My Heaven
-Cyclone's Interrogator-
By Michael James
Before the start of Coast's service
Part 1
The 4 who remain
Admits a battlefield,
of slain hundreds...
“To the 4 who remain standing, no more fighting will be required today. Return to your tents and await further instruction” shouted Shore. Those who remained were the only survivors of 812. The battlefield was full of warriors who wanted the general position for King Cyclone. Among them was Cody the teleporter. Jay the pyre sword, Megith of the Aristocrat sorcerers and Johnson of speed.
Cyclone favored Johnson because of his performance in battle already. The one who he least favored was Cody because he knew nothing about him. The other two had no significance to Cyclone at all. Yet the 4 were ready to fight to the death right then for the general position. But Johnson had it in for Cody believing he was the greatest threat.
In their tents slaves tended to their wounds and needs. Johnson was bathed with gorgeous women. Megith had her injuries tended to. Jay was polishing his gear. Cody preferred no one to serve him. That night a young woman visited Cody's tent...
“Your majesty, why do you wear rags?” Sylvain was very young at the time. She complimented him on his keen eye. Telling him that he allured her and wanted a shot before he died. “Excuse me milady, but am I sentenced to death?”
“No, but you are the one who is least favored to win.” Cody stood up asking why she said that? “Come on, I'm giving you an opportunity to bed the 1st born daughter.”
“I must prepare for tomorrow and I will not bed you. I do not want to show disloyalty before my position is taken.” Sylvain smiled telling him he was now favored by her.
The next day...
“Fellow combatants, an underwater structure was built for this test. You will be executed if you leave the interior before one more dies. Upon entering, damage will happen to the top. Causing the structure to slowly and fully flood. Do I make myself clear?!”
“Shore, I cant wait to put you in your place when I am general. Johnson said in an arrogant tone. Shore didn't even move his hoof in annoyance. He told the 4 to enter their iron coffins. As they were closed in. Chains were placed around the caskets. Then they were dropped into the water. Where their boxes started to leak.
Cody was the 1st to break free and get inside the structure. Megith was 2nd and the other 2 got in at the same time. Cody took his heavy spear and headed inside the interior. It was dark and sound was the only guide. Cody saw a fire in the hallway in front of him, and it was on. Jay had created a decoy with a dagger. Instantly Jay turned around and crossed his swords to block Cody's spear.
“What the hell is that rod made of?” Ton iron. “How can you even lift this thing, let alone wield it like its wood?” Was he going to talk or was he going to fight. My apologies, didn't know you wanted to die so bad. Jay flooded the whole hall with fire. He was immune but it would melt Cody's skin if he stepped on the floor.
Cody teleported away in the blast and reappeared slamming his spear into the wall. His feet knocked Jay back several yards in a kick. While also creating a big hole and water rushing in.
“You idiot! Now we will both drown.” Cody smiled and commented his fire wouldn't work underwater. “Is that what you believe you moron?” Jay put his weapons under the water and lit them on fire. Causing them to create blinding steam. “Lets see what you got now big fella.” Cody teleported behind him and Jay tried to cut his weapon in half. But one of his swords shattered in the collision.
“Attention” said Shore's voice. Cody put his spears blade to Jay's neck. “A forth combatant has fallen. You must make your way to the surface in 10 minutes. Or you will be executed for lack of value to the king.” Jay smiled and threw a dagger at the ceiling. When it went bang and the tunnel collapsed on Cody.
“You were a great threat to me. Now you will die by default.
Part 2
The house of urns
Upon getting to the surface...
“Okay I know I made it.”
“Barely combatant” said Shore walking up to him. Jay asked how much time was left? “11 seconds.” He never saw the spear guy coming up. He was glad to be rid of him. “What are you talking about. Cody was the 1st one up here?” Impossible! “Did you forget he could teleport?” Jay shrugged his shoulders in frustration and went to his tent.
That night...
“Pardon me” said Sylvain walking in. Cody turned to her and asked her majesty what he could do for her. “My father wants to speak to you. Please come with me. He was in shock, but followed her to King Cyclone's tent and he took the knee.
“Why do you want to serve me?” He wished to become the most feared eelkshie in existence. “Well that's a much better reason than Jay or Johnson had. You are dismissed.”
The next day...
The 3 combatants were put into a large store house. It was full of urns filled with ash. King Irish stepped into view on the top balcony. Cody took the knee and the others didn't.
“Listen up, in each of these urns are 3 skeletons. If you break an urn they will come to life. I advise you to swing your weapons with skill and not force. It would be rather difficult to avoid large amounts of unending soldiers. Now please kill each other. Jay ran to the left while Johnson took his katana and slammed it on Cody's spear. Cody blocked it barely and teleported behind Johnson. He turned faster than Cody could shift. Cody shifted up and fell on Johnson. He got out of the way and attempted to cut Cody in half by the back. Cody shifted to the balcony on the second floor. Johnson laughed at him.
“You are going to have to step up your game greenhorn. I'm not even giving my all here.” Cody spun his spear around in his hand like a baton. Despite the fact it weighed around 2,000 pounds. He maneuvered it like it was nothing.
“Let's go, I'm done playing around as well.” Cody jumped up as high as he could go and aimed his spear point right at Johnson's head. Falling from 4 stories and Johnson knew he had him. His plan was to side step and cut Cody's head off. When time came Cody vanished and reappeared behind him. Johnson moved to the side and got a gash on his hip. Jay saw Cody's back was turned and tried to kill him. Johnson was fighting up front and Jay was fighting from the back.
Jay slashed sideways and Cody swung his spear over his head to block it. Johnson stabbed at his gut. Cody brought the spear around his right side as he evaded the attack. Almost cutting Johnson's neck open. As he missed his mark Jay slashed downward at his spine. Cody brought the spear not slowing down from his attack at Johnson. Jay blocked the attack but got his arm injured.
Cody jumped up positioned his spear sideways and brought it down. Then he shifted out of sight. Both his opponents didn't know where he was. In a panic Jay broke 3 urns releasing 9 undead. Johnson was looking for Cody but couldn't find him.
“Come on out you coward!” Cody said gladly from under the floor. Jay torched the undead and thought it was over. But they kept getting back up. No matter how many times he killed them. Cody tried to impale Johnson like skewering a boar. Johnson hit the spear down and ran up the wall. Cody met him halfway and put the rod around his neck.
Jay had managed to break 8 more urns and was busy with the undead. The weight of everything with Cody, Johnson and his spear falling. Was such a load that they fell through the floor into a room filled with bones. Where undead warriors started getting up left and right. Johnson chanted a release spell and became enhanced.
Further more Jay had started the who place on fire. As chunks of burning wood fell down. Johnson burst at Cody in a berserk. Cody blocked the attack he thought. Johnson spun around and scratched Cody's arm. Cody shifted up to the next floor. Johnson got to the hole and jumped high. Cody threw his spear at Johnson and cut his leg.
