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CHAPTER 6: A New Hero!
(In case you are wondering Adro13 is the one starting out in this chapter. Whenever you see this.... ~*~... it means we have switched authors....)
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Our heroes walked down some marble steps and met a couple of goat men praying to a strange circle marking on the ground.
"Why it's a waypoint! Adrian exclaimed.
"A way what?" Effie asked.
"A waypoint! The ancient people placed waypoints all throughout sanctuary that were interconnected so you could travel anywhere instantly!" Adrian said excitably.
"So why haven't we seen any before?" Fury asked.
"Most of them were eroded or covered in sand and stuff" Adrian explained. "But since this place was isolated this waypoint stayed intact!"
Adrian took a dusty, old, wrinkled, smelly, crumpled, crinkled, note pad out of his pack and started scribbling with a very big smile on his face.
"He sure looks excited." Effie commented.
"There's a lot to be excited about when you lived in a sewer all your life. Besides he probably read about it in one of his Necromancer books." Fury answered.
Meanwhile some goat men were dancing around the waypoint. Effie turned invisible and pushed them off the ledge. The goat men fell, reappeared at the top, and fell again. They did this for a while till Adrian decided to put them out of their misery by summoning a fire golem who incinerated them.
Fury said to both of them, "How did you do that?"
"I don't know, I just suddenly realized how to turn invisible." Effie answered becoming visible once again.
Adrian said, "Oh that? I could summon golems since I was two."
Fury summoned 10 fire golems because of his amulet (which gave him all the Necromancer skills). Adrian looked very angry. Then Adrian yelled some incomprehensible words and killed all the fire golems. Effie sighed and said, "Here we go again..."
They walked down a huge narrow marble passageway fighting occasional wraths and goat men.
"This is too easy!" Adrian complained rather loudly.
"They seem to be running away from something." Effie noted.
After walking for a very long time, they finally came to a huge pile of vampires which were laying next to some open chests.
"No! I was hoping to find riches here!" Adrian said. "My Necromancer books told of a very ancient relic in here!"
He searched through every single chest turning them upside down. Finally at the very last small chest, a head toppled out.
"Yes!" He yelled. "Thank Rathma! Whoever did this, left me the ancient relic!"
Fury and Effie both holding their noses exclaimed, "Maybe it was left because of the smell."
"You guys can't handle that?" He asked. "I'm glad I never showed you my head collection or you'd probably faint!"
Then he gazed into the chest. "Besides that's not coming from my head. There's a loin cloth in here."
"Yeah!" Fury said happily. "I can add it to my collection!"
"Oh brother." Effie muttered.
"Is there anything your collecting Effie?" Adrian asked.
Effie smiled evilly and opened her cloak revealing an array of katars, some with poison dripping from their tips.
"Um, Effie?" Fury asked. "How come you never used those when we fight the monsters?"
"I didn't think you guys could handle the gore." She stated darkly.
Fury and Adrian both gulped.
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(Now starts my section after this section will be Adro again. Get it?)
Fury pondered on how good Effie's fighting must be. He was curious now to see how she fought with those katars. It was strange how he never knew about them till now. How did they fit inside there without showing or stabbing her.
He was brought back to reality when a body tripped him. It was of another vampire.
"Stupid vampires!" He muttered as Effie and Fury stopped to wait for him.
"I'll perform my 'find potion spell' so this body won't go to waste."
"Here allow me..." Adrian said.
And before Fury could say anything the corpse exploded in his face.
"Ew!" Effie said gasping.
Adrian found Fury's hands around his throat very quickly.
He sputtered some words making Fury fly backwards landing on what looked like a high platform, but was really still level in this illusion Dimension.
Fury looked around wondering how he got there and then saw the remnants of the Vampire and remembered. He walked huffily up to the Necromancer.
"It was just corpse explosion." Adrian muttered fearfully. "He didn't have any potions anyway."
"Please don't hurt me." Adrian said putting a bone wall between him and Fury.
.....
Effie meanwhile had let the two men fight and had wondered off alone.
She came upon a red looking door.
......
"I'm not gonna hurt you." Fury promised slashing at the bones with an ax.
"I don't believe you." Adrian said getting ready to perform some sort of poison spell.
......
Effie looked in wonder at the red translucent door. It looked like nothing was on the other side. It simply dropped off into space. She stuck her hand through it. She watched in wonder, as her hand seemed to disappear before her eyes. A movement on the other side caught her attention. It was her hand!
......
Fury finally leaped high over the bone wall and stared menacingly at the Necromancer.
Adrian summoned a golem.
.......
Effie took a deep breath and stepped through the red doorway. She ended up on the other side!
"Cool." She said and was about to go on her merry way when she remembered her two companions. She heard war cries and curses being muttered.
