I slowly open the closet and stick my head out, just to double check if Ethan has really gone. After making sure I am all alone in the room, I get out of the closet and walk out of the room. It would be an understatement to say that the corridor was destroyed. I start walking swiftly, being careful enough to avoid getting splinters in my bare feet. Now that I think about it, I believe that Ethan was able to find me in first place because I was with Katherine. Maybe Damian was picking her thoughts and he found me in them. I can't help but worry about what might have happened to her after she left me. I had seen her enter the room, but I had been so engrossed in defending myself against Ethan that she completely slipped out of my mind. I hope that she gets to safely move out of the room when I lead that sapphire-eyed jerk into another room.
As I keep walking, I don't realise that I have reached the end of the corridor. I stop abruptly, only to find myself standing in front of a flight of stairs. "This might be one of the stairs Katherine had talked about", I say to myself as I start walking up the stairs. I climb another flight of stairs and find myself on the second floor. I run down the corridor and as I turn around the corner, I find myself facing a choice. The corridor is forked. Should I go left? Or should I go right?
"How many corridors does this freaking place have?" I ask out loud with frustration.
"Enough to make you feel lost", I hear someone say and a familiar cowboy hat pops out of a door in the right corridor. Slowly, Mr. Cowboy-upto-no-good a.k.a. Roy Von Brandt reveals himself with a revolver pointing at me. I sigh out loud and he gives a questioning look.
"Seriously! I just dealt with one moron and now I have to deal with you?" I say as I let my essence spread all over my body again.
"Whom are you calling 'moron', girl?" he asks. I see fire starting to get concentrated in the barrel of the revolver.
"I am not calling you moron, moron", I say, praying silently to Supreme that he doesn't pick my badmouthing. He pulls the trigger and I see a trail of concentrated fire rushing towards me. I quickly dive down to the floor. Even though he has completely missed his shot, I can still feel the blistering heat as the bullet, encased with fire, zooms overhead. I swiftly jump back as I feel the heat of the next attack coming towards me. He is attacking in the same way Ethan had attacked, but the only difference is that this guy's magic is stabilized by a bullet after it leaves the revolver. Guns are different from blades as they still need a medium to travel. If the essence gun is shot without the bullet, there is a high chance that it may back-fire, causing the said weapon to explode. The magic is not concentrated on the gun but it is concentrated on the bullet. The gun he's using is a revolver. So they basically come with six bullets. He just shot two bullets and assuming the fact that his gun was fully loaded before he attacked me, so there might be four bullets remaining. I quickly jump on the wall as he shoots again.
"Stay still, please", Von Brandt says as he aims at me again.
"My, how polite of you", I say as I jump back into the turn I came from. I hide behind the wall in order to avoid his bullet. He clicks his tongue in annoyance and says, "Guess I need a more explosive power". Out of sheer curiosity, I peep out. I see Von Brandt touch his weird bracelet. A light blue light flashes from it and sucks the revolver into the bracelet. Before I can react, the bracelet flashes again and a rifle pops out of it. He aims the rifle in my direction and says, "Meet my love- Alicia" and fire starts to concentrate in the long barrel of the rifle. My eyes widen in horror and before I can jump out of harms way, he pulls the trigger.
The ball of fire races towards the wall I am hiding behind and explodes on contact, engulfing me with it. I literally have no idea how I managed to survive that and I am not in the mood to find out. My dress gets singed at the edges and I end up having second degree burns. I beat out the fire which caught my dress. "How did you like my Alicia?" he asks as he walks towards the blown wall.
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Romulus : The Rise Of The Demon
Fantasía' I have never seen such a sight before. It was as if the flames were dancing in his presence. It was as if they were overjoyed by him being near them...... Who is he? Is he a warrior who never backs down from a fight? Is he a saviour who would ri...
