Dungeons and Teachers (Which are fiercer than Dragons)
The Muster of the Students
***Liz, Melody, and Kaitlyn***
"Ok" Liz said loudly, "we've been walking for entire chapter conversion period it's time for some action!"
"I agree" Kaitlyn voiced her opinion (it used to be agree -_-; Ed-itor), "Narrator! We want a battle!!"
Ok, ok, sheesh. No later than Kaitlyn had said those words they came into a great hall, in which six bookies stood amongst several paper laden desks; yet on second glance they seemed to be much more well made than previous bookies, features were more apparent and the looked much more flexible and agile, two of them were armed with swords. Without a further motion, the bookies dropped their arms and came at the girls with a flying sprint. Suddenly, Kaitlyn was no longer the student that Liz and Melody had known, her stature and face changed quickly. All sober expressions left her as one casts away a cloak and she was shown as a chaotic force of war. She gave a wide grin as the bookies came towards them their arms trailing, reaching for Glamdring and Gimli's axe she charged at the center two bookies.
"I got the middle two," she yelled, a maniac's grin across her face.
Drawing her two weapons, Kaitlyn sprung to swing the axe across the foremost bookie. Quickly halting, it made a back flip to avoid Kaitlyn blow. Not quavering, Kaitlyn swung Glamdring around as she spun towards the second bookie which could not stop as quickly, though it was able to deflect the blow with its own sword. The other four bookies charged the other two girls while Kaitlyn did battle.
"Ready," Melody said rather than asked, and power seemed to grow within her arms as water gathers in a torrential rain. Liz, too, radiated with power.
"I think I can get a good hold on this," she said as she created and began to play with a ball of liquid fire in the palm of her hand.
***Jessica and Mack***
"So Mrs. Rayne is behind all this!" Mack said as realization dawned on him. He and Jessica had just conversed on their predicament, hopefully for the last time unless the narrator is stupid enough to add more characters. Wait, I haven't introduced that shadowy figure yet, DAMN. Realizing the narrator was done with his rant Mack and Jessica began to make there way back to the stairwell.
"I still can't thank you enough for saving me," Mack said again.
"No problem," Jessica answered.
"So where exactly does this stairway go?" Mack asked
"No, idea," Jessica said, "but that's where I think you may know better than me."
They came upon the base of the staircase and Jessica explained to him all that happened to her on the staircase.
"Hmmm," Mack said when a quick smile crossed his face, "I got an idea. . ."
***Natasia and Kara***
Grumbling loudly, Kara and Natasia made there way down the corridor.
"Damn Narrator," Kara cried at last.
"Language," Natasia reminded, though she was no less irritated. Fuming with anger Kara stormed ahead but stopped short at the sight of two flame- streaked red jean legs. Natasia stopped too, and the girls shared a look before rushing over to Edward. In his bright red costume Edward lay on the floor of the regeneration room. Instinctively, since it was Edward, Kara gave him a sharp kick in the ribs, not to wake him up but just because it fun to kick Edward when he's down. When he did not stir Natasia dropped to her knees at his side, Kara stood with a rather blank expression on her face. Suddenly, when Natasia wasn't looking it seemed that Kara grew, her expression turned a sudden solemn hue and to any onlooker she would be thought a great Amazon warrior, both beautiful and terrible. (Hint hint: if Kara is reading this, this is the control any man you want power it'll be clearer farther down the road.). Upon her solemn face her eyes turned a shade of pink, and the same shine glowed from under Edward's shut eyes.
"He is alive, good." Kara thought to herself in a voice that was unlike to her own, but her expression faded as suddenly as it had come, and as the pink left her eyes, Edward's flitted open.
"Noooo NOT THE PANGOLINS noo...." Edward flailed, Natasia slapped him but she was glad he was alive.
"You ok," Kara said, no longer in the trance.
"Yea," Edward said, "as long as that damn 'kill Edward' chapter is over"
They had a good laugh at that, and helped Edward up and went on their way; though now hope their hope of finding Liz had waned.
***Liz, Melody, and Kaitlyn***
"CRACK!!" the cobbled floor shuddered under the point of the pencil beasts arm, that Liz had narrowly missed. The three girls were at separate parts of the room now, each fighting a pair of the Uruk-bookies (don't be afraid of blatant LOTR fan-isms -Ed-itor). Kaitlyn in a mad frenzy traded blows with each bookie keeping them at length of sword and axe. Quickly, a bookie leapt high above her, while the other ran straight at her, Kaitlyn just smiled. As the bookie came bearing down on her she rolled aside catching the bookie across the back of the knees with her foot; it came toppling down on the other one. Before they could get up Kaitlyn took out her Legolas Knife by the blade and took careful aim. In a quick flick the knife was covered in ink and sticking out of the bookie, above it's now limp arms.
