The lake's lady

7. The monster in me

The flames of the lit torches, beckon me slyly towards them. But I had to stay in the shadows no matter how the darkness of the night frightened me.

I ducked behind some caskets just as some knights came around the corner, torches in there hands.

"There she is!"

I jumped back, a chicken chucking franticly behind me. I started running. I could hear the armour clanking behind me.

"Stop!"

I ran faster. They're gonna catch me. They're going to kill me.

I tried to fight back the frighten tears as I rounded a corner. It was a dead end. I was trap.

I whipped round to face the knights. A blond haired man stood in front of them, sword in hand.

"Please let me go!" I begged.

And then I heard the familiar clanking of chains. Halig marched around the corner grinning coldly with his icy eyes.

"No one escapes from me." He leered. But that didn't scare me.

It was the midnight bell that had started ringing.

Pain shot through me. I scream as fire licked my body. But soon they were no longer screams. They were roars.

I collapse to my knees as another stab shot through me. I could no longer think clearly.

Blood was the only thing that I could think of.

My arms turned to black fury legs, my hands clawed paws. The pain in my back was sporting midnight wings, my teeth turning into fangs. A tail sported behind me and I knew my eyes would soon become a clouded green.

I was a Bastet. A creature doomed to kill each time the midnight bell echoed the sky. The madness was no longer my fear. It was my commander.

I roared at the people in front of me, flesh and blood filling my nostrils. The one in front, the person who had stuck fear into me the last past days was the first to suffer from my hunger.

As I roared at the person next to him, they struck their sword into my arm. I bellowed in pain as I flew away from them.

I could now tell who they were. The one who had struck me was the blond haired leader of the group the rest loyal knights. But they had hurt me. They were going to pay.

They back me into a corner and I growled at them. That's it get a little closer.

No, go away! Save yourselves! Go away!

Closer. Just a little closer.

My thoughts were spirals telling me to do this and telling me to do that. The madness chanted in my head; flesh and blood, flesh and blood.

Then it all faded as my eyes met someone else's. Those eyes were filled with ripples of the lake, calm and peaceful, but now frighten and worried. Merlin.

These knights were people he knew. Some could be friends of his. People he had come to know and respected.

The madness had decreased, faded, gone for good. Merlin was franticly looking around trying to save me. But it was better if the knights killed me after what I've done.

I threw Merlin a sorrowful glance, I'm sorry you have to feel frighten of me as I die. I love you, Merlin, I do. I'm so sorry.

Then a gargoyle head above us crumpled. It fell above the knights and they all dived out the way.

Merlin's eyes were yellow.

He had saved me. After all I've done he had stopped me dying. He wasn't scare of me. He was scare for me.

But he shouldn't be. I've have killed countless of times. I could have killed just now.

I took of into the blue sky to get away from the threats and not let Merlin see my wound. But I heard his lights footsteps follow me into the tunnels.

He paused when he reached me in the tunnels, licking my wound. But his eyes showed no fear of me.

"You alright, you're safe now." He whispered as his hand reached to me. I could feel the warmth of home vibrate of it and I let him stroke my head. The calmness of the lake, the wild flowers waving in the wind, the summer sun washed over me as I felt Merlin stroke me. He didn't fear me at all.

But the wound was bad. When I returned to my human self it would be too much.

I shook him of and quickly ran away back down the tunnels. The fire licked at me again and I fell as I started to change. My arm exploded and I let out painful sobs. My voice was no longer the Bastet's and my body was no longer fur and sprouting wings.

I felt Merlin placed his jacket on top of me. I turned to look at him and he brushed my hair out of my face.

"You must hate me." I sobbed

"No."

"I'm a monster! I tried to tell you. I wasn't always like this."

"Ssssh, you shouldn't try to talk." He whispered.

"There was a man. He attacked me. I didn't mean to hurt him but I thought he was going to kill me."

"It was an accident."

"But his mother was a sorceress. She said I killed her son. She cursed me to kill forever more."

The pain echoed in me and I cringed at it. I felt Merlin's arms wrap around me.

"I'm going to make you better, Freya."

"No, Merlin the wound's too deep. Please go."

"No, I'm not leaving you here."

I felt his arms dress me in the dress he gave me and pick me up. I huddled in his arms and let memories wash before my eyes.

Three chapters to go! I'm doing how Freya's became a bastet in the next chapter, then the goodbye scene and then the reason why i didn't just call this the lady of the lake. Plz review people!