but you can call me Kai'' he whispered in response, ''What about you''. ''My name is Alexia Park.'' I responded to him, Why my last name was necessary i don't know. It just seemed relevant. ''Ok Alexia, less of the talk lets keep moving. I am starting to see a bit of light at the end of this tunnel.
It should take us to the Culling quarters. Which is close to the exit of the castle i believe, by now they should have sent out a search party for us. So we will have to remain agile, and at all times you do not let go of my hand. Because if you get lost, I wont have time to find you. I will leave you.''
he said to me in desperation. ''How did you end up in this awful place anyway.'' i asked him, i was interested in getting to know about The Shadow,
and how he ended up here however it seemed to me he was in no mood to discuss this with me. ''Just be quiet, this is no time for small talk. Trust me when i say this but we are both on a time limit, we need to escape now.'' i didn't respond, we just walked quickly through the tunnel until we found another trap door. We entered through to what he had called, 'The Culling Quaters.'. This room was like nothing i had ever seen before, it had high ceilings with large glass lights filling the room with white beams of lights. Looking around there were hundreds of cells on different levels of the Culling Quaters, we crouched down whilst we walked to avoid being spotted. I could see hundreds of people within the cells. Had these all been taken against their will? ''What is this place.'' i asked in a whisper. ''This is the culling quaters. This is where the king keeps his human slaves. They help take care of The Shadows in return, some are spared if they are valuable to the king. Those who are not are drained of their blood in what is called a culling. Their blood is reserved for the King himself to drink and for those of his minions, The goblins -
the creature you saw earlier is one of many, his fellow witches and warlocks and his guards - the demons. which reminds me we better move fast if we want to make it alive, his guards are not kind to those who try to escape, and we don't want to take a trip to the chambers.'' he said shuddering, i wondered to myself how long kai had actually been in the shadows. As we walked i could feel myself getting more and more terrfied as we spoke. I didnt know what the chambers was, but if kai was frightened of it. I knew i would be too.
We stepped out of the culling room and into a large open corridor. ''Damn, I forgot about this bit. Its too open, we're bound to get caught if we try.''
There was a large table infront of us, suddenly he shoved us both under it and covered my mouth with his hands. Walking past were a large group of creatures.
They were unlike anything i had ever seen in my entire life, Their skin was black as coal, their eyes were blood shot red. They were at least 6ft and built like tanks. They were terrifying. ''Those are the Kings Guard. The demons.'' he whispered into my ear, His eyes must have reflected what was in my own and that was pure fear. ''They must be around here somewhere. They couldn't have gone far. Tell the King that the goblins had forgot to secure the chains from when the traitor had transformed back into a human. I'm sure he will want to know how they escaped.'' said one of the guards to the other, his voice was deep and terrifying. They all seperated from each other, they had gone in search for us. I was terrified, they knew that we'd escaped. How would we ever escape this evil place. ''Come with me quick, we musn't be seen.'' he whispered, grabbing hold of my hand and dragging me towards two large black wooden doors. We finally left the castle, the castle which i thought was horrible and when we got outside i realised that i would have rather stayed inside.
The Shadows was nothing like I had ever seen, all around us was black mist it felt as if it was suffocating you. It was so dark you could barely see,
surrounding us was a tunnel, ''well i can see why this is called the underground city, is there any way to the surface?'' i asked Malakai, i could hear the desperation in my own voice, so i was positive that he would hear it too. ''I haven't been down here in years Alexia, but I will do my best to find us a way out. We don't have long.'' We was practically jogging through the tunnels which were lightly dimmed by candle lights, we didn't speak which was probably for the best as the place was so decieving we were unsure if we'd be spotted. I suppose the saying that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, as a bright light shone at the end. ''That must be the exit!'' Malakai said, dragging me quicker. ''MASTER MASTER, I FOUND THEM!'' one of the small green goblins screached, suddenly after we heard a loud siren filling the tunnels making our eyes ring, and then suddenly the light began to fade.
''The exit is closing!'' Malakai shouted over siren. The candels began to flicker as a breeze of cold air filled the tunnels. ''he's here.'' Malakai whispered to me. We stood in silence as the dark figure approached, ''what is that?'' i asked and he answered me back with two words ''The King.''