Startled and filled with a fear she had never felt before, Lara stood in
front a demon skeleton in a robe come toward her. Fortunately, It passed
Lara, and as she looked over she saw it put something into a newel on one
of the pew and then disappeared into the wall. Lara came over and looked at
what was in the newel. As she took it off, some music began to play and
then some bone dust fell out and Lara quickly put the newel back on. She
carefully went back to where the three stones were and poured the bone dust
in the large bowl and in that moment all the demons in the room flew out
and disappeared. She went back out to where she saw another door open.
She went in and slid down and walked into a room and didn't see a hole right in the middle. She fell.
As if Lara's day hadn't been filled with enough luck already, she landed in a huge pool of water. As she got out she heard the same noise the demon skeletons made earlier. She knew she had to get away from this area and find Father Patrick. But before that she wanted to see what was around. Nothing like a young, curious, and lucky girl stuck on Demon Island.
She was in a tall building with three rotating structures that lead to the Bestiary. An ancient book of demons. Lara started walking up and went into one of the rotating structures that had one long walkway towards a switch. This could be dangerous; I really need to find Father Patrick soon. But still I wonder what happens.... Lara pulled the switch and two of the structures started rotating. She heard both of them moving. She came back out where she came from, only this time on a different side. She walked up another set of stairs and this time did not pull the switch. She had already heard this structure moving and since this one had two walkways so it didn't seem to present a problem.
She walked back up the stairway and found the third structure, only this one didn't have a switch, but too the right she saw a book and noticed some protective symbols on it. This looks like a Bestiary. She picked it up and carefully hopped across the room to a door. She walked through and suddenly got a good feeling swept through her. Seems not everything here is a demon. She saw a white spirit and began to follow it hoping it would lead her somewhere. She followed it hopping over pits and hearing noises behind her and she didn't even what to know what they were. She finally reaches a room with an open coffin standing upward; she went inside and slipped down a ramp. She ran into Father Patrick.
"Good Lord girl, it's me. I've enough on my plate without you making me jump out of me skin, Lara." The priest said.
Oh my goodness. "Your hair...."
"What about me hair?" asked Father Patrick confused.
"It's.... white!" Lara shrieked.
"Hmm...Aye. That'd be right. I was detained by some unpleasant fellows from down below. Gave me quite a fright. That's why I wasn't at the chapel, but I can see you've kept yourself busy. Anyways, let's get you out of here, and back to safety." advised Father Patrick as they walked to a rainy hillside up top. "Right, young lady. I'm going to have a quick look around now for a safe place to put you. Now you stay put, or you'll be banging into something that'll make your hair turn white. And we wouldn't be wanting that now, would we?"
"Father, I found a book in the Labyrinth."
"You've been sight-seeing in there as well? Good Lord almighty, girl! I'll be needin' to chain ye to something!"
"It has protective symbols. Maybe you can use them." Lara explained.
"Bless you for the thought, but I've enough protection from Him above. And for that diagram to be any good you'd have to draw it out and be sitting' in the middle of it. And you know something, I've left all me coloring pens at home tonight. Now, you'll be doing me a big favor if you were to stay put before you bang into something bigger than you."
"Stay put. Right." Lara lied.
As soon as Father left, Lara went over and saw a block on the floor. Lara remembered a picture of the same block in the book she found. She passed by it and saw some demonic-looking man on a horse coming over, and she began to grow very scared. She ran. Looking over, Lara saw a sword in his hand so she bowed down, and when she looked up he was standing right in front of her.
