The Golden Child: Book One of the bloodline series

Stones and Blows

Looking up at him terrified i held on to my mum's hand as we tried to move away from his advancing form while still on the ground.

With a snarl and a menancing wicked look on his face i knew he intended to kill us, i swallow the lump that suddenly formed in my throat as we kept inching away from him and i looked at my mum's bewildered expression and whispered;

'I thought you said he couldn't g-g-get out?'

She looked at me with a worried expression and squeezed my hand but before she could reply we heard him chuckle to himself as he slowly moved towards us and said;

'I couldn't but someone got me out,' he stroked his jaw as he spoke looking directly at me and continued;

'Someone with a very unique energy, someone who it seems accidentally set me free', at this he smiled a most sinister smile and mock bowed to me then raised his head holding my gaze and pointed to me;

'Someone who is supposed to be dead, of which i can i arrange';

And then he lunged at me..

Everything happened in a blur, one minute i was scrambling backwards, the next my mum crouched in front of me and punched him in the face causing him to let out an angry growl and he was about to deliver his own blow when i stretched out my hands and screamed;

'NOOOO!!!'

There was a burst of energy that suddenly came out of me and hit him square in his chest and right in front of me his features changed, hardening as if he was turning back into stone and with one final angry growl he exploded.

The blow back was so strong that my mum and i were both thrown out of the maze completely with debris falling all around us.

Coughing for the second time and trying to look for my mum through the dusty mist i weakly tried to stand up and heard her calling out for me;

'Ella, Ella, honey are you okay? '

Stretching out my hand to her i try to stand up striaght;

'Ya, mum am okay. Are you okay?'

I cough while asking and then i feel dizzy and notice the dust clouds swirling around us turning into dusty stars and i try to blink into focus but suddenly feel so exhausted i try to lay back down on the ground vaguely hearing my mum's voice telling me to stay awake.

I try to tell her am just tired and i want to close my eyes from the wierd dust but all I can do is mumble, the last thing i see is my mum's face telling me it's going to be alright and everything fades and becomes dark.