We finally descended down the stairs leading to Andariel's chamber. The presence of evil was obvious here. Even Annor could sense it. I squinted in the shadowy room as we crept down the stairs.
We spotted a few of her minions and both Annor and I killed them quickly waiting for Andariel to show herself. I shattered some skeletons with an ice spell while Annor poisoned them with her poison arrows.
I walked to the center of the room with Annor following me. I almost fell into the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. There was a pit full of blood. The blood seemed to move and creep out of the pit spilling over the edges with body parts floated in it. I had never seen so much blood before. Before I could stop her, Annor looked in it. Immediately her face turned green and she ran to a corner to throw up.
"Are you OK?" I whispered to Annor but before she could say anything a horrible large shape stepped out from a room beside her. Andariel. She towered over Annor and Annor looked fearfully up at her. Annor quickly steadied her bow and shot arrow after arrow at Andariel. Andariel laughed and swiped at Annor who went flying into the wall.
"Annor!" I yelled and immediately started letting loose some ice bolts at Andariel. The beast known as Andariel looked at me menacingly and crept toward me seemingly not stunned by my ice spells. When she got close to me I switched to my inferno spell letting loose a burning flame onto her demon skin. She screamed and knocked me back. I flew next to Annor.
I shook Annor awake. "Annor, Annor!" I yelled shaking her body. She still breathed so I knew she was still alive. She opened her eyes and smiled up at me. I grabbed her hand and pulled her up just as Andariel came behind us. Annor drew her bow and shot multiple poison arrows at once. I again used my best known spell of ice bolt. We ran backwards shooting at Andariel. I almost fell into the pit of blood, which seemed to stink worse than ever now.
We ran up the stairs and waited for the monster to follow us quickly gulping down potions and resituating our weapons. We waited against the wall for the horrible demoness to follow us. Annor readied her bow and I recharged my mana. We heard Andariel's wicked laughter erupting from the bottom of the stairs.
I peered down the stairs surprised to see Andariel not following us. "She wants us to come after her." I grimly said.
"Let us go." Annor replied in a monotone voice.
Once again we ran down the stairs shooting wildly at the demoness. She just laughed as some of the ammo bounced off and even when some of it didn't. Her laughter mocked us no matter what we did.
Annor died. Her exhaustion was too much when Andariel had her cornered in a corner of the room. "Fight me, Andariel!" I taunted, but she paid no attention to me and finished Annor off. Angerly in a rage I shot every spell I knew at her. Lightning, fire, and ice. Andariel seemed unharmed by anything I shot at her until she finally died.
When my life got low I would run up the stairs with her laughing behind me. Yet she let me take cover here and that is what got her killed. I was kept alive by health potions and she had none.
One last shot of ice and she erupted into a bright light. "Rest vile demon!" I whispered and immediately coins and other items fell from her body and she disappeared. I made sure to gather all I could and wearily opened a portal to the camp and ran to my tent not even getting rid of my items or resurrecting Annor. I threw all my items onto the floor of my tent and plopped down upon my cot in the tent and slept for who knows how long.
When I finally awoke it was just getting dark and for once the sun shone sinking below the horizon. Since it usually rained or was extremely overcast I was surprised to see the sun. I had perhaps never paid attention to it till now. I watched from the door flap of my tent as it sunk until it finally disappeared leaving an array of colors of red and orange.
I walked over to the campfire hearing many people talking and was surprised to see everyone at the camp surrounding it. There were all the Rouges that lived in the encampment as well as everyone who helped me in the journey. Everyone looked over to me and smiled as I walked up to them. "What's happening."
Kashya met me. "Hero." She began. "We understand you have killed Andariel and we wish to thank you." Everyone nodded in agreement and Annor walked up to me who was dead the last time I saw her. "Annor?" I asked. I looked over to Kashya who for once smiled. "I took the liberty upon myself to resurrect her. I'm sure you'll pay me in full before you journey to the East?"
"The east?" I asked confused.
"Of course!" Warriv answered walking next to me patting me on the back. "There is plently of evil for you to defeat there too." He said with a twinkle in his eye.
"Now seriously, Warriv." Deckerd Cain said chuckling. Then he looked at me seriously. "It is clear that the Dark Wanderer was indeed Diablo himself." Everyone hushed around us. "We must travel to the East in order to stop him from rising his brothers."
"You'll go, right?" One of the Rouges said.
"Yes. I intend to see this adventure through." I answered trying to sound as humbly as I could. Everyone cheered and Annor patted me on the back.
The rest of the night we partied telling silly stories. Even Akara who usually stayed by her tent joined us. She told us of when Kashya was born greatly disturbing the dignified Rouge. Deckard Cain told of past heros he knew and Warriv told us funny stories of other merchants in Lut Gholein, the city we would eventually travel too.
