A Traveler's Tale

Chapter-10 Leaving

He's seen ghosts, demons, and skeleton. But now he was going to see an evilly corrupt king. His handcuffs were off and his blade was ready.

The Motorboat rocked back and forth. Bond sat patiently waiting to reach the island , but his boat would reach faster then the ship Travis used. He could tell that Jarvis should have made it to the island by now if he lived. But what ruined his confidence was Jarvis' brimmed hat Floating n the water. Bond still head for the island. Jarvis was dead for sure.

Out of the fog appeared a robed figure. He held his scythe.  He approached The old man's ghost. "Well I think it's about time." "Very well" the man said. He shook the Grim Reaper's hand. The Reaper manically laughed.

Travis heard the laugh but he didn't suspect who it was. He crept towards the door. He was certain that it lead to the king's throne room. Gently, just so gentle the opened the door opened. By itself. Now he was surprised and crept inside. Across the room was the king. There were only two skeleton guards who guarded the door he came through.

The king had white eyes. With no pupils he seemed like a ghost. Travis guessed he was supposed to walk ahead. He stepped forward around a grey fountain that didn't have running water through it.

Crow layers down his staff. It was more of a pitchfork and it was weighing less and less to him. For some reason the length of it seemed to decrease the closer they got to the king's fortress. Now he didn't It any more. He left it. Crow walked to the barn. "Well well well" he heard a voice call. "Coby!" Crow exclaimed. The Reaper tapped his staff. "Nice to see you."

Travis was maybe seven feet from the king. The king had noticed him the whole time. The king suddenly moved. "I see you mortal peasant." The king said. "If you join me and don't fight me then you will not die and I may spare Crow as well." Travis thought about this. That didn't sound bad. But why does he have to fight this guy anyway.

Travis thought "I think there's a good side in you." "Nonsense" the king muttered "Do you join me as my apprentice?" "I'm sorry no." Travis said. "Fighting it is then." The king lifted his arms up and fire sprawled across the room. The room has columns, torches, big bowls of fire, and statues of the king. "I know there was good in you, you loved you're brother before."
The king seemed salty about this. He struck flames at Travis but he dodged it. "You know fighting is not the way." Another wave of flame and Travis turned into wind to float away from it.

"Hold still!" The king commanded. Travis saw that the king's fire was above him. Travis clenched his sword making his knuckles white and he ran/wind drifted straight into the king. But wait he froze and so did everyone else. He fell but there was no sound the king and the fire was non-moving. Above him stood the old man's ghost. "Travis, you fight well but you need to lure him into a sense of false safety. Check what you underestimated the most. Travis was confused. He looked at his sword but he didn't underestimate it. His bottle of iron drop wasn't something he little of. But his map yes it was. He never used it. He took out his map and there was the answer to defeating the king.

The map said "Open the gates" Travis turned around and the gates were locked with massive locks. He ran to them. At the worst time the king unfroze. He lashed out fire at Travis it spun Travis and he hit his head on the gate. He threw his entire bottle of iron drop at the king. But unfortunately his hand caught it. From his throne the king threw the bottle at Travis he was about to open the gate after breaking the lock but he felt weird. Then it came. His torso first began chainring he weighed more and began to lose movement. "This is how I die." He thought. But he became the wind before his body was taken over by Stygian iron.

Up above in the roof was Crow. He broke a hole in the roof by stomping on the roof's tile. He dropped a potion through the hole and as the wind Travis had caught it. He flew to his body and dropped it on himself. His body lost its dark metal look and was fully functional. He returned and got up to open the gate.

The gate creaked and he swung it fully open. He was shoved. The king opened his hand. Fire was in his hand. Travis stabbed his hand with his sword. The king dropped to the ground. "I'm not dead." The king muttered words in a strange language and a ghost appeared. "Fight him!" The king said.

Surprisingly the ghost refused. The king had also asked a Skeleton to brawl with Travis. but the ghost didn't want to either.

"It is true." Crow exclaimed "The king could have freed you all!" "He lied!" Suddenly all the guards thought about it. "Get the king." They all said. King Hackett burned the guards with his fire.

Still Travis whacked the king with the hilt of his sword. The king bled from the side of his face. "Fine. I surrender." He said. "I suppose you want the portal." He handed Travis a remote. Travis didn't know what it was. Suddenly the King jumped about fifteen feet in the air and disappeared into fire.

It got quiet. Crow walked over. He didn't say anything and took the gadget from Travis. he'd pressed a couple buttons and placed a portal in the fountain. "Thank you Travis." He said.

Crow felt weird. He expected to be dead by know or maybe he would die later. "Now that we have a way out of tartarus you may get you're memory back." Travis knew what to do. He jumped in.

It felt cold.

Bond was walking toward the fortress when he heard skeletons talking about a way out of tartarus. He dared not leave. Rather he knew to close that portal. His musket allowed him to shoot whoever he wanted. He carefully loaded his gun and aimed it at Crow.

Crow fell down. Pain surged through his arm. Bond appeared from where he was hiding. "I'll take that" he said. Bond had the portal gadget. He pressed a Button and the portal was gone.

"No!"  Crow said. "Ha Ha ha" Bond laughed.

"Well y-" crash! Bond was hit in the head with a bottle. "Greg" Crow rejoiced. "I bet you want this back." Crow got up still bleeding. "I feel bad Crow I called the king he knew you were here." "No you are a good friend." Crow said. "I'll miss you Crow." Greg the bartender stepped back. "I don't know what will happen if I cross. "Bye than, take care." Crow waved. "Bye friend" Greg called.

Crow felt cold going through the portal.
So did Travis.

Travis and Crow woke up in a place with grass, blue skies, people. They got up off the floor.

"I can't believe we lived!" Travis said. "Neither can I." Crow said. "You're bleeding!" Travis exclaimed. Travis then helped Crow walk and they approached the city. They were happy to be home.