I've finally gotten off of my butt and wrote another chapter to this thing. I know you probably want me to write another chapter to other stories, but too bad! And does everyone agree that the Horodric staff quest is one of the most boring? I'd say rescuing Deckard Cain is pretty bad too as well as Khalim's will. When will they learn that we don't like treasure hunting for stuff!!!!
The Paladin's Girl
By: RedLady
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"While you were sleeping, silly head..." Cassandra began. "Leharas, Briana and I went off to collect the Horodric cube."
"You did WHAT?" George asked loudly. They were currently standing at the city gates. Griez looked over at the paladin from his sudden outburst and shrugged. George blushed.
"You should have seen her!" Briana said putting her arm around the smaller woman.
George couldn't believe his eyes. When he last saw the Amazon, she was definitely not feeling too friendly toward his girlfriend.
"She somehow learned this fire spell that burns those maggots in one second!" Briana continued.
"Briana also learned this knew attack with the javelin..." Cassandra said excitably. "And Leharas found this really cool armor! See?" She said pointing at her mercenary. He now wore some sort of metal plate.
"And you did all this without me?" George asked in disbelief.
"Yes, but we need your help to find the Horodric staff." Cas said importantly. George was somewhat shocked that the tables had turned and he was being asked to help instead of doing the asking. He decided to take charge.
"Ok." He agreed. "Where will we find the Horodric staff?"
"You must not be aware that the Horodric staff is in two pieces..." Briana pointed out.
"Yes, we must find the scepter part and the amulet part and use the Horodric cube to meld them together again. The Horodric cube has other alchemistic uses as well!" Cas added quoting Deckerd Cain.
"I am aware of this!" George said somewhat agitated. Let us look for these two separate pieces then. Are you ready?" He asked looking over the three.
"We were ready even before you got up from your little nap." Briana said smirking. He re-situated his armor a little perturbed.
"Then lets go." He answered huffily. "Where are we going again?" He added.
"Allow me to lead the way." Cassandra said and walked past the Paladin. He sighed as he followed the girl.
~
The desert heat didn't do anything for George's mood. His armor made the sun seem twice as hot. He could have been cooking in a frying pan for all he knew. Cassandra seemed to know the way. Briana wasn't talking to him and the mercenary wasn't any help either.
"Ok. Here we are." Cassandra said stopping in front of a pit. "Let's go in!" She said trying to peer into the darkness.
"Do you know what's in there?" George asked uncertain. She shrugged. "All I know is that this is where we are supposed to find part of the Horodric staff. Deckard Cain was telling me about it. He said it would probably be in the maggot lair out here!"
"You know what that means then don't you?" Briana asked darkly.
"What?" Cassandra asked unsuspectingly.
"There is gonna be oversized bugs down there!" George watched as Cassandra's face turned a paler shade of white. He couldn't help but feel sorry for her.
Cassandra gained her composure quickly. "No matter...Let's go!" She said a little less excited then before. And before anyone could say anything she jumped down into the hole, screaming as she fell.
"Oaf!" She yelped as she landed on her hands and knees. She picked up her staff from where it had fallen. She sent a fireball down the corridor lighting the way.
Drognan had showed her how to perform this spell. Though it was really the staff that did it she thought. She had never tried to perform this spell without the staff. She didn't know if she could. She held onto the staff tightly. That was the source of her power. He had shown her how to do another spell, but she hadn't gotten the hang of it just yet.
Briana jumped down besides her. The Amazon landed with more grace than she had. She envied the Amazon, but also felt a strange alliance with her from their adventure obtaining the Horodric cube. The Amazon stood up and had to duck some because of the low ceiling. She smiled at Cassandra.
"I think the Paladin may be feeling a little left out." She said as George began to climb down the hole grabbing onto the side. Cassandra couldn't help but giggle. George lost his hold and fell backwards upon his back. Briana laughed and Cassandra rushed to his side.
"Are you OK George?" She asked genuinely worried.
He groaned. He had the wind knocked out of him, but his ego hurt a little more. He got up refusing Cassandra's help. Leharas grabbed onto the side and dropped down next to him.
~
George led the way deeper into the corridor. The light was dim--but between George's aura's, Briana's flaming arrows, and Cassandra's new found power of shooting fire balls--the corridors were pretty well lit on their adventure.