Meanwhile, Liz was awkwardly sidestepping the bookies attacks, too frightened to make an attack of her own when she heard a yell. Still dodging the bookies attacks Liz glanced over to see Melody with a large wound running down her arm; despite that she was pummeling the bookies with oversized fists. That was all the motivation Liz needed, one bookie launched a long vertical attack; she dodged it and rolled a fair distance away. As she stood up she brought an upraised hand to her mouth, as if to blow a kiss. Taking a deep breath Liz created a fantastic fire display. A hail and cloud of flame erupted from her hand. Spectacular as it was, the bookies bounded backwards and dodged it, but Liz had expected that. Rushing out of the cloud Liz raised her morning star and brought it down hard across the bookies chest. The bookie staggered, Liz leapt away watching it fall, and took a quick check on her friends for a second. Melody had pounded one bookie into a misshapen pile on the floor, and was fiercely entangled with the other, kukri blazing. It was a fierce sword fight, Melody seemed to have the upper hand since the bookie could not land a blow while her kukri, and the borrowed Sting, warped and changed, blocking every attack. Finally the swords caught, Melody's blade upon the bookie's, who desperately tried to fend off the blow. Yet it was no use, as the blade glowed, Melody and her sword grew and the bookie shrank; he was quickly just a stain on the kukri. (background on the kukri, assassin dagger, basically, used to lop off riflemen's heads in trench warfare! Your friendly neighborhood Ed-itor) Kaitlyn on the other hand was nearly playing with her two bookies, now crippled at several places.
Liz quickly focused back on her own bookies, making a few hand signs a spell began to form. Quickly, a ring flames began to leap forth along the ground, Liz standing on the side, with the bookies in the middle, the conscious bookie gave a weird muffled sound and began to run away.
"Gotcha" Liz said, and while the bookie was in the air the ring of fire leapt up and caught it by the leg. Liz held an end of the fire, now a burning liquid lasso that held the bookie in place. Liz squeezed the end of the lasso and the bookie was engulfed in liquid flame. He became no more than dust.
***Mack and Jessica***
"So," Mack thought out, "Ms. Rayne came up to one of these wall segments, drained a bookie of creative elements, and shot it out into the wall onto the wall, which opened up."
"Uh huh," Jessica replied, "sounds impossible I know but . . ." Jessica stood silent as a red light grew from Mack's hand.
"Like this," Mack said with a smile, and blasted the wall with the red light. Patterns darted across the wall segment and it began to open up. Jessica looked at him confused.
"Raw Mutra, the force illusionists draw there power from, and manipulate to create illusions, Rayne must be able to draw it from the bookies" Mack said answering her question, but seeing her still bewildered expression he added, "that near death encounter left me with some sort of understanding of our powers." As they walked through this new portal he began to explain it to her. Sorry the explanation came in the 8th chapter but oh well. (Peoples reading this, I will summarize, being transported to D&D world activates drugs in your blood that make you hallucinate and think you have powers, that is all. Ed-itor) Apparently, as regular people, everyone has a combination of certain invisible forces within them, but they are no less real. In general this is known as Corana. Corana is divided up into different types, Mutra, Radra, Tractra, Wetera, and Holetra. This Corana travels unheeded along with the blood vessels in the body; everyone has different levels of these elements. If left un-aroused Corana does nothing, but the blast that sent them into this place must've activated the forces of Corana within them.
Whatever had sent Mack this information was unfortunately vague but it seemed that all the kids were drawing off different parts of the Corana and producing many different effects. Mutra is an element of creativity and when activated people can draw off it to create sorts of illusions and distort reality. Radra is a powerful element in the skin, people drawing off this power can manipulate their body, and/or something touching them in certain ways, often times the user is limited to a certain item (e.g. Natasia and her flower), Tractra flows mostly through the mind, giving those that have high levels of it powerful telepathic powers to control or manipulate, but this element is very unwieldy and often has unseen effects. Wetera manifests itself in small auras around where the user draws them to, it has power to summon anything the user needs but is limited to a certain type (e.g. Edward summons only weapons/fire and Liz only summons fire/weather). Holetra, Mack explained was what Jessica's power was solely drawn from, a power in the hands to repair and heal or he explained can as easily cause pain and drain life. Also not everyone draws off of a single power; since levels of all elements are prevalent, the powers the students wield are often highly specialized. Most importantly these powers are not unlimited Corana is depleted as it is drawn off of, but a short rest will replenish it. Mack realizing that he talks a lot also made a short list so that you readers might figure out what the hell he's talking about.