Cody teleported spear back to his hand as he fell. When both reached the ground. Both blade points were at each others necks. But Cody was about to shift. When the undead killed Jay.
“The match is over” shouted Irish.
Part 3
The ladder pit
In Johnson's tent...
“How can somebody so nimble be that strong?!” His attendant treating his injury told him to stay still. “Don't tell me what to do slave!” He hit her across the face and knocked out a tooth. “Get out... right now!” She bowed to him and left. “Bring me another slave with a more obedient mouth!” Then King Irish walked in the tent.
In Cody's tent...
“I would like a word with you” said King Cyclone walking in. Cody was meditating and trying to relax. Yet he was honored to be addressed in person. “I believe I have made my decision. Johnson has great potential but lacks discipline. He used his last resort in the previous contest. And you have yet to use yours.”
“You honor me your Grace.” The position was his, now would he prefer to have the match. Or would he like to have Johnson executed right then. “I want to earn my place your Grace...” Cyclone smiled and told him that was a good answer.
The next morning...
“I'm going to kill you today Cody.” He just looked Johnson in the eye and smiled. Gale told them to listen up. At the bottom of the pit they where going to be thrown into. Was a pool of concentrated acid. There was no time limit and no chance of escape. One was going to emerge alive, the other would die. Now they were to both jump in. “Its all or nothing greenhorn, the acid will eat you I promise.”
As they descended into it, both caught a ladder and were sealed in with material and magic. Cody shifted to as close as you could get to the acid in another pit chamber. Johnson was jumping from one ladder to another. Ducking into passages and looking for Cody everywhere he possibly could. Cody saw him from underneath as he jumped across the pit. Johnson was looking up not down.
“Where is the stupid rookie?”
“Right behind you.” Johnson spun around as Cody socked him in the face in midair. Johnson fell and stabbed his weapon into the wall. In order to keep from being melted in the acid. Cody dropped his spear on a passage floor. Then gestured to fight with their fists.
“My aren't you cocky, very well. I'll fight you with my fists.” lunging himself at Cody with a fist aimed for his gut. Cody allowed himself to be hit. As he grabbed Johnson by the neck. He was hanging off the side of the wall. One hand on the ladder, the other on Johnson's throat. Johnson wasn't about to die. He took a concealed knife and cut Cody's arm deep. Cody released his grip and Johnson fell.
Managing to grasp a hold of a ladder. He then ran into a passage and left his sword stuck in the wall. Cody was bleeding a lot from his injury. He took his belt and tied his arm off.
“How can that guy be so strong. I would have died right then if I didn't have my knife! Oh man, I need to go get my sword back or I'm dead.” Cody was watching his every move. But he had retrieved Johnson's sword before he could claim it.
Minutes later...
“I was sure I left it in this pit.” Cody appeared behind him asking if he was looking for this? John ran and jumped for the spear, but he couldn't lift it. “How can you carry this thing?”
“Easy, I have a strength blessing. Now how can you wield such a light sword?” He offered an exchange. “No I tried to fight fare.” Cody threw the sword into the acid. Johnson had no chance of catching it. “I have a question. What was your reason?” What? “When you were asked why you wanted to be a general. What reason did you give his Grace?” Johnson said it was Sylvain. She was the prize to be given to the next general. “I was not aware of that deal.” What did he want if not a shot at royalty. “I want social status, to be feared.”
“How noble. Well I guess its down to this moment. Shall we end this quickly?” Johnson had an explosive behind his back. “Come on then, give it everything you got!”
“Very well.” Cody put out his hand and shifted Johnson to the bottom of the acid well. As he melted his last thought was, he could have done this at anytime! Cody heard Shore's voice telling him congrats. Now he needed to make his way to the surface. Cody shifted right in front of Shore. “I welcome you as my superior Cody. I cant thank you enough for killing the other guy. He would have been a horrible higher officer.
Part 4
Coast
At Cyclone's castle,
on this planet...
“Excuse me, may I come in” asked Sylvain? Cody opened the door seeing her in next to nothing. He allowed her to walk in and confessed something.
“Your majesty, I honestly didn't know you were my prize.” She asked if he was already with someone? “No that isn't the problem. I don't mind bedding women, its just I prefer men.”
“Huh! You must be joking?” Cody smiled and told her this wouldn't work out. “My, you are perfect in every way imaginable. I don't want a husband however I am required to have a child. Before you become my father's eelkshie.” Was she serious? “Could we just stop arguing and get this over with?”
The next morning,
after pregnancy was assured...
“Presenting the winner of the position of 2nd general” announced a noble. Cody walked up to the king in the throne room. Shore was on his left and Gulf was on his right. Cody took the knee to his king. The huge room was full of infinity beings watching every move he made. Cyclone waved his hand for silence.
“Cody... from this day forth your name is Coast. I will look forward to giving you an army and seeing what you can do wit it. Present the dagger” Cyclone announced. On a purple pillow was a ceremonial dagger. Cyclone cut his palm with it and handed it to Coast. He cut his palm with it and they joined hands. At that moment Coast was born. The whole room clapped their hands. “Coast, I hear you favor interrogator tactics. I would like you to show me what you can do.”
Hours later,
in the dungeon...
“You bastards can cut me all you want. I'm not telling you a thing!” Coast and his king walked through the doorway. “Oh look, its the king of kings, little ol Cyclone.” This man was with Symbol's army. He was captured because he stole a valuable sword. Once he confessed, he was promised a quick death.
“All you can think to do is cut him with a thin blade” asked Coast? Cyclone told his men to let his general take over. Coast walked up to the detained, then looked at the tools. “Where is the item?” He spit in Coast's face. “My oh my, you have big ears” Coast commented as he wiped off his face.
“Coast picked up a small hook meant for removing fingernails. As he jammed it in the guys ear. He shouted what was happening? Coast told him he was removing his ear drum. Following that he planned to pour alcohol into the hole.
“OH FREAKING HELL!” He screamed as Coast ripped it out of his head. Following that Coast tugged his head down and held a goblet of terrible wine, over the injury. Again he asked where the item was? “I don't know!” He poured the wine in the ear. The guy was in so much pain he began to feel dizzy from it.
“Next thing I'm going to do, is shove rock salt in there.” The weapon was in Deenmar! “Where in Deenmar?” Blue district, house 4412! Cyclone sent for Shore. “I think we got all we needed your Grace.” Cyclone smiled because he was pleased with Coast's performance. “May I continue?” Cyclone admitted he was confused. “Well we got what we needed, now I just want to have fun.”
Month's later...
“Your majesty, its a boy.” Sylvain took her son in her arms. Coast was beside her and Cyclone told the rest to leave the room. They needed a moment to themselves.
“Coast, he looks like you.”
“He has got your eyes Sylvain.” She looked at how emotional he was being. Coast had earned the reputation he wanted between then and now. No one wanted to be at his mercy, not even the other generals. Sylvain rubbed her sons head, telling Coast he could be as involved as he wanted. “I know he'll grow up to be a fine prince. I will help you raise him, but I want a warrior, not a prince.”
