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Chapter Five
Monster Amongst Us
Bryan sighed as he slowly made his way to the hotel or rather the inn as he called it, he was beat but he tried not to show it the Ultima he had cast was a very powerful strong attack and if not properly used by a strong person in the arts of black magic the consequences could be tremendous. Snorting he raised his head to see some other people walking toward the inn he couldn't make it out from his current location but walking a bit faster than the group of people he squinted a bit and raised his eyebrows. Fate certainly had an odd way to make people meet or was it fate?
Shrugging to his own unknown question he leaned against the door frame trying to look a bit intimidating but he knew the group would either take up their weapons and attack him or leave they had no other choice, however the choice the others made was much different from what he was suspecting to come. "Hi Bryan!" the cheerful yell rang out almost causing the necromancer to fall forward the boy the cursed one, was looking quite cheerful to see him again even though their last visit wasn't a very thrilling one.
Nonetheless he glared at the annoying teenager before him the boy looked like he just got some candy and was now being hyper by the way he was acting, Bryan could not explain it any better than that. "Are you going to attack me?" the necromancer asked as he prepared a spell behind his back his cape covering it up as it was the same color "no I don't want to why would I?" even the teammates of Tala groaned one at a time at the stupidity of the hybrid.
"Did you forget your memory in the forest?" he hissed now in Tala's face while the teenager just shook his head thinking really hard then replied "nope I'm sure cause I can think" the attitude of the hybrid was something to be scared of and Bryan was scared. Not because of the cheerful smile or comments, but by the way the shorter teen was acting toward him while the rest of the teammates except perhaps the fairy eyed him coldly.
Johnny stepped in between the two that were having an almost civil conversation but if it was truly civil then it turned into some kind of friendly talk instead "look I don't know what you're playing at necromancer" the said person narrowed his eyes at the fire mage while standing proudly while still glaring "but we claimed the inn first so you can sleep outside" narrowly missing a fist Johnny was surprised and fell backwards onto his butt while Bryan smiled at the reaction.
Kai shook his head at the two immature beings and passed them opening the door of the inn without too much of an effort and walking inside with Kevin right behind him, as the elf had no one to talk to, so Kai was his latest victim. Although the elf talked a lot the ice mage was in fact quite amazed at it's historical knowledge of the land, not even his people at the Guild or other wise knew so much. But pretending to know it he listened, as the elf seemed to go on and on as he approached the manager.
Bryan chuckled quietly following Kai and opened the door smacking it in Johnny's face making the fire mage even more hot tempered than he was already, which meant more fun could be done easier as you lose self control when you are clouded by hate and anger it happened to him once. Shuddering at the very thought he stood next to the ice mage and glanced at his face, it was almost like his usual face back when he was with his grandfather maybe more colder than his.
Ignoring his won thoughts he passed the time as the manager tried to find rooms for them all saying that there were only a few in the hotel itself so they had to wait awhile. Soon everyone was doing there only little thing the necromancer leaned against the wall in deep thought thinking of what Boris was going to do now that he had refused the command of going home and even went as far as to make sure Emily and the pink brat were out of the way for him.
Johnny on the other hand was cackling every now and than which made some of the group look at him in surprise as he continued to make fireballs then make them disappear no one seemed to want to know what he was thinking at the time because what he was thinking about was probably very stupid and/ or very immature. It was actually both as the teen imagined several things he could do to Bryan with his magic and in his own little world he could drown the necromancer in a pit of fire and lava watching the other burn together, and other image was stabbing him with a red knife, several other followed this one and soon it got so bad that he cackled continuously unnerving everyone else.
Enrique wasn't really thinking he was talking to Kevin in an elf language so the others couldn't (hopefully) understand and unknown to them Bryan knew what they were talking about but made it seem like he didn't know. Even so they were talking about their heritage and how long they had been alive comparing each other's age and their occupation and knowledge of the world was. Both seemed to be on an equal scale, as they knew many things since they traveled a lot more than anyone in the room, even the necromancer gloomily leaning against the wall.
Kai wasn't really thinking he was talking to the manager trying to get the room faster while the man stuttered and looked for the keys while telling the ice mage to wait even though they had waited for nearly an hour, which somehow passed by very quickly. Chuckling Tala breathed a heavy sigh he was already home sick and made it quite far but he missed his mom and dad and hoped that everyone was doing okay, if not then.Shutting his eyes he tried not to think about it as it brought back an empty feeling in his heart since he no longer had anyone around him he could really show how scare and alone he felt at the moment. That was a job for woman or moms not tough people.
