Post by angel on Jan 25, 2007 21:34:22 GMT 1
THE FORBIDDEN GAME PART SIX THE KILL
It was funny how simple and everyday it seemed doing what her grandfather had said he wouldn’t try because it was to dangerous nobody said are we really going through with this? Nobody kibitzed not even kian Shane read the instructions from the journal aloud the others followed them two circles one inside the other it doesn’t say how big they’re supposed to be said Shane but leave room for the runes to go in between them darcey sketched the circles freehand on the smooth oak door with a felt pen
Okay now the runes first dagaz it goes right at the top and its shaped like this like an hourglass on its side he said darcey sketched the angular shape at the top of the inner circle it says here that dagaz is like a catalyst it represents time like twilight and dawn when things are just changing it operates between light and darkness dawn darcey thought about eyes that were just that colour tristain was like dagaz she thought catalyst operating between light and darkness one foot in either world
The next one is thurisaz the thorn it goes to the right –no a little farther down its shaped like look at this a straight line with a triangle attached to the side like a thorn sticking out of a stem there are a lot of fairy tales about thorns Marie said grimly you get pricked with a thorn or a spindle or a needle and then you die or go blind or you sleep forever silently darcey drew the rune and looked at Marie the next one’s gebo it stands for a lot of things
A gift sacrifice death the yielding up of the spirit it’s shaped like an X see? Sacrifice death a queer shudder went up darceys backbone she stared at the book it was a straight X not like the slanted X of the rune nauthiz the one that her grandfather had carved on the closet to restrain the shadow men the dark angel’s see Dee? She nodded and drew but the strange feeling didn’t go away a bad feeling- and it was connected with gebo somehow gebo the rune of sacrifice something was going to happen…
Not now not right now in the future Shane’s voice startled her next is isa it’s a rune for power of primal ice its just one straight line up and down darcey tore her mind away from the thought of sacrifice and made herself draw kenaz the torch its for the power of primal fire and its shaped like an angle see… raidho for movement travelling like a horse for protection walking between worlds its shaped like an R… uruz the ox… its shaped like an upside down U
I know said darcey it was the rune on the game box that tristain had gave to her it’s supposed to look like ox horns pointing downward is that the last one? Yeah now we can carve it carving the runes wasn’t as hard as darcey had expected the door was good thick wood but the runes were all straight lines and angles which was much easier to carve then any rounded shape still there were times when mark’s Swiss army knife stuck or slipped
So how are we going to do the blood bit y`know who’s blood are we using not mine I hope Bryan said Marie looked at Bryan well your not using my blood either bry so forget it she said will you two stop arguing were trying to do this piped in Shane darcey was carving the last rune when the knife slipped “f**k” darcey felt a flash of something gone almost too quickly to identify as pain she dropped the knife and she could feel her eyes widen as she stared at her hand wondering in that first second how bad it was
Not bad a half inch gash across the meat of her thumb the lips of the wound showed white before bright red welled up to obscure them blood began to slide down her thumb quick use it Bryan said don’t waste it that stuff’s precious kian grabbed over her thumb and squeezed it hard till the blood formed at the top he forced her thumb to trace the rune’s darcey yelled at kian to stop what are you trying to do break my thumb I can trace the runes on my own y`know let go demanded darcey kian let go of her thumb
Shane helped darcey with the blood squeezing he was squeezing her thumb gently to get the blood to come out slowly then he helped trace the runes with the blood nothing is happening guys Shane
Squeezed her thumb harder Bryan said look bry we’ve already done the craving of the rune’s and staining them now all we have to do is charge the rune’s with power by saying their names out loud that activates them and then- Marie cut Shane off
And then look out Marie said and her sloe eyes flashed lets do it people we need to get our stuff first darcey said she was trembling –calm down wrought up to a fine pitch but determined to do this right not to jump in without thinking we don’t know what happens once those runes are activated we might not have time to do anything then said darcey they all scattered threw their bags to change their clothes darcey was putting on a black pair of pants with a few rips in the knees caused by skateboarding
A T-shirt with teen princess written on her hair was thrown back in a ponytail she attached mark’s Swiss army knife to her rucksack with the six attachments Shane made everyone check their rucksacks darcey had everything in her bag from a torch to a pack of food they all looked at each other and then silently turned and faced the door Shane gave the book to darcey you should be the one to do it he said darcey took a deep breath holding the journal lightly she began to read the names
