A Tale of Many an Adventurer- Joe's Story
Chapter 15
Joebushy- Hello non-reviewers. I'm going to ask you and ask you again. Can you please review. Really, my story will take a long time to get better if I don't know what needs fixed. Besides that, I will work on other chapters. Sorry for the wait!
" So," Taylor asked Rauel, " Your friend that throws- what was it- 'exploding' boomerangs is saving our friends butts, is that it?" Rauel thought a moment. " Yes, that's about it," he answered. The remaining five team members and Rauel were walking along the stream that ran past their campsite. Rauel had said that there was a spot where the water cut off into a tunnel that led into Mythinea, the city where Joe, Chris, and Chet were. " You see," Rauel stated after about a quarter hour of walking, " This way we over pass the Fire and Ice caves." Jake ran up beside him and said, " So, I guess you've warmed us to us a little." Rauel stopped an looked at him. " Doubt it." He pushed Jake to the ground and continued walking.
Naraf flew streight into the ground head first. Chris and Chet started running over to attack, but Axel called them back. " He's not even phased," he stated seriously. He was right. Naraf got up and flew into the air once more. " I guess some people have to be useless," he shot at Axel. " Yeah maybe, but none of them are here are they?" Naraf smirked widely. " What fools!" He yelled. " You are nothing. Nothing compared to me. You cannot be protected from the imminent!" Joe finally had had enough. He had been standing in the back of everyone for some time now. " Nothing? Ha! I doubt that... I- I know that we are going to win. Our friends will come through! I know it!"
He was right- in a way. Amit and Jude had taken a guess that the rest of the team would come through the underground waterway. It was the only way to get into Mythinea without going through the element caves. So they had used a combo spell of ifothaga and lifalin to widen the way. Naraf, his deadly glaze still focused on Joe and Axel, did not see the two magic weilders. A stroke of luck for a moment. That was because of Naraf's deadly ability to sense anything moving- he had not brought forth that yet.
Joe was ready to heal his ally's at any givin moment. Naraf looked ready to strike all the same. He had posistioned himself ahead of his dragon wings and was looking at the ground in deep thought. He then brought his head up with jolt. " Ha. I've been thinking-" " Of course you have!" Axel interrupted. "- that you may beat me. So, I have taken the liberty- of setting darkness bombs around the stone barrier of Mythinea. So, great Joe, what will you do?" Joe looked around. Nothing. He turned a full 360 degree turn- and spotted two figures hovering over the lake. Yes, that's it he thought. " I'll tell you what I'll do! Run like a coward!"
Naraf was taken aback. Running like a coward? What a baby. Unless- No, it couldn't be. The lake was draining. Rocks were exploding from the hole that the two magic users had been widening. Naraf stretched out his hand and fired a beam of darkness in the direction of the hole.
" Move! We're under fire! Jake, make the rocks fly faster. Go!" The beam of darkness barely missed Taylor's head. " Rauel," he asked, " Why don't we just ask Jake to put up a sheild?" Rauel ducked and dodged another beam. The other four did the same. " Because," he answered, " If you were as smart as you were tall, you would know that the darkness magic from an archfiend is death. It cannot be beaten." " Oh yes," Taylor said sarcastically, " everyone knows that, especially a dumb earthling like me. Only people from Kealato are knowledgeable." Rauel smirked and the five moved on, trying to stay away from the magic of the druid and mage that were widening the hole, also dodgeing the deadly magic of the archfiend.
" You think you can escape the unescapable? Don't make me laugh! Ha!" Naraf's beam's were generating at an alearming rate. It anyone had glanced a look, they would of said that the man had some sort of grey lazer pointer that fired really big lazers. Amit and Jude could no longer dodge, let alone fire. They had to get away. In an instant they stopped the unfathomable beams of dark and light. But at that same moment, the wall started to crumble. And Naraf wouldn't stop the death beams.
" You dare think you can sneak up on me!" Naraf's eyes were as wide as they could be as he continued firing the dark beams of light. He didn't care what happened. He had nearly been out smarted. He couldn't let that happen again. Joe was standing stiff and staring. Just staring. Naraf was attacking Joe's friends and he was doing nothing. He had to do something. Anything.
What if I distract him, Joe thought, then Amit and Jude will be able to help Joseph and the others. "Naraf!" He yelled at his enemy. Naraf stole another glance. " Finally talking?" he asked sarcastically. " Yeah. I am. Oh, I nearly forgot. Your mother from earth told me to tell you that you were always a jackass."
