Post by StoryGirl83 on Aug 27, 2008 22:58:55 GMT -5
Chapter Three – The Demon’s Apprentice?
and Galskaper
Back on campus, Gary was sitting outside on a bench, starring at his hands. He had been there ever since he had run out of the library more than half an hour earlier. He was miserable and utterly relieved that Kali had shown up when she did. How could he have even thought that would work, that he could do that, even for Arie?
Behind him, Galskaper, a humanoid demon, shimmered in and walked around the bench. “You failed.”
Gary didn’t bother even looking up. He knew who it was and he knew he didn’t want to see him. “I never should have been there in the first place.” Reluctantly he looked up and added, “I almost killed a man.”
Funny, how people pick up on different things in the same situation. To Galskaper it wasn’t the fact that a death had only just barely been prevented, it was the fact that the death had been prevented that he saw. “That’s right, almost. You failed. Why did you stop?”
“I can’t kill someone,” Gary moaned his head between his hands. “I can’t do that. Whatever you did to me, take it back.”
“We made a deal,” Galskaper informed him, uncaring. “You will keep it.”
Gary stood and turned to look at Galskaper. “No, I won’t.” How he could have thought it for even one moment was beyond him, but now that he allowed himself to think about it, he knew better.
Galskaper stared him down. “You will whether you want to or not. You don’t back out of a deal with me.”
Gary felt goosebumps run along his body. He tried to act like he didn’t care, but he was scared. “So kick me out of school. Make me pay back my scholarships. I don’t care.”
“You don’t get it,” the demon informed him, looking a little amused. “If you try to back out, I will kill your family, and then I will kill you.”
Much as he didn’t want to die, he’d rather that then have someone’s life on his conscious. “If you can kill me,” he informed Galskaper, logically, “you can go after him yourself.”
“You kill him tonight,” the demon informed him with hard eyes, “or Arie will be dead at sunup.”
Gary’s eyes widened as a fireball formed in his hand. Shouting, he said, “Leave Arie alone!” Gary threw the fireball at Galskaper.
The demon shimmered out and then back in. “Remember, it’s his life or Arie’s.” Galskaper shimmered out leaving Gary alone, trembling.