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Chapter 8 – Captured!
I arrived in a cave-like room made entirely of rock.
"There is no point in trying to run anywhere: there's nowhere to go." The voice was dark and menacing. "Why don't you sit down…we have things to discuss."
My feet started moving of their own accord towards a table surrounded with large chairs. I sat in one and instantly metal restraints coiled around my waist, wrists and ankles. Great, I thought ironically. How original…
A shimmer of blackness at the other end of the table caught my attention, and after a moment a man in a long black cloak appeared, seated across from me. Two more shimmers emerged form the darkness behind him, resolving after a moment into two more men…also in cloaks. I rolled my eyes.
The first man – the leader, I guessed – leant forward and fixed me with a stern glare. I stared back at him. After a moment, he leant back, then gestured to himself and his little clones.
"We," he began, "are known as the Cloaked Men…and the reason that you couldn't find us in that little Book of theirs was because like you we are not from this world."
"But…" I started to say.
"Tut-tut, all in good time," he admonished, interrupting me. He waved his hands and poof, there was food on the table. I didn't know whether he trying to tease me or not…how was I supposed to eat when my hands were bound to the chair? He started eating though.
"What do you want with me?" I asked. I waited while he finished what he was eating and wiped his hands and cleared the table.
"While you have been cooking potions and killing demons," he said mockingly. "We, my partners and I, have been wondering how we – the three of us and yourself – came to be in this world."
I looked at him with questioning eyes. I had no idea what he was on about.
"See, in our world, there was so much corruption that any more and it would make the world unstable. So we decided to create our own world, where we could be the rulers…"
Yay, I thought derisively. They've gone for the World Domination Strategy.
"We decided to choose the Spring Equinox, the ancient festival of new beginnings, to be the beginning of our new world…however, fate seemed to have other ideas for us. As we were saying the spell, you were getting your powers. By tapping into the Equinox - which was also fuelling your spell - we tapped into you, and that's how this…mess…was created. Now this is a world based upon the TV show, but not following the TV show at all."
"So why then are you not the rulers of this new world?" I asked mockingly, imitating his speech. He glared at me.
"Because of you!" he growled, slamming his fist down on the table. "You being the goodie-two-shoes that you are. This…" he motioned around the room, indicating the world at large. "…is your creation, too."
"If this is indeed my creation then why is there a prophecy? Is that something you did, too?" Mocking people was fun, I decided.
The Cloaked Man frowned slightly. He looked a little put out.
"That…was actually already established when we arrived. We've now been in this world for about eighteen years and we still can't find out where it originated or who predicted it."
"Have you heard it?" I asked. He smirked, as it he seems to like to do.
"Haven't you? Well, it goes…
"One shall come unto this world
To help the side of Good
She may however be waylaid
And misunderstood.
Evil will come and follow her
And she may be turned
There is, though, one who may save her
Though he may likely be burned.
In the final battle
One shall die and one shall live
The ancient balance does depend
On the outcome of this
If she should be the one to die
then darkness will surely fall
If, however, she doth live
She shall save us all.
"You see, that's why we knew you were coming back…though we didn't know when. We felt you, however, as soon as you returned to this world."
Great…now I have a beeper. I sighed.
He clicked his fingers and I was on the table, strapped down. "So now that I have you we can change everything." A smirk crossed his face.
Crap!
That was the last thing I remember clearly. After that, I only remembered bits and pieces. At one stage I heard the strange chanting that I'd heard on my first visit. At another, just images: some gruesome, others not too bad. I tried to resist seeing them, but I couldn't.
End of chapter 8
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