The Faerie Slayer

Chapter 25

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I stood frozen, inches by the doorway, contemplating what I was going to tell them.
How do I tell you that there is a strange but handsome boy out there, around my age, that kidnapped me tonight? How do I tell you that he may be linked to my birth parents?

Maybe I could wait it out. Maybe if I stayed here long enough, he'd go away on his own. I could go up to my room, have a bath and go to sleep perhaps and forget this night ever happened.
And if he doesn't?
If he doesn't, then I'll be forced to do something about it, the only thing I could think to do was to call the police. A sudden bang from upstairs jolted me back to real life.

"What was that?" Dad peered his head up the stairs.

I recalled Kade asking me to stay downstairs. Could that be him up there?

"I'm going to check," I prayed he did not discern the panic in my voice. 
I scurried up the stairs and into my bedroom. The first thing that caught my eye was that my window was open, the glass was torn off the hinges and standing beside it was Kade.
He wasn't looking at me. Instead, his eyes were enrapt with something behind my door. I hadn't quite seen this side of him yet. He looks like a warrior.

"Aubrette, don't move."

"What's going on?"

Kade reached into the deep pockets of his suit and retrieved something that glimmered through the dark. A curved sword.
I didn't even have time to blink when claws emerged from the shadow behind my door and swaddled themselves around my throat. I opened my mouth to scream but the sound was muffled by yet another hand. I could feel the creatures hot skin on my back as their grip held me hostage. Downstairs, I heard my mother ask if everything was alright.

"Let her go," Kade demanded but the creature made no move to obey. Instead, he hissed like a brute.

"The queen of the Seelie Court demands the girl. Let us go or ail her wrath."

"I can't do that," Kade took a step forward, curved dagger in hand as if ready to strike," let her go now, or you'll be dust like your previous comrades."

"We do not seek a crusade with your kind. The girl belongs to us."

Kade's dagger lashed at the mysterious creature behind me. It tossed me towards the dresser, my back rolling off the knobs until I landed against the cold wooden ground. When my eyes finally landed on the creature, they widened in most horror.
He was leaden with skin the colour of dirty swamp water. The monster bore claws in place of fingers and a bald head that was big enough to weigh half of my body mass. He was the appearance of beasts in childhood tales. Could this be a nightmare?
I could not decipher my reasons for stifling a hurl. Could it be that I did not want my parents to find out, or was I simply too stunned, for this could not be true life?

I watched as the two danced in a scrupulous circle around my room. Kade often ran his index finger athwart his lips. The creature sneered and drooled heavy blotches of spit that hit the floor like puddles. Although he held no physical weapons, he boasted ten of them for fingers. Long black talons lashed out in a chaos of movement. Kade stroke again, missing the creature that was oddly quick on his feet although stout. The green beast darted at Kade with somewhat of a heedlessnesses. I could only watch in horror as the actions unfolded. In the background I could hear my parents coursing up the stairs. As if using the beasts carelessness to his advantage, Kade lanced the sword through it's thick forehead. He froze on impact, halting at the feet of his killer, knees buckling and hitting the ground with a blaring clunk.