(OK almost done with this installment of the "Jade"Rose/Shadow series what do you all thing Please review.)
Reaching the hilltop that looked down on the fort Jade faintly shook her head. It was the typical kids in the woods fort. You know scraps of wood here, pieces of metal there. The type of thing that looks like it could fall any minute yet somehow survives the strongest of storms.
"Yeah this is the place." Commented Jade
"How you know I'm sure there are tons of these around."
"Relax you senses. Tell me what you feel, see or hear."
Closing her eyes lightly Krys tries to focus on everything around her.
"A heaviness to the air, caution, danger. It's quite…as some would say too quite. No birds, no animals, not even a rustle of leaves. Almost an odd electricity in the air." She slowly opens her eyes Cat like in shape, golden in color looking down towards the fort. "A faint light, very dim…forms moving inside, can't tell how many." Krys then wobbles a bit Jade holds her back with a hand to prevent her from falling down the hill. "Wow…um…thanks. Ok so now what."
"I got to close what is causing the light & send back what came out of it. First task though is we need to set some way to prevent anything more from getting out. Think you can move now?"
"Yeah I should be fine." Nodding they both carefully make their way down the hill side. A good few feet away they stop. Reaching into her satchel she hands Krys a small bag of salt, a long thin dagger that had almost the same warming feeling John's chain did before. "What these for?"
"Binding circles & incase anything gets past me."
"Great…just great…oh yea I woke up today just jumping for the chance to slay some nasty demons…" Krys said sarcastically.
"The sarcasm is not needed. Come on I know I taught to a basic circle of protection. Binding is the same way…just this time we are trying to keep the negative inward instead of outward. You take the outer circle I'll take the inner…we will do a total of 4, two each. I don't want you to cross into the closest circle…it will give you a barrier warning incase they get out." Krys nodded & did one of those 'what ever you say type salute'. They both walked taking an opposite direction as each formed their first circle of salt on the ground. Neither one took note of the tall form watching them from a nearby tree that for some unknown reason was drawn there. He was curious as to what this place was & what the two of them was doing there. Jade should have been home still on the mends, then again he always suspected something different about her then most. Krys at times was as curious to him, just not to the same depth. He could feel the dark aura that radiated from building.
Oddly he also felt the energy from what the girls where doing. He hoped they knew what they were doing & not just someone foolish that would only piss off what was inside. Rubbing his glove clad hands he figured if need be he could do it himself. It wasn't the first time he dealt with their kind…Against &With.
Jade was just finishing her first circle when a odd bolt of energy almost like a lightning bolt emerged from the building Striking her in the back. She fought back the scream that wished to emerge from her throat as she dropped to one knee. Her hand tossing the salt out the last bit needed to seal it. Krys could hear the crack in the air. Looking for the source but saw not clouds, that is when she saw Jade, with concern she began to step towards. A quick shake of her head Jade motioned her back. "Finish yours." Her voice full of pain. "We have 2 more before I go in."
"You're nuts Jade."
"It must be done."
"Let's place the Circles then you take a break."
"Can't…if we wait too long they may fine a way through that or the one in John may some how break free & come here to destroy them from the outside." Jade slowly stand up again.
"I thought you said it was locked in till someone removed the chain or we close that gate."
"It should but nothing is set in stone, plus can you guarantee no one would take it off of him?"
"I don't think they would."
"None of his brothers are as bad with dares as he is?"
"Well…"
"Nough said….come on & let's get this done before another bolt tries to come out. Place your second circle between my two." Jade carefully moved forward now only about a foot from the fort she begin to lay down what will be the 4th circle as Krys begins work on the third.
The Tall dark form by the tree offered a faint nod. He was impressed. He had seen those bolts before & knew exactly how nasty they could be…then again he had even thrown a few himself in the time with 'them'. Jade's handling of them made him wonder that much more about her. What was it about her that made her different.
"Jade? I don't think we are alone." Krys tried to continue her work yet also on the presence she felt from a nearby tree.
"I Know…as long as they stay there, pay it no mind…just need to finish this…DUCK!" Both girls with quick reflexes drop to the ground in time to have bolts of energy strike the completed second circle. The energy could bee seen dissipate around & up the circle a good ten feet or so. "Damn that was close." Getting up both girls rushes to complete the third & forth Circle.
"Did the barrer hold?" Asked Krys
"Did the salt change color?"
Krys does a quick check over her shoulder. "Nope"
"Then it held. I'm going in….remember. Don't come in until you feel the gate is closed…no matter what you may hear."
"I don't like that. What if you need me?"
"I need you out here incase they get past." Krys gave a reluctant nod as Jade turned heading into the fort.