"Your not funny," Naraf said with fake sympothy. " All the more reason for me to kill you." He decended from his spot in the air and calmly walked toward Joe. He stopped when they were so close Naraf could do what he had decided to do. Joe stood there as Naraf brought his hand back in a fist. Then, quick as possible, Joe yelled for his team. " Now! Save yourselves. Then kill him! I'll worry about myself!" The team looked in time to see Naraf uppercut Joe into the ceiling. Jude, Amit, Chris, and Chet looked in anger. What had Naraf done? And why was it that Joe yelled he would take care of himself all of these questions would be answered. But not soon.
Rauel hadn't had time to look. All he knew was Axel, in the midst of the fury, had come to save them. The hole was now big enough for them to fit through. It had only taken one boomerang to destroy the rocks- it worked as dynamite. Rauel came out, followed by Taylor, Ben, Joseph, Zach, and Jake. None of those six- nor Axel- knew of what happened to Joe. They only knew the battle would get harder. " What's the situation?" Zach yelled to the four. Amit turned. " Joe- he, how should I put this, figured six was better than one." He pointed to the ceiling and the team looked up. A hole had formed. In it was nothing but black. It only went on.
" Naraf, you evil fiend! What have you done!" Ben yelled. " As you can see, fool, I sent your friend through the ceiling. Would you like to join him?" Ben stepped back. " No sir!" he yelled. Taylor stepped by him. " Ben," he said sternly, " Stick up for yourself." Ben swollowed a wad of spit and sat on the ground. " As I thought," Naraf grunted. "What a pathetic bunch of fools. So selfless! It makes me want to throw up."
But Chris stepped foward. His friend had just been blown into the ceiling to even the odds. But had it? Naraf seemed unbeatable, especially without their leader. Had Joe really done a suicide mission for nothing? Or had it really been a suicede? Was he dead? So many questions with so little answers. The only one answer known to Chris was the chances of winning were slim- meaning should they run, or assult? He didn't know. He just didn't know.
What would he had done on earth? What would anyone of done on Earth? It seemed he- and all others- had changed tremendously in their short 13 days in Kealato. On Earth he would of ran around screaming like a little girl. But he was not on earth anymore. He had a new conscience of doing things. But he could not ever sacrafice his teammates lives. He had to retreat. But then innocent lives would be destroyed. Maybe, only if... he had an idea. Yes, that would be it.
" Why do you stand there, cavalier!" Naraf yelled heartily. Chris thought. This evil man. He was just so fake. " Naraf," Chris said calmly. " Listen and understand. You will never make myself or my team cower or flail. We will bring you down. Whatever it takes, Naraf." He stepped backward. "Line formation!" He yelled. The eleven men remaining stepped into a line, still facing Naraf. If this worked, Kealato might be saved. If not, their last chance would be thworted. " Weapons at the ready!" Chris command. He was attempting a full scale attack.
Rauel drew his sword. " You will never win," He said. Axel readied his boomerang. " Good will always win!" Joseph gripped his spear. " You won't prevail!" he yelled. Ben loaded his bow. " Joe will be avenged!" Taylor held out his sword. " Prepare for the worst, you fiend!" He spat. Chet swayed his axe cockingly. " You don't scare me!" Zach took out a potion. " Lets do this." Jake pointed his wand at Naraf. " Do not underestamate us." he said. Jude was ready with his magic. " We will not leave without a fight." Amit stood there cooly. " Shut up and lets fight."
Chris stood straight with the tip of his sword on the ground. " Naraf, you might want to know what death feels like. I couldn't tell you. But, you, you will find out soon enough. Naraf, I will say this once. ENTER OBLIVION! charge!" The eight charged forward. Naraf stood there. His face seemed expressionless. " Darkness," he said, " is power. Power... is evil. Evil... Is I!Spirits of darkness, send fourth your almighty wrath through the power of me! Engulf me in your darkness!" The team was closing in. But something went wrong. They stopped. An invisible force froze them- and then it became clear. Colmn's of mist, the color of purple sprang up in a wall around Naraf. It happened just like Jake's rock colmns appeared around the soldiers. The mist went straight up. " The mist," Joseph whispered, " must be the spirits of darkness..." He stopped whispering, then yelled "Everyone stay clear of the mist!"
"Ha! What a remark," Axel said sarcastically. " Like we have a choice to even move!" But, half luckily, they were moving away from Naraf. Then, at one-hundred yards away, they were set down. A reign of evil was about to unfold.
Joebushy- Again, sorry for the wait. I have a reminder for all who wish to copy this story- look at the bottem of the page. See that copyright? Hm hm, anyway, enjoy and review.