A Tale of Many an Adventurer- Joe's Story
Chapter 10
Joebushy- Ben and Taylor will be the last of the new teammates in Joe's story. I have to leave some to John, too. Joe will see some new people, though. So, I hope you like my story, Read and Review!
The shadows were closing in on the team of four. Joseph was now attacking furiously with his sword. Chris decided to stick to his lance. " If- we- only- had- the- Dukito- spear," he said in the middle of breaths. Zach and Joe now also had a team of four. Joe, Zach, Ben, and Taylor. Jude and Amit had ultimate power, unfathomable power. They wouldn't let Joe and Zach pass. The blue eyes they had were the source of the strength. They almost couldn't be beaten. Then Zach had an idea.
" I'll tell ya' what's going on here!" he told Taylor. " What?" Taylor asked back. " Go for the eyes." The four split up, making a long line, all facing the blue-eyed humans. Ben shot an arrow and Taylor went in for attack. Joe backed them up. Zach stammered backwards so he could work on the potion. Amit and Jude got out their swords. A classic Midlevel clash. Taylor attacked furiously. Ben shot an arrow almost every ten seconds. Taylor's slashes did nothing. Ben's arrows disappeared into the two's bodies. Amit and Jude couldn't be hurt; but could hurt back. Joe had to heal almost simultaneously. But even he was to slow. Zach threw him an exploding potion, taking a break from his work. " Joe- we're getting tired!" Ben said. Taylor nodded.
" I'll give you a break!" Joe told the two. He threw the exploding potion over Amit and Jude, bottle and all. The flesh blew off their bodies. What was left wasn't their insides. It was a glowing blue mass. It seemed to be a liquid and a solid at the same time. It looked wet, but it was keeping its shape. But it was like even more strength had just gone into the two. All was blue. You couldn't even tell it was Amit and Jude- for a second. The pounded skin came back onto the humans- or whatever they had become.
" It must've been recent," Taylor told everyone as the two were reforming. " How do you know that?" Zach asked him from a distance. Taylor began to answer, but as though they were meant not to know, There was an explosion from where the other four where.
Joseph, Chris, Chet, and Jake had had an idea. If nothing would work, get rid of them like trash. Bury them. Jake would use a water attack, flowater, to make the soil beneath them murky. Chet, Joseph, and Chris would attack as fact as they could, making some of them mist. Jake would push them down using magield and Eytimener, making a solid shield move into the muck. The shield would stay there, and Joseph and Chris would rub their swords together to make sparks over the shield. Then the shield would be supercharged with electricity. The shadows wouldn't get out- and the ones that tried would turn back into mist and be electrified. The perfect plan. But, when Chris and Joseph started seeing who was making the better sparks, things had go out of control...
... Making the second shield that Jake had made explode. " Get over there!" Zach yelled from the place in the city. They ran from Amit and Jude. They had to go the opposite direction. Through the dark town on a detour. They turned around. The darkness of night made the city impossible to see in. They had to go into the darkness. Anything could be in there. Anyone. But, it was the only way. The shadows might have been attacking already. The four didn't have a choice.
So they turned around and ran. Taylor was the fastest, but he waited for the others. It was pitch black. Could Amit and Jude be sneaking up on them? They didn't know. They just ran, all in a horizontal line, just in case anyone saw anything. Then came a maniacal laughter. Only laughter a madman could have. Or less then a man. A laugh from a fiend, an undead, a soul-less. " Ben looked scared. He must have just entered Kealato. But no time for that. They had to play the game and play it right. Not waste time.
The source of the laughter seemed to be coming from right of them. There was no road, so they went into the building nearest. It was mostly normal. Nothing wrong. So they walked out. Joe and Zach looked at their two new teammates. Taylor was over six feet tall. He was most definitely the most athletic person in the grade. Ben, like all the people who had come into the game, had gained a lot of status. He was shorter then everyone on the team, all but Zach. Maybe he had been in the game longer then Joe thought. He was taller now that he thought about it... Oh well.
Joe and the team arrived at another intersection. Joe realized that, besides rain, the weather here never much changed. The intersection was probably warm all year. No glistening snow. The city was still covered in purple mutations. Clones of the " originals. Then Joe thought of something. " Where you guys here when the mist came?" Joe asked them. " Yeah," Ben said. "It hurt a lot, I don't know why," Taylor said. " We have to get back to the rest of the team," Zach said, thinking the same thing as Joe. " We all were doubled, too. And when we find us, I don't know what'll happen," Joe said. The other three looked at him confusedly.
They started running left. Then they took another left. They ran through a deserted street, even by purple mist standards. Near the end of the street, they felt a slight breeze. They all stopped, because there had been no breeze that night. They looked around. "Heal Team!" Joe yelled. A green glow illuminated the street. A mist was coming from the sky. More purple mist. All purple mist. That's all it was about.
But this was different. The detail was immense, of people they knew. But no one they had seen so far. Before them stood Shadow John, Shadow Chris, Shadow Brad, and Shadow Kevin. John was holding a wand, shadow like everything else. Brad had a bow and arrow, and had an arrow quiver on his belt. Chris had a horned helmet and an axe, and Kevin had a backpack full of potion stuff. " Those aren't the one's we know, are they?" asked Taylor in a quivering voice. " No," Zach said, gulping. They noticed a chunk missing off Kevin's side. " Weird..." Ben said.
