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“Dead.” Enver nods. “Yes.”
Then how…? Maybe they just assumed he was dead and instead went into a healing slumber?
“Where did you get the blade?” I ask him. Apart from the one in the pit, there has been no other available. Unless the guards handed it to him. Which wouldn’t surprise me.
Lucius doesn’t reply but continues forward, moving stiffly. My instincts scream at me, telling me something isn’t right.
When he gets closer, I realize his eyes are completely black.
Just as he reaches me, he raises his blade above his head. “For the gods.”
I duck out of his way and avoid his blade before twisting his arm, breaking it. His blade drops to the ground, but he doesn’t make a sound. He should be shouting in pain or screaming atme for hurting him, but he just attempts to get back up on his broken wrist.
It looks awkward and clumsy, but he manages to drag himself closer to me and tries to grab at me again. A swift kick to the head knocks him out.
Enver comes up beside me and slams the blade into his head. My eyes whip to his, and I find his own drenched in sadness.
“He was dead the moment he touched the black water. He would not like to live on like this.”
I nod, figuring he would know best what his friend would want.
“Let’s head back to the others. Hopefully, someone has found a clue at least,” he says as he retrieves the blade with a wince.
We move back through the maze and spot the flames from the fire like a beacon that watches on, taunting us.
“I wanted to?—”
Screams sound out, followed by a loud shriek cutting off whatever Enver was about to say. I share a worried look with him before making a run toward it.
We make it through the maze to the sound and come around a passageway to complete chaos.
A towering beast of a creature slashes out at the others, quickly tiring them out as they attempt to evade its vicious attack.
A soft black leathery skin covers its entire body, and it has thick hooves and small pointed spikes that run along its limbs and head. Its large head displays two large horns and a long snout with deadly fangs and even sharper teeth.
Dark, otherworldly energy is in the air around it as it moves. Its eyes turn to me, and the flames within them flare to life as it rears up with a shriek before slamming its hooves into the ground and rushing straight forward.
Snapping out of my shock, I look for a weapon and realize Enver has one.
“The blade,” I shout to him, and he throws it to me without question.
I wait until the creature is close enough, slowing down each breath and tightening my hold on the hilt of the blade.
The creature rises up, ready to slam into me, but I drop and slide under it, slashing the blade across the flank of its body as it moves over me. It shrieks and the sound claws at my ears.
Moving swiftly, I roll to the side and turn back to the creature. “Run,” I shout back to the others behind me.
“What about you?” Enver yells over just as the creature gets up, rearing up once more, readying another attack.
“Go!” I shout, twisting the blade in my hand. I might be able to buy them some time to hide.
“She has her Sidus powers. We have nothing. Let’s go,” one of the others shouts.
“She—” Enver starts to reveal what Levon did, but if they don’t all get out now, no one is getting out.
“GO!” I shout once more just as the creature rushes forward.
Tightening the hilt of the blade in my hand, I run and jump, using the wall as leverage to rise up and twist my body over the creature and out of its way.
