Chapter 12: Alice Of the Hallway
“Welcome to Peninha, lord Yannic!” “The New Heir!”
Yannic turned around. There was a person wearing a cloak over standing in front of him. A long slender wand, in his hand. His eyes were lightening blue into the darkness.
“That’s not where you belong, my lord!” The little yellow squeaky lights started squeaking harder in the evil darkness.
“Shut up you all!!” Shouted the man in the cloak. “He is just another heir ready to pour his blood into the hallway. He ain’t going to free you. ”
“YOU FREAKING SOULS!!!”
With the thunder of his large roar, the dark blue light of evil slowly started spreading all over the room whereas the lights of squeaking good souls in the cages slowly faded away. With the spreading of the evil light, on each sides, number of people standing aligned with the dark cloak covering their faces with the cap of the cloak, he saw. The demons seemed like aligned with their ranks of strength. The shadow talking to him suddenly started approaching farther and got merged to the person sitting on a throne, made up of silver, opposite to the golden throne.
“Who are you? Where am I?” asked Yannic.
“Didn’t you recognize me?” laughed the demon. You might recognize this. With the clap of his hands, a servant of demon in the black cloak brought a small crafted wooden box. The demon opened the box. A sparkling light coming from it.
“The ring!” said Yannic. “Tiara’s ring! Where is she? Where’s Tiara?” shouted Yannic. The demon threw a current of blue lights towards Yannic through his magic wand. The blue current from the wand hit Yannic and threw him onto the floor.
“What did you do to her? Where’s she?” shouted Yannic.
“She was really beautiful, huh?” The shadow of demon came swinging towards him slowly sat down on the floor to look Yannic. “Yaa! Brown curls. Milky white skin.” Laughed the demon.
“What did you do to her? You demon! ”said Yannic as he raised from the floor.
The demon moved his wand again, hitting Yannic and throwing him back to the floor.
“Sushhh! She didn’t give up till her last breath. I finished the beloved of our lord, with my own soft hands. No one else got to touch her.” “Hahaha!” Demon gave a wink.
“Demon! You’ll die! You’ll die screaming.”
“Shut up! You weakling of a weak ancestor.”
Other demons in the cloak started giggling pointing Yannic and giggled harder and louder.
“Susshhh! What are you doing? You’re making our lord angry.” Said the demon.
Yannic tried to stand again but the blue current of the wand threw him back to the floor.
“I have something else to offer, to my dear friend. Look there!” He pointed towards the throne. Beside the throne he saw a spot light falling upon. A person tied in chain screaming for mercy and then falling on the floor. He heard the rattling of the chains as he creeped on the floor and uttered “Brother!”
“Aiden! Aiden!” Yannic tried to stand up but the demon again used his wand. He crawled on the floor.
“Who do you think you are? You’ll get destroyed. You don’t know the power of the true heir,” shouted Aiden.
“I am the lord of Peninha, Alice, blood of greatest Ariman! I am ruler of the land,” Blabbered the demon.
He again hit him with the current of magical wand, Yannic fell down on the floor.
“You’re not the Lord of Peninha. But I am!” Yannic stared at him and shouted. “You are no one but offspring of a coward, who poisoned his own friend. You cannot even survive on your own. You need powers of good souls, royal bloods.”
“No! No! No!! I thought I would kill you first and let your little one go but you stupid human! You don’t deserve my few moment of grace.”
“Guards!!” the demon clapped. Three minions of the demon came rushing towards Aiden. They opened the chains and dragged him towards the hallway.
“Brother! Brother!” shouted Aiden. “Save me!” The scream of the lad echoed all over the hallway.
“Aiden!” Yannic crawled on the floor. “Leave him! You’ve got the heir now. Leave him you demon!”
“You petty man! You stupid petty man! All your way down here I sent you the signals to stop you from seeing this. But you had to. You had to see him dying. Now watch him die slowly.” Laughed the demon. “Flunky!” shouted the demon.
A group of flunky dragged Aiden down to the hallway near the pond. Everyone in the hall could hear him screaming.
“Don’t kill him. Let him go.” Shouted Yannic from the floor. He tried to get up but the blue current from Alice’s wand would hit him and throw him to the floor.