Upon meeting their first maggots, George was surprised to see Cassandra doing so well. She quickly incinerated the oversized bugs using her staff. She smiled up at George and wiped the sweat of off her forehead. She looked so beautiful.
"This is boring." Briana finally announced shooting at the hundredth maggot.
"Yeah." Cassandra agreed.
"There is just something unsatisfying about killing bugs." Briana continued. Then they heard a scream up ahead. Running up ahead they saw Leharas warding off a big swarm of bugs.
"Oh no, Leharas hold on!" Cassandra shouted and clutched at her staff. Concentrating she dug the end of the staff into the ground and chanted a few unknown words. Immediately, a blue blob came out of the end and froze the swarm giving it substance. George slashed at the swarm with his sword and the collection of bugs shattered into ice shards.
"How did you do that?" George found himself asking.
Leharas ran behind them breathing hard. "Are you Ok?" Cassandra asked uncertainly. Leharas looked up a little embarrassed. "They frightened me, that's all."
Briana laughed and tossed her javelin around playfully. Meanwhile Cassandra was hugging Leharas making George a bit jealous.
"Let's go." George said a little perturbed and prayed for defense against the enemy. More swarms came later and Leharas attacked them swiping his spear through the cloud. Briana tried to burn them with her fire arrows and Cassandra would try to freeze them with her new spell. George would swipe at them with the sword and somehow the small colony of bugs died through their attacks.
They came to a large room at the end of one of the corridors in the lair. There in the middle of the room, a huge bug sat laying eggs. They all stood their frozen until it began to attack them.
Cassandra quickly began to throw fireballs using her staff. Leharas ran up to it stabbing it with his spear. George slammed his sword into the oversized bug's side. Briana rushed to his side and jammed her javelin into the bug's hard exoskeleton.
Cassandra was at the head of the bug shooting fire balls into it's face. George and Briana were busy chopping at the bugs side and Leharas was on the other side using his spear to the best of his ability.
Finally the huge bug died spilling it's internal fluids through out the room. Cassandra stepped around lightly trying to avoid the puddle's of bug goop. Briana quickly destroyed any eggs the bug had laid and stomped on the babies that had already hatched.
"Look!" Cassandra shouted holding up what looked like a stick of some sort. "This must be part of the Horodric Staff!"
She held up the decorative stick. But she didn't have time to think as a swarm began to attack. Without thinking she hit at the bugs with her staff. Lighting came from the staff as the bugs all fell electrocuted. Leharas ran to help her, but the swarm lay dead.
Cassandra stood there still shocked by what had just taken place. He hair stood somewhat standing up from the electricity. How could she have learned a new attack?
"How..." George began, but saw Cassandra's surprise. Briana put her arm around the smaller woman's neck.
"That was great!" She said. "Why didn't you tell me she was a sorceresses, George?" She asked the Paladin.
"She's not..." He muttered in surprise. They all looked over at a shocked Cassandra. She shrugged and they made their way back to the city via a teleportation scroll.
~
"How are you Miss Cassandra?" Drognan asked Cassandra as she came up to him carrying the Horodric staff. "I see you have the Horodric staff. What about the one I gave you? Did it not work properly?" He asked all at once.
"It did." She answered somewhat shy.
"But you found one better out in the desert?" He asked with a twinkle in his eye.
"I learned a new attack." She mentioned.
"Really?" He said in surprise. "Which one?"
"A lightning attack--balls of lightning came from the staff." She said pointing to the Horodric staff.
"You learned Charged bolt, eh?" He said.
"But how?" She answered. "You showed me how to perform fire bolt and ice bolt. How did I suddenly know how to perform Charged bolt?"
He smiled slyly. "Normally a mage would need to study and practice before learning a new spell. The Zann Esu begin studying when they are children. But somehow you have learned on your own."
"I did the same thing you taught me with the other staff." She noticed. "Except instead of fire or ice, lightning came from it."
He examined the staff. "It does have magical properties." He said twirling the staff in his hands. "Quite a treasure you have there. I bet it will be even better when you fuse it with the amulet." He smiled. "Now I must study some more." He studied the sky. "I fear evil is at work." And he disappeared into his home.
