DISCLAIMER: I do not own diablo2 or anything related, only the character are mine. Everything else belongs to the geniuses behind Blizzard entertainment
Hey so this is my first 'real world goes to the game' story! so constructive criticism is welcome as well as any heads up to mistake i have over looked(i know thee are some)
enjoy!
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"Dammit! Can't he leave me alone?"Said someone clearly frustrated.
Jessi was playing diablo2 on his computer that night, like every night since the ladder reset. Sitting on his bed he was overlooking the screen from his laptop, frowning. He had made a mistake that night by telling the other players on the server that this was his third character and that the others were high levels. At the moment, the source of his frustration was a sorceress by the name of Julzie that was following his necromancer, Riley, around as if everything he did was pure gold. Apparently Julzie was played by a new player who hadn't played Diablo before...and who tried a bit too much to help Riley out. This, of course, pissed Jessi off, but it wasn't bad enough to take his mind of the game, you see Jessi was role player... oh he knew that no one played roles in Diablo, but he was a dreamer and in front of his screen he could imagine them as if they were real people living in this fantasy world. He envied them so much always in an adventure to save Sanctuary. This would soon change however.
"Ok! You won't leave me alone so...time to quit! "
He hit the escape key and selected save and exit but just as he clicked on the link everything went dark.
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"WHAT DID YOU JUST DO!!!" an angry voice shouted.
"Well ...I was just trying to help you..."a little feminine voice answered.
"Okay let's calm down ... Julzie I need you to tell me exactly what you did" a barely controlled Riley said.
"Well...you were being so mean by ignoring me. I thought I d show you how useful I could be"
"What did you do to my skeleton?" he said.
"I tried to infuse it with magic when you summoned it... I thought it would be interesting to have a skeleton with life tap and the ability to teleport" her voice was shaking, almost crying, from shame.
"But I thought you hadn't mastered that skill yet? And life tap isn t something your supposed to know how to do..." he knew this from hours of her talking to him about how she was just a starting sorceress and she had yet to learn the more powerful spells. She had been following him for the better part of a day now always talking about how she found the True arts interesting and how she thought they should team up because they would make this incredible team and... She hadn't stopped talking and it was driving Riley nuts! Just a few moments ago he had tried to summon a skeleton and saw her chanting an incantion then he felt the energy being directed at his forming summon that then just disappeared. Riley was extremely angry at her because he felt the connection between his life line and his summon just a few short seconds before he vanished.
"Practically speaking no... But I thought it would be a great practice for me and what s the harm? It s just a teleportation spell!" she was speaking really quickly, almost too fast for him to understand. Julzie was greatly embarrassed by the miserable failure of her spell and was now sure that he would never tag along with her. She didn't understand why he was this mad though.
"The problem is that apparently you ve succeeded in tapping into my lifeline! I tried summoning a skeleton to dismiss the first one and it worked, except the tap on my lifeline remained meaning that whatever I summoned is now directly linked to my life, not under my control, running around I don't know where!"The necromancer was losing his cool again.
"Oh... well it s got to be around here somewhere! Teleportation doesn't take you far. I'll help you find it!"Julzie said, hope in her eyes. If she could do this maybe he would give her another chance! Unfortunately for her his next words washed her hope away.
"You will help me find it and then after you've broken the spell you will leave me ALONE!"
With this they started searching
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Pain.
Everywhere pain.
Jessi couldn't believe how much pain he was feeling. He was on the ground writhing with it, the earth under him was wet from a light rain that had started a few moments before he had appeared in the fields, he didn t really notice though, because every fibber of his body was hurting to the point where he wished he would die. He didn't die though, after a few minutes the pain receded and left him shaking and sweaty on the ground. Slowly getting to his feet he looked around and almost screamed in surprise... he wasn't at home on his bed anymore, he was standing in the middle a green marsh.
"Where the hell am I?"
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They had been searching for an hour now, but still they hadn't found Riley s summon.
"Oh! Come on! How long is this going to take ...the blood marsh isn't that big were bound to run into it anytime now. It's not like it can get to the cold plains Flavie won't let it pass and without me around the rogues won't let it into their camp" Riley was getting rather annoyed by this stupid search that was filled with the sorceress's comments on how unnatural the rain was, how the rogues were cold, how she found it odd Charsi was almost naked and Warriv short and also...