It was a fantastic night, the last I would see in a long time. One of the merchants named Gheed even provided some free wine. We all passed the bottle around singing every song from church hymns to ballads and silly songs. No one really got drunk, but we did get a little tipsy as everyone started singing his or her own tunes to each song. The party lasted well into the night till soon it dwindled to just Annor, Kashya, Warriv and me.
Kashya was laughing at almost everything that anyone said. I figured she would regret it in the morning but I was enjoying myself too much to pay much attention.
"So, Hero!" She said laughing at herself.
"Will you ever come back and join us?"
"I suppose." I answered and she laughed at my answer. "You can call me by my rightful name, Anuck." I added. She looked at me smiling and again laughed and for the first time I felt as if we were friends.
Warriv added chuckling, "What's wrong Anuck? You don't like the name Hero?"
I turned serious for a second. "I don't really feel like a hero." I admitted. "Sure I've killed Andariel, but I didn't like doing it."
"You've relieved these people of their oppression." Warriv said.
"Now we can go back to the monastery." Kashya added giggling to herself. "I'd better go to bed." She chuckled. "I can't stop laughing." She said and laughed all the way to her tent.
"I guess we ought to get to sleep as well." Warriv commented giving me one of those goofy smiles. "Tomorrow we'll have to spend packing for our journey." I noticed Annor wasn't beside me anymore. She must have got up and left while Kashya was laughing. I immediately became a little nervous that it was only Warriv and I alone together.
I was still a little taken by him, but had been too busy fighting my own demons as well as real ones to think to much lately.
"Warriv." I asked. He looked over at me curiously smiling, giving me his full attention. "What do you plan to do when you get to Lut Gholein?" I asked curious to know.
"Well . . ." He thought for a minute. "I guess I will stay there till the world is safe to travel again. Right now I believe it is safe enough for us to travel through the desert. We have you with us don't we?" He chuckled. "Why do you ask?" He said.
He caught me off guard. I had never intended on telling him about my feelings for him and never did. "Just wondering . . ." I said casually.
"Don't worry." He assured me. "I'll wait in the town if you ever decide to travel back to this place." He said waving his hand indicating the Rouge encampment. "They're finally gonna move back to their rightful homes." He pondered.
I felt a drop of rain upon my nose. We both looked up as a dark rain cloud broke loose and rain started pouring down. Warriv took off his coat and held it over us as we walked briskly to my tent.
When we got inside we discovered Warriv's coat had been flimsy shelter against the rain as we were wet to the bone. I noticed that my tent was still messy from the items I had thrown onto the ground, making it impossible to walk around in the tiny space without stepping on something. Warriv didn't seem to notice it though as he staring at me.
"Goodnight Sorceress." He said again giving me on of those goofy smiles. I smiled and he leaned over and kissed me on the cheek and before I could say anything he immediately rushed out into the rain. I stood there stunned as a warm feeling rushed through my body not much helped by the wine I had consumed earlier. Finally I took off all my armor till I only wore my tattered shirt and skirt underneath and crept onto my cot. I fell asleep dreaming of Diablo and Warriv. Except it was really Warriv I was fighting and Diablo whom I loved in my dream. Later I woke up shocked by the dream as sweat covered my forehead. I wiped it and then fell back to a restless sleep.
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Perhaps not as good as my previous chapter. Hope it's not too cheesy. Don't worry there will be more emotions in the next chapter when Annor leaves and a new mercenary steps into play in the city of Lut Gholein. Look! I covered the whole first act in three chapters! I always see people complain about how slow it is just to get to the first quest! I did leave out some quests, but I'm mainly writing this story for the mercenaries not the quests. Hope I'm not going TOO fast. Review and tell me what you think. I know many of you were surprised to see Warriv and a sorceress together. You'll see though. He, he! I am the author of this fanfic and therefore I am the only one who knows what will happen! HA HAH AHA! I am a god! Anyway. Got a little carried away, but it feels good to be able to wield these characters anyway I want. Maybe I'm just crazy, but we won't get into that.
It is I, RedLady, master of the original ideas! Come on, we all know Diablo's a girl and Necromancers must see the omens! The omens! The OMENS! THE OMENS! Oh, if you don't know what I'm talking about read my other Diablo fanfics. They're if not more original than this one, ver original!
Look at me, I think I blabber too much. I just spent three paragraphs talking to you people. You people must think I'm strange. Well I'd better go before I loose all respect. Of course I did blabber a lot at the beginning of this fanfic too. Oh well. Do not deny oneself, huh?
Oh yes, I probably already told you this, but review. I'm curious to know what you think. And look at my other Diablo 2 stories. Review them too. You won't be disappointed.
