You have no idea how sorry I am for keeping you all waiting this long...NO idea. But, I fell better now because I typed you all a really, really, long chapter this time! YAY! So let's hop to it. Shall we? I present to you, Chapter Eight of On Wings of Revilement!
The two girls stared into the now empty space.
"Who…what…how…" Leiko managed to finally mutter something.
Kate caught on. "No clue, to all three simplified questions." She gulped. "And the fact that I don't know is starting to give me the creeps…do you think he's up to something?"
"I'm 99.9 percent sure of it, but we can't worry about it now." Leiko regained her speech.
"But we need to find a way to get me off this planet so I can find my fr-"
"What?" Kate interrupted. "You see something like that and you're just going to leave?"
Leiko looked left and right. "Well, yeah."
Immediately, Kate rushed over to Leiko, grabbed her shoulders and shook her saying, "BUT YOU JUST GOT HERE!"
"Ack!" Leiko kicked Kate in the stomach to get her off.
"You can't leave now! There's danger about!" Kate looked very desperate.
"Okay, okay, okay." Leiko brushed herself off. "You win. I'll stay for one night. But I'm leaving first light tomorrow morning."
"Whatever." Kate set off in the direction of her house with Leiko closely behind her.
The two girls settled in to the house quickly. They slept in the guest bedroom and had a great time watching movies, eating popcorn, playing truth or dare, and other things, until they both got very tired and couldn't play one more game or eat one more kernel of popcorn.
"'Night, Leiko. See ya in the morning." Said Kate, smiling over at her friend and plopping tiredly into her bed and falling asleep right away.
"Same to you, Kate. G'night." Leiko reached over and clicked off the light, soon asleep and dreaming.
When Leiko woke up, she was no longer in Kate's house. In fact, she wasn't in what looked like a house at all. She sat up in bed and noticed that the entire room was purple-tinted marble. Confused at her new surroundings, she got up and walked over near the window, looking out into the black night. It was then she noticed that she was in a large castle with a vast green field for a yard.
Completely in awe, she stared out at this a bit longer, until she lost track of the time, but suddenly, a man with messy red hair with a girl in a white gown over his shoulder came speeding down the lane. Leiko stared curiously at him and watched his every move…
Unaware that he was being watched, the man continued to run toward the castle, but instead of coming through the front door, he winded around the castle to the back, and Leiko's curiosity got the best of her.
She left the room and quickly went down thirteen flights of stairs to the backyard. It was there that she saw the man going into a back room very, very quietly, pushing open the door, leaving the girl outside, and walking into the room.
Leiko ran over to the girl, only to realize that she was unconscious, and peeked into the room where the man had gone. To her shock, she saw yet another man with coal black hair, but that was all she could make out on him, because the entire scene was in silhouette.
"If you want your family to stay unharmed, you will evacuate this castle immediately." Said the red-haired figure.
"If you think we are going to leave that easily," said the other man, who apparently owned the castle, "you're sadly mistaken. My daughter and I aren't going anywhere."
The other man laughed. "I beg to differ. In fact, if you still want your daughter in one piece, you had better leave."
There was a short silence after that, broken only by the owner of the castle saying, "If you lay one finger on Leiko, YOU will be the one that won't make it alive."
"Do I sense a challenge?" Said the invading man.
"I'm quite sure you do." Said the owner.
Suddenly, the invading man summoned a large scythe and began swinging it skillfully at the other man, who, apparently, was deflecting his attacks, for every time the man with the scythe got a good aim at him and swung his weapon, it would bounce back off of the owner.
The battle went on for a while when suddenly, a little girl with dark hair like the first man's walked in through the back door.
"Daddy?" She said, eyes wide.
The owner took two seconds to look aside at his daughter, but two seconds was long enough for the man with the scythe to knock him over and get him into a position on his stomach on the ground.
The little girl in the doorway screamed and ran over to the man with the scythe, bringing her small fists down upon him.
"You leave Daddy alone!" She cried, but the man swung around, hand still on the owner to keep him in place, and grabbed the girl by the back of her shirt. It was then he finally allowed the owner to get up, which he did very slowly.
"Put…her…down…" He said, an angry fire burning furiously in his eyes.
The man holding the scythe, and the girl, laughed evilly. "It would seem as if we have a choice to make. It's either you leave the castle or I smear this girl all over that wall and force you to watch." The man pointed at the far wall.
The owner was silent.
"Well?" Said the man with the scythe. "Are you going to speak up soon or are you afraid of me hurting your precious daughter?"
Leiko stared, wide-eyed from the doorway at the battle, when she noticed that the owner was getting his fingers into a snapping position behind his back.
"Put her down. I mean it." He still had the angry glare.
"And what are you going to do if I don't?" Said the scythe man, with a playful smile that said that the owner couldn't hurt him if he tried.
"This!" Said the owner, bringing his fingers out in front, snapping them and causing the scythe man to drop the girl and fly up against the wall, dazed.
The girl dropped to the ground and was dazed as well, snapped out of it only by the voice of her father saying, "Leiko, run!"
She stood up and stared over at him, tears welling up in her eyes. "But what about you?"
The owner rolled his eyes and said, "I'll be fine. Just get out of here!"
The girl nodded sadly and sped out the door past Leiko, who followed her about a mile to where a woman with short hair was standing.
"Mommy!" Cried the girl, running into the woman's arms.
"Leiko!" cried the woman, and seeing the tears on her daughter's face asked, "Leiko, what's wrong?"
"Daddy's fighting a man with red hair in his room!" she said, panting heavily.
"What?" The woman didn't believe this.
"The man with red hair is trying to take our castle away!"
The woman's eyes became just as wide as her daughter's and the two took back off toward the castle, with Leiko staring at them, but as soon as she took one step back toward where they were going, she fell over on her back, and when she shot up…
"Leiko! Leiko! Hello?"
Leiko was jolted to find Kate right up in her face. "Augh!"
Kate laughed. "Leiko, you were supposed to leave at first light."
Leiko got up to her feet "I am. What time is it?"
Kate looked at her like she had dropped out of the ceiling painted purple. "It's ten o'clock, Leiko."
Leiko stared at her, and even though to Kate it looked like shock, it wasn't. Leiko was still recovering from the dream, and she had just realized that she recognized both the parents of the little girl.
Many secrets, many many secrets in this chapter, but all will be revealed soon! Thanks for reading and post a review to tell me what you think! Oh, and s'more news, Summer Vacation starts for me on June 9, so I should be updating a LOT more! Woo hoo!