The Rise Of The Darkness
5
Fleta stirred, she was dazed and confused.
"Where am I?" she said, rubbing her head. It was throbbing she felt like she had been hit by a baseball bat.
"You now belong to the Darkness." A voice came all around her.
"Yeah whatever, but that doesn't tell me where I am!" she shot back, annoyed. She was hurting and it made her fierce.
There was nothing but silence. She managed to sit up, and realised that she was in some sort of derelict warehouse. The windows were smashed, and the stairs were falling to pieces and half the roof was missing. It was cold and quite dark, even though it was still light outside.
She got up, obviously her kidnappers mustn't have thought that restraints were necessary for what they were intending to do to her.
As Fleta walked around, she realised there were no doors only one big drive in one that was locked. She went over and tried to lift it.
"There is no point. You wont be able to get out."
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"But we don't know where they've taken her!" Keller interrupted.
"I don't care we have to find her now! All this sitting around isn't doing her any good! They could be doing anything to her!" Elizabeth cut in pacing around the room getting herself even more frustrated.
"Lizzy, calm down." Ciara said putting her hand on her shoulder.
"But what if she's right? What if they're killing her right now?" Bonita said completely out of character, she was never like this, she was always calm in these situations.
"Ciara is right, don't worry." James said giving his sister a hug.
"Wait a minute Rasmussen are you saying that Lizzy is over reacting?" Ash turned on James.
"No I'm not!" James snapped back at him.
"Wait are you saying that Ciara has no right to comfort Lizzy?" Quinn snarled at Ash.
"Yes I am, because she is leading her into false pretences, and she doesn't know what could be happening to her." Ash growled back.
"Ash please don't." Mary - Lynnette tried to stop him as she saw how angry Quinn was getting and he looked as though he was about to hit Ash if Rashel hadn't been trying to hold him back.
"She has every right to be upset. I'm only looking after my family's best interest." Ash continued.
"I don't need you looking after my interests!" Elizabeth retorted sending Ash an evil glare.
"And another thing! How do you know that Fleta didn't plan the whole thing? For all we know, she could be working for them." Ash carried on in his dispute.
Rashel was loosing her grip and Thierry was glaring at Ash. Elizabeth's head snapped around and she went over to Ash, and slapped him. The room went deadly silent and Ash looked completely shocked.
"How dare you say that about her." Elizabeth breathed her voice dripping with tinted danger.
"Thank you." Quinn said quietly staring at Elizabeth.
"I'm sorry. I deserved that." Ash said stunned.
"Yes you did! Good work Lizzy, I've been wanting to that for ages!" Commented Mary - Lynnette, breaking the shocked silence.
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"And you are?" Fleta said turning around trying to pinpoint the voice.
"My name doesn't matter. all you need to know is that I work for the Darkness. The shadow that will rule all." The voice said, still all around.
"ok, whatever, why am I here?" Fleta asked now getting agitated.
"To bring the Darkness to life. the life of one of The Four is all that is needed to let the Darkness take their true forms tonight." The voice droned on in an almost dreamy, hypnotic way.
"Well sorry to disappoint you, but that isn't going to happen so don't even bother!" Fleta retorted.
The thing gave a slight laugh "You do amuse so. it will be a shame to have to kill you. I would have enjoyed tasting you, but never mind. I'm sure one of the others would be just as nice."
Fleta scowled. "You wouldn't have gotten close." she hissed
"I always get what I want." He laughed.
"Oh yeah? Well come and get it." She sneered.
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"Look we need to think rationally here." Hannah was taking over the situation now that everyone had calmed down after the little Ash and Lizzy incident. She glanced over at Thierry who had his head in his hands and kept shaking it, looking at his hands, and then burying his head again. He was going to be of no use so now it was up to Hannah to take charge.
"Right firstly we need to think of all the places they could have taken her." Hannah said authoritatively.
"I will go and get a map from one of the libraries." Maggie chirped up.
