Voyage to destruction
Chapter 2: And it begins. (Fear my typos :X)
Pain. More pain. Gwelin looked at her arm. It was heavy, and seemed to have no more strength in it. Not that it stopped her from casting spells . . . It was just too weird of a sensation for her. She never really knew pain, until now. "Azuron, I believe something is wrong with my . . . arm. . ." she said as she stumbled to the ground, unable to bear the pain any longer. Azuron turned around after finishing up on the zombie he was killing. Akara had told them about a Den of evil, and they had headed there. Inside, they found armies of fallen and fallen shaman, armies of zombies and even the rare gargantuan beast. But the most remarkable monster there was, Corpsefire. While they were fighting his minions, he popped out of the shadows and hit Gwelin on her right arm.
When Azuron checked her arm, he noticed something odd. Her veins were becoming visible, and they were becoming greenish. "Gwelin . . . I think you're poisoned."
She instructed him to check into her pack of items for a black looking potion. He found it, and she drank it. It was an antidote, a cure for poison. Slowly, the potion began to take effect.
"So, Gwelin. . . you don't mind that I call you Gwen? Do you? Gwelin is just sorta lo. . ."
"Gwen will be fine Azuron."
"Just call me Az."
"Alright, Azur . . . Az. Where are you from?"
"Well. . ."
While Gwelin was still recovering, they talked. They had talked so long; it was beginning to get dark. When they finally realized that they had to head back to town, before it gets too dark.
Thoraro looked at his wares. A sword, shields, armor, amulets, rings . . . The usual things a travelling merchant would carry, yet he didn't understand why he had barely any customers. When he looked back up, he noticed a dark looking man. He had short brown hair, pale skin, not too muscled. . . But what was striking was, two skeletons were following him. The man turned to Thor's stand, and moved forward.
"Hello sir, I hope you can find what you're looking for here." Thor said, welcoming the customer.
"Hi. I noticed you have a bone wand. . ." He picked up the item and spun it around.
Thor checked his item list, and found the item. It was a bone wand that would aid a necromancer raise skeletons and make them stronger. (( Note : +2 to Skeleton Mastery and +1 to Raise Skeleton. if anyone is curious what it did.))
" . . .this item intrigues me. How much would you ask for it?"
Thor had never sold a wand before, and didn't know its real value. "Uh, 300 gold coins."
The man just looked at Thor. 300 gold coins was quite a bargain, but the merchant looked poor and tired. "I'll give you 15 000 coins for it."
"15 000?!" Never had one of Thor's customers raised the price of his wares. And 15 000 would be, his biggest sale yet.
"You heard me, 15 000. The wand itself is worth over 30 thousand. But since you've only asked for 300, I'll raise it to 15 000."
Damn. I could have made 30 000 on it. Hmm, 15 000 is enough to make me live for a month. I guess I'll go with it. Thor thought to himself. "Alright, I'll let it go for 15 000. . ."
The man paid. "Oh, sir? I was wondering why those skeletons are following you. The only skeletons I've heard about are evil, and kill people like you and me."
"I'm a necromancer. I raise the dead. Now scream, run away or yell, like the rest of you people do."
"I wasn't intending on. . ." Thor would have finished his sentence, if it wasn't interrupted by a scream.
"HELP! MONSTERS ARE ATTACKING THE CAMP!" someone yelled.
Thor looked up. There had to be at least a hundred fallen with their shaman. He looked around, no rogues. "Where's the rogues." Suddenly, the necromancer just bolted towards the battle with his two skeletons following him. Thor decided he would help. He picked up a small light armour, which was easy to put on and a small sword. He ran towards the battle hoping he could help.
Gwelin and Azuron were walking towards the camp, but instead of the quiet camp, there was fire around the edges, and hundreds of fallen and shaman. "Oh my lord. . ." Gwelin said to herself. They had to get back to the camp. And quick. They began to run, but they were cut off by a pack of rogues. These weren't like the ones she had seen in the camp. These were dark looking, and screaming "DIE" as they ran towards them.
"Az. . . Are these. . ."
