Halfling

Chapter 7 Part 3

I walked into the bedroom to find my dad fast asleep on the bed.

It's a miracle how he stayed asleep throughout the whole fight. I don't think we had been that quiet. Our fight with the Reapers hadn't woken him up but the rumbling did.

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'What?!' he shouted as Amy pushed the small window open to look outside. 'Shit!' she swore. 'What's wrong?' I asked. 'Giants. Three' answered Amy. 'They're quite far away but it won't take long till they get here. Why do they want you so badly?' The rumbling continued. I ran to the window to look outside. The giants were so tall that I could only see their long dirty hairy legs which were as thick as oak trees. 'We need to get out of here' shouted Amy. 'I can't fight three giants.' But we needed to get my dad out of here too which was going to be difficult. He was goggling at Amy. 'That window hasn't been opened in years' he exclaimed. 'Well, I am super strong' boasted Amy. I felt annoyed. Even when we were being attacked by giants she couldn't stop boasting. Not everybody thinks that she is the most amazing and perfect person they have ever met. 'Hang on' said Amy frowning. She was looking at my dad. 'Anna, this isn't your dad' I frowned too. How could she know if this was my father or not? She had never met him before. 

'This is a phantom' she said. Phantom? 'Who's Anna?' asked my dad. 'Your daughter' answered Amy still staring at him. 'My daughter's name is Ro...' 'What do you mean that he's a phantom?' I asked cutting him off before he could tell her my name. I wasn't sure why I didn't want anybody to know my name. I just had a feeling that nobody should know my real name. Amy wasn't frowning any more she was looking at me thoughtfully. I met her blue eyes and hoped that she wouldn't guess that I was lying about my name. Finally she looked away and answered. I sighed with relief but I may have felt slightly disappointed. 'A phantom is a spell. It can make an object, animal or person but those things won't be real. You can touch it, smell it, hear it and feel the phantom but it's not real' 'So you're saying that...' 'This isn't your dad' finished Amy. 

They rumbling was getting louder. We needed to hurry. Amy began to rummage in her black back-pack. Why would somebody cast a phantom that looked like my dad? Amy finally found what she was looking for. It looked like a wand. It was a white long pointy and smooth stick. There were black symbols drawn all over it. 'Is that a wand?' I asked. 'What? No! Don't be silly. Wands don't exist. They're only sticks that some witches use so their magic looks cooler. This is a spell breaker.' I glanced at my dad. The phantom dad. Before my mum left, he was skinnier and laughed more. But the face was exactly the same. Whoever created this phantom must have known my dad well. Was it maybe my mum? Amy took the spell breaker and poked it into my dad's arm. He immediately started to fade and the spell breaker looked as if somebody was painting it black starting from the tip. As the phantom faded away the spell breaker turned completely black. The strange black symbols were now white. 'Is there any other way we could find my dad?' I asked. A mixture of feeling were washing over me. I felt worried, relieved that maybe the dad that was drunk and had never paid attention to me was maybe not my dad but I also felt sad that I could not speak to my real dad. 'We could use a tracker spell but we need something of his. Try to find something that was his but not the phantoms. Oh, and I suggest that you hurry' added Amy. The ground was shacking and I could here loud bellows that shook the ground even harder. We had smashed everything in the living room so there was no point searching there. There was nothing in the bedroom except for the bed so that left one place to search. I bent down to look under the bed. 

There was nothing there. Trying to hide my disappointment I stood up just as a loud voice bellowed 'Find that girl'. Amy seemed to pale when she heard that voice. Her eyes widened. Everything was shacking hard. I heard the crunching noise of wood breaking above me and when I looked up I saw huge dirty fingers with short yellow nails. The fingers would have squashed Amy if she had not moved with lightning speed. She reached towards herself and suddenly she was wielding a long sharp sword. She stabbed one of the fingers hard. There was a loud howl above us and the fingers were pulled back. 'Couldn't we use that Elevator thing that you did the other day?' I shouted over the howling. Judging by the loud thumps I could hear outside the giant seemed to be jumping up and down. He didn't seem to be able to stand pain. There was a hole in the ceiling too but it wasn't very big. 'We can't use the Elevator, we need more space to run into it and we can't go outside because the giants have surrounded the place' answered Amy shouting even louder. 'PULL YOURSELF TOGETHOR, YOU STUPID BABY' bellowed the voice. I didn't think it possible but everything started to shake even more. I lost my balance and fell. 

Thump! I knocked on the floor to make sure. Yes, it sounded as if there was a hollow space under the floor. I closed my eyes for a second. All of a sudden, I knew for sure that there was a tunnel under the floor. I don't know how I knew, I just knew. 'I think that there's a tunnel under the floor' I shouted. Amy began to hack at the floor with her long sword. Before I could get up. Something grabbed me. I was too surprised to scream or shout out. I felt how I was being pulled up. 'Here' yelled Amy throwing me her sword and I caught it to my surprise. The sword seemed to fade a bit when it was in my hand but it was still there. Not knowing what I was doing I sliced the sword towards the fingers that were holding me. I dropped down onto the floor. Something fell on the floor too but I didn't look. I didn't hear the rawer of pain from the giant. But I did look up at the hole in the roof to see a giant red eye looking through. That giant seemed to shout you before Amy pushed me into the hole in the floor that she had cut and jumped in after me.