The Devils Daughter

Chapter Five: Jinx - Hell sweet hell.

I arrived at Roxy Ram theme park, parked my car in the shadow of the trees at the edge of the car park and made my way to the ticket office.

The worker, who by the name tag she wore ; was called Susan, was asleep in the ticket booth, as usual. I bent down and walked pass her window.

The park was empty, apart from the employees who were cleaning up the park. I kept to the shadows of the buildings and rides to  enable  myself not to be seen by them.

I crossed the littered pathway and continued my way towards the ' Devils haunted house'.

I reached the edge of a ride called' Merlin's Mayhem Maze' and was just about to cross the last path when I stopped suddenly as a caretaker walked in front of me to clean the pavement of its' litter. His head bobbed to his music playing through his head phones.

I crept back into the shadows. CRUNCH!

"Dam!" I cursed, I had stood on a popcorn wrapper and the sound was loud enough that the caretaker turned around and faced me. His name tag said ' Tim' .

"Hey, you shouldn't be in -" He didn't finish, in better terms, I didn't let him. Once more I felt the fire warm me from the inside and looked Tim in the eyes and raised my finger to my lips and he stopped talking.

"Forget seeing me." I instructed him. 

He walked away without another word. 

I crossed the path and entered the haunted house.

It was pitch black. I started down the dark path when suddenly a giant, plastic spider jumped down from the darkened ceiling. I have walked this path many times so each fake monster which appears in the path doesn't scare me, unlike the humans.  My path was blocked many times with fake spiders, Ghosts and vampires. 

As I turned the corner of the dark hallway, I stopped to check  that I had not been followed. Once I was certain that I was alone, I got down on one knee and bowed my head and spoke to the darkness; "Devils door, open to me." The fire burned from within, warming me like, well a fire. I closed my eyes as I felt the power grow, flooding every inch of my insides.

As I opened my eyes I saw the brown door had appeared. Its' old oak made it seem weak, but it was quite the opposite . It was stronger than anything from the upper-world and the underworld. No one can force it to open. It had to be summoned and the were only four known people who can summon it: Myself, my father, my brother and the dead.

I rose to my feet and stepped forward to enter my world when I heard footsteps behind me. I turned and saw a little girl. She looked around five. She wore a bright yellow summer dress with her red hair in bunches tied with a green ribbon. In her pale hand she carried a bear which was soaked. It was then I realized that she was dripping wet as well.

"Hello." She said happily.

"Hello Katherine, are you lost?" I asked, walking towards her.

"How do you know my name?" Katherine asked.

" You told me it when we met by the lake, Katherine," I bent down to her height, " Are you lost?" I repeated.

" Oh. Yes , I am. I want my mummy. Where is she?" She asked tears filling her eyes.

"It's Okay Katherine," I said taking her hand," Your mummy is through that door." I started to lead her towards the door.

"Oh, Okay," She said smiling once more," what's your name?"

"Jinx." I told her.

" That's a funny name." she laughed.

There was a wiring noise from behind us. I turned around, " I know, go on ahead, Katherine. I'll meet you through the door." I told her, pushing her through the door, quickly.

"Okay." She said happily.

'They couldn't have followed her.' I thought. But, just as it turned the corner I was stunned by the appearance the demon had taken.......... Christopher.

How on earth did it know of Christopher!

It must've been following me around today.

"Have your kind really sunk that low?" I said, smirking at the demon Christopher, "To following me around, you know you could be arrested for that."

" Yes, I could be , but they'll have to find me first." The demon smiled, mischievously. 

"Well, I would be happily point you out, as well as the rest of your kind to whoever needs it to lock you all up." I said , glaring at it.

" I'm sure you would, Miss Demone. Well, excuse me but I need to get home." It said, taking a step towards me. Towards the door.

I stepped forward, blocking its' path.

" The underworld is not your home, you are not welcome there. Go now, whilst you still have legs to walk on."

"Really? And how are you going to stop me?Hmmm? You on your own are not capable to stop me." He said laughing.

"You have no idea of what I am capable of." I said. I felt the fire burn once more. I looked down and saw my fist was alight with purple flames, flickering upon it. I returned my gaze to the demon Christopher and smiled, evilly. 

Fear flickered upon its' face, but it then decided to be very stupid and lunge at me. 

I rammed my flaming fist into its' face.

 It fell back onto its' back. A burn mark appeared on its' face.

"GO!," I commanded, my voice echoing in the dark hallway ," GO NOW! NEVER RETURN!" 

The demon scrabbled to its' feet, turn and ran back down the hallway.

"Jinx! You're on fire! Purple fire!" I turned and saw Katherine standing there, fear filled her brown eyes. I looked at my arms and saw she was right.

"It's Okay, it's my aura," I assured her. I closed my eyes and felt the fire die down. 

"See," I said , opening my eyes," It's gone." I walked towards the door , took her hand and walked her back into the underworld to be sorted........ After all she was dead.