Author's Note:
Okay, since you have all been so lenient to me in these desperate hours of mental contemplation... I shall fulfill my end of the bargain and deliver the seventh chapter...
Thank you so much for your reviews, it truly means the world to me!
*Begins to cry*
You Like Me! You Really Like Me!!!
*Crying slowly subsides*
Okiddy... enough of that... I promised you a 'Jackal Clawing' good time, so without further ado, I give you the next chapter...
*Red velvet curtains slowly draw back to reveal the next chapter*
~ Maggie Roth (aka, Jenna the Jester *does crazy dance with bells hanging from her pigtails*)
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"I am so ready to leave its not even funny!" Evy said with exhaustion as she hid behind Dennis.
Slowly and cautiously he stuck is head out into the next hallway, leering back and forth as if he were looking for traffic before crossing a busy intersection.
"Okay, let's go..." he muttered, gesturing with his hand for them to follow him.
"Where are we going? I thought I told you the room was back that away!" Serena said demandingly, pointing behind them.
"We're getting the hell outa this basement, its up to you to join us!" Evy snarled back, Serena only glared at her angrily.
"Fine!" Serena spat, "You two leave, have fun being impaled upstairs!" she then turned around and marched off in the opposite direction, deeper into the basement.
"What in the hell does she thinks she's gonna do? Bitch at the ghosts till they give up and leave her alone?" Dennis asked Evy with confusion.
"I don't know..." Evy sighed, "and personally I don't care, let's go..." Evy pushed past Dennis, walking ahead of him down the hallway in search of the stairs.
Dennis stood still for a moment, looking back at Serena, watching remorsefully as she slowly faded from his sight. He then turned towards Evy and followed her down the hall, leaving Serena to her own fate.
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Evy walked ahead of Dennis as they slowly made their way down the hall.
"Maybe we should have tried to stop her, I mean it is dangerous for her to be alone down here..." Dennis said with regret as he followed her.
"God Dennis! Serena's a big girl she can take care of herself... frankly it's us I'm kinda worried about..." Evy mentioned with little compassion.
As they walked along Dennis was suddenly struck to the ground, he fell to the glass floor, holding his head in agony.
"Ahhh!" he shrilled in pain as Evy fell to his side with worry.
"Oh my god! Dennis what is it?" she asked concerned.
Dennis' head pounded in pain as he was bombarded with the violent flash of images. He watched the mix-matched pieces of the strange puzzle play out in his mind, then suddenly he realized what it was the ghost was fixated on harming, Evelyn.
"Wha... watch... out..." Dennis muttered to Evy, stuttering out of breath.
Evelyn stood up and slowly glanced around them, searching for whatever danger they were supposedly in, then she was hit with a vision of her own. She saw the rusted metal cage and the eyes glowing with fury, as she turned around the vision came to life, unfortunately Evy didn't know it had ended.
The Jackal growled with rage as he lunged at the small brunette, sending her flying over Dennis and into the glass wall behind them. The ghost ripped at her flesh insanely as he pinned her against the wall in mid air. Dennis staggered to his feet as fast as he could charging over to the beast, then, suddenly in a flash of red light the ghost vanished, Dennis looked at the ground confused as to where the light was coming from, then he saw the smoking quicksilver flare at his feet.
Evelyn fell to the ground almost unconscious as Dennis leapt to her aid, as he made it to her feet he heard another familiar voice calling to him, it was Kalina.
"What the hell are you doing here!?! He screamed at her, despite the fact that she had just saved Evelyn's life.
"Nevermind just pull her damnit!" Kalina shouted, grabbing onto Evy's left leg.
Dennis did as he was told, grabbing onto her right leg, dragging her down the hallway. Evelyn then began to scream frantically, Dennis looked up and saw why, the Jackal was perusing them faster and faster, howling as he scurried after them madly.
"Oh shit!" he shrieked, pulling her along with all his strength, Evelyn continued to scream wildly regardless to the fact that the viewers had slid off her face as they drug her.
They turned down another corridor, just as they made it across the frame's threshold, the glass wall beside it slid shut, locking the Jackal out. Dennis collapsed on the floor, falling beside Evelyn as his chest heaved, trying to catch his breath, Evy glanced at him thankfully, then she passed out on the glass floor.
"Is she okay?" he asked Kalina concerned.
