The Chipenden Spook

Chapter 10: Lukrasta

We stood there like that, waiting for what I was going to say next. Honestly I didn't know what to do or say.

"I- I just don't- Alice." I sighed, confused.

Alice looked down and started to speak softly.

"It's really hard to believe me, ain't it? I don't blame you, but, I wish-"

"Tom, Alice, back to the house, now!" It was Grimalkin. She was a while away but close enough to see that she was signaling us back towards the house.

"We better hurry." Alice said running off towards Grimalkin. I followed her back to the house, running the whole way back, once we were inside, Alice started to pace back and forth across the floor her eyes wide with fear. Grimalkin came in and tried to calm Alice down.

"Please don't tell me." Alice told her flatly. Grimalkin nodded and looked at me.

"What's going on?" I asked her.

"Lukrasta, I saw him just outside-"

"How?" Alice screamed, she looked terrified. "How can he be here now? I thought, I thought..."

"Alice, it'll be okay. We need to go out there and find him." I told her.

"No Tom, won't let you! You don't understand how much power he has! He took mine for his advantages! And that's to kill you, it is. Please don't go out there!"

"No, stop Alice, this is just like last time. You doubted that I could take him down, you were wrong."

"I didn't doubt you Tom. I was worried and didn't want to see you hurt." She said in a quiet voice.

"Oh sur-"

"Stop! Now!" Grimalkin hissed.

We were then quiet, until Grimalkin spun around, knifes in her hand and thrusting them toward something that I couldn't see because of the wall, so fast that it was almost impossible to keep up with what she was doing. I herd a thud, then Grimalkin hastily backed up, blades up in a defense position.

Alice screamed backed up alongside me, Grimalkin on my opposite side.

Then the worst thing happened, especially sense I wasn't armed.

Lukrasta stepped out from the walls shadows.

"Alice, where were you? I don't recall me allowing you to leave..." He said in a heavily sarcastic tone.

Alice stepped in front of me, screaming at him.

"Don't hurt him! Please don't!"

"Step out of the way, Alice. Now." He told her dangerously.

Alice said nothing, instead she did something that made me clench my fist and almost burst out in anger. She walked right up to him and kissed him.

Once they stopped Alice smiled, then look transfixed. She opened her mouth and started to speak loudly.

"What did you do?"

Lukrasta smirked malevolently.

"Oh I was just showing Tom here what we've been up to during your absence."

"No... Tom," she looked at me and began to speak very fast.

"He made me! He's controlling me don't listen to him I didn't think-"

She didn't finish talking before Lukrasta put a knife to her throat.

"Let her go Lukrasta." I yelled.

"Not before I get what I need, besides, what are you going to do about it? If I recall correctly, you just died..."

No one said anything.

"What do you want?" I told him darkly.

"Don't you see Tom," Grimalkin hissed. "He's going to drain Alice's power..."

She chucked a throwing knife at him with great force, which would have impaled his chest, if it hadn't halted in midair and fell to the ground.

After that my vision blurred, and I heard Grimalkin but the ground before I followed. My last thought was of Alice.