Yes ... another case of "lack of inspiration to write a fight scene". Don't worry, there is actually a fight scene ... it's just not my best. I'll save the decent fight scene for ... ah, I can't tell you that now! Just go on reading....
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Log 8: Xariandagia Invoked
Keith backed out of the antechamber, Kathryn shielded behind him by outstretched wings. The staff avellonis was at the ready in his hands; he could feel the faint heat of Xariandagia unsheathed in Kathryn's own.
"Kathryn," he murmured, "run to your bedchamber. Wait for me on the balcony. I will cover you and Derrik."
Kathryn's sandals padding on the marble floor told him that she had left. He looked down the hall, saw the wraiths snort in curiosity. Their eyes glowed blood-red in the darkness.
"Derrik, come out," the angel whispered; "go to where Kathryn is. I will follow."
The general stared back at him. "But her orders--"
"Go. You are tired. Protect her while I hold them off."
"As you say." He jumped from the room and ran past Keith to the main bedchamber.
The wraiths came down the hall in persuit.
"The wraiths are weak against fire--"
"I remember," Keith mumbled indifferently. He turned avellonis in his hands as the first two wraiths charged with their pikes.
">Avellonis, yield me the glaive with flame's burning edge!"
The staff flashed across their chests with a ruby glow. The wraiths burst into shadow, pikes clattering to the floor. Another sweep of the staff, and a third wraith was beheaded.
Two more wraiths charged; one leaped above Keith's head and bore his weight on his uppermost pinions. Keith flayed his wings, and managed to knock the pike out of his attacker's hands. He spun wildly, knocking the wraith against the hallway's walls. The wraith let go - it died instantly from the barbed feathers left in its chest.
But the last one....
"Kathryn! The sword!" It was Derrik, in the bedchamber.
Keith turned to the rear chambers, saw Kathryn standing by the balcony with Xariandagia before her. The last wraith was easing toward her, its pike poised to strike.
"Kathryn!" He ran down the hall, his glaive-staff at the ready as he arrived at the bedchamber.
He soon realized he need not have arrived.
Kathryn was mouthing a spell.
"Xariandagia, arm me in your flame!"
Fire engulfed Kathryn, dying out to reveal her in a gleaming bronze breastplate and a silk flaming skirt. Gold boots were on her feet, and a golden diadem with rubies held her hair in check. Xariandagia flamed in her hands, bringing its alien light to the room.
Kathryn raised the blade above her head and charged towards the wraith. She brought the sword down in an arch, cleaving the wraith in two.
Keith walked to Kathryn's side, allowing avellonis to revert to its original form. Flame enveloped Kathryn again, leaving her in her crimson robes; Xariandagia had stopped burning.
"There are no more, Keith, after us?"
He shook his head. "No. But more will come."
"Why?"
"Because I have awakened. The Dark Army is after me." He sighed - images of battles against similar creatures in a time long past flashed in his mind. "We cannot stay here. Is there some place we can go?"
"Denbridge." It was Derrik who replied. "Kathryn's grandmother, the Queen of Avalon and Regent of Denbridge, lives there. I am sure we can be safe there."
{ Ashita wa Motto and ending animation plays.... }
See? That was a bad fight scene! But be glad that most of the next episode takes place in Avalon, and one familiar character finally makes an appearance! Well, actually two, but I mispelled her name....