When last we saw Aaliyah, and Gorpi, they had just made there way into the tide cave, and had found Quartz, the guardian of the tide cave, with a large wizard's sword impaled within his chest.
Before they could even begin to discuss what had happened, they were interrupted by a voice from behind, a voice that belonged to the Mistress of the Grime Fairies, self-proclaimed caretakers of the tide cave. As Aaliyah and Gorpi found out the Grimes Fairies purpose wasn't to care of the cave itself, but to kill anyone who came looking for Quartz. And so...
"So say your prayers
honey, cause the next couple of hours aren't going to be very fun for
you!" The Mistress said with a perverse grin on her face.
The
Mistress pointed her fists at Gorpi and Aaliyah, and blasted a charge
of electricity at the pair. Aaliyah dodged to the left, while Gorpi
dodged to the right, but the Mistress, and her crew responded in
kind. The Mistress stayed stationary and continued her ranged assault
on Gorpi, while her servants moved towards Aaliyah, and surrounded
her.
The Mistress kept blasting away at Gorpi, but Gorpi was so
quick, she missed by a long shot most of the time.
"Stand
still you dirty tamer, and meet your fate!" She said while
continuing to launch a barrage of electrical blasts in Gorpi's
direction.
"Meet this!", Gorpi said as she launched a
weakness arrow at the Mistress, but the Mistress's defenses were
high, and she blasted the arrow mid-air.
On the other side of the
battle field, Aaliyah's foes had just closed in on her.
"Please,
get away from me, I don't want to fight you!" She said in a
scared almost overwhelmed voice.
"Well, that's just to bad
now isn't it dearie? Because we really want to kill you!"
the Grime Fairy in the center said.
They hastily closed in on
Aaliyah. The two on her left and right grabbed onto her arms. She
tried to fight back and escape, but their strength was overwhelming.
The two behind her grabbed onto her hair and begin pulling and
ripping at it. The fairy in the center grabbed onto Aaliyah's chin
and digs in her claws.
"And trust me dearie, we always get
what we want!" she said with a grin that matched her
Mistress's.
Which brings us back to that very same Mistress.
Gorpi fired three slow down arrows at the Mistress this time. The
Mistress reacted by blasting the one coming at her from the left, and
the one coming straight down the middle, but she is not fast enough
for the arrow coming down the right side. It clips her in the arm,
and the Mistress screams! "You dirty little tamer, you'll pay for
that! Your spells don't work on me!" The Mistress said in a deep
angry voice
"Yeah, well bring it on ladie!"Gorpi said in
a defiant voice.
The Mistress proceeded to fire two more blasts at Gorpi, one headed directly at Gorpi, and one that seemed to be directed upwards into the air. Gorpi rolled over dodging the first blast effortlessly, but as she lands she realized where the other blast went. With a thunderous crash, a pile of rocks, and boulders drops on top of Gorpi, burying her in the rubble.
Meanwhile,
all Aaliyah could feel was seething pain – unkempt claws ripping
and scratching her face, fists bashing her head, and fingers ripping
out her hair.
"No.. stop... please just stop... your killing
me... " But the Grime Fairies are pushed even further by
Aaliyah's plea's. "I said stop!" Aaliyah screamed in a
desperate final attempt to escape the brutality. She unleashed a fire
burst attack, one so powerful, it instantly killed the two fairies
holding her arms, and the one in the center, as well as flung the two
fairies behind her onto the floor. The fairy to the left scrambled to
her feet and rushed to pounce on Aaliyah, but shes met with a fire
barb attack to the chest, killing her. The other stays on the floor
near a pile of rocks that fell when the Mistress blasted the
roof.
"Please, don't kill me, they made me their slave, I
didn't want to do any of this." the Grime Fairy pleaded.
Aaliyah
stood unsure of what to do.
"They were going to kill me, I
mean... I killed them, but they were going to kill me, this one
isn't. What do I do? How can I let go what she was going to do to
me?" She thought to herself.
"You don't!", Shard
answered."You know Aaliyah, that if the situation were reversed,
you'd be dead by now."
"I know, and... I even want to
kill her, but... I... just can't." she said unsure of how she
truly felt.
"Go find someplace to hide until this is over, we will do everything we can to free you." Aaliyah said as she turned and left to deal with the Mistress. Unknown to her the Grime Fairy grabbed a large rock, and is silently creeping up behind her...
Will the Grime Fairy get her way, and what about Gorpi, does she still live? Find out next part...