“As do I” she said softly...
My Heaven
-Blood Red Thread-
By Michael James
Part 1
My Roommate Deserved It
Outside a house,
while raining hard...
“Inspector!”
“This had better be good to wake me at 4 in the morning. Especially since I'm getting drenched.” She apologized, but this was the biggest thing dating all the way back to his fathers early carrier. “Why don't you tell me what happened?”
This is what I heard from the accused,
27 minutes ago...
“Well well... well, looks like we got us a fighter guys.” 11 men were in a poorly taken care of house. It had just started to rain a little. They had a 10 year old girl in her ripped clothes tied up in thread. “I don't think I'm going to be bored tonight.
“I want her first” shouted an uneasy guy! They all agreed he could have her first. As she struggled to get free he carried her into the bedroom. Please stop fussing, I'm going to get you out of here little one. You are way to young to be put through this.” She stopped struggling and he untied her. “Man I can see everything, here take my shirt.” She put his shirt on and asked him to turn off the lights. “Why?” She needed to take off her old clothes. “I'll just turn around okay.”
In the living room,
when they heard a crash...
“Sounds like they are having a swell time. Hey dude... Dude? He's not answering maybe his heart has got him again.” The others said they were watching a show. It was up to him to check it out. “Hey man, you okay... ready or not I'm coming in.” As he walked in, the lights were out and the door closed on him. “What the hell... ulgh!”
“What is going on there” they yelled from the living room?! When the sound of a broken glass window occurred. They got off their butts and ran outside. When it started raining hard. The girl was spotted by the authorities. She had bloody thread in her hands. With the blood washing off in the rain. The cops got out of the car and shot all but 4 of them, as they ran for it. All but one died who were shot. He was put on a stretcher and cuffed to it. Upon inspection. The girl had killed two of them in the house. By strangling them with the thread she was tied with...
And that brings us to now...
“What has the girl said since she was rescued?” Blood, sir was the only thing she said to them... blood. “Which car is she in?” Second to the left behind him.
“Inspector...”
“Has she said anything?” Blood. “I'll take it from here. Wait, why is she cuffed?” The girl attacked them when they grabbed hold of her. “Is she injured?” A bad cut is on her foot from stepping on broken glass. “Hello, little one, can you tell me your name?” Blood. “I understand you are scared. We are going to help you.” She looked up and into his eyes. “Could you please tell me your name?”
“Phyx...” she told the guy and jumped on him. Somehow she the cuff chain around his neck with he knees into his back. The amount of strength she had. Made him black out faster then most asphyxiations. When he woke up he was in a hospital room.
In a Juvenal hall,
for little girls...
“Hey your done with your food aren't you” said her cell mate. Phyx had just started her meal. She took her food and milk. “Thanks, I'll appreciate this kind of obedience in the future.
7 minutes later,
doing the rounds...
“Oh my god, medical emergency in 1900 cell 14. Ward step away from her and put your back against the wall!” Phyx had killed her room mate with torn sheets.
“My roommate deserved it, she took my food.” The warden rushed in with the facility medics. He told Phyx to get down on the floor. Next she attacked the warden much like the inspector. Only she was using her plastic spoon on his jugular.
Part 2
Escaping
In a room,
made to hold adults...
“I am not going near this child unless you have your gun out. She killed her roommate and cracked the wardens neck” said a nurse. Phyx had gotten enough mace in her eyes to permanently damage to them. The ointment the nurse had would help her condition greatly. But she and everyone else were scared to death of her.
“Safety's off, inmate keep your hands where we can see them.” The door opened and they saw deer antlers had grown out of her head. Phyx's eyes glowed red.
In the dream,
she just woke from...
“Hello young one, I wanted to have a little girl talk” said Mistress. They were in a random house. In Phyx's hand was a rope. “I'll get right to the point little one. I saw you strangling your roommate to death and I thought we could help each other.”
“You want to help me... how?” She would give her a gift and also tell Phyx where to find the last 4 men. “Why would you help me lady?” Because she was a serial killer and she was 10 years old. If Phyx served her, or actually another guy. She could kill to her hearts content. “How do you plan to help me?”
“I will give you the power to turn blood into rope. Also give you the ability to move it at will. 1204 Sepa street and 5611 Bud drive. I hope you enjoy your evening...”
Back to the current moment...
“I don't like this officer, I... cant breath. Something around... my neck.” The officer started to feel it too. Treads were around their necks under the skin. Suddenly their necks snapped like tooth picks. Phyx walked out of her cell and killed the officers at the station. After it was over she relieved them of their keys.
38 people died in the Juvenal facility that night. And a few dozen died outside of it when the cops met her at the exit. After that Phyx just vanished and the whole city of authorities were out looking for her and a press van whose crew also died broadcast Phyx killing the cops.
On 1204 Sepa St,
on a television...
“We bring you live, to the girls Juvenal detainment facility... Jack it seems there is a child coming out of the exit. The police were called in when she went rampage inside. There is the child now.”
“Holy mother of hell! Brother that's the girl we were going to...” His phone started to ring. “Hello, yes I'm watching the news broadcast! Wait what is she doing now?” Both addresses watched everyone fall dead, then the camera fall on the street. The whole country saw her walk past the body's from the camera laying on its side.
“I don't like this man. You know she's going to be coming for us.”
At the police station...
“Hey man, aren't you supposed to be taking it easy?” The inspector started talking, but saw the broadcast as well. “Yeah, the girl is carrying some disease. Everyone is out looking for her. If a 9 year old boy held up a bank. We wouldn't have staffing to stop him, with everyone out there lookin. The inspector asked for the addresses of the men who assaulted her. “That's an odd thing to request. Wait do you think that is where she's goin?” He told his friend to call it in immediately!
Hours later...
“I want to talk to my lawyer. Wait you aren't taking us to the cells?” The cops got the guys on Bud drive. The other two were missing. “Hey! Just where the hell are you taking us?” The two men were thrown in a panic room. The door shut behind them.
Out on the street,
at a fuel depot...
“Look I ain't a thief, but I need money. Everything in the cash drawer right now.” The depot guy didn't argue against the man with a gun. But as he was loading all the paper inside. The bell above the door rang. With his back turned “you didn't see nothing.” He started to turn and Phyx was standing there looking crazed.
“Little girl please don't make him shoot you. Just get out of his way” the clerk begged. Phyx tilted her head as the man shot her in the forehead.
Part 3
An Eye
After the shot was fired...
Phyx fell down and it looked like she died. The clerk shouted that he killed a little girl! The assailant, thought it was over, but when her hand moved. He froze in terror with her getting back up. The bullet working its way out and the injury healing.
“I'm dreaming right..?” Phyx said that hurt and created threads around his heart. Popping it like water balloon. The clerk rushed to her asking if she was okay?!