John ran up to Joe. " Down you," He said. " W-what?" Joe asked with a small stutter. John and his team attacked Joe, Taylor, Ben, and Zach. Chris went agenst Taylor. Taylor was a few inches taller, though. John and Brad went agenst Joe and Ben. Kevin went agenst Zach. A fight of friends. One group real, the other fake. A real hassle. Taylor started attacking Chris as fast as he could.
Joebushy- I'm not done with this chapter quite yet. I just wanted to tell you that, if you read the original story, the shadow Chris is one of John's partners. Thanks!
He slashed with his sword as hard as he could. Taylor couldn't let shadow Chris beat him. He had to save the others. Chris was much slower with his huge axe. Taylor could almost always out move him. But when Chris did strike, Taylor's sword got a little bit flimsy. The power was even too much for a long sword. But that hardly ever happened. Speed out did the power.
Joe and Ben weren't doing as good. Brad was just as powerful as Ben, if not stronger. John could use extreme magic. He was even stronger then an Elementist. Ben had to fight them both, being healed by Joe. But it hardly did any damage. Brad and John weren't just attacking Ben. Joe had to heal himself, too. It was becoming hectic. Shadows Brad and John wouldn't give up.
But Zach and shadow Kevin were equal. Zach and Kevin were both alchemists. One threw an exploding potion, so did the other. Zach threw a hardening potion in the same way as a kick would go, which of course hardened in the air, tripping Kevin. Kevin got up and did the same.
There was another explosion. More and more shadows were assaulting the other four. " What a headache!" Jake said. The shadows wouldn't stop. Then they started forming together. A giant human. Something less then a human. The shadows were forming a nightmare.
The nightmare was less then what Joe had to go through, though. Because Zach had one thing Kevin didn't. The makeshift hang-glider. He told Taylor to trip Kevin, buying some time. Right when Taylor did, He got out his glider potion and poured it out. " This can only hold two people!" Zach told the team, having to yell do to distance, " Joe and Taylor, run. Ben and I got the glider." Taylor tripped the other three shadows, and Ben ran to Zach, who was already holding the glider. Then it hit them. No wind. They couldn't escape.
Joe started yelling, hoping it would work. " Jake! Jake! Use a wind attack! Zach and Ben need help!" Nothing happened. " He can't hear you, idiot." That hadn't come from a teammate. It had been a dark mans voice. All four turned around. There was a man with an extremely evil face- on one side. The other side had a metal plate. He had long white hair and Evil eyes. He had two stubby white horns coming out of his head. He was wearing a dark black shirt and black pants. He had a red shoulder band from his left shoulder down to the bottom right of his shirt. And he had a diagonal leg band, also red, on his left leg.
But that wasn't it. He had long, red, thick horizontal spikes on his arms, and vertical ones on his legs. But the two objects that made him most beast like were horrible. These made him what he was. Two huge, red wings coming out of his back, for starters. But they were nowhere near angel wings. They were the wings of a red fire dragon. Or, otherwise, a Dragofi. His weapon was a long sword, like Taylor's. But this man's sword was stained with blood. Luckily, though, he had it in his seethe.
He then spoke for the second time. " I am Naraf, leader of all darkness in Neasmil. All evilness here comes from me. Many heroes have tried to stand up to me, but all have failed- and died. I was once like you- foolish young people from Earth." Naraf laughed an evil laugh. The team stepped back, but didn't dare run. " S- so, you were from E-Earth?" Zach said, stuttering. " Humph. Yes, I am. Such a foolish profile I keep. The Neasmil lord of darkness from the planet Earth in another dimension. I want Earth destroyed! It has caused me so much pain!" Ben decided now or never to ask a question. " But... but... what are you?" Naraf looked amused. " Me? I am the ruler of the Neasmil darkness, an abandoner from Earth, the evilest of evil. I am Naraf, archfiend of Neasmil!"
" But- you can't destroy earth!" Joe said, going back to the subject. " Oh, I know." He said. Taylor was feeling braver, or at least brave, and said, " Then what's your point? You can't destroy earth from Kealato. They're separate worlds, in separate dimensions." Naraf looked more amused then ever. " I know that, insolent fool. But I can affect it. I can destroy what keeps it alive. I can destroy people!" He looked like a madman. His hands were out, palms up, fingers up, and he was maniacally laughing. He then said one more thing. " And do you know what that means? I will kill you. Right here. Right now. Ha ha ha ha ha. You four are about to leave Kealato. And your lives!" After those words, Naraf attacked the four heroes.
Joebushy- Hey, guess what? Stubborn Chunkypuff3 says he will no longer be writing his story. Not a big deal, right? Well, whatever. You're wrong. Who wants the other side to an unfinished story? No one! And he won't let me take the original name! please, for my sake, beg him to either continue or let me change my story title! (Please Review. I need punctuation remark, misspellings, mistakes, anything. It's appreciated!)