"Yeah and I will go and help!" Poppy volunteered, getting up.
Poppy and Maggie scampered out and headed off to find a map.
"Right what I think we should do, is split the area up into sections, and then split up in groups, and each group goes and searches an area. What do you think?" Hannah looked at them all.
"Yeah that sounds great." Delos said nodding in approval and so did everyone else murmuring 'Yes' in reply.
Hannah went over to Thierry.
"What is the matter?" she asked him softly.
"I had just found out about her, and now she is gone. it's all my fault. I should have gone with her! Or not let her go." Thierry trailed off sniffing, shaking his head.
"It was not your fault." Hannah told him gently, "You didn't know that this was going to happen."
"But I'm a terrible brother!" he carried on.
"Your love for her now shows just how much of a caring brother you are!" Hannah said bending down in front of him, and taking his hands in hers. "But they need you to lead them. you have to pull yourself together if we are going to find her." She said still gently, but more sternly.
"You're right." Thierry sighed. "I love you."
"I love you too. And I promise you that we will get her back. I love her like my own sister as well. To be honest I think most people in here do even though they have only been here. what. two days?" Hannah told him.
Thierry got up and hugged Hannah then kissed her.
Maggie and Poppy burst through the doors.
"We have the map." They both said simultaneously.
"Good now put it on the table over there, and lets get this search started." Thierry said assuming responsibility. He strided over to the table and everyone gathered around.
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"Very well." The voice said and snapped his fingers and out from the shadows in front of Fleta emerged at least 30 figures.
Fleta was tense and ready, she looked at them all and for once wasn't scared. She wanted to prove to him that she wasn't scared or weak.
They took another few steps out of the shadows into half of the little bit of light that was in this place.
She could sense the person who had been talking to her was smirking and that just made everything worse.
Fleta was overwhelmed with this hatred for, that voice, that flunky of the shadows, she wanted to destroy him. It was building up inside of her, this brilliant light wanting to get out and annihilate him and all this darkness.
As all this was running through her, she didn't realise that she started to glow. she had a sort of white aura all around her and she was literally a light in this darkness.
The others had noticed this and took a step back slightly in fear and astonishment.
The shadow flunky was enraged by this, his eyes grew wide in fear and rage, he yelled and the others rushed towards Fleta.
Fleta saw them coming and stood with her feet apart. She felt something flowing through her and it was building up, and up, and she was glowing brighter, and brighter. She held out her hands and a beam of vibrant silver light shot out and hit the charging shadow people.
Fleta put all her strength and hatred and anger and rage and utter loathing for the shadow flunky and the darkness into this and before she knew it, no one was charging. They were all lying dead.
Fleta looked up and saw the retreating flap of a cape and raised her hands and pushed with her mind and the beam shot out again, but this time missed, and he was gone.
Fleta turned and once again pushed with her mind and shot the beam at the locked door.
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"Keller you two will take this area."
"Rashel, your team will take this area."
"Ash yours will take this, and this one."
"And mine will take this one." Thierry said pointing to the map.
"Right everyone remember if you find anything get in touch, and we will all go together." Thierry looked around at all the faces.
"Right everyone got it? Okay lets go!"
They all got together in their groups and were all heading for the front door.
"Right troops lets go!" Morgead said stepping out the door.
"Oh! Day trip! Were are we going?"
"FLETA!" nearly everyone exclaimed.
Fleta smiled her cute little smile and found herself quickly swept up into the air by Thierry. He was hugging her so hard but heard her gasp, so he put her down.
"Trying to break me!" she said.
"Well you are small enough!" Elizabeth replied giving her a massive hug.
Fleta was soon hugged by nearly everyone then got bombarded with questions.
"How did you escape?" Thea asked
"Where were you?" Jez enquired.
"Did they hurt you?" Thierry questioned putting a hand on her shoulder.
"How about we all go and sit down and Fleta can tell us everything?" Hannah suggested.
"Good idea!" James replied.
Everyone was sat down and Fleta began.
