Ch 2:
Before Emma even knew what had occurred she fell onto a cold marble floor. Vials, flasks, and
many odd shaped containers filled the marble room. Shelves full of books covered all of the
walls. Scattered throughout the room were other cages which contained monsters and creatures
which looked to me composed of spare animal parts.
Emma looked up to see a white robed demon hovering above her. "Welcome to my laboratory
my dear." He began moving his claws around Emma just to watch the terror in her face. "While
we wait for Zeikfried you may wander around, but I highly suggest you don't try to escape. The
last of my prisoners who attempted to flee got her freedom...for a price. You knew her during the
last war as Lady Harken khhk khhk khhk." He then smiled at her tears of fright and was about to
toy with her some more.
A pit of black goo appeared behind the demon, a warrior in shiny blue armor rose from it
"Alhazad"
Alhazad turned to face the one who spoke. "Master Zeikfried, I got the human woman you
wanted, also the new magic seeds work very well"
Zeikfried lifted Glumzamber and pointed it at Emma who still remained on the floor and raised
his voice "This isn't the woman I asked for, I asked for the one who was standing next to her. It
can't be that hard to kidnap a blind woman"
Alhazad looked toward Emma and saw the same blind girl he had seen in Saint Centour during
the attack. "What do you mean she's not the one, I grabbed the blind one like you said. Ahh"
Alhazad lost his concentration to hover and fell to the floor. When he regained his senses he
looked up and saw Emma, the real Emma. "What the hell is happening, that's not the one I
grabbed."
"Then where is the blind girl?" Zeikfried demanded.
"I don't know, she probably sensed my coming and messed with my mind."
"We'll have to grab that wretched whore later, we need to prepare for the next attack. Soon
Harke... "Zeikfried pointed his spear at poor Emma once more "Throw this one in the
Pandemonium dungeon, the prophet would love a new friend, also send a little gift to the brat
who ruined the plan ."
~
Zesa was in Cecilia's room sitting on her bed where she was told to stay. Because she had demon
blood she didn't have any friends other then monsters she had befriended in Saint Centour. She
spent most of her time talking to herself. "This is just weird, I seem to be growing some sort of
future sight; too bad nobody believes me. Guess I won't get any respect until I become the
greatest swordswoman ever, I have the sword" She reached to her back and pulled out a simple
katana with a gold handle. "Now father just has to teach me. Until then I'll just fantasize about
my future, where I'm the best at everything. She sheathed her sword then lie on the bed.
While Zesa was off in her fantasy land she didn't notice that Cecilia's doll on the bookshelf had
disappeared. Cecilia's doll was under the bed with a bloody butcher knife along with five
Rachael monster dolls who carried hunting knives.
The demon suddenly stopped dreaming as she got a sudden urge to get up and stretch. Right as
she got up she heard a slice. Turning around she noticed five knife blades protruding from the
bed right where she was lying. As quickly as the knives went into the bed they retracted, dolls
started coming out from under the bed. Two Rachaels jumped out at her face; however Zesa
blocked her face with her arm then threw the dolls at the wall cracking the fragile porcelain
heads.
"AH!" She screamed. While being preoccupied with the two another Rachael had jumped onto
her back and stabbed her. The doll lost her balance and fell to the ground where Zesa stomped on
her head. Blood was dripping down her back, she had to run. It was times like these where she
wished she knew how to use her sword. She ran towards the door but fell as one of the dolls
threw its knife right into her right calf. The three other dolls did the same but missed. Zesa
picked herself up now covered with blood and ran out the door towards the council room.
~
The three warriors, Zed, Mariel, Bartholomew, Jane, and some of the higher class soldiers had all
congregated to the Adlehyde council room to discuss the recent attack. The meeting had just
started so all that had been said were the reports on the damage.
"WAHHH!" Zesa pushed open the door and fell onto the floor. She was covered in blood. Upon
seeing the bloody girl, Cecilia cast heal. Zesa suddenly was in perfect health, although her dress
was still torn where she was stabbed.
Zed walked over to his daughter as she was getting up "What the hell happened to you?"
She was in tears and frightened but she tried to speak clearly "T...tt...the dolls sstarted to attack
me. C..cecilia's doll with tthe green dress and a f..few others. Ttheres ss..still some iin there."
"Should we go check it out your majestys" One of the knights asked the king and queen.