She still wondered how she had learned the lightning attack but didn't worry about it anymore. Perhaps it was the staff...
"There you are." George said running up to her. Suddenly he became shy. She looked so different from when he had first saw her. She looked... prettier.
"Would you like to join me for dinner?" He asked quietly. She responded by wrapping her arms around him in a big bear hug. He chuckled as he hug her back and they walked off to Atma's bar to eat.
Little did they know that an unnatural eclipse began to darken the sky...
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**Thanks to bpboy777. He has this cool story about a Barbarian. Real good writer, and reviewer too!!!**
**Thanks to Mystic_Moon! She is such a gal! And Cassandra is immature? I didn't know she was annoying... Didn't mean to write her that way, but that is just how it turns out. Thanks for your review and I hope you see the third chapter and haven't forgotten about my story. Heh heh.**
**Hello to LordKhuzdul. I was actually on the opposite end in that situation. The whole idea of this story came when I was a level 1 Assassin being rushed through battle.net by a Level 80 something Paladin...Who just happened to be Darkshin....**
**Also hello to Cythen. I'm glad you like my story. Everyone seems to like the idea of Cas being a sorc.**
**Of course thanks to Qaulinesti. This person has reviewed a lot of my stories! Hey dude! (Or dudette?)**
**Thanks to hobbit37 who left a pretty good review. I will try and continue with promising character description. Eh heh heh.**
**And finally, but not any less important, thanks to Chazbone who let me be sorceress in his story and Lady of Red in his story. I told you I like sorceresses and Necromancers are my second favorite...Looks over to Qaulinesti....**
Should I mention him? I think I already did...even though he didn't review. The great Master Darkshin!!!! Be careful...he might just take your soul. Oh maybe I shouldn't mention that...Just forget you heard that. Now what was I talking about? See you already forgot!!! But I heard longer taking souls so if you had your hopes up...well...sorry to burst your bubble.
And of course...If you want to see your name in flashing lights all you have to do is review and wait for chapter 4! And then you will be famous! Because I am the almighty author and I have this power! Mwahahahaahahahaah! Anyway...(blushes at that outburst.)
I hope I did as good as I did in the other chapters... Review now while I go back in my own little corner. Eh heh heh heh heh.
: )
The Paladin's Girl
By: RedLady
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"While you were sleeping, silly head..." Cassandra began. "Leharas, Briana and I went off to collect the Horodric cube."
"You did WHAT?" George asked loudly. They were currently standing at the city gates. Griez looked over at the paladin from his sudden outburst and shrugged. George blushed.
"You should have seen her!" Briana said putting her arm around the smaller woman.
George couldn't believe his eyes. When he last saw the Amazon, she was definitely not feeling too friendly toward his girlfriend.
"She somehow learned this fire spell that burns those maggots in one second!" Briana continued.
"Briana also learned this knew attack with the javelin..." Cassandra said excitably. "And Leharas found this really cool armor! See?" She said pointing at her mercenary. He now wore some sort of metal plate.
"And you did all this without me?" George asked in disbelief.
"Yes, but we need your help to find the Horodric staff." Cas said importantly. George was somewhat shocked that the tables had turned and he was being asked to help instead of doing the asking. He decided to take charge.
"Ok." He agreed. "Where will we find the Horodric staff?"
"You must not be aware that the Horodric staff is in two pieces..." Briana pointed out.
"Yes, we must find the scepter part and the amulet part and use the Horodric cube to meld them together again. The Horodric cube has other alchemistic uses as well!" Cas added quoting Deckerd Cain.
"I am aware of this!" George said somewhat agitated. Let us look for these two separate pieces then. Are you ready?" He asked looking over the three.
"We were ready even before you got up from your little nap." Briana said smirking. He re-situated his armor a little perturbed.
"Then lets go." He answered huffily. "Where are we going again?" He added.
"Allow me to lead the way." Cassandra said and walked past the Paladin. He sighed as he followed the girl.
~
The desert heat didn't do anything for George's mood. His armor made the sun seem twice as hot. He could have been cooking in a frying pan for all he knew. Cassandra seemed to know the way. Briana wasn't talking to him and the mercenary wasn't any help either.
