The Protectors

The Rise Of The Soul Keeper

The time came that Maria-Hope would start her ritual, so she gladly and slowly opened the book of souls and found the spell needed to begin the ritual, one minion sidekick came through the other minions with the chalis and dagger, he walked over too Maria and placed them on the table next to me and the book.

Maria raised both arms into the air and started to chant her incantation which all seemed to be in an old language, i looked over to my mum who was in histerics, i looked over to Gemma and Jessica who looked surprisingly calm, given the situation.

Maria had finished her latin incantation. She then flicked both of her arm's and suddenly i flew upside down, like somone grabbed both my legs and pulled me up.

As i was dangled upside down Maria placed the dagger under my head, she then grabbed the dagger, and started to read from the book again. She held the dagger over my heart, while chanting. She pulled her arms back and stabbed me straight through the heart, as the dagger pearced my chest i heard my mum scream at the top of her lungs.

Practically drowning in my own blood, i started to struggle, until i felt another pearcing stab into the chest, causing more blood to flow down over my face and into the dagger.

As i struggled to breath and everything started going black, cold, things really started to get fuzzy. I realised Gemma and Jessica had broken free from the clutches of Marias minions.

But as the magic fight broke out, I couldn't help it but i blacked out.

I awoke, but i wasn't in pain anymore, i lifted my t-shirt and i had no wounds, my clothes wasn't covered in blood, and most of all i wasn't upside down anymore. Was i dead? but where am i? things were just a bright white light, i thought i was in the light of heaven. But after a while the bright white appeared to be dimming. As it was dimming it occured to me that i was still in the dead zone, but in the same room that Maria-Hope had Gemma and Jessica tied to the wall as hostages.

It was then i started hearing again, and coming from the corridor i could hear screaming and shouting. I walked over to the door and tried to open it, but my hand went straight through the handle, I wondered what was going on, but if there was one thing that i wasn't and that was scared, i wasn't scared at all, just curious.

Realising i could possibly walk through doors, like a ghost, well, i suppose i was a ghost.

I walked out through the door and into the corridor, i started making my way down to the thrown room. For a reason unbeknown to me it felt like everything was in slow motion, Gemma and Jessica were both fighting with Maria-Hope using their magic powers over my body. Which i was saddened to see my blood ridden, body laying out on the sacrifice table, while my mum was crying in devastation on the floor under Gemma and Jessica as they were fighting.

I watched on helplessly as Maria-Hope and her minions managed to over power Gemma and Jessica, and threw back, with what look like a hurricane blow from her hands. They both flew to the floor, where the minions picked them up and held them hostage.

Proud of her achievment Maria-Hope picked up the chalis full of my blood and walked it over to what looked like a tomb which was hidden behind a tapestry on the right hand side of the room.

As Maria approached the tomb she statted to chant again in the old latin language she used earlier, obviously she was finishing off the ritual, and attempting to wake the soul keeper.

Maria then poured the contents of the chalis over the tomb while she chanted more of the incantation.

As a rumble came from the tomb and the blood seemed to aborb into the stone. Gemma managed to break away from the minion holding her back, she shouted a spell which seemed to turn all the minions into mice, as a result releasing herself, my mum and Jessica from their grasp. Jessica ran towards mum and grabbed her and swirlled into thin air leaving Gemma to face the rise of the soul keeper and Maria-Hope.

Maria smiled as the soul keeper slowly appeared in front of her. I could see Gemma desperately trying to come up with a plan. Unfortunately before she come up with anything, the soul keeper was fully regenerated, with his hoffed feet, cow like legs, claw like hands, full body of hair with razor sharp horn on top of his head, i have yet to see this demons eyes. As he towered about 8ft above Gemma and Maria, Gemma swirlled into thin air to get herself to safety.

I stood and watched on, as Maria-Hope then tried to command the soul keeper to catch Gemma and bring her back. But much to mine and obviously Maria's the soul keeper just stood there, staring at the wall, as though he was lost and couldn't hear anything. Maria's anger grew as the soul keeper was ignoring her, as she hoped to control it, to be able to take over hell, heaven and earth.

"Soul keeper i have given you a comand now obey me" Maria comanded. But the soul keeper still ignored her. She then started getting ugly and started using her magic on the soul keeper, as punishment for ignoring her "SOUL KEEPER" she shouted, as she force choked him to the ceiling "YOU WILL OBEY ME". She dropped the keeper to his knees on the floor.

Maria now more angered the before told "GO GET GEMMA AND BRING HER BACK, NOW". The keeper listened to her this time, but something wasn't right, he looked at me dead in the eye, and now i can tell you i have never seen anything so dark blood red in my life. He knew i was there in spirit form.

I walked around to the other side of the room, but all the while, i knew he was watching me, the blessing i suppose was the fact i was dead and couldn't feel fear.

I stood next to my body, it had been let down and laid on the table. I turned at looked at the soul keeper. I couldn't help but look into his eyes, it was like i was being pulled in, when i started hear a deep gravelly voice in my head, it must have been him using some kind of telepathy, because he said "you don't belong here".

He turned away and towards the door and went off to find Gemma.

As i watched him walk out the thrown room door, Maria-Hope was then left on her own, oh i wanted to haunt her for what she has done to me and my family. I ran at her and flung for a punch but i flew straight through her, i wispwred into her left ear "i'm going to get you back for this". Maria heard what i said and jumped out of her skin.

It was then that the soul keeper came back into the room, with Gemma unconcious in his arms. I could only watch helplessly as the soul keeper placed Gemma next to my body.