Trying to ignore the cackling, the necromancer studied the hybrid even more than last time and found himself staring for a long period of time, luckily the others didn't notice so he had a free range in doing so. A blush crept up to his cheeks as he clenched his teeth glaring at the ground, now was not to time to get soft which he did before and brought him only pain and hurt.speaking of hurt. He wandered over to a nearby calendar ignoring some of the occupants that picked up their weapons and was prepared to blast him away with, a few strides before he stopped and stared in horror the last day was tomorrow.
With the new information in his face right on the calendar Bryan knew he wouldn't be much use tomorrow he might not even be able to travel or protect himself properly, with a so many people around him he couldn't afford such a loss it would be to great. Clenching his fist he resisted the urge to tear the calendar down and crunch it up but instead, calmly sank forward as he pressed his back to the wall and sighing he watched the others getting rather annoyed at the cackling. Kai paced back and forth until the man at the counter finally handed two keys to Kai who simply raised an eyebrow at them now hating his life.
"We have to share how many and with who?" he asked getting right to the point while some of the occupants all glanced at the ice mage waving two keys around, a sure sign of impatience and annoyance. The man at the counter however took his time as he put things back into place and dusted off the counters pretending the customer was even their until at long last the guy sighed and looked at Kai. "Three to a room" he muttered going somewhere else to get away from some of the people that were now crowded against the desk ready to say out loud on what they thought of it.
"So were suppose to stay in a room equal to the share of three people for the two rooms correct?" Enrique asked his eyes swerved to the keys as he started to dread whom the roommates were to be and silently he prayed to Nasamu that he would get off really lucky. "Yes that is correct at least you know your math" the fairy looked to the others while they seemed to be wary of who was going to go with whom. After sometime Kai finally made up his mind and handed Bryan the other key which the necromancer took, a bit confused Bryan looked at it for a long time listening as the names were called out for the people going with Kai.
"Okay people that are going to my room will be Tala" the hybrid smiled widely and went over to the ice mage "next person with me will be Kevin" the elf looked a bit surprised at his call of name but shrugged and joined Tala "and last will be" Kai smirked as he headed for the stairs "me" he finished making a hurried motion for the others to hurry up. The rest Enrique, Johnny, and Bryan looked at each other they were all together in one room for the next several hours, not quite as surprised the necromancer shook his head, it was going to be a long night, one he was sure not to get any sleep not that it would matter at midnight. ----------
"I don't want a mess in here guys" Kai yelled so the other two could hear very well as they wrestled around on the floor to past the time while the ice mage took refuge on his bed. Given what he paid for this room it was actually quite nice it was big enough for three beds all different colors a desk was in the far corner along with a several drawers for clothes which they didn't have much need for. On the other far corner magazines of the Mage's Best Times was stacked neatly for people that wanted to read along with a small shelf of other books.
Although he didn't quite like the beds it was sure more relaxing than anything he's been in since he left the Guild and coming from Kai that was a pretty big compliment. Closing his eyes Kai tried to block out the sounds of the two in the room as rolled around yelling each other's heads off and looking to the sky he calculated that it was only ten bed time for the little irresponsible ones. "Alright that's it get into your beds that stupid yelling or mating call you guys were doing has really gotten on my nerves" the ice mage said as he covered his ears with a pillow as protests were made from Kevin and Tala telling how unfair that was.
But Kai couldn't really care less. ----------
In an almost identical room to Kai's room Bryan wasn't having as much trouble as the ice mage did but he did get a few things thrown at him from Johnny who seemed to want to practice against Bryan for reasons unknown. The necromancer wasn't that tired and blowing off some extra steam some he knew damn well that was anger for Boris, god he couldn't stand that name but he was broken out of his thoughts as a fireball whizzed past his head and he now concluded that the fire mage must have the worst aim that he had ever seen in his lifetime.
Chuckling he offered to help a bit to pass the time before he could get maybe an hour or so of sleep and reluctantly the red head agreed as Bryan slowly went through how to aim burning several things in the room which included the magazines but the beds were left intact. Enrique had managed though to make a perfect reflect on the things they really need to use in the room so whatever Johnny or Bryan threw it would bounce off and head for them and with a quick water spell all that would remain would be harmless water.