"I better stop them before they kill themselves." She sighed. "Though I wonder if it would be better that way." She thought darkly. "Nah. I need all the help I can get!"
And she went back to get them.
........
"My fire golem is better than your fire golem!" Adrian argued.
"I can leap higher than you can!" Fury shot back.
"My skeleton can shoot farther than yours!"
"My war cries are more effective than yours!"
"My . . . "
"Will you two stop it!" Effie shouted.
"Wanna arm wrestle?" Fury challenged.
"You may think I'm weak, but I beg to differ." Adrian shot back and pulled back his sleeve.
Effie watch in amusement as the two men strained to beat each other at arm wrestling on top of a pile of goat men. Adrian tried to curse Fury, but Fury yelled out one of his war cries.
"No cheating!" Fury yelled.
Adrian summoned a skeleton, which helped Adrian push Fury's arm down. Fury pulled away angrily.
"Why you!" Fury yelled and pulled out his two packs of throwing spears holding on in each hand.
Adrian pulled out his small bone wand along with a dead head.
"Ok." Effie said annoyed. "Will you two stop it already?"
Fury and Adrian charged at each other. Effie ran into the middle.
"Why am I doing this?" she thought.
Adrian and Fury accidentally knocked Effie over the edge. She grasped the edge screaming.
They looked at each other when they realized what they had done. Both dodging to her rescue they bonked heads. Fury stepped in front of Adrian and pulled the small assassin up.
She gave Fury a huge kick in the shin and Adrian a punch in the chest.
"Are you two done now?" Effie said.
"We are finished." Fury stated. "Aren't we Adrian?" He said glaring at the Necromancer.
"Yes." He said looking down. Fury stepped up to Adrian. "And don't do corpse explosion in my face again!" He said gritting his teeth.
"Ok." Adrian said sheepishly.
Effie helped Fury wipe off the guts while talking.
"I found some sort of door that teleports you from on side to another." She was saying.
As the unlikely heroes continued on their way they didn't guess that another was soon to join their club.
......
She looked around the Arcane Sanctuary. A noise had distracted her. A scream. Was someone following her? Perhaps it was her imagination. It had to be her imagination. No one had survived here. She was the only living non-evil thing here. She had to find the one responsible for this.
It was a man. A Sorcerer. It made her feel ashamed somehow. For now a days every magic wielder had turned evil. She had yet to meet anyone who had not been corrupted or killed. All her friends had died. But she brushed the memory away as if it was nothing but a pesky fly. She must clear her mind of such ruin and focus on the task at hand. Her friends would have wanted it.
She killed every monster she came upon left and right. They were merely obstacles in the way of her true goal. Some of them ran away, but she did not ponder on them. Not even using the portals, she teleported from ledge to ledge using many mana potions.
Finally she sensed his power. He was here, up ahead. She stopped for the first time feeling fear. Never had she faced another mage before. She heard a noise behind her. Someone was there. She didn't know if it was another monster or a human. It couldn't possibly be human, she told herself. It couldn't possibly be . . .
She paused and then went on to kill the one whom had killed so many lives already.
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"See you just step through over here." Effie said disappearing through the red door. "And you appear over here." She continued from the other side.
Adrian used his Barbarian boots (which gave him all the Barbarian skills) and he leaped to the other side.
Fury, a little perturbed at the Necromancer using Barbarian skills, summoned a skeleton, ordered it to stretch from one ledge to another and walked across as the skeleton fell to its doom.
Then it appeared in the sky and fell to its doom again. This went on for sometime as Effie, Fury, and Adrian watched in fascination.
"Such fascination!" Adrian yelled and scribbled more in his notebook. "I wonder if I'll ever be able to come back to this place. I could spend centuries in here!"
Effie just rolled her eyes and led the way, walking over bodies.
"I wonder who was here?" Fury stated.
"Will we ever catch up to them?" Effie asked annoyed. "I wonder if our warrior is invisible?"
"Like you can be?" Adrian said. "Anyway, I hear something up ahead."
They ran to the sound. There up some stairs they saw a woman wearing brothel clothing with a staff shooting various lighting and ice spells at a laughing sorcerer who was returning the same types of spells. She seemed to be having trouble as every couple seconds she gulped down a red health potion.
......
I was down to my last two health potions as I concentrated on the Summoner. My strongest spell at the moment was the ice spell. Yet the Summoner seemed to return every attack that I shot at him. Some one ran to my side and threw a blade at the Summoner. I looked over to see a small woman in black. Behind me a javelin was thrown over my head and into the Summoner's side. A small man stepped toward my other side. I realized immediately that it was a Necromancer. He shot an array of green blobs at the Summoner, poisoning the Sorcerer.