The demonic horseman picked Lara up by her neck, struggling her, and threw her quite far behind him, and raced back to where he was. Lara made a mental note not to pass the block again. But she wasn't through yet, so she looked through her book and found a symbol that was drawn on a block like this one here. What she needed was something the could be used to draw on this, and of course it had to be around there somewhere. She went into an opening she saw and walked up. She spotted the same small white demons she had before. This time they were throwing things at her. She saw a rope hanging and jumped to it... reminding her of Angkor. She struggled and realized that the demons were throwing rocks at her and she started to bleed. Lara swung on the vine and landed on a ledge nearby. Fortunately for her, she found a torch on the floor, and a fence. She broke off a part of the fence so that she used as a crowbar. She slid down to where she first came in and noticed the huge pit she could have fallen in. But Lara was fearless. She lit the torch and threw it at the demons and they went crazy. They started to go in circles and she figured she'd be safe for a while.
She jumped back on the rope, a little terrified at the height she was at, and swung herself across. She saw an opening and knew that something was there that she would need. A couple of slopes were leaning toward the opening so she slid on one, jumped to the other, and repeatedly did that, till she hung near the opening and pushed herself in. She looked over and saw chalk. Lara took the crowbar and saved herself some time trying to get it off whatever was holding it tightly against a wall, and then put it in her back pack. Now, she thought, how to get back. She got out of the room she was in a crawled over and out, but the only way to get to the opening she came in was to keep crawling. But the space became too small for her. That didn't stop Lara, she crawled out-and held on. She kept holding on and pushing herself to the left, and then when she got where she wanted, she walked out.
Lara came back to the stone and started drawing a symbol she saw in the book, unfortunately the horseman had come up to her just as she finished, and lowed down his sword to strike her until Father Patrick came at the last second and moved Lara out of the way. The horseman took Father Patrick as Lara was running away and knocked him in the head with the end of his sword. Lara turned only to see that the priest was being carried away. Angry, she followed them and came to a barn. Out came the demon with Father Patrick.
With an eerie flow and a deep, evil voice, the demon horseman began to speak, "Who is this that stands before me? The first to visit me in my prison seven hundred years past!"
Father Patrick fearlessly replied, "Seven hundred years? All alone in a barn? Uh, well those winter nights must've just flown by!"
"Silence, ignorant heretic, or I behead you!" The horseman said and he shoved the priest off the horse.
Lara standing watching took notice of the fact that the priest is in grave danger, "Leave him be!" She yelled.
The demon took note of Lara standing there and an idea formed, "For the child has spirit, but what is that? When island is littered with the bones of holy men. My gift to them for their spirit in obstructing me from claiming my rightful inheritance."
Father Patrick said, "And this inheritance, I would wonder, would be some way to explain why you're walking and breathing when you should be long gone past?"
"The inheritance is the gift of eternal life. Contained with an ancient scroll. Concealed by the dullard Abbey and his cohorts. The scroll, which draws forth pale demon blood through my veins. I am no longer man. I am one for earth and one for above the gaping abyss of Hades," the demon replied.
"So why stay on this island," Father Patrick mocked, "come for the holiday, and fell in love with the scenery?"
"Hold your yapping tongue for want I clip it!" The demon yelled, "Boils and plagues plaster over this island and its treacherous inhabitants! For it was they, and their ox little abbot, who plotted to incarcerate me in this dungeon hall for an eternity. I, Vladimir Kaleta, who worshipped in the first Kremil, who butchered the Swede and the Lefsky on the banks of the River Neva, Incarcerated within this prison of flowing water."
Lara was a little confused, "Running water... you're trapped by running water!"
Father Patrick explained, "Demons cannot cross running water."
"Indeed. The abbot's final trick before I was transformed, " The demon spoke, then turned to Lara, "And you shall find a way to shore up this stream or your holy man shall be opened up and gutted like live fruk!" And with that the horseman took Father Patrick back into the barn.