"See you are aiming just out of guess you must aim for your spells to hit" Bryan took Johnny's arm and held it steady at the reflect barrier "then you must concentrate or else you will never be able to master a good fire spell properly" another twenty minutes later Bryan finally told the others to get to bed. Enrique didn't have any trouble since he got the whole bed for himself while Johnny also got his own bed having to switch with Bryan cause it wasn't red while the necromancer rolled his eyes and got into his nice dark gloomy looking bed. Oddly it was just how he felt.
Once the others were asleep he threw off the covers of his and sat up, he never could sleep, silently he traced the pattern of his chain that was always hidden from everyone it was from his mother the last gift she had ever gave him. Now a bit depressed he got up and slowly walked over to the window and looked outside course it was busy since demons never needed sleep. Letting out a sigh he opened the window to allow some fresh air inside, as the room was quite stuffy. It wasn't until minutes later did he detect a presence of something dark, he knew it wasn't the demons below him it was something coming to the village, he could feel it in the wind.
Quickly he focused his eyes on the two sleeping occupants he was going to need some kind of help. ----------
The other room was silent save for Kevin's snoring but even then the occupants all slept soundly until the door was thrown open slamming against the wall alerting the three that slowly opened their eyes trying to adjust to the light that shone inside from the hall. "C'mon we need to get going something's coming" Johnny announced as he followed Bryan down the stairs tripping halfway because of his clumsiness. Kai however didn't waste much time he knew from the feel of the air from outside that seemed to seep through whether or no the windows were open or closed that something was approaching, and he had a bad feeling of what it was.
Tala groggily got out of his bed and tried to find his sword banging his head against Kevin who was also trying to find his bow while in the dark. Rubbing his head the sword was grasped from under the bed while Kevin took his bow from under his pillow a weird look from the dragon hybrid was directed at him "what?" Kevin asked as he equipped it "you know attacks could get into rooms you best be careful" that was good enough for Tala as it did make sense to him.
Racing down the stairs the fighters all exited the place earning a glare form the inn keeper for the racket they were making at eleven thirty at night however he was totally ignored as the last few made it outside. "Where is it coming from?" Tala whispered to Kai while the others tried to detect it but Bryan since he was more experienced shot off toward the entrance of the town as fast as he could "wherever he's hading c'mon!" with that Johnny and Kai started to run leaving Kevin and Tala in the dust.
"Does he realize we are not very good runners?" the hybrid asked while the short green haired elf shrugged "I don't think he could care" with a short laugh they ran at a slower pace knowing they couldn't catch up for sometime but they found themselves moving a lot faster as a loud "haste!" was spoken from Enrique that held onto Tala as they raced toward the source.
Bryan was in the lead it was quite hard to out run him because he was in great shape and practiced in many martial arts whenever his grandfather wasn't looking it did pay off and he still used it when his magic got low. Stopping he brought up some dust as he gazed at the demon before him you couldn't really call it a demon though more like a golem most likely, the face was completely rock only the eyes showed, the body was also rock and it was twice the height of Bryan. It made loud footsteps as it walked and took down numerous trees heading for what seemed like the town.
Narrowing his eyes he prepared a spell to blast the hunk of rock right off it's feet, the others that caught up with him by now all panted as they reached him stepping back a bit as Bryan looked like he was about to cast something. Something shot out of Bryan's hand and hit the golem only it bounced off and headed straight for Tala who stood stunned at the fast approaching beam of darkness cries of "Tala move!" was heard through the shouts as it hit him, and bounced off. The hybrid blinked several times and still shaking he turned to his fellow comrades who were all looking at him.
Bryan didn't seem to be too fazed as he turned back to the golem "okay magic bounces off so.combat weaponry might not" Kevin took this as his signal and readied his bow closing one eye he aimed and let the arrow shoot off toward the monster before them. It made a slicing motion as it soared through the air hitting the golem, and broke upon contact. "Why isn't it working?" Enrique asked while fluttering next to Tala watching the golem "if it has reflect no spells can beat it" Kai said looking at the ground thinking while Johnny snapped his fingers and looked to the fairy near the hybrid.