Mutra-Illusion power, magic to alter reality
Radra- Body power, magic to alter body or items
Tractra- Mind power, magic to control, deceive, and affect things
Wetera- Summon power, magic to create and summon
Holetra- Health power, power to give life and repair or to take life and destroy
The Students draw on all these powers to create the amazing feats they do in this fanfic, but have limits to how much of it they can use without rest, god this has veered so far away from D&D it isn't even funny. Well ok it's hilarious but shut up. After this long drawn out conversation Mack and Jessica realized there surroundings, they were following a long narrow passageway; the wall they passed through had closed up and the sounds of battle were coming from up ahead.
***Edward, Kara, Natasia***
"LIZ!" Kara yelled aloud, "I can feel her, she's close, and others" Edward and Nat looked at each other and with a chorused cheer they began to leap (omigosh, Mack is infatuated with the word leap, its not even funny :-\ Ed- itor) down the corridor; they came to a wide stair and rose it eagerly. They ran with such vigor that they could scarce stop as they came upon a troop of bookies.
"We've got no time for sidetracking!" Natasia said aloud the flower beginning to send vines along her skin, creating a large battering ram shield. With her in front the three of them plowed through the bookies, there seemed to be hundreds of them. Yet up the stairs our trio went, Natasia plowing them down, Edward hewing the fallen, and Kara tripping up the leaders. They came to level ground, leaving a trail of ink-bath behind them and fleeing foes in front of them. "Their close," Kara cried.
***Liz, Melody, and Kaitlyn***
Things had turned for the worse for the three students, as they watched the room fill with bookies. They had been able to finally defeat the original six 'Uruk-bookies' but once they had finished with them it seemed that endless troops of regular bookies had made there way to there position. Fighting valiantly the girls had been pushed back to another room, a large cathedral dome at the four intersections. Liz had exhausted her flame abilities, and the endless bookies still came on, and they were forced back right to the wall. A semi-circle was made around them, a final setup before the last strike.
"Looks like this is the end," Melody said, somewhat satirical in her fatigue.
"Can we ready a final assault," Kaitlyn asked but before she got a response cried, "Gilthoniel, A Elbereth! Follow me!" She charged, Anduril shining brightly, Liz and Melody charging fiercely behind, but much to their surprise as the approached the semi-circle, they floated up and over the line of bookies landing safely on the other side, with three new friends behind them, their count was now six.
"Let's take care of these pests," Edward cried stepping forward, Kara floating the students out of his way. Drawing forth a light from his hands Edward summoned an arsenal of kunai, but these flew forth from the light. Soon the flames of raining steel blurred the sight of the room, while many bookies fell. No sooner had the rain of blades stopped than Natasia in full flower armor charged into the fray. Crashing of fist and foot Natasia felled as many as Edward but had to withdraw as their numbers swelled with increasing troops from the second passage, opposite that which Ed, Nat, and Kara came through.
"Dammit" Kara thought to all, as all six of them were forced into the swelling fray, but soon they were forced back against the wall. As though to seal their fate, the students watched as another large troop of bookies came from the third way, to double the battalion's size. All seemed doomed, when suddenly the last troop began to attack the first half. The room filled with complete chaos and no bookie gave heed as the six students melded into the wall, and disappeared. The hero count was now eight. Everyone realizing they were invisible began to steal away down another corridor; a large arrow appeared along the floor, and soon all the bookies were left behind.
***Everyone***
After following the arrow a ways, the veil was dropped and the students were revealed. Jessica was leading the way, followed bewildered by Liz, Natasia, Melody, Edward, Kaitlyn, and Kara; Mack held up the back a great look of concentration across his face. As the turned a corner into a room, Mack dropped all the enchantments and everyone stood and blinked around for a second.
