Frustrated Father
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They had all laughed when old man Jelpin had told them to beware the worms. Teeth as big as your hand and oddly glowing green eyes and an appetite for flesh to which he would then point at the old puckered scar on his arm. Worms, HAH! Everyone new Jelpin was a drunk and a lazy lout. Some said he used to be a swordsman back in the day, but most likely that was more of Jelpin's drink and lies talking.
They were adventures! They had practiced with swords for months now and the thought of a bit of excitement was almost too much to bear. They were off for the Delphine Crypts where it is said the dead lie with riches thick for the taking, just lying about for anyone to take and become rich. No more plowing and milking the cows for them. They four of them were going to be famous!
That had been two days ago, and they reached the crypts early this more with little more than the occasional animal to cross their path. It was easy. Entrance into the crypts was a snap as well as the thick doors that had kept the burial chambers safe for oh so many years lay broken and rotting upon the stairs leading down into crypts.
At first there was little to be seen other than the occasional bone or broken pottery. It seems that all of the easy loot had been taken long ago but as they went further into the crypts they began to find small coins here and there, as is dropped hastily. Then they came upon a pile of strewn bones and a bulging sack which had contained more jewels and gold than any of them had ever seen before, enough to make them all rich! If this was just lying up on the floor, what else could there possibly be?! So they continued further into the crypts.
Jasmine was carrying the torch so they never did see what got her, but suddenly something rushed from the shadows, a slithering sound and the smell of carrion proceeding it and with a screech she dropped the torch, sending everything into shadows and chaos. By the time they had grabbed up the torch and lit another there was no sign of her, though her screaming could be heard and a large trail of blood that something had been dragged through told them where to look.Her screams stopped long before they found her, but when they found her, their own screams of fright and horror joined hers.
Entrails and gore lay strewn across the dusty crypt floor while something near half the size of a man bored within her stomach, the sounds of tearing and chewing echoing loudly within the chamber. Pulling its blood and gore covered head free from Jasmines body a worm like creature hissed menacingly at them, two large mouths opening with long teeth and undulating tongues probing the air before it. Their torchs bounced off its purple mottled skin and its multiple green eyes seemed to shine with a light of their own. Three more joined it from the shadows ....
.... Yosef huddled within the sarcophagus, tears streaming down his face and fear making his teeth chatter, the original occupants bones grinding together while he rocked himself slowing back and forth. The heavy lid lay mostly over him as he hid, though he could still hear the sucking sounds of the crypt worms as they continues to eat his childhood friends. "Old man Jelpin warned us ..." kept rolling through Yosef's thoughts.
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They had all laughed when old man Jelpin had told them to beware the worms. Teeth as big as your hand and oddly glowing green eyes and an appetite for flesh to which he would then point at the old puckered scar on his arm. Worms, HAH! Everyone new Jelpin was a drunk and a lazy lout. Some said he used to be a swordsman back in the day, but most likely that was more of Jelpin's drink and lies talking.
They were adventures! They had practiced with swords for months now and the thought of a bit of excitement was almost too much to bear. They were off for the Delphine Crypts where it is said the dead lie with riches thick for the taking, just lying about for anyone to take and become rich. No more plowing and milking the cows for them. They four of them were going to be famous!
That had been two days ago, and they reached the crypts early this more with little more than the occasional animal to cross their path. It was easy. Entrance into the crypts was a snap as well as the thick doors that had kept the burial chambers safe for oh so many years lay broken and rotting upon the stairs leading down into crypts.
At first there was little to be seen other than the occasional bone or broken pottery. It seems that all of the easy loot had been taken long ago but as they went further into the crypts they began to find small coins here and there, as is dropped hastily. Then they came upon a pile of strewn bones and a bulging sack which had contained more jewels and gold than any of them had ever seen before, enough to make them all rich! If this was just lying up on the floor, what else could there possibly be?! So they continued further into the crypts.
Jasmine was carrying the torch so they never did see what got her, but suddenly something rushed from the shadows, a slithering sound and the smell of carrion proceeding it and with a screech she dropped the torch, sending everything into shadows and chaos. By the time they had grabbed up the torch and lit another there was no sign of her, though her screaming could be heard and a large trail of blood that something had been dragged through told them where to look.Her screams stopped long before they found her, but when they found her, their own screams of fright and horror joined hers.
Entrails and gore lay strewn across the dusty crypt floor while something near half the size of a man bored within her stomach, the sounds of tearing and chewing echoing loudly within the chamber. Pulling its blood and gore covered head free from Jasmines body a worm like creature hissed menacingly at them, two large mouths opening with long teeth and undulating tongues probing the air before it. Their torchs bounced off its purple mottled skin and its multiple green eyes seemed to shine with a light of their own. Three more joined it from the shadows ....
.... Yosef huddled within the sarcophagus, tears streaming down his face and fear making his teeth chatter, the original occupants bones grinding together while he rocked himself slowing back and forth. The heavy lid lay mostly over him as he hid, though he could still hear the sucking sounds of the crypt worms as they continues to eat his childhood friends. "Old man Jelpin warned us ..." kept rolling through Yosef's thoughts.
