I own nothing but the thoughts in my head ( and props to my buddy remotely mellow for taking dictation from me when I was sick )

Chapter 5, Shopping

When Tomb and Tapestry had gotten back to there flat Tomb realized he had broken his collar bone and a few ribs when he landed though his skin was impenetrable his bones could still break and they had a higher chance of doing that when under the affect of the withering. So Tomb did what he always did when his bones were broken he didn't tell any one and took care of it himself.

He went into the bathroom and set his collar bone a very tricky maneuver that he was too used to but Spartan training had paid off, pain to Tomb was a minor inconvenience. After he set the collar bone he pulled out some ace bandages and duck tape then set to work wrapping his chest tight he'd use magic to heal it in the morning because right now he was flat out of magical energy.

"Hey bro our stipend just came in "Tapestry shouted to Tomb.

"Alright well get some groceries in a bit set some of it aside for rent." Tomb replied from the bathroom.

"Are you ok in there?" Tapestry said with some concern in his voice.

"I'm fine ill be out in a bit just let me change" Tomb said as he tore of the last strip of duck tape then snapped his fingers sending his armor away but opting to keep Durandal in the flat he immerged from the bathroom in his street clothes.

"You should change before we head out bro" David said as he headed to the door. Tapestry did his quick change and followed his brother.

As they walked down the street Luke turned to David and said

"Ok first well go to that bulk place to get the necessities"

"Hey after that lets head down to the market I wanna get some calamari for dinner to night as well as some good olive oil cause the crap we been using is terrible we may get a lot but its horrible I needs my extra virgin" David said to Luke

"Ok I think well have enough cash left over after rent and getting this stuff to make some good food for tonight oh we have to get some lamb whale we are here to I wanna make gyros some time this week" Luke replied

They had gone to the local bulk shopping center (think Sam's club/ Costco/Bj's) and gotten a large bag of rice a huge jar of olives, a brick of feta cheese, a case of pitas, a four pack of lamb legs,(side note: the order there from was started by Spartans so Greek/ Italian food is what there used to) and a 36 pack of toilet paper total it would cost them about $50.

Then as they went to check out about 20 guys in all red with a division symbol on there chest came in and started taking stuff and mugging people 5 started taking a big screen TV and 3 broke open the jewelry case whale 6 began striping down a display car.

"Oh no these assholes didn't just start robbing this place in front of us" David said to Luke,

"I think they just did "Luke replied.

"Well time to change we may be drained but 10 to 1 isn't bad odds for us tired, I mean our final was a 50 to 1 fight without armor or weapons for us, and they were in full tactical gear"

"Point taken all right what is the game plan, change then sneak around and subdue one at a time, or wolf pack a few of them via hearing them away from one another ?"Luke asked.

"No, well take all of them at once then change tactics as necessary this way we get the most information as quickly as possible." David said as he changed, after making sure no one was looking.

"Ok if you insist I still think we should wolf pack a few first but you're the better fighter" Luke said changing as well.

Tomb and Tapestry got up on a sample table and shouted to the group of looters,

"Hey stop now before we have to hurt you"

One of the criminals looked over and said "Well I think you two must be pretty dense if you think you can take on of us at once. An't that right Billy's"

"Of course that's right Billy these two must be plumb loco if they think they can take us on" after this other Billy said this he turned into 6 Billy's and rushed at Tomb and Tapestry, spear tackling Tomb and dog piling the much larger Tapestry.

"So you can make more of your self eh ?" Tomb said as he punched the Billy that speared him the head knocking him out, and he was just about to draw his rapier to finish that Billy off, when his brother threw off the 5 on him and shouted

"Don't kill them !"

"Ok fine I won't" Tomb replied putting his rapier away, and then punching a Billy that was trying to sneak up on him in the face.

Then about 3 Billy's divided into ten each and charged at the brothers, who promptly ran down an aisle then knocked over to give themselves room enough to re-plan there attack.

"Ok this guy can make a lot more of him self we need to some way reinforce our selves " Tapestry said thoughtfully.

"Ok you distract him ill take care of it, I just need to get some things to perform a short animation ritual."

"Wait why don't you just use your energy bolts to subdue a bunch of them? And what are you gonna animate?"

"I'm low on magical energy from the earlier fight and subsequent separation between us that occurred between us, I had to use most of my energy to keep my skull from caving in so I'm gonna use a ritual to magnify and better control what energy I have left. And I'm gonna animate the meat. so I'm gonna need you to run interference ok?" Tomb said as he ran off and left Tapestry to distract Billy Numerous.

Tomb ran over the ritual he had in mind in his head he needed animal blood, sea salt kosher if possible, and some raven feathers. As he ran down the spice aisle he grabbed a large box of kosher sea salt, then as he ran toward the butcher shop he snagged a universal remote cause he need one and felt since he was preventing a greater theft from happening he at least deserved a remote, he then dove over the counter of the meat section and found a large bucket full of animal blood sitting under a cutting table, grabbing that he quickly jumped back over the counter and then thought .

"Gods damn it where am I gonna get some raven feathers from?" then by some odd stroke of luck he saw where he'd get the feathers from. Directly across from Tomb was a collectible figurine display and in that display was a box that read authentic collectible replica Native American figurine :now with real raven feathers.

Meanwhile…

A very confused Tapestry was left to face about 20 Billy's at the same time five went for each of his arms and five went for each leg , now against Tomb Tapestry was a terrible fighter who failed to grasp the basics of grappling and often zagged when he should have zigged but against some one who's only fighting ability consisted of burying there opponent in a tide of bodies he was far out of there league. He started by yanking the Tapestry and knocking aside the ten that went for his arms then followed with a strong roundhouse to the first five that aimed at his legs then back kicked the other five. He then took a back stance and did a kung-fu wave on. As the Billy's regrouped them selves they picked up weapons then attempted to mob up and beat down Tapestry, who then pulled the tapestry and tripped most of them the four that were still standing Tapestry spear tackled into a wall. When he stood up one of the Billy's hit him in the back with a pipe, but Tapestry's armor was made from mythral and as such the blow only made him mad.

Tapestry turned around and grabbed this Billy by his arm lifting him effortlessly and tossing him into a group of incoming Billy's. Tapestry then cracked his neck took a back stance and did a Kung-fu wave on again.

Tomb on the other hand had finally assembled he ingredients mixing the salt with the blood and using a fist full of raven feathers as a crude brush slash censer with which he sprayed the entire meat cooler and meat section with blood, he then used the rest of the blood to draw a series of magical circles on the floor and numerous magic ruins and symbols in the spaces between the circles he then sat in the larges circle covering his face with some of the blood in the form of magical symbols and he drew a magic circle on each hand then began a low chant which seemed to rise in volume and vibrate through everything in the store although he never spoke above a whisper then when the chant reached its crescendo black energy flowed from Tomb into the magical symbols on the floor and carried into the meat which glowed with an eerie purple light for a few seconds before the chant ended. then when the chant ended Tomb opened his eyes and saw the symbols disappear after a few seconds he looked over a the meat which began to quiver and move with unholy power.

"Excellent come my animated meat we have much to do " Tomb said to the now very animate meat which began to follow him back toward Billy.

(sorry for not updating in a while I had a very busy week or so what with the interstate travel , me being sick, and loss of job, but I hope the extra long chapter made up for it J )