S.O.S: SAVIOUR OF SOULS

Simon says

I hold Alice close in my arms,her steady breathing comforting me.
Kai walked beside me,brushing my shoulder now and then.

"Where are we?" I had wanted to ask for a while now but I didn't want to bother ski with questions.

"Kricahst Grove home of the fey,were not that far from the academy now"

We walked for What felt like hours until we finally arrived at the academy.

Kai said something to the guards and we were walking in with Sera and Aurelia running towards up.

Aurelia wrapped her arms around Kai checking if he was alright,and sera gasped when she saw me and stopped mid air when she saw Alice in my arms.

"Who's that?"Alice lifted her head tiredly smiled and got down from my arms.

"I'm Alice!"she squeaked at sera and Aurelia.

Aurelia bent down so their eyes alined
"I'm Aurelia,and this is my daughter sera you've already met Kai?"
Alice looked towards Kai and nodded then back at me
"Is Avianna your daughter? She saved us from the bad people,she told me to close my eyes!"

Aurelia raised her eyes at me and told Alice I was not her daughter but I was like family to her.

I beamed at that,my insides felt bubbly but i didn't know why?
Aurelia gave me a look of approval
And called a woman over.

"Alice would you like to stay here with avi for awhile?"Alice jumped up and down and leaped into Aurelias arms giving her a warm hug that made us all laugh.

"I take that's a yes!"she smiled at Alice"we have seras childhood room just by yours,miss king will escort you there!".

She walked away with sera following her and Kai winking at me and following them.

Me and Alice walked behind miss king.She was an middle-aged woman,her smoky-grey hair tied up in a bun while little strands hanged limply untamed.Her time-ravaged skin matched her aged eyes but in they still had a gleam in them as well as her friendly smile.

She finally got to a room and opened the door for us to go inside and walked away back down the hall.

Alice looked about her in amazement. This was her little room! A small single bed, looking like a snow drift, so white and feathery and high was it; one window curtained with a square of starched white cotton cloth that drew over the panes by means of a white cord on which it was run at the top; a tiny wash-stand with an old-fashioned bowl and pitcher of green and white stone-ware, and over it an old-fashioned gilt mirror; a small splint-bottomed chair and large braided rug of red woollen rags. That was all, except in one corner, where some cleats had been nailed to the ceiling and a clothes-press made by hanging from them full curtains of white cloth.

I looked around again,it was very old-fashioned as I had expected but if I asked Aurelia it sure she would let em fix it up for Alice.

"I like purple!"she smiled and ran over to her bed and layed down on it "it's so soft!"

I laughed and turned round when a set of paws leaped At me making me slip and fall,meeting a bunch of licks.

"Rian!"I pick him up,hugging him and setting him down to play with Alice.

I looked out the window
To see it was getting dark,I picked up Alice and put her into the bed.

I could tell Alice was tired because her eyes began to droop and I moved her hair from her face and walked towards the door.

I opened the door but froze when Alice mumbled,"night mummy"
I smiled and carried on down the hall to my room with rian walking beside me.

I walked into my rooms and slipped under the covers,wrapping myself in my duvet and rian snuggling next to me.

I close my eyes and I'm back in a dark room the lights flickering on and of and slithering tendrils wrapping around my wrists.

I struggle but the tendrils tighten their grip on me pulling me down a hall .The paintings watch me their smiles curling up as they watch my defeat . I claw at the floor my fingers burn and I'm hurled into a brightly lit room.

I stand up and the tendrils release me,I look around to see a group of people surrounding me.

The strangers eyes are watching a man who is in front of us,his smile was to wide considering the blood on the walls.

His brown eyes darted from corners corner staring at us like prey.

"Simon says...stand up"
A sensation took hold of my body and we all stood up.
"Simon says...lift your arms over your head."

The rules seemed simple all I had to do was follow the directions.
"Run"the command echoes throughout the room.

One girl takes of,running as fast as her feet will carry her.Her hands are tied together in front of her,her hands are tied together in front of her,her legs shackled and her mouth gagged.she runs awkwardly a few steps,stopping as to not fall.she continues to run,her restraints making a clanging sound as they furiously work together to allow her movement.

The man shakes his head,a low,sinister chuckle rumbling from his chest.

"I didn't say Simon says"he said.
Her screaming sobs bounce of the walls as he shoots an arrow from his crossbow directly into her back.

She falls,her body landing in a pool of blood,soaking into her hair and clothing.

He turns back to me and the other captives,wide eyed and trembling with fear.
He begins again.
"Simon says..."

To be continued...