The Magenta by Cassidy Bennett

Author:Cassidy Bennett [Bennett, Cassidy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Good news: the throne room wasn’t portal-blocked. Bad news: I couldn’t see a single living thing in this Dimension.

This Dimension was unlike any other I’d visited. The skies were gray and cloudy, the ground was rocky and lacking plants, and there were ruins everywhere. Cold embers littered the ground. Two black bats circled above my head.

“What happened here?” I asked aloud, kneeling down to pick up a small piece of what was once a brick.

One of the bats transformed into a boy. He was pale, like snow, and his eyes were blood red. He wore a black and red cloak that reached his feet.

“Vampire,” I breathed, backing away.

“What is a human girl like you doing in Vampousai?” he asked sweetly.

The second bat transformed in midair into a girl that could have easily been the vampire boy’s sister. She landed on her feet, next to the vampire boy, and bared her fangs. “I smell Magenta.”

“We will feast well tonight,” the vampire boy responded, baring his fangs as well.

I willed my hands to burst into flames. The vampires hissed and covered their faces with their cloak sleeves.

“You won’t be feasting on me tonight,” I informed them, throwing them each a fireball.

One of the fireballs hit its target. The girl cried out in agony, turning to dust. The boy shouted, “Kulaya!”

There was nothing he could do. The girl—Kulaya—was gone. He turned to me and snarled, “I will drink you dry, Magenta!”

I formed another fireball. “Do you really want to try to do that?”

He snarled and charged. I threw my fireball, but it missed by a few inches. Still, he stopped, a shocked expression on his face. He turned to dust, revealing a girl holding a pointy stake.

“Quick!” she said, grabbing my arm and pulling me along. “Before they reform!”

“They reform?” I asked incredulously.

She nodded as she opened a door in the ground. “Welcome to Vampousai. Get in.”

Figuring that it was better to trust her than face Kulaya and the vampire boy again, I climbed down. She followed, closing the door above us and turning on a flashlight.

“Good, you’re back!” a boy exclaimed, relieved. Then, he realized that the girl wasn’t alone. “Katie, who’s that?”

Katie shrugged. “I dunno. She almost got vampired by Kulo, and before that, she turned Kulaya to dust. I think we can trust her.”

“I’m Valida,” I introduced.

“Adam,” the boy introduced. “We’re the last survivors. Everyone else either died or got vampired when the vampires first showed up about a year ago.” He pulled a box of granola bars. “Hungry?”

I accepted one gratefully. “Thanks. So, if this is such a dangerous place, why don’t you two just leave?”

“And go where?” Katie asked, tossing her granola bar wrapper in a little trash can. “Neither of us have gone outside of Vampousai. We don’t know anything about the other Dimensions, let alone how to get to them.”

“I can open a portal,” I offered. “I learned from my friends.” My eyes widened. “Oh, chicken nuggets. The Legendary Keepers. I forgot all about them! I’ve got to get back to them!”

“Legendary Keepers?” Katie asked.

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