In the silence of the moment, Edward began to speak "So, I was wondering, how come I can't magically warp people through walls? I mean, you'd think Mack there was stuck with all the useless powers until now ^__^;" at this there was an outbreak of laughter and emotion. For the first time in a long time, the students overcome with joy and weariness sat down and laughed, rested, and talked about all that they had been through.
***Afterward***
***sitting together afterwards Mack explains the magic***
Edward: so we're full of um... drugs?
Mack: for the last time, it's not drugs. The Corana is a form of biological magic that flows in everyone, even before we got here.
Kara: but why couldn't we use it before
Mack: we technically were always using the Corana, but it was small and natural, like when a wound heals you actually use a bit of Holetra.
Natasia: I get it!
Liz: So you said its like divided
Mack: yea, like my power to alter reality is drawn from Mutra while you use Wetera to summon weather, but their both part of the Corana.
Kaitlyn: and we aren't limited to a certain part of the Corana?
Mack: Well, your powers are based on the Corana within yourselves, like I have mostly Mutra, but you Kaitlyn are the best example of mixed Corana
Kaitlyn: Hmm?
Mack: Your main strength lies in Wetera to summon the Lotr weapons, but you also draw off of Tractra which affects your mind so you know how to wield them, also you even have a bit of Mutra which gives greater detail to you weapons and creates the special effects like in the book.
Kaitlyn: Oh, cool
Jessica: but how come we all seem to know how to fight and wield weapons.
Mack: Again that an effect of mixed Corana, we all have activated Radra and Tractra in us even if it only manifests itself in giving us fighting abilities and knowledge of such.
Liz: so I summon a liquid fireball using Wetera *she summons a fire ball* given knowledge of such because of Tractra. If I fling it at Edward and he dodges it he does so because of Radra and Tractra.
*she throws the fireball at Edward, and it hits him dead on*
Edward: AHHHH it burns the flesh
*Edward fall unconscious flaming and dying*
Liz: er and Jessica heals him using Holetra
Jessica: I'm not touching Edward, he a flaming corpse
Edward: Skin, melted; face, scalded; internal organs, unaccounted for
Liz: He looks burnt... or dead ;D BLATANT TEEN GIRL SQUAD PLUG (Ed-itor)
Jessica: Fine, I'll heal him but the chapter better end before it shows that I heal him
And so ended the muster of the students as they rested for an unseen challenge soon to come.
The Muster of the Students
***Liz, Melody, and Kaitlyn***
"Ok" Liz said loudly, "we've been walking for entire chapter conversion period it's time for some action!"
"I agree" Kaitlyn voiced her opinion (it used to be agree -_-; Ed-itor), "Narrator! We want a battle!!"
Ok, ok, sheesh. No later than Kaitlyn had said those words they came into a great hall, in which six bookies stood amongst several paper laden desks; yet on second glance they seemed to be much more well made than previous bookies, features were more apparent and the looked much more flexible and agile, two of them were armed with swords. Without a further motion, the bookies dropped their arms and came at the girls with a flying sprint. Suddenly, Kaitlyn was no longer the student that Liz and Melody had known, her stature and face changed quickly. All sober expressions left her as one casts away a cloak and she was shown as a chaotic force of war. She gave a wide grin as the bookies came towards them their arms trailing, reaching for Glamdring and Gimli's axe she charged at the center two bookies.
"I got the middle two," she yelled, a maniac's grin across her face.
Drawing her two weapons, Kaitlyn sprung to swing the axe across the foremost bookie. Quickly halting, it made a back flip to avoid Kaitlyn blow. Not quavering, Kaitlyn swung Glamdring around as she spun towards the second bookie which could not stop as quickly, though it was able to deflect the blow with its own sword. The other four bookies charged the other two girls while Kaitlyn did battle.
"Ready," Melody said rather than asked, and power seemed to grow within her arms as water gathers in a torrential rain. Liz, too, radiated with power.
"I think I can get a good hold on this," she said as she created and began to play with a ball of liquid fire in the palm of her hand.
***Jessica and Mack***
"So Mrs. Rayne is behind all this!" Mack said as realization dawned on him. He and Jessica had just conversed on their predicament, hopefully for the last time unless the narrator is stupid enough to add more characters. Wait, I haven't introduced that shadowy figure yet, DAMN. Realizing the narrator was done with his rant Mack and Jessica began to make there way back to the stairwell.
"I still can't thank you enough for saving me," Mack said again.
"No problem," Jessica answered.
"So where exactly does this stairway go?" Mack asked
"No, idea," Jessica said, "but that's where I think you may know better than me."
