The Blizzard (Tintin fanfiction) Story 1

Chapter 6

                Hello everyone! :) Here is the lovely Chapter 6! Yay!!

                Everything was quite in the night. There wasn't a sound to be heard.  All of a sudden, three shot were fired into the night. Several screams were heard inside Marlinspike Hall and one of them was Ella's. She quickly sat up in her bed and terror ran through her.  Two dark figures were wrestling on the floor at the foot of her bed. She quickly turned her lamp on to reveal  Tintin and a large burly man fighting.  Tintin was doing very well in the fight but he wouldn't last for very long. Ella ran to the door to find help when she crashed into the Captain.

She could tell he had hastily dressed, his hat was askew and he only had one arm in his coat.  He immediately pulled her into the hallway and they both began running through the dark hallways trying to get out.

"What's happening?" Ella asked between breaths.

" No time to explain." as they ran the Captain put his arm through the other arm of the coat.

The Captain led her through a different part of Marlinspike she had never seen before. They went deeper into the house, and soon there wasn't any lights at all.

"Captain?" Ella couldn't see anything at all.

He took her hand, "I'm right here. Now we are going  to have to be very quiet from here, until we get to the car."

"But what about Tintin and Professor Calculus?" Ella's thoughts went back to the large man and Tintin fighting," Do you think Tintin is going to be alright?"  

"That boy can get through anything, so don't worry about him."

The Captain opened a door and light streamed down from the full moon. He walked out, but Ella paused standing in the doorway, "What about Professor Calculus?"

" He is already in the car waiting for us."

From then on until they reached the car they both were silent. Ella's heart was racing and she sighed a sigh of relief  once she closed the car door and locked it.

"Wait!" Ella gasped, "What about Tintin?"

She opened her car door, "He's still in there!"

The Captain ran after her and finally stopped her and looked her in the eyes. "Ella. All he wants is for you to be safe. It isn't safe here anymore."

"But He's in there with that man and probably many more." She was torn, she knew Tintin would want her to leave but the one thing she wanted to do was stay.

" I know, but he made me promise to make sure you were safe."

She was angry and anxious at the same time. She could take care herself, she understood Tintin wanted her to be safe, but she had to at least do something.  Ella broke away from the Captain's grasp and ran.

                She ran as fast as her feet would carry her. She ran around the house and some of the trees  branches caught on her nightgown tearing it some places but she didn't care. She had fled for too long, now she was going to fight back. Ella finally made it to the other side of the house, the door was locked. She scanned the windows and she could see that her bedroom window was open and the curtains were blowing in the wind. Her room was on the second floor, but then she had an idea. There was a lot of vine trailing up one side of the house, but she knew that wouldn't hold her. Then she noticed that there was boards that were nailed near the windows on each level as though someone had tried to board up the house a long time ago. Ella grasped a fairly strong piece of vine and pulled herself up and she had a more difficult time because of  her bare feet. She pulled herself up and grabbed one of wooden ledges and climbed. Her hand was about to touch her window sill when her foot slipped and she almost fell. Ella was only holding on by one hand, she took a deep breath and grabbed the window sill. It took all of her strength but she finally pulled herself into her bedroom.

                The room was still lightly lit by the lamp beside the bed and when she looked at the floor there was a few spots of blood. She quietly walked out of the room and then noticed there was a few more drops of blood down the hallway. Her feet moved silently across the floor and then she heard it. Voices. It was coming from Tintin's bedroom. His once clean bedroom was in chaos. The desk was toppled over, his drawers that held his clothes was laying flat on the floor and in Tintin's favorite chair sat the large burly man. He held a piece of cloth to his nose and blood was smeared on his face, probably from the broken nose he had. Ella noticed there was two other men sprawled across Tintin's bed and to her horror, Tintin was tied to his desk chair his head was drooping so low his chin rested on his chest.

The large burly man sighed, "How long do we have to wait? Can't we get rid of him now?"

"No." one of the men barked, "Remember what the boss said?"

The burly man rolled his eyes and said in a mocking tone, "Don't touch one hair on his head, and wait for the girl to follow."

The man who was obviously in charge glared at the burly man and pointed angrily at Tintin's limp body, "Look what you did!"

"What!? He's the one who broke my nose!" he spit some blood onto the floor.

"You better hope he wakes up or we'll all get sacked."

The third man sat and yelled angrily, "Will you two be quiet for one minute!?"

They both grumbled a short apology and they all went silent all waiting. Ella was so confused then she realized, they were waiting for her.

Swiftly someone put their hand over Ella's mouth and she began to resist. The person who had her struggled but pulled her into another room and closed the door behind them.

Whoever it was let go and Ella exclaimed, "How dare you!"

"Shh! Miss, you'll alarm all those men in there!" Nestor whispered with caution.

She gasped, "Nestor! Oh, I didn't know it was you but why did you take me in here like that?"

"I'm sorry, I was afraid if I tried to get your attention any other way you might accidently say my name too loud or something of that sort." 

"Oh , I understand," Ella suddenly had a idea," Do you perhaps have a maid's uniform?"

He gave her a strange look, "Yes I do think we do. Why?"

Ella began pacing, "Well this may sound crazy, but what if I dress as a maid and bring those men tea and in that tea will  have a very strong sleeping pill in it?"

Nestor began to walk towards the door.

"Wait where are you going?"

Nestor smiled, "I'm going to go make the tea."

Hey Guys! I'm super excited for this story. :) I know this was a little shorter, but I'm working on Chapter 7 and I'm going to get that up soon!