The journey begins…
Oh and I want to thank Alyssa Warren for reviewing the first three chapters. Thanks, those meant a lot to me.
Piper's POV
We stepped out of the safety of the Camp and ventured out.
Instantly, "Ow!" Phoebe shrieked and pulled out a spike thing out of her, er, backside and threw it angrily. "Porcupine filth!"
"Pointy thingy!" Paige said and orbed another needle which was aimed to hit me away; it hit a porcupine-like monster in the face. The monster dropped dead. Quill Rat, my mind said as I asked myself what that monster probably was.
"Pointy thingy?" I raised my eyebrows at Paige
She shrugged "Works!"
A Zombie, as my mind said to me again, stepped out of a tree and out of instinct, I blasted it. The Zombie was sliced in two. This baffled me as they were supposed to burn. Phoebe must have noticed because she looked quizzically at me and I replied with a shrug, "Poor graphics?" I suggested.
We continued walking through what my mind said yet again was the Blood Moor. Here and there, monsters will occasionally pop out and we would kill them. And at last we came outside a cave.
"The Den of Evil" I murmured
The opening of the cave was small and there were rickety stone steps leading into the darkness beyond. The two torches in both sides of the opening seemed so dark.
"Enchant!" I cast at my staff. "Blaze"
I stepped into the darkness with my wake of fire and enchanted staff casting additional light. Phoebe and Paige followed. And quite suddenly we were surrounded.
"Ahhhhh" I shouted as a whole battalion of gorillas, or Gargantuan Beasts (you know the routine, my mind is a know-it-all) closed in around us. I was buried in muscle and fur. In short I was dying, the effects of my Blaze was wearing off. I was unprotected.
"Life Points" I managed to say as the last color of red in the sphere seem to drain away. I wondered if my death was meant to be here. Will Chris save me? It's a game right? He could pull me out! He's watching us this moment. God, it was painful as the Beasts pounded me with their fists that were as large as my whole body. I closed my eyes and hoped that it will be over soon….
A woman was screaming hysterically, why was she so upset…?
"Piper, Piper!" Phoebe was wailing.
"Quiet" I whispered, "Please be quiet"
"Piperrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" someone said as I slipped into a dark pit that never seemed to end. A wave of white washed around the top of the pit. I felt my body tingling.
I landed.
Chris watched transfixed and horrified. Gargantuan Beasts were covering her mother. He had tried to exit about a bazillion times but the demons have control of the game. He wondered whether he should unplug the computer. His mother could be trapped inside the game forever if he turned the computer off.
Better to be trapped forever than a no forever, Chris' mind said
But what if she survives this and gets trapped there, Chris argued
If she survives there at least she's alive even though trapped and she won't die in your sixteenth birthday anymore.
Yeah, she'll probably die earlier. On the screen, the beasts continued to pound Piper.
Chris didn't reach for the plug. Didn't 'accidentally' hit the off button. Didn't do anything at all when suddenly the screen went black. It simply turned itself off.
Chris shook the monitor frantically. "Oh my God, mom!"
Sorry if it's so short. I'm already out of fight scenes. Please help me, send in your dream killing sprees! I'm a pacifist you know…
