Dark Days - Di-Di Lewis (fantasy novels to read txt) 📗

at, what were they scared of? I asked myself. I turned around again, this time there was something else there, it was horrible; it had wings of fire, teeth like daggers, black pits for it’s eyes. It seemed empty, as if there was nothing inside it. The creatures that had brought me here kept approaching it, then they attacked, claws out, wings spread. This was truly a glorious fight, there was golden blood seeping from the Algremendoza’s body, black from the other. I kept staring, not wanting to interrupt them, then something grabbed me from behind. I screamed, everything stopped, the creatures looked back at me, but the distance between us was growing, they seemed to get farther and farther away, smaller and smaller.
The walls seemed to pass by rather quickly, there were pictures, they just whizzed by before I could get a good look at them. I looked up, and I saw who had grabbed me, it wasn’t James, it was something else.
“Who are you? What are you?” I screamed at it.
“I’m James, and I’m not human, if that’s what you’re wondering,” he told me.
“Well, that answers that, now I know that the one who sat next to me on the bus was some creature from the unknown.”
“Are you OK?” he asked, as if he really cared.
“Oh no, I’m perfectly fine, I mean, I did just find out that you aren’t human, there were these creatures that are fighting over me right now…” I stopped because James changed back into a human; he leaned over and whispered in my ear.
“It’s OK, I’m here to help you, my kind doesn’t just leave one of its own to die, or to be tortured by one of those kind of creatures.” I leaned away from him.
“I’m human, why wouldn’t I be?” I asked.
“Please don’t get mad at me, but you are the one sent to Earth as a baby, the one everyone’s been looking for, the one anyone will do anything to do to get their hands on. Thing is, you’re my baby sister.” I stood up, I looked at him, I had no clue as to how I could be related to him, but apparently I was.
“How can I be related to you? I’ve never seen you before, I don’t even know what you are,” I told him, “I don’t even know where we are.”
“We are on a different planet, I already told you that, don’t you listen? Gheese, and I thought you’d be a better listener,” he sighed exasperated.
“Well I’m sorry that I’m not like what you want me to be, I never have been, and I certainly do not plan on being so any time soon,” I said stubbornly.
“You certainly sound like someone who would be my little sister. Do you want to know what mom named you?” He asked me.
“Uhh, sure, I guess so,” I answered.
“Arianna, your name’s Arianna,” he told me matter of factly.
“OK, well, can we go now, can we leave and get out of this dreadful place?” I wondered.
“As soon as we find a way out of this dreadful place, then we can get out…” he said sadly.
“WHAT?!? You mean to say that you don’t know how to get out? So we’re trapped here until something comes and destroys us? We’re doomed.” I said, completely upset and scared.
“Calm down Arianna, it’s going to be OK,” he said calmly.
“Are you really telling me to CALM DOWN?!? Since when did you have a right to tell me to calm down, you’re the one who got us into this mess, you’re the one to blame for all that happened, all that is happening. You know this right?”
“Yes, but…”James said sadly.
“You agree don’t you, that you’re the one to blame for this mess?” I questioned.
“I guess so.” He looked down.
“Aha! You admit that you’re responsible!!” I smiled.
“Pipe down Arianna, do want one of those creatures to find us?” James questioned in a hushed voice.
“No, I don’t want one of those creatures to find us,” I said in a voice a lot quieter than I had been speaking in before, “Why in the world would I want one of those creatures to find us?”
“I don’t know, maybe because you’re roaring as loud as a lion!!” he almost screeched at me.
“Stop yelling James, you’re making my head hurt, I don’t like it, just stop it!!” I pulled my hands to cover my ears, my head throbbing, my vision going blurry; I didn’t like this, not one bit. I felt this pain growing in my gut, and it was horrible. I looked up at my brother, the pain was evident in my eyes. “James,” I whispered. He put a finger to my lip and grabbed my arm. I was dragged away from where we were, down the hall and around the corner into another, dark, hall.
“What’s wrong?” he asked me, but by then, there was nothing wrong, actually, I felt nothing at all, I couldn’t even feel my own legs.
I tried to speak, but no words escaped my lips, it was as if something was restraining my ability to do anything. I looked up at him, but it seemed as if he couldn’t see me. Then I heard footsteps.