He then walked over to me and looked me dead into the eyes again. He told me with his telepathy "i'm hungry i need to eat a soul". Thinking he meant mine i thought it best to get away, but i think he had me under a mind control, because although i thought it woukd be a good idea i couldn't move, i just stood there.

Maria-Hope walked over to Gemma and started to tie her to the sacrifice table. When she tied the first cuff down the soul keeper turned to her. Maria demanded "i need you to take her soul, and then i can enchant them both and they will be the start to the human race becoming my devoted slaves.

With reluction to carry out her instructions, in the deep gravelly voice, like what i heard in my head, the keeper told Maria "it is not his destiny, and she is a witch, i can take the soul for me but she cannot be your slave, the human can be, but i do not foretell this to be his destiny".

Anger raged in Maria-Hope. She flicked her hand to throw the soul keeper as punishment, but the keeper did not move. The keeper told her "but i can remove the magic from someones soul, and your was delious".

Just as the soul keeper was starting to turn on Maria-Hope, Gemma came too. She slowly stood and noticed that she had a cuff on one hand and she was next to my body. With no effort she pointed at the lock of the cuffs and broke them free with a bolt of magic from her finger.

In a massive hurry she held her hands over my body and a swirl of air took her and my body away. I have my faith in Gemma, Jessica and mun to have come up with a plan to stop this feasco.

Maria-Hope was now at the mercy of the soul keeper, who was slowly stamping towards her, he was hungry he wanted a freshly killed soul to eat, and he had his eyes set on Maria-Hope.

Maria was walking backwards to stay away from the keeper, when she fell onto her bum, she started begging and pleading that he spares her life. It was that i felt like i was in a vacuum, i was being pulled and i could do nothing about it was with a 10 second black out. I opened my eyes to see the smiling faces of my mum, Gemma and Jessica. i was laying in one of the corridors in the hell dimension.

I looked down to my chest and noticed that my stab wounds were slowly reparing themselves. But i have to say the reaction from all three women with the hugs that whatever they done had worked, i was convinced i was going to die of suffocation.

Just as happy to see them i smiled and said "knew you were up to something". they all looked at me with confusion so i gladly told them "i'll explain later".

I started to sit up when a thought flew into my head, i rushed up to my feet and the girls still sat on the floor started getting concerned and asking me what was going on. "Maria-Hope" i exclaimed "Maria-Hopes in danger, the soul keeper was preparing for a soulful meal, he was going to feed on her, we need to get her out" .

This seem to have angered Gemma so sge exclaimed in retaliation "you have got to be kidding that woman has ruin yours and my life". She followed on by shouting "SHE BLOODY KILLED YOU, I SAY DINNERS UP, ENJOY YOUR MEAL MR KEEPER".

Arguing and defending Maria i told Gemma "she hasn't got her magic anymore the soul keeper eat her magic from her soul shes harmless now, not only that we can't leace that demon to roam willy nilly".

Absolutly convinced that we cannot leave Maria-Hope behind, i bardged passed and ran down the corridor into the thrown room. I burst through the door, and found the soul keeper still toying with Maria, as she kept crawling backwards to get away from him begged and pleadwd and pleaded and begged somemore.

Gemma, Jessica and Mum followed me into the room, I asked Gemma "how do we kill him". Gemma shouted in anger "How the hell should i know". Gemma and Jessica used whatever spell that came to mind but they seemed to deflect off of him. I occured to me the scale of power that Maria-Hope had seens as her powers worked on him, maybe that was why he took her magic from her soul?

As we distracted him away from Maria, he then turned his attentions to Jessica, and in his gravelly deep voice told her "your another powerful one" he sniffed and continued saying "and your pure". Maria was still on the floor in shock, so i ran over to her to help her off the floor, i asked her "how do you kill him?", Maria replied "use the dagger that i resarrected him with and stab it through his heart".

I searched for the dagger but it must have got knocked with all the commotion, i search on and around the sacrifice table, when oit of the blue i realised it had been knocked off the table and kicked over near the thrown room door.

As the soul keeper was defending himself from Gemma and Jessica's magic attacks, i ran round them and dived out the way of the keeper claw swipe.

I grabbed the dagger and with haste i waited for the perfect moment to strike that dagger through his heart, and then that moment arrived. As Gemma through a fire ball at him he deflected it, in doing so he oped out his chest, facing me. Not wabting to ruin the perfect opportunity i dived into him thrusting the dagger into his chest, stabbing the heart.

We all watched on in hope that this works, and doesn't annoy him more. But much to our relief, the soul keeper started to weaken, and in doing so he dropped to his knees, and started floating off into little flutters of ash.

By now the soul keeper is now a complete ball of ash, so i looked around at my mum and ran to give her a jolly huge hug, Gemma and Jessica happily joined mine and mum's hug of celebration.

After a while of congratulating each other and enjoying this happy occasion, i looked around to see Maria-Hope crying on the floor. I got everyones attention, and we all walked over to the failure that was Maria.

Crying her apolodgies over and over again, we quietly helped her up off the floor and took her with us. But i did not, under any circumstances want to leave the chalis and dagger down here, incase theres another psychotic person that wants to raise hell on earth.

Gemma grabbed her bag and opened it, i picked up the chalis and dagger and placed it in Gemmas bag. I then went to the dried in blood ridden sacrifice table and took the book of souls to keep safe with us.

We all held hands in a circle while Gemma and Jessica used a spell to get us out of this hell hole, and with a swirl of wind we exited the hell dimension and was back on earth again at last.