The Protectors

A Nightmare Of An Adventure

After a 10 hour drive i was knackered but wee arrived in Glencoe Scotland, where we were to stay until we have retreived that dagger. We found a B&B and knocked on the door, the owner answered with a vaig expression on his face, i noticed that he had a name badge that simply said "Mr Williams". "Hello" i said. I asked for 2 single rooms, he told us "we only have 1 room left with a double bed", i looked at Gemma and Gemma looked at me. We were not comfortable that we had to share, but there was nowhere else to go. We both went to grab the key's and touched hands, both of us where very embarrassed, i told Gemma nervously "you, um, carry on". Gemma picked up the keys, Mr Williams told us "your room 3, upstairs on the left"

With an awchward thank you, we walked over to the stairs to find our room.

We got to the top and took the left as instructed and found room 3. Gemma unlocked the door and pushed open the door. The room looked nice, white walls with portraits of the sea and beaches on the wall. I went over to the bed to see if we could pull it apart, but it was a solid wooden double bed. "I'll sleep on the floor" i insisted. Gemma agreed and took out the research and laid it on the floor. I told Gemma "you need to remember that you are mingling with humans so becareful if you have to use your magic.

She looked at me with a glare and carried on sorting out the research materials, "right" she exclaimed "we need to find where the dagger is, it's in the lake it's around here somewhere" she said pointing at the lake on the map "we need to get on the lake and dive down, so we need to ask someone but i still rather not deal with those useless creatures" "i am human too you know" i reminded her. With a look of sorrow she apolodgized. "So" she huffed "where do we start?" With a sudden thought i walked out the room and left Gemma in the room, i ran downstairs to the reception area and looked for Mr Williams.

"Mr Williams" i shouted, i looked into the dining room and the tables were set up lovely, with posh looking glasses and silver polished cutlery, i turned and Mr Williams was stood behind me, "JESUS" i exclaimed, jumping out of my skin. "What do you want?" he asked in a grumpy old man tone, "can i have some brochures of the local sites like loches or lakes and do they do boat trips or boat hires around here?", he pointed down the hallway towards the kitchen, to the brochure stand. I picked up some brochures of the local area mainly focusing on the lakes mainly looking for boat hires on those lakes. I picked up all the ones i could find in the stand.

I went back up to the room and Gemma was reading the books that i found about the dagger, chalis and virgin blood. I told her "i have picked up every brochure from down stairs which are about all the lakes in the local area, we've got to search each and every square metre of them, you got any ideas", Gemma looked as if she was giving up and scared of the ritual that was inevitable, with my blood and dagger. she said in frustration "you never told me you maybe getting cut to shreads", jokingly "why, do you care about me now, a little worthless human like me?" Suttlely pretending she replied "no, no you're human, no" she carried on saying "but you need to tell me what you find we can't keep anything from each other, especially you". "why just me" i asked "i have magic powers i can protect myself, but you you're weak". with an offended huff and smile i replied "thanks". She looked at me and playfully punched me on the arm, i laughed but i didn't want to tell her it hurt, alot. I stood up to shake it off and stretch my legs.

"How can we search the bottom of the lake? it'll take forever we can't get that many oxygen tanks to last?" i asked. Suddenly a crazy idea popped into my head, i turned to Gemma, still sat on the floor and asked "can you turn me into a fish of some description", "well yeah i can but how can you grab it if you find it?" Thinking about the situation and feeling confident in my next idea, i asked "can you turn me into a merman?". Gemma shrugged her shoulders and said although she was unsure "it's worth a try"

With a plan set we chose the closest point of lake to start searching, but feeling tired,we decided to tackle that quest tomorrow. Setting ourselve up for a night of sleep i set up a bed on the floor while Gemma was in the shower. I laid down in my bed and started thinking about my plan to save my mum with slight doubt running through my mind. What if i die?, mum's then stuck forever doomed in the dead zone. I can't do this without Gemma so as best as i can i need to keep her safe, although she can handle herself better then me.

