A Tale of Many an Adventurer- Joe's Story
Chapter 9
Joebushy- I'm running out of things to say here. Joe's team got off the island. Joseph told his story to everyone, then a man came in with a virus-type thing. The team went outside, saw purple mist, then fainted. Shadow people cloned out of everyone. The team woke up and they attacked. Oh, and look at this wording. They attacked. Just read, Ok? And for more stuff about purple mist and Helioa, refer to A Tale of Many an Adventurer by Chunkypuff3. Thanks.
The team ducked. They were waiting for the shadow people, for the impact. But, power of a mage and a druid stopped the attack. Then they attacked back. " Well, there they are..." Zach said in awe. Jake noticed something different so he pointed. " Wait- they look different. Look at their style of fighting. Remember how the dark and light magic came out of their swords before? Well, look. Their swords are in their seethes. The magic is from their hands. I guess they need to say words, though."
Amit and Jude were muttering words, or, at least, it looked like it. Their hoods made them look different. You could only see their hoods slightly move and assume they were talking. But, since that was what was happening, they looked like they were muttering. A druid, being Jude, was a master of dark magic. A mage, or, at least this mage, Amit, was a master of light magic. They gave the shadows sort of a scolding by Jude attacking first, empowering the shadows. Then Amit attacked, shocking the shadows. They all fell to the ground. Little bushel of smoke started coming out of all of them. The smoke started to turn back into the purple mist, and then it went back to where it had just came.
The two magic users looked to be taken aback. The group of shadows kept getting larger in numbers. More kept coming to join the group of the dark beings. " Thanks, guys, but now its our turn!" Joe said to Amit and Jude. Joe brought the team into battle. " Now, you guys listen here. All of you fight but Zach. Him and I will go into town and get potion bottles. Now Zach, do you have any restoring potions?" " Of course I do!" Zach told him. " Leave them here," Joe, said to him, " so the rest of the team can use them." " Good idea," Chris complimented. The team spread out. Joe and Zach went off toward the town, while the others went into battle.
Joe and Zach were running at full speed. Once the shadows were behind them, Amit and Jude came and blocked their path. "Get out of our way!" Joe yelled at them. " No," Amit said simply. " What?" Zach asked with disbelief. " We can't let you pass." Jude told Zach. The two magic users had still never taken their hoods off. "Stop this! We need to get bottles to capture the purple mist in!" Joe told them as he tried to take a step. Amit moved to block his path. " Guys listen, ok? We need to get these things," Zach told them as he tried crawling under them. Zach was much shorter then both Amit and Jude. Jude was about the same size as Joe and Amit was between the sizes of Zach and Joe.
Joe had enough. He had told them off one to many times. His magic was useless in battle, so he threw a punch at Jude. Jude disappeared in an instant and reappeared to the left of where he had just been. He did it so fast that Joe's punch missed and he had time to grab it. Joe looked at him. He twisted Joe's arm and he fell over. Joe was clutching his arm in pain. Zach aimed a punch at Amit, but he ducked down and slide-kicked him so he tripped. Joe and Zach both lay there, unable to move. They felt completely paralyzed. " We have got to get to town and get those bottles!" Zach yelled to Joe, and with that they got up.
Amit and Jude still wouldn't take their hoods off. They could dodge almost anything Joe and Zach threw at them. The team members could tell their former friends were getting tired. Finally the fight turned around. " Hold them off!" Zach told Joe. He tripped both of them. He saw them glare at him as they got up. Light shimmered under their hood. Joe could see a blue glow from their eyes. " Oh hell no," Joe said. Amit punched Joe in the face. He flipped backwards and landed. " I didn't know I could to that..." he said to himself. After the punch, Amit ran toward Zach. Joe saw Zach take a swig of a red potion, and he immediately knew what it was. " Oh, you're in for it," he told Jude. " Yeah right." Jude threw an uppercut into Joe's stomach. He backed up a bit, not hurt much by the blow. He still, amazingly, had not dropped his staff. Zach came running to Joe's side.
He handed the red potion to Joe. "Have I used this before?" Joe asked Zach knowingly. " I believe so," said Zach very formally. Joe drank the potion. Zach nudged him after he was done and he fell to the ground. " Oops," Zach said. Joe felt as though he could lift a car. Zach and Joe attacked Amit and Jude. Zach kicked Jude on his left side, flinging him off to the right about a foot. Joe went straight in to a full assault. Amit didn't see it coming. Joe hit Amit in his stomach using his palm. Amit flinched. Then Joe put his two hands into fists and starting attacking Amit's torso furiously. Amit fell backwards onto the gravel filled street. Now Jude and Amit lay there. Joe and Zach, although still affected by the strength potion, were exhausted. But they still had work to do.