“Aiden! ” Yannic shouted as he crawled
on the floor. Then big slayer stepping ahead, his large mustache on that grey hateful face, his sweaty abs and blue evil light on his eyes indicated the evil running through his vein. He pulled out a heavy yet carefully jazzed up sharp and slender sword. “DON’T!” shouted Yannic from the floor. The slayer slowly lifted his heavy metal sword. Below the weaponry, lied the lad crying the tears for mercy. Everyone in the hall, from the weakest minions to the strongest Czars, Alice, with rage in his eyes and Yannic thrown on floor, everyone stared at the slow motion of the metal sword, falling towards the neck of the terrified lad. Suddenly, with a bang on the door, they saw the main door turn into pieces and the parts flying through the hallway. A huge ball of red current came swinging towards the slayer. It was an instant or numerous minutes no one could ever do anything but watch the giant ball rolling through the hallway. Aiden slipped away from the sword. The rolling ball of the red current took away the slayer along with it and smashed him like a frail insect on the wall beside the golden throne. Everyone was shunned, they could see aligned red current floating through the air towards the hallway through the entrance which made a shield around Yannic, who had helplessly on the floor all this time.
“You have to walk past me to reach my lords.” A large roar everyone heard from the entrance. There stood a tall old man with long beard and a wand in his hand. He had an immerging crystal ball on his hand.
“Zohar!” said Yannic as his weakened and terrified eyes glittered with hope and happiness.
“Who is this frantic old man? Who are you?” shouted Alice, from the throne.
“I am Zohar. I am a wizard of Peninha, protector of my lords, lord Aerius!”
“Aerius? This is a crazy man!” Everyone in the hallway started laughing. “Guards!!”Commanded Alice.
Some guards with the black cloak on, started approaching Zohar. Zohar closed his eyes as he mumbled some chants. They saw the red crystal light immerging on his hand grow larger and larger and making a shield like bubble around him which started getting wider with every passing second. The guards approaching the wizard couldn’t get past it but with the touch of the bubble, little flame started immerging in their body which soon turned huge flame burning them into ashes.
“Lord! Put on the cloak! Put on the cloak!” Shouted Zohar. That moment, Yannic realized he had been wearing the cloak of invisibility all this time. He pulled the cap and wore it over the head. Yannic got invisible.
“What are you doing? Where did the heir go?” shouted Alice enraged.
“Your reign is over now! Good souls will be back. They will rule Peninha.”
“Where did the heir go? What did you tell him?” “Guards!!” Alice roared louder this time. Again, Zohar mumbled some chants and threw the immerging red current ball towards the demons which turned them into ashes. Looking at this, other little minions of the hallway fled away.
“Czars!” shouted Alice. A group of demons sitting on either side of the silver throne stood up and started approaching the wizard. He again mumbled the chants and threw the red whirling current towards the Czars. Even the strongest Czars could not cross the bubble.
“So, you want to play with demonic power?” asked Alice.
“No, I want us to conquer your demonic power.” Shouted back Zohar.
“Dark wizards!” commanded Alice. A group of demons with a long dark beard, dark black cloak, a tall dark cap and evil blue light on their eyes stood up from the seats, at the each side of the throne on the hallway.
“Destroy him!!” Alice pointed Zohar. Zohar smiled and closed his eyes. He raised a hand and mumbled chants, they could see a red crystal light immerging from his hands which he soon threw towards the dark wizards. The dark wizards seemed to distant themselves from the bubble. All of the wizards, surrounded the bubble from every side and lifted their wands. The blue evil current flowing through the wands slowly started dissolving the red bubble around the wizard.
“Sit on the throne, lord Aerius! Sit on the throne!” shouted Zohar.
He closed his eyes and again mumbled chants, the red crystal he threw towards the wizards was again dissolved by the whirl of green current from their wands. The dark wizard approached Zohar surrounding him from all the sides, not giving him a single chance to mumble the complete chants which caused immerging crystal get weaker and weaker. The crystal could not resist the currents of dark wizard. They started hitting Zohar one after another.
“Hit him Harder! Hit him Harder!” shouted Alice.
They threw the blue current one after another towards Zohar. Zohar fell onto the floor.
They started hitting him harder shaking his hurt bleeding body. Bleeding Zohar lying on the floor slowly muttered.