I felt myself going faint. Were they illusions? Was I gonna die? Blackness surrounded me as I heard curses, war cries, and karate yells in the distant.
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(Adro13's section.)
I groggily woke to three people standing over me. One was really Strong and handsome. He was looking at me quizzically. The other was scruffy and scraggly; he was drooling absentmindedly. I figured if he took a bath he would look just as handsome as the other man. They both had strange smells coming from them.
Then there was a short dark woman whom I almost didn't see because she blended in with the surroundings somehow.
I did a back flip and readied my defenses.
"Who are you?" I asked them wearily.
The strong and handsome on said. "I'm Fury, a really good Barbarian. That guy over there is an amateur Necromancer. And she's a . . . a warrior. We . . . I mean mostly I defeated the Summoner."
The Necromancer bonked him on the head with a stick that had feathers tied to it. And he kneeled down and kissed her hand and said, "I am Adrian and who might you be my lady?"
"My name is Xavia and I am a sorceress who has come to fight Diablo."
Effie walked up to the Sorceress and said "I'm Effie."
"What's your profession?" I asked. "Are you a hireling?"
Effie opened up her cloak revealing her katars. I gasped then gulped.
"I learned about your kind in my sorceress school!" I said.
"We are here to fight Diablo too. But do anything suspicious and you might find one of these in you while your sleeping."
Adrian said, "Now Effie, surely anyone who is here to fight Diablo isn't gonna do anything 'suspicious'."
Effie replied, "You don't know half the things these mages are capable of."
But I don't think the Necromancer heard her because he and Fury were drooling again.
"So . . ." I said uncomfortably. "Are you really an amateur Necromancer or is he just saying that to make him look better?"
"Actually I'm an expert in Necromancy and Barbarity . . . And so is he."
"How is that possible?" I asked. And they both told the story of their 'special items.'
"Anyway time to go back to town."
So they walked through a town portal.
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"So how come we never saw you in town before now?" Effie asked the Sorceress suspiciously.
"I was in the palace the whole time." The sorceress explained.
"What?" Fury asked. "I thought Jerhyn wouldn't let anybody into the palace."
"I've been in there ever since the brothels stayed there and went into hiding." Xavia explained.
"So you're a brothel?" Adrian said his eyes widening.
"No, I went in undercover as a brothel because I knew something was brewing beneath the palace."
"You went undercover? Sounds like something you would do Effie." Adrian exclaimed. Effie eyes darkened as she looked at the woman. She was beginning to dislike her.
"Now I must go find Tal Rasha's tomb and see if I can stop Diablo from releasing his brother." Xavia said.
"I thought I was gonna do that." Fury stated. "You all can help me of course."
"He's such a braggart." Effie whispered to the Sorceress. Xavia looked at Fury curiously.
"Of course Fury's spells can never match my own!" Adrian was saying.
"I could beat you any day!" Fury said sarcastically.
"Oh yeah!" Adrian shot back and got into a fighting position.
"Not in town!" Effie yelled. "You'd probably destroy half the buildings anyway!"
Xavia left them as they were fighting. How could these three actually be heroes?
She ordered a room and suddenly found Adrian following her.
She faced him confused. He looked at her sheepishly. "You must have been in there for a very long time." He said looking down shuffling his feet on the floor.
Xavia sighed. "When we were attacked I was knocked unconscious. When I awoke, everybody was dead!"
"It must have been horrible." Adrian said. Xavia looked down uncomfortably. Would this Necromancer just leave her alone?
"I must sleep." Xavia announced and went into her room shutting the door quickly behind her. Adrian looked at the door wishing he could see through walls.
He sighed dreamily. Suddenly he felt a big hand pat him on the shoulder. "What are you doing Adrian?" Fury said cheerfully.
"Nothing." Adrian answered.
"Wanna go to the bar?"
"Sure."
"We can have a drinking contest. I'll win of course." Fury said.
"You must not remember what happened last time." Adrian said amused.
"I think I must have sleep walked that night because I found myself under the table the next morning. Strange isn't it." Fury said scratching his head.
"What do you think of the Sorceress?" Adrian asked.
"Um, I don't know. I always thought Sorceresses were weak."
"You did?" Adrian asked.
"Yes, I also thought Necromancers were weak."
"Do you still think that?"
Fury ran down the stairs. "Yes."
And Adrian followed him determined to prove him wrong!
"You lie! You know I could beat you any day!" Adrian said.
"Well settle it over beer." Fury said.
Xavia peeked out of her door as the two men disappeared to the bar.