“Can I have some milk?” He told her any flavor she wanted, it was on him. “Thanks Mr. you're nice.” She got a bottle of strawberry milk and was gone while the clerk was turned around.
“Hey listen, a guy just shot a calico girl with antlers.” The cop told him to exercise caution the girl was a wanted felon. “What do you mean, she cant be more than 10 years old!” He turned around and the store was empty. “She's gone.”
Upon inspecting the only vehicle in the lot. A guy with a blue head from being asphyxiated was in the passenger seat. The clerk realized offering her a gesture of kindness, probably saved his life.
In an empty playground...
Phyx was sitting on a swing, enjoying her milk. Mistress walked into the area holding another strawberry milk bottle. She asked Phyx why she stopped here? Was she having regrets?
“No ma'am I just like milk and I wanted to enjoy it. I can feel where they are. Sort of like a natural sense.” Where were they? “The two meanies are in the main police station in the city. I want to go kill them, if that's okay with you?”
“By all means...”
In the interrogating room...
“I ain't talkin to no one until my lawyer is here!” The inspector was trying to get information on her from the defendant. His friend from earlier knocked on the door. Within ear shot, the crook heard that his friends got killed. “Who killed them?!” They closed the door on him, as he told the inspector, what coroner found.
“Every single person who has died has been killed by thread beneath the skin. I don't know what we are dealing with. But eye witness said she recovered from a bullet to the brain.” He told his friend that he didn't need to be here. This little girl was coming for these men. Whatever evil force rules her. He would do his best to bring her back from it. “Wait, you want to reason with her?”
“Go home to your wife and kids.”
As dawn came,
in the rain once more...
“Sir the target is coming.” The inspector was put in charge of the last stand. 27 policemen were armed with automatic rifles outside the station. His orders were to let her in without attacking. Phyx saw them put their rifles on the ground. One opened the door for her. Without killing anyone, Phyx walked in and saw the inspector. Holding a strawberry milkshake. He just wanted to talk to her.
“Is that for me?”
“Yes, I also got some burgers and chicken in my office. Would you please come with me?” Phyx took the shake and said okay, she would go with him. There was an order of fries, burgers and chicken tenders waiting. “I was hoping we could have a little talk.”
“Could I kill the men first?” He explained these guys were on death row. She could be there to watch them in the chamber as they die. “But I want to kill them now. Could I please kill them now?” He wanted her to eat first. “Okay” she sighed. Her food was excellent, and she enjoyed it. No sleep drugs were in the food and as he started to talk again. They both heard a window smash. “I kill them now?”
“Please little one I don't want you to kill them.” Why? “Because you are better than that.” Phyx's expression changed. She looked more innocent when she said he reminded her of her dad.
It was too late. The crook busted in the office with a rifle. He shot her in full auto. 12 out of a 32 magazine went in her. The inspector jerked up with his gun pointed at him. As they argued the bullets worked out of her body. Threads wrapped around his neck muscle and jerked real hard. It was enough force that one of his eyes popped out of his head.
“Mr. you remind me of my papa. He was scared of me too and tried to offer me good food. I throttled him with a fish line.” It was over for him before he knew what hit him.
In the panic room...
“Oh god!”
“Hey I found you.”
Part 4
I like big sisters
Walking outside...
“Mistress... did I do good? Wait who this guy?” Phyx killed everyone, even the secretary who wasn't armed. Beside Mistress was Cyclone, and he did not show any fear.
“She's definitely got talent milady. I could use someone her.” Phyx was puzzled why he wasn't choking. “Soldier if you are trying to use your gift on me its not going to work.” Mistress told her this man was her friend. He would let her kill many. “Its true soldier, I'm going to entrust you to a talented leader. Who will let you kill all you want.”
“Why cant I kill you?” Because he was wearing gold jewelry preventing it. “So I kill for you?” Yes, she would kill for him. “Yay” she yelped. “I have a friend who I would recommend too. She is like a sister to me.”
On another planet,
a week later...
“Hello Phyx. My name is Legless, think of me as a big sister. Are you ready to go kill an enemy and all his friends” she asked in a chipper way? Phyx smiled an said...
“I like big sisters, lets be friends.”
My Heaven
-The Skull Eater-
By Michael James
After Phyx was recruited
Part 1
A snot nose noble
On the same planet,
Phyx was on...
“My lord I brought you another girl from town.” The boy at the age of 13 saw her with a chain around her neck. “Does she please please you sir.” What was her name? “Colda.”
“Very well chain her to the floor and get the hell out!” Colda's leash was chained to a hook in the bedroom center. His attendant left them alone. Knowing what he was about to do to her. Prince Sete requires girls to amuse himself with. They usually ended up dead or crippled for life. “Well well, I haven't seen a black and white cat in a while. I think I'll whip you first. Take off your shirt please.”
Colda stripped for him, he turned his head for a couple minutes to select a whip. When his gaze was on her again, she was gone. Sete looked to his left, right as Colda smashed a vase into his head. He opened his eyes without any clothes on glued to a chair.
“Where am I, and why am I naked?” Colda walked up to him in view. She had a stab wound poorly stitched up and leaking blood. With a crazed look in her eye that filled him with terror. “Look my family will pay any ransom you ask, I assure you.”
“I'm not looking for ransom. I'm just wanting to have fun with you just like you were going to with me.” He begged for mercy, and she smiled in a wicked way. The girl walked up and sat on him in a way that they faced each other. “Does this make you feel good?”
“What's wrong with you?!”
“I like your ears, I think I want them.” His manliness was getting excited against his will. “Oh, hello there. Aren't you mister woody, okay I can get it on with ya.” As they did the deed Sete was crying because he was scared to death. “Okay now its time to claim those ears.” She had halfway carved off one when door starting banging.
“Help me! FOR THE LOVE OF THE GODS, HELP ME...” The soldiers busted down the door and rescued him. A law enforcer immediately asked him if he drank anything. “No why? Why would ask me that?” Colda was fussing around like a house cat getting a bath. “Kill that crazed thing right now!”
“Unfortunately your parents want her alive. This girl is wanted for murdering 47 people.” Sete was so terrified he couldn't make words come out. As they carried him out of the basement. He saw half eaten skulls all over the floor.
In a mansion,
days later...
“Son, your father needs you to appear in court to speak out against her.” Sete told his mother he never wanted to see that girl again. “We need your testimony son.”
“I never want to see her again!” His mother saw his fear and left the room to tell the father to have the girl killed. Meanwhile in her cell, with a dead soldier.
“I may be gravely wounded, but I am still a lion with teeth. And you know what they say. A predator is most dangerous when wounded and near death. Come on” she said to the guy with white hair outside her cell. He had a spear in his hand. What puzzled her more was the blood on it and seeing dead body's at his feet.
“Hello Cold, I'm a friend of Phyx.”
In the father's office...
