, "With an aljinnu twist."
She shook her head and we got immediately to business.
"Know why you're afraid of tight spots?" I asked and added, "Originally, before Mina and Morigan locked you up."
Angel thought for a moment and then replied.
It must have started when I was born. I remember when that twist Trinidad gave Momma his blood thus changing me. Angel sighed, Then all I remember is tightness and not being able to breath and strugglingandnotbreathan'
Keegan cut her off before she started freaking out. "So then you were cut out of mom?" He asked it like a question but he probably knew the answer.
Yeah, Branton said the doctor's didn't go about it nice since Momma was already dead. Angel told us.
I must have gotten close enough to death that the vampire blood in my newborn system activated making me who I am today.
"So now we know." Keegan said quietly.
And now she can face her fear.
***Next chapter**: Raziel begins seducing Piper. Will she stick with her guardian or will she give into her dark side.