"Enrique cast reflect on me!" he shouted while everyone looked at him weirdly but nonetheless did the incantation upon him then the red head turned to Bryan "okay cast that spell again on me" the hybrid tried to find out the meaning to Johnny's stupid logic until it hit him he was using a reverse form of reflect. Since the beast had reflect on him then putting reflect on someone else and casting the magic on the person they could direct it to the golem and since it has already been deflected it should do some kind of damage. Still however Tala didn't get it even now 'oh god I'm turning into Johnny using his stupid logic' he thought as Bryan prepared the spell once again.
Like Tala thought it hit Johnny then reflected back to the golem then hit back to Johnny then back to the golem on a never ending cycle "okay that didn't work" the red head ducked as the spell went past him "then what's is there left? I'm sure that white magic wouldn't help either and if arrows are useless and close range combat could also be futile" Kevin said as he thought of new ways to hopefully defeat the foe while Kai put on a thinking expression.
Bryan however was now against the tree hunched over coughing the others looked at him quickly not really daring to help but Johnny went over and stepped back several paces as he saw a puddle of black blood forming. "Uh guys I think he's sick or something," the fire mage announced while the rest all scooted a bit farther away from the golem thing.
"He can't be sick" Kai took one glance and turned his eyes away while Bryan hacked up more and more almost causing even Kevin to become sick. "What about the golem?" Tala asked while it continued at it's slow pace to the city his sword was now out and ready to defend. "There is nothing we can do" Bryan announced in-between coughs as his breathing became a bit ragged "close.combat.might.work" shrugging Tala headed toward the golem ignoring the others that told him to come back, he was going to try to at least slow it down.
The hybrid dodged as a rocky slow fist came at him and jumping he did a flip landing right on the golem and plunged the sword into the head but it bounced off just as quickly, confused he missed the other fist and headed straight at a tree. He collapsed near it and rubbed his head still on the ground and looked over at the others that seemed to be at utter hopelessness at that time until a large Griffon came into view. It looked like a spirit outlined in purple and it galloped in the air scratching the golem in the face indenting it as far as to cause chunks to fall out.
Before they knew it the golem was nothing but a piece of left over pebbles, the mysterious spirit disappeared the remains carried all the way back to who made it. Enrique however followed the trail to se a figure with a book clutched tightly to his chest opening it up a bit for the spirit to go back in. Looking around he noticed that Kevin and Tala were looking but the rest obviously couldn't see it. All a bit shaken got up, while Kevin and Johnny were busy helping Bryan who looked as if he was on the verge of killing something. ----------
"Feeling better?" Kai asked as he handed a cloth wrapped up in a ice package to Kevin who applied it to Tala's head where he was struck, giving a sly smile Tala said nothing but stared at Bryan "what's wrong with him?" he asked out of curiosity while he stared at the necromancer just out of habit. Kevin seemed to avoid watching the necromancer as he spoke quietly "it's a curse." after that the short elf said nothing but made Tala put pressure on his head with the wrapped up ice cubes.
"What was that bird thing?" Kai asked not quite knowing what shape it was while Tala lowered the dripping ice package "it was a Griffon." he said slowly while Johnny nodded a bit to show that he saw it as well. Enrique flew around in a circle he knew he had seen the Griffon once before but where? He just couldn't seem to remember instead of pondering over it like spilt milk he zipped over to Bryan who was in a coughing fit with Johnny rubbing his back a bit to at least make himself useful.
Eventually everyone was all healed and relaxed however no one spoke as they thought back to the stranger or lack of it the people that saw the stranger until Enrique piped up that they should be more careful and study the enemies they face in the future before attacking and trying everything in the book. He also added much to everyone's surprise that they had more time and a few lucky shots but not all enemies would have been so slow.
"Once Bryan is okay were going to that 'Cave of Dreams'" Kai said in a leader like voice as he went to the washroom washing the cloth once again "then we will see." everyone murmured things as the day was set out for them the plan was good but what was in the cave of dreams truly?
A/N: SUWIMASEN! Minna-san I was very busy and I got the hp book two days ago and finished it yesterday like after seven hours of sleep and then I couldn't seem to type cause of who died in the book T_T my 3/2nd fav character but I still like the third one anyway everything is getting updated but people send me ideas I think I need some for future chapters.