“Who’s there?” I wanted to scream, but instead, it was my brother who called it out. There came no reply, everything went silent, there was virtually no sound, then all the light disappeared. There was nothing left to do, all we could do was sit and wait for our doom. I was scared, real scared, and all I did was hug my brother, just because he was the only thing I could feel.
Then I saw a small dot of white appear far off in the distance, it was coming closer, and closer, and yet even closer, it was scaring me. I hugged my brother, clinging onto him for dear life. This was the most I’d ever been scared in my whole life. I know that this moment right now will not be the worst I have yet to face, that the worst is yet to come, but I still have to deal with this right now, and I couldn’t do anything about it.
The light came straight for me, it touched me, and then I was sucked into it, my brother left behind. I screamed, I couldn’t leave behind the one thing that I knew in this new and dreadful world. I had to get out of here, but the question was how to get out of here. Then something happened, a personage came and approached me, it spoke in a monotone voice, “Hello Princess Arianna, glad to finally get to see you at last, after waiting all those long years in complete darkness, there is light at last. We are so glad to see that you are here.”
“What in the world are you?” I asked, but my voice seemed not to change its tone.
“We are something that you do not need to know about just yet, all you need to know is that we are here to help you, Princess Arianna.”
 “Since when am I a princess?” I asked inquisitively.
“Since you were born to the King and Queen. Darling, you must hurry up and get out of here, stay away from those horrible creatures outside, and you will be safe.”
“How can I be sure that I can trust you?” I asked.
“You just can.”
“What creatures are you talking about anyway?” I questioned, “Why should I trust you?”
“The creatures that fought over you; and you can trust us because we know who you are, where you came from, why you are here, and all that other nonsense.”
“You’re lying, why should I trust you?” I asked, “There’s no reason that I should trust you.”
“But we know who you are, isn’t that good enough? We thought that you would be fine with us knowing who you are, not that that matters anyway, but still, you should trust us.”
 “ There is no way that I will ever trust you, I know when someone’s lying to me, and you are lying right now.” I stated matter-of-factly.
“We don’t care; you should trust us because we are telling the truth!”
 “You are not telling the truth, I know it, you are lying,” I nearly screamed, “There is no way I could ever trust this strange creature that just trapped me in a glowing ball of light!”
“You must trust us, we know things, we always speak the truth, you must trust us!” Near the end of what they said, they were screeching.
“Why are you yelling?” I yelled back at them, then they came forward and seized me by the arms, “Let me go! I want to leave, I don’t want to stay here any longer, and just let me go!”
At that moment, there was a sudden darkness that overcame the both of us, it was pitch black, but I the thing that had grabbed me screeched and let go. “I promise I won’t do it ever again, you can have her back, we don’t need her after all,” the creature said, “You can have her.”
Then the darkness left, and with it, the creature that I have yet to see. Now I am back with my brother, I don’t know why I left, or what that thing wanted with me, but now I am back with my brother, and now I’m safe.


Chapter 2
“What just happened?” A very tired James asked.
“I have no clue; I don’t even understand what happened. Did you see that globe of light?” I questioned. There was a light like that of the morning sun in the room, but I couldn’t tell where it was coming from.
“What globe of light, Arianna, there was no globe of light, I’m sorry.”
“I remember being pulled into it, and then I was told that I was a princess, but I know that they were lying to me. I’m just wondering, but what were those things that were fighting over me in the hall back there?” I really wanted to know what they were so I could identify them later, or find things out about them.
“I don’t know, I’m sorry, but all I know is that those creatures are very dangerous, and that there is something that wants you, but I don’t know what it is,” James whispered unknowingly. His eyebrows creased, lost in thought. I shook his arm, trying to bring him back to whatever this planet was called, but he just kept staring ahead of him. “Get behind me,” he said, his voice urgent and troubled, “NOW!”
I did as he told me to, right as I got behind him, one of the creatures that had been fighting in the hall, the one that had fought by itself, came towards us. Its approach didn’t slow until it drew very near to where we were. It moved my brother aside with a swipe of its powerful claws, luckily James did not get hurt. The creature looked down, and smiled a horrible smile, a smile that showed all of its dagger-like teeth. Whatever it was reached forward, its claws outstretched, and grabbed me, I screamed as loud as I could, but there was no one that would help me out there, so the cry was