(ON HOLD/BEING REWRITTEN) De Salute Mea- Safety From The Darkness

Chapter 16

( WARNINGS: Language, sword to neck )

The sound of quick and light footsteps echoed down the gloomy stone corridors as the two twins hurried to the middle of the underground structure. 

"Do you want to split up, Charlie?" His brother raised an eyebrow and shook his head. 

"You'll just set the damn place on fire if I'm not there to stop you."

"In fairness, this is a place we're going to blow up anyway. Why don't we just-"

Charlie slapped his hand to his twin's chest to stop him in his tracks, and Riley nearly choked on his words. Before he could make any sounds other than an immediate wheeze, a young woman with her black hair in braids and dressed in a simple pair of blue jeans and sweater appeared around the corner with books held to her chest. She had been previously fumbling with something out of the boys' view, but now her surprised eyes locked onto the two men in front of her.

Charlie's face was one of bewilderment and 'oh shit' at their being caught, but when he turned to look at his brother, all he saw in his face was distraction. Charlie snapped his head back to look at the girl, and back to Riley, and back to the girl, who, despite the situation, smiled.

"Nice day. I hear the prisoners have escaped, have you seen them?"

Her face was so solemn he couldn't tell if she was serious or not, and Charlie was one of skill in that category.

Usually, Riley would have said something by now, but he was to busy taking in the girl that stood before him, her strikingly beautiful, bright red eyes had a hint of orange in them. 

She's beautiful...

 He was shaken awake from his trance by his brother nudging him roughly. Riley turned to his brother and back to the girl who was awaiting an answer with a pretty expression.

"Hi." Riley smiled sheepishly and his brother rolled his eyes and slapped his forehead.

The girl's face turned to one of amusement. "Yes, hi."

"Hi." His eyes widened and his cheeks grew red with embarrassment the moment the word came out of his mouth for the second time.

Charlie sighed in a way that could only be done by a hopelessly annoyed brother and, having taken the time his idiot brother gave him to decide what to do, pulled his sword out of his sheath. Quick as lightning, he aimed the tip at her neck threateningly. She didn't move a muscle, not even a slight flinch. Just stared at him with the same solemn expression that he couldn't read.

"Take us where we want to be. Say a word out of line, and I'll remove your head in one go."

She continued to stare at him and Riley. "You two are twins." She remarked with a tone Charlie also couldn't detect meaning. He just looked over his shoulder and back to the girl with a dead serious glare.

"Where is it you want me to take you?" She asked. 

"The prisons."

"Wrong."

"What?"

"You want to go to the most vulnerable spot in the structure and remove the support. With bombs and ah- fire," She looked to Riley while saying this. "Isn't that right?" Charlie was getting annoyed with not being able to read anything off of her melancholy tone of voice. Pressing the sword ever closer to her neck, almost cutting it, he demanded to know how she knew.

"One thing at a time, now. First of all, the building doesn't have a vulnerable spot. You'd have to blow the entire place up, and all the rock around it, so it would crumble and destroy everything."

"Why are you telling us this?" He asked, and just received a meaningless smile in return. 

"I said, why are you telling us this?" He demanded, inching the sword closer and protruding her skin, drops of blood sliding down her neck. She didn't even flinch, no part of her moved whatsoever.

"Maybe I don't believe you are capable of it. Maybe I'm lying. Or, maybe I want this place to go down."

"Impossible. Everyone knows what happens when you turn against Herobrine, your fate is sealed away in a horrible place."

"Then why are you here? If you can try to bring the place down, why can't I wish the same?"

Charlie's face contorted into anger and confusion as he felt his mind spinning in mindless circles. "Listen here, girl, I'm not fucking around. It's time you stop your damn riddles and answer my inquiries."

"You're getting angered, aren't you? Frustrated, can't focus? Am I driving you mad?"

Before he could answer, she spoke again.

"Before you get too busy with me, you should follow your brother before it's too late."

"What?" He spun around to find his brother had disappeared. 

"Beware Zain. They've turned him into something you can't imagine. Beware of the others as well, they won't be happy when they find their rooms are burned to ashes."

She paused, before thick smoke began to swirl around her. And for the first time, Charlie could finally read emotion in her expression. Sadness. Sad, yet hopeful. She smiled again. The smoke had almost covered her completely as she stooped to pick something up off the floor. She rose and held it for Charlie to see. It was a set of keys. They flew through the air to his open hand, and he stared back up at her in confusion. 

"Do what you need to do. And be careful." She turned around and disappeared along with the dancing mist.

He stared back down at the keys, wondering what the hell they could be for and why they were of significance, before the panic of his brother gone set in. He ran down the hallway as quietly as he could, unable to call his brother's name or unwanted attention would be in the air.

After a few minutes, He turned a corner and there was Riley, back pressed against a corner and seemingly listening intently. Charlie sighed with relief and waved to him. Once he got closer, however, he could sense that something was wrong. Riley's eyes were wide with fear and he seemed to be breathing heavily. Once Riley noticed his twin coming his way, he shook his head violently. Something was definitely off. Very few times in his entire life had he seen his brother with fear like that.

The same sense of dread overcame him, and he ran to Riley's side. "What is it?" He whispered so quietly he himself could hardly hear it.

"Those crazy fucks did something to him!" He said with panic in his tone. Apparently hushed voices weren't needed, so Charlie responded with growing anxiety, "What to who?"

Before anything more could be said, a dreadful, almost inhuman, deep scream rang out, and Riley sprinted off faster than Charlie had ever seen him during any game of tag. That and the scream added up to enough for him to be officially panicked, and he took off after his brother a second later.

"We- We need to get out of here-" Riley said between breathes after his twin caught up to him. 

"Riley, what the fuck is going on?" 

The scream sounded again, this time just a few feet behind them. They both looked over their shoulders, and terror set deeper in them then their panic.

"That."

A/N 

Hey guys! This chapter was a bit difficult to write, and was done in a shorter period of time and wasn't proofread, so I can't promise that I won't come back and edit it later, lol...

But I hope you enjoy it, and have a great day or night!