A/N's: ((well my account has gone down and I cant post for awhile sorry folks)) (aw people show that you care for Pink Devil and review!) ((That'd be nice *hugs a Kai plushy*)) (*Mutters* look who's doing all the work.) ((Look who's giving the ideas!)) (Writing is more important!) (Is not!) ((You're right it isn't *glomps a magical Malik* Malik is ^_^!) ((*Sigh*)) (((ENJOY!)))
Chapter Five
Monster Amongst Us
Bryan sighed as he slowly made his way to the hotel or rather the inn as he called it, he was beat but he tried not to show it the Ultima he had cast was a very powerful strong attack and if not properly used by a strong person in the arts of black magic the consequences could be tremendous. Snorting he raised his head to see some other people walking toward the inn he couldn't make it out from his current location but walking a bit faster than the group of people he squinted a bit and raised his eyebrows. Fate certainly had an odd way to make people meet or was it fate?
Shrugging to his own unknown question he leaned against the door frame trying to look a bit intimidating but he knew the group would either take up their weapons and attack him or leave they had no other choice, however the choice the others made was much different from what he was suspecting to come. "Hi Bryan!" the cheerful yell rang out almost causing the necromancer to fall forward the boy the cursed one, was looking quite cheerful to see him again even though their last visit wasn't a very thrilling one.
Nonetheless he glared at the annoying teenager before him the boy looked like he just got some candy and was now being hyper by the way he was acting, Bryan could not explain it any better than that. "Are you going to attack me?" the necromancer asked as he prepared a spell behind his back his cape covering it up as it was the same color "no I don't want to why would I?" even the teammates of Tala groaned one at a time at the stupidity of the hybrid.
"Did you forget your memory in the forest?" he hissed now in Tala's face while the teenager just shook his head thinking really hard then replied "nope I'm sure cause I can think" the attitude of the hybrid was something to be scared of and Bryan was scared. Not because of the cheerful smile or comments, but by the way the shorter teen was acting toward him while the rest of the teammates except perhaps the fairy eyed him coldly.
Johnny stepped in between the two that were having an almost civil conversation but if it was truly civil then it turned into some kind of friendly talk instead "look I don't know what you're playing at necromancer" the said person narrowed his eyes at the fire mage while standing proudly while still glaring "but we claimed the inn first so you can sleep outside" narrowly missing a fist Johnny was surprised and fell backwards onto his butt while Bryan smiled at the reaction.
Kai shook his head at the two immature beings and passed them opening the door of the inn without too much of an effort and walking inside with Kevin right behind him, as the elf had no one to talk to, so Kai was his latest victim. Although the elf talked a lot the ice mage was in fact quite amazed at it's historical knowledge of the land, not even his people at the Guild or other wise knew so much. But pretending to know it he listened, as the elf seemed to go on and on as he approached the manager.
Bryan chuckled quietly following Kai and opened the door smacking it in Johnny's face making the fire mage even more hot tempered than he was already, which meant more fun could be done easier as you lose self control when you are clouded by hate and anger it happened to him once. Shuddering at the very thought he stood next to the ice mage and glanced at his face, it was almost like his usual face back when he was with his grandfather maybe more colder than his.
Ignoring his won thoughts he passed the time as the manager tried to find rooms for them all saying that there were only a few in the hotel itself so they had to wait awhile. Soon everyone was doing there only little thing the necromancer leaned against the wall in deep thought thinking of what Boris was going to do now that he had refused the command of going home and even went as far as to make sure Emily and the pink brat were out of the way for him.
Johnny on the other hand was cackling every now and than which made some of the group look at him in surprise as he continued to make fireballs then make them disappear no one seemed to want to know what he was thinking at the time because what he was thinking about was probably very stupid and/ or very immature. It was actually both as the teen imagined several things he could do to Bryan with his magic and in his own little world he could drown the necromancer in a pit of fire and lava watching the other burn together, and other image was stabbing him with a red knife, several other followed this one and soon it got so bad that he cackled continuously unnerving everyone else.
Enrique wasn't really thinking he was talking to Kevin in an elf language so the others couldn't (hopefully) understand and unknown to them Bryan knew what they were talking about but made it seem like he didn't know. Even so they were talking about their heritage and how long they had been alive comparing each other's age and their occupation and knowledge of the world was. Both seemed to be on an equal scale, as they knew many things since they traveled a lot more than anyone in the room, even the necromancer gloomily leaning against the wall.