Lara realized what she must do. She looked and the water surrounding the barn was running so fast, Lara couldn't go through to the tunnels there. So first I have to slow this water down. She walked over and jumped in some of that water and it pushed her to a larger pool. She looked over and saw more water surrounding a windmill. Lara jumped in the water and noticed a cage, she kept swimming around. She swam towards a golden light, and saw some ugly red creature. It began to attack Lara, and she tried to free herself quickly, for she was running out of breath. Before she swans up for breath she noticed that the creature was protecting a white coin. And behind the creature was a tunnel. Bingo. She got some breath and went down and quickly took the silver coin from behind the demon. Then, Lara decided to swim over to the cage and put the coin there. As she guessed the creature wasn't so smart and swam right in, as Lara closed the cage in on her. She swam to surface, and the same little white demons she saw earlier, brought up the creature and feasted on in. Lara got a deep breath and swam for the tunnel.
When Lara reached the end of the tunnel, she found a room with mechanisms. Right, now all I have to do is slow that water down so I can figure how to stop it... but then what? No, I must save Father. While Lara was thinking she noticed a large wheel, pulled it and heard a door open. She shrugged and followed the pathway to an open door. Just as she stepped in it closed after her. She saw two possibilities, on her left she could slide back down to that room. Or she could go up. She jumped up onto the ledge, only to find a switch. Lucky, this wasn't too hard. She pulled it and slid down, and out of the room, which fortunately led right back to the windmill. Then Lara made her way back to the barn. Now to see where this leads and - Wait. There's in opening in that one windmill there, I could go in there and it probably stops all the water. Locked. Well everything can open someway; this is obviously from the inside. All I have to do now is get to the top into the opening.
Lara jumped over next to the barn and landed on a block. She kept jumping over carefully; realizing one jump could mean her life. After a series of life-risking jumps Lara made it to the top of the mill roof. She jumped in the opening, found a circular switch. Outside you could here a strange silence. The water stopped, and Lara walked out. She heard a large bang and a horse, and saw there the demon was out with Father.
The demon spoke up, "Your child has done her job well, and I taste freedom for the first time in an eon. You will now fear me? For you have served your purpose well holy man, and for this I should I exercise mercy as a god might?"
"Now that'd be nice, but I'm not holding me breath," Father Patrick mocked once again.
"Yes, I shall spare and secure for you a fate worse then death! For you have released a demon," The demon replied.
"My faith will protect me from feckless lesser demons as yourself," Father said bravely.
The demon horseman did not find it brave, but insulting and hit the priest and threw him back on to the floor.
Lara began to get worried that she'd made a huge mess of things, "Father!" She yelled.
"Ah! The child, I shall snuff out her life as a candle," The demon said.
If only she had the book. Oh My! Didn't she say she found a book in the labyrinth! That's why it wasn't there. Father Patrick recalled, and screamed out to Lara, "The book from the library!" As he was speaking the demon got closer to Lara, "the names! Read out the names!"
Lara took out the book, known as the Bestiary, and began reading, "Askeroth, Aqueil, Arrancula, Belial, Burcom, Boliath... Help me!" Lara yelled, as the demon only got closer.
"Keep reading girl, you're almost there." Father supported.
"Camos, Masteflou..." Lara abruptly stopped as the demon waved his sword at her and Father Patrick came and pushed him away, Lara got the book quickly and read out the last name, "Verdilet!"
The demon stopped and couldn't move, "How is this? I move to strike, and yet, cannot!"
"You've done well, girl, and before you ask, I'll tell ye. The book you've got, I me self was looking fir it, but as I couldn't find it, I assumed you had it. And lucky ye did!"
Lara looked over at the demon, "But how...?"
"If you name a demon, you have power over him, and you named him, it's your shout Lara."
The demon began screaming again, "For this you shall burn for eternity! I shall drown you in a mire of your own entrails before I squeeze- "
"Be quiet!" Lara yelled, and the demon was silenced.
"What ye reckon we get out of this God-forsaken place and go and get a nice cup of tea with Winston?" Father Bram said, as he started to leave, "Almost forgot, would you be wantin' to wave goodbye to our little friend?"
"Back to where you belong!" And the demon disappeared. Then Lara and Father Patrick left, talking of whether Lara learned her lesson.