“Dagaz” rune of change “thurisaz” the thorn “gebo” for sacrifice darceys voice was beginning to shake and she couldn’t breathe easily unconsciously she raised her voice “isa” primal ice “kenaz” primal fire the words came out in a staccato burst “raidho” travelling darceys throat closed and she lifted her head looking at the last rune in the circle a long moment passed this is it this is really it after I say it -it cant be unsaid no turning back almost in a whisper she said “uruz” for piercing the veil between the worlds with the last word the door began to flash like
Strobe light black white black white black white god Marie said everybody jumped a step back but there was nowhere to go they were up against the hallway wall kian barged into the telephone table and the handset fell off and struck the floor in the last month darcey had seen plenty of bizarre things happen tristain specialised in the bizarre but this was different within the flashes the circle of runes began to glow like a wheel of fire then it started spinning like a Catherine wheel it was flashing and spinning so brightly
Darcey was getting dizzy looking at it Marie was standing in a horse stance ready for anything Bryan was tened against the wall the fiery light dancing crazily of Bryan’s blonde hair kian`s eyes were huge and frozen to the light Shane held on tightly to darceys hand keeping his promise to mark to look after her darceys heart was pounding wildly out of control the light was like needles stabbing into her eyes she was light headed half blinded but she could no longer look away from the wheel
One final explosion of light and the roaring became a tearing sound like a huge tarpaulin ripping in a giant hands it made darcey want to fall down curl up and cover her ears and then it stopped just like that one moment agonising light and deafening screaming sound the next perfect calm the door was an oak door again the wheel of runes was no longer spinning but darcey saw it wasn’t exactly the way it had been dagaz the rune darcey had drawn at the top was now at two o’clock as if the spinning wheel had overshot slightly
Before stopping and the runes burned like sullen coals in the wood we did it yelled Bryan his lips were drawn back from his teeth did we kian asked huskily there was only one way to tell darcey gave herself a moment then slowly reached for the doorknob she could feel her pulse in her hand as she grasped the knob the metal wasn’t even warm she turned the knob and pulled the door open oh! Through the open door she could see the stairs down to her grandfathers basement but utter blackness like a night without stars
It was funny how simple and everyday it seemed doing what her grandfather had said he wouldn’t try because it was to dangerous nobody said are we really going through with this? Nobody kibitzed not even kian Shane read the instructions from the journal aloud the others followed them two circles one inside the other it doesn’t say how big they’re supposed to be said Shane but leave room for the runes to go in between them darcey sketched the circles freehand on the smooth oak door with a felt pen
Okay now the runes first dagaz it goes right at the top and its shaped like this like an hourglass on its side he said darcey sketched the angular shape at the top of the inner circle it says here that dagaz is like a catalyst it represents time like twilight and dawn when things are just changing it operates between light and darkness dawn darcey thought about eyes that were just that colour tristain was like dagaz she thought catalyst operating between light and darkness one foot in either world
The next one is thurisaz the thorn it goes to the right –no a little farther down its shaped like look at this a straight line with a triangle attached to the side like a thorn sticking out of a stem there are a lot of fairy tales about thorns Marie said grimly you get pricked with a thorn or a spindle or a needle and then you die or go blind or you sleep forever silently darcey drew the rune and looked at Marie the next one’s gebo it stands for a lot of things
A gift sacrifice death the yielding up of the spirit it’s shaped like an X see? Sacrifice death a queer shudder went up darceys backbone she stared at the book it was a straight X not like the slanted X of the rune nauthiz the one that her grandfather had carved on the closet to restrain the shadow men the dark angel’s see Dee? She nodded and drew but the strange feeling didn’t go away a bad feeling- and it was connected with gebo somehow gebo the rune of sacrifice something was going to happen…
Not now not right now in the future Shane’s voice startled her next is isa it’s a rune for power of primal ice its just one straight line up and down darcey tore her mind away from the thought of sacrifice and made herself draw kenaz the torch its for the power of primal fire and its shaped like an angle see… raidho for movement travelling like a horse for protection walking between worlds its shaped like an R… uruz the ox… its shaped like an upside down U