Kai wasn't really thinking he was talking to the manager trying to get the room faster while the man stuttered and looked for the keys while telling the ice mage to wait even though they had waited for nearly an hour, which somehow passed by very quickly. Chuckling Tala breathed a heavy sigh he was already home sick and made it quite far but he missed his mom and dad and hoped that everyone was doing okay, if not then.Shutting his eyes he tried not to think about it as it brought back an empty feeling in his heart since he no longer had anyone around him he could really show how scare and alone he felt at the moment. That was a job for woman or moms not tough people.
Trying to ignore the cackling, the necromancer studied the hybrid even more than last time and found himself staring for a long period of time, luckily the others didn't notice so he had a free range in doing so. A blush crept up to his cheeks as he clenched his teeth glaring at the ground, now was not to time to get soft which he did before and brought him only pain and hurt.speaking of hurt. He wandered over to a nearby calendar ignoring some of the occupants that picked up their weapons and was prepared to blast him away with, a few strides before he stopped and stared in horror the last day was tomorrow.
With the new information in his face right on the calendar Bryan knew he wouldn't be much use tomorrow he might not even be able to travel or protect himself properly, with a so many people around him he couldn't afford such a loss it would be to great. Clenching his fist he resisted the urge to tear the calendar down and crunch it up but instead, calmly sank forward as he pressed his back to the wall and sighing he watched the others getting rather annoyed at the cackling. Kai paced back and forth until the man at the counter finally handed two keys to Kai who simply raised an eyebrow at them now hating his life.
"We have to share how many and with who?" he asked getting right to the point while some of the occupants all glanced at the ice mage waving two keys around, a sure sign of impatience and annoyance. The man at the counter however took his time as he put things back into place and dusted off the counters pretending the customer was even their until at long last the guy sighed and looked at Kai. "Three to a room" he muttered going somewhere else to get away from some of the people that were now crowded against the desk ready to say out loud on what they thought of it.
"So were suppose to stay in a room equal to the share of three people for the two rooms correct?" Enrique asked his eyes swerved to the keys as he started to dread whom the roommates were to be and silently he prayed to Nasamu that he would get off really lucky. "Yes that is correct at least you know your math" the fairy looked to the others while they seemed to be wary of who was going to go with whom. After sometime Kai finally made up his mind and handed Bryan the other key which the necromancer took, a bit confused Bryan looked at it for a long time listening as the names were called out for the people going with Kai.
"Okay people that are going to my room will be Tala" the hybrid smiled widely and went over to the ice mage "next person with me will be Kevin" the elf looked a bit surprised at his call of name but shrugged and joined Tala "and last will be" Kai smirked as he headed for the stairs "me" he finished making a hurried motion for the others to hurry up. The rest Enrique, Johnny, and Bryan looked at each other they were all together in one room for the next several hours, not quite as surprised the necromancer shook his head, it was going to be a long night, one he was sure not to get any sleep not that it would matter at midnight. ----------
"I don't want a mess in here guys" Kai yelled so the other two could hear very well as they wrestled around on the floor to past the time while the ice mage took refuge on his bed. Given what he paid for this room it was actually quite nice it was big enough for three beds all different colors a desk was in the far corner along with a several drawers for clothes which they didn't have much need for. On the other far corner magazines of the Mage's Best Times was stacked neatly for people that wanted to read along with a small shelf of other books.
Although he didn't quite like the beds it was sure more relaxing than anything he's been in since he left the Guild and coming from Kai that was a pretty big compliment. Closing his eyes Kai tried to block out the sounds of the two in the room as rolled around yelling each other's heads off and looking to the sky he calculated that it was only ten bed time for the little irresponsible ones. "Alright that's it get into your beds that stupid yelling or mating call you guys were doing has really gotten on my nerves" the ice mage said as he covered his ears with a pillow as protests were made from Kevin and Tala telling how unfair that was.
But Kai couldn't really care less. ----------
In an almost identical room to Kai's room Bryan wasn't having as much trouble as the ice mage did but he did get a few things thrown at him from Johnny who seemed to want to practice against Bryan for reasons unknown. The necromancer wasn't that tired and blowing off some extra steam some he knew damn well that was anger for Boris, god he couldn't stand that name but he was broken out of his thoughts as a fireball whizzed past his head and he now concluded that the fire mage must have the worst aim that he had ever seen in his lifetime.