“This is impossible, you have to be making a mistake!” An employee told him his wife wanted a word. “Not now! I'm to busy trying to convince the failure of a captain. That a little girl couldn't have killed 47 people.” The captain told him the evidence was clear. Her finger prints were on the skulls. “Did anyone see her commit these murders.” No. “Then set off mild explosives in your ears to make your head clear. Someone took my son and framed her.”
“The longer we dick around, the further the real murderer gets away...”
Part 2
Like a rack of ribs
In the cell block...
“I haven't seen Phyx in weeks Mr. How do I know I can trust you?” Coast informed her, she didn't need to trust him yet. All she needed to do was talk to the lady behind her. Cold dropped a rusty nail from her sleeve and tried stabbing Mistress with it.
“My my my... you little girls have quite the promise that most don't. Allow me to show you my gratitude for your nerve.” Mistress kissed the top of her head and right then, everyone in the manor felt chills. “I leave her in your care great warrior.” Mistress evaporated into a ball of fire and Cold had questions.
“Okay Mr. Coast, just what the hell happened a moment ago? I can feel everyone in a 5 block radius. I can feel them dying slowly and I can control it.” Did this power scare her? “No Mr. Coast, I feel like I can kill much quicker now. What did she do to me? Who was she and who are you Mr. Coast?!”
“I want to watch you in action. Kill everyone as you see fit in the mansion. I am hoping your heart is as black as Phyx says.” And why couldn't she feel him dying, exactly? “Because I have immunity.” Cold looked at him with intrigued eyes.
“Oh we'll see about that.”
In the father's office...
“Why do we feel sickly all the sudden.” The father looked at his hand as he laid on the floor. His flesh was rotting starting at his finger nails. “What in the name of the god is happening?!”
In the cell block...
“Well this is great, I unknowingly made a bargain with some hoof freak. I should just have fun with this while I'm able.” A man with an automatic riffle pointed his gun at her. Telling Cold to get back in her cell. “1 sec Mr. soldier.” She concentrated on his arms accelerating the sickness. As all the flesh fell off from the shoulders down. Cold laughed “oh this is awesome, its just like a rack of ribs!” Of course this man was screaming his head off. Very soon 5 more came upon her. As they fired at her, she accelerated the sickness, but got a bullet in the leg. It worked its way out of her thigh and healed up. “OH HELL YEAH!”
In Sete's room...
“She's going to come for me. I... I need t... to get out of here.” Sete jumped from his 2 story bedroom window. He hurt one leg on the way down. Hobbling along off the premises to safety.
Outside the room...
“Mr. soldiers, who has the key to this room?” One raised his hand. “I thank you for being a nice Mr. soldier. In seconds they were dead. Cold felt a little hungry as she took the key, she claimed a skull. Walking in the room with a mouth full of skull. She was surprised to not see Sete there. But the window was open and it wasn't hard to figure out. “Huh, I guess the scamp ran for it. A bullet hit her right in the back of the head. It moved out and her injury healed.
“I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT LADY DID TO ME. BUT THIS IS FREAKING BADASS!” The shooter dropped dead and so did everyone else who got in her way.
When she came across,
the mother...
“Hello miss, might you be Sete's mom. Tell me where would he go if he fled to safety?” She begged Cold not to hurt her boy. “I'm not going to ask again after this. Where would he go?” She told her to go to hell. “I earned that one way ticket when I killed my PE coach.” The mother expired and all that was left was the father.
In the office...
“Sir... sir! He's dead, what the F... is going on here?” The guys with guns heard shots fired outside the room. Do you guys have your grenades?” They all looked at him with shock. “I think I'd rather escape this nightmare the quick and easy way.” He pulled the pin and put it to his chest. Cold heard all the bangs in the room. As the smoke cleared, she shrugged her shoulders asking, now what?”
In a car,
driven by a concerned stranger...
“Don't worry kid, I'm taking you to get some help. The hospital is just around the corner.” Sete shouted he needed to drive him out of the city! “Kid, your leg is bleeding bad. We need to get you help. I don't know who is after you, but you'll be safe there.”
Part 3
You poisoned me?
In the kitchen,
of the mansion...
“Okay, where is the BBQ sauce?”
“Not bad for a trial run” said Coast behind her. Cold closed the fridge door saying she poured him some good soda. It was in the cup on the counter. “I never really cared for soda. I'm more of a coffee guy.” But this was the soda bought by nobles, so it had to be good. “Alright if you keep insisting, I'll humor you and try it.”
Cold never turned around, she had poisoned the drink the best she could. The sounds that followed were lifting the cup. Him gulping it down and the cup smashing on the floor. What she didn't expect to happen was Coast's calm voice.
“Did you just try to poison me” he asked sarcastically? Cold spun around and saw Coast looking fine. No liquid was in the shattered glass on the floor. “Oh don't worry, I drank it all. I like your style girl, having no feelings about any death.” Was he going to kill her now? “No... no no... I want to hire you.” What? “How about it, I will give you endless opportunities to kill and murder. All I ask in return is allegiance.” Cold looked puzzled to the point of a crisis.
“Yeah sure why not Mr. Coast. But I have one loose end to tie off. A boy escaped the mansion. I wish to go run him down?” Coast told her where to find him. The hospitals 8th wing.
In the 8th wing...
“Its okay young sir. No one is coming to get you. I guarantee you are safe from whoever attacked you.” Sete screamed he wanted armed men outside his door and window! “If you don't stop causing your injury trauma we will have to restrain you.” Sete didn't listen, he tried to get out of bed to flee and opened his wound. The nurse hit the panic alarm and he was tied down with leather restraints.
“Please, you cant leave me in here!” The nurse told Sete that she would come check on him later. “YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME HERE ALONE!” She turned on the TV and just walked out on him. Sete didn't care about the pain, he needed to get free and he was tied down tight. “She's going to come and kill me. I know it... I'm going to die.” As he went completely insane with rants. The nurse station turned the radio up to drown out his insanity. Then Sete heard the toilet flush in his room. Cold walked into view and he wet the bed. There weren't any actual words in his screams now and the staff didn't hear a thing.
“Well, shall we pick up where we left off?” Cold took out a buck knife and sat on him in a suggestive way. Sete was crying quarts now. “I just want to put on record, you did this to yourself. Had your guys not have pulled me off the street at random. We wouldn't have even met.” Sete managed to say the word, question... clearly. “Sure what is it you want to ask me?” He got a hold of himself.
“How did... you get me... out of my house and... glue to a chair.”
“The servant who presented me to you the other night. He was sick to death of you torturing little girls. I promised him I would kill you, so he carried you to my basement. Then got back and acted like I hurt him. “I owe that man a debt. Its to bad he's dead.” Sete got a hold of his panic alarm, but no one came.
“I don't want to die!”
“Very well, I can either kill you or rid you of use of your limbs?” Sete chose to live. When the nurse came in the room with his lunch. His arms and legs were nothing but rotted flesh.
At a children's,
clothe store a bit later...
