CHAPTER 13: We Fight
The whole group leaned forward and saw only darkness. There was no other sound than water drops echoing.
"Are you sure this is the right place?" Jack said.
"Well, you didn't expect that the demons would be at the door waiting for you all. No, they're busy. Now come on, go in."
The group went in quietly and noticed that Jana remained outside.
"You coming?" Jake asked.
"This is not my battle to fight, league." Jana smiled. "Go on. Be cautious, but be strong."
The group nodded and traveled down the dark hall. Few torches were lit every ten to fifteen feet. Everyone was silent. It was as if their thumping hearts had taken their ability to speak. They walked, swiftly, until they started to hear noises. They heard loud factory noises, squeaking, knives sharpening, whips slashing and more growls than human speech. They saw the light coming from there and headed toward it.
"Be ready," Jake cautioned, and everyone gripped his or her weapons. When they stepped further, they saw that they were on a high balcony that stretched around the walls of the place. The group looked down and saw what they had suspected. Demons during hard labor, some of them large and ghastly, others not even demons, but humans. None of them had noticed the approaching group above them.
"There's a door," Matilda whispered, and pointed at a door at the farthest corner. "Other than that, I see only stairs... leading down there."
"We don't want to disturb them, do we?" Jack said.
"Of course not," Buffy said. "Let's just make it quietly to-"
"Who are you?"
The group turned around and gasped at the sight of one of the demon. He was large, and had skin that looked like wrinkled black leather, eyes a glowing red, and a mouth that was simply a slit on the large oval head.
Buffy took out a sword. "I'm Buffy. And you?" he took out his own weapon and tried to slash it into Buffy's chest, but Buffy stepped out of the way and punched him. She finally brought her sword to his neck.
A human down there was not working but writing something. A demon came up to him and looked to see what he was doing.
"You insignificant fool, why are you not working?" He asked.
"I- I'm sorry- it's just. I could not focus-"
"Dare you speak to me?" The demon took out a whip. "Have you no idea what we do to those who do not do what is asked of them?"
The man frowned and at that moment, the head that Buffy had chopped off fell before the man onto his table. He gasped and stepped away.
"What-" the demon looked up and saw the group looking guilty.
"RUN!" Jake yelled and the group started running toward the door, just as the demon ordered his associates to go after them.
"Great on trying to sneak to the door without being noticed!" Jack said.
"C'mon- Harry, Matilda- do something!" Jake demanded.
"Right," Matilda said, and as she was running, she moved machines and tools in the demon's way. Harry pointed his wand at a nearby demon. "Reducio!"
The demon shrank to a very small size. Matilda laughed, but the demon still came at them. "Harry!"
"Stupefy!" Harry said and the small thing was stunned. "No worries."
Harry, of course, said quite the opposite. Out of nowhere, a horde of demons and humans came at them.
"We fight," Buffy said, observing their situation, and holding her sword tightly.
"We fight," Jake and Jesse followed her; Jake removed some of his clothing.
"We fight," Harry and Matilda said, sighing.
"We might die." Jack said, though this didn't seem to bother him. He got out his sword and went up to a man. The man struck him across the face. "Oww!"
Harry started pointing his wand. He used the impediment jinx, which slowed down his closest attackers. "Stupefy! Stupefy!"
Matilda started to move things with her eye but a demon came from behind and put his arm around her body. She screamed and he placed his arm tightly around her neck.
Buffy did a series of flips. When she stopped, her attackers were too confused and she stabbed the two demons. She then pointed her sword at a woman.
She was young, around early twenties, her pale skin marked with coal and dust, her blonde hair fierce, thin and unkempt. Her blue eyes held fear as they were looking at the tip of the sword. Buffy held her position too long and a demon raised her and threw her against a wall.
Jake morphed into wolf, and Jesse, seeing this, stepped away. He took out his sword and started doing the best he could on fighting a demon.
"Not the expert swordsman," The demon said, as he some how acquired Jesse's sword. Quickly the demon stabbed him. After doing this, he laughed at his triumph.
Jesse took the sword out of his chest and the Demon's eyes went wide when he saw no sign of injury on him. In this state of shock, Jesse stuck the sword into the Demon's heart. "No, I'm not. But what does it matter?"
Jake growled and jumped onto a demon, scratching his face. The demon howled in pain. When another demon came at him, he jumped on him too.
Buffy winced at the throbbing and the demon punched her against the wall. Buffy used the wall to stand up. The demon lifted his arm to strike again, but Buffy flipped out of the way and kicked the demon against the wall. She then started walking to her sword on the ground when the demon caught her leg and caused her to fall on the ground. A man tripped over her head. Buffy looked up seeing the sword and tried to crawl to it, but the demon kept trying to grab her leg. Finally she grabbed it, turned, and stabbed the demon in his eye and then into his heart. When he was down, Buffy rested a minute on the ground, before getting up and fighting again. She moved demons out of her way to get to the door.
Matilda's breath was growing short and she could not scream for help in the chaos. She could feel the demons pleasure growing, as her life was fading. Then she heard the word "Tarantallegra!" And the demon started to dance. He released his grip on her and Matilda fell to the ground. "Stupefy!" The demon was stunned and Harry rushed to Matilda's side. She coughed, and put a hand around her neck and looked up with weak eyes. "Harry?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks." Matilda said.
Harry smiled and helped her up. "You'll be all right. C'mon, we have to make it to the door. C'mon, up, up."
Jake knocked out the demon and noticed a slash at his side. He quickly morphed back into a human and then to a Siberian tiger. He again attacked demons, until around five of them were unconscious or weak. He looked and saw that some of the other's were heading to the door.
"Hey, Jake, you can't talk, but I think we should head over to the door; we can't get all these guys." Jesse said, taking arrows out of his arm.
Jake morphed into a human. "Get on and hold on."
"What?"
Jake concentrated and morphed into a rhinoceros.
"Right, right," and Jesse managed to get on, but with much difficulty. "Okay, I'm goo-" Jake started charging toward the door, knocking demons out of his way. Jesse held on as tightly as he could without squeezing too much of Jake's skin.
Jack looked up and saw the rhinoceros. "Whoa." He looked down at the man's neck that he was standing on. Finally, the man passed out and Jack got off. With two swords, he poked his way through the crowd.
Buffy was at the door first and reached the doorknob. She turned it many times. Harry and Matilda got to her. "It's locked!" she informed them.
Harry pointed his wand at the doorknob. "Alohomora!" there was a click and Buffy opened the door. She peeked and saw a gray hall. "Great!"
Harry turned and saw some demons heading at them. He again used the impediment jinx to slow them down. He then smiled. "Here comes Jake and Jesse."
The rhinoceros started to shrink and then it left Jesse on the ground and Jake in tight clothing. "Err- Harry- could you get my clothes."
"Accio clothes!" Harry said and Jakes clothes came floating. At this time, Jack had made his way through.
"WHAT'RE YOU ALL DOING- C'MON!" Jack said, helping Jesse up and dragged him to the group. Jack also took hold of Matilda and Buffy and pushed them through the door. Harry caught Jakes clothes and together, they ran inside. Jake closed the door, right when the group of demons came at them. They heard the pounding and the twisting of the doorknob.
"It must lock every time it closes." Jake said, closest to the door. There came a loud pound and the group backed away. Then they all turned around and saw a long dark corridor.
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