"Hello" a soft, shy voice came from the darkness, where the glowing eyes hovered ominously. Please, don't be afraid... I vont hurt you" The voice was freindly, shy, in an unfamiliar accent. a blue hand with three fingers extended out from the darkness.
Ivy'spiercing shriek echoed off the walls of the cave asshe recoiled, frantically crawling backwards away from the creature, hitting the opposite wall. The blue hand instantly retreated.
Her heart pounded in her ears, eyes straining against the darkness.
Finally, the darkness across from her stammered out "I-I'm sorry" and paused. "I.. didn't mean to scare you, I know, I'm frightening..." it croaked.
"W..what are you?" Ivy demanded, snapping out of her momentary catatonia, "Where am I? Why did you bring me here? What are you going to do to me! I want to go home!" she suddenly broke down, hot tears rolling down her cheeks, blood pounding. She became aware that the room seemed to be rotating slowly in all directions through a blackening haze. She continued her berating, "How do I get out of here! Where is the door? Oh God, there's no way out of here! I'm trapped! I've been kidnapped! God, God- what is going to happen to me!"
Ivy was frantic now, staggering to her feet, grasping the wall of the cave, leaning her back against it as she rose, feeling her way across, grasping for a door, an opening, outside. There were no beams of light coming from anywhere, she must be deep inside, too far from the mouth of the cave to see the light! The room swirled, the floor tilted to one side, like the deck of a ship lurching as it hits a wave. She stumbled, and caught the herself on the black stone wall, scraping the tips of her fingers against the abrasive surface.
"Vait, please! You need to lie down, you'll hurt yourself! It-its okay, I'll leave! Calm down" the creature pleaded to the hysterical girl whose bloodshot and watery eyes were strained open wide, pupils constricted from adrenaline, despite the darkness. He emerged from the shadows, starting towards her as she stumbled once more, barely catching herself, hand to her forehead.
The white of Ivy's eyes glistened in the firelight, pupils widening, blue green banded irises a tiny strip, dark, thick eyelashes unmoving. Time seemed to stand still, Ivy's vision was filtered by an oatmeal thick fog-- in slow motion, a ghastly, gaunt, monster covered in deep blue fur, with but three fingers and two toes projecting from the end of each limb, long pointed ears and glowing yellow eyes, ominously stepped from the darkness into the circle of firelight, coming at her. And whats more, coiling, flicking, slithering behind him, was a long blue tail ending in an arrow-head point.
The Devil's tail, she thought. I've been taken prisoner by a demon!
Ivy screamed with all the energy left in her. Swooping like a tern into the ocean, the room turned and fell into blackness.