"And you'll have learned a few valuable lessons from that, I be thinkin"
"You'd be thinking right, Father."
Lara realized that there on the island she felt such adventure and fun that she had not felt for a while. She was in light spirits when she returned to Gordounstoun.
She went in and slid down and walked into a room and didn't see a hole right in the middle. She fell.
As if Lara's day hadn't been filled with enough luck already, she landed in a huge pool of water. As she got out she heard the same noise the demon skeletons made earlier. She knew she had to get away from this area and find Father Patrick. But before that she wanted to see what was around. Nothing like a young, curious, and lucky girl stuck on Demon Island.
She was in a tall building with three rotating structures that lead to the Bestiary. An ancient book of demons. Lara started walking up and went into one of the rotating structures that had one long walkway towards a switch. This could be dangerous; I really need to find Father Patrick soon. But still I wonder what happens.... Lara pulled the switch and two of the structures started rotating. She heard both of them moving. She came back out where she came from, only this time on a different side. She walked up another set of stairs and this time did not pull the switch. She had already heard this structure moving and since this one had two walkways so it didn't seem to present a problem.
She walked back up the stairway and found the third structure, only this one didn't have a switch, but too the right she saw a book and noticed some protective symbols on it. This looks like a Bestiary. She picked it up and carefully hopped across the room to a door. She walked through and suddenly got a good feeling swept through her. Seems not everything here is a demon. She saw a white spirit and began to follow it hoping it would lead her somewhere. She followed it hopping over pits and hearing noises behind her and she didn't even what to know what they were. She finally reaches a room with an open coffin standing upward; she went inside and slipped down a ramp. She ran into Father Patrick.
"Good Lord girl, it's me. I've enough on my plate without you making me jump out of me skin, Lara." The priest said.
Oh my goodness. "Your hair...."
"What about me hair?" asked Father Patrick confused.
"It's.... white!" Lara shrieked.
"Hmm...Aye. That'd be right. I was detained by some unpleasant fellows from down below. Gave me quite a fright. That's why I wasn't at the chapel, but I can see you've kept yourself busy. Anyways, let's get you out of here, and back to safety." advised Father Patrick as they walked to a rainy hillside up top. "Right, young lady. I'm going to have a quick look around now for a safe place to put you. Now you stay put, or you'll be banging into something that'll make your hair turn white. And we wouldn't be wanting that now, would we?"
"Father, I found a book in the Labyrinth."
"You've been sight-seeing in there as well? Good Lord almighty, girl! I'll be needin' to chain ye to something!"
"It has protective symbols. Maybe you can use them." Lara explained.
"Bless you for the thought, but I've enough protection from Him above. And for that diagram to be any good you'd have to draw it out and be sitting' in the middle of it. And you know something, I've left all me coloring pens at home tonight. Now, you'll be doing me a big favor if you were to stay put before you bang into something bigger than you."
"Stay put. Right." Lara lied.
As soon as Father left, Lara went over and saw a block on the floor. Lara remembered a picture of the same block in the book she found. She passed by it and saw some demonic-looking man on a horse coming over, and she began to grow very scared. She ran. Looking over, Lara saw a sword in his hand so she bowed down, and when she looked up he was standing right in front of her.
The demonic horseman picked Lara up by her neck, struggling her, and threw her quite far behind him, and raced back to where he was. Lara made a mental note not to pass the block again. But she wasn't through yet, so she looked through her book and found a symbol that was drawn on a block like this one here. What she needed was something the could be used to draw on this, and of course it had to be around there somewhere. She went into an opening she saw and walked up. She spotted the same small white demons she had before. This time they were throwing things at her. She saw a rope hanging and jumped to it... reminding her of Angkor. She struggled and realized that the demons were throwing rocks at her and she started to bleed. Lara swung on the vine and landed on a ledge nearby. Fortunately for her, she found a torch on the floor, and a fence. She broke off a part of the fence so that she used as a crowbar. She slid down to where she first came in and noticed the huge pit she could have fallen in. But Lara was fearless. She lit the torch and threw it at the demons and they went crazy. They started to go in circles and she figured she'd be safe for a while.
