Outside Hell by Milo Spires Read Free Book Online Page A

So
not wishing to be caught in it for obvious reasons, Dracus stepped
out of his portal and crept stealthily forwards looking all around
him and listening for the slightest sound. Then once he was sure
that he was safe, he’d summoned another portal to escape by and set
about his task.
     
    He’d taken the evil lords horrible red
glowing orb that was leering back at him from a desk in the dark
shadows of the room, and then whilst being almost overcome with the
stench of the lord’s body odor hanging like a dead mist in the air,
he’d placed it inside his new portal and vanished. Then a second
later when he’d reappeared he was inside the lords study, only now
he knew that really it was his parents but he hadn’t time to be
concerned with such thoughts and pushed on with his plan. Then
whilst glancing around at the thousands of spell books that his
parents had owned, and after summoning a new portal, he’d placed
the orb inside it and filled it with as many spell books as he
could fit inside too. Then once he was happy that there was only
enough room left for him in a tight crouched position above the
stuff, he’d summoned the spell that he knew lit a candle, and with
it set fire to the rug beneath the desk.
     
    The thing had taken a little time to get
going but after he’d blown on it several times, the flames then
rushed off into the room consuming everything in their path.
     
    Dracus not knowing the future but sure as
hell realizing that the past would probably haunt him for many a
year to come, then waited until the flames had roared up all about
him and whilst the dark shadows of the room then danced vehemently,
he’d leapt inside the portal and vanished. This time though as he’d
thought of the place that it should take him, and then told the
portal hoping it would be able to reach that far, he’d said the
planet five thousand light passes away, called the Earth.
     
    *****
    When Vrakug had finally
awoken from his deep and twisted sleep by a spell that was watching
over him in the former king and queen’s huge bed, he was laying
there in the soft sheets dreaming of being reunited with his father
soon. Only as his mind had cleared and then whilst rubbing his eyes
he’d wondered why the spell had awoken him to darkness, suddenly
his nose had twitched a few times and his brain had said, ‘smoke’ .
     
    Instantly he’d sat up and then as he’d looked
over the end of the bed and realized to his horror that there were
clouds of thick black smoke pouring into the room from underneath
the bedroom door, he’d panicked.
     
    Thrusting the sheet back and leaping up, he’d
summoned a spell to take him outside to the entrance where the
portcullis was. Then as he’d appeared and looked up and seen that
the whole castle was in flames, and that the Skylark beast’s were
inbound flying down towards him breathing out flame throwers, he’d
realized that the castle wasn’t invisible to them any more.
     
    Then as he’d held his hands up and tried to
summon the powers from the orb and sensed that it was no longer in
the castle, and when he’d seen the broken stones from Dracus’ knife
that were on the floor behind him, and read the sign saying
Leanorisque Castle shining back at him, he’d screamed.
     
    A moment of confusion had past and then after
realizing that he had to save the spell books from the former king
and queen, Vrakug suddenly disappeared and then reappeared inside
the study. Only he was unaware that Dracus had lit the fire in
there first, and that the inferno in the study was of great
magnitude. When he’d reappeared he was surrounded by savage flames
and was viciously burnt by them. Then as his heavy metal looking
greasy hair had caught light and at the same time his hands and
face had literally melted, and with but a second to save himself
he’d vanished, only this time as he’d flown through time and space,
the evil bastard was in intense agony.
     
    Seconds later when he’d reappeared he