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Effie awoke to shouts and banging from beneath her room. She went downstairs and what did she see? Fury and Adrian fighting with beer mugs strewn all over the floor. One minute they were fighting and the next moment they were singing. Then she saw Geglash dancing around the beer mugs and a couple of other people she didn't know were dancing and singing songs.
Then Adrian looked over and saw Effie. "Hey look everybody its Effie, our partner in crime . . . I mean heroism . . . I mean what do we do again?"
Then everybody started shouting, "Chug! Chug! Chug!"
And Fury and Adrian started fighting again. Then Effie went over to Atma and asked her what was going on.
Atma said, "They've been going on like this all evening: Having contests and drinking beer every minute! I can't tell which ones a Necromancer and which ones a Barbarian."
Effie thought to herself, "This fighting has got to stop." And she went up to Fury and Adrian and said, "GO TO BED!"
"What?" Adrian said. "You lost your head? Well I'm in no condition to find it!"
Then Effie started pushing them up the stairs and everybody started complaining.
Geglash said, "Who thinks they can beat me?"
Fury said, "Oh! Just one more Effie?" And she kept on pushing them up the stairs.
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She got to Fury's room. She pushed Fury into the bed and he immediately started snoring. She pulled off his amulet (which gave him all the Necromancer skills) and laughed evilly. She turned around to see Adrian already asleep on the floor muttering, "A hundred and ninety-nine bones on the wall . . ." She pulled off his boots wrinkling her nose at the stench and walked to the door. Turning around with her newly acquired items she whispered, "Goodnight Fury. Goodnight Adrian."
"Goodnight Effie!" They said in unison still asleep.
She laughed evilly and shut the door. Out side the Sorceress waited for her. The Sorceress saw the boots and amulet in her hand.
"Uh! I'm not doing anything with their boots and amulet!" She said hiding them behind her back.
"I think you should take them away." Xavia said and Effie looked at her shocked. "I believe everyone should not try and be something they are not."
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Effie made her way to the river with the Sorceress following behind. Effie threw the items into the river. They fell down to the bottom and the current washed them out to sea.
"Good Riddance!" Effie said.
Xavia turned around to smile at Effie, but Effie had disappeared.
"Assassins." She muttered and went back to bed.
The next morning Xavia woke to a sudden bang. Xavia and Effie made their way to Fury's room and when they opened the door they found the room was completely covered in bones.
A muffled yell from Fury said, "I know it was you who stole my amulet!"
"Don't come any closer Fury. I still have 198 bones left!"
They heard another explosion and figured that Fury was throwing exploding potions.
"Calm down you two." Effie said. "It was I who stole your items and I threw them in the river!"
Then all the bones collapsed and they could see Adrian and Fury with completely stunned looks on their face.
"Why . . . would . . . you . . . do . . . something . . . like . . . that." They both muttered exasperated.
"Because you guys are always fighting and besides you shouldn't try and be somebody you're not!" Effie answered.
The Sorceress looked over at Effie but she had disappeared.
"Well?" Xavia said sheepishly. "Should we go to Tal Rasha's tomb now?"
Then Fury and Adrian ran out of the room faster than you could say "quill rat".
She looked back in the room and realized all the bones had disappeared and were now tucked into a neat corner of the room. She saw that it was Effie who had done this. Effie and Xavia walked out and saw Fury swimming in the river. And Adrian had a big fishing pole made out of bone, fishing out boots.
Adrian was muttering and Fury was mumbling. Then Adrian pulled out a old, ratty, holey, scraggily, water-logged, sad pair of boots.
"These boots I got for my fifth birthday!" Adrian said with a big smile on his face. "My mommy threw them out when I was being bad though."
He pushed the huge pile of boots (which he had fished out already) on top of Fury. A lot of bubbles came up from the water and then Fury arose with . . . a small statue.
"This is a statue of Arreat my homeland! This will be perfect for my safe."
"What do you need a safe for?" Effie said quizzically. "Well I used to keep my amulet in their so Adrian couldn't steal it. But now that it is gone, I can keep this in there. It's worth a lot of money you know. If it should fall into the wrong hands, people might invade my homeland and steal our riches!"
"All right, now that you guys are done . . . fishing. Lets go to the tomb of Tal Rasha."
"I'll stay here." Adrian said. Fury looked over at Adrian and a mischievous smile appeared on his face. "Yes, well stay here. You two go and find the tomb and come back when you do."
They went into Adrian's room and started creating a Golem, but Effie and Xavia didn't know this at the time.
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*Well that is it for today folks!!!! My brother Adro13 doesn't feel like writing much lately. Maybe if you leave good reviews he might change his mind.
What do you think of the new sorceress? I hope we made her believable. This story is just sooo funny to me! Its name should be changed to "Pranksters in Sanctuary" or something....*
~RedLady
CHAPTER 6: A New Hero!
