Ok, i've found a temporary solution to the problem, it's time for the next chapter. I'm finally going to pit them against the belfry gargoyles. Onto the story!
I looked around at this golden city of the gods, already pondering what treasures she and her sister could find.
"Mariam, I found something!" her sister called from one of the chambers. I walked into the room, I noticed the iron statue of some deity presumably,
"what is it?" I asked,
"Treasure chests." she said simply, she popped open the chest to the right. she screamed as arms protruded from the chest and grabbed her I rushed to help her, I couldn't let her die, she's all I have.
Mariam rushed across the bridge, she hoped that this smith had not died, he had always been nice. She ran up the stairs of the block tower until she finally reached the top, here she saw that the smith and all of his tools and creations were now stone.
"Dammit Seath." She muttered. Then she noticed a pale white light shining from his shielding hands, she pulled out the small stone box that held the small white flame, she also retrieved a small key.
"Don't just run off like that." Lester said as he finally made it up the stairway, "Crap, what happened to him." Gesturing at the stone carcass.
Mariam tossed the ember to him,
"One of Seath's 'experiments'" She said in a controlled tone. Lester caught the ember and stashed it in his satchel,
"Was he a friend?" Lester asked,
"yes." She said quickly, they went down the stairway and across the bridge in silence.
"Too bad Lester isn't here, he'd know the layout of this place perfectly." Theo said as they walked into the church, "bet, he'd know a secret pass t,,," he was cut off by a towering mace slamming into his side, Ulric recognized it as a hollowed knight of Berenike,
"Dam, Theo!" Ulric took an overhead swing at the knight, the freshly sharpened steel bit into the monster but barely did anything. It raised it's mace but failed to swing as he was interrupted by a orb of flame to his helm,
"What the hell is this thing!?" Theo shouted to Ulric,
"It's a Berenike knight, get behind it." Ulric shouted, he smashed his greatshield into the hollows side, knocking the terror to the ground. Theo, already behind the beast, held up his sword and hoped to Lloyd that he wouldn't be crushed. His wish was denied as the massive knight fell upon the drake's tail, and him in the process.
"oh…" Theo managed to say before the giant fell on him, it suddenly began dissolving in the same way the boar had.
"********** **** ****** ***" Theo was shouting as his mouth was uncovered,
"Oh calm down, I don't think he'll resurrect, let's rest at the bonfire, you look like some albino hollow right now." Ulric said, only half jokingly.
"So, what can you tell me about yourself?" Lester said,
"I'm Mariam." she said,
"I know that, I'm asking because I want to know a bit more about the person travelling with me." Lester said diplomatically, she gave an exasperated sigh and started walking a bit faster. They came to an entrance to a large ruin,
"This leads to the old church, Andre will be there." She handed him five green finger-like pieces of stone, "Give these to him, along with the ember, he'll use them to enchant your equipment.",
"Hold on, why don't you come with me?" Lester said "It wouldn't hurt to have skilled people on the trip.",
"The last group I traveled with, it didn't end very well." Mariam said quietly,
"Don't worry, you definitely won't mess anything up." Lester said.
They walked into the ruin,
"Run to the other side, i'll distract the prowler ok?" Mariam said quietly,
"what, oh.." Lester said, just now noticing the huge beast with a staff as long as it's body, "how did I miss that?", Lester made a dash for the archway as Mariam took an overhead swing with her charred sword. After Lester made it to the door she made a run after him, rolling to avoid the bolt of thunder shot from the prowlers rod.
"Hello Mariam, is this a friend of yours?" Andre said absently as he continued to forge away at the longsword,
"Yes." She said shortly, she handed him a mass of souls, "that should cover the forging of his weapon right?",
"yes, it should." He said, Lester handed him his 'Partizan' as Mariam had called it, he heated the spear over a small orange ember, the rubbed small black shards into the blade.
"If I may have that ember now?" Andre asked Lester, who handed the divine flame to him, he repeated the process and rubbed the green shards into the spear.
"All right, all done." Andre said, returning to the longsword, "Be careful out there, neither of us want to see you go hollow." Lester took the softly glowing spear, it began to glow a bit brighter in his hand,
"I like it, exemplary work Andre." Lester said, he was suddenly cut off by a guttural roar from above, "Mariam, let's go!" They ran up the stairs and reached the side entrance to the church, they looked up and saw a living gargoyle wielding a halberd approaching two men and one golden figure.
"I HATE SORCERY!" Theo screamed as he cut into the horde of magically enhanced hollows,
"HOW MANY ARE THERE?" Ulric shouted back, they had been holed up in the hall fending off a seemingly endless horde of the enhanced undead for three minutes. finally they slew the last hollow,
"Excuse me, I'm going to say hello to that six-eyed bastard." Theo said angrily, they walked back into the chamber as the pyromancer hurled a glob of fire onto the channeler's robes, setting them on fire. the six eyed man panicked and fell of the ledge and died, exploding into souls.
"R.I.P asshole, midday-midday." Theo said calmly, they decided to look around before going to the roof, heading down a chamber they made quick work of a baldor knight standing in the hall. Wandering the hall they found a rotted door frame, curious Ulric kicked down the wood and found a staircase leading to an iron cage.
"Hello? is someone there?" A rolling voice called down, they rushed up the stairs and found a man in golden armor sitting casually inside the cell.
"Oh? still human, are you? Then I am in luck. Could you help me? As you can see I am stuck, without recourse." the gold knight said calmly.
"I don't know if I have the key." Ulric said, he tried the key they had found in the bar and the door swung open when he pulled.
"Thank you, I am Lautrec of Carim." his sly voice drawled, "I will get you a reward, later." without another word the knight sprinted down the stairway,
"umm, that can't have been a good idea." Theo said, they returned to the ladders leading to the roof and climbed up, Theo noticed a golden sign carved into the ground reading 'Solaire' he slapped it and in a flash bright as the sun Solaire rose from the mark.
Lester ran into the church making a sharp right, and pushed the ceremonial pedestal aside, not noticing the corpse atop it. He opened the revealed trapdoor and flipped it up hopping inside, Mariam followed behind but pocketed the fire keeper soul resting on the corpse before going. They reached a ladder and climbed up, Lester moved the stone slab and climbed up into the fireplace under the bell, he ran over to the next ladder and Mariam followed close behind.
"What was that?" Mariam said,
"Servant's entrance." He said, they reached the bell, it was intricate with many carving upon it's iron, but Lester's attention was to the battle. Solaire began hurling bolts at the first gargoyle as Ulric finished it off with an overhead strike, they turned their attention to the second one that was currently torching Theo,
"DO SOMETHING!" he was screaming, Lester chimed in and leapt from the balcony plummeting and driving the huge spear into the bare head of the gargoyle,
"Was that something?" Lester said as it too dissolved.
oh, wow that was long. once again, thank you guys for staying with me and leaving reviews, I love the feedback and i'm always looking for ways to improve.