"She's still breathing if that's what you mean." Kalina said coldly, Dennis glared up at her angrily.
He glanced over at the hallway they had just left, the Jackal clawed hysterically at the illuminated spells, then Dennis looked back at Kalina, the same vile emotion he had for the ghost glaring in his teal eyes as he stared at her.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" he asked her frigidly.
"Looks to me like I'm saving your ass!" she snarled back.
"How did you get in here?"
"I slipped through an opening in the house when it shifted."
"An opening, where?" Dennis asked frantically, glancing around at the concealing walls.
"Don't get your hopes up its closed now, its not going to happen again!" she spat, reaching in her satchel and pulling out a large, leather bound book. "Let me show you, this is the Arcanum," she said opening the book to the page which showed a sketched diagram of the house, "many people died in the quest for this book, it was written in the fifteenth century by an astrologer named Basileus, in it he describes the making of a certain machine. One that can see into the future, he wrote it while under demonic possession, I can't believe Cyrus built it!"
"Built what, what the hell are you talking about?' Dennis asked confused.
"Basileus' device, we are in the middle of a machine designed by the devil, and powered by the dead!"
"Well... that just makes things ten times better!" he scoffed with exhaustion, falling back and laying flat against the glass floor next to Evy.
"Ow!" Evelyn moaned suddenly as she shifted beside him in pain.
"Are you okay?" Dennis asked her as he sprang up with worry.
"It stings..." she murmured, touching her chest slightly then drawing back from pain.
Dennis glanced at her chest, it was scratched and bleeding, her shirt was torn almost to shreds. He removed the viewers from his face and took of his dark gray sweater, he then helped Evy up into a sitting position and carefully slipped the sweater over her head and down her arms.
Kalina glanced over at them as Dennis put his sweater on Evy, for a split moment she actually felt sorrow for them, but then her natural behavior began to kick back in.
"Come on, we gotta get to the library, it has spell protection all around." She insisted, Dennis put his viewers on Evelyn and slowly helped her up to her feet. "Here, take these..." Kalina said, handing him another pair of glasses as she slung her satchel over her shoulder and picked up the book in the other hand. "Come on let's go!"
Okay, since you have all been so lenient to me in these desperate hours of mental contemplation... I shall fulfill my end of the bargain and deliver the seventh chapter...
Thank you so much for your reviews, it truly means the world to me!
*Begins to cry*
You Like Me! You Really Like Me!!!
*Crying slowly subsides*
Okiddy... enough of that... I promised you a 'Jackal Clawing' good time, so without further ado, I give you the next chapter...
*Red velvet curtains slowly draw back to reveal the next chapter*
~ Maggie Roth (aka, Jenna the Jester *does crazy dance with bells hanging from her pigtails*)
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"I am so ready to leave its not even funny!" Evy said with exhaustion as she hid behind Dennis.
Slowly and cautiously he stuck is head out into the next hallway, leering back and forth as if he were looking for traffic before crossing a busy intersection.
"Okay, let's go..." he muttered, gesturing with his hand for them to follow him.
"Where are we going? I thought I told you the room was back that away!" Serena said demandingly, pointing behind them.
"We're getting the hell outa this basement, its up to you to join us!" Evy snarled back, Serena only glared at her angrily.
"Fine!" Serena spat, "You two leave, have fun being impaled upstairs!" she then turned around and marched off in the opposite direction, deeper into the basement.
"What in the hell does she thinks she's gonna do? Bitch at the ghosts till they give up and leave her alone?" Dennis asked Evy with confusion.
"I don't know..." Evy sighed, "and personally I don't care, let's go..." Evy pushed past Dennis, walking ahead of him down the hallway in search of the stairs.
Dennis stood still for a moment, looking back at Serena, watching remorsefully as she slowly faded from his sight. He then turned towards Evy and followed her down the hall, leaving Serena to her own fate.
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Evy walked ahead of Dennis as they slowly made their way down the hall.
"Maybe we should have tried to stop her, I mean it is dangerous for her to be alone down here..." Dennis said with regret as he followed her.
"God Dennis! Serena's a big girl she can take care of herself... frankly it's us I'm kinda worried about..." Evy mentioned with little compassion.
As they walked along Dennis was suddenly struck to the ground, he fell to the glass floor, holding his head in agony.
