The Sorcerer Wars
What Do You Mean, Other Worlds?
"This Better be important, Nick," said Zac impatiently, "I'm in the middle of destroying those fools with Sam."
"Quite the contrary Zac," said Nick coolly, "If I had not called you here, you would probably be the one being destroyed."
Zac didn't reply.
"What do you want Nick, and make it snappy, as me and Zac are carrying out your operation," said Lachlan.
"I called you here to tell you about a little development Lachlan." said Nick. An apple appeared in his hand and he took a great slow bite. Zac tapped his foot impatiently.
"Well?" said Zac with a hint of annoyance.
"I just thought I'd inform you that I've developed the power to transport myself to other worlds." said Nick, smiling.
"What do you mean other worlds?" said Lachlan.
"What I mean is that you two are going to continue your operations and Karen will take over my operation. I'm going to go to the first world I find and see what I can." Said Nick.
"You can't be serious!" cried Lachlan, "You're out of your mind!!! There's no such thing as another world."
"Oh yes there is, and I'm going now. Zac is in charge, and Karen is already stationed at the red centre. Do you understand…? Lachlan?"
"Yes Nick," said Lachlan.
"Good. Stand Back!" said Nick.
Nick raised his arms out wide, with his staff glinting in his right hand, and aimed at the centre of the room, began concentrating. After a few moments, a multi-coloured portal shimmered into view. Nick turned around.
"Um, Nick, Have you done this before?" Lachlan said slowly.
"No, but I'm sure it'll work." Said Nick, and with that he turned and stepped into the portal. A strange noise that sounded like sizzling started coming from the portal, then suddenly Nick and the portal disappeared with a small pop.
"Well, if that worked Nick must've travelled to another world," said Lachlan, "And though Nick is equally the most powerful being in this world, who knows how powerful the entities of other worlds are?"
"He'll be fine," said Zac, though his voice shook