“I must say Mr. Coast, that teleportation ability of your is handy. You jumped me in and out of his room without any effort.” Cold was in the changing room getting out of the rags she was in before. Coast offered to get her new clothes before he took her to Phyx. When she came out the girl looked a lot better. “Mr. Coast are you really going to pay?” Her outfit wasn't that expensive. “No I mean why don't we just rob the place?” Her blood lust was appreciated, but they needed a low profile. “Okay” she sighed with disappointment.
Waiting at a candy store...
“I'll take all this.”
“Sure little one, let me ring you up. That's 1 coffin and 8 soils.” Coast gave her 4 coffins to shop with. You could buy 4/5th of the store with 4 coins. As Phyx turned around and saw Cold.
The first thing Cold said to her after they hugged was... “Where did you dig this guy up?!” Phyx started to laugh at the concept. Coast felt very appreciated.
A year later...
“You are really hiring us to kill one little girl, sir?” Sete ordered them to make her hurt in every way possible...
My Heaven
-Dinner For One-
By Michael James
Part 1
Farewell Mother
On a street,
in the heavy snow...
“You boys like picking on defenseless animals, huh.” 6 boys had been throwing rocks a cat tied to a pipe. Oless came up behind them using nothing but her fists. She beat the tar out of the toughest guy in the group. The other 5 started to back off. She then broke his leg of the guy in the snow. 2 of them took off as fast as they could. One took out a knife and said they wanted their friend. “Well come on then, collect him.”
“What are you idiots doing, get me away from this kid!” The guy dropped the knife and the 3 of them took off. Oless picked up the knife and gave him a crazed look. “Please no...”
In Oless' home...
“Oless, good your home... I made you dinner.” Her mother was laying in their 1 room on a futon they shared. Oless told her mother that they had a new cat. “Why do you have blood on your hands and shirt?” Because she stabbed a cruel boy who was hurting this cat. “Okay, you didn't get hurt did you?” No. “Well eat your dinner, and wash yourself before bed. What is the cats name?” Mittens.
Oless' mom was in terrible health but loved her girl more than everything. She was aware her daughter was hurting others. But chose to be supportive rather than upset. Oless ate her soup and slept beside her mom. With Mittens sleeping between them.
The next day...
“Hey mom, I made us some money. I protected this girl from some boys and... MOTHER!” Mittens was pawing her mother. Who was laying dead on the floor. “Mommy?!”
It was in this moment that something in her brain just snapped. The only positive person in her life just died. Mittens walked up to her as she fell to the floor. Mittens got on her lap and brought her back to life. Days passed and finally someone took her in and her cat.
5 years later,
at the age of 15...
“How did you do at school sweety?” Oless said she flunked her math quiz. “Oh sweety, I thought you were studying for it.” Oless told her that it was hard for her! “Okay, I just want you to graduate that's all.” She thanked her mom for caring about her.
Oless went into her bedroom where Mittens was asleep. She took off her shirt to look at the bruises her mom was unaware of. Oless was in a relationship with an abusive boy. She took off her bra to put ointment on the cut on her breast.
“Mittens, why do I keep going back to this guy?” Then he called her on her necklace. “Yes dear?” He told her to come to his place right now and bring beer. “Okay I'm coming.” Putting her clothes on was painful and she snuck out her window.
At his place...
“Hey boys the fun is here!” Right then Oless endured things then no female should go through. The boys abused her every way possible. When it was over Oless was laying on the floor bare and coughing up blood. “Hey wench why do you always get the cheep beer? How many times do I have to tell you, buy the good stuff!” He shouted kicking her in the stomach. “Now get your filth off my floor.”
In her mind...
“Why are you taking this from him? Don't you want to kill him or hurt him the way he hurt you?” Oless told the woman's voice that this was typical. Her boyfriend was just picking on her a bit more today. “Well, I think its time you fought back!”
Outside in the world...
“What the... why am I on the floor all of a sudden?” Oless turned her gaze to him and he saw himself through her eyes. “Wench what did you put in this awful beer?” He watched himself get killed through her eyes. Oless grabbed a heavy object off the table. Then beat him to death with it. She kept beating him long after he was dead.
Part 2
Banished
In the court room...
“Oless you are charged with murder, assault and battery. We have spoken with your guardians and they don't want you living with them. I sentence you to banishment. From this day forth you will live on the street in disgrace. Remove her ear, to show others what she is to society.” A man came with a cutting tool to cleave it off. Oless wasn't sad, she was angry. “Now that you have been marked with shame. My guards will show you your future hospitality.” Oless was thrown into the street by the authorities. Hitting her head hard on the way down.
Over a period of time, Oless was cut off. No one would help her or show mercy. Until one day she came across her foster mother. Oless followed her around the building and she gave her a fresh shirt along with some food. She told Oless that Mittens still lived with them. She would try to get Oless more food like this.
“HEY! This little maggot is banished. Your committing a crime by helping her!” Oless looked at the man pulling out a gun. It was over before she had a time to react. Oless managed to get to him to take the gun away. He had a knife on his hip. If there was ever any assurance she was beyond help. Oless crossed that line right then. She cut out his heart and ate it. At least she knew now her foster mom cared for her.
Over the next couple weeks, Oless went from scumbag to scumbag. Killing them and getting her fill by eating them. One night, she was sleeping in the bed of a truck. When she heard that woman's voice again. Only it wasn't in her head. It was outside the truck on the street. Oless sat up and saw Mistress wanting to know, what up.
“Who are you?”
“I'm the one that all of Infinity answers too.” Oless dropped a knife from her sleeve and stabbed it into Mistress' head. Her arm charred with flame upon contact. “Heh heh, you actually tried to kill me. I rarely meet such bravery.”
“You've come to take me to hell. What am I supposed to do bend over backwards and sing a show tune?” Mistress managed to convince her, this wasn't what she thought.
“I always want to find new Murchant's Oless. But 7 is more than enough for the time being. I wish you to be on standby for my summon. I will give you strength and gifts far beyond what you want. I will provide you with a guardian who will give you victims to eat.” Oless asked what kinds of gifts? “You enjoy eating others. I will allow you to make more tasty meals.” So be it.
On the street,
coming her way...
“Hey boys look. A pretty little banished girl.” Oless looked at them and thought what a bunch of ducks they were. Her horns given to her by Mistress radiated. The group were now wingless and legless duck. Screaming from the pain of the transformation. She picked one up and thought cook. The duck was engulfed in fire, but still moving.
“You must pierce the heart to kill your prey, or they will never die. Go ahead and eat your fill” said Mistress' voice. Oless ate duck meat that night and they saw through her eyes, while she ate them. Oless decided to get some better clothes. Followed by a better weapon. She ate non stop, and yet never felt full.
On a bed in a house,
with dead tuna on the floor...
“I love laying on a mattress for the first time in a while.” Mistress asked if she was having fun? “Milady Mistress... I am enjoying myself quite a bit. I am laying on a huge bed in a well kept home.” Mistress appeared in front of her.
