Touch of Tarak

Chapter Three

Nixi carefully slipped out of bed and looked out into the hall. Her eyes widened and she gasped seeing a figure in the hall. It was large with spikes coming from his neck and looked as if it had three heads. It stood on all four. She rushed to her bed and slide under it, closing her eyes tightly. It closely stomped towards her room as if sniffing her out. "Nixi..." a voice rang in the halls. It was low and growly. A green shadow came near the end of the bed and tears flowed quickly down her face.

"Bubba! Help!" She screamed as she kicked her feet. A tall man in a big green coat hung onto her. It was as if he had no face but he did. The faint outlines of his features were there. He had sharp teeth almost like a shark and big eyes.

"Nixi~" the man whispered with a devilish smirk. Nixi couldn't yell for help before she knew her mouth was sowed shut and she couldn't scream for Tarak anymore. The man started to grab her down the long hall of the god temple not letting her go no matter how hard she kicked or scratched. As she was pulled down the hall a small boy stood at the end of it about her size.

"Papa? What are you doing?" The small boy asked. His voice echoing the halls. "Papa?" Nixi looked around. The gods and goddesses dead bodys were strung on the wall like trophy's. One by one, until at the end of the hall were the small boy was Tarak was struggle up. The light went out from Nixi's eyes. Terrifed. Hopeless. "PAPA?!" The voice rang before it went faint. Nixi shot up being perfectly fine in bed. Tarak passed out next her. Tears flowed down her pink cheeks.

"Bubba..." she whined pulling at him. "Wake up..." Tarak just groaned. "Up!" She huffed.

"Is there a natural disaster happening?" Tarak whispered with his eyes closed.

"No-"

"Then go back to sleep..."

"But bad dream...." Nixi whispered. Tarak looked at her and frowned. He sat up and waited for her to respond.

Tarak walked down the same hall that was in Nixi's dream holding her. Nixi's face was shoved into his chest terrified of looking at the hall. They went to the god temple library. Tall bookshelves with books were at every wall. "Nixi, my love... See... there is no Green god..." he responded showing her the portrait with all the gods and goddess that hung on the wall. "There is me. Gaia and Nuria... Muriel... Fafnir and Tipu... Unless you mean Fafnir? I mean he's green enough..."

She shook her head. "Dog... big..." she huffed.

"Dog big? Did it have a dog?" He went to the Book of Sephtis. Sephtis didn't really live in the temple. He was just seen as someone who did their bidding of death. He wasn't really there. He showed the book which had a figure of Sephtis on it. A blue skinned figure with horns. "Like this? Is this who you are talking about? Sephtis? The death?"

She shook her head. "He was good..."

Tarak sighed and rubbed his bridge of his nose. "Nixi... I have to tell you something... Long ago... Before I raised all the gods and goddesses that were here today... I had a brother... my very own Bubba... we didn't come from the same star like you and I did but we grew up together so we saw each other as brothers." He explained. "Nobody knows of him because he left long ago. And he created Death more known as Sephtis as a cover up for what he did. He isn't here anymore. The green man is here. I promise he can't get you. He's been gone for awhile, and he won't come back."

"What about Sephtis?" Nixi asked.

"Oh he's harmless... he only kills whoever is written in that book by the other gods..." Tarak explained. Nixi looked at all the books in the library. "Those are the other books. I've taken some to your room to study. There's a new book added about Humans even... It's pretty much empty since you need to write it." A knock was heard on the library door. Tarak looked over. Birtle stood there, staring at Tarak "Hello, Birtle?"

"Oh I didn't know You had Nixi out with you," Birtle answered, "I'll just be going." Tarak raised an eyebrow before looking back at Nixi.

"He's a bit of a weirdo..." Tarak giggled at Nixi in a whisper. Nixi giggled back. "Do you wanna go out and meet some humans? It's gonna be pretty dark since the moon is out. I can't let the sun out till morning."

"Go out?" Nixi asked her eyes sparkling. She nodded eagerly. "Yes!" A big wide smile spread across her face.