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Chapter Thirty Seven.
"Your majesty. It's time to visit the castle." After some hours of silence, it finally spoke. Maybe because I'd threatened before about loosing it's life. But wasn't the spirit already dead?
"I know. Thank you." I remembered how it mentioned earlier about not remembering it's name. A name was needed because after all, what would we be without our names? "How about I call you... Fortem. It means brave in Latin." I didn't even know how I knew that word, it just popped up to my head.
"Seriously? I love it."
"You're welcome, Fortem." Do spirits smile or cry? I guess we'll never know.
"Are you sure you are ready to finally meet Lilith?"
"To be honest? I really am. I'm scared of course, but, I've been through enough not to be able to." I thought about all the little battles I'd encountered. The only reason I'd defeated them all was... It was merely by luck. Good luck on my side. Otherwise, I knew I w
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We continued in silence again through the umber-brown, ancient forest, reeking nothing but age. Its woody incense was from centuries of snapping branches crashing to the forest’s floor and rottingsilently. Every sprawling tree we passed under reminded me of a watchful guardian, a silent sentinel of the groves. Venturing deeper into the tangled heart of this primeval forest, raised my hopes that it would reveal its dark secrets to us. We would find Lilith, slay the devil, and everything would be back to normal. But I wondered, every since my life had been opened to darkness, what would ever become normal to me again? The only thing that brought a tip of light to my dark soul, was the thought of me finding my sister. Once I did, what then would happen?"Stop!" The voice of Fortem rubbed me off from my thinking, and I stopped."What is it?""I don't know, but I know that we are not alone. We're being-"
The Bedevilled Soul Chapter Thirty Nine.
"Very well then. You will get to reflect on your choices well enough in the future."The tone in her voice alerted nothing but one sense. Danger. I had endangered the lives of others because of my foolish pride. I could have walked away politely, and save others. Tara. But leaving the devil to reign did not fully assure me that my family and friends would be saved."This is your last chance Kerik." She added, then paused. Waiting for me to fully accept to the proposal. My mind raced over a million things. What if I choose this option, and defeating the devil seems more impossible than I'd expect. Then I would never forgive myself. If only I could get more time, more days to puzzle over the prodigious decision. But even if I was opportune to that kind of indulgence, I feared my answer would still remain constant."Yes. That's what I choose. This is what feels best to me, so I've made up my mind." Her head lowered into a slow s
The Bedevilled Soul Chapter Forty.
When my eyes opened again, I found myself at the gates of Talot. Just where I'd set off for my quest. The sound of a horse's neigh, nickered behind me, and I turned to observe my companion behind me. If I could have understood horses language, I would have heard something like; "hey your Highness! We're back. Alive!"Or something close to that."Dieeee!!!" A voice drawled from behind, and I almost laughed at the poor threat of commanding me to die, but changed my mind on the sight of the image. It's sickly white eyes were the first thing I observed. Then the disgusting snake things that crawled out from the head, and the blued chapped lips; I recognized it immediately. The septics."Stay back!" I yelled at it as it crawled forward, thinking it would just turn and leave. But of course these things were smarter than the looked.For real!The snaky creatures that once slightly appear
The Bedevilled Soul Chapter Forty One.
"So what are we going to do?" Mona asked after subduing Lily from mumbling curses under her breath. It was really unlike Lily to behave the way she'd been doing; first calling the devil a mad man, then the cursing? Lily wasn't always like that. "Oh, and if you're wondering what is wrong with her, she's high." She highlighted, like she was reading my mind that moment."I am not high." Lily drawled and even though I couldn't see her, since the whole room was dark, I imagined her staggering as she talked."Of course, you're drunk then." I heard Mona and Lily argue from afar but quickly interrupted their little argument. "I met her. Lilith.""Oh wow, that is so-"Thud!We stopped on a three second break after hearing the sound of something heavy, hit the ground and creating a dull thump, then continued again as Mona assured me it was just Lily that fainted."But I don
The Bedevilled Soul Chapter Forty Two.
"Looks like we have company." Mona pointed out, even though we'd already gotten the hint. They were already here, and we still had absolutely no idea how we were supposed to escape for our dear lives."It issss almost time you preciousssss little girlssss." The voice behind the dark, hissed and stressed on each words that ended with an 's' like he was some sort of serpentine creature. "The masssster is almost done, and once he is done with you all, he will be done." He took in a weak breath so it sounded like he was about to collapsed. One second, he was rattling on like a bloody barbarian and then the next minute, he was yelling like a loosed mad man. "HE WILL BE DONE WITH YOU ALL!" His insane behavior sent a panic distraction that caused Mona and Lily's voice to tremble as they lowly begged for mercy under their breaths. Maybe it was because of the absurd tension in the air, of just for no reason at all, I felt my blood boiled up to one hundred degrees,
The Bedevilled Soul Chapter Forty Three.
"Exactly, how do we get out now Kerik?" Mona asked. "You said we had it under control." She continued, reminding me of the escape I'd promised them."Yes. Of course." I prepared to start explaining all the crazy plans that I'd thought up earlier, hoping I was right about the idea, until I became rudely interrupted by a loud but quick force on the gates and the next thing I knew, I was already outside the gates. Mona and Lily behind me."Whoa! What just happened?" Mona asked. I saw them again after so long. Both wearing a long black dresses like it was a funeral night, with green big beads round their necks. Lily rushed forward to me and squeezed her arms tight round me. "I've missed you." She whispered in my ears and it wasn't until then before I wrapped my hands around her to hug her. She let go of me, letting Mona advanced forward too to take turn into squeezing me also. As if that wasn't enough, Lily forced herself on Mona again, still
The Bedevilled Soul Chapter Forty Four.
Just as if my instinct spoke, I found myself in the sight of him. Fortem wasn't with me, so I wondered how I could even still manage to magically transport myself. But all that didn't mattered. I was there with him already. I only hoped Mona and Lily made it safely. I figured he didn't know I was already behind him, because he seemed to be too busy with whatever mischievous he was doing and his back faced me, but as soon as I still continued with my doubting, his cold face turned to me and my heart stopped for a minute. "Hello again," and with that, I found myself fly through thin air with my back suddenly crashing into what later seemed to be a barrel, ripping it to pieces just as my whole body had been torn apart. My head hit something really hard and sent an excruciating, torturous pain to my whole body. Before I even got the time to begin calculating how it had happen, I saw another big barrel travelling towards my side and without further reasoning, my brain dived my
The Bedevilled Soul Chapter Forty Five.
"So, what do we do now?" I heard Mona's voice called from behind. What was left there to do? He was gone. Not dead, but gone. His powers had been stripped off of, but I knew it wasn't the end. He would still return."The only thing left to do. To-" then it seemed as if the relief of the whole world's stress that was somehow placed on my shoulders, had been lifted off. Like you were free to relax, to take a break. And with one final word; "I-", I fell flat on the ground with the company of the hard surface, designing my face with more bruises at the forceful impact with the floor. Damn! Those softball cheeks of mine were going to hurt by the time I woke up."And you're sure you're feeling alright, your majesty?" A stout man that was later introduced to me as the royal guard, questioned again making it the fourth time he'd asked.And to my outmost surprise, it didn't hurt one bit the moment I wok
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