Chapter 525 - That Thing is Here (1/2)
Adrianna shielded herself with her hands from the incessant rains and gale. She ran to Inyanga and Haldir and shouted so that they could hear her against the whipping and lashing sound of the rain, ”I saw the blast of electricity on the door of the restaurant. Explain.”
”My Queen,” Haldir said in a worried voice. ”Please go back inside.”
”Yes Adrianna. Go and protect Ileus. There is something that is horrible in nature. It is floating around here,” Inyanga persisted.
Adrianna's eyes grew wide in horror. Why was Inyanga relating the horrible thing to Ileus? There was heaviness inside her chest. ”What is it?” she asked in hoarsely.
”It looks like a spirit, and a powerful one at that.”
”How can you say?” she couldn't believe it. Her legs became shaky at the word 'spirit'. Only a year back they had fought off Vikra and now there was another of the same instances. She felt nausea rising inside. She turned around in the deluge to check on Ileus. The group seemed frightful on the inside but they were fairly okay.
”Because I could feel the sensation,” she said. ”It scr.a.p.ed off my skin and I could get the tingly feeling. It was creepy. I shivered. It m.o.a.ned like a wounded child. There was so much pain and dread in its m.o.a.n that it shook my heart. But then spirits are known to weave you in their web of lies. It attacked the moment it cried.” Inyanga became quiet and shuddered as though she could still feel it.
”What else? Is it still around?” she asked. Her voice was breathy.
”It is right here,” Inyanga said. ”The blast that occurred was because it must have tried to penetrate the electric field created by Haldir.”
Adrianna brought her hand to her mouth. She was so drenched but the redness in her eyes, which were a manifestation of her worries, were clearly seen even under the flickering streetlights.
The three of them stood with their backs facing each other and conjured magic. ”Be prepared to attack it.” She mentally communicated with Dmitri, ”Don't come out and don't let anyone come out of the restaurant until I ask.” But she didn't get his affirmation. Worried, she pushed her thoughts again towards him. All she got was blackness once again. ”Dmitri!” she shouted aloud as she also pushed herself in his cell this time.
”Adrianna, what is happening?” asked Inyanga. ”Why isn't Dmitri responding?”
Adrianna had entered his cell and the vision she saw left her shaky. She caressed him mentally and said, ”I am there. Don't worry, okay. Nothing is going to happen. Just focus on Ileus.”
”Yes Adri…” came a soft voice.
”Tell Niiya to close all the doors and windows of the building and tell the entire staff not to step out.”
”Okay…”
”Dmitri saw the vision of the spirit. It is a small fragment, with a deformed head and has its eyes rolled out of its sockets. So that���s what we are looking for.” Adrianna informed the others.
While they waited for the spirit to attack them, they noticed that the rains had reduced. It was only drizzling now. The lamps still quavered above. ”Is it gone?” asked Haldir.
Inyanga was about to say something when they heard someone clawing. The sound was like thin iron claws scratching over a rock. This was accompanied with unknown language, which was so crooked that it didn't make sense. The sound picked up as if the spirit was trying to claw over the electric wall that surrounded the diner. Adrianna followed the source of sound and sent a full blast of ice in that direction. The ice banged with the wall and shattered into thousands of shards that flew in the air. The sound immediately subsided with a whimper.
”I think it's gone,” Haldir said when they didn't hear anything for the next few minutes.