Also read Adro13 and my story "Let's go kill Diablo." We wrote it together and are wondering what you think. Here is a link to the story:
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=590250
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much and goodbye!
We spotted a few of her minions and both Annor and I killed them quickly waiting for Andariel to show herself. I shattered some skeletons with an ice spell while Annor poisoned them with her poison arrows.
I walked to the center of the room with Annor following me. I almost fell into the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. There was a pit full of blood. The blood seemed to move and creep out of the pit spilling over the edges with body parts floated in it. I had never seen so much blood before. Before I could stop her, Annor looked in it. Immediately her face turned green and she ran to a corner to throw up.
"Are you OK?" I whispered to Annor but before she could say anything a horrible large shape stepped out from a room beside her. Andariel. She towered over Annor and Annor looked fearfully up at her. Annor quickly steadied her bow and shot arrow after arrow at Andariel. Andariel laughed and swiped at Annor who went flying into the wall.
"Annor!" I yelled and immediately started letting loose some ice bolts at Andariel. The beast known as Andariel looked at me menacingly and crept toward me seemingly not stunned by my ice spells. When she got close to me I switched to my inferno spell letting loose a burning flame onto her demon skin. She screamed and knocked me back. I flew next to Annor.
I shook Annor awake. "Annor, Annor!" I yelled shaking her body. She still breathed so I knew she was still alive. She opened her eyes and smiled up at me. I grabbed her hand and pulled her up just as Andariel came behind us. Annor drew her bow and shot multiple poison arrows at once. I again used my best known spell of ice bolt. We ran backwards shooting at Andariel. I almost fell into the pit of blood, which seemed to stink worse than ever now.
We ran up the stairs and waited for the monster to follow us quickly gulping down potions and resituating our weapons. We waited against the wall for the horrible demoness to follow us. Annor readied her bow and I recharged my mana. We heard Andariel's wicked laughter erupting from the bottom of the stairs.
I peered down the stairs surprised to see Andariel not following us. "She wants us to come after her." I grimly said.
"Let us go." Annor replied in a monotone voice.
Once again we ran down the stairs shooting wildly at the demoness. She just laughed as some of the ammo bounced off and even when some of it didn't. Her laughter mocked us no matter what we did.
Annor died. Her exhaustion was too much when Andariel had her cornered in a corner of the room. "Fight me, Andariel!" I taunted, but she paid no attention to me and finished Annor off. Angerly in a rage I shot every spell I knew at her. Lightning, fire, and ice. Andariel seemed unharmed by anything I shot at her until she finally died.
When my life got low I would run up the stairs with her laughing behind me. Yet she let me take cover here and that is what got her killed. I was kept alive by health potions and she had none.
One last shot of ice and she erupted into a bright light. "Rest vile demon!" I whispered and immediately coins and other items fell from her body and she disappeared. I made sure to gather all I could and wearily opened a portal to the camp and ran to my tent not even getting rid of my items or resurrecting Annor. I threw all my items onto the floor of my tent and plopped down upon my cot in the tent and slept for who knows how long.
When I finally awoke it was just getting dark and for once the sun shone sinking below the horizon. Since it usually rained or was extremely overcast I was surprised to see the sun. I had perhaps never paid attention to it till now. I watched from the door flap of my tent as it sunk until it finally disappeared leaving an array of colors of red and orange.
I walked over to the campfire hearing many people talking and was surprised to see everyone at the camp surrounding it. There were all the Rouges that lived in the encampment as well as everyone who helped me in the journey. Everyone looked over to me and smiled as I walked up to them. "What's happening."
Kashya met me. "Hero." She began. "We understand you have killed Andariel and we wish to thank you." Everyone nodded in agreement and Annor walked up to me who was dead the last time I saw her. "Annor?" I asked. I looked over to Kashya who for once smiled. "I took the liberty upon myself to resurrect her. I'm sure you'll pay me in full before you journey to the East?"
"The east?" I asked confused.
"Of course!" Warriv answered walking next to me patting me on the back. "There is plently of evil for you to defeat there too." He said with a twinkle in his eye.
"Now seriously, Warriv." Deckerd Cain said chuckling. Then he looked at me seriously. "It is clear that the Dark Wanderer was indeed Diablo himself." Everyone hushed around us. "We must travel to the East in order to stop him from rising his brothers."
"You'll go, right?" One of the Rouges said.
"Yes. I intend to see this adventure through." I answered trying to sound as humbly as I could. Everyone cheered and Annor patted me on the back.
The rest of the night we partied telling silly stories. Even Akara who usually stayed by her tent joined us. She told us of when Kashya was born greatly disturbing the dignified Rouge. Deckard Cain told of past heros he knew and Warriv told us funny stories of other merchants in Lut Gholein, the city we would eventually travel too.
