The Phoenix Stone

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Billie

I woke up with a sore neck and one hell of a headache. The floor beneath me was incredibly uncomfortable and absolutely freezing! I sat up rubbing my arms and feeling the million tiny goose bumps that had appeared along them during my stay here. Hang on a minute… where exactly is here?! I looked around in a panicked frenzy barely taking in the cold stone floor with matching walls and the barred window that let in a tiny pin prick of watery light. I stood up and rationally began to survey my exits and chalk up an escape plan. However my hope faltered as I realised that the only exit was six meters in the air. The only door was a small wooden trapdoor suspended in the centre of the ceiling. “HELP!!!” I cried in desperation knowing deep down that no-one would hear. To my surprise the trapdoor flipped open in response and a man began to lower himself in. Now when I say lower I mean swoop. The guy was literally flying! My jaw dropped straight to the ground as not one but two more winged men dropped in. All three were bare chested and wielded a winding tattoo up their arms and along their chests they also had matching black wings that sent of sparks when they moved. The wings were connected to their shoulder blades and ran down the full length of their bodies, they were feathered yet almost leathery and something about them screamed DO NOT TOUCH! As I stared I awed terror the tallest of the group, a man with bright flaming red hair that was spiked to the front, smirked at me before looking over his shoulders at his companions and said “Come on boys, let’s have some fun!”                                                                                                                     They all laughed and slowly approached their every movement swift and precise. “Were is it?” the guy to the left with a nose piercing asked menacingly. “Ww where iis w wwhat?” I managed to stutter. “Hear that Tyler, she’s playing dumb!” the bald guy at Tyler’s right laughed. Oh so that’s the red heads name! “Well that just makes it all the more fun for us!” Tyler smirked before sending his fist to my face with bone crunching force. Now I’ve never been punched in the face before but I’m pretty sure that my face will never be the same again. “Where is it?” They asked me again.

“I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about!” I stumbled already knowing that they wouldn’t listen.  As I predicted baldy stepped up this time revealing a strange, heavily gilded sword and dragging it slowly and deeply. I watched in shock as my forearm became sticky with thick red blood. My blood!

“Careful boys wouldn’t want her bleeding out on us now would we?” Tyler laughed, a low guttural sound, almost manic. By this time my face was throbbing and I just wanted to sleep. But I wouldn’t give them that satisfaction so instead I sat there silently hoping that if I did they would eventually get bored and go away. It didn’t work quite that easily. This time the guy with the nose piercing wacked me round the back of my head causing me to catapult forward and begin to slip out of consciousness.

I awoke to a truly surprising scene. The three winged men were back, their ebony wings as menacing as ever, and were fighting a fourth winged figure. The new addition also had wings however his wings were a fluorescent white accompanied with several honey brown splodges that matched his hair. As I watched the figure glided into a small sliver of light making his features more visible. His face was familiar. It was Noah’s! “Noah!” I gasped causing his head to snap toward me before quickly refocusing on the current onslaught. Wait my boyfriend has freaking wings! He sent baldy flying across the room with supernatural strength, knocking him out before piercing guy tackled him to the ground, eyes blazing. Noah erupted with blinding light and by the looks of it breaking piercings wing and both of his legs causing him to black out. That just left him and Tyler. I silently wondered how Noah managed to take out two men on his own. I suppose it’s because he is no normal human being, he has wings for goodness sake! As I watched Tyler wrapped his wings around himself slowly, carefully, their feathers glinting dangerously. All of a sudden Tyler burst into flames! One minute he was standing there wrapped in his dark and dangerous wings and the next he was a tall column of fire that lit the room with its blazing light and scorching heat. The plume of fire span towards Noah like a tornado and enveloped him in its heat. Suddenly it was just too much for me and for the second time that day I fainted.           

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