(In case you are wondering Adro13 is the one starting out in this chapter. Whenever you see this.... ~*~... it means we have switched authors....)
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Our heroes walked down some marble steps and met a couple of goat men praying to a strange circle marking on the ground.
"Why it's a waypoint! Adrian exclaimed.
"A way what?" Effie asked.
"A waypoint! The ancient people placed waypoints all throughout sanctuary that were interconnected so you could travel anywhere instantly!" Adrian said excitably.
"So why haven't we seen any before?" Fury asked.
"Most of them were eroded or covered in sand and stuff" Adrian explained. "But since this place was isolated this waypoint stayed intact!"
Adrian took a dusty, old, wrinkled, smelly, crumpled, crinkled, note pad out of his pack and started scribbling with a very big smile on his face.
"He sure looks excited." Effie commented.
"There's a lot to be excited about when you lived in a sewer all your life. Besides he probably read about it in one of his Necromancer books." Fury answered.
Meanwhile some goat men were dancing around the waypoint. Effie turned invisible and pushed them off the ledge. The goat men fell, reappeared at the top, and fell again. They did this for a while till Adrian decided to put them out of their misery by summoning a fire golem who incinerated them.
Fury said to both of them, "How did you do that?"
"I don't know, I just suddenly realized how to turn invisible." Effie answered becoming visible once again.
Adrian said, "Oh that? I could summon golems since I was two."
Fury summoned 10 fire golems because of his amulet (which gave him all the Necromancer skills). Adrian looked very angry. Then Adrian yelled some incomprehensible words and killed all the fire golems. Effie sighed and said, "Here we go again..."
They walked down a huge narrow marble passageway fighting occasional wraths and goat men.
"This is too easy!" Adrian complained rather loudly.
"They seem to be running away from something." Effie noted.
After walking for a very long time, they finally came to a huge pile of vampires which were laying next to some open chests.
"No! I was hoping to find riches here!" Adrian said. "My Necromancer books told of a very ancient relic in here!"
He searched through every single chest turning them upside down. Finally at the very last small chest, a head toppled out.
"Yes!" He yelled. "Thank Rathma! Whoever did this, left me the ancient relic!"
Fury and Effie both holding their noses exclaimed, "Maybe it was left because of the smell."
"You guys can't handle that?" He asked. "I'm glad I never showed you my head collection or you'd probably faint!"
Then he gazed into the chest. "Besides that's not coming from my head. There's a loin cloth in here."
"Yeah!" Fury said happily. "I can add it to my collection!"
"Oh brother." Effie muttered.
"Is there anything your collecting Effie?" Adrian asked.
Effie smiled evilly and opened her cloak revealing an array of katars, some with poison dripping from their tips.
"Um, Effie?" Fury asked. "How come you never used those when we fight the monsters?"
"I didn't think you guys could handle the gore." She stated darkly.
Fury and Adrian both gulped.
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(Now starts my section after this section will be Adro again. Get it?)
Fury pondered on how good Effie's fighting must be. He was curious now to see how she fought with those katars. It was strange how he never knew about them till now. How did they fit inside there without showing or stabbing her.
He was brought back to reality when a body tripped him. It was of another vampire.
"Stupid vampires!" He muttered as Effie and Fury stopped to wait for him.
"I'll perform my 'find potion spell' so this body won't go to waste."
"Here allow me..." Adrian said.
And before Fury could say anything the corpse exploded in his face.
"Ew!" Effie said gasping.
Adrian found Fury's hands around his throat very quickly.
He sputtered some words making Fury fly backwards landing on what looked like a high platform, but was really still level in this illusion Dimension.
Fury looked around wondering how he got there and then saw the remnants of the Vampire and remembered. He walked huffily up to the Necromancer.
"It was just corpse explosion." Adrian muttered fearfully. "He didn't have any potions anyway."
"Please don't hurt me." Adrian said putting a bone wall between him and Fury.
.....
Effie meanwhile had let the two men fight and had wondered off alone.
She came upon a red looking door.
......
"I'm not gonna hurt you." Fury promised slashing at the bones with an ax.
"I don't believe you." Adrian said getting ready to perform some sort of poison spell.
......
Effie looked in wonder at the red translucent door. It looked like nothing was on the other side. It simply dropped off into space. She stuck her hand through it. She watched in wonder, as her hand seemed to disappear before her eyes. A movement on the other side caught her attention. It was her hand!
......
Fury finally leaped high over the bone wall and stared menacingly at the Necromancer.
Adrian summoned a golem.
.......
Effie took a deep breath and stepped through the red doorway. She ended up on the other side!
"Cool." She said and was about to go on her merry way when she remembered her two companions. She heard war cries and curses being muttered.
