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“Where is it?” The redhead lowered his body to get a better glance at the water. “I think I see something,” he said, then his scream cut short, replaced by a splash.
I gasped as I flinched. Something under the water had pulled him in.
“Anthony! Anthony!” The dark haired guy frantically searched for him, but kept his distance.
“I don’t see anything!” Tom paced along the streambed. “Chris, I think we should go.” He headed toward the exit.
Chris grabbed Tom by his tunic. “Not so fast. There’s a reward, and we’re going to find the treasure. We just need to cross the bridge.”
“We don’t know what it looks like. Anthony is dead. I don’t want to die.”
Chris dragged Tom toward the bridge with ease. They didn’t make it far and halted when the water began to bubble, faster and faster.
“What is that!” Tom ran back, but just before he touched the pebbled ground, a skeletal figure, nothing but bones and looking like something out of a nightmare, soared out of the water.
“Show me your light!” the guttural voice boomed as wind howled around the body of water only.
Tom hollered a frightful cry and ran toward his friend. Then more skeletal figures came out of the bubbling water until a hundred of them swarmed like bees around them amid the violent gale.
“Show me your light!” the voice said again.
“What do you mean?” Chris swung his sword from side to side, an effort to keep them from reaching them. Tom by his side doing the same.
“We need to get out of here!” Tom’s voice was drowned by the skeletal figures that had completely covered them.
Piercing screams rent the cave as black demon blood spread like spilled ink on the water surface. Saving Grace!
The airstream died and the skeletal figures vanished into thin air, leaving pieces of bones as evidence of the intruders’ existence on the large stone bridge. Then the bones flew across space as if invisible hands tossed them. They tumbled on top of the mound of skeletons, disturbing the pile and clattered to the ground.
I had no time for fear. No time to waste. I had no idea what the treasure looked like or how to find it, but with my instinct guiding me, I headed for the bridge.
With my boot, I tapped on the first stone, about the size of a large tortoise’s back. When it seemed like it could hold my weight, I cautiously took measured steps. No ashes or blood, no evidence of the three beings slaughtered.
When I reached about the same spot the dead beings had halted, the water bubbled and the same skeletal form popped out of the surface, levitating like a spirit twelve feet above me.
“Show me your light,” his voice thundered.
“I am a Seraphim. I am the light.” My voice projected like a command as I slowly unfurled my wings, preparing for fight or flight.
“Show me the light!” Louder than the first time and the wind came out of nowhere.
The body of water rose taller until I was almost submerged and more skeletal figures came out of the bubbling water growing bigger. The faster these creatures circled me, the more powerful the wind whipped like a tornado, sucking up the air.
I gasped a stuttering breath. My heart raced with fear as the panic set in. I only agreed to find the treasure to free Zander, but if this mission cost my life, then I had failed him too.
“What light?” Wheezing, gasping for air.
These skeletal creatures spun faster and faster, inching toward me closer and closer until they enclosed me completely.
“Show me the light!”
No way was I going to be a victim. I wasn’t going to die here. Asmodeus didn’t give me back my sword for no reason, so I yanked it out from within the safety of my feathers. My vision spun, my body swayed, and I was on the verge of floating to unconsciousness.
With my last breath, I belted, “I hold the divine sword. I am the light, and I command you to halt.” I pounded my weapon on the stone bridge as I collapsed to my knees with my head down.
From my sword, a bright light blasted like the one I had seen in my dream and blinded me, then winked out quick as it came.
The creatures vanished, the body of water stilled, and my lungs expanded as I inhaled and exhaled a deep breath. Peace filled the cavern. My heart pounding in my ears and my breaths escaping were the only sounds beside the frightened squeaking of mice by the pile of skulls and bones.
