Chptr 10

"Ssssssaaaaraa" a voice behind her hissed. Sara turned around and froze in place. Standing in front of her was her worst fear. A Gorgon with snakes slithering on top of it's head instead of hair. The demon smiled a toothy malevolent grin and spoke to her. "Hello my dear Sssssara, I've been waiting for you. Now you are mine."

"No no no no…" All she could do was stand frozen and repeat the word over and over. "No why I thought you were gone forever."

The ghoul laughed derkly "You thought I was your imagination didn't you? Well I'm real and oh so ready to take what you have."

Sara realized that the demon was real long ago. She just hoped that she was wrong and Delva, as she called it, would find someone else to terrorize.

"Well? Tell me sssweet Sssara, are you ready to die?"

"No." Her voice was barely above a whisper, but she knew that the demon heard her by its dark cold laugh.

"Then you better get ready. I promise to make it as quick as possible as long as you be a good girl. Hehehe"

The demon advanced quickly. It was so quick in fact, that Sara barely had time to react. She jumped from the creature's path and rolled to the other side of the room. It snarled "So you wanna fight do you?!" It slithered toward her with a speed she never thought possible but she dodged with equal if not more quickness. She moved with the agility of a gold medal olympian gymnast. She evaded the monster but she knew that just dodging attacks wouldn't be enough for long. She needed to think of something and fast.

On another side of the testing station Ryan and Nila find themselves in a room full of mirrors. And a pile of weapons in the center of the room. Within the pile was a range of weapons modern and ancient. Ryan knew it had to be a reason for this pile of weapons. Nila however who knew this also still knew they would most likely get one chance at them and ran toward the pile.

"NILA WAIT!" Ryan called after her stopping her just as a giant ball of fire landed no more than five feet from her destination.

"Bloody…" Nila stopped mid sentence as a creature dropped from the ceiling. Between them separating Ryan and Nila. The creature was at least eight feet tall with crimson red scales in the place of skin. It had the head of a lion and but it was also striped like a tiger. The creature stood on legs like a goat with the hooves of a camel. It was unlike anything either of them had ever seen before.

"Holy shit you're ugly" Ryan said getting the beast's attention. It looked at him and laughed a deep gravelly laugh. Its voice sounded like it was gargling rocks. "If I am ugly then you are appalling to look at worm. You and your female friend will both make a fine meal for my children."

"Dude if your children are half as ugly as you, then they won't make it past these mirrors. They'll die of fright from their reflections."

As Ryan was talking, Nila noticed him glance very quickly to the weapons pile. He then turned his eyes to her and winked. The giant hadn't noticed this as Ryan kept talking to it arguing with it about who was uglier. Nila, slowly moved toward the pile. As she got closer to the pile she began to hear a low growling and hissing sound and quickened her pace until she was running. She realized that though she was running as fast and hard as she could, she was moving almost completely silently. She reached her destination and instantly grabbed whatever she could.

She picked up a bow and a quiver full of arrows. She also picked up two glock 45's and a short celestial steel sword. There were also two 10 inch bronze knives. She grabbed these things and turned to see the giant beast stalking toward Ryan who was slowly backing away from it obviously looking for a way to escape. She knew that she had to help him but she just didn't know how to do it without the growling and snarling creatures she heard before showing up. So she decided to trust her instincts and she drew an arrow and notched the arrow into the bow and drew back. She let the arrow fly and it hit its target. Though it didn't quite have the effect she was looking for. As the arrow stuck, the giant turned swiftly and plucked out the arrow.

"Ouch." It said with a sneer. It ran toward her with amazing speed and grace.

"Shit." Ryan sighed and ran after him. "Nila! You have to move! NOW!" Ryan yelled to be heard over the rampaging giant. Nila ran toward the giant and just as they were about to collide she slid under its legs with such grace that Ryan couldn't believe it. She was amazing and he was captivated. She ran toward him and once they were reunited, she showed him the loot she snagged. He instantly was drawn to the short sword. It was only about 28 inches in length and maybe 4 inches wide. It had a black handle with a symbol inscribed in it that he recognized but didn't know from where. It was lightweight and very well balanced. He also took one of the bronze knives and a glock. As he made sure the weapon was loaded, Nila readied her bow because the giant had recovered. (It fell over as Nila slid through its legs trying to grab her.) "Alright" Ryan said happily. "Lets get to fuck shit up."

Nila looked at him with an adoring look.

"My sentiments exactly." She winked at him and they both turned to the giant who was slowly approaching them with a look of pure hatred in his eyes.

"So you thought that was funny you little bitch?! I'll show you funny when I tear you limb from limb!"

"Are you done?" Nila asked innocently. "I'm tired of hearing threats let's get some action going."