The Hidden

Chapter 8

I woke up to a knocking on the door. I quickly got up from my bed and opened the door.
"We are going hunting!" Isabelle yelled in my face.
"Okay..." I replied.
"Just hurry up and get dressed would you? We need to get food for the café." I nodded and walked to my closet studying my new clothes.
   Isabelle was waiting for me in her room next door. I quickly slipped on my boots and grabbed my jacket before knocking on her door.
   "Ready?" Isabelle asked.
   "Yeah I guess"
   "We are going to go to the weapon room first and then meet up with the boys."she flashed me a smile.
   "So this is the weapon room" Isabelle announced as if she was on a tv show. The room was small with stone walls. There was drawers filled with unique weapons and hooks that held up daggers and swords. Isabelle opened a drawer and threw something in her bag. After collecting a few items she handed me a small pistol like gun.
"Thanks"
"Don't thank me, it's trash" she rolled her eyes. "But you need to be trained to use these." She grabbed a crossbow off the wall and laughed, "this is my baby I call Phillip."
"Phillip?" I ask.
"That's what I said, now come on we are late." I smile and follow her out the door. She slings the crossbow on her back and we head to the lounge to meet Ashton and Jake.
"Do you have any more family?" I ask her.
"No they are gone"
"When did this happen?"
"Five years ago"
    "And you came here?"
    "They found me, enough with the questions." She looked back at me, then returning to walk to the lounge.
   "Finally" Ashton exaggerates. He runs over to Isabelle and picks her up, squeezing her.
  "Ashton stop!" She laughs.
"Do you have our weapons?" Ashton asks.
"Yeah I do, now let me go!" And Ashton sets her down laughing.
"We get to take princess here, on an adventure" Jake announces as he jumps up from the couch. I laugh as the other two give him a confused look.
"Okay then..." Isabelle says quietly and walks out the door with us following her.

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We have been walking for about fifteen minutes through woods and hills. I gazed at all the darkness that surrounds us. The metal trees have thorns and the ground is a cold, shiny metal. All of a sudden they stop in front of me, in the middle of the woods. Ashton opens a hatch in the ground. The creaking sound of the old hinges moving make my ears ache. Isabelle points to the opening and smiles at her brother.
"Ladies first" Ashton smirked. Isabelle glared at him and crossed her arms. Ashton and Jake pushed her in, making her scream.
"Your next" Jake looked at me and laughed.
"What's down there?" I ask. They laughed at me before pushing me down. I land in a crouching position and look down the dark hallway. A green slime drips down the sides of the wall, splattered here and there. I hear a thud behind me and see Jake and Ashton. "Come on" Isabelle waits impatiently grabbing her crossbow. I follow her down the hall thinking of what could be down here. I hear a loud growl like noise followed by metal scratching on metal.
   "What was that?" I whisper. I feel a hand cover my mouth.
   "Shh" Ashton whispered from behind me. "Get behind me." I slow down and let him walk in front of me. I step in a puddle of slime and stop to shake it off. Suddenly I was being pulled by my arms, making me fall to the ground. I screamed in pain while my arms are being scratched. I look up seeing a huge, beast-like creature covered in slime. It's mouth like a thousand daggers pointing in every direction. It's breath is heavy with slime spewing out and dripping onto my face. It's body a metallic like gorilla covered in slime and  dried blood. The hands are huge with blades as fingers. The blades digging into my arms making the blood run down towards my face.
   "Teegan!" Isabelle cried out. I could hear footsteps running towards me, but not close enough. The beast threw me in a dungeon looking room with bodies laying around covered in blood. I tried to grab the gun in my back pocket, but my arms were stinging. Finally I get a good grasp on it and aim at the beast. It slashed it right out of my hands and I slide myself back against the wall.
   "Teegan?" Jake asks panicking. He slashed his sword into the beast's back making it growl. Ashton and Isabelle run into the room from another opening. The beast turns to attack, using his blades it throws Ashton across the room sliding into a pile of dead bodies next to me. I slowly crawl towards him. The beast turns, growling obnoxiously at me. Without thinking I grabbed Ashton's sword that fell out of his hand and thrusted it towards the beast's chest. It winced in pain.
   "Woah" Ashton said in amazement. I adjusted my grip on the sword, but I was too late. I was thrown against the wall. It's red gleaming eyes looked right through me. It was breathing on my face with the smell of rotten flesh. It winced in pain again and I see an arrow in its back. My body is too weak to get up, and I lay there defeated. Jake slices it's head off from behind and puts his sword on his back.
   "Are you okay?" Isabelle panics. I nodded.
   "We shouldn't have brought her here without training." Ashton stated. My heart sank, I felt unwanted.
   "Don't talk like that" Isabelle glared.
   "Did you see what she can do?" Jake announced. I smiled at my accomplishment.
   "Yeah it was pretty cool" Ashton agreed. He put his hand out for me. I grabbed it and pulled myself up.
   "What was that anyway?" I ask.
   "It's a bilah" Jake informed, "It means 'bladed'." Makes sense.
   "Alright I got the chip inside" Isabelle raised it up for us to see.
   "We don't eat that beast thing, right?" I asked disgusted. They laughed.
   "No, we sell the chip for food" Isabelle explained.
   "Oh good, I got worried" I laughed.
   "Let's get out of here before another one finds us" Jake warned.