"Before we left. . ." He was cut off by a rogue swinging at his head. He ducked, lifted his axe and sliced right through the corrupted rogue's stomach. "Kashya, the Rogue leader at the camp. . ." Interrupted again, but this time, it was Gwelin they were going after. He yelled loudly, some of the rogues were startled and backed away, giving Gwelin some time to escape before she got hurt. But, instead of running, she lifted her hands in the air and lowered her staff against the ground. Following her movements, came circles and circles of light. Obviously hurting the rogues. She turned towards Azuron when she had the chance, grinned and said "Nova." Then the darkness came. She had left her guard down and she ended on the floor after a rogue had knocked her down using a club.
Thor sliced at a fallen shaman. It fell down, sparkled and got back up. He sliced at it again, chopping its head off. It sparkled, head went back on it's body, and got up. "What in the world. . ." Thor, the necromancer and a few rogues that were still at the camp were fighting off legions of fallen. But what Thor found weird, the fallen weren't dieing. They would kill a fallen, the fallen was revived by the shaman. If they killed a shaman, it would get revived. Between killing a fallen, and it being revived, he surveyed around. Fallen. Shaman. Shaman. Purple Shaman. Purple Shaman?! "Look! That Shaman is purple!"
The necromancer turned to it. It was really purple. "Get him." He muttered to his skeletons, and with amazing skill, the skeletons jumped over fallen after fallen until they reached at the purple shaman. After a fearsome battle, the purple shaman finally fell. The normal shaman began to diminuish and the fallen just wouldn't get up anymore. While they were trying to loot the corpses for any items, Azuron carrying Gwelin in his arms came running towards them. He was followed by a swarm of rogues. Corrupted rogues.
"The name's Thoraro. You?"
"Iludian De'akro. Looks like we have a long day ahead of us. . ." He said as he watched the swarm of corrupted rogues run towards them.
When the rogues reached the camp, Gwelin and Azuron were behind the lines, recovering. Gwelin was still out cold and Azuron was just plain tired from running. Iludian and Thoraro were holding off the front lines, but by now they were exhausted. The battle was lost, they thought until Kashya arrived, followed by a large number of rogues. "Where have you been!" yelled Thor. "We went to Tristram! Deckard Cain, Horadrim, We saved." She yelled back, while concentrating on the battle. The battle had begun to turn. They were beginning to make progress, slowly shrinking the rogue army. Everything was going well until. . .
"JOIN MY ARMY OF DEAD" yelled a voice from far behind the rogues. Following the voice, 10 arrows came around the group. They avoided all but one of them. And that one hit Kashya. "Aghhhh!" she screamed as she backed up, away from the battle. She was hit in the right shoulder. It wasn't anything serious for her, she was just recovering from the shock. Until she noticed it was poisoned.
She limped over to Akara's tent, hoping there were antidotes.
A rogue suddenly yelled out to the group: "It's Blood Raven!"
Blood raven was one of Kashya's finest rogues, and one of her good friends. Now, she was just a zombie, but with a bow. Azuron, now fully recovered, picked up his axe and leaped over the battle to reach Blood Raven. He swung, but hit only air. The corrupted rogue leader was at another spot. He swung where she was, and hit only air. "This isn't going anywhere" he thought. This time, when he swung, he faked it. And when Blood Raven moved, he shifted and managed to slice her right across the neck, making a clean cut. Her head hit the ground as her body collapsed and the rogues began to scatter. The battle was won. All that was left was the cleaning up.
"You think the battle is tough . . . until you get to the clean up." Azuron said to himself as he lifted bodies and more bodies, moving them aside.
"Thor, let me correct myself. We have a long, LONG day ahead of us." Iludian said to Thor.
