12

Deadly Desire

I slipped far down, flailing for something to grab onto. Out of sheer luck my hand found a root from a tree and halted my decent, it took most of the skin off my palm but still. I swung my feet around trying to find something to stand on, the root slipped. I eventually found a rock, which in turn creaked. My heart raced as I saw another rock which appeared to be in more firmly than the one I was stood on. Only problem was it was six feet above my head, I would have to jump but there was no way I could make it. The root creaked again, I had no choice I would have to jump. I crouched on my one leg and leapt at the same both the root and the rock came out of the soil, grabbing on to my new hand-hold I realised I could reach the stone walkway. Reaching over I found a small indent, my skinned palm hurt like hell but I flipped up and landed on my back. Sweating more from fear than exertion, I stood up using the wall for support.

I went further down the passage, eventually finding a fair haired man.

"Thank the Maker!" he cried. "Help me!"

"What are you doing down here?" I said, going for my blade.

"Help me!" he cried again. "Help my little girl!"

"What do you know about the golem outside?" I asked him.

"S-Shale?" He stuttered. "You're here for Shale?"

"Yes, is that its name?"

"You want Shale? Why?"

"Why wouldn't you want an invincible personal guard?"

"Even one who murder's people?"

"Yes."

"Well, if you want to wake Shale up then it's yours now."

"Yeah, just the one problem the rod doesn't work."

"Well…" he seemed to be considering something. "My mother may have given the wrong activation phrase when she sold the rod on. I'll give you the right one, but I need to ask for something from you. My little girl Amalia ran into my father's laboratory before I could put up the defences and now she's trapped!"

"Defences? Can't you deactivate them?" I asked

"I could but something in there could get out and then we would both be in danger!"

"What about the ones up there?" I gestured back the way I had just come.

"I could deactivate those, I suppose."

"If you deactivate them I'll get Amalia."

"Alright, thank you!" he ran back up the hall and I ran on toward the lab.

Passing through the unarmed door I saw two girls sitting inside. One of them had sandy coloured hair and eyes the colour of toffee sweets. The other had waist-length blue-black pig-tails and big dark eyes.

"Hello!" said the sandy-haired girl who I assumed was Amalia.

"Amalia?" I said cautiously.

"Are you hear to play?" Amalia asked.

"You need to go, your father is worried sick." I said.

"Don't go Amalia!" the dark haired girl cried, her voice was light and happy. "I'll be lonely!"

"I won't go Kitty!" Amalia said.

"Amalia, you need to go" I urged her.

'Kitty' moved so fast I didn't notice her.

"She won't go." She hissed. "She loves only me now."

"Demon!" I hissed back.

"Let me have the child and I will let you and your friends live."

"W-what?" Amalia stood behind her. "I won't let you inside of me! I won't!"

Amalia ran, there was a flash of light, Kitty was no longer a small girl. She was a demon, a desire demon!

She attacked with lightning speed choking me,

"You have lost me my prize!" she hissed in my ear. "Now I will have your head."

Her arm crushed my windpipe, the other hand punched me in the stomach knocking more of my breath out of my lungs. All this for a stupid lump of walking rock. Red crept into the edges of my vision I couldn't do it any more. I was vaguely aware of someone roaring a battle cry, someone charging at her, knocking her off me. But it was too little, too late. Pain shot through my temple as I hit the floor, then the world went black.

A\N - Part 2 of my christmas back-to-back! I'm really sorry guys I didn't get chapter 13 done, I got caught up watching Tangled, Brave, Lord of the Rings, a Christmas Carol and Mulan one after the other! Maybe tomorrow but there's family coming so maybe not, I'll try though. Hope you enjoy the chapter and maybe see you tomorrow, I'll be looking at fanfiction for Rise of the Guardians (I'm obsessed with the film) so if you have any questions or you want to chat send me a PM or write a review.