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Chapter 48: Captured WARNING 1: Parental Guidance recommended. For those of you who dont care just read on. WARNING 2: Content may have you vomiting on your computer screen. Smoke rose up through the air as we looked at the crater in the ground, made by Ivan's Impact Cannon. He was looking at his wrist strangely. "I think I heard something crack when I fired that Impact Cannon......" he muttered and went to our bedroom. I followed him in and went for a bath while he anxiously checked his wrist. The arrow must have been too heavy for his hand. I wondered how it was back at Marco's home. Were they grieving over his death? Or were they plotting another go at me and Ivan? Either way, they would try to avenge him and we had to be ready for it. I ran a finger through my hair and noticed how long it had gotten. It now fell to my waist. I grabbed a towel and wiped myself over. Walking out, I saw Ivan flinch as he tried to pick up an arrow. It fell to the ground. "Darn it!" he cursed and curled his right hand into a fist, slamming it into our bed. A moment later he was clutching his right hand in pain. "I won't be able to shoot for a while......" he gritted his teeth and tried to pick up the arrow again. I ran for the first aid kit. Dark Castle...... "It seems Marco has fallen in battle...... DeathLord, I believe you were supposed to watch over him?" Saevio said, twisting his hair around his finger. DeathLord fell to his knees and cried out, "Forgive me my lord! He sneaked out without me noticing!" "You have one more chance. Redeem yourself or face the consequences." Saevio disappeared in a cloud of smoke. "Damn it! Silfa! I need your help!" DeathLord shouted, his voice reverbrating throughout the corridors. Silfa appeared behind him, rubbing something on her chest. "No need to shout. I can hear you." she said crossly. DeathLord jumped and whirled around. "I need you to......" he never finished his sentence. "Maplenap that girl again. Yeah, yeah I know." she muttered and walked off. DeathLord sighed and returned to his room. A new sword stood in a corner, glinting black. The sheath was decorated with golden lines arranged in a skull and was black coloured. "Kidousu." he muttered and the sword flew into his hand. He unsheathed it and slashed it in the air. It was surprisingly light. The blade was clear white and the hilt was blue in colour with leather grips. *Ahhhchooo!" I sneezed. Ivan looked at me and asked, "Got a cold?" "Nope, my nose just felt itchy." I replied hurriedly. We were just going into bed. Ivan's right wrist was bandaged and he clutched it every now and then. I had to feed him his dinner because he couldn't hold the spoon. Fielda and Daniel had fussed over his techniques and banned him from using the Impact Cannon for fear of him losing his hand. While Ivan was asleep, I walked to the balcony and gazed at the stars. Stargazing was all I could do at night if I couldn't sleep, and it was quite interesting too. Eventually I felt my eyelids grow heavy and I went to bed. Our bodies entwined together like a grape vine around a stick as we hurtled towards the rocky ground. Our wings flapped furiously to keep ourselves stable as I glanced down. The rocky ground was getting closer and closer rapidly. If we didn't break away soon, we would crash into the ground and die. However, we needed to complete the mating procedure. Hence, Ivan and I didn't break off and continued to fall. I felt a sudden burst of energy which signalled that the procedure was over and we broke off, hovering in the air a metre above the ground. (Taken from Dragons, A Fantasy Come True, Discovery Channel) I opened my eyes, sweating. Ivan was still dozing away peacefully beside me as I sat up. The first cracks of light were just starting to creep out of the skies. The clock beside our bed read, "6:37 A.M". The Siren had apparently also woken up. It asked, "Did you get a nightmare?" I replied, "Sort of. I thought you could see into my dreams and nightmares?" It shook my head and said, "I can, but I didn't see your previous one." Our conversation was cut short by a shadow on the balcony. "Intruder." the Siren breathed and I felt my back for the Kotetsu's hilt. It wasn't there! Suddenly I remembered that I had left it in my bag and I prepared to go into hand-to-hand combat. The shadow disappeared suddenly and I glanced around anxiously. The next moment, I felt a prick on my chest and my body stiffened. I felt hands close around my waist and heard someone mutter, "Return scroll, take me back to Dark Castle!" A vortex of swirling black and grey opened in the air as Ivan rubbed his eyes and sat up. "What the......" he gasped as the vortex sucked me and the intruder in. I tried to cry for help, but my mouth had stiffened and refused to open. My paralysed body wouldnt move a millimetre! I was forced to do nothing as the tunnel of swirling colours opened up and I landed on cold hard stone. A female bandit that I recognized as Silfa landed on the ground on her feet and put me on her back. She carried me into a nearby castle and down some stairs. We arrived in a room with numerous barred doors opening into it, in which Silfa looked over my paralysed body and smiled. She stripped my clothes off, stuffed them into a pocket and threw me through a doorway, locking the door and walking out of the room laughing. My body finally loosened up and I started to bang on the door. Suddenly, the Crusader that had attacked me on the ship walked into the door and looked at me. I hurriedly clutched my bare chest and hoped he hadn't seen me. "Silfa, you didn't have to do that." he called up and sighed. "Here." a voice suddenly said and a hole opened on the ceiling. Some clothes fell out and Silfa's head poked out. "Don't try to escape, only I can open doors like these. You'll need the swimsuits." she smirked, gesturing at the pile of clothes and the hole closed behind her as her head disappeared back into the it. All the clothes that she had dumped in were swimsuits that barely managed to fit me! When I tried to pull one over my chest, a hole burst in it. 4 swimsuits later and I found one that didn't burst a hole in the chest area. It was, however, too tight for me to take off after I put it on. I sighed and sat down on the cold stone chamber. The floor was very cold to the touch, and almost all of my skin was exposed. Pretty soon, my teeth were chattering. I woke up with a snake curled around my waist and a spider in my hair. I threw the snake out the bars and shook the spider out of my hair, accidentally sitting on it. A small squishing sound followed and I had to wipe it off my bikini. The snaked hissed at me and slithered away. A moment later, a lizard found its way into my swimsuit. It was so ticklish I wriggled around for a while until it got out. Even then, it left a part of my body feeling particularly slimy. A few minutes later, rats came and started nibbling at my swimsuit. "Shoo!" I said and waved them away. Silfa looked in at me and smiled. "I sprayed the swimsuits with a scent that'll attract creepy-crawlies. Have fun!" she laughed and left the room. I had to shoo away a number of snakes, lizards, rats and even scorpions. Once, I opened my eyes to find a scorpion about to sink its sting into my chest. I shook it off and kicked it into a wall. A whole day later, I was too hungry to shake off most of the critters and my swimsuit had numerous holes in it from all the rats. Luckily, the scent had mostly worn off and only the spiders came. My hair was crowded with spiders and there were spiderwebs everywhere in the room, even one stretching from my forehead to my foot. My stomach growled repeatedly, even scaring off a spider or two. Eventually the door opened and Silfa walked in with a cart. She dragged me onto it as I felt something burst. A second later, my entire back was feeling slimy. Apparently a stray Slime had gotten into it. I started to feel queasy. Silfa carted me off to a room with a lot of cages in it. Monsters of all sorts peeked out between the bars as she strapped me to a table, taking care not to touch the slime splattered on my back. She took a syringe from a nearby table and stuck it in my chest. Pain shot through my body as she took it back, this time filled with my blood. Blood seeped out of my wound as she put the sample into a test tube. She then threw me into a cage filled with strange looking slimes with horns poking out of their heads. Those slimes started to prod me with their horns as I tried to get up. Quite painful too, especially when my stomach was almost empty. I punched one weakly and it exploded, showering my entire body with slime and detonating the other slimes. I vomited on the floor. |
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