Heritage (5 page)

“I’m OK guys honestly. We just seriously need to get to that club before… what time is it?” I asked

“It’s twenty to ten why?” Josh replied looking at me with a curious expression.

“Damn! That was Lorias, and he set up the whole Travis thing. The girl this morning was a diversion, and now he wants me to be there at ten. But that is in twenty minutes, we
won’t
ever make it!” I babbled letting out an enormous sigh.

Dumbstruck, Alex and Josh stared at me before they both snapped out of their trance and answered my unasked question.

“You can do it,” Josh piped up and placed his hands on my shoulders. Looking into my eyes he gave me a smile.

“We know you, and if you put your mind to it, you can orb us all there…”

“Yeah E it will be a piece of cake just try,” Alex interrupted Josh.

Bracing myself I closed my eyes, wondering why I was even attempting the impossible. I caught hold of each of their hands and breathed in. I felt the wind whip my hair across my face and after a couple of seconds, I opened my eyes to see Alex grinning like a Cheshire cat.

“You did it!” She beamed as I stared wide eyed at the alley that we were now standing in. It was full of boarded up windows and broken down pieces of furniture. If you put them all together, you could furnish a two bedroom house. Checking out the surroundings, I spotted a dim light that was coming from a boarded up door.

“Well Yay me!” I laughed and smiled at my achievement. I was trying to concentrate on Alex and Josh as they threw compliments my way, but I was distracted by the dim light coming from the boarded up house.

“
You
who? Earth to Adabelle!” Josh was waving his hand in my face to get my attention, taking my eyes from the door I glanced at him..

“Sorry... Err thanks guys.” I mumbled. “Something feels strange, don’t you think?”

“It does seem a bit odd around here,” agreed Alex.

Before I could reply, there was a crash followed by more crashes as a bunch of guys appeared on the over turned fridges and washing machines. All at once the five guys began to move in on us, sneering and snickering as they ushered us into the forming circle.  Not giving them opportunity to strike, I grabbed a piece of broken up scaffolding and headed straight for the demon in front and kicked him straight in the head, jumping on to his back I landed on a shredded up sofa. Two more backed me into a corner, searching for a way out, I hit one across the face, and the other I threw a blow into his stomach. Jumping over them I ran straight into two more who were avoiding Alex’s fly kicks whilst another were being chased by Josh. I could see that more of them had arrived, ducking to escape a fire ball that had now hit the demon behind me. I could hear his scream as I blasted a fire ball at the other, hitting him. 

Bending the bar that was still in my hands, I flung it at two of them who were now making their way over to me. Wounded, they threw fire balls at me as I approached them, Grinning I diverted their fire balls back at them, and they simmered away. Stopping before I attacked another, I heard clapping and saw my friends being held up by other demons. Turning towards the clapping, I saw him, the boy from earlier at college who was still dressed in his Fred Perry jumper.

He walked to Alex and lifted her chin with his finger.  Before I could get to him I
was held
back by two exceptionally strong demons. I tried to fight the urge to kick myself for not seeing this coming.

“Funny
isn’t
it
Adabelle
?” He smirked but did not turn towards me, he just stayed staring at Alex. I could see her pain as she tried to disappear, but the metal pole that was wrapped around her stomach stopped her.

“Get off her!” I yelled, but he carried on as if I hadn’t spoken.

“Funny, that I could trap you and your friend here isn’t it.” Letting go of her chin he stared at me with his cold black eyes. I felt my body tense as my eyes turned. I could feel my eyes burn as the magic travelled through my body.

“Yeah
it’s
Fricking Hilarious. I’ll make
you
a deal...”

“A deal?
“He interrupted. He was now sitting on a sofa looking bored and uninterested in the whole thing.

“Yes. You let me and my friends go, and I won’t hurt you,” I smiled as he looked up and laughed a deep chilling laugh.

Standing once more, he walked towards me, caressing my cheek with his finger. I could almost feel the anger and disgust ooze from my skin. He searched my face before he dropped his hand and gave me a sneer, before taking his place back on the sofa. Josh let out a loud growl from his canine form and Lorias lifted a hand and shifted it in Josh’s direction, throwing him against the wall.  With a thud, he crashed to the floor as Alex shouted his name and struggled against the demons keeping her in place. As Josh lay unconscious Lorias winked at me, and my anger began to boil over, but I knew I had to keep my cool.

“I’m just curious how would you hurt me?” He smirked.

“Just let dumb and dumber here let me go and I’ll show you. Someone needs to knock some sense into your ego. ” I knew I should not have said the last part, but I could not control my anger as I glanced at Josh’s human form lying lifeless on the floor.

“See
that’s
your problem, too involved in how other people are,” He sneered.

“If you just reached deep inside and become the evil being we all know you are, maybe we could then come to some arrangement.”

“Bite me!”I snarled. Kicking the demon holding me in the crotch, I placed out my palm and created a fist in front of the other demon that was holding me, and he cowered to the ground.

“Elle, Catch,” Alex yelled shimmering from her demon as he was distracted by my escape. Grasping the bag she had threw, I pulled out the gun and aimed it at Lorias’s head. He was still sitting on the sofa not phased by the fact I was standing in front of him pointing a deaf ray at his head. He shimmered and reappeared an inch from me, his hot breath on my face angered me more.  He was too close for comfort, and it made me feel sick. He let out a sigh, and his breath brushed my face.

“You are a charming young thing aren’t you,” He smirked. My stomach started to churn as the thought of him made me want to vomit. I let out a laugh and kneed him in his groin. Smirking I lifted his chin with the gun as he cowered on the ground. Checking around me, as I had thought, Alex had dealt with the other demons and was now standing over Josh.