They came upon the base of the staircase and Jessica explained to him all that happened to her on the staircase.
"Hmmm," Mack said when a quick smile crossed his face, "I got an idea. . ."
***Natasia and Kara***
Grumbling loudly, Kara and Natasia made there way down the corridor.
"Damn Narrator," Kara cried at last.
"Language," Natasia reminded, though she was no less irritated. Fuming with anger Kara stormed ahead but stopped short at the sight of two flame- streaked red jean legs. Natasia stopped too, and the girls shared a look before rushing over to Edward. In his bright red costume Edward lay on the floor of the regeneration room. Instinctively, since it was Edward, Kara gave him a sharp kick in the ribs, not to wake him up but just because it fun to kick Edward when he's down. When he did not stir Natasia dropped to her knees at his side, Kara stood with a rather blank expression on her face. Suddenly, when Natasia wasn't looking it seemed that Kara grew, her expression turned a sudden solemn hue and to any onlooker she would be thought a great Amazon warrior, both beautiful and terrible. (Hint hint: if Kara is reading this, this is the control any man you want power it'll be clearer farther down the road.). Upon her solemn face her eyes turned a shade of pink, and the same shine glowed from under Edward's shut eyes.
"He is alive, good." Kara thought to herself in a voice that was unlike to her own, but her expression faded as suddenly as it had come, and as the pink left her eyes, Edward's flitted open.
"Noooo NOT THE PANGOLINS noo...." Edward flailed, Natasia slapped him but she was glad he was alive.
"You ok," Kara said, no longer in the trance.
"Yea," Edward said, "as long as that damn 'kill Edward' chapter is over"
They had a good laugh at that, and helped Edward up and went on their way; though now hope their hope of finding Liz had waned.
***Liz, Melody, and Kaitlyn***
"CRACK!!" the cobbled floor shuddered under the point of the pencil beasts arm, that Liz had narrowly missed. The three girls were at separate parts of the room now, each fighting a pair of the Uruk-bookies (don't be afraid of blatant LOTR fan-isms -Ed-itor). Kaitlyn in a mad frenzy traded blows with each bookie keeping them at length of sword and axe. Quickly, a bookie leapt high above her, while the other ran straight at her, Kaitlyn just smiled. As the bookie came bearing down on her she rolled aside catching the bookie across the back of the knees with her foot; it came toppling down on the other one. Before they could get up Kaitlyn took out her Legolas Knife by the blade and took careful aim. In a quick flick the knife was covered in ink and sticking out of the bookie, above it's now limp arms.
Meanwhile, Liz was awkwardly sidestepping the bookies attacks, too frightened to make an attack of her own when she heard a yell. Still dodging the bookies attacks Liz glanced over to see Melody with a large wound running down her arm; despite that she was pummeling the bookies with oversized fists. That was all the motivation Liz needed, one bookie launched a long vertical attack; she dodged it and rolled a fair distance away. As she stood up she brought an upraised hand to her mouth, as if to blow a kiss. Taking a deep breath Liz created a fantastic fire display. A hail and cloud of flame erupted from her hand. Spectacular as it was, the bookies bounded backwards and dodged it, but Liz had expected that. Rushing out of the cloud Liz raised her morning star and brought it down hard across the bookies chest. The bookie staggered, Liz leapt away watching it fall, and took a quick check on her friends for a second. Melody had pounded one bookie into a misshapen pile on the floor, and was fiercely entangled with the other, kukri blazing. It was a fierce sword fight, Melody seemed to have the upper hand since the bookie could not land a blow while her kukri, and the borrowed Sting, warped and changed, blocking every attack. Finally the swords caught, Melody's blade upon the bookie's, who desperately tried to fend off the blow. Yet it was no use, as the blade glowed, Melody and her sword grew and the bookie shrank; he was quickly just a stain on the kukri. (background on the kukri, assassin dagger, basically, used to lop off riflemen's heads in trench warfare! Your friendly neighborhood Ed-itor) Kaitlyn on the other hand was nearly playing with her two bookies, now crippled at several places.
Liz quickly focused back on her own bookies, making a few hand signs a spell began to form. Quickly, a ring flames began to leap forth along the ground, Liz standing on the side, with the bookies in the middle, the conscious bookie gave a weird muffled sound and began to run away.
