"So how exactly are we going to find this Lampedes lair anyways? We are here in L.A, but we have no clue where to go next." Stefani said wearily. We have been walking around for an hour and so far have had no luck finding the mystical witches. We stopped at a street café and sat down to order some drinks.
Soon I was sipping at my usual, raspberry iced tea. Zach had a Cherry and Stefani had Lemon Italian ice. Figures that she would order something so fancy. Whilst thinking about how perfect Stefani is, I thought of an idea. "Guys, why don't we check around Hollywood? If there is going to be anything weird, it would probably be in Hollywood"
"That sounds like as good as place as any, good idea Susanna" Zach said that a gave me a smile that almost made me blush. Almost. We finished up our drinks and started to walk to Hollywood. Stefani, who had memorized the whole entire map of Los Angelos on the plane, led the way. Zach and I followed behind her. I really wanted to just go and clasp Zachs hand in mine and just hold it. No idea where that urge came from at all. Instead I just played with the ring Zach gave me, wishing he gave it to me for a reason other then for a shield.
Zach, who has been wearing a long sleeve gray shirt and a glove on his silver arm, took out his sharpie marker. I saw this, and knew what it meant. I slowly whispered to Stefani "Get ready, Zach sees something.." Stefani opened up her right hand and a whitish aura surrounded it, and I knew she was ready to use her powers. She started to lead us into an alley that led to an abandoned basketball court.
With all that focusing on making sure everyone else was ready to fight the monsters , being the great quest leader I am, I forgot to make sure I was ready to fight. So when this old lady walking a bunch of dogs on their leashes came into the basketball court behind us, I was unprepared. And when the dogs transformed into a group of murderous hellhounds, I was really unprepared.
One of the butt-ugly dogs immediately leaped at me. I instinctively raised my hand up and an aura surrounded it. But instead of a white and icy one like Stefanis, mine glowed like the sun . A beam light shot out of my hand and hit the hellhound in mid air, knocking it to the ground. I opened up my pocketknife and hit my ring with the flat edge of my blade, so it formed into my circular shield.
While I was busy taking out my weapons, the one hellhound I knocked down got two buddies and they circled around me, growling. One tried to leap at me again. It was a good attempt, but I hit it in the nose with my shield, knocking it back. And then while it was recovering, I slashed at its neck downwards, causing the miserable beast to explode into dust.
Meanwhile I saw Stefani in action. She formed her ice staff and blasted one hellhound with a ice, causing its legs to be encased with ice. She then did this fancy twirl move and smashed her staff into the dogs legs, shattering the ice, and also shattering the hellhound in a million pieces of dust.
Zach was fighting the alpha male of the pack, noticeably bigger then the rest of the pack. It was like watching the same thing over and over again. The dog would leap at Zach, mouth wide open to bite him. Zach held out the spear horizontally so the hellhound bit down on it like a bone. They would play tug o war for a few seconds, trying to gain control of the spear, before Zach pushed the hellhound away and the cycle started again. But at one point Zach, instead of pushing the dog away, made a fist with his silver arm and brought his hand down on the dogs skull, making it go into dust. He then turned around to face more of the hellhounds.
The other two who were circling around me were a lot more wary now that I killed one of them. While I was focusing on one, the other jumped at me from the side and bit down on my shield. I was about to hack at it with my sword, but then the other one jumped and bit the sword, so I couldn't.
Being the angry type, I really didn't like that. Not one bit. So I somehow summoned the sun once again and my shield and sword became about a thousand degrees hotter, and the hellhounds immediately let go, whimpering. I showed no mercy, of course, and immediately finished them off with my sun sword thingy.
I turned back towards Stefani and Zach, who had just finished off the last of their enemies. They were out of breath, but more or less fine. We grouped together and faced towards the old lady, who had been watching the whole battle, with our weapons at ready.
"Good job my pretties, now, do even dare face me?" She gave a wicked laugh, and transformed into a much better looking lady, only she had snakes for hair and a boar tusks, with ugly scaly skin. "My name is Stheno, and be prepared to face your doom."