“Not so funny now is it,” I sneered.

“You know you’re going to lose everything and everyone that ever meant anything to you!” He threatened.

“You're, not in the right situation to be making threats arsehole,” I taunted pushing the gun into his forehead. He smirked and I felt someone behind me, turning too slowly, she knocked the gun out of my hand. Head butting me, I fell to the ground, as she grasped my head in her hands. Tutting, Lorias knelt down in front of me.

“You know you are not as smart as you look,” He jeered. “Nor are your friends,” He gestured to Alex who had yet again been caught by a demon.

“If your mother could see you now.”

“SILENCE!
Lorias
,” I heard him shout, but I couldn’t see where he was. He appeared from the shadows,
and
I could see all the demons apart from the ones holding us hostage, were bowing to him. I couldn’t make out what he looked like as he made his way towards the opening in the alley.  I saw his eyes first, they were a piercing dark blue, and as he approached us I could see that he was gorgeous. Most demons were
decent
looking it was part of their charm so that they were more attractive to humans, but this one was different. Trying to take my gaze from him I glanced at Alex who seemed to be too concerned about her brother to have noticed the new arrival.

He put a hand on
Lorias
shoulder and separated us, from the closeness of us I could feel my heart beating overtime. He ran his hand through his dark brown hair and continued to walk Lorias to his seating place.

“Let her go Lexis.” As he spoke he looked at me, and I could have sworn I saw a glint of amusement in his eyes.

“Let her go?” Lexis questioned pulling my head.

“Did I stutter!” He yelled making her jump. She released her grip on me, and I shot up and straightened myself out. He turned to Lorias and began to whisper in his ear. I listened carefully,
but
they were speaking so quietly that not even my extra hearing could pick up anything. Whilst they were talking, I managed to kick one of the demons behind me before fly kicking another, knocking him into the wall behind me. Racing to Alex, who had managed to break free whilst the demons had been distracted by me. We both ran to Josh and grasped an arm each.

“Elle you have to get us out of here,” She gasped. I closed my eyes and took in a deep breath. I felt the wind circle around us and opened my eyes to see that we had orbed back to Gracia. I let out a sigh of relief as Alex burst into sobs bending over Josh’s body. Bending down beside her, I checked his pulse and other injuries.

“He’s fine Alex,
he’s
just been knocked out,” I explained, trying to console her as she leaned over him.

“Get off you twit!” Josh whispered as he began to stir under us. He sat up and groaned as the movement hurt his head.

“Where are we?” He asked as he stood up and rubbed his head.  I didn’t have a clue where we were, I just knew that we were somewhere in Gracia as that was what I was thinking of when I orbed.  We were standing in a park with over grown roses and a pond
filled
with frogs and ducks. It was beautiful, each side of the path we were standing on were over grown flowers from roses to sunflowers.  The sun was blazing above our heads, I had to shield my eyes as I watched a flock of geese fly above.

“Maybe we should just follow the path around and see where it leads,” Josh suggested.

“You sure you will be ok? Maybe we should sit here for a while,” I edged towards him, and he laughed.

“I’ll be
fine
, stop worrying. Let’s go,” He chuckled again and started walking down the path as I and Alex followed him.

The path seemed to stretch for miles as we admired the plants and wildlife that was going on around us, every so often we would stop and watch some of them. It wasn’t long before we reached a small cottage that looked like something out of a fairytale. Advancing towards the stoned built house, before we could reach the door, it opened with a creak and standing three feet from the floor, was an elf. Dressed in a fancy suit and tie with his thinning hair combed back, he looked as if he had come back from a prom or a classy engagement.

“Hello there. I’m Cedric, How may I be of service to you,” He greeted in a deep voice, looking from one face to the other.

“Hi, do you mind telling us where we are?” Josh asked politely.

“Lost are
you
, well you are in the land of Icarus,” He replied straightening his tie.

“Come in and sit down, I’ll fetch us a Cuppa,” He ushered us inside and led us into a tiny room that consisted of a tree stump and four little chairs. The roof was so small we had to duck to enter. Ushering us to take a seat on the floor, he went out and came back with four small cups of tea and a tiny plate of biscuits.

“Sorry but did you say Icarus?” I
asked trying
to think if I’ve ever heard of such a place.

“Yes dear, the beautiful land of Icarus, where the flowers never die, and the water is always clean, and the sun always shines,” He spoke the words as if they were a mantra that he repeated to himself every day. He placed the teapot on the tree stump and took a seat.

“But I’ve never heard of Icarus, ever, and I’ve been everywhere in Gracia.” Confused I sipped my drink of tea to be polite and was followed by Josh and Alex.

“Well my dear, the reason for that is we are not in Gracia. This is a different realm.” He moved about in his seat for some time before speaking again.

“This realm has never been inhabited by any evil creature or good. How did you get here? We aren’t on a map,” He snickered at his non joke.

“I orbed,” I replied

“Well that is odd. I’ve never known of such a thing to happen,” he muttered shaking his little head.

This was strange, how did I orb to somewhere that I did not even know existed. I finished the remainder of my tea as I tried to take In my confusion. I could feel my friend’s eyes on me.

“This can’t be good at all, can’t be good,” he mumbled, continuing to shake his head.

“How do we get back?” Alex asked, I could hear the confusion in her voice, and I was glad I wasn’t the only one confused.

“There is no exit my dear,” Cedric replied casually. Alex rose from her seat, banging her head on the ceiling.

“No, exit! Then excuse me, how did you get here?” She asked, rubbing her head.