"Gotcha" Liz said, and while the bookie was in the air the ring of fire leapt up and caught it by the leg. Liz held an end of the fire, now a burning liquid lasso that held the bookie in place. Liz squeezed the end of the lasso and the bookie was engulfed in liquid flame. He became no more than dust.
***Mack and Jessica***
"So," Mack thought out, "Ms. Rayne came up to one of these wall segments, drained a bookie of creative elements, and shot it out into the wall onto the wall, which opened up."
"Uh huh," Jessica replied, "sounds impossible I know but . . ." Jessica stood silent as a red light grew from Mack's hand.
"Like this," Mack said with a smile, and blasted the wall with the red light. Patterns darted across the wall segment and it began to open up. Jessica looked at him confused.
"Raw Mutra, the force illusionists draw there power from, and manipulate to create illusions, Rayne must be able to draw it from the bookies" Mack said answering her question, but seeing her still bewildered expression he added, "that near death encounter left me with some sort of understanding of our powers." As they walked through this new portal he began to explain it to her. Sorry the explanation came in the 8th chapter but oh well. (Peoples reading this, I will summarize, being transported to D&D world activates drugs in your blood that make you hallucinate and think you have powers, that is all. Ed-itor) Apparently, as regular people, everyone has a combination of certain invisible forces within them, but they are no less real. In general this is known as Corana. Corana is divided up into different types, Mutra, Radra, Tractra, Wetera, and Holetra. This Corana travels unheeded along with the blood vessels in the body; everyone has different levels of these elements. If left un-aroused Corana does nothing, but the blast that sent them into this place must've activated the forces of Corana within them.
Whatever had sent Mack this information was unfortunately vague but it seemed that all the kids were drawing off different parts of the Corana and producing many different effects. Mutra is an element of creativity and when activated people can draw off it to create sorts of illusions and distort reality. Radra is a powerful element in the skin, people drawing off this power can manipulate their body, and/or something touching them in certain ways, often times the user is limited to a certain item (e.g. Natasia and her flower), Tractra flows mostly through the mind, giving those that have high levels of it powerful telepathic powers to control or manipulate, but this element is very unwieldy and often has unseen effects. Wetera manifests itself in small auras around where the user draws them to, it has power to summon anything the user needs but is limited to a certain type (e.g. Edward summons only weapons/fire and Liz only summons fire/weather). Holetra, Mack explained was what Jessica's power was solely drawn from, a power in the hands to repair and heal or he explained can as easily cause pain and drain life. Also not everyone draws off of a single power; since levels of all elements are prevalent, the powers the students wield are often highly specialized. Most importantly these powers are not unlimited Corana is depleted as it is drawn off of, but a short rest will replenish it. Mack realizing that he talks a lot also made a short list so that you readers might figure out what the hell he's talking about.
Mutra-Illusion power, magic to alter reality
Radra- Body power, magic to alter body or items
Tractra- Mind power, magic to control, deceive, and affect things
Wetera- Summon power, magic to create and summon
Holetra- Health power, power to give life and repair or to take life and destroy
The Students draw on all these powers to create the amazing feats they do in this fanfic, but have limits to how much of it they can use without rest, god this has veered so far away from D&D it isn't even funny. Well ok it's hilarious but shut up. After this long drawn out conversation Mack and Jessica realized there surroundings, they were following a long narrow passageway; the wall they passed through had closed up and the sounds of battle were coming from up ahead.
***Edward, Kara, Natasia***
"LIZ!" Kara yelled aloud, "I can feel her, she's close, and others" Edward and Nat looked at each other and with a chorused cheer they began to leap (omigosh, Mack is infatuated with the word leap, its not even funny :-\ Ed- itor) down the corridor; they came to a wide stair and rose it eagerly. They ran with such vigor that they could scarce stop as they came upon a troop of bookies.
"We've got no time for sidetracking!" Natasia said aloud the flower beginning to send vines along her skin, creating a large battering ram shield. With her in front the three of them plowed through the bookies, there seemed to be hundreds of them. Yet up the stairs our trio went, Natasia plowing them down, Edward hewing the fallen, and Kara tripping up the leaders. They came to level ground, leaving a trail of ink-bath behind them and fleeing foes in front of them. "Their close," Kara cried.
***Liz, Melody, and Kaitlyn***
Things had turned for the worse for the three students, as they watched the room fill with bookies. They had been able to finally defeat the original six 'Uruk-bookies' but once they had finished with them it seemed that endless troops of regular bookies had made there way to there position. Fighting valiantly the girls had been pushed back to another room, a large cathedral dome at the four intersections. Liz had exhausted her flame abilities, and the endless bookies still came on, and they were forced back right to the wall. A semi-circle was made around them, a final setup before the last strike.