Cecilia turned and spoke to the knight. "It's probably best if we go with Zed. Lets go check it
out, you too Jack."
They all made their way towards the room, as they walked in they were stunned including Zesa..
Zed turned towards her "Looks like nothing happened here."
Zesa looked around the room in disbelief, everything was clean. The bed was made, no blood
was on the floor, no broken doll pieces were scattered around, and a little doll with a green dress
was sitting on the bookshelf. "It can't be, this room was a mess as I was fleeing. That doll was
attacking me with a knife." She pointed to the doll on the shelf.
Zed was now extremely mad, he pulled her by the collar of her dress. "Stop making up these
stories. It's nice that you can do such a believable job of hurting yourself, but this isn't the time
to be playing jokes."
"But...I"
He continued. "I don't care what you have to say I'm not listening, I'm tired of this crap you do
to get attention. You better stay in this room for the rest of the night, and I better not see you until
tomorrow when I'm leaving." He signaled to the three humans "Lets go back"
The four walked out of the room not even giving her a chance to explain anything. She fell to her
knees and began to cry.
She cried and though for an hour. After that hour she got up from the floor and wiped the tears
from her face. "Nobody here seems to care about me, I'm going to run off and live my own life
the way I want to live it. I may not be able to fight, but I'd rather risk dying than spend another
minute with that man." Zesa opened up Cecilia's closet and took out a black cloak which she put
on. She opened the door quietly and slipped out into the shadows of the castle where she was
able to easily escape to the outside garden unnoticed. All she needed to do now was to go into the
trees and she would be free. She stopped before the trees and took a large breath.
She began to step into the forest, however before she could finish the step she heard a voice.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Zesa dreams had crumbled right as she heard those words, she turned to see who had caught her.
There stood the most unlikely person to catch a runaway, it was her mother. "Mother.. I..I. I can't
stay here any longer. I'm leaving and you can't stop me."
"Don't worry dear I'm not going to stop you or even inform anybody of this, but please think this
over before you go. You have no way to protect yourself from the monsters." She spoke in her
soft motherly voice.
"I don't care mother, I would rather risk it than stay here. I thank you deeply for not informing
anybody of this. I'm going to run off on an adventure and ." She kissed her mothers cheek.
"Goodbye mother, you probably should return to the castle now." She then turned to go into the
trees.
A grin came to her mother face, "who said anything about ME returning to the castle."
Zesa froze in her tracks unsure of what she thought she just heard.
Sara threw a pack of supplies into Zesa's arms, "Before you're allowed to go off on your own
you need to escort me to the Memory Temple, it's a couple of days northwest. I'll deal with the
monsters. After all you've always wondered how I was able to survive the attack on Saint
Centour."
~
The meeting in the council room was nearing an end. Everybody was tired and had many mixed
feelings. Rudy stood up to officially announce the new decision "So it is agreed that I, Cecilia,
and Jack will journey once again to save our Filgaia."
Zed stood up "count me in, I'm the best swordsman ever; besides if I don't volunteer Sara will
force me." It was decided then and everything was being cleaned up.
A frantic knight ran into the room, "I'm sorry to barge in, but there are four demon dolls
attacking the villagers in the guest rooms. We tried to kill them but they are too strong.
Downstairs the four warriors each faced off against a doll. Zed choose the doll with the green
dress, when he say it closer up he whispered to himself, "she was telling the truth."
Jack, Rudy, and Cecilia were able to kill the Rachaels with one hit and joined Zed. The green
haired demon attacked first with his sword knocking the doll back a bit. Jack threw his sword to
perform guilty blade, the doll jumped on the sword then towards Jack with its knife ready.
Hanpan jumped out of Jack's pocket and stole the dolls knife. The toy landed on Jacks shoulder
but was quickly hit off onto the floor by Cecilia's wand. Rudy who had the lowest speed got out
his rocket launcher and shot that thing. Once the smoke cleared all that was left was a crater
where the doll was.
Once Zed knew for sure the doll was dead he signaled for a knight to get over here. "Go get me
my kid" he demanded.
Everyone else including Zed began to clean up the guest room. Not long had passed before the
guard. "I'm sorry to inform you but, your daughter is gone. She left this note." The guard handed
Zed the note to him.
