Chapter. 29

The rain picked up over the village as two mages prepared to fight. Remus summoned a fire sword and charged. Terroria waved her hand and vines sprouted from the ground. Remus summoned a second fire sword and covered himself in flames as he ran through the vines. Once Remus was close to Terroria she raised a stone shield to block his sword strikes.

The fire melted through the stone, Terroria shoved the stones at Remus and backed away, the stones did little to stop Remus as he chased her. The rain was putting out Remus' fire equipment till it faded away.

"Fire in rain? Not very bright of you." Terroria spun her arm to create a cloud of purple mist.

Remus created a sphere of ice and shattered it, the cold wind blew the toxic mist back. "Fire's no good." His arms sparked with lightning. "Then how about this?" Remus' arms grew into thunder giant's.

Terroria summoned up more vines, each of them wrapping around his arms. Remus dispelled the giant's arms to get free then resummoned them as he continued fighting his way towards her. Terroria backed away as she created stone walls but Remus kept destroying them.

As Remus drew close Terroria raised a stone wall with vines behind it. Remus punched through the wall and the vines wrapped around his arm. Terroria's arm grew into a stone giant's and punched Remus. The vines kept Remus in place and Terroria punched him again. Remus dispelled his trapped arm, when Terroria punched him again Remus was thrown back.

As Remus slid through the mud Terroria raised a wall of thorned vines to stop her opponent. Remus slid into the vine wall, thorns cutting and stabbing his back. Terroria separated into streams magic and reappeared in front of Remus. Terroria held up Remus' head with her hand. "You're rash one." Terroria ran her finger along Remus' arm, covering it in some of his blood.

Remus broke up into magic to reappear behind Terroria, he shoved her into the vines then punched Terroria through them with a stone giant's arm. Terroria got back on her feet and held out her hand to create a stone wall, the giant's fist slashed into the wall and cracked it. Remus hurled an ice mortar over the wall which landed near Terroria, freezing her legs to the ground.

Terroria summoned stone spikes from the ground to shatter the ice Remus dashed around the stone wall and conjured lightning arrows. The arrow struke Terroria, shocking her into submission. The ice broke apart from the electricity and Terroria fell to the ground.

Remus stood over the fallen sorceress. He looked down at his hands then to the woman. She looked back at his with a look of acceptance, knowing her end was here. Remus looked over to his friends to see Simila growing plants to treat their poison, he kneeled down to Terroria. "What drives you to kill, why did you side with Avalon?"

Terroria looked at her finger to see Remus' blood was still on it. She brought the blood to her lips and tasted it. "You. Your blood."

A house was demolished as a large slime charged through, heading for the poisoned magic users. Remus stood up and held out his left hand Terroria. "You promise to help me save them and I'll save you. After that we part ways, deal?" Terroria nodded and Remus saved her. "Use your vines to slow it down."

"As you wish." Terroria waved her hand as vines shot up from the soaked soil, wrapping around the slime and impaling it. "I wonder what that beast's blood tastes like."

Remus' held his hands together and changed them into a cannon, lightning sparked out of the cannon as filled with light. Remus fired his weapon and a beam of electricity hit the smile dead center. The slime was stunned but Remus fell to one knee and was breathing hard. "Damn it, I don't have enough power."

"Then use this." Terroria places several vials filled with a dark red liquid.

"Blood?" Terroria nodded. "No, I'm not that desperate." The slime was breaking out of the vine Terroria created and moving towards the fallen sorcerers again. "Damn it all!" Remus opened the vials and stood up, the blood rose and gathered in his hand along with some of his own from his wounds.

The collected blood formed into a long blade which Remus launched at the slime. The blade sliced into the monster and caused it to start bleeding. The freed blood flew out of the wound and hovered over the monster, forming into another blade that slashed into the slime. Remus drew blood from the newly opened wound as well as the first one he made to create more blades to cut into the smile to create more openings to drew more blood.

When the slime was covered in wounds Remus held hands together and slowly pulled the apart. Blood sprayed out of the monster till there wasn't any left inside it. The slime fell on its side and broke apart into black ooze.

Remus walked towards his group and stood by his sister. "How are they?"

"They'll be fine." Simila saw Terroria standing by Remus' side. Fire formed in her hand and Remus held up his own.

"Can we get the inside somewhere?"

"Yes, but what are we going to do with her?"

"I saved her and she helped me save everyone. This is where we part ways." Remus held out his hand to Terroria. "Thank you, but let's not meet again."

Terroria held Remus' hand with boned hand. "I'm sure we'll meet again, and next time I won't be alone." Terroria's body turned into vine then burrowed into the ground.

"Don't know about letting her go. You okay Remus?" Simila grabbed her brother by the arm and shook him. "Remus, you there?"

"Sorry it's just, she used vines and poison. That's plant magic used by Grim."

"That's not the only thing bothering you is it?"

"I used it sis."

Simila stood in front of Remus and placed her hands on his shoulders. "Look at me Remus. You did what you had to do, remember what Grim stands for. Let fate decide, and fate decided you had to use blood magic."

"Let fate decide..." The phase made Remus think back to his fight with the scared chalice. "Let fate decide, huh. Tell me, who decides fate?" The Chalice's words echoed in his mind. "Simila. Who decides fate?"

Simila didn't have answer. She released her brother and the twins carried their friends into one of the houses."

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