"I better stop them before they kill themselves." She sighed. "Though I wonder if it would be better that way." She thought darkly. "Nah. I need all the help I can get!"
And she went back to get them.
........
"My fire golem is better than your fire golem!" Adrian argued.
"I can leap higher than you can!" Fury shot back.
"My skeleton can shoot farther than yours!"
"My war cries are more effective than yours!"
"My . . . "
"Will you two stop it!" Effie shouted.
"Wanna arm wrestle?" Fury challenged.
"You may think I'm weak, but I beg to differ." Adrian shot back and pulled back his sleeve.
Effie watch in amusement as the two men strained to beat each other at arm wrestling on top of a pile of goat men. Adrian tried to curse Fury, but Fury yelled out one of his war cries.
"No cheating!" Fury yelled.
Adrian summoned a skeleton, which helped Adrian push Fury's arm down. Fury pulled away angrily.
"Why you!" Fury yelled and pulled out his two packs of throwing spears holding on in each hand.
Adrian pulled out his small bone wand along with a dead head.
"Ok." Effie said annoyed. "Will you two stop it already?"
Fury and Adrian charged at each other. Effie ran into the middle.
"Why am I doing this?" she thought.
Adrian and Fury accidentally knocked Effie over the edge. She grasped the edge screaming.
They looked at each other when they realized what they had done. Both dodging to her rescue they bonked heads. Fury stepped in front of Adrian and pulled the small assassin up.
She gave Fury a huge kick in the shin and Adrian a punch in the chest.
"Are you two done now?" Effie said.
"We are finished." Fury stated. "Aren't we Adrian?" He said glaring at the Necromancer.
"Yes." He said looking down. Fury stepped up to Adrian. "And don't do corpse explosion in my face again!" He said gritting his teeth.
"Ok." Adrian said sheepishly.
Effie helped Fury wipe off the guts while talking.
"I found some sort of door that teleports you from on side to another." She was saying.
As the unlikely heroes continued on their way they didn't guess that another was soon to join their club.
......
She looked around the Arcane Sanctuary. A noise had distracted her. A scream. Was someone following her? Perhaps it was her imagination. It had to be her imagination. No one had survived here. She was the only living non-evil thing here. She had to find the one responsible for this.
It was a man. A Sorcerer. It made her feel ashamed somehow. For now a days every magic wielder had turned evil. She had yet to meet anyone who had not been corrupted or killed. All her friends had died. But she brushed the memory away as if it was nothing but a pesky fly. She must clear her mind of such ruin and focus on the task at hand. Her friends would have wanted it.
She killed every monster she came upon left and right. They were merely obstacles in the way of her true goal. Some of them ran away, but she did not ponder on them. Not even using the portals, she teleported from ledge to ledge using many mana potions.
Finally she sensed his power. He was here, up ahead. She stopped for the first time feeling fear. Never had she faced another mage before. She heard a noise behind her. Someone was there. She didn't know if it was another monster or a human. It couldn't possibly be human, she told herself. It couldn't possibly be . . .
She paused and then went on to kill the one whom had killed so many lives already.
.....
"See you just step through over here." Effie said disappearing through the red door. "And you appear over here." She continued from the other side.
Adrian used his Barbarian boots (which gave him all the Barbarian skills) and he leaped to the other side.
Fury, a little perturbed at the Necromancer using Barbarian skills, summoned a skeleton, ordered it to stretch from one ledge to another and walked across as the skeleton fell to its doom.
Then it appeared in the sky and fell to its doom again. This went on for sometime as Effie, Fury, and Adrian watched in fascination.
"Such fascination!" Adrian yelled and scribbled more in his notebook. "I wonder if I'll ever be able to come back to this place. I could spend centuries in here!"
Effie just rolled her eyes and led the way, walking over bodies.
"I wonder who was here?" Fury stated.
"Will we ever catch up to them?" Effie asked annoyed. "I wonder if our warrior is invisible?"
"Like you can be?" Adrian said. "Anyway, I hear something up ahead."
They ran to the sound. There up some stairs they saw a woman wearing brothel clothing with a staff shooting various lighting and ice spells at a laughing sorcerer who was returning the same types of spells. She seemed to be having trouble as every couple seconds she gulped down a red health potion.
......
I was down to my last two health potions as I concentrated on the Summoner. My strongest spell at the moment was the ice spell. Yet the Summoner seemed to return every attack that I shot at him. Some one ran to my side and threw a blade at the Summoner. I looked over to see a small woman in black. Behind me a javelin was thrown over my head and into the Summoner's side. A small man stepped toward my other side. I realized immediately that it was a Necromancer. He shot an array of green blobs at the Summoner, poisoning the Sorcerer.