Gemma walked out of the shower and stepped over me on the floor asking "are you ok down there?" Jokingly i replied "i thought you don't care about me", she laughed and threw her pillow at me, telling me to shut up. I threw the pillow back with a smile on my face, thinking that i have accomplished a difficult task of making friends with her and gaining her trust.

An hour into us going to bed, i lay thinking and staring at the ceiling, i could not clear my mind, i tossed and turned. The floor was hard, and uncomfortable. Gemma was obviously getting frustrated and she asked "did you want to lay on the bed" "oh thank god" i said in relief. I went to lay my head down next to hers, when she stopped me and said "what you doing, top and tail" i sat up and put my pillows down at the foot of the bed. As i lay on the bed feeling nice and cosy, i lay on the bed, and i slowly drifted off into a deep sleep.

As i slept comfortably and warm i started to dream. Maria-Hopes face was the first to pop into my dream, from when i first met her at the cafe, which then drifted into the face of my mother, it then took a turn for the worse, when it switched to the creepy dark entity stood in the bedroom doorway, i sat up looking over at the entity, my breath was getting heavy and my heart started to beat a pounding beat, i sat forward to wake Gemma but she wasn't there. I looked at the bedroom door and seen gemma in the arms of the entity, dead. The entity turned away from the bedroom doorway to walk away, i jumped out of bed and ran to the door. Just as i got to the door it slammed shut on it's own, i pulled the door but it was locked in. I turned and the were-man was stood on the other side of the room, with his bright red eyes and horrible hair hands like claws and wolf like ears "no please" i pleaded, just as he jumped over the bed for an attack. I jolted and woke up in a cold sweat and heart pounding, i woke to find a quiet relaxing bedroom with, Gemma snoring like a pig.

I looked at the time and it was 3am. I turned on my side and managed to calm down.

Before i knew it, the sun was out and the birds were singing. "Morning" Gemma said, i turned onto my back found her foot on my pillow, i sat up quick and jokingly said "i wondered why i was dreaming about stilton", laughing Gemma shouted "shut up".

I carried on joking "God, no wonder why you prefer to be on your own, the way your were snoring, it sounded like i was laying a penn full of pigs". In retaliation she jokingly said "shut up or i'll make you kiss the stilton". Both laughing and joking with each other, means we've declared a good friendship, and we can be a better team.

We sorted ourselves out, i enjoyed a very overdue shower, while Gemma was still in the room getting dressed. I dried myself and went to get dressed, i went into the room and we started to get down to bussiness to finding this dagger.

We broke out the brouchures, trying to work out how to get to said lakes, we looked through a road map and planned a route to the lake. We eventually found the lake in question, we set about finding a boat, so upon walking around we found a man with a small row boat. we asked "excuse me sir, could we hire a boat to go on the lake please?". Refusing to help, he told us he had nothing left, knowing that he was lying, Gemma put him under a hypnotic spell demanding him too cooperate and giving us his boat, and practically making him her slave.

Gemma concerns me when she does stuff like this because how do i know she's not going to do that to me if i disagree with some thing. If she goes unstable anything can happen. She made the gentleman row us into the middle of lake.

We set out on the boat and a little way. with a wave of her hand and click of her finger Gemma turned me into a merman and pushed me into the water.

I swam to the bottom of the lake and started fishing around for the dagger. Remembering the vaig vision of the dagger laying on a body of sand, so i made that my priority in finding a body of sand.

After an hour of swimming i could feel the spell wearing off so i tried to swim to the surface before it did. As i surfaced i relised i wasn't to far away from the boat, i shouted "GEMMA", Gemma saw me in the distance and made the man row the boat over to me. "what's wrong" she asked. "the spells wearing off" i answered. i went to climb into the boat when she told me "stay in there i'll just" with that she pointed and me and chanted and i turned into the merman again.

I dived back under and started looking around the lake floor again, i swam through a pile of rocks but still cannot see a body of sand.

