The Sorcerer Wars
Welcome to Egypt
A crowd had gathered under the shade of the great pyramid.
"How long has that been there?" asked Leonard, a young Egyptian boy holding his mother's hand.
"Not long dear. Apparently it just appeared out of thin air this morning." Replied his mother.
Leonard looked thoughtfully at the large metal building.
"They must be pretty strong sorcerers mommy. Nobody around here can do that, not even old Pharas." Said Leonard.
At that moment, a large door at the front of the building opened slowly and out of it walked a boy dressed in a dark green robe with a black belt and cape and carrying a wooden staff with a dark green jewel in the top.
"People of Egypt!" he cried, "I am General Zac, Right hand man of Lord Nick."
At this, a few people gasped and some even screamed.
"We are here," continued Zac, "To carry out an operation so if you all cooperate no-one gets hurt. We will be investigating the great pyramid, and if anyone comes near the operation, our guards will take them into custody."
"You are not welcome here." Said a voice from the background. Zac turned around. An old man in a tattered grey robe and leaning on a gnarled old wooden staff was walking towards him. His staff had no jewel. He was hooded, but a long dirty grey beard protruded from the hood.
"Who," said Zac, "Are you?"
"My name is Pharas. I am the only sorcerer around here for miles and I can't let you disrupt the ancient pyramids."
"Remove him" said Zac casually to some goons. Two goons advanced on Pharas. The top of their staffs glowed with dark energy. Just as they were about to launch their attacks, Pharas threw off his hood and blasted the goons with one blast of gold energy. Zac stepped back in surprise. Regaining himself, Zac stepped forward.
"Begin work on the pyramids, I'll deal with this personally." He said, as he raised his staff. Zac's staff glowed with dark green energy, and Pharas' staff glowed with gold energy. At the same time, they both launched their attacks. They collided in the middle and for a moment struggled against each other with it's user straining to make their attack win. After a few shoves from each side, the attacks exploded in a burst of green and gold energy. Dust flew up all around and when it cleared, Zac was panting slightly, but Pharas was leaning heavily on his staff.
'I'm getting too old for this' he thought.
They both launched attacks again at the same time, except Pharas' was much smaller and was consumed by Zac's. The attack hit Pharas and he was disintegrated.
The rest of the area fell silent. Zac lightly brushed some hair out of his eyes and turned to the workmen watching him.
"Get to work!" yelled Zac.
…
Sam was sitting at his desk with his feet on the table. He was smoking a large cigar and listening to a report from Brandon.
"Apparently there was a disturbance in Egypt near the great pyramid yesterday. An elderly sorcerer was murdered by a huge dark green blast." Said Brandon, "My guess is that it was Zac"
"Naturally," said Sam, "I wonder what Zac was doing in Egypt?
He was obviously there on Nick's orders and Egyptian pyramids do have strange ancient energies but I don't know what Nick needs them for or how he would utilize them."
"Well one thing's for sure," said Brandon, "They're not there to stop at the country club"
"Oh well," sighed Sam, "you should turn in for the night. There's nothing we can do tonight."
"OK," said Brandon, "see ya tomorrow"
Brandon left Sam's office as Sam stood up and turned to put some documents in his filing cabinet. As he closed the cabinet and locked it he heard his door swing slowly open and then closed again. Someone had entered the room. Sam spun around to face them as his staff appeared in his hand in a flash of blue light. To his relief, it was only Ashlee.
"Oh Ashlee, It's jus… What's the matter?!" exclaimed Sam as he saw the troubled look on her face.
"Oh it's nothing… it's just…" and suddenly, Ashlee walked over and fell into Sam's arms.
"Ashlee, wha…"
"Haven't you realised yet?" cried Ashlee, "I love you Sam! I've been trying to decide whether to tell you or not over the past couple of days, and now I've decided"
Oh, So that explains Ashlee's distantness over the past couple of days, thought Sam.
Ashlee stood up and rubbed her eyes and looked at Sam.
"Ashlee, I…" Sam began.
"Just tell me, do you love me too or not?" said Ashlee quietly.
Sam looked down, his face red. Ashlee walked up to Sam and kissed him. Lightly at first, but then Sam reciprocated.
…
Sam woke up and looked at where he was. He was in his bed at home and his room was dark so it was obviously morning. Good, he thought, It was a dream. Then he looked to the other side of his bed and saw Ashlee laying there asleep under the covers, naked. Sam swore quietly. As he made to get up he felt Ashlee's hand grab the back of his jumper and pull him back into bed. As he fell back into bed Ashlee kissed him and said "good morning Sir" in a purring voice, and then continued kissing him. Sam pulled away and said "Ashlee, we can't do this! We're friends!"
"We're more than that now," said Ashlee as she made to grab Sam again. Sam jumped back out of the way.
"I'll see you at work," he said as his robes magically appeared on him and his staff appeared in his hand. And in a flash of blue energy, he was gone. When Sam had disappeared, Ashlee's eyes glowed pink and a figure outside Sam's house, robed in pink, hastily shuffled away.
…
At 10:00 AM Sam arrived at his office and began pacing in deep thought. Suddenly he slapped his hand to his forehead, as though something had clicked.
"Karen." Said Sam quietly, as though summoning her to talk to him. Nothing happened. Sam took a deep breath and:
"KAREN!!!" he roared as he raised his staff. A blue bolt of energy fell from the ceiling and hit the ground. Out of it appeared Karen looking flustered, dizzy and confused.
"You could have asked," said Karen impatiently.
"You didn't come when I called so I forced you to come," said Sam, "Now down to business… WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TRYING TO PULL?!?"
"Oh come on Sam! Lighten up and have some fun!" said Karen, "As you know I have the ability to see who people love and I saw that Ashlee loves you and you her, so I helped her, shall we say, Release her love. But apparently I went too far and turned her into a Sam crazy love machine!"
"Well now that you've had your fun you can lift the spell." Said Sam quietly.
"And what if I don't?" said Karen fiercely.
Sam raised his staff and began to advance on her.
"OK, OK, OK, OK!" said Karen, "I'll do it! Jeez!"
She raised her staff and it flashed momentarily pink and then dulled. After a few seconds another ball of pink light flew through the wall and disappeared into the top of Karen's staff.
"There, I did it," said Karen, "can I go now?"
"Get out of my sight," scowled Sam.
As Karen was about to disappear, she paused and said:
"Have you seen Nick lately? I just haven't seen him in a while,"
"No I haven't," said Sam.
Karen shrugged and disappeared in a flash of pink energy.
Sam sat down and kneaded his forehead with his palms. After a while Brandon and Ashlee walked into his office. Ashlee and Sam both went extremely red, but Brandon was indifferent, having not noticed anything.
"pack your things guys, we're going to Egypt," said Sam.
…
In a flash of Yellow, Green and predominantly blue, Sam, Brandon and Ashlee appeared in the desert. A second later, in a large flash of black energy, they were surrounded by hundreds of Nick's henchmen.
To Be Continued………