5
Fleta stirred, she was dazed and confused.
"Where am I?" she said, rubbing her head. It was throbbing she felt like she had been hit by a baseball bat.
"You now belong to the Darkness." A voice came all around her.
"Yeah whatever, but that doesn't tell me where I am!" she shot back, annoyed. She was hurting and it made her fierce.
There was nothing but silence. She managed to sit up, and realised that she was in some sort of derelict warehouse. The windows were smashed, and the stairs were falling to pieces and half the roof was missing. It was cold and quite dark, even though it was still light outside.
She got up, obviously her kidnappers mustn't have thought that restraints were necessary for what they were intending to do to her.
As Fleta walked around, she realised there were no doors only one big drive in one that was locked. She went over and tried to lift it.
"There is no point. You wont be able to get out."
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"But we don't know where they've taken her!" Keller interrupted.
"I don't care we have to find her now! All this sitting around isn't doing her any good! They could be doing anything to her!" Elizabeth cut in pacing around the room getting herself even more frustrated.
"Lizzy, calm down." Ciara said putting her hand on her shoulder.
"But what if she's right? What if they're killing her right now?" Bonita said completely out of character, she was never like this, she was always calm in these situations.
"Ciara is right, don't worry." James said giving his sister a hug.
"Wait a minute Rasmussen are you saying that Lizzy is over reacting?" Ash turned on James.
"No I'm not!" James snapped back at him.
"Wait are you saying that Ciara has no right to comfort Lizzy?" Quinn snarled at Ash.
"Yes I am, because she is leading her into false pretences, and she doesn't know what could be happening to her." Ash growled back.
"Ash please don't." Mary - Lynnette tried to stop him as she saw how angry Quinn was getting and he looked as though he was about to hit Ash if Rashel hadn't been trying to hold him back.
"She has every right to be upset. I'm only looking after my family's best interest." Ash continued.
"I don't need you looking after my interests!" Elizabeth retorted sending Ash an evil glare.
"And another thing! How do you know that Fleta didn't plan the whole thing? For all we know, she could be working for them." Ash carried on in his dispute.
Rashel was loosing her grip and Thierry was glaring at Ash. Elizabeth's head snapped around and she went over to Ash, and slapped him. The room went deadly silent and Ash looked completely shocked.
"How dare you say that about her." Elizabeth breathed her voice dripping with tinted danger.
"Thank you." Quinn said quietly staring at Elizabeth.
"I'm sorry. I deserved that." Ash said stunned.
"Yes you did! Good work Lizzy, I've been wanting to that for ages!" Commented Mary - Lynnette, breaking the shocked silence.
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"And you are?" Fleta said turning around trying to pinpoint the voice.
"My name doesn't matter. all you need to know is that I work for the Darkness. The shadow that will rule all." The voice said, still all around.
"ok, whatever, why am I here?" Fleta asked now getting agitated.
"To bring the Darkness to life. the life of one of The Four is all that is needed to let the Darkness take their true forms tonight." The voice droned on in an almost dreamy, hypnotic way.
"Well sorry to disappoint you, but that isn't going to happen so don't even bother!" Fleta retorted.
The thing gave a slight laugh "You do amuse so. it will be a shame to have to kill you. I would have enjoyed tasting you, but never mind. I'm sure one of the others would be just as nice."
Fleta scowled. "You wouldn't have gotten close." she hissed
"I always get what I want." He laughed.
"Oh yeah? Well come and get it." She sneered.
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"Look we need to think rationally here." Hannah was taking over the situation now that everyone had calmed down after the little Ash and Lizzy incident. She glanced over at Thierry who had his head in his hands and kept shaking it, looking at his hands, and then burying his head again. He was going to be of no use so now it was up to Hannah to take charge.
"Right firstly we need to think of all the places they could have taken her." Hannah said authoritatively.
"I will go and get a map from one of the libraries." Maggie chirped up.
"Yeah and I will go and help!" Poppy volunteered, getting up.