"Dear mother and father, I have decide to go on my own where I can live my own life, I probably
won't be back. Please don't try to find me, once I'm an great warrior I'll visit you all.. Until then
take care. ~Zesa"
Before Emma even knew what had occurred she fell onto a cold marble floor. Vials, flasks, and
many odd shaped containers filled the marble room. Shelves full of books covered all of the
walls. Scattered throughout the room were other cages which contained monsters and creatures
which looked to me composed of spare animal parts.
Emma looked up to see a white robed demon hovering above her. "Welcome to my laboratory
my dear." He began moving his claws around Emma just to watch the terror in her face. "While
we wait for Zeikfried you may wander around, but I highly suggest you don't try to escape. The
last of my prisoners who attempted to flee got her freedom...for a price. You knew her during the
last war as Lady Harken khhk khhk khhk." He then smiled at her tears of fright and was about to
toy with her some more.
A pit of black goo appeared behind the demon, a warrior in shiny blue armor rose from it
"Alhazad"
Alhazad turned to face the one who spoke. "Master Zeikfried, I got the human woman you
wanted, also the new magic seeds work very well"
Zeikfried lifted Glumzamber and pointed it at Emma who still remained on the floor and raised
his voice "This isn't the woman I asked for, I asked for the one who was standing next to her. It
can't be that hard to kidnap a blind woman"
Alhazad looked toward Emma and saw the same blind girl he had seen in Saint Centour during
the attack. "What do you mean she's not the one, I grabbed the blind one like you said. Ahh"
Alhazad lost his concentration to hover and fell to the floor. When he regained his senses he
looked up and saw Emma, the real Emma. "What the hell is happening, that's not the one I
grabbed."
"Then where is the blind girl?" Zeikfried demanded.
"I don't know, she probably sensed my coming and messed with my mind."
"We'll have to grab that wretched whore later, we need to prepare for the next attack. Soon
Harke... "Zeikfried pointed his spear at poor Emma once more "Throw this one in the
Pandemonium dungeon, the prophet would love a new friend, also send a little gift to the brat
who ruined the plan ."
~
Zesa was in Cecilia's room sitting on her bed where she was told to stay. Because she had demon
blood she didn't have any friends other then monsters she had befriended in Saint Centour. She
spent most of her time talking to herself. "This is just weird, I seem to be growing some sort of
future sight; too bad nobody believes me. Guess I won't get any respect until I become the
greatest swordswoman ever, I have the sword" She reached to her back and pulled out a simple
katana with a gold handle. "Now father just has to teach me. Until then I'll just fantasize about
my future, where I'm the best at everything. She sheathed her sword then lie on the bed.
While Zesa was off in her fantasy land she didn't notice that Cecilia's doll on the bookshelf had
disappeared. Cecilia's doll was under the bed with a bloody butcher knife along with five
Rachael monster dolls who carried hunting knives.
The demon suddenly stopped dreaming as she got a sudden urge to get up and stretch. Right as
she got up she heard a slice. Turning around she noticed five knife blades protruding from the
bed right where she was lying. As quickly as the knives went into the bed they retracted, dolls
started coming out from under the bed. Two Rachaels jumped out at her face; however Zesa
blocked her face with her arm then threw the dolls at the wall cracking the fragile porcelain
heads.
"AH!" She screamed. While being preoccupied with the two another Rachael had jumped onto
her back and stabbed her. The doll lost her balance and fell to the ground where Zesa stomped on
her head. Blood was dripping down her back, she had to run. It was times like these where she
wished she knew how to use her sword. She ran towards the door but fell as one of the dolls
threw its knife right into her right calf. The three other dolls did the same but missed. Zesa
picked herself up now covered with blood and ran out the door towards the council room.
~
The three warriors, Zed, Mariel, Bartholomew, Jane, and some of the higher class soldiers had all
congregated to the Adlehyde council room to discuss the recent attack. The meeting had just
started so all that had been said were the reports on the damage.
"WAHHH!" Zesa pushed open the door and fell onto the floor. She was covered in blood. Upon
seeing the bloody girl, Cecilia cast heal. Zesa suddenly was in perfect health, although her dress
was still torn where she was stabbed.
Zed walked over to his daughter as she was getting up "What the hell happened to you?"
She was in tears and frightened but she tried to speak clearly "T...tt...the dolls sstarted to attack
me. C..cecilia's doll with tthe green dress and a f..few others. Ttheres ss..still some iin there."
"Should we go check it out your majestys" One of the knights asked the king and queen.
