The Mischief Twins

Too Late

Ella woke up in her bed, an aching pain in the back of her head. She assumed it was from hitting the stone floor when she fainted. When her eyes adjusted to the light streaming in through the window, she rolled out of her bed quickly to stand upright.

A man with a tangly red mop of hair stood before her. She gulped and managed "Who are you?"

"Well, now, that won't matter to you when you're blood is dripping across the floor." he said as he produced a knife from his pocket.

He lunged forward and attempted at stabbing Ella with the knife. She grabbed his wrist and stopped the knife as it reached her throat. He laughed as Ella gritted her teeth and held her breath.

His breath reeked of fish and garlic.

The man flipped the knife backward, making Ella feel blood drip out of her neck like Niagara Falls. She dropped to the floor and grabbed his ankle tightly. Then, she pulled his leg out from beneath him, making him fall down on the side of his face.

Ella got to her feet and ran like hell towards the door, but she felt a hand wrap around her ankle and pull her back. As she fell to the floor, she let out a scream.

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Emmett and Loki were running down the corridor when a bloodcurdling scream ripped through the silence.

Loki ran quicker down the corridor, leaving Emmett in his wake. He felt tears rolling down his cheeks. He'd just got them both back. He wasn't going to lose one of them again. He burst into the room to find Norgyn holding a knife to Ella's throat.

"Well, would you look who it is. Loki; Odinson." he menacing ran the blade up to Ella's chin "And look who we've got here. A little, annoying..." he leaned close to Ella's ear "...pest."

Ella flinched at an attempt to avoid the spit particles that came out of his mouth. Loki held his hands in front of him.

"Norgyn, please. Think this all the way thr--" Loki started.

"All the way through!" he yelled "I have thought this through!"

He grabbed something on his belt and threw it to the floor. It erupted with a cloud of smoke. Loki ran at them, but Norgyn and Ella were gone. He had been too late.

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Ella coughed and blinked as she found herself in a dark world.

She heard a voice.

"Norgyn! Where's the boy?!"

Norgyn spluttered pitifully "She was the only one in the room, sir! But, Loki will still come after her! He will not lay to rest with his children separated!"

The voice grumbled "Bring her closer!"

Norgyn tied her wrist together and pulled her closer to a kind of pit. Ella felt a long, hot push of air in her face when she was close enough.

"Well, now, child! How do you feel about world domination?"

Ella looked to the ground and kicked a big rock into the pit. She told it to go hit the source of the darkness in the head.

"AARGH!" the voice yelled.

Ella frowned at the darkness "How does that answer your question?!" she shrieked at it.

Norgyn began dragging her away "You shouldn't have done that. Uh, uh."

Ella dragged her feet along the ground in refusal to picking up her feet, making dirt get kicked into Norgyn's shoes. He threw her angrily in a circular cell.

"Really?" Ella asked, as she wiped her eyes with her shirt sleeve.

Norgyn slammed the cell door shut and locked it "And don't try any of your mind tricks in here. It won't work."

At that, he proceeded to throw a rock at the space in between the bars. The rocks bounced off back into his hand like a rubber ball. Ella watched Norgyn leave before sinking to the ground.

She wanted more than ever to escape on her own, but she couldn't use her magic, so it was pointless. She sat in her cell, helpless and alone; her nightgown already covered in dirt.