"...and Akara is weird don't you... hum Riley?" Julzie had stopped walking
"WHAT! What now Julzie?" Riley stopped turning towards her.
Julzie was just standing there, dressed in the traditional attire, her top, although covering her arms and neck, left her stomach and a quite satisfying under-cleavage in plain sight for all to admire and her skirt left her long slim legs to please the eye. She had long dark hair and in her eyes you could see the spark of wild magic flowing through her body. She was sexy and would have been desirable even for Riley if all of this hadn't been eclipsed by her constant speaking. She was frowning over a glowing piece of parchment which Riley immediately identified as being her map since he also had one just like that.
"Well according to the map we explored everywhere except..."she hesitated for a moment.
"Except what?" he took the map from her hands, not bothering to get his own out. The magic item recorded everywhere one had been and even wrote the name of the area in the top right corner. He was about to tell her that everything was covered when he saw it. Represented as a greyish blot on the map and a red x right under it, it was a marking any adventurer knew very well.
"Except the den of evil" she finished.
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Seeking cover from the rain, Jessi had spotted a small opening, roughly the size of a small human, resting behind a big rock. Not really thinking of possible dangers, he entered the small cave to wait out the rain; he had decided that once the sky had cleared he would start searching for the nearest town and try to find help there. After a couple of minutes, about half an hour, he decided to explore the place he had taken shelter in and discovered that what, at first, had seemed like a small cave was really more like a great underground maze filled with pitch black tunnels. Even more interesting was that there were a couple of torches lit here and there. Suddenly a small shadow moved from a torch to another.
"Hello... HELLO?" Jessi said with a strong voice, trying to hide his fear.
Another quick move, then, as he was getting closer, a small red demon came out of the shadows. He wasn't much taller than a 8 year old, but the curved blade he held in one of his hands froze Jessi in place.
"Rakanishu!" the little demon screamed
"watch-out!" a fire-ball flew right passed him and crashed into the little monster turning him into a smouldering pile of flesh and blood.
"WHAT THE!" Jessi fell back in shock
But then the remains of the body started shaking then stoped for a split second before bursting like a balloon, sending pieces of flesh everywhere. In the place of a burnt body now stood a six foot tall skeleton armed with the scimitar that the monster held a few seconds ago.
"OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!" scrambling to his feet Jessi turned around and ran...right into Julzie, which, caught off guard, fell screaming taking Jessi to the ground with her.
"Wow kid, you went into the den of evil unarmed... you're either moronic or deadly allergic to rain" Riley said, laughing at the both of them as they tried to get back up.
"WHO ARE YOU GUYS?" Jessi was on the verge of a breakdown.
"Well as you can tell I'm a necromancer and she's a sorceress but introductions can wait till later ... Fallens rarely come alone meaning his little buddys are about to show up. Stay close to us if you want to live" Riley quickly turned his eyes to the surrounding darkness.
Before Jessi had the chance to say anything else, Julzie spotted movement and shot in its general direction, burning a very surprised fallen and lighting up the tunnel...full of monsters. For Jessi everything after this resumed to running, screaming and carnage as the monster were either burned to death or split in half by the skeleton. Finally as the last zombie, Jessi found out that this as well as other skeletons and giants things that could be compared to greyish abominable snowman could also be found in the tunnels, fell to the floor, rays of light flooded the cave.
"Is that enough to earn the rogues trust?" With these words Riley took out a piece of parchment sealed with a blue ribbon. Breaking the seal, a blue portal opened.
"Town portal's up!" Riley said turning towards them.
"Wait! Town portal? Fallen? NECROMANCER? WHERE DID YOU SAY WE WERE?" Jessi was starting to put the pieces together.
"The den of evil. Why?" Julzie answered.
Jessi fainted to these words. Julzie and Riley looked at each other for a second then Riley laughed looking at the unconscious teenager.
"Well I m not going to carry him" and he stepped through the portal.
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ok that went well more chapters coming up and for those who haven't figured it out the story will follow the original acts
yours truly
Jacx64