I swam and swam still to no preveil. Until i saw in the distance a glimer of light shinning through the water, which attracted me towards it. I swam closer and closer to see the dagger reflecting the sun light into my direction, with a sense of joy i swam as fast as i could towards it.

Little did i know that the dagger was laying on a body of sand for a reason. As i approached the dagger the sun light was no more, as if i was in the shadow of something big as i looked up towards the surface, charging towards me was what looked like a dinosaur. I've heard of the lochness monster but apparently it not just the lochness that has a monster.

This thing had a long neck and a huge whale like body, with a T-rex like head and teeth to match.

I desperately swam for my life, this monster was catching me up quick. I had to duck and dive into rocks, in and out of the lake wildlife. Still not in posession of the dagger i tried to head back towards it.

Turned and went head on towards the monster and dived under it at the last second, i swam as quick as a merman could to get the dagger.

The monster managed to turn to chase me again but it gave me enough time to get to the dagger before he caught me. I swam as quick as i could towards the boat. When i thought i lost the monster, it actually tricked me and came at me from the right hand side. It knocked me off my course and i smacked straight into the rocks. Breaking my right arm in the process.

I managed to creep myself into an underwater cave as the monster swam up and down knowing i was around here somewhere. Hungerily searching for me, i peered out of the cave wall and saw it swimming off towards the body of sand. I eventually snuck out and in the opposite direction towards the boat. I swam to the surface and saw Gemma and the boat, i swam as i quick as i could with my broken arm.

Gemma noticed i surfaced and she made the boat man row towards me. I threw the dagger into the boat and Gemma helped me climb in. As i was half way in the boat Gemma asked " what the hell happened down there?". There was a sudden sense of something horrible was going to happen. It was then that the monster jumped out of the water and done a whale dive to turn the boat.

We all fell into the water. I tried to catch the dagger as we went under, but the dagger sunk to the bottom. I left the dagger so i could go and help Gemma who evidentally could not swim. As the monster circled i swam to Gemma and held her under my left arm, and in great amounts of pain got to the dagger swooped down and picked it up.

Still in pain i swam as fast i could to the surface before Gemma past out and nearly drowned. with no sign of the monster we swam towards the shore and laid on the side trying to catch our breaths. Gemma shouted "WHAT WAS THAT?". "i don't know but it's gone and we've got this" i replied in my deep breath. Gemma looked and took the dagger from me and said "well done, why are you holding your arm" i answered "i think i've broken it, also do you fancy turning me back", she grabbed my hand and hovered her hand over my arm and started to chant. When she finished there was no pain at all and it was back to normal, thus time she pointed her index finger at me and with a bolt of electric i changed back to human and i suddenly noticed that the boatman didn't surface, we unfortunately lost the boatman to the monster of the lake. I gentally asked "why did you not tell me you could swim?", "didn't think i needed to", she breathlessly replied.

After we rested for a while,soaking wet, we both helped each other up, grabbed our stuff and prepared ourselves for a long walk around the lake, back to the car

We got back to the B&B drowned, soaked and chilled to the bone. We tried to dodge seeing Mr Williams. We went to the room and found that we lost our key in all the commotion. But there was no worry as Gemma waved her hand over the lock and the door unlocked and we was able to gain entry again.

We dried ourselves off and warmed ourselves up with a nice hot cuppa. To my shock Gemma asked if we could cuddle, so that we could use each others body heat to warm each other up. Just as i got cosy into her and we started warming, Gemma jumped up amd said "right, we need to find the chalis". Dissapointed i wanted to tell Gemma inwas enjoying the hug, but i didn't know how too. I sat on the bed admiring her. Meanwhile Gemma set us up for another locating spell, she had a picture of the chalis and set out a circle of candles.

We sat inside the circle and held hands while she chanted, when a vision of the chalis had presented itself in a bright flash of light and the location of the chalis flamed onto the map, just the same as the dagger did. The image showed it at the top of mountain in what looked like a cave, and the flame of location was. Snowdonia wales.