It was a fantastic night, the last I would see in a long time. One of the merchants named Gheed even provided some free wine. We all passed the bottle around singing every song from church hymns to ballads and silly songs. No one really got drunk, but we did get a little tipsy as everyone started singing his or her own tunes to each song. The party lasted well into the night till soon it dwindled to just Annor, Kashya, Warriv and me.
Kashya was laughing at almost everything that anyone said. I figured she would regret it in the morning but I was enjoying myself too much to pay much attention.
"So, Hero!" She said laughing at herself.
"Will you ever come back and join us?"
"I suppose." I answered and she laughed at my answer. "You can call me by my rightful name, Anuck." I added. She looked at me smiling and again laughed and for the first time I felt as if we were friends.
Warriv added chuckling, "What's wrong Anuck? You don't like the name Hero?"
I turned serious for a second. "I don't really feel like a hero." I admitted. "Sure I've killed Andariel, but I didn't like doing it."
"You've relieved these people of their oppression." Warriv said.
"Now we can go back to the monastery." Kashya added giggling to herself. "I'd better go to bed." She chuckled. "I can't stop laughing." She said and laughed all the way to her tent.
"I guess we ought to get to sleep as well." Warriv commented giving me one of those goofy smiles. "Tomorrow we'll have to spend packing for our journey." I noticed Annor wasn't beside me anymore. She must have got up and left while Kashya was laughing. I immediately became a little nervous that it was only Warriv and I alone together.
I was still a little taken by him, but had been too busy fighting my own demons as well as real ones to think to much lately.
"Warriv." I asked. He looked over at me curiously smiling, giving me his full attention. "What do you plan to do when you get to Lut Gholein?" I asked curious to know.
"Well . . ." He thought for a minute. "I guess I will stay there till the world is safe to travel again. Right now I believe it is safe enough for us to travel through the desert. We have you with us don't we?" He chuckled. "Why do you ask?" He said.
He caught me off guard. I had never intended on telling him about my feelings for him and never did. "Just wondering . . ." I said casually.
"Don't worry." He assured me. "I'll wait in the town if you ever decide to travel back to this place." He said waving his hand indicating the Rouge encampment. "They're finally gonna move back to their rightful homes." He pondered.
I felt a drop of rain upon my nose. We both looked up as a dark rain cloud broke loose and rain started pouring down. Warriv took off his coat and held it over us as we walked briskly to my tent.
When we got inside we discovered Warriv's coat had been flimsy shelter against the rain as we were wet to the bone. I noticed that my tent was still messy from the items I had thrown onto the ground, making it impossible to walk around in the tiny space without stepping on something. Warriv didn't seem to notice it though as he staring at me.
"Goodnight Sorceress." He said again giving me on of those goofy smiles. I smiled and he leaned over and kissed me on the cheek and before I could say anything he immediately rushed out into the rain. I stood there stunned as a warm feeling rushed through my body not much helped by the wine I had consumed earlier. Finally I took off all my armor till I only wore my tattered shirt and skirt underneath and crept onto my cot. I fell asleep dreaming of Diablo and Warriv. Except it was really Warriv I was fighting and Diablo whom I loved in my dream. Later I woke up shocked by the dream as sweat covered my forehead. I wiped it and then fell back to a restless sleep.
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Perhaps not as good as my previous chapter. Hope it's not too cheesy. Don't worry there will be more emotions in the next chapter when Annor leaves and a new mercenary steps into play in the city of Lut Gholein. Look! I covered the whole first act in three chapters! I always see people complain about how slow it is just to get to the first quest! I did leave out some quests, but I'm mainly writing this story for the mercenaries not the quests. Hope I'm not going TOO fast. Review and tell me what you think. I know many of you were surprised to see Warriv and a sorceress together. You'll see though. He, he! I am the author of this fanfic and therefore I am the only one who knows what will happen! HA HAH AHA! I am a god! Anyway. Got a little carried away, but it feels good to be able to wield these characters anyway I want. Maybe I'm just crazy, but we won't get into that.
It is I, RedLady, master of the original ideas! Come on, we all know Diablo's a girl and Necromancers must see the omens! The omens! The OMENS! THE OMENS! Oh, if you don't know what I'm talking about read my other Diablo fanfics. They're if not more original than this one, ver original!
Look at me, I think I blabber too much. I just spent three paragraphs talking to you people. You people must think I'm strange. Well I'd better go before I loose all respect. Of course I did blabber a lot at the beginning of this fanfic too. Oh well. Do not deny oneself, huh?
Oh yes, I probably already told you this, but review. I'm curious to know what you think. And look at my other Diablo 2 stories. Review them too. You won't be disappointed.
Also read Adro13 and my story "Let's go kill Diablo." We wrote it together and are wondering what you think. Here is a link to the story:
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=590250
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much and goodbye!