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Felix: Hey! You haven't forgotten about us, have you?
Oops.
Sheba: We don't like being ignored!
Sorry…
Felix: Hurry before you get Megiddo'd!
Might I point out that you are pure fiction?
Sheba: Of course not!
Sigh…
"Alex…" Mia whispered softly from her position in the snow, "Help…me…"
He ran as fast as he could, but the incoming blizzard blew him away. "MIA!" He screamed, before being slammed into a snowdrift. He lay there, unconscious.
Isaac drew his sword. This wasn't looking good.
Almost ten minutes before, a force field had appeared in a half-sphere around him. Now, assassins were being warped into the field.
He kicked the wall. No way out. No djinn.
50, 60, 7, 5, finally 80 assassins vaporized into the field.
He stood back and faced them. He let his sword hang loosely at his side.
He would be ready.
Jenna noticed Isaac standing there. She ran to him, asking why he had his sword drawn, when she slammed into the field.
She screamed at him, but he couldn't see out. She remembered this type of thing. It had been used on her once, while she was traveling with Saturos and Menardi. A brave cleric manning the Sanctum had used it on them.
She knew there was no way out. Or in. Just waiting, waiting until the person that had cast it was dead.
Or, throw Elemental Stars at it until it broke. That's what Saturos and Menardi did. Then they tortured the poor man to death.
But why was this happening here?
She ran to get Felix, the only one who Alex had taught Warp to. He wasn't busy traversing mountains. He would come, he would understand. He would help.
She hoped.
Isaac watched calmly as the eighty assassins stood in a killing formation, drew their knives, and retrieved thick, dragon-hide gloves from their various pockets. Then they each took out a vial containing a pure black liquid, and applied it to a cloth.
Hands well-protected, they applied the cloths to their knives.
"Felix, what is that?" Jenna asked, biting her nails in agitation.
He didn't' answer for a long time. Then he said, "Let's hope he knows as well as I do."
"Why? What is it?"
"You don't want to know."
"Yes, I do."
He sighed. "It's votary."
She talked to the transporter disk. "Kraden, what's votary?"
"A poison. A very deadly poison found in various snakes, snails, and scorpions, but mostly snakes. It's actually dark-green, but people concentrate it and it becomes black, a pure black. They say a scratch infected with the normal can kill you in less than a minute. I hate to think what the concentrate could do. I'll bet-"
Jenna shuddered. "On second thought, Kraden, I don't want to know."
Jenna watched the development with immense dread at what was sure to be unavoidable doom.
Doom for Isaac, that is.
He stood there, watching. His sword hung ready at his side. It was obvious he knew what he was up against, because he looked at the earth underneath his feet and whispered a prayer:
Lady Venus, hear me nowMy death is soon to come
When I fall, promise me
You will deliver me into the hands of freedom
It was a short prayer, and Felix recognized it. The Paladin's oath of death.
He knew his chances were slim to none, for the last to die is always the smartest, cleverest, quickest, most agile, most skilled, and most deadly.
Which meant that even if 79 fell, the last one would be as hard as all of them together.
Felix wrapped an arm around his younger sister and watched.
Isaac kept his eyes on the main group. He walked to the edge of the force field and tested it with the edge of his blade. Nothing.
He looked at the reflection of himself on the rim. His same old usual self, with red hair, blue eyes and a tanned face.
Probably the last time he would see himself. At least in this world.
He glanced back and inhaled deeply, before beginning a systematic destruction of assassins.
Jenna watched, horrified, as they began advancing, always shifting, always in motion, never still.
And still, Isaac didn't move. Just stood there, watching.
When the first one jumped in front of him, he ran him through with the Excalibur and quickly got out of the way.
He was smart. He didn't take the fight to them, instead always gave ground, moved back, and stayed back of their deadly blades.
5, then 10, 20, 50, 70, and finally 78 fell. Each had something new, something he hadn't known how to handle. Each time his wits had come through wiht a new idea. Each time, the next one countered that. Now he was about at his wit's end.
The remaining two were nowhere to be seen.
He scanned the area, never making himself a target for any thrown knife. His armor was faded from the votary, and he had been forced to discard it. It was like carrying 10 pounds of so much grass for armor.
He saw a target. Before the assassin had a chance to flit out of view, he threw Excalibur at it, neatly pinning him to the tree.
He moved cautiously toward the tree, and retrieved the blade. Just as he got it settled into his hands, the final assassin fell from the free like a stone, burying his blade in Isaac's shoulder.
A split second after that, three things happened.
First, Jenna screamed.
Second, Isaac, with a last surge of energy, impaled his slayer on his sword.
Third, The force field dissipated.
Jenna and Felix ran toward their fallen comrade, and caught him in his last moments.
Jenna knelt by him and whispered in his ear, tearfully, "I love you, Isaac. Goodbye."
Then, as he smiled softly, she buried her head against his chest and listed as his heart slowly stopped beating.
Sad, huh?
Before you kill me, let me say that NO, I DID NOT KILL OF ISAAC! Not permanently, anyway.
Okay! How was that! In the next chapter we will
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-and that's what will happen. Exciting, huh.
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