Chuckling he offered to help a bit to pass the time before he could get maybe an hour or so of sleep and reluctantly the red head agreed as Bryan slowly went through how to aim burning several things in the room which included the magazines but the beds were left intact. Enrique had managed though to make a perfect reflect on the things they really need to use in the room so whatever Johnny or Bryan threw it would bounce off and head for them and with a quick water spell all that would remain would be harmless water.
"See you are aiming just out of guess you must aim for your spells to hit" Bryan took Johnny's arm and held it steady at the reflect barrier "then you must concentrate or else you will never be able to master a good fire spell properly" another twenty minutes later Bryan finally told the others to get to bed. Enrique didn't have any trouble since he got the whole bed for himself while Johnny also got his own bed having to switch with Bryan cause it wasn't red while the necromancer rolled his eyes and got into his nice dark gloomy looking bed. Oddly it was just how he felt.
Once the others were asleep he threw off the covers of his and sat up, he never could sleep, silently he traced the pattern of his chain that was always hidden from everyone it was from his mother the last gift she had ever gave him. Now a bit depressed he got up and slowly walked over to the window and looked outside course it was busy since demons never needed sleep. Letting out a sigh he opened the window to allow some fresh air inside, as the room was quite stuffy. It wasn't until minutes later did he detect a presence of something dark, he knew it wasn't the demons below him it was something coming to the village, he could feel it in the wind.
Quickly he focused his eyes on the two sleeping occupants he was going to need some kind of help. ----------
The other room was silent save for Kevin's snoring but even then the occupants all slept soundly until the door was thrown open slamming against the wall alerting the three that slowly opened their eyes trying to adjust to the light that shone inside from the hall. "C'mon we need to get going something's coming" Johnny announced as he followed Bryan down the stairs tripping halfway because of his clumsiness. Kai however didn't waste much time he knew from the feel of the air from outside that seemed to seep through whether or no the windows were open or closed that something was approaching, and he had a bad feeling of what it was.
Tala groggily got out of his bed and tried to find his sword banging his head against Kevin who was also trying to find his bow while in the dark. Rubbing his head the sword was grasped from under the bed while Kevin took his bow from under his pillow a weird look from the dragon hybrid was directed at him "what?" Kevin asked as he equipped it "you know attacks could get into rooms you best be careful" that was good enough for Tala as it did make sense to him.
Racing down the stairs the fighters all exited the place earning a glare form the inn keeper for the racket they were making at eleven thirty at night however he was totally ignored as the last few made it outside. "Where is it coming from?" Tala whispered to Kai while the others tried to detect it but Bryan since he was more experienced shot off toward the entrance of the town as fast as he could "wherever he's hading c'mon!" with that Johnny and Kai started to run leaving Kevin and Tala in the dust.
"Does he realize we are not very good runners?" the hybrid asked while the short green haired elf shrugged "I don't think he could care" with a short laugh they ran at a slower pace knowing they couldn't catch up for sometime but they found themselves moving a lot faster as a loud "haste!" was spoken from Enrique that held onto Tala as they raced toward the source.
Bryan was in the lead it was quite hard to out run him because he was in great shape and practiced in many martial arts whenever his grandfather wasn't looking it did pay off and he still used it when his magic got low. Stopping he brought up some dust as he gazed at the demon before him you couldn't really call it a demon though more like a golem most likely, the face was completely rock only the eyes showed, the body was also rock and it was twice the height of Bryan. It made loud footsteps as it walked and took down numerous trees heading for what seemed like the town.
Narrowing his eyes he prepared a spell to blast the hunk of rock right off it's feet, the others that caught up with him by now all panted as they reached him stepping back a bit as Bryan looked like he was about to cast something. Something shot out of Bryan's hand and hit the golem only it bounced off and headed straight for Tala who stood stunned at the fast approaching beam of darkness cries of "Tala move!" was heard through the shouts as it hit him, and bounced off. The hybrid blinked several times and still shaking he turned to his fellow comrades who were all looking at him.
Bryan didn't seem to be too fazed as he turned back to the golem "okay magic bounces off so.combat weaponry might not" Kevin took this as his signal and readied his bow closing one eye he aimed and let the arrow shoot off toward the monster before them. It made a slicing motion as it soared through the air hitting the golem, and broke upon contact. "Why isn't it working?" Enrique asked while fluttering next to Tala watching the golem "if it has reflect no spells can beat it" Kai said looking at the ground thinking while Johnny snapped his fingers and looked to the fairy near the hybrid.
