Creatures of Nightmares

Chapter 14

“The creatures are being held with me. They can’t hear me or see me right now, though.”

Astra nodded. “Ok. Can you tell me where you are?”

“It’s like a large black castle lined with gold and red. On a hill.”

Then Apollo heard footsteps. “One second.”

He paused the connection and looked at the dungeon door.

“Toss them in,” said Shadow.

Two male wolves were thrown in. Their fur was caked with blood.

“Were there any others?” Said Shadow, slamming the dungeon door closed so his voice was muffled.

“One - left,” said a wolf.

“Why - should’ve - got - too!!!!!” Shadow snarled.

Apollo, with the few words he heard, pieced together the information that they had left Astra.

The wolf and Shadow walked away from the black dungeon door.

Apollo turned to the two male wolves.

“Welcome to the dungeon, Pax and Prince.”

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Astra was warped back to reality. “Ok,” she said. “I guess I have to wait for him.”

She slowly walked around, finally noticing she was quite hungry.

“What could I eat..” she huffed. So she ran around, looking for a deer or something similar, but could not find anything.

She then walked to the water’s edge hungrily and eyed the piranhas. Astra walked along the edge under she found a large sabertooth salmon. With a jolt of speed, she stuck her head in the water and sank her teeth into its flesh. She pulled out the fish and began eating it.

“Good enough,” she muttered.

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“How do you know our names?” Pax asked. “And what’s with your face?” He added, noticing the three scars running from his left eye to his snout. They bled.

“Not right now,” Apollo said. He turned to the darkness.

“Anyone else here? We won’t bite..”

A small trunk with brown fur came out of the darkness a bit.

Apollo stepped forward.

“Hello,” he said.

The trunk started tapping his face and he started laughing. There was a second, small young voice that laughed too.

“Nice to meet you,” he whispered.

“Hewo,” said the small creature. She stepped out. She was a small brown mammoth.

Apollo’s gaze went to the chains around her little legs. His nose touched the tip of the mammoth’s trunk. “Don’t worry. My friend and I are going to save you.” And his black swirls glowed.

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“Jeez, Apollo!” Astra yelped as she warped into darkness.

“I know, I know,” he said. “But the animals really are here. One young mammoth peeked out.”

“Ok,” Astra nodded. “My job is to sneak in and get you out, and your job is to make the animals comfortable with wolves, so they won’t freak out when I help them.”

“One second,” Apollo said.

The darkness Astra was in warped and she became translucent. “I can barely see my legs..”

“I know. Turn around.”

She turned and saw Prince, Pax, and Apollo.

“Oh! What happened?!?”

“We were ambushed.” Pax and Prince huffed angrily.

“And, well, you knew I got the scars.. but from Shadow. And you should know I’m in the dungeon.”

Astra nodded.

“I wonder if we can use this to our advantage..”

“What do you mean?” Pax asked.

“I’m white, and being slightly translucent, I might look completely white in the snow. Maybe I can lead Shadow away from the castle, without moving my real body.”

Apollo grinned. “Yes!”

I gotta go.. sadly.. though I wanna keep doing this lol

-DiploLover24