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A note to my dear fans:

I have had several doubts about this chapter as I was writing it about two weeks ago,always going back to add or edit it.But I would like to point out that both this and the next chapter are very important,more so with this one.Even though there is still sometime before the final chapter of Alirias life,try to remember this for later on as forshadowment.Thanks.

- [.silent night.]



Chapter 8: Demons of the Dark

The sword slipped with ease into her armor,flesh and bone.Its tip glistened behind her with blood,as if with pure joy to finally taste it.Raven smiled as Aliria stared down at the sword that went through the middle of her body,before coughing up blood and lurching over.He pulled his sword out slowly,letting her fall to her knees,then forward into the dusty ground.

"Pathetic."He hissed,wiping his sword onto her tunic,to get rid of the blood that stained it.
"And I honestly thought that you would put up a better fight then that..."He stared silently at her as her blood formed a thick puddle beneath her,the dirt swallowing ii up greedly.
"Well,I am sure that my men are finnished killing off the starglers at the other group.I hope to have the pleasure of dueling you again,Aliria."He said,walking off as myseriously as he had appeared.


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"...This can't be how it ends,can it?" Aliria thought,staring dully into the darkness.Something fell onto her cheek as thunder rolled over the near-by hills.She layed there,watching as the lightning briefly lit the landscape around her and listening to the rain.Slowly,she relized it was getting harder to breathe,it felt like someone was sitting on her chest.Coldness started from the tips of her fingers and toes as it worked its way up her body.She tried to pull her arms to her chest,ro warm them,but only had the strength to twitch them slightly.Another bolt of lightning flashed nearby,reveiling a figure limping tward her.Seconds later,the thunder eached her.At first,she thought it might have been Raven again,but the second lightning bolt put her fears to rest,showing her that the man was clutching his sloudier,which looked to be bleeding.Aliria relaxed a bit,but then relized that she was gasping for air and sudenly,the world went blank...

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Her eyes opened as she stood up.She looked around the darkened space before falling back down backwards.She wasn't wearing her dented armor and her feet wore no boots.Insted,she was wearing a light dress that appeared to be made of some kind of cotton material.She looked down at her wriggling toes.
Is this death? She thought.Even though Aliria could not speak,her voice echoed through the draftless air,sounding almost muffled out.
The room was dark,she could barely see a foot ahead of her,but her eyes quickly adjusted and noticed a darker courner of the 'room'.
"Hello?"Her voice echoed."Is someone there?"
She stood up slowly and inched slowly to the darkened courner.As she edged closer,she could her whispering.It was faint,but she could hear every word.Something wafted from the darkness as she got close enough to see hundereds of yellow,pupiless eyes that stared her down.It was the smell of sulfer.
"We can promise you riches beyond even the wildess dreams."The whipsering said.The voices sound hoarse,as though the didn't speak too often,and it they seemed to make every word worm into her mind.
"Gold so pure,even the elves cannot compare..."
She stopped dead in her tracks,not wanting to get any closer.
"We can give you land,power,glory...You will be treated like a godess..."There was a long silence as the creatures let there words sink in.
"How much power?"She asked the voices.
"More power then Raven and Dalg combined."The answered back.Only this time,something muffled out there voices,but she couldn't make out what it was."How much gold?"She asked,taking a step closer,not out of temptation,but out of curiousity.
"...So much gold,you could make a mountian range with it..."
She listened more intently that time.It sounded like people...People screaming and mourning to be freed.People,who are being tortured in hell.She wanted to get closer,but fear told her to run,to run as far away as possible.She didn't know what else to do but back away slowly,even though their whispering continued.
"Your father never gave you the compainionship you needed as a child.We can provide you with what you need.We can give you what you lacked as a child..."
Aliria turned around and walked briskly in the oposite direction of the voices.Something emerged from the shadows,something grotesque.
It appeared to look animal,crawling on its hands and feet,slowly crawling to her,yet it had a human like body and head without any hair.Its skin looked as if it had been stretched over a skeleton.It had four fingers on each hand.They were boney and long,with long (What appeared to be) nails.The ears were small and pointed,set back on the head.Its joints looked bulged and had only two slits in the middle of its face for nosterels.Its toes were as long as its fingers,and the nails just as sharp.Aliria could see the spine and ribs of the demon.As she counted the ribs,she noticed that it only had 5 on each side.At the sight of it,Aliria quickened her pace,her hands stretched out,reaching blindly.Her fingers pressed against something that feel like polished glass.It was cool to the touch and etremely smooth.She felt fronticly for an opening as more of the demons stumbled after her.She was dismayed to find none.She looked over her shoulder.They stopped about tenn feet away from her,their yellow eyes blinking every five second.
1-2-3-4-5 Blink.1-2-3-4-5 blink.1-2-3-4-5 blink.1-2-3-4-5 blink.
It drove her crazy.She leaned against the glassy wall,her back sliding down it until she was sitting on the 'floor',hugging her knees.She rested her head on her arms and wondered as to why they refused not to come any closer.They sat there,as if waiting for something,their whispering echoing through the room.