Cecilia turned and spoke to the knight. "It's probably best if we go with Zed. Lets go check it
out, you too Jack."
They all made their way towards the room, as they walked in they were stunned including Zesa..
Zed turned towards her "Looks like nothing happened here."
Zesa looked around the room in disbelief, everything was clean. The bed was made, no blood
was on the floor, no broken doll pieces were scattered around, and a little doll with a green dress
was sitting on the bookshelf. "It can't be, this room was a mess as I was fleeing. That doll was
attacking me with a knife." She pointed to the doll on the shelf.
Zed was now extremely mad, he pulled her by the collar of her dress. "Stop making up these
stories. It's nice that you can do such a believable job of hurting yourself, but this isn't the time
to be playing jokes."
"But...I"
He continued. "I don't care what you have to say I'm not listening, I'm tired of this crap you do
to get attention. You better stay in this room for the rest of the night, and I better not see you until
tomorrow when I'm leaving." He signaled to the three humans "Lets go back"
The four walked out of the room not even giving her a chance to explain anything. She fell to her
knees and began to cry.
She cried and though for an hour. After that hour she got up from the floor and wiped the tears
from her face. "Nobody here seems to care about me, I'm going to run off and live my own life
the way I want to live it. I may not be able to fight, but I'd rather risk dying than spend another
minute with that man." Zesa opened up Cecilia's closet and took out a black cloak which she put
on. She opened the door quietly and slipped out into the shadows of the castle where she was
able to easily escape to the outside garden unnoticed. All she needed to do now was to go into the
trees and she would be free. She stopped before the trees and took a large breath.
She began to step into the forest, however before she could finish the step she heard a voice.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Zesa dreams had crumbled right as she heard those words, she turned to see who had caught her.
There stood the most unlikely person to catch a runaway, it was her mother. "Mother.. I..I. I can't
stay here any longer. I'm leaving and you can't stop me."
"Don't worry dear I'm not going to stop you or even inform anybody of this, but please think this
over before you go. You have no way to protect yourself from the monsters." She spoke in her
soft motherly voice.
"I don't care mother, I would rather risk it than stay here. I thank you deeply for not informing
anybody of this. I'm going to run off on an adventure and ." She kissed her mothers cheek.
"Goodbye mother, you probably should return to the castle now." She then turned to go into the
trees.
A grin came to her mother face, "who said anything about ME returning to the castle."
Zesa froze in her tracks unsure of what she thought she just heard.
Sara threw a pack of supplies into Zesa's arms, "Before you're allowed to go off on your own
you need to escort me to the Memory Temple, it's a couple of days northwest. I'll deal with the
monsters. After all you've always wondered how I was able to survive the attack on Saint
Centour."
~
The meeting in the council room was nearing an end. Everybody was tired and had many mixed
feelings. Rudy stood up to officially announce the new decision "So it is agreed that I, Cecilia,
and Jack will journey once again to save our Filgaia."
Zed stood up "count me in, I'm the best swordsman ever; besides if I don't volunteer Sara will
force me." It was decided then and everything was being cleaned up.
A frantic knight ran into the room, "I'm sorry to barge in, but there are four demon dolls
attacking the villagers in the guest rooms. We tried to kill them but they are too strong.
Downstairs the four warriors each faced off against a doll. Zed choose the doll with the green
dress, when he say it closer up he whispered to himself, "she was telling the truth."
Jack, Rudy, and Cecilia were able to kill the Rachaels with one hit and joined Zed. The green
haired demon attacked first with his sword knocking the doll back a bit. Jack threw his sword to
perform guilty blade, the doll jumped on the sword then towards Jack with its knife ready.
Hanpan jumped out of Jack's pocket and stole the dolls knife. The toy landed on Jacks shoulder
but was quickly hit off onto the floor by Cecilia's wand. Rudy who had the lowest speed got out
his rocket launcher and shot that thing. Once the smoke cleared all that was left was a crater
where the doll was.
Once Zed knew for sure the doll was dead he signaled for a knight to get over here. "Go get me
my kid" he demanded.
Everyone else including Zed began to clean up the guest room. Not long had passed before the
guard. "I'm sorry to inform you but, your daughter is gone. She left this note." The guard handed
Zed the note to him.
"Dear mother and father, I have decide to go on my own where I can live my own life, I probably
won't be back. Please don't try to find me, once I'm an great warrior I'll visit you all.. Until then
take care. ~Zesa"