The Life Of A Freak

Chapter 8

I am in the middle of a large hall looking frantically around, like trying to find something dear to me, but not knowing what I'm looking for.

The hall is connected to five different tunnels. All too dark for me to see what is on the other end of the tunnel.

I bend down and put my hands on my knees and starts panting, exhausted from my frantic search.

I hear footsteps coming from the tunnel I am facing away from. I quickly turn towards it - thinking its what I'm hoping for.

It was Kurda - not what I wanted - but he wasn't alone.

He had Gavner as well.

Gavner was bloody, and Kurda had blood on his hand and on the knife in his hand. There were some more figures behind them, but I couldn't make out their faces or any feature of theirs...they just looked like ominous purple and black blobs.

"I'm sorry... If I kept you awake at night." Gavner mumbles before going limp, dying.

"I'm sorry, I had to do this." Kurda says to the now dead Gavner Purl.

I head footsteps from another tunnel. Its on the opposite side of the hall, from Kurda. I spin around to see who it was.

It was... Evra?

He had a woman with him.

Who were they? I don't know.

"Tux, glad your back." Evra says smiling and disappearing out of thin air with the woman.

I turn back to Kurda and Gavner.

Kurda is talking to the figures and Gavner, is just laying on the ground.

I start crying.

I see Darren appear in front of Gavner and he starts crying.

He then yells at Kurda and runs off.

Kurda and the figures run after Darren.

Then, I can no longer see what happens.

The scenery around starts changing and I'm suddenly in the Hall of Princes.

Larten and Arra are talking to the princes on the platform.

"Please spare his life, he is only a child." Arra says.

"Don't send him to the Hall of Death. He could have survived, the trial was just interrupted." Larten says.

"Laws are laws, we can not break them." Mika Ver Leth says.

"We can not excuse him just because he failed his trial." Paris says.

I look to my sides, there is Seba Nile to my left and Vanez Blane to my right.

"What's going on?" I ask.

They look at me like I'm crazy.

"Are you okay? You spent the entire night crying about this, and you forgot?" Seba says.

"Cry about what?"

"Darren." Vanez says.

"What about him?"

"He failed the Blooded Boars, and because he did he has to be sent to the Hall of Death for an execution."

"What...? Blooded Boars...?"

"Yeah."

Once again the place I am in switches I am now in the middle of a snowing wooded area. Looking around further I see the large mountain that is hone to the vampire clan a few miles off.