I know said darcey it was the rune on the game box that tristain had gave to her it’s supposed to look like ox horns pointing downward is that the last one? Yeah now we can carve it carving the runes wasn’t as hard as darcey had expected the door was good thick wood but the runes were all straight lines and angles which was much easier to carve then any rounded shape still there were times when mark’s Swiss army knife stuck or slipped
So how are we going to do the blood bit y`know who’s blood are we using not mine I hope Bryan said Marie looked at Bryan well your not using my blood either bry so forget it she said will you two stop arguing were trying to do this piped in Shane darcey was carving the last rune when the knife slipped “f**k” darcey felt a flash of something gone almost too quickly to identify as pain she dropped the knife and she could feel her eyes widen as she stared at her hand wondering in that first second how bad it was
Not bad a half inch gash across the meat of her thumb the lips of the wound showed white before bright red welled up to obscure them blood began to slide down her thumb quick use it Bryan said don’t waste it that stuff’s precious kian grabbed over her thumb and squeezed it hard till the blood formed at the top he forced her thumb to trace the rune’s darcey yelled at kian to stop what are you trying to do break my thumb I can trace the runes on my own y`know let go demanded darcey kian let go of her thumb
Shane helped darcey with the blood squeezing he was squeezing her thumb gently to get the blood to come out slowly then he helped trace the runes with the blood nothing is happening guys Shane
Squeezed her thumb harder Bryan said look bry we’ve already done the craving of the rune’s and staining them now all we have to do is charge the rune’s with power by saying their names out loud that activates them and then- Marie cut Shane off
And then look out Marie said and her sloe eyes flashed lets do it people we need to get our stuff first darcey said she was trembling –calm down wrought up to a fine pitch but determined to do this right not to jump in without thinking we don’t know what happens once those runes are activated we might not have time to do anything then said darcey they all scattered threw their bags to change their clothes darcey was putting on a black pair of pants with a few rips in the knees caused by skateboarding
A T-shirt with teen princess written on her hair was thrown back in a ponytail she attached mark’s Swiss army knife to her rucksack with the six attachments Shane made everyone check their rucksacks darcey had everything in her bag from a torch to a pack of food they all looked at each other and then silently turned and faced the door Shane gave the book to darcey you should be the one to do it he said darcey took a deep breath holding the journal lightly she began to read the names
“Dagaz” rune of change “thurisaz” the thorn “gebo” for sacrifice darceys voice was beginning to shake and she couldn’t breathe easily unconsciously she raised her voice “isa” primal ice “kenaz” primal fire the words came out in a staccato burst “raidho” travelling darceys throat closed and she lifted her head looking at the last rune in the circle a long moment passed this is it this is really it after I say it -it cant be unsaid no turning back almost in a whisper she said “uruz” for piercing the veil between the worlds with the last word the door began to flash like
Strobe light black white black white black white god Marie said everybody jumped a step back but there was nowhere to go they were up against the hallway wall kian barged into the telephone table and the handset fell off and struck the floor in the last month darcey had seen plenty of bizarre things happen tristain specialised in the bizarre but this was different within the flashes the circle of runes began to glow like a wheel of fire then it started spinning like a Catherine wheel it was flashing and spinning so brightly
Darcey was getting dizzy looking at it Marie was standing in a horse stance ready for anything Bryan was tened against the wall the fiery light dancing crazily of Bryan’s blonde hair kian`s eyes were huge and frozen to the light Shane held on tightly to darceys hand keeping his promise to mark to look after her darceys heart was pounding wildly out of control the light was like needles stabbing into her eyes she was light headed half blinded but she could no longer look away from the wheel
One final explosion of light and the roaring became a tearing sound like a huge tarpaulin ripping in a giant hands it made darcey want to fall down curl up and cover her ears and then it stopped just like that one moment agonising light and deafening screaming sound the next perfect calm the door was an oak door again the wheel of runes was no longer spinning but darcey saw it wasn’t exactly the way it had been dagaz the rune darcey had drawn at the top was now at two o’clock as if the spinning wheel had overshot slightly
Before stopping and the runes burned like sullen coals in the wood we did it yelled Bryan his lips were drawn back from his teeth did we kian asked huskily there was only one way to tell darcey gave herself a moment then slowly reached for the doorknob she could feel her pulse in her hand as she grasped the knob the metal wasn’t even warm she turned the knob and pulled the door open oh! Through the open door she could see the stairs down to her grandfathers basement but utter blackness like a night without stars