"Looks like this is the end," Melody said, somewhat satirical in her fatigue.
"Can we ready a final assault," Kaitlyn asked but before she got a response cried, "Gilthoniel, A Elbereth! Follow me!" She charged, Anduril shining brightly, Liz and Melody charging fiercely behind, but much to their surprise as the approached the semi-circle, they floated up and over the line of bookies landing safely on the other side, with three new friends behind them, their count was now six.
"Let's take care of these pests," Edward cried stepping forward, Kara floating the students out of his way. Drawing forth a light from his hands Edward summoned an arsenal of kunai, but these flew forth from the light. Soon the flames of raining steel blurred the sight of the room, while many bookies fell. No sooner had the rain of blades stopped than Natasia in full flower armor charged into the fray. Crashing of fist and foot Natasia felled as many as Edward but had to withdraw as their numbers swelled with increasing troops from the second passage, opposite that which Ed, Nat, and Kara came through.
"Dammit" Kara thought to all, as all six of them were forced into the swelling fray, but soon they were forced back against the wall. As though to seal their fate, the students watched as another large troop of bookies came from the third way, to double the battalion's size. All seemed doomed, when suddenly the last troop began to attack the first half. The room filled with complete chaos and no bookie gave heed as the six students melded into the wall, and disappeared. The hero count was now eight. Everyone realizing they were invisible began to steal away down another corridor; a large arrow appeared along the floor, and soon all the bookies were left behind.
***Everyone***
After following the arrow a ways, the veil was dropped and the students were revealed. Jessica was leading the way, followed bewildered by Liz, Natasia, Melody, Edward, Kaitlyn, and Kara; Mack held up the back a great look of concentration across his face. As the turned a corner into a room, Mack dropped all the enchantments and everyone stood and blinked around for a second.
In the silence of the moment, Edward began to speak "So, I was wondering, how come I can't magically warp people through walls? I mean, you'd think Mack there was stuck with all the useless powers until now ^__^;" at this there was an outbreak of laughter and emotion. For the first time in a long time, the students overcome with joy and weariness sat down and laughed, rested, and talked about all that they had been through.
***Afterward***
***sitting together afterwards Mack explains the magic***
Edward: so we're full of um... drugs?
Mack: for the last time, it's not drugs. The Corana is a form of biological magic that flows in everyone, even before we got here.
Kara: but why couldn't we use it before
Mack: we technically were always using the Corana, but it was small and natural, like when a wound heals you actually use a bit of Holetra.
Natasia: I get it!
Liz: So you said its like divided
Mack: yea, like my power to alter reality is drawn from Mutra while you use Wetera to summon weather, but their both part of the Corana.
Kaitlyn: and we aren't limited to a certain part of the Corana?
Mack: Well, your powers are based on the Corana within yourselves, like I have mostly Mutra, but you Kaitlyn are the best example of mixed Corana
Kaitlyn: Hmm?
Mack: Your main strength lies in Wetera to summon the Lotr weapons, but you also draw off of Tractra which affects your mind so you know how to wield them, also you even have a bit of Mutra which gives greater detail to you weapons and creates the special effects like in the book.
Kaitlyn: Oh, cool
Jessica: but how come we all seem to know how to fight and wield weapons.
Mack: Again that an effect of mixed Corana, we all have activated Radra and Tractra in us even if it only manifests itself in giving us fighting abilities and knowledge of such.
Liz: so I summon a liquid fireball using Wetera *she summons a fire ball* given knowledge of such because of Tractra. If I fling it at Edward and he dodges it he does so because of Radra and Tractra.
*she throws the fireball at Edward, and it hits him dead on*
Edward: AHHHH it burns the flesh
*Edward fall unconscious flaming and dying*
Liz: er and Jessica heals him using Holetra
Jessica: I'm not touching Edward, he a flaming corpse
Edward: Skin, melted; face, scalded; internal organs, unaccounted for
Liz: He looks burnt... or dead ;D BLATANT TEEN GIRL SQUAD PLUG (Ed-itor)
Jessica: Fine, I'll heal him but the chapter better end before it shows that I heal him
And so ended the muster of the students as they rested for an unseen challenge soon to come.