“Yes well, your new boss for the time being is waiting for you tomorrow. He will be behind Queens hardware, a couple blocks south. He wont mind if you get there a while after noon.” Oless smiled and asked what he was like? “One scary son of a goat!”
The next morning,
after she carved the fish more...
“Excuse me sir, are you the one who...” Oless took one solid look at Coast and fell in love. Coast nodded saying he heard a lot about her and she came highly favored. “Yeah, her Mistress said I was to be a Murchant one day.” What was her name? “It was Oless, but I think my new name is Legless.
Part 3
A chicken dinner
At the residence,
of the lord who banished her...
“Listen you stupid woman, I don't care for the way you clean my sink. Now if have to explain this again. I'll put you in a slave market.” She bowed and started deep scrubbing a clean sink. He wandered into his living room and turned on a broadcast. His necklace went off and the authority chief asked if he was up yet? “I'm enjoying my morning you imbecile. This can wait until I come in.”
“I'm afraid it cant sir, I need you to come to the station as soon as you can!” He will be on his way. The lord sat back into his chair and relaxed. Until he saw Legless on the clothing store camera. Turning the shop keeper into a squid then eating her. This camera footage was blasting all over the media.
At the authority office...
“Hello, sir yes! Wait slow down sir...”
“I want elite officers guarding my house at all times! I remember that stupid shite in my court room. I want surveillance, body guards, snipers. I want them all around my house within 5 minutes or you will be fired!” The chief made it all happen in 7 minutes. He kept his job because no one else would fill in.
At a love hotel...
Legless was coming into the room from the shower. Wearing nothing but a towel. Coast took one look at her and showed no interest. This literally broke her heart.
“Look I know I agreed to this, but I prefer men.” He had asked Legless what she would want more than anything. Of course the love sick girl wanted to be physical. “I didn't mean to crush your dreams Legless.” She asked if they still would..? “Yes we are, drop the cloth and lay on the bed. I like to be the dominate.”
“Okay...”
When they were done...
“I hope this was worth it?” Legless sat up and was in shock. “Why are you looking at me like that?” Could they do this again? She had been with boys, but it was always about them. This was the first time it was about her. “I don't mind doing this once in a while or as a reward. But it will not be a daily thing.”
“I can live with that. But could we be a creative next time..?”
At the lords manor,
that night...
“GET OUT YOU IDIOT WHORE!” The woman picked up her things and ran out of the room. “My god, is it to much to ask for proper service?” He grabbed his necklace and said to bring him another. But, there was no reply. “Hello?” 2 seconds later, he heard a couple dozen burrows screaming in his yard. “HELP, HEY... GIRL GET BACK HERE!” He heard a woman's voice asking what was wrong? “I'll tell you what's wrong some idiotic tramp is trying to kill me!”
“I don't think I've ever been called a tramp before.” Legless walked in the room with a psychotic look on her face. He dropped a load in his pants right then. “Well don't you stink.” He ran to the balcony and tried to jump. She grabbed him by the shirt and threw him against a wall. “Where do you think you're going? I have a few things I want to get off my chest dear lord.” He tried to run and she broke his leg. “Why did you sentence me to banishment? It would have been easier if you had just ordered me hanged.” He confessed it amused him, he was sorry.
“A woman I considered a mother figure is dead because of you. Had I not been banished, she would be alive.” He started crying like a child because he didn't want to die.
“No one told me you were a sorceress. I was told you were a nobody. Just some filthy little street rat. It amused me to sentence you to suffer!” His words were starting to be hard to make out. He was crying worse than a baby with a broken leg. “I am a lord, this shouldn't be...” Legless tired of this and turned him into a chicken.
Grabbing him by the neck, she took him into his own kitchen. She defeathered him and prepared him with his own supplies. 30 or 40 minutes later.
“Oh my, I don't know what kind of spices these are. But this is the tastiest dinner for one I have ever had...”
Years later,
far from that planet...
“You say you are as nasty as a raging bull. Well... I think I could go for some beef...”
My Heaven
-The 12th Floor-
By Michael James
Part 1
Gale's challenge
On a planet,
governed by Gale...
“My lord, it was nice of you to offer an invitation. Yet, I must ask why I brought her” Coast inquired? King Gale explained to Coast that the rumors of Legless were everywhere. But the girl had no weapon, and he wasn't just going to hand it over either.
“What must I do your majesty” she asked? 2 miles behind him was a tower guarded by an abandoned summon beast. He guards a sword, that has yet to be claimed. Prove herself worthy and claim it on the 12th floor. “What's the catch?” Her power to turn her enemies into limb less animals would not work on him. Also its been 39 years and no one has come back from the tower. “I'm up to the task.”
“General of my lord brother, do you give this your blessing?” Coast nodded yes. “Very well, Legless I wish you luck.” She took off towards the tower. Coast wanted to know what his lordship was up to? “Coast, she is your strongest, but she needs a reputation...”
After 11 minutes of running...
“An old building surrounded by crackling storm clouds, very ominous. Am I supposed to just knock?” She approached the door and fell through a pit. In the pit was a dark tunnel that went on further than could be seen. “I could surely climb out of here, but this seems much more fun.” A ghastly voice said to her this would be her grave. “Yeah... well I would hate to disappoint you.”
“I sense strength little girl, I will enjoy playing with you.” A fireball appeared in midair. “This fire will be your guide. Come on and lets play.” Legless followed the fire down the tunnel. Until it came out into a cell block, full of failures. “Have fun!” The cells opened and they came running out mouths ready. Because they had been starving to death. Legless opened her eyes wide. Almost instantly, she had a cue of limbless chickens. Croaking as loud as they could go.
“Mmm, I would love to make some chicken dinner, but I'm in a rush.” Legless walked passed the screaming chickens. And up the stairs into the tower's base.
Walking through a doorway,
and a gate fell down behind...
“I must say, the stunt you pulled below. I would have never seen coming. Now this creature, might give you a bit more exercise.” Tiny Legless was up against a T-Rex with no exits.
“Whatever you are, I think you have to much time on your hands.” The voice laughed and agreed with her. The dinosaur slammed down its mouth and ate her in one bite.
“Well now I may have given her to much credit.” Then the voice laughed, until Legless' fist went out of the T-Rex's neck. Following this, she ripped open a hole to pass through and get out of. The animal died before she got completely out. “Bravo!”
“I don't think you do, but I'll ask. Do you have any water, that I could wash myself with? I smell horrid is all.” A huge amount of water fell on her from the ceiling. “Your a fabricator” she asked while she was completely drenched?
“This is what my former master called me, yes.” Was there a way for her to win this contest at all? “There are 12 doors you must find, I promise I'll make it more challenging from here on out. The first door you have won to go through.” The gate behind her started to rise. The 2nd door was guarded underwater by huge sharks. The 3rd door went through a pit of fire. The 4th, digging through corpses. 5th navigating a cave. Finally after passing through the 6th door. Legless saw a man sitting at a table in a restaurant themed room. “Please, come join me.”
