To Catch A Cardinal

Chapter 36

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The dragons pushed and shoved us along the corridor with gleaming claws poking us every so often. Kat and Crystal had killed about 20 or so but that hasn't stopped them from capturing us.

They marched along with a tight formation along all sides. Some looked terrified and when they met eyes with rather if the girls they removed their eyes. They had put us in pressure cuffs that only grew tighter if we resisted them. All of our weapons had been removed. The only thing they can't remove is Crystals power to change back and forth between human and wolf. I also noticed that her tail and ears where gone.

The dragons lead us to a room filled with many valued things. It looked lavish with paintings and gold coins just piled around every so often. Lots of colored sand lay in piles of red, blue, yellow, green, purple, white, orange, and brown. As we made out way through the mansion part of the place a huge iron grade door loomed out.

It was heavy and the walls where sound proof. Some statues lay beaten on their sides. Cracked, broken in half, with deep slash marks and burnt spots on them.

As 3 dragons opened the door the room was dark. The lights came on as we stepped inside and the doors slammed shut. Windows lined the walls along with great works of art in stained glass.

A golden throne lay tipped over. Low and behold the boy walked out and he had someone by the hair.

"Johnny!" I yelled. The dragons made us step forward and stand at the feet of the boy. He snapped his fingers. 6 dragons with 3 beasts dragged another person out.

"Nycole..." Gasped Crystal. She was beaten and blood dripped down her face from her forehead, left leg and right arm. She was hand cuffed and a muffler was in her mouth. She bared her teeth at they boy. One of the dragons came and removed it.

"SHADE!!! LOOK AT ME YOU SICK BUSTARD!!!" She screamed at him.

"Shut up. There is nothing you can do about it. Now be silent if you want to live." He said harshly at her.

I turned to Kat and whispered to her, "There must be away out of this. If we don't act quickly it will all be over."

She nodded. "I have an idea, just follow our lead."

She turned to Crystal and Crystal winked at Nycole. She acted natural but she looked at us with confidence.

Kat spoke first. "Hey Shade. Mind explaining what's going on here?"

"Oh. Well you don't really need to know." He wretched Ghosts hair up and brought his knife out. Ghost looked tired and was struggling to do something. Like he was having a fight inside his head. His eyes where wide open and his hands twitched every so often.

Shade made a thin cut across his cheek. "All you need to know is that he won't be around much longer."

He dropped him to the floor and he just lay there. Crystal was twitching ever so slightly but it started to get worse. As he walked around Ghost, she was twitching really badly now.

"What are you doing?" He said to her as he walked right up to her. All she responded with was a face full of claws. "GAAHHH!! RESTRAIN HER!!" He shouted but it was too late. She had her hands spread as far apart as she could. Kat flipped upside down and brought her foot down right between her hands, snapping the chains in half. The claps opened and they clattered to the floor. She turned around and punched the incoming dragons, blood going everywhere.

Crystal found a pipe somewhere and picked my locks free and handed the pipe to me as she went into full wolf. She charged at the dragons and they scattered. Kat and I would deal with Shade.

Shade was hovering over Ghost with a blade to his throat. Ghost let out a terrifying scream as he looked in a lots of pain. "Shhh... It will all be over soon and your dear friend Casket will be back." He had him by the hair again and stabbed the knife into his shoulder. It made a horrible crunching sound.

Nycole was being held hostage in the corner by demon wolves, whatever they where called. She was screaming in rage but Shade flicked his had at the guards and they knocked her out unconscious. They dragged her away.

We could do nothing. I had a pipe, Crystal was finished fighting off all of the dragons and Kat was using her fists and boots as weapons. "You can't stop it. I would let you try but I don't feel like it today. Casket will rise and consume him entirely, and you people will be next in line."

We stared at Ghost as he had stopped screaming and was now crying. His whole body shuddered, black blood dripped down his arm and his eyes grew wide. Shade let go of his hair. "Oh look. It's time...." He said darkly. Ghosts hair was in his face but a smile had grown there. His clothes where not his own and when he stood up and looked at us. His eyes where red.

"HEY!! WaNna KnoW mY SECRET?!? AHHAHAHAHAA!!!!!" His laugh rang around the room and bounced off the walls.

Kat was fuming and Crystal had her teeth bared, claws out and ears flat. All I could do was stare. "Guys we need to leave." I said sternly to them.

"What are we supposed to do about them?!" Said Kat.

"Nothing can be done. It's over. We just need to get Nycole back."

"Oh...I'll just give her back right now." Said Shade. He snapped his fingers and the doors opened. Two dragons carried in a limp body. It was Nycole. They tossed her on the floor and Crystal put her in her mouth gently.

Crystal wined and lay down motioning for us to get on her back. "I didn't say I would let you go that easily." Said Shade. He flung himself at Crystal but Kat intercepted him and caught him off guard. Before I knew what to do, Jimmy was on me.

"GAAH!!!" He swiped his knife at me and I got scratched in the arm. He swung again but his time I was ready. I brought the pipe up and caught him in the jaw, slinging him out of the way. But he was back in a flash and so was Crystal, her mouth was disabled but her razor sharp claws where not. She swiped down and raked her claws across his side. He stumbled back blood dripping down for what looked like every where.

Shade had gotten Kat off of him and ran up to Crystal. She pushed him into his back while leaving claw marks. Shade was trapped beneath her claws and Jimmy stopped fighting.

"Get me out of her Casket!" He shouted at him but Jimmy just twirled his knife.

"I might. But I would rather let them leave and get them later. We already have what we need. We should just go on with the plan."

Shade grunted and disappeared from Crystals claws. He was beside Casket. "Alright fine." He said back and he grabbed his shoulder and they disappeared. They where gone and so was Ghost.