Not Hoped For
Elly ran as fast as she could, her limping from the strenuous pain on her upper and lower body, but never letting go of her fearsome grip on her rod.
Elly peered around a corner watching for anything stalking around in the darkness of this hellish labyrinth of a situation they had gotten themselves into.
She jumped when a hand touched her shoulder, letting out a scream swinging her rod in the direction of the person behind, only for her arm to be stopped in mid-air.
"Calm down Elly" A green giant whispered hushing her at the same time.
"Oh Rico…you scared me" He pulled her hand "This way" and ducked with her into the shadows.
A Reaper and some other creature walked by, it had the same shape of the reapers body, but it had arms sticking from its back, bending to the front as it rubbed its hands together.
It sniffed the air and turned in Rico and Elly's direction, its face was a distorted skeleton with a hole in its head.
It turned around huffing, talking in a grunt like way with the Reaper.
"What was that?" Elly asked in a hushed tone.
"I don't want to know" Rico replied, they waited a few more minutes before getting back up.
They turned the opposite way of the Reaper and newly found mutation.
They saw a silver glint of light and fire graze small in the distance a man walked up, his sword held to his side. It was Jaocubi. Elly gave a small smile.
Jaocubi and Rico stared at each other with hatred and disgust.
No words were exchanged.
The fire diminished and the group continued on.
There was a steel door opening and closing that had a stair way twining around it self that lead to the top and bottom of the darkness.
"I don't want to go down" Elly said, shivering from the thought. "This place only seems to get darker and darker"
They slowly went up the stairs, Elly and Jaocubi tip-toeing.
Rico tried but the steps gave a small creak the farther he would tread up.
Once they reached the top of the stairs, there was only one doorway, Elly and Jaocubi stood back, waiting for Rico to do the honors.
He rolled his eyes and pushed against the door.
It didn't move.
He pushed again and it didn't budge.
He tried again, than gave up.
"It won't budge" He said obviously irritated that his strength wouldn't do the job.
Rico stepped back with Jaocubi and Elly then puzzled a way they could get through it.
They heard a light tapping, and a loud metal scraping, and the sound of someone yanking from its standard place emitting a loud metal groan.
The door swayed lightly open, revealing a small crack.
The group just stared afraid to approach.
Rico faced the groups fear and marched up slowly.
He opened the door, and it revealed a blanket of thick darkness waiting to consume whoever decided to step in.
He looked in then back to his two fellow comrades who shriveled back a little against the wall.
Elly screamed and felt something hit his waist, he looked and saw a Reaper, its claws sinking into his rough skin, and he grunted and hit the stair case, tumbling down with the mutated figure.
Jaocubi fumbled with his sword and dropped it with the sheath, Elly held her rod up ready for battle; he knelt down to pick it up and froze.
A Reaper with four arms, and claws that looked sharper and longer than e regular Reapers lethal weapons.
It let out a growl that echoed across the stair case room and darkness, a hole in its forehead.
Its eyes moved from Jaocubi to Elly deciding for the best victim that should fall to its demise.
It eyes were as dark as the darkness itself, maggots and other kinds of insects crawling from the eyes around the skull, the eyes were moving back and forth in a skeletal like way.
It cocked its head to the side and ran in Elly's direction; her rod was ready to swing.
She swung her rod ducking to the left of the creature its teeth bearing out like it was ready to snap.
It launched down for Elly, Fire erupted the glow that alit made Elly's hair have a glow to the sensational glow and warmth that protected her from deaths grip.
The creature hissed then stepped back.
Jaocubi finally recovered with his sword, buckling the sheath back to his side, the blade reflecting the light of the fire. Jaocubi made an entry into the fire the fire not grazing him at all with the burn scars that should have remained through with his entry.
He stepped in next to Elly, both rod and sword ready for an alliance in the battle against this evil monstrosity, the fire being a barrier was the only thing keeping them safe.
"They're afraid of fire, but they long for its warmth" Jaocubi whispered form the side of his mouth to Elly, only for her to nod in return.
The creature stepped foreword, its eyes moving frantically from left to right staring at it with slight admiration then reached its arm foreword touching the fire quickly then pulled back.
Jaocubi felt a pulse of pain surge through his body. His body cringed and the fire stopped only to appear back seconds later.
"I'm sorry Elly" He fell to the floor "I can't hold it up any more" His eyes closed, sword falling to his side.
The creature stared confused at first then walked foreword afraid the fire might reappear, singing him completely.
Elly knelt down beside Jaocubi and shook him a little.
"Please not now, don't leave me" The creature lunged foreword and Elly reacted quickly pushing Jaocubi to the side and her to the opposite, the mutated figure hitting the wall.
Elly swung her rod hitting the thing in its leg, it bounced back not even scraping what flesh it had on its unpreserved body.
It looked at Elly like she was crazy and let out a roar that made her shake she got to her feet her rod held forth and waited for the attacker to advance.
Maybe Elly thought she could lead it to the side when it made another lunge for her, because it seemed that it didn't think before it acted, this she could use to her advantage.
It started to make whining sounds and out its claws to its face and stared at Elly through parted fingers.
Was it playing a game with her Elly though making sure her mind didn't lose track of the events that were currently going on, it made on step bringing an arm down to the floor.
Elly watched intently, aware of every move this figure made in front of her.
It brought its whole body to the floor that arm still holding its body up right while eyeing Elly down like she were a delicious meal waiting to be torn open and devoured.
It pushed really quickly across the floor like a mouse trying to scurry to the hole in the wall that protected it, but launched on the floor gliding like its body wasn't the force that helped it exceed such actions.
Elly grabbed onto the rail and pushed down leaping up, then fell rolling to the left on the opposite side of the creature, it slammed into the metal pole, bending until it broke and fell its arm outstretched grabbing onto the metal before it fell to the plunging floor of darkness that waited to consume its unnoticed death.
She rushed up with her rod hitting it over and over on its half bony fingers then hitting its arm and last to the fingers.
"Die you devil" she screamed tears flooding from her eyes, but the creature wouldn't let go, its grip but it looked at her with her so much pain, and it scared her.
She brought her rod down, a new given idea. She stabbed with the rod hitting it in the eyes that inserted into the darkness of itself.
It hissed in agony trying to grab for her, she hit its arm; it fell into the darkness with a loud thump.
Into the distance of the darkness she heard moving and groans. Could the creature still be alive after that plunge?
A roar echoed up making her flinch back from the broken rail.
She ran back to Jaocubi and noticed he was awake again.
"Thank you Elly" He touched her cheek.
"I owe you one" Elly heard someone approach on the steps clanking loudly. "Rico" Elly shouted.
She saw the green beast approach. She heard a grunt. Yes, it was him.
When he got up she saw how battered he was, cut and bruised, it was a miracle knowing he was alive, no one could have normally survived what had happened to him.
He leaned to the side of the wall, and sat down.
"Next time you open the door" He pointed to Jaocubi, only giving a small smile.
A/N: I hope you like this chapter i think it came out really well, i like this one. Well sorry i keep making the little waits sometimesI have trouble getting to the computer, please enjoy and review.