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Chapter 2: Kidnapped
They were a few miles from the orphanage before the young man stopped in a small clearing in the forest to rest. The full moon shined brightly, casting a luminous glow within the clearing. He took his hand away from Kiara's mouth.
"Hey!" Kiara shouted angrily, scrambling to get out of his arms. "What's the big idea?! Why did you take me away?!"
"Take you away from what?" the hooded man chuckled, "you are an orphan with no place to call home." He then dropped Kiara onto the cold, hard ground and walked away casually, staring at the moon.
"Ow," Kiara quietly whined, rubbing her backside, which is where the teen had so rudely dropped her on. 'What is going on?'
"But I wouldn't worry about it if I were you," the boy continued, not bothering to look back at her. "My master has been searching for you for the past ten years and I'm positive that he will welcome you with open arms."
"Uh, huh," Kiara scoffed as she stood up. "Well I don't think kidnapping makes a person feel very welcome. And I may not have a home, but the people back at the orphanage care about me and will call the police. Then you and your "master" will be in big trouble!"
The hooded teenager just laughed hysterically, as though she had just told him some hilarious joke. "Heh heh, well that's why I must take you somewhere no human would ever think to look."
Then something very weird happened. The boy muttered something under his breath, something that sounded like some old foreign language. And then it looked like black fire was enveloping him, and after a while, Kiara couldn't see the boy at all. After that, it all just…disappeared.
Kiara looked all around her, "Hey! Where are you?!"
She didn't see the same black fire and the hooded boy reappear behind her. He quickly caught her arms and bound them behind her back and, before she knew what was going on, he had knocked her unconscious. Then he held up his left hand and an odd black portal opened. He picked up the unconscious girl and stepped through the portal.
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By the time Kiara finally came to, she found herself in some strange place filled with darkness.
"Oh no!" she said out loud. "This place looks just like the one in my nightmare!"
"No," a voice said to her far right. She looked to the source and saw the same teenager who had brought her here. She tried to move away from him, but found herself chained to a large pillar behind her. She struggled and tried to get loose, but it was no use.
The boy walked over and stood in front of her, "This is the place where your nightmares were born!"
"Now now, Zachary," another voice called out, as a door creaked open. "Let's not scare her."
"What are you talking about?" Kiara demanded trying to look at the new person, trying to sound brave. "Who are you?" She looked towards the source of the voice and saw a shadow on the ground getting closer and closer to her. Before long, a man with a black cloak stood before her. He wore the hood of his cloak over his head so that his face was hidden from her view.
"Good evening, my dear," the man said, bowing slightly before her.
Kiara scowled at the man. "Look! I don't know what the heck you're talking about, but you all better start answering my questions!" she demanded, struggling against her chains.
The man laughed, "Hahaha! My my, what a feisty one you are! Okay, fine. I'll answer your questions. But first, we haven't been properly introduced." He then pulled his hood back to reveal himself. He stood about 6' 2" and had shoulder length shaggish rust-brown hair, pale skin, and dark brown eyes that looked like they had traces of violet within them. "My name is Hexor Haile."
Kiara stared at him, "Okay…should I know you or something?"
Hexor laughed again, "Heheheh, no I suppose you wouldn't know who I am. This is the first time we have met face to face, little Kiara."
"Whoa," Kiara exclaimed. "Wait! How do you know my name?!"
Hexor sneered, "Well, as I'm sure my servant, Zachary has told you, we have searching for you for the past ten years." He began to circle the pillar she was chained to. Kiara tried her best to keep him in her sight. "You have been clever in avoiding our searches for this long. Whoever decided to hide you in the human realm definitely knew what they were doing."
"Then again," he continued, "your father was always a great strategist. He was always…."
"Wait! What?!" Kiara interrupted. "My father hid me?!?
Hexor chuckled, "Indeed he did. But now that bastard is going to pay for that."
"Are you saying that my father is….alive?" Kiara asked, completely shocked.
Hexor ginned as he walked in front of her again. "Oh very much so, not that you may see him much, heheh."
Kiara gasped sharply, "What?! What do you mean I 'may not to get to see him much'? Is he….coming here?"
Hexor smirked, "Yes, he is coming to 'save' you, but…."
Suddenly, a large grandfather clock along the wall loudly chimed 11 o'clock.
"Well my dear, I hate to do this but I'm afraid we need you to be unable to interfere with our plans for about another hour, so I bid you pleasant dreams," Hexor said as he held out his right hand in front of Kiara. His eyes began to glow violet.
Instantly the terrible chills she always got when she had her unfinished dream. Only they were as strong as they had been in Dark Hall when she was attacked. Kiara felt extremely weak and tired.
"But," she groaned, "Who…is…he?"
Then Kiara fainted, her body slumped against the pillar and the chains held her in place.
"Hmph," Hexor expressed as he turned back to Zachary. "Well, that didn't take that much effort. Zachary, take her to the western tower and stay with her. If she wakes up or if anyone tries to wake her, you are to inform me at once."
"Yes, Master," Zachary replied with a hint of frustration in his voice.
Then Hexor teleported himself back to his study and looked into his crystal ball. He waved his hand over it and the smoke cleared to reveal a clearing in the forest.
