Preternatural (Worlds & Secrets) by Lloyd Harry-Davis Page A

But I was still conscious. It was like being in a body that was a jumpsuit which took control of all my acts and movements.
    Everything seemed to be indistinct . I was in a small compact room and the heat that tortured me was no more a bother. Suddenly, I felt something cold touch my shoulder. It was her hand – Tammy’s. Robbie stood in the doorway observing the room silently and rather shyly.
    “ You okay?” asked Tammy.
    “ I think. I hope the Blues are okay. I can feel a slight tremor in my head telling me something will go wrong,” Robbie mumbled.
    “ No, not wrong, but as it should. Trust me nothing’s going wrong.”
    “ But what about Jojo? Do you think they will mind about her not telling them the things her and her family can do?” Robbie quizzed out of paranoia.
    “ Well, we can’t afford disapprovals with the situation that I know is going on.” 
    “ What situation?” Robbie asked.
    Tammy closed the door and looked around just to prevent any living soul hearing them. She drew herself closer to him and whispered.
    “ The void, it’s expanding. Only the king and the Supremacy know at the moment.”
    “ Their prison?” he asked, baffled by the words Tammy spoke.
    “ Yes.” Tammy fiddled with her pendant.
    “ I can’t get the adults worried, but I think the void is large enough for the Lurkers to pass through. If they can, then they’ll be able to call the minor demons,” concluded Tammy.
    “ Wait, how do you know all of this again?” Robbie asked. Tammy threw him a look of blatancy. Robbie all of a sudden looked down to see her holding her pendant.
    “ Oh, right, yeah. Sorry, forgot about that,” Robbie spoke ignorantly.
    “ What are you talking about? I’ve had this ability for centuries!” she snapped undertone.
    “ Yes, which gives me more reason to forget,” Robbie chuckled to himself.  Tammy sniggered.
    “ No, you idiot – it would give you more reason to remember since you’re alive and you’re fourteen – well, allegedly of course,” she finished off with a light giggle. Suddenly, Tammy’s mood changed. The then happiness that could easily be read on her face was robbed as she turned pale and morose. She looked around twice before looking at the door fearfully.
    “ What? What is it, Tams? Is something wrong?” Robbie pressurised.
    “ Shh !” she urged Robbie to remain silent, almost covering his mouth with her hand.
    She marched to the door and opened it with caution. Tammy looked at both sides. The flickering lights drew her attention almost instantaneously; her head turned sharply to look towards them. She was panicked and frightened. She looked up at the staircase in the tunnel and could hear the entrance-bell ringing, followed by sudden, slow and intimidating footsteps.
    Tammy walked back into the room and gripped her pendant as tightly as possible. She closed her eyes and whispered something which I could not seem to hear. She opened her eyes fiercely and looked at Robbie as if she were looking at me. Her eyes were now a bright amethyst pink that was so intense, the light from her iris seemed as if it could waft out and billow like smoke. They also gave off a strong incandescent feeling. The sound of the footsteps grew louder and louder.
    “ That’s impossible! Lock it!” Tammy shouted to Robbie.
    “ Why? What’s wrong?”
    “ Just hurry up and do it!” she retorted.
    The footsteps grew even lo uder and Tammy’s heart pounded against her chest.
    “ Step aside,” Robbie told Tammy calmly.
    He barged into Tammy’s way and gently pressed his palm against the weak, rusty lock. Suddenly his veins began to emit a strong radiant glow and with one heartbeat, his hand lit to luminescent white whilst his eyes lightened to shimmering, flickering gold.
    T he lock clicked and grew bigger and the core of the door began to develop into polished silver. The silver spread through as if it were a virus. Robbie had changed the existing door into a dense, silver, metal