Author's Notes: Chapter 2 is up. Obviously. Note: SOMEONE TO PROOF READ - NEED VOLENTEERS. (Just kidding just point out errors. hint hint. I'm French, whacha expect. Oh, the story will be shrunk a bit, every quest will be involved, but not a full chapter per quest. Maybe half a chapter per quest from now on. Just maybe. Oh and if some sentences finish abruptly with a "." And it makes no sense. . . That's Microsoft word for you. It's really supposed to be a ". . . "(3 dots if it doesn't show)
Chapter 2: And it begins. (Fear my typos :X)
Pain. More pain. Gwelin looked at her arm. It was heavy, and seemed to have no more strength in it. Not that it stopped her from casting spells . . . It was just too weird of a sensation for her. She never really knew pain, until now. "Azuron, I believe something is wrong with my . . . arm. . ." she said as she stumbled to the ground, unable to bear the pain any longer. Azuron turned around after finishing up on the zombie he was killing. Akara had told them about a Den of evil, and they had headed there. Inside, they found armies of fallen and fallen shaman, armies of zombies and even the rare gargantuan beast. But the most remarkable monster there was, Corpsefire. While they were fighting his minions, he popped out of the shadows and hit Gwelin on her right arm.
When Azuron checked her arm, he noticed something odd. Her veins were becoming visible, and they were becoming greenish. "Gwelin . . . I think you're poisoned."
She instructed him to check into her pack of items for a black looking potion. He found it, and she drank it. It was an antidote, a cure for poison. Slowly, the potion began to take effect.
"So, Gwelin. . . you don't mind that I call you Gwen? Do you? Gwelin is just sorta lo. . ."
"Gwen will be fine Azuron."
"Just call me Az."
"Alright, Azur . . . Az. Where are you from?"
"Well. . ."
While Gwelin was still recovering, they talked. They had talked so long; it was beginning to get dark. When they finally realized that they had to head back to town, before it gets too dark.
Thoraro looked at his wares. A sword, shields, armor, amulets, rings . . . The usual things a travelling merchant would carry, yet he didn't understand why he had barely any customers. When he looked back up, he noticed a dark looking man. He had short brown hair, pale skin, not too muscled. . . But what was striking was, two skeletons were following him. The man turned to Thor's stand, and moved forward.
"Hello sir, I hope you can find what you're looking for here." Thor said, welcoming the customer.
"Hi. I noticed you have a bone wand. . ." He picked up the item and spun it around.
Thor checked his item list, and found the item. It was a bone wand that would aid a necromancer raise skeletons and make them stronger. (( Note : +2 to Skeleton Mastery and +1 to Raise Skeleton. if anyone is curious what it did.))
" . . .this item intrigues me. How much would you ask for it?"
Thor had never sold a wand before, and didn't know its real value. "Uh, 300 gold coins."
The man just looked at Thor. 300 gold coins was quite a bargain, but the merchant looked poor and tired. "I'll give you 15 000 coins for it."
"15 000?!" Never had one of Thor's customers raised the price of his wares. And 15 000 would be, his biggest sale yet.
"You heard me, 15 000. The wand itself is worth over 30 thousand. But since you've only asked for 300, I'll raise it to 15 000."
Damn. I could have made 30 000 on it. Hmm, 15 000 is enough to make me live for a month. I guess I'll go with it. Thor thought to himself. "Alright, I'll let it go for 15 000. . ."
The man paid. "Oh, sir? I was wondering why those skeletons are following you. The only skeletons I've heard about are evil, and kill people like you and me."
"I'm a necromancer. I raise the dead. Now scream, run away or yell, like the rest of you people do."
"I wasn't intending on. . ." Thor would have finished his sentence, if it wasn't interrupted by a scream.
"HELP! MONSTERS ARE ATTACKING THE CAMP!" someone yelled.
Thor looked up. There had to be at least a hundred fallen with their shaman. He looked around, no rogues. "Where's the rogues." Suddenly, the necromancer just bolted towards the battle with his two skeletons following him. Thor decided he would help. He picked up a small light armour, which was easy to put on and a small sword. He ran towards the battle hoping he could help.
Gwelin and Azuron were walking towards the camp, but instead of the quiet camp, there was fire around the edges, and hundreds of fallen and shaman. "Oh my lord. . ." Gwelin said to herself. They had to get back to the camp. And quick. They began to run, but they were cut off by a pack of rogues. These weren't like the ones she had seen in the camp. These were dark looking, and screaming "DIE" as they ran towards them.
"Az. . . Are these. . ."
