Chapter 8- One to Fear
Melinda glistened in with blue lights that accompanied her and vanished after she was fully in the Rynex Realm. She looked around to see a crimson sky with black clouds that nearly brought chills to Melinda. She spotted steel cages that appeared to have been blown open. She heard screams that stopped her from taking in the rest of the scene and she charged to the screams, using her senses to guide her.
After a couple minutes of running, she approached a building and after hearing another scream, she spun around and kicked open the door. The door swung open and she saw two female witches and a male witch running towards her.
"Run," one of the females cried. She zoomed past Melinda and Melinda turned to see what they were running from.
The male witch held up his hand and several fully formed icicles flew towards a direction and Melinda heard them shatter. She looked carefully and spotted the enemy; a creature that looked as if he had a body of steel, black curved horns, long claws substituting an actual hand and red glaring eyes. He stood seven feet tall and he wiped off the tiny amount of mist from the icicles off of his chest.
The creature held out an open palm and a blue ball began to grow from it. He quickly threw it at the running male witch and blasted a hole through his chest, causing blood to spill out of the witch's mouth and collapsed onto the floor.
The other two witches were already gone and Melinda searched the floor to find more dead bodies. The amount of blood on the floor made Melinda reconsider battling this creature, but it was too late; he spotted her. The creature waved his hand and Melinda flipped from the door to a wall that was roughly twenty feet away, she slammed against it and dropped to the floor. The bag that possessed the Carrier's hand had already slipped off of her belt.
Melinda, in pain, dug into her pouch and pulled out one of the vials that held one of her strongest potions. On the floor, she threw the potion at the creature and the explosion against his chest, caused him to stumble back. He has a weakness. Good. Melinda thought and sighed in relief. She threw up her hands and that explosion wasn't strong enough to cause him to stumble back. Only a stream of smoke resulted from it. Not good. Melinda thought as she desperately reached in her pouch for another potion.
The creature charged towards her at super speed and yanked the potion pouch off of her shoulder and threw it to the floor, creating an explosion as a result of some shattered potions. The creature grabbed Melinda by her neck and lifted her into the air, her feet dangling as she grasped for breath. The creature banged her against the wall and snarled. "Who are you?"
Melinda tried to answer, but breathing was definitely more important at the moment.
The creature realized why he wasn't getting an answer and threw her to the floor, blood now tricking from her nose and her face was red; resembling bad sunburn. She breathed as fast as she could, trying to gain as much oxygen as possible, unaware whether or not the creature would strangle her again. "I…was…sent by…Broncian," Melinda answered, panting for more air.
"I thought I smelled his scent on you," the creature replied in a chilling voice.
"Are you his failed experiment of a demon?" Melinda asked, picking herself up.
"I no longer work for Broncian, witch," the creature announced. He sniffed the air and something caught his attention. He turned around to Melinda's fallen bag and stretched out his hand. The bag telekinetically flew to the creature and he opened it, revealing the Carrier's hand. "I recognize this. This is the Forbidden Hand…the hand that Broncian never granted me access to. Thanks for bringing this to me, witch."
"No!" Melinda shouted as she ran towards him and the creature thrust his hand forward and sent Melinda flying back and she slammed into yet, another wall. She had fallen face forward and her eyes began to close on her as all her strength was drained from her. Before her eyelids fully closed, she saw the creature vanish in flames and another figure: Verok.
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