"Ahhh!" he shrilled in pain as Evy fell to his side with worry.
"Oh my god! Dennis what is it?" she asked concerned.
Dennis' head pounded in pain as he was bombarded with the violent flash of images. He watched the mix-matched pieces of the strange puzzle play out in his mind, then suddenly he realized what it was the ghost was fixated on harming, Evelyn.
"Wha... watch... out..." Dennis muttered to Evy, stuttering out of breath.
Evelyn stood up and slowly glanced around them, searching for whatever danger they were supposedly in, then she was hit with a vision of her own. She saw the rusted metal cage and the eyes glowing with fury, as she turned around the vision came to life, unfortunately Evy didn't know it had ended.
The Jackal growled with rage as he lunged at the small brunette, sending her flying over Dennis and into the glass wall behind them. The ghost ripped at her flesh insanely as he pinned her against the wall in mid air. Dennis staggered to his feet as fast as he could charging over to the beast, then, suddenly in a flash of red light the ghost vanished, Dennis looked at the ground confused as to where the light was coming from, then he saw the smoking quicksilver flare at his feet.
Evelyn fell to the ground almost unconscious as Dennis leapt to her aid, as he made it to her feet he heard another familiar voice calling to him, it was Kalina.
"What the hell are you doing here!?! He screamed at her, despite the fact that she had just saved Evelyn's life.
"Nevermind just pull her damnit!" Kalina shouted, grabbing onto Evy's left leg.
Dennis did as he was told, grabbing onto her right leg, dragging her down the hallway. Evelyn then began to scream frantically, Dennis looked up and saw why, the Jackal was perusing them faster and faster, howling as he scurried after them madly.
"Oh shit!" he shrieked, pulling her along with all his strength, Evelyn continued to scream wildly regardless to the fact that the viewers had slid off her face as they drug her.
They turned down another corridor, just as they made it across the frame's threshold, the glass wall beside it slid shut, locking the Jackal out. Dennis collapsed on the floor, falling beside Evelyn as his chest heaved, trying to catch his breath, Evy glanced at him thankfully, then she passed out on the glass floor.
"Is she okay?" he asked Kalina concerned.
"She's still breathing if that's what you mean." Kalina said coldly, Dennis glared up at her angrily.
He glanced over at the hallway they had just left, the Jackal clawed hysterically at the illuminated spells, then Dennis looked back at Kalina, the same vile emotion he had for the ghost glaring in his teal eyes as he stared at her.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" he asked her frigidly.
"Looks to me like I'm saving your ass!" she snarled back.
"How did you get in here?"
"I slipped through an opening in the house when it shifted."
"An opening, where?" Dennis asked frantically, glancing around at the concealing walls.
"Don't get your hopes up its closed now, its not going to happen again!" she spat, reaching in her satchel and pulling out a large, leather bound book. "Let me show you, this is the Arcanum," she said opening the book to the page which showed a sketched diagram of the house, "many people died in the quest for this book, it was written in the fifteenth century by an astrologer named Basileus, in it he describes the making of a certain machine. One that can see into the future, he wrote it while under demonic possession, I can't believe Cyrus built it!"
"Built what, what the hell are you talking about?' Dennis asked confused.
"Basileus' device, we are in the middle of a machine designed by the devil, and powered by the dead!"
"Well... that just makes things ten times better!" he scoffed with exhaustion, falling back and laying flat against the glass floor next to Evy.
"Ow!" Evelyn moaned suddenly as she shifted beside him in pain.
"Are you okay?" Dennis asked her as he sprang up with worry.
"It stings..." she murmured, touching her chest slightly then drawing back from pain.
Dennis glanced at her chest, it was scratched and bleeding, her shirt was torn almost to shreds. He removed the viewers from his face and took of his dark gray sweater, he then helped Evy up into a sitting position and carefully slipped the sweater over her head and down her arms.
Kalina glanced over at them as Dennis put his sweater on Evy, for a split moment she actually felt sorrow for them, but then her natural behavior began to kick back in.
"Come on, we gotta get to the library, it has spell protection all around." She insisted, Dennis put his viewers on Evelyn and slowly helped her up to her feet. "Here, take these..." Kalina said, handing him another pair of glasses as she slung her satchel over her shoulder and picked up the book in the other hand. "Come on let's go!"
