Mine Shaft
Temple of Doom
India
1935
A flashpoint intersection between the Unseen Realm and the Physical Realm
Shorty concentrated on freeing himself and the other children. He slammed the rock pick against the chains, hoping against everything that the overseers wouldn't see them.
The human ones had their backs to him, yelling and whipping the other children. Something furious rose up in Shorty as he saw the monstrous malformed shadow creatures take delight in beating kids smaller than him. "What would Indy do?" Shorty whispered, and slung the rock pick, slamming against his chains.
It sounded too loud. He glanced around. No one was paying attention. The human overseers were gathering in a strange delight toward the center of the Temple of Doom, the shadow monsters gleefully appearing behind them.
Shorty hit the chain with his pick again.
The metal chain link shattered and Shorty darted from the mining tunnel into the sacrifice area of the temple.
Skittering to a stop he saw Indy... or what he thought was Indy. Something was above him, surrounding him. He wasn't moving with the confidence of a self assured adventurer. He... Indy was being controlled!
The dumb blonde screamed. Shorty sucked in his chest in sheer horror. Indy was going to sacrifice her! This wasn't like Indy at all!
One of the dark figures above Indy laughed when he saw the child. Shorty glared at it. "You let him go!" The boy ordered.
He couldn't reach the spiritual force controlling Indy. And it knew it. The creature laughed in the child's face.
Now... any other child... any one of the other children trapped in the mines would have been afraid. This child... this child screamed back.
"LET HIM GO!"
Several of the other shadows turned from controlling Indy to do their bidding, to watching the showdown between their leader and this brazen child.
"LET HIM GO!" Shorty demanded again.
"Who are you to dare to command us?" The monstrous shadow creature asked in a sly sinister tone.
Shorty braced his shoulders, trying to make himself as imposing as possible. "I'm Short Round - and Indy's my dad! You let him go!"
The dark shadows laughed, their ominous figures growing larger. "Indiana Jones is no relation to you, child."
"He took me in off the streets!" Shorty protested. "You don't have to be family to love someone like they oughtta be family! You can't have him! You can't have my dad, Indy! INDY!"
Shorty bolted through the crowd of darkness racing for Indy. "INDY!"
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