I felt myself going faint. Were they illusions? Was I gonna die? Blackness surrounded me as I heard curses, war cries, and karate yells in the distant.
~*~
(Adro13's section.)
I groggily woke to three people standing over me. One was really Strong and handsome. He was looking at me quizzically. The other was scruffy and scraggly; he was drooling absentmindedly. I figured if he took a bath he would look just as handsome as the other man. They both had strange smells coming from them.
Then there was a short dark woman whom I almost didn't see because she blended in with the surroundings somehow.
I did a back flip and readied my defenses.
"Who are you?" I asked them wearily.
The strong and handsome on said. "I'm Fury, a really good Barbarian. That guy over there is an amateur Necromancer. And she's a . . . a warrior. We . . . I mean mostly I defeated the Summoner."
The Necromancer bonked him on the head with a stick that had feathers tied to it. And he kneeled down and kissed her hand and said, "I am Adrian and who might you be my lady?"
"My name is Xavia and I am a sorceress who has come to fight Diablo."
Effie walked up to the Sorceress and said "I'm Effie."
"What's your profession?" I asked. "Are you a hireling?"
Effie opened up her cloak revealing her katars. I gasped then gulped.
"I learned about your kind in my sorceress school!" I said.
"We are here to fight Diablo too. But do anything suspicious and you might find one of these in you while your sleeping."
Adrian said, "Now Effie, surely anyone who is here to fight Diablo isn't gonna do anything 'suspicious'."
Effie replied, "You don't know half the things these mages are capable of."
But I don't think the Necromancer heard her because he and Fury were drooling again.
"So . . ." I said uncomfortably. "Are you really an amateur Necromancer or is he just saying that to make him look better?"
"Actually I'm an expert in Necromancy and Barbarity . . . And so is he."
"How is that possible?" I asked. And they both told the story of their 'special items.'
"Anyway time to go back to town."
So they walked through a town portal.
~*~
"So how come we never saw you in town before now?" Effie asked the Sorceress suspiciously.
"I was in the palace the whole time." The sorceress explained.
"What?" Fury asked. "I thought Jerhyn wouldn't let anybody into the palace."
"I've been in there ever since the brothels stayed there and went into hiding." Xavia explained.
"So you're a brothel?" Adrian said his eyes widening.
"No, I went in undercover as a brothel because I knew something was brewing beneath the palace."
"You went undercover? Sounds like something you would do Effie." Adrian exclaimed. Effie eyes darkened as she looked at the woman. She was beginning to dislike her.
"Now I must go find Tal Rasha's tomb and see if I can stop Diablo from releasing his brother." Xavia said.
"I thought I was gonna do that." Fury stated. "You all can help me of course."
"He's such a braggart." Effie whispered to the Sorceress. Xavia looked at Fury curiously.
"Of course Fury's spells can never match my own!" Adrian was saying.
"I could beat you any day!" Fury said sarcastically.
"Oh yeah!" Adrian shot back and got into a fighting position.
"Not in town!" Effie yelled. "You'd probably destroy half the buildings anyway!"
Xavia left them as they were fighting. How could these three actually be heroes?
She ordered a room and suddenly found Adrian following her.
She faced him confused. He looked at her sheepishly. "You must have been in there for a very long time." He said looking down shuffling his feet on the floor.
Xavia sighed. "When we were attacked I was knocked unconscious. When I awoke, everybody was dead!"
"It must have been horrible." Adrian said. Xavia looked down uncomfortably. Would this Necromancer just leave her alone?
"I must sleep." Xavia announced and went into her room shutting the door quickly behind her. Adrian looked at the door wishing he could see through walls.
He sighed dreamily. Suddenly he felt a big hand pat him on the shoulder. "What are you doing Adrian?" Fury said cheerfully.
"Nothing." Adrian answered.
"Wanna go to the bar?"
"Sure."
"We can have a drinking contest. I'll win of course." Fury said.
"You must not remember what happened last time." Adrian said amused.
"I think I must have sleep walked that night because I found myself under the table the next morning. Strange isn't it." Fury said scratching his head.
"What do you think of the Sorceress?" Adrian asked.
"Um, I don't know. I always thought Sorceresses were weak."
"You did?" Adrian asked.
"Yes, I also thought Necromancers were weak."
"Do you still think that?"
Fury ran down the stairs. "Yes."
And Adrian followed him determined to prove him wrong!
"You lie! You know I could beat you any day!" Adrian said.
"Well settle it over beer." Fury said.
Xavia peeked out of her door as the two men disappeared to the bar.