"Ok. Here we are." Cassandra said stopping in front of a pit. "Let's go in!" She said trying to peer into the darkness.
"Do you know what's in there?" George asked uncertain. She shrugged. "All I know is that this is where we are supposed to find part of the Horodric staff. Deckard Cain was telling me about it. He said it would probably be in the maggot lair out here!"
"You know what that means then don't you?" Briana asked darkly.
"What?" Cassandra asked unsuspectingly.
"There is gonna be oversized bugs down there!" George watched as Cassandra's face turned a paler shade of white. He couldn't help but feel sorry for her.
Cassandra gained her composure quickly. "No matter...Let's go!" She said a little less excited then before. And before anyone could say anything she jumped down into the hole, screaming as she fell.
"Oaf!" She yelped as she landed on her hands and knees. She picked up her staff from where it had fallen. She sent a fireball down the corridor lighting the way.
Drognan had showed her how to perform this spell. Though it was really the staff that did it she thought. She had never tried to perform this spell without the staff. She didn't know if she could. She held onto the staff tightly. That was the source of her power. He had shown her how to do another spell, but she hadn't gotten the hang of it just yet.
Briana jumped down besides her. The Amazon landed with more grace than she had. She envied the Amazon, but also felt a strange alliance with her from their adventure obtaining the Horodric cube. The Amazon stood up and had to duck some because of the low ceiling. She smiled at Cassandra.
"I think the Paladin may be feeling a little left out." She said as George began to climb down the hole grabbing onto the side. Cassandra couldn't help but giggle. George lost his hold and fell backwards upon his back. Briana laughed and Cassandra rushed to his side.
"Are you OK George?" She asked genuinely worried.
He groaned. He had the wind knocked out of him, but his ego hurt a little more. He got up refusing Cassandra's help. Leharas grabbed onto the side and dropped down next to him.
~
George led the way deeper into the corridor. The light was dim--but between George's aura's, Briana's flaming arrows, and Cassandra's new found power of shooting fire balls--the corridors were pretty well lit on their adventure.
Upon meeting their first maggots, George was surprised to see Cassandra doing so well. She quickly incinerated the oversized bugs using her staff. She smiled up at George and wiped the sweat of off her forehead. She looked so beautiful.
"This is boring." Briana finally announced shooting at the hundredth maggot.
"Yeah." Cassandra agreed.
"There is just something unsatisfying about killing bugs." Briana continued. Then they heard a scream up ahead. Running up ahead they saw Leharas warding off a big swarm of bugs.
"Oh no, Leharas hold on!" Cassandra shouted and clutched at her staff. Concentrating she dug the end of the staff into the ground and chanted a few unknown words. Immediately, a blue blob came out of the end and froze the swarm giving it substance. George slashed at the swarm with his sword and the collection of bugs shattered into ice shards.
"How did you do that?" George found himself asking.
Leharas ran behind them breathing hard. "Are you Ok?" Cassandra asked uncertainly. Leharas looked up a little embarrassed. "They frightened me, that's all."
Briana laughed and tossed her javelin around playfully. Meanwhile Cassandra was hugging Leharas making George a bit jealous.
"Let's go." George said a little perturbed and prayed for defense against the enemy. More swarms came later and Leharas attacked them swiping his spear through the cloud. Briana tried to burn them with her fire arrows and Cassandra would try to freeze them with her new spell. George would swipe at them with the sword and somehow the small colony of bugs died through their attacks.
They came to a large room at the end of one of the corridors in the lair. There in the middle of the room, a huge bug sat laying eggs. They all stood their frozen until it began to attack them.
Cassandra quickly began to throw fireballs using her staff. Leharas ran up to it stabbing it with his spear. George slammed his sword into the oversized bug's side. Briana rushed to his side and jammed her javelin into the bug's hard exoskeleton.
Cassandra was at the head of the bug shooting fire balls into it's face. George and Briana were busy chopping at the bugs side and Leharas was on the other side using his spear to the best of his ability.
Finally the huge bug died spilling it's internal fluids through out the room. Cassandra stepped around lightly trying to avoid the puddle's of bug goop. Briana quickly destroyed any eggs the bug had laid and stomped on the babies that had already hatched.
