Bounty Hunter Bash Quest Lock Part Eight

The Castle

It was darkening when they arrived. Soon they knew would be free from each-other. All they need to do was get to the castle. She had thought about what he had said. It made sense but the question was why? Why is this even happening? What was the point of it all? Were they that much of a threat? Or was it something else?

“Drew!” Chashathrophogh snapped to snap her out of her thoughts as they approached the castle.

It hand a set of double doors at the front with the walls going back diagonally like an arrow. With the ends hidden by trees. She could see a single tower to the left.

Bounty Hunter Bash Drew secured Sedash and followed her uncle to the double doors. The double doors opened as they approached. Then the torches spontaneously combusted into green flames.

“You ready.”

“Yeah you!”

He smiled and he nodded as they walked in side by side. As they passed through the doors their eyes met a riddle written in blood.

I look like one

In the sight of the sun

I look like an o

When you are at

Floor zero

“Is that all we have to go on?” Bounty Hunter Bash Drew remarked.

“Yes, but I think that I know where to go.” he said.

“Where and how did you come up with it?” she asked pride hurt.

“The tower, and think about it.” he said.

She looked at it and she soon got it. She then tailed him.

“You're really observant!”

He looked on and raised his eyebrow with a nod. They soon found the stairs and they soon climbed them. They took their time to conserve their energy. Even-though it was slow and steady, they soon came to the top. They came to a plain wooden door. Bounty Hunter Bash Drew looked outside and spotted the the door led to nowhere.

Dart! A trick! She thought angrily.

Meanwhile Chashathrophogh just opened the door revealing another room, impossibly, on the other side. Her eyes widened as she looked at the room. She just could not even get it in her head. How was there another room in there? Was it an illusion?

“Magic.” Chashathrophogh remarked as he took a step forward.

“It can do that?” she asked incapable of getting it inside her head.

“Yes. In fact there are very powerful magic users that can create their own miniature world.” he said.

“Can you?”

“No, I'm not that powerful.”

“Right.” she said as she followed him into the room.

When they were both in the room lit with yellow flames the door closed and they their eyes rested on a skeleton. It had strange purple strings keeping the joints together. She then looked at Chashathrophogh looked at it and immediately drew his sword.

“Drew, draw your bow.” he ordered.

She frowned and drew it, just inn time too, for the skeleton rose up and ran at them. Bounty Hunter Bash Drew fired arrow after arrow, however regardless of how much she fired the arrows passed through the ribcage. She then hit the centre but, even-though the arrow went through the bone it hardly did anything.

“Go fore the purple string.” he said.

She nodded.

“Right.”

She dived to the side to get away to get a good shot and fired at the purple sting but she only severed one. The skeleton spun and jumped at her. She fired more shots at the string but the skeleton got to her throat and she was in the air. She could not even believe how strong the skeleton was. She pulled out an arrow and used the head and started sawing the strings. She could feel the hand squeezing.

She closed her eyes and used her magic to opened the hand but the fingers dug in deeper. She found that she could not breathe. She felt a pressure in her head that was pounding her brain. Then she dropped and coughed and she clutched her throat.

Chashathrphogh then cut string after string with his sword. He severed the whole arm that had held her throat. He looked back at her and pulled her up.

“Now. Go for the neck.” he said.

She drew her bow and pulled back the arrow and fired. It hit and then she set the whole thing on fire. Then the skeleton raced over to the girl. She fired again and hit the kneecap this caused the skeleton to fall in front of them. She then hit the back of the neck again and again, just to let out just how freaked out she was. Soon the skeleton moved no more.

They took a break to gather their strength. Then, when they were calmer and has their energy returned to them. They then walked to the door.

“You ready?” he asked.

“We have to be.”