"Our class reunion will begin soon."
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Meanwhile, in a small clearing in the forest that surrounded the fortress.
"Di," a woman's voice said calmly as she approached a man with shoulder length dark hair. "It's about 11. We should get moving."
"You're right, Kaylee," the man, Di, said as he got up. "Is Skylar awake?"
"I'm here," another man said as he was putting out a campfire. Di and Kaylee walked over to him. "So you're sure it was her that you sensed?" Skylar asked Di.
"Yes, it has to be her," Di said in a calm but anxious voice. "I don't know who else it could be."
"I can't believe after all these years, they have actually found her," Kaylee said sadly.
"Well, believe it sister," Skylar said, "They did."
Kaylee rolled her eyes and then turned to Di. "So," she said, "what's the plan?"
Di looked up to the full moon. "No clue."
"What?!" both Kaylee and Skylar nearly shouted. Di never didn't have a plan.
"I had hoped that they wouldn't find her this soon, I always thought I would break first," Di sighed.
Kaylee nudged Skylar in the arm. "You go on and scout up ahead," she whispered, "I'll talk to him."
"Alright," Skylar replied, taking off ahead of the pack.
Kaylee walked over to her friend. "Di, I know you better than anyone and I can tell when something is weighing on your mind, so what is it?"
Di sighed and Kaylee could hear the stress in his voice. "What am I going to say to her whenever we find her? 'Hello, my name is Di and I'm your father'? How do you think she is going to take that?"
"Di," Kaylee said calmly. "It was too dangerous for you to keep her here. I'm sure that once she knows the whole situation, Kiara will just be thrilled to be home."
Di looked at her with a small glimmer of hope in his royal blue eyes, "You think so?"
Kaylee smiled. "I know so, trust me, Demitri."
"Kaylee," Di said, holding up his hand in the shush gesture and looked around to make sure no one heard her; "you know I don't go by that name anymore."
"We all have things in our pasts that we aren't proud of," Kaylee said sadly.
"Not like this."
"Di," Kaylee said tranquilly. "Look at me."
Di did as he was told and looked into his friend's deep green eyes.
Kaylee suddenly grabbed his face and held his gaze. "Everything is going to be okay. Relax!!!"
"Kaylee," Di said kindly, "let go of my face."
Kaylee obliged and smiled innocently.
Di sighed, "I know you're right. I'm just worried. What if she doesn't want to have anything to do with me? Not that I would blame her."
"Look, take it from someone who knows," Kaylee said, "the only thing a little girl really truly ever wants is just to be home, surrounded by people that she loves and love her."
"Hey! If we are gonna do this thing we better do it now!" Skylar's voice rang through the forest impatiently.
"He's right, we need to get moving," Di said as he and Kaylee both took off in the direction Skylar had ran earlier.
Before long, the group arrived at the outer wall of Hexor's fortress. Skylar had already circled the fortress.
"Only one entrance," Skylar reported. "The front gate and it's guarded by three shadow knights."
"Not as bad as I thought it would be," Di said as he took out his scepter. "I'll fly over the wall and take out the knights. You two stay here and wait for me to raise the gate."
"Will do chief," Skylar called back.
Di tossed his scepter into the air and it hovered there in mid air. He jumped on top of it, expertly finding his balance and took to the air. He quickly flew over the wall with ease. Once he was a safe distance from the ground, Di jumped off his staff and landed gracefully on the ground below. Di stealthy crept along the wall until he spotted the three shadow knights Skylar had told him about.
'Strange,' Di thought as he watched the knights. 'Why would Hexor only assign three knights to guard the only entrance? Does he even realize what he has?'
Di continued to sneak along the wall until he was in striking range of the knights. Before the knights even had a chance to raise the alarm, Di had completely incinerated them with his dark magic.
Di ran into the control tower and raised the gate and met up with Skylar and Kaylee.
"Ten minutes," Skylar commented. "Not bad DM, but not your best time."
"Oh, shut up, CG," Di said smacking him playfully on the back of the head.
"Enough, you two," Kaylee whispered. "We need to keep moving!"
"Right, let's go!" Di commanded, leading the group inside the castle.
Once everyone was inside the castle, they ran quickly and quietly down the hallway. Eventually, they came to a three-way fork in the hall. The group skid to a stop.
"Okay," Di said, analyzing the situation. "I figured we would have to split up eventually. Who wants to go where?"
"Which ever one doesn't get us killed," Skylar chuckled.
"Sky, not now," Kaylee scolded.
Skylar shrugged, chuckling a little. "What?"
'Good old Skylar, always the joker,' Di thought as he closed his eyes and shook his head, smiling slightly. "I'm taking the center hall."
"Alright, then I'll take the left," Kaylee said.
"I guess that leaves me with the right," Skylar said a tad cockily.
"Okay, if anyone finds her, contact me immediately," Di ordered.
"Gotcha!" Kaylee and Skylar said at the same time, one of their weird twin freak-outs that they liked to pull on people. Then they all went their separate ways.
Hey, hope you like it! Please Review! And I tried to catch my spelling errors but if I missed any, my bad :P