"Look!" Cassandra shouted holding up what looked like a stick of some sort. "This must be part of the Horodric Staff!"
She held up the decorative stick. But she didn't have time to think as a swarm began to attack. Without thinking she hit at the bugs with her staff. Lighting came from the staff as the bugs all fell electrocuted. Leharas ran to help her, but the swarm lay dead.
Cassandra stood there still shocked by what had just taken place. He hair stood somewhat standing up from the electricity. How could she have learned a new attack?
"How..." George began, but saw Cassandra's surprise. Briana put her arm around the smaller woman's neck.
"That was great!" She said. "Why didn't you tell me she was a sorceresses, George?" She asked the Paladin.
"She's not..." He muttered in surprise. They all looked over at a shocked Cassandra. She shrugged and they made their way back to the city via a teleportation scroll.
~
"How are you Miss Cassandra?" Drognan asked Cassandra as she came up to him carrying the Horodric staff. "I see you have the Horodric staff. What about the one I gave you? Did it not work properly?" He asked all at once.
"It did." She answered somewhat shy.
"But you found one better out in the desert?" He asked with a twinkle in his eye.
"I learned a new attack." She mentioned.
"Really?" He said in surprise. "Which one?"
"A lightning attack--balls of lightning came from the staff." She said pointing to the Horodric staff.
"You learned Charged bolt, eh?" He said.
"But how?" She answered. "You showed me how to perform fire bolt and ice bolt. How did I suddenly know how to perform Charged bolt?"
He smiled slyly. "Normally a mage would need to study and practice before learning a new spell. The Zann Esu begin studying when they are children. But somehow you have learned on your own."
"I did the same thing you taught me with the other staff." She noticed. "Except instead of fire or ice, lightning came from it."
He examined the staff. "It does have magical properties." He said twirling the staff in his hands. "Quite a treasure you have there. I bet it will be even better when you fuse it with the amulet." He smiled. "Now I must study some more." He studied the sky. "I fear evil is at work." And he disappeared into his home.
She still wondered how she had learned the lightning attack but didn't worry about it anymore. Perhaps it was the staff...
"There you are." George said running up to her. Suddenly he became shy. She looked so different from when he had first saw her. She looked... prettier.
"Would you like to join me for dinner?" He asked quietly. She responded by wrapping her arms around him in a big bear hug. He chuckled as he hug her back and they walked off to Atma's bar to eat.
Little did they know that an unnatural eclipse began to darken the sky...
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**Thanks to bpboy777. He has this cool story about a Barbarian. Real good writer, and reviewer too!!!**
**Thanks to Mystic_Moon! She is such a gal! And Cassandra is immature? I didn't know she was annoying... Didn't mean to write her that way, but that is just how it turns out. Thanks for your review and I hope you see the third chapter and haven't forgotten about my story. Heh heh.**
**Hello to LordKhuzdul. I was actually on the opposite end in that situation. The whole idea of this story came when I was a level 1 Assassin being rushed through battle.net by a Level 80 something Paladin...Who just happened to be Darkshin....**
**Also hello to Cythen. I'm glad you like my story. Everyone seems to like the idea of Cas being a sorc.**
**Of course thanks to Qaulinesti. This person has reviewed a lot of my stories! Hey dude! (Or dudette?)**
**Thanks to hobbit37 who left a pretty good review. I will try and continue with promising character description. Eh heh heh.**
**And finally, but not any less important, thanks to Chazbone who let me be sorceress in his story and Lady of Red in his story. I told you I like sorceresses and Necromancers are my second favorite...Looks over to Qaulinesti....**
Should I mention him? I think I already did...even though he didn't review. The great Master Darkshin!!!! Be careful...he might just take your soul. Oh maybe I shouldn't mention that...Just forget you heard that. Now what was I talking about? See you already forgot!!! But I heard longer taking souls so if you had your hopes up...well...sorry to burst your bubble.
And of course...If you want to see your name in flashing lights all you have to do is review and wait for chapter 4! And then you will be famous! Because I am the almighty author and I have this power! Mwahahahaahahahaah! Anyway...(blushes at that outburst.)
I hope I did as good as I did in the other chapters... Review now while I go back in my own little corner. Eh heh heh heh heh.
: )