“Is this a battle of wits now?” No, he just wanted to talk to her. “If I may say so. Your set up is a bit cliché. I have high hopes for a more creative challenge further ahead.”
“Which is partly why I want to talk to you. You see for those who make it this far. Want a challenge just like you requested. Now I will ask you, how can I make this better?”
“Well you could stop the BS and hand over the sword.”
Part 2
An undying foe
After the meal...
“Very well, I think I know how to make this more interesting. Please proceed into the 7th door.
Past the door was an open grass field. With ruins of buildings everywhere. The atmosphere was pleasant and it was a fine day. Still among this paradise, Legless felt someone other than the fabricator watching her. Finally she stopped in her tracks.
“Whose out there?” Sensing danger, Legless ducked her head. When a sword almost cleaved it off her shoulders. “Who are you?” She asked the man in samurai armor. His most interesting feature was that he was blind. With a cloth over his eyes. He told her to call him C. Legless tilted her head up shouting “okay you aren't even trying anymore!” C asked her who was she talking to?
She took her stance and answered no one in particular. Were they going to do this or not? C took his sword and got ready for a charge. Legless was ready for any attack. But C charged her and vanished, then appeared behind her and cut her left shoulder. Vanishing again followed by trying to lop off her head. A 3rd attack after the 2nd failed, his sword point to her heart. Legless smacked her hands together on the sword and stopped it. She folded her fingers and crushed the blade.
“Your master needs to get out more, but I enjoyed that.” C jumped back and took the knee. The 8th door appeared behind him. Next time it... Legless finished what he was saying, “will not be so easy. By hell's name could the dialog not also be from a kids book?”
“You seem to have high standards miss.” Where was she going next a frozen tundra? “No, you will enter a tower and I will be much more rad and bad ta beat.” She looked at him with an even more pitiful face. “I cant win with you miss.” Legless looked at him and then walked through the door. Finding herself in a stone tower.
“Well all I see is a staircase, perhaps I...” C came out of the wall and almost cut her in half from the head down. When he went back through the wall. Legless smiled, well well... now it gets interesting.” She assumed the door was at the top of the tower. It was time to get serious. On her way up the stairs. C tried to cut her legs off several times. But Legless was a nimble girl. The moment the sword came out of the wall. She jumped up from one inner staircase to the other. When she reached the doorway, the gate closed behind her.
“Okay... whats going on?” A giant man made of metal dropped from the ceiling. In his hands were two metal clubs. “Very well, lets play.” Legless avoided the 1st attack and all the ones up until the 11th. When she got hit in the stomach with a club. A normal mortal would have died on impact. But being an eelkshie, she recovered quickly. It just hurt more than getting ripped apart by a shark.
“I think you met your limit, girl with a smart mouth.” Legless stood up and said to strike her again, if he dared. The giant swung his club and Legless jumped on his head. The clubs went into the wall, but her plan didn't work. The only thing on the other side of the walls was more stone. “HE HE HE! You'll have to do better than that.”
She looked at the ceiling thinking, well that might work. She jumped up off his head and stood on the arch of the gate looking up. He knew she wanted the ceiling to fall on him and wouldn't play along. The voice laughed to her to give it up. The giant charged her, that was when the stone beneath her gave way. He attempted to squash her like a bug, swinging his club down. She said bingo and rolled out of the way. When he broke through the metal gate.
“Thank you for giving me passage.” Legless mocked as she fled through the 9th door. Now when she entered the next room. It was the tower again. Same as it was, before the giant showed up. “Don't be a poor loser and pin me against him again!” A sword dropped from the roof and went into the stone floor. Stopping only when the hilt hit the floor. “What is this?” She walked to it and picked it up. The sword was like a cleaver wide side and had a thin body.
“I want you to use this imitation and face off against my giant again. It will not break while you fight him. I give you my word.” The giant dropped down and was ready again.
“Okay, lets see what this sword can do.”
Part 3
The sword Narrow
As the giant swung down...
“Your are way to slow.” She jumped to the side, then onto and ran up the clubs. Followed by his arms and up to his neck. Using all the strength she had, Legless severed his whole head. “Damn, what in all hellfire is this thing?”
“You hold a sample of the sword Narrow. Had it been the real thing you could have cut him in half from head to his feet. I know of no material that could deflect it.” What about Hayrumous steel? “It was designed to phase through anything it could not cut. Narrow has never faced Hayrumous steel.” What was it made of? “My soul.” Legless looked at the blade with awe. “I tire of this game. Enter the 10th door.”
When she entered,
she saw him with C, at his side...
“You have skill for such a young eelkshie. Tell me, what is it you want with the sword?” To make a name for herself and serve her master well. “And who is your master again?” His name was Coast, the 2nd general of King Cyclone. “You are one of Cyclone's eelkshie? It all makes sense now, someone of your caliber. Only fit to serve the king of kings. I will have C meet you on a field of your choice.”
“On the roof of a castle with no entry's, also to fall off is certain death.” Very well, but he had a condition. The imitation would not hurt C. “Couldn't you have come up with a better name for him?” Was she really going to debate him on that? “Nope.”
Once she was through,
the 11th door...
“Do you plan to make me look for you?!” C jumped up from inside the floor. She bowed to him, and he to her. They collided their weapons and hers cut through his like butter. Followed by it passing through him as if nothing was there.
“Lets make a deal C... no weapons.” He dropped his half a sword and she stabbed hers into the roof. C jabbed at her and hit her face hard enough to break her nose. “All to easy.” She grabbed his arm, broke it and threw him far off the roof. “Maker of Narrow, sometimes to gain 2 feet, you have to surrender 1 foot.”
Into the 12th door...
As her nose finally healed, Legless walked into a room containing 2 identical swords on a table. One was another imitation, the other was the real deal. She put her finger on one side of her nose, and snorted blood out the other side. He told her this was the final test. Once she touched either of them. It would be the one she would own.
“Do I get a clue?” No.
Outside the tower,
where her master was...
“If I may speak freely my lord.” Go ahead. “Legless was an invaluable ally. I hope I don't lose her over this game for your amusement.” Gale laughed. “Why do you jest my lord?”
“Because I can see her walking this way.” Coast looked at her coming with the sword on her back hip in a sheath. Gale congratulated her on the accomplishment when she arrived. “May I see the blade?” She handed it to him without a second thought. Knowing she may have lost right then. “You actually got the genuine sword Narrow. Coast, you need to reward Legless for her performance.”
“Very well, Legless how can I show you my appreciation?” She wanted to do the red room tonight. “Very well” Gale laughed again. “What amuses you now my lord?”
“It must be amazing to have such a loyal subject. Who only wants in return for you to fill her bed on occasion.” Legless chuckled, it wasn't just that. Her master needed to do lots of foreplay with toys. “Like I said, a master couldn't ask for a better situation.” He handed her back the sword with praise. A lightning bolt hit Gale and he vanished.
“Master I often wonder if lightning porting hurts.” Coast wondered that too...