Page 67 of The Hellbeast's Betrayal

The only problem with this was that it disturbed the rest. Making the first few bones come rolling down as we all turned to watch. We sighed in relief when it only caused a slight disruption but then,some more bones followed it.And then before we knew it, a fuck load more followed those, until there was a fucking avalanche of bones, all coming down behind us!

“Oh shit! RUN!” Orth shouted. I looked back in time to see a fucking tsunami wave of bones coming straight for us, ready to bury us alive as the mountain floor rumbled around us.

“FUCK!” Marcus shouted, as my eyes scanned the area looking for any way out of this shit.

“UP THERE, ON THE LEDGE!” I shouted above the thunder of movement behind us as wave after wave began to fall. As it was like the domino effect, it wasn’t just one pyramid, it was them fucking all! A sea of bones coming at us, ready to crush us and bury us alive.

“I SEE IT!” Marcus shouted.

“BE READY, BROTHER, TYR, MARCUS, JUMP FOR IT ON MY MARK… ONE… TWO… THREE!” I shouted as the ledge became at its lowest point for us to leap on to. As for Marcus, he made it easily, jumping up after Tyr and I. However, this time, it was my brother who needed to be saved, and Marcus quickly grabbed him and pulled him in… T-shirt intact, the lucky fucker.

Of course, we were higher up now, but this wasn’t going to save us, as the bones just kept getting higher and higher as more pyramids fell. We continued to run up the higher platform, leaving me praying that not only would we make it out of this alive, but that we were heading the right way. As the mountain floor we had been walking on was now completely covered in meters of bone.

Bone that continued to chase us until we could finally see a doorway cut into the rock up ahead.

“RUN!”

“I AM FUCKING RUNNING!”

“THEN RUN FUCKING FASTER!” I yelled at my brother who was last.

I watched as Tyr made it, then Marcus, then I waited for my brother being chased by the wall of grey bone coming at him. I reached out and yanked him the rest of the way. Only just making it there myself before the doorway instantly became blocked, as it filled up with bone. Doing so tightly enough that it created a barrier for anymore to follow.

We all bent over to catch our breaths and when Marcus and Orth were about to speak, I held up my hand and snapped,

“Not a fucking word!” Then I stormed off, snatching Marcus’s glowing staff from his hand and using it to lead and light the way down the tunnel.

Because now I was left with an even bigger problem after finally rescuing my girl. A question that left me asking myself…

Who would rescue us?

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THE CASTLE OF THANATOS

Wisely, no one spoke after this, because in a nutshell, we were fucked! As not only had I intended to do this quietly, but I had also planned for us to have a way out. But as it was, unless we found another route, then this rescue was going to go one way. I was going to save Ella from one Fate before potentially throwing her straight into another. Oh yeah, we would be together, but unless we had some Romeo and Juliet kind of bullshit ending intent on dying together, then this was not going to plan at all.

The tunnel didn’t branch off anywhere, which also didn’t bode well for us. Meaning that by the time we walked long enough to reach the castle entrance, I still didn’t have a fucking clue how I was going to get us out of this one.

Because there was only one door.

Our only shred of luck was that there were no guards to contend with, and when I say luck, I meant that in the barest sense of the word…like, no bigger than fucking ant sized. Surprisingly, the landslide of bones hadn’t even alerted anyone to our presence, despite causing a fucking avalanche big enough to shake the mountain.

“Now I am going to go in there and by the time I come out with my girl, I want a fucking plan!” I barked at my brother and Marcus.

“Er…” both of them said, looking at each other like naughty fucking schoolboys!

“I am serious, this plan is properly fucked if we can’t get out of this place,” I told them.

“I think I…”

“Not now, Tyr,” I snapped, as I continued to give my brother and my best friend a piece of my very pissed off mind.

“I don’t care if you have to try and claw your way out of this fucking place…”

“HellBeast…”

“I said not now!” I shouted at Tyr, who instead of going the fuck away, grabbed me by the shoulder. I was about to punch him in the face, but he grabbed mine first and forced it back.

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