Castle (The Badlands Series) Book 1

Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Straight For The Castle

Emlyn headed across the ground, but she would be stupid if she didn't realize Camilla saw her coming. Camilla opened her palms and more of the demonic soldiers multiplied in front if Emlyn.

Emlyn pulled out a knife she had found that she particularly liked. She knew there was no time to waste and she rushed at the demons and stabbed one through the heart and kicked another in the gut when it tried to attack her from behind.

She punched one in the face then turned around and stabbed another straight through the head. The demons began diminishing but that didn't mean she could take on all of them by herself. Suddenly a black-haired girl came sailing over her head and landed on a demon slamming a sword through its heart and it diminished.

"I got your back Emlyn, let's do this or you'll never get in that castle." Emlyn smiled and the two began to work together as partners in crime to destroy the demons surrounding them. Emlyn suddenly grabbed stalled by the leg and by one of her arms and swung her around in the air as she kicked about 5 of them in the face and they all diminished.

Stella took out her two daggers her favorite weapon and began stabbed them right and left. Emlyn used her knife and used it skillfully but also used her own fighting skills to her benefit while using the knife.

Finally, the two took down the last demon together as Emlyn kicked it into Stella who slit its throat and it diminished. "Good now come on the others should be fine." Stella said as she grabbed Emlyn's hand and they ran for the castle.

Emlyn stopped her though and pointed to something. It was a long piece of specially crafted wood, but it seemed to have no meaning. It was long and twisted and hand vines and flowers wrapped around the long handle in a mystical way. The top seemed to have a rounded specially made top with little notches.

She picked it up and pulled out her pouch and carefully placed the gems in the notches and when they all were placed in the wood the newly crafted staff lit up. "I think this is what we need," Emlyn said as she placed the staff in her bag that clearly you could put a kitchen sink in it was so big inside.

The two headed towards the castle and finally opened the doors to the evilest place they had ever been.

Bob watched the two run towards the castle as a creature turned and started to chase them he threw a knife and it hit in the head and it vanished, "Whooooo hoooo, Bob 1, Demon 0!" he said as he did a quick victory dance before more started to swarm him but they honestly looked really confused at this guy, but went for the attack and Bob began to defend once again.

They headed down a long open parlor room that was dark and filled with random pieces of furniture and objects. There was a grand black staircase with a black rug, and they headed up it where they faced another set of doors.

Emlyn tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge, "It must be locked but we are going to have to find a key." Stella looked at the lock for a moment and shook her head.

"It's locked by magic, so the only way to unlock it is with magic. But you see it's locked with blood magic and usually the only way to unlock things like that is being related to the person. Or you could sacrifice your own blood to open the door." Stella explained and Emlyn carefully listened, she assumed Camilla wanted to weaken her, and taking her blood to unlock a door was a step in the right direction.

Emlyn took her knife and cut her hand then placed it on the handle. The door suddenly opened revealing a puzzle room and Emlyn knew this wouldn't be the only one. Camilla was going to make it as challenging as possible to get to her.