1Salvation
Prologue
Booko'maniac
PROLOGUE
Scarpetta desperately wandered the Deserts of Aranoch with nothing but a bow and a quiver of arrows. The night air hit her armor fiercely causing her to shiver. She had barely survived the attack of Diablo. The armor she was wearing, the Godly Plate of the Whale, shielded her from his fierce blows. The Obsidian Rings and Amulet of the Zodiac helped her with there spiritual powers. Her Windforce Bow had pierced the giant beast... just as the soul stone pierced her head.
She touched the spot on her forehead where the stone stuck out. She had regretted it since the minute she put it in. She could feel the throbbing of evil throughout it. Trying to break free from its cursed spot and into her body. She promised her old friends she would not let this creature roam the earth after they killed it. Well, after she killed it. She sat down and looked in her sack. The Thinking Cap. A godly item that had the Arcane Powers. She also found the Dreamflange items. They were Johns, right before he died he had left them to her as he had left all his books to the mage traveling with them.
The mage named Patrick. She had loved him like a brother. He had come with her straight to hell, straight to the lair of Diablo, then died. The beast used the spell apocalypse. The most powerful spell that they new of. As he died he gave Scarpetta the knowledge he had learned. The knowledge that helped her weaken the beast for one last blow of the Windforce.
The sack was mostly filled with scrolls. Scrolls of healing, identify, and some Town Portals. She took her hair down from the bun it was held in. She deeply sighed as she remembered the times she had with those two. When John had gotten mortally wounded from the Skeleton King and it took both her treatments and Patrick's powers to heal him. She laughed as she remembered the surprised face John had. He obviously didn't know she could mend wounds.
Those happy memories faded as another blow came from her forehead. She screamed as she fell down into the sand. She could feel parts of the devil flowing through her, possessing her. As soon as she was done screaming she just lay down in the sand. Until, a little bug came up from the ground, followed by many little bugs. She knew what they were. Scarab beetles. She got up and walked towards them. Her eyes grew red with anger and power. "GET AWAY" she said in a deep voice and they scurried away.
She fell back down to the sand as her eyes grew there normal color. She had less time then she thought. She quickly got up grabbed her sack and headed towards her destination. The Golden City, The Gleaming City. The City of Lut Gholein.