"Enrique cast reflect on me!" he shouted while everyone looked at him weirdly but nonetheless did the incantation upon him then the red head turned to Bryan "okay cast that spell again on me" the hybrid tried to find out the meaning to Johnny's stupid logic until it hit him he was using a reverse form of reflect. Since the beast had reflect on him then putting reflect on someone else and casting the magic on the person they could direct it to the golem and since it has already been deflected it should do some kind of damage. Still however Tala didn't get it even now 'oh god I'm turning into Johnny using his stupid logic' he thought as Bryan prepared the spell once again.
Like Tala thought it hit Johnny then reflected back to the golem then hit back to Johnny then back to the golem on a never ending cycle "okay that didn't work" the red head ducked as the spell went past him "then what's is there left? I'm sure that white magic wouldn't help either and if arrows are useless and close range combat could also be futile" Kevin said as he thought of new ways to hopefully defeat the foe while Kai put on a thinking expression.
Bryan however was now against the tree hunched over coughing the others looked at him quickly not really daring to help but Johnny went over and stepped back several paces as he saw a puddle of black blood forming. "Uh guys I think he's sick or something," the fire mage announced while the rest all scooted a bit farther away from the golem thing.
"He can't be sick" Kai took one glance and turned his eyes away while Bryan hacked up more and more almost causing even Kevin to become sick. "What about the golem?" Tala asked while it continued at it's slow pace to the city his sword was now out and ready to defend. "There is nothing we can do" Bryan announced in-between coughs as his breathing became a bit ragged "close.combat.might.work" shrugging Tala headed toward the golem ignoring the others that told him to come back, he was going to try to at least slow it down.
The hybrid dodged as a rocky slow fist came at him and jumping he did a flip landing right on the golem and plunged the sword into the head but it bounced off just as quickly, confused he missed the other fist and headed straight at a tree. He collapsed near it and rubbed his head still on the ground and looked over at the others that seemed to be at utter hopelessness at that time until a large Griffon came into view. It looked like a spirit outlined in purple and it galloped in the air scratching the golem in the face indenting it as far as to cause chunks to fall out.
Before they knew it the golem was nothing but a piece of left over pebbles, the mysterious spirit disappeared the remains carried all the way back to who made it. Enrique however followed the trail to se a figure with a book clutched tightly to his chest opening it up a bit for the spirit to go back in. Looking around he noticed that Kevin and Tala were looking but the rest obviously couldn't see it. All a bit shaken got up, while Kevin and Johnny were busy helping Bryan who looked as if he was on the verge of killing something. ----------
"Feeling better?" Kai asked as he handed a cloth wrapped up in a ice package to Kevin who applied it to Tala's head where he was struck, giving a sly smile Tala said nothing but stared at Bryan "what's wrong with him?" he asked out of curiosity while he stared at the necromancer just out of habit. Kevin seemed to avoid watching the necromancer as he spoke quietly "it's a curse." after that the short elf said nothing but made Tala put pressure on his head with the wrapped up ice cubes.
"What was that bird thing?" Kai asked not quite knowing what shape it was while Tala lowered the dripping ice package "it was a Griffon." he said slowly while Johnny nodded a bit to show that he saw it as well. Enrique flew around in a circle he knew he had seen the Griffon once before but where? He just couldn't seem to remember instead of pondering over it like spilt milk he zipped over to Bryan who was in a coughing fit with Johnny rubbing his back a bit to at least make himself useful.
Eventually everyone was all healed and relaxed however no one spoke as they thought back to the stranger or lack of it the people that saw the stranger until Enrique piped up that they should be more careful and study the enemies they face in the future before attacking and trying everything in the book. He also added much to everyone's surprise that they had more time and a few lucky shots but not all enemies would have been so slow.
"Once Bryan is okay were going to that 'Cave of Dreams'" Kai said in a leader like voice as he went to the washroom washing the cloth once again "then we will see." everyone murmured things as the day was set out for them the plan was good but what was in the cave of dreams truly?
A/N: SUWIMASEN! Minna-san I was very busy and I got the hp book two days ago and finished it yesterday like after seven hours of sleep and then I couldn't seem to type cause of who died in the book T_T my 3/2nd fav character but I still like the third one anyway everything is getting updated but people send me ideas I think I need some for future chapters.