Sinistral

Chapter Nine

Ever ask yourself that one question. A question which to be quite honest as much as you repeat it you would never really get an answer, not completely anyway.

I mean in time, I had but in that moment when I knew I had to destroy the core I asked the question in my head. Why did it have to be me? "

I had other questions like, why did I have to fix something I didn't do? Why did I have to take down the evil bastard? But it all went back to that one question. Why did it have to be me?

I had just died and been dragged into a hell hole. I couldn't quite understand. It wasn't exactly something easy either. The things to come, if I had knew about I think I would have ran crying and hid in a corner where no one could find me. But its never that easy.

You can't run away from something when someone wants you to do something or needs you to do something even if it seems so unrealistic.

I had to put that aside, that question lingering in my head because I knew the answer and even if it seemed a bit strange I had to just accept it.

That question was the least of my troubles. The scars were on our back and a lot closer then we had even realised.

Zack leaned against the stone wall staring into the distance. I hadn't noticed that Actros had been talking to me as I had been paying too much attention to Zack.

"Sorry what?"

"The core, its located in the middle of Sinistral. It won't be the easiest thing to get to. Its the hardest," he said.

"I guessed that much. If it was it would already be destroyed," I sigh.

"Maybe. Alright there are many passages, many things that could easily stop you from this quest but I have a map. It should guide you through missing all the dangers."

"What's the problem then? I mean if you have this map why haven't you destroyed it?" Zack suddenly snapped back into reality. He seems a bit distant. I haven't even really asked if he is alright. Like what had cracked back then before he got chucked into the flames? Did he have a grudge about me taking us the wrong way?

"I don't have the map, on me."

"Then why did you say you have a map!" shouts Zack.

"Yeah why did you say that?" I ask.

"It's my map but when I left I had to give it back to him. Look you have to get this map," began Actros but he stopped in his tracks when we heard loud voices coming from the only exit out of here.

"The scars," says Zack standing up straight his eyes on the only exit out.

"We're trapped aren't we?" I asked the most obvious question but I had to make sure. There could be another exit.

"Yes, I'm sorry," whispered Actros.

"Sorry for what? This isn't your fault," I said.

"Actros are you hiding something from us?" asked Zack.

"The map, the reason no one has ever been able to get it before is because," he began but we heard a loud thud from outside the small cramped Rocky room.

"What?" I ask quickly.

"The boss, he has it!"

Actros suddenly vanished. Zack ran over to me. "What the heck we going to do? He has left us?"

"I think Actros knew this would happen. We had to get caught, to get the map from Lucas," I say.

"I hate sharing my last name with such a evil bastard," whispered Zack.

"Yeah can't be much fun."

"When I see Actros again I'm gonna kill him!" Zack shouts as Scars rush through the gap, the only entrance and exit.

"If we make it," I whisper as three scars charge me to the floor. I had no chance of getting away from them. I guess when there not taken of guard your fucked.

Two had charged Zack to the floor. I manage to look up as he walked through the door. I noticed him from the memories Actros had shown me and Zack.

He had red eyes like the scars. He must do the same thing as them, better vision Actros had said it gives. He wore dark clothes but he didn't look as human as I had seen him. His face looked almost skeleton, so bony it almost freaked me out. He had long nails and his mouth as black as a never ending hole in the ground that sucks you in.

I wanted to look away, Lucas I had seen had longed died away and left this. A man that doesn't even look like a man anymore. I couldn't look away and he even knew that.

He made the three scars let me go. He wanted me to fight, run away so he could humiliate me but I couldn't do that. I can't leave Zack and we need to get the map and if Actros is right he has, this man in front of me.

He grapped me from my top and pulled me right in front of his face. "Why shouldn't I just give up wtih you now? Escaping the tower? No one has ever tried that and the punishment to anyone who tried is the tunnel. I don't think you want to know what the tunnel is boy," he spat right in my face.

I was almost sick but I had no time to worry about that as he let me fall to the floor and kicked me right in the stomach. "I am impressed though but I'm very angry. I warned you boy and you didn't listen, I said you will face pain and I'm not going against that. But considering you escaped and suceeded I am impressed. Do you want to know why I put you up in the highest room of the tower," he sneered.

I shake my head. "Because you remind me of me. So I will give you one last chance, so take it and don't run again because next time I'll let my warriors do what they like." He turned and walked away.

That could have gone worse!

"Mr Lucas!" he shouts turning back around so quickly it made me jump.

"Breaking into my tower! I should have you chucked into the tunnel straight away but I did chuck you aside and you have proved to me that maybe I was wrong about that," he said calmly.

"We all make mistakes," whispered Zack. I knew he shouldn't have said that, I think he even knew it but it had escaped his lips before he could stop himself. I think I would have done that too.

Lucas charged towards Zack but I rushed to my feet and stepped in front of him which made him stop in his tracks looking quite shocked. "He didn't mean that," I whisper. He sneered at me before he chucked me aside like I was a piece of tissue. I crashed into the wall and fell to my knees. My head spinning.

All I made out was a cry of pain from Zack as I blacked out.

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