She jumped back on the rope, a little terrified at the height she was at, and swung herself across. She saw an opening and knew that something was there that she would need. A couple of slopes were leaning toward the opening so she slid on one, jumped to the other, and repeatedly did that, till she hung near the opening and pushed herself in. She looked over and saw chalk. Lara took the crowbar and saved herself some time trying to get it off whatever was holding it tightly against a wall, and then put it in her back pack. Now, she thought, how to get back. She got out of the room she was in a crawled over and out, but the only way to get to the opening she came in was to keep crawling. But the space became too small for her. That didn't stop Lara, she crawled out-and held on. She kept holding on and pushing herself to the left, and then when she got where she wanted, she walked out.
Lara came back to the stone and started drawing a symbol she saw in the book, unfortunately the horseman had come up to her just as she finished, and lowed down his sword to strike her until Father Patrick came at the last second and moved Lara out of the way. The horseman took Father Patrick as Lara was running away and knocked him in the head with the end of his sword. Lara turned only to see that the priest was being carried away. Angry, she followed them and came to a barn. Out came the demon with Father Patrick.
With an eerie flow and a deep, evil voice, the demon horseman began to speak, "Who is this that stands before me? The first to visit me in my prison seven hundred years past!"
Father Patrick fearlessly replied, "Seven hundred years? All alone in a barn? Uh, well those winter nights must've just flown by!"
"Silence, ignorant heretic, or I behead you!" The horseman said and he shoved the priest off the horse.
Lara standing watching took notice of the fact that the priest is in grave danger, "Leave him be!" She yelled.
The demon took note of Lara standing there and an idea formed, "For the child has spirit, but what is that? When island is littered with the bones of holy men. My gift to them for their spirit in obstructing me from claiming my rightful inheritance."
Father Patrick said, "And this inheritance, I would wonder, would be some way to explain why you're walking and breathing when you should be long gone past?"
"The inheritance is the gift of eternal life. Contained with an ancient scroll. Concealed by the dullard Abbey and his cohorts. The scroll, which draws forth pale demon blood through my veins. I am no longer man. I am one for earth and one for above the gaping abyss of Hades," the demon replied.
"So why stay on this island," Father Patrick mocked, "come for the holiday, and fell in love with the scenery?"
"Hold your yapping tongue for want I clip it!" The demon yelled, "Boils and plagues plaster over this island and its treacherous inhabitants! For it was they, and their ox little abbot, who plotted to incarcerate me in this dungeon hall for an eternity. I, Vladimir Kaleta, who worshipped in the first Kremil, who butchered the Swede and the Lefsky on the banks of the River Neva, Incarcerated within this prison of flowing water."
Lara was a little confused, "Running water... you're trapped by running water!"
Father Patrick explained, "Demons cannot cross running water."
"Indeed. The abbot's final trick before I was transformed, " The demon spoke, then turned to Lara, "And you shall find a way to shore up this stream or your holy man shall be opened up and gutted like live fruk!" And with that the horseman took Father Patrick back into the barn.
Lara realized what she must do. She looked and the water surrounding the barn was running so fast, Lara couldn't go through to the tunnels there. So first I have to slow this water down. She walked over and jumped in some of that water and it pushed her to a larger pool. She looked over and saw more water surrounding a windmill. Lara jumped in the water and noticed a cage, she kept swimming around. She swam towards a golden light, and saw some ugly red creature. It began to attack Lara, and she tried to free herself quickly, for she was running out of breath. Before she swans up for breath she noticed that the creature was protecting a white coin. And behind the creature was a tunnel. Bingo. She got some breath and went down and quickly took the silver coin from behind the demon. Then, Lara decided to swim over to the cage and put the coin there. As she guessed the creature wasn't so smart and swam right in, as Lara closed the cage in on her. She swam to surface, and the same little white demons she saw earlier, brought up the creature and feasted on in. Lara got a deep breath and swam for the tunnel.