"Before we left. . ." He was cut off by a rogue swinging at his head. He ducked, lifted his axe and sliced right through the corrupted rogue's stomach. "Kashya, the Rogue leader at the camp. . ." Interrupted again, but this time, it was Gwelin they were going after. He yelled loudly, some of the rogues were startled and backed away, giving Gwelin some time to escape before she got hurt. But, instead of running, she lifted her hands in the air and lowered her staff against the ground. Following her movements, came circles and circles of light. Obviously hurting the rogues. She turned towards Azuron when she had the chance, grinned and said "Nova." Then the darkness came. She had left her guard down and she ended on the floor after a rogue had knocked her down using a club.
Thor sliced at a fallen shaman. It fell down, sparkled and got back up. He sliced at it again, chopping its head off. It sparkled, head went back on it's body, and got up. "What in the world. . ." Thor, the necromancer and a few rogues that were still at the camp were fighting off legions of fallen. But what Thor found weird, the fallen weren't dieing. They would kill a fallen, the fallen was revived by the shaman. If they killed a shaman, it would get revived. Between killing a fallen, and it being revived, he surveyed around. Fallen. Shaman. Shaman. Purple Shaman. Purple Shaman?! "Look! That Shaman is purple!"
The necromancer turned to it. It was really purple. "Get him." He muttered to his skeletons, and with amazing skill, the skeletons jumped over fallen after fallen until they reached at the purple shaman. After a fearsome battle, the purple shaman finally fell. The normal shaman began to diminuish and the fallen just wouldn't get up anymore. While they were trying to loot the corpses for any items, Azuron carrying Gwelin in his arms came running towards them. He was followed by a swarm of rogues. Corrupted rogues.
"The name's Thoraro. You?"
"Iludian De'akro. Looks like we have a long day ahead of us. . ." He said as he watched the swarm of corrupted rogues run towards them.
When the rogues reached the camp, Gwelin and Azuron were behind the lines, recovering. Gwelin was still out cold and Azuron was just plain tired from running. Iludian and Thoraro were holding off the front lines, but by now they were exhausted. The battle was lost, they thought until Kashya arrived, followed by a large number of rogues. "Where have you been!" yelled Thor. "We went to Tristram! Deckard Cain, Horadrim, We saved." She yelled back, while concentrating on the battle. The battle had begun to turn. They were beginning to make progress, slowly shrinking the rogue army. Everything was going well until. . .
"JOIN MY ARMY OF DEAD" yelled a voice from far behind the rogues. Following the voice, 10 arrows came around the group. They avoided all but one of them. And that one hit Kashya. "Aghhhh!" she screamed as she backed up, away from the battle. She was hit in the right shoulder. It wasn't anything serious for her, she was just recovering from the shock. Until she noticed it was poisoned.
She limped over to Akara's tent, hoping there were antidotes.
A rogue suddenly yelled out to the group: "It's Blood Raven!"
Blood raven was one of Kashya's finest rogues, and one of her good friends. Now, she was just a zombie, but with a bow. Azuron, now fully recovered, picked up his axe and leaped over the battle to reach Blood Raven. He swung, but hit only air. The corrupted rogue leader was at another spot. He swung where she was, and hit only air. "This isn't going anywhere" he thought. This time, when he swung, he faked it. And when Blood Raven moved, he shifted and managed to slice her right across the neck, making a clean cut. Her head hit the ground as her body collapsed and the rogues began to scatter. The battle was won. All that was left was the cleaning up.
"You think the battle is tough . . . until you get to the clean up." Azuron said to himself as he lifted bodies and more bodies, moving them aside.
"Thor, let me correct myself. We have a long, LONG day ahead of us." Iludian said to Thor.
Author's Notes: Chapter 2 is up. Obviously. Note: SOMEONE TO PROOF READ - NEED VOLENTEERS. (Just kidding just point out errors. hint hint. I'm French, whacha expect. Oh, the story will be shrunk a bit, every quest will be involved, but not a full chapter per quest. Maybe half a chapter per quest from now on. Just maybe. Oh and if some sentences finish abruptly with a "." And it makes no sense. . . That's Microsoft word for you. It's really supposed to be a ". . . "(3 dots if it doesn't show)