“Sit on the Throne Lord! Sit on the throne lord Aerius!”
“Kill him!” Alice stood from his silver throne.
“Hades! Get the lad.” shouted the demon as he moved the wand. “As you command, your highness!” he bowed down. He dragged Aiden who had been hiding beneath the golden throne to the hallway near the bloody pool.
Suddenly, the squeaky light inside the cage on the walls started squeaking harder. The demons, the dark wizards, Zohar, Hades, heard the swinging sound of opening cage. The lights floated towards the golden throne and started spreading the glitters over the throne.
“Cut the throat!” shouted Alice. The demon slit opened Aiden’s throat. The blood flowing from his throat to the hallway started dripping into the pool. The glitters of the souls slowly formed a shadow sitting on the throne. The shadow slowly started getting distinct as they could see a golden cloth on, with a green cape behind which symbolized the wealth. A shimmering shine upon his face which symbolized a high born. His finely shining sword resembled power and a huge golden throne above his head represented the authority. In front of them, sat lord Aerius, the greatest of all, the lord of Peninha. The golden lightening souls above the head of lord Aerius started spreading the beams of light all around him which slowly started lightening and brightening the desolated chamber, the hallway.
The king pointed towards Aiden, who had been lying dead on the floor bathing on the pool of his own blood. One little golden light floated towards the place where his throat had been slit, reversing the flow of the blood. The cut was healed. Aiden slowly opened his eyes. “Brother!” muttered Aiden and he ran beneath the golden throne under the protection of lord of Peninha.
Yannic again swayed his hand towards bleeding Zohar on the floor. Another lightening soul floated and glittered over his head healing him slowly.
All the Demons, Minions, Czars, Dark wizards, Hades and Alice remained stunned at this sight. They could not believe their eyes. They saw the lights of good souls spreading all over the chamber, dimming their evil light.
They heard the soft buzz soon turning into the clear sound as the beam grew stronger and powerful around Yannic.
“Dark Wizards!” shouted Alice. The dark wizards turned towards Yannic, moved their wands but the green floating current got bounced back from the shield of beam and fired back towards them. The dark wizards fired again but the current got fired back again through the shield of the holy beams of good souls around the king.
“Czars!” shouted Alice. Czars stepped ahead and mumbled chants which threw a blast of arrows towards Yannic but those didn’t penetrate the shield either but got fired back. They threw the arrow of the chants again as it got fired back. The buzz of the floating souls above the throne got louder and clearer.
“Long live the lord!”
“Long live the lord!”
“Long live the lord!
The words floated all around the hallway, through the entrance all around the palace. The light grew brighter and sound got louder.
“Long live the lord!”
“Long live the lord!”
Alice sitting on the throne got furious. He stood up and raised his wand.
“Today your Lord’s going to die from my hand.” The whirling motion of the green current passed towards the lord of Peninha which got wrapped around his body tying him like a magical rope. He threw another aligned beam of green current which floated towards the souls spinning above the head of the Lord. The beam surrounded the souls and caged them up. The bright spreading light slowly started fading away.
“Who says my reign’s over?” The demon smirked. Yannic smiled back from the golden throne. He gently shook his body, the magical rope wrapped around his body fell down. He lifted his hand and waved it a little. The cage opened and the souls came out swinging towards the evil Alice. They started throwing arrows towards him. His evil blood could not endure the arrows thrown by the holy souls. “Dark Wizards!” “Czars!” Shouted Alice, and he climbed down the stairs from the throne. The dark wizard and Czars surrounded to protect him against the holy arrows and took him towards a small alley that led to the dark chamber, the one that used to be the chamber of Ariman before he killed the King.
“Go back to your dark world! Don’t ever comeback.” Shouted the good souls. Yannic walked down the stairs. His green cape floated on the body of the stairs. After him were the good souls floating and mumbling.
“Long live the Lord!”
“Long live the Lord!”
The good souls floated above the empty pool pouring a crystal clear water. The hall way brightened more and more. Yannic got closer to Zohar lying on the floor. Zohar got up and knelt down.
“Long live the lord!” said Zohar.
The sound echoed all over the palace. The good souls floated through the exit to the dreary land around the palace turning every part lively. Warm shimmering light fell upon the face of dead grey land slowly turning into beautiful heavenly shrine.