When Lara reached the end of the tunnel, she found a room with mechanisms. Right, now all I have to do is slow that water down so I can figure how to stop it... but then what? No, I must save Father. While Lara was thinking she noticed a large wheel, pulled it and heard a door open. She shrugged and followed the pathway to an open door. Just as she stepped in it closed after her. She saw two possibilities, on her left she could slide back down to that room. Or she could go up. She jumped up onto the ledge, only to find a switch. Lucky, this wasn't too hard. She pulled it and slid down, and out of the room, which fortunately led right back to the windmill. Then Lara made her way back to the barn. Now to see where this leads and - Wait. There's in opening in that one windmill there, I could go in there and it probably stops all the water. Locked. Well everything can open someway; this is obviously from the inside. All I have to do now is get to the top into the opening.
Lara jumped over next to the barn and landed on a block. She kept jumping over carefully; realizing one jump could mean her life. After a series of life-risking jumps Lara made it to the top of the mill roof. She jumped in the opening, found a circular switch. Outside you could here a strange silence. The water stopped, and Lara walked out. She heard a large bang and a horse, and saw there the demon was out with Father.
The demon spoke up, "Your child has done her job well, and I taste freedom for the first time in an eon. You will now fear me? For you have served your purpose well holy man, and for this I should I exercise mercy as a god might?"
"Now that'd be nice, but I'm not holding me breath," Father Patrick mocked once again.
"Yes, I shall spare and secure for you a fate worse then death! For you have released a demon," The demon replied.
"My faith will protect me from feckless lesser demons as yourself," Father said bravely.
The demon horseman did not find it brave, but insulting and hit the priest and threw him back on to the floor.
Lara began to get worried that she'd made a huge mess of things, "Father!" She yelled.
"Ah! The child, I shall snuff out her life as a candle," The demon said.
If only she had the book. Oh My! Didn't she say she found a book in the labyrinth! That's why it wasn't there. Father Patrick recalled, and screamed out to Lara, "The book from the library!" As he was speaking the demon got closer to Lara, "the names! Read out the names!"
Lara took out the book, known as the Bestiary, and began reading, "Askeroth, Aqueil, Arrancula, Belial, Burcom, Boliath... Help me!" Lara yelled, as the demon only got closer.
"Keep reading girl, you're almost there." Father supported.
"Camos, Masteflou..." Lara abruptly stopped as the demon waved his sword at her and Father Patrick came and pushed him away, Lara got the book quickly and read out the last name, "Verdilet!"
The demon stopped and couldn't move, "How is this? I move to strike, and yet, cannot!"
"You've done well, girl, and before you ask, I'll tell ye. The book you've got, I me self was looking fir it, but as I couldn't find it, I assumed you had it. And lucky ye did!"
Lara looked over at the demon, "But how...?"
"If you name a demon, you have power over him, and you named him, it's your shout Lara."
The demon began screaming again, "For this you shall burn for eternity! I shall drown you in a mire of your own entrails before I squeeze- "
"Be quiet!" Lara yelled, and the demon was silenced.
"What ye reckon we get out of this God-forsaken place and go and get a nice cup of tea with Winston?" Father Bram said, as he started to leave, "Almost forgot, would you be wantin' to wave goodbye to our little friend?"
"Back to where you belong!" And the demon disappeared. Then Lara and Father Patrick left, talking of whether Lara learned her lesson.
"And you'll have learned a few valuable lessons from that, I be thinkin"
"You'd be thinking right, Father."
Lara realized that there on the island she felt such adventure and fun that she had not felt for a while. She was in light spirits when she returned to Gordounstoun.