INFERNO: The Fiery Inception

CHAPTER 21: PART 2

I was free falling towards a bottomless pit of darkness. I felt like I weighed nothing, I closed my eyes and when I opened my eyes I landed on my feet but before i could take a look around, the pain on my back came back with full force and I crumbled to my knees with a whimper. My arms were the only thing keeping me from completely falling on to the ground

"Charlie!" I heard Alex yell my name, I looked up to see she was running towards me. When a clawed hand shot out from from behind me and impaled itself on her stomach and took the hand back out, blood dripping from its claws. I saw the others yelling and running towards us. I felt something grow inside me, numbing the pain on my back. It shouldn't have done that, it shouldn't have messed with my friend.

'Fight' one word, one word from him is all that took as he lend me strength. I took my sword out and beheaded it. The next few minutes were a blur as i slashed and stabbed through every shapeshifter that came my way.

I looked around to see an old wrinkly man with hair white as snow standing next to a carriage and staring at us fight with his mouth agape.

He looked at us like we were ghost.

"How are you alive?" He asked us, even though his question was more on the offensive side he sounded very happy to see us, there was a smile in his face.

"What do you mean by asking us how we are alive?" Julian asked.

"Yeah, what do you mean? Even though I'm happy to know that your happy to see me" Jacob commented.

"No one from the other dimensions came here for centuries and no-one came back once gone from here" he said.

"We would love to explain, but we need you to give us a ride it's really important" Eric said motioning at both me and Alex. It was the first time Eric had talked in a while.

The man rushed us into his carriage which was loaded with a few sacks of rice. He sat on the horse started to full us all forward with as much speed as possible. The horse seemed inhumanely fast.

I looked at Alex, she was bleeding a lot. The only reason why she haven't bled out and died until now is because she is a warrior.

"We all thought that you all had died, that something terrible had happened. It warms my heart to see you here. It really does" he looked at us one by one. He stopped on me

"You look different, why are you here after all this time?" He asked.

"I'm Charlie, and the reason why we couldn't come here before was because people who came near the portal just vanished. They were never heard from. And none of your people reached us" I said.

"Surprisingly enough, I believe that. But why are you here though?" He asked.

"I'm here for something that's mine, a sword to be precise." I said. And the mans jaw dropped.

"Milady" it was a soft whisper director towards me. The way he said it made me believe in myself. Like he was waiting for me. Like I could do this.

"I have to warn you though there might be thousands of shapeshifters coming into your dimension. Won't your people get hurt?" I asked.

"Don't belittle us my lady, we were born to be your guards. The third dimension is special, everyone here are warriors there are no humans here. Plus they won't get hurt. It's been so long since they played. They'll have fun" even though what he said sounded borderline psychotic. He was right. I couldn't even imagine my life to be the one it used to be anymore.

"Where are we going now?" I asked. August was helping Alex as much as he could but she needed something more than that.

"We are going to get your sword, milady" he said proudly.