~*~
Effie awoke to shouts and banging from beneath her room. She went downstairs and what did she see? Fury and Adrian fighting with beer mugs strewn all over the floor. One minute they were fighting and the next moment they were singing. Then she saw Geglash dancing around the beer mugs and a couple of other people she didn't know were dancing and singing songs.
Then Adrian looked over and saw Effie. "Hey look everybody its Effie, our partner in crime . . . I mean heroism . . . I mean what do we do again?"
Then everybody started shouting, "Chug! Chug! Chug!"
And Fury and Adrian started fighting again. Then Effie went over to Atma and asked her what was going on.
Atma said, "They've been going on like this all evening: Having contests and drinking beer every minute! I can't tell which ones a Necromancer and which ones a Barbarian."
Effie thought to herself, "This fighting has got to stop." And she went up to Fury and Adrian and said, "GO TO BED!"
"What?" Adrian said. "You lost your head? Well I'm in no condition to find it!"
Then Effie started pushing them up the stairs and everybody started complaining.
Geglash said, "Who thinks they can beat me?"
Fury said, "Oh! Just one more Effie?" And she kept on pushing them up the stairs.
~*~
She got to Fury's room. She pushed Fury into the bed and he immediately started snoring. She pulled off his amulet (which gave him all the Necromancer skills) and laughed evilly. She turned around to see Adrian already asleep on the floor muttering, "A hundred and ninety-nine bones on the wall . . ." She pulled off his boots wrinkling her nose at the stench and walked to the door. Turning around with her newly acquired items she whispered, "Goodnight Fury. Goodnight Adrian."
"Goodnight Effie!" They said in unison still asleep.
She laughed evilly and shut the door. Out side the Sorceress waited for her. The Sorceress saw the boots and amulet in her hand.
"Uh! I'm not doing anything with their boots and amulet!" She said hiding them behind her back.
"I think you should take them away." Xavia said and Effie looked at her shocked. "I believe everyone should not try and be something they are not."
~*~
Effie made her way to the river with the Sorceress following behind. Effie threw the items into the river. They fell down to the bottom and the current washed them out to sea.
"Good Riddance!" Effie said.
Xavia turned around to smile at Effie, but Effie had disappeared.
"Assassins." She muttered and went back to bed.
The next morning Xavia woke to a sudden bang. Xavia and Effie made their way to Fury's room and when they opened the door they found the room was completely covered in bones.
A muffled yell from Fury said, "I know it was you who stole my amulet!"
"Don't come any closer Fury. I still have 198 bones left!"
They heard another explosion and figured that Fury was throwing exploding potions.
"Calm down you two." Effie said. "It was I who stole your items and I threw them in the river!"
Then all the bones collapsed and they could see Adrian and Fury with completely stunned looks on their face.
"Why . . . would . . . you . . . do . . . something . . . like . . . that." They both muttered exasperated.
"Because you guys are always fighting and besides you shouldn't try and be somebody you're not!" Effie answered.
The Sorceress looked over at Effie but she had disappeared.
"Well?" Xavia said sheepishly. "Should we go to Tal Rasha's tomb now?"
Then Fury and Adrian ran out of the room faster than you could say "quill rat".
She looked back in the room and realized all the bones had disappeared and were now tucked into a neat corner of the room. She saw that it was Effie who had done this. Effie and Xavia walked out and saw Fury swimming in the river. And Adrian had a big fishing pole made out of bone, fishing out boots.
Adrian was muttering and Fury was mumbling. Then Adrian pulled out a old, ratty, holey, scraggily, water-logged, sad pair of boots.
"These boots I got for my fifth birthday!" Adrian said with a big smile on his face. "My mommy threw them out when I was being bad though."
He pushed the huge pile of boots (which he had fished out already) on top of Fury. A lot of bubbles came up from the water and then Fury arose with . . . a small statue.
"This is a statue of Arreat my homeland! This will be perfect for my safe."
"What do you need a safe for?" Effie said quizzically. "Well I used to keep my amulet in their so Adrian couldn't steal it. But now that it is gone, I can keep this in there. It's worth a lot of money you know. If it should fall into the wrong hands, people might invade my homeland and steal our riches!"
"All right, now that you guys are done . . . fishing. Lets go to the tomb of Tal Rasha."
"I'll stay here." Adrian said. Fury looked over at Adrian and a mischievous smile appeared on his face. "Yes, well stay here. You two go and find the tomb and come back when you do."
They went into Adrian's room and started creating a Golem, but Effie and Xavia didn't know this at the time.
~*~
*Well that is it for today folks!!!! My brother Adro13 doesn't feel like writing much lately. Maybe if you leave good reviews he might change his mind.
What do you think of the new sorceress? I hope we made her believable. This story is just sooo funny to me! Its name should be changed to "Pranksters in Sanctuary" or something....*