Chapter 2: Den of Evil
As I emerged from that 'portal', I found that I was not the only one to come out of it. Keiki, my cat, also came through. However, instead of being under a foot tall, she was the height of a tiger. Actually, I think she was transformed into a tiger. But she was not the only one to transform into something she was not.
I looked down at my body, and found that I was wearing those clothes that you see Sorceress' wear. Whoa! I had my own staff! About as tall as I was, with beautiful arcane runes on them. On top of that staff, lay a shimmering sapphire.
I seemed to be in a grassy plains area... it looked just like the blood moor...
I looked to my left and my right, and saw others appear from portals like the one Keiki and I came through.
I greeted them warmly, asking if they were the ones from channel Void. They were.
"So," I said. "What are your names?"
"Same as our characters. Thrall, Miko, Kara, and Ogden. Assuming you're Nathiliea?" Miko said.
"Yep," I said.
"Look out!!" Ogden shouted as he pointed behind me.
"Wha--AAAAAAH!!" I shouted as some wendigo dude picked me up and chucked me to the side.
"What do we do??" Miko shouted.
"HIT THEM!!" Thrall replied, whilst readying his hand axe.
"These things are scarier and harder than in the game!" Kara exclaimed.
"NO! REALLLY?!" Ogden yelled.
"AAAARGH!!" I shouted as I stood up and ran at the wendigo who dared do that to me. As I ran, I concentrated with all my heart and soul on an ice bolt. In an instant, an ice crystal the size of my arm, only a few inches wider, formed in front of me.
I grabbed it, aimed, and threw at the beasts face. He froze for a few seconds.
An arrow whizzed past my head at that very moment.
"What the--" I asked as I turned to see a boy about my age holding a bow staring at me.
"Ellie?" he asked. "What are you doing here in Sanctuary?"
"S-steven??" I asked. "What?! You're here in Sanctuary too??"
"Yeah," he replied.
"Who is this guy?" Thrall whispered to me.
"He's--" I started but Steven cut me off.
"I'm Dune." he said in a firm voice.
"Erm... Dune?" I asked. "I thought your name was Steven?"
"The Rogues found me in cold plains the other day and decided to help me," he said. "I'm not really a Rogue, but they did give me some armor, a bow, and arrows. They also let me stay with them for as long as I need."
"Ohh," I said.
"Well, don't just stand there, help me kill them!" he said.
After a few minutes, of seemingly endless fighting, with Keiki jumping in every now and then to help, we finally defeated the wendigo dudes.
Dune ran off after they were assured dead. "Come on!" he shouted back at us. "Follow me!"
So, we ran after Dune. A few minutes later, he stopped at some cave. It looked like the --
"Den of Evil?" Miko asked.
"Yeah," Dune said, nodding. "Come. We needn't waste another minute. We'll do this faster if we split up."
"Ok, good idea," Kara said.
"Yeah," Ogden replied. "I'm going this way. Thrall, you follow me."
"Sure," Thrall said.
Thrall and Ogden went to the right, while Dune took Kara, Miko, Keiki, and I, to the left.
Keiki was doing much better than before. It seemed she was growing more accustomed to killing the demons.
I formed a fire ball and grabbed hold of it for light. The deeper we went into the Den, the darker and creepier it got. We turned to the right, and right again. Finally, when we reached the center, we found where the demons were hiding.
Kara saw a dead Rogue's body, and tried as hard as she could to raise a skeletal mage from it. She succeeded.
She seemed rather attatched to it... well, her, seeing as she raised it from a female body.
The fallens and zombies must have heard us, for they turned around and glared threateningly.
"So," I said. "This is what it's like to be a character pawn in the world of Sanctuary..."
"To think we did this to our characters?" Miko said.
"Yeah," Kara agreed. "No choice but to fight, no matter our true feelings about it all."
The zombies, fallens, and the shamans started pursuing us. Kara's mage threw bolts of electricity at the demons, and actually managed to make a big number of them fall.
I created multiple ice balls and kept throwing them at the demons. The more and more I created, the more tired I seemed to become. This really did waste all my energy.
No. Not waste. This was not wasting them, this was using them. Using them well at that.
Miko readied her bow and let loose many arrows at the demons.
Kara formed spears of bone and threw them at the demons.
Dune readied his bow as well, whispered a little enchantment on the arrows, and let them fly through the demons bodies. Some of them froze the demons, others scorched them.
'The Rogues must have taught him these spells,'I thought.
We fought for what seemed like forever, until the last of them fell, and streams of light flooded the cave. We all squinted, not used to the brightness after being in a dark cave so long.
"How do we open portals?" Kara asked.
"Just open a paper that looks just like this with blue, not red. Read the spell written on them aloud, and throw them--" Dune said, as he opened a scroll of parchment, whispered some words I did not understand, and threw the scroll on the ground. "--wherever you want the portal to be." A portal formed from the exact spot the parchment had been seconds earlier.
"Easy enough," Miko said.
"Well, come on then. I'm hungry, and Akara would like to see you all." Dune said.
"Wait," I said. "Why does Akara wish to see us? She certainly does not know we are here."
"She does," said Dune. "She saw it happen in a dream..."
Just as we were about to walk through the portal, Thrall and Ogden came around the corner.
"Wow," Ogden said. "That was easier than I thought it would be..."
"Yeah," Thrall said in agreement. "The things fell when all we did was merely touch them!"
"Come on, into the portal," Kara said. "I'm hungry too."
"Ok, Ok." Ogden said.
We walked through the portal and I felt the same sensation I felt walking through the portal taking me to Sanctuary. Instead of being blue inside it, just as it was on the outside, it was black with swirly colors and lights.
We ran up to Akara and greeted her.
"Ah," Akara said. "Welcome back! Welcome back my friends!"
"Back? What do you mean?" Thrall asked.
"Of course," Akara said. "You would not remember... here. Sit down, and let me explain."
So, we sat down, and listened to what she had to say..........
END OF CHAPTER TWO.
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