Poppy and Maggie scampered out and headed off to find a map.
"Right what I think we should do, is split the area up into sections, and then split up in groups, and each group goes and searches an area. What do you think?" Hannah looked at them all.
"Yeah that sounds great." Delos said nodding in approval and so did everyone else murmuring 'Yes' in reply.
Hannah went over to Thierry.
"What is the matter?" she asked him softly.
"I had just found out about her, and now she is gone. it's all my fault. I should have gone with her! Or not let her go." Thierry trailed off sniffing, shaking his head.
"It was not your fault." Hannah told him gently, "You didn't know that this was going to happen."
"But I'm a terrible brother!" he carried on.
"Your love for her now shows just how much of a caring brother you are!" Hannah said bending down in front of him, and taking his hands in hers. "But they need you to lead them. you have to pull yourself together if we are going to find her." She said still gently, but more sternly.
"You're right." Thierry sighed. "I love you."
"I love you too. And I promise you that we will get her back. I love her like my own sister as well. To be honest I think most people in here do even though they have only been here. what. two days?" Hannah told him.
Thierry got up and hugged Hannah then kissed her.
Maggie and Poppy burst through the doors.
"We have the map." They both said simultaneously.
"Good now put it on the table over there, and lets get this search started." Thierry said assuming responsibility. He strided over to the table and everyone gathered around.
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"Very well." The voice said and snapped his fingers and out from the shadows in front of Fleta emerged at least 30 figures.
Fleta was tense and ready, she looked at them all and for once wasn't scared. She wanted to prove to him that she wasn't scared or weak.
They took another few steps out of the shadows into half of the little bit of light that was in this place.
She could sense the person who had been talking to her was smirking and that just made everything worse.
Fleta was overwhelmed with this hatred for, that voice, that flunky of the shadows, she wanted to destroy him. It was building up inside of her, this brilliant light wanting to get out and annihilate him and all this darkness.
As all this was running through her, she didn't realise that she started to glow. she had a sort of white aura all around her and she was literally a light in this darkness.
The others had noticed this and took a step back slightly in fear and astonishment.
The shadow flunky was enraged by this, his eyes grew wide in fear and rage, he yelled and the others rushed towards Fleta.
Fleta saw them coming and stood with her feet apart. She felt something flowing through her and it was building up, and up, and she was glowing brighter, and brighter. She held out her hands and a beam of vibrant silver light shot out and hit the charging shadow people.
Fleta put all her strength and hatred and anger and rage and utter loathing for the shadow flunky and the darkness into this and before she knew it, no one was charging. They were all lying dead.
Fleta looked up and saw the retreating flap of a cape and raised her hands and pushed with her mind and the beam shot out again, but this time missed, and he was gone.
Fleta turned and once again pushed with her mind and shot the beam at the locked door.
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"Keller you two will take this area."
"Rashel, your team will take this area."
"Ash yours will take this, and this one."
"And mine will take this one." Thierry said pointing to the map.
"Right everyone remember if you find anything get in touch, and we will all go together." Thierry looked around at all the faces.
"Right everyone got it? Okay lets go!"
They all got together in their groups and were all heading for the front door.
"Right troops lets go!" Morgead said stepping out the door.
"Oh! Day trip! Were are we going?"
"FLETA!" nearly everyone exclaimed.
Fleta smiled her cute little smile and found herself quickly swept up into the air by Thierry. He was hugging her so hard but heard her gasp, so he put her down.
"Trying to break me!" she said.
"Well you are small enough!" Elizabeth replied giving her a massive hug.
Fleta was soon hugged by nearly everyone then got bombarded with questions.
"How did you escape?" Thea asked
"Where were you?" Jez enquired.
"Did they hurt you?" Thierry questioned putting a hand on her shoulder.
"How about we all go and sit down and Fleta can tell us everything?" Hannah suggested.
"Good idea!" James replied.
Everyone was sat down and Fleta began.