They ran into the deformed town. All of the buildings had other buildings growing out of them, deformed purple ones. Joe guessed the purple mist worked on buildings. They worked their way through the town. There was a dim amount of light from the moon, so just as well the buildings were silhouetted. The only color seen was the evil purple, which seemed to glow enough to be the same color in the day or night. The dark buildings ran along the gravel street. The people of the town were either leaned up agenst the buildings or sitting- either way, they were smiling. And they were singing, " Stay happy, don't be a fool. Stay happy, our shadows rule." Joe and Zach kept running, but they felt as though they where in a ghost town. The people where there, although they seemed to be like mummies. They almost seemed dead.
But now wasn't the time to worry about that. The potion and magic shop was right up ahead. Zach told Joe that they could get bottles in there. So they went in. It had been trashed. There was a hole in the roof. The darkness was immense. Maybe... " Heal team!" Joe yelled. The room was illuminated with a deep green glow. Joe's staff let the light out, and it started floating around. Quickly, Joe found a cloth and put it over his staff. That way, the light couldn't go back in. A few minutes later, the healing light tried to go back in, but since the cloth was there it couldn't. " The equivalent of a green flashlight!" Joe told Zach. " Good Idea!" he said back. Zach looked through the shop. He did find a few potion bottles, but that was because all the rest had broken. They decided agents using jars, as they were to hard to close after use. So, they found tubes. They found corks for closing everything. Then they went back into town.
At the end of the street stood Jude and Amit. Hoods off. Blue eyed. Amit's Indian-like skin on his face shimmered darkly with the blue glow. Jude's white skin on his face was almost completely illuminated. " I forgot to say that." Joe said to Zach, legs stuttering. Zach was in a fighting position. He reached into his backpack and pulled out a golden-yellow potion. "What's that?" Joe asked him, still nervous. " It needs refurbished! Hold them off again!" Joe looked at Zach seriously as he said this, " D'you have anymore strength potions?" " No. None." Joe looked hopeless. " I can't hold them off. And I am not mad. I'm more sad than angry. I can't go Flamist." Zach handed Joe one of his exploding potions. " Don't fight. Hold them off."
Meanwhile, the rest of the group wasn't doing to good. All the elixirs had been used up, and their attacks were dying down. "Icena!" Jake commanded. An uproar of hail and ice stormed over the shadows. Most all of them turned into the purple mist and back again. Joseph and Chris attacked with their spears. " We really need a legendary weapon!" Chris exclaimed. The misty shadows, too, were attacking furiously. First, the front line attacked. Always. Then the secondary line attacked. Always. Always the same. Never doing much else. Then the third line. Then the forth. Always. Never stopping. Something was wrong.
People started to awaken in the town. Awaken from a deep sleep. What had woke them? Was it just the time of day? Joe and Zach were still in the middle of the road. Staring down Amit and Jude. Joe was in front of Zach, preparing for an attack. Zach was refurbishing the hang-glider potion. Jude and Amit were just staring straight back at the two. Blue eyed. Joe and Zach never thought once about looking at was coming up behind them.
The city had been silent. Everyone who had awaked from their sleep had been quite. Not warning Joe or Zach. Not warning them about the arrow shooting toward Zach. Joe noticed it first. The arrow. He knew something was wrong from the start. Now he was sure. He got a hold of himself and jumped toward Zach, knocking them both to the ground. The arrow flew over the place where the two had just been... and split into two. The arrows went straight toward both Amit and Jude. But when the heads of the arrows were almost touching the tips of their noses, they both did back-flips, making the split arrows miss by inches. " What was that!" Zach asked Joe dumbfounded. " Get out of the way!" someone yelled. Joe and Zach looked behind them from their place from the ground. What they saw dumfounded them. There was a tall brown and black hair male. He had a familiar face. Beside him was someone else. A shorter brown hair male. The taller one had one of the longest swords the two had ever seen. The shorter one, who was holding a bow, must have fired the arrow.
The taller one's name was Taylor. He was wearing a dark green robe and brown sandals, and was holding a long-sword. He was the oldest sixth grader in their school, age 13 already. The other one, Ben, was wearing a metal vest. He had long jeans on and was holding a silver bow, and was about 12. Taylor's hair was a little bit messy. Ben's hair had a mushroom cut. They stood there looking so professional like. Then they walked up to Joe and Zach, one on either side. Taylor then asked the two, " What is goin' on here?"
Joebushy- I'm still working out a few kinks, as in explaining the two new character attributes. Anyway, Taylor's a Myrmidon and Ben's an Archer. If any one wants John and Joe to team up in like a battle or something, I'm sure we can arrange it. Please, review. No flames. And give me places where there are errors. Ideas! Anything you think would make a good story. Thanks.