You can't have him

chapter 20

Kai was relaxing in a chair in the medical wing, when a woman with long curly red hair and bright blue eyes came around the corner. "Hi Kai." She said startling him.

"Leah didn't I tell you to stop sneaking in here?" Kai asked.

"Yeah, but it's important this time."

"Oh really. What's so important?"

"A powerful necromancer is headed this way, and will kill you all. I came here to save you." Leah said.

"What? We have to save the kings." Kai said.

Leah shook her head. "He's mainly here for them, and he'll for sure chase us if we take them with us. Our best chance is to let them all die."

"I'm not leaving here without them." Kai said. He took off running to get them and Leah reluctantly followed.

Kai burst into the ballroom just as a guard was announcing the arrival of Tristan at the palace gates. "Don't let him in!" Kai yelled.

Everyone turned to stare at him and the woman. "Why can't we let our friend in?" Menju asked.

"He's not your friend anymore. He's a necromancer and he'll kill you all if we don't leave right now." Leah said.

"Who are you, and how did you even get in here?" Kapa asked.

"We don't have time for anymore talk, are you coming or not?"

Leah didn't wait for anyone to answer her, she just took off toward the garden. When she got to the fountain she looked up and saw everyone had followed her. "Ok I'm going to go first, then I need the muscle bound freak to follow after me. Getting in the tunnel is a bit tricky, and if it's not done right you'll wind up dying a painful death on a bed of spikes. When I'm in safe, I'll call out to you, and I want you to just dangle down the hole. I'll try to pull your legs over and see if we can't get you through safely. Then you can help the rest."

Leah dropped down into a hole then and disappeared. In a few seconds she called up to them. Maverick grabbed onto Arjic before he could lower himself down. "Don't go, there has to be another way out of here. I know the way she's going, it's not easy to get to."

"You better get your ass moving we don't have any time left." Leah yelled.

"I'll be fine baby." Arjic said. Then he lowered himself down and felt her tugging at him. When he felt like he would be safe to let go he did, and leah caught his hand and pulled him into a tunnel before he fell too far. One after the other they dropped into the tunnel with Arjic's help, until there was only Tessa, Bruce, and their baby left.

Tessa handed down the baby, and when she was going to drop down herself there was the sound of crashing glass and Tessa slipped. "Tessa," Bruce screamed, but no one could stop her from falling to her death on the spikes.

"I can bring her back to you, if you give me what I want." The creature, that somewhat resembled Tristan, still said.

"Get down here now, or we're leaving without you." Leah called.

Bruce went to drop down, but the creature grabbed him. It hung him over the opening, and as he dangled there Bruce saw a small vial come up out of the hole and hit the arm of Tristan and it burst into flames causing him to drop Bruce. He thought for sure he was going to die with his wife, but he felt someone grab his hands as he fell. He was being held by Leah over the pit of spikes, and Arjic was holding onto Leah.

"Pull us up." She screamed. They were pulled up into the tunnel then, and Leah started walking down the tunnel. "Hurry up and follow me before that thing recovers and comes after us."