What an adventure

Chapter eight: Betrayal of the sentry

Calypso walked down the halls of the castle as she read through some papers that Darian had given to her to look over. She looked up from the papers to see Finn entering the dungeon. Calypso quickly folded the pages and ran to the dungeon door, slipping in before the door closed. She silently followed behind Finn as he walked down and opened the two doors, not closing them this time, he made his way over to a cage that was in the middle of the room. Calypso hid behind one of the doors and peered through the small crack.

"Hey Iris, guess what..." Finn mumbled.

Iris stayed silent.

"There's a human here and Nick may be here too." Finn smiled but when he got no answer, he turned around to walk away. He only stopped when Iris finally spoke.

"So if Nick's here...you got what you want."

Finn turned back around, "What?"

Iris stood up and turned to him. "You got what you wanted, right? This whole fiasco was started because you were trying to bring Nick back, correct? It wasn't to destroy this world and take its magic, it was to bring our friend back, correct?"

Finn looked at her with blank eyes, "That was the original plan but...there's no telling if Nick is truly here or not. The other human seems to not know-"

"Other human? How is there another human if only Nick could come here?"

Finn shrugged, "No one has been able to answer that question, not even the human has an answer for"

Finn was interrupted by yelling that was coming from outside the dungeon door. They all turned their heads down the hall. Finn looked back at Iris then turned to the hall and ran out of the dungeon.

When Calypso was sure that he had left, she came from behind the wall and walked up to the cage that Iris and Argus were in.

"Hello there, Iris." She grinned, evil seeping from her aura.

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Nick dodged the guards as they swung at him, he slipped under one of their legs and opened multiple vials that Beatrice had stored in the bag. He poured them all on the floor and continued running down the hall. He grinned as he heard crashes behind him.

He spotted a tall door up ahead and ran into it, leaning against the door to keep it closed. He let out a breath of relief when he heard the guards run past the room. He stood up and looked around the room. It was an office, Nick knew whose office this was and he didn't want to be here.

He walked over to the desk and looked at all of the maps and items that were sitting there from different raids of different colonies. He spotted a floating coin, similar to the one that Beatrice had described to him to destroy so that he could take down the border surrounding the castle, he grabbed the coin and stuffed it into his pocket. Just as he was about to leave the office he spotted a sharp dagger that had caught his eye, he grabbed it and began examining it, it had a black blade, the hilt of the dagger must have been made with some powerful fabric because Nick could feel the magic seeping off of it, what piqued his interest was the red ruby that was on the hilt, right below the blade. He continued to inspect the dagger till someone burst into the office.

"Darian-" Finn froze when he saw Nick. "...Nick?"

Nick ran over to Finn and held the dagger to his neck. "You, wheres Eli?"

"I uh...I..." Finn kicked Nick in the ankle and ran out of the office. Nick held his ankles in pain but ran after Finn regardless, He grabbed some rope that had sandbags attached to the ends from his bag and threw it at Finn's legs, making Finn trip and fall over onto the stone floor of the castle hall. A small ball fell out of Finn's pocket and rolled across the floor, opening a portal that seemed to lead to an empty, darkroom Nick turned Finn onto his back and grabbed him by the collar. Finn stood to his feet and pushed Nick into the portal. Though, unfortunate for Finn, Nick still had a grasp on Finn's collar.

Before Nick could make another move, Finn got the rope untangled from his legs and tried tying Nick up but failed when the rope turned to snakes. Finn quickly backed away from the snakes while Nick ignored the snakes and ran over to Finn. He was going to tie Finn's arms and legs but froze when he heard someone yell his name from the other side of the portal.

"Nick!? Where are you!?" It was Eli. Nick ran through the portal and looked down both ways of the hall. His eyes landed on someone who was walking towards him from the left. He was about to run over to the person but stopped himself when he realized that it wasn't Eli. It was someone who sounded just like him. It was Calypso. It was her power to mimic people.

Calypso grinned. "So you're Nick, thought you'd at least look a bit...mightier. But you are just a puny human. Killing you will be fun."

Nick ran back into the portal, grabbed Finn by the collar, put the dagger to his neck, and turned around to see Calypso standing inside the room, by the portal.

"Tell me where Eli is or so help me, I will slit his throat."

Calypso laughed, "You think that I need him anymore? He doesn't even have the desire to destroy this stupid world anymore. He never did. His stupid sister was in the way of his full potential. So of course, I had to poke the bear a bit.

"Finn's blank eyes widened with fear. "What did you do to my sister!?" He screamed with obvious pain in his voice.

"Don't worry, just hope that she's right-handed." Calypso smiled but her smile faded when someone pounced at her from the side, making her hit the hard, cold stone ground. It was Ophelia.

"Ophelia!" Nick yelled, Ophelia held Calypso down with her pole putting pressure on Calypso's neck.

"Nick! Why are you always so stupid?! I found where Iris and Argus were! Iris doesn't look too well but they're going to find that other human!"

"Thank you-" Nick was pushed down by a sudden blast to his chest. He fell back, hitting the stone wall. When he was blasted, his head hit the wall first and his vision had gotten blurry. After a few minutes of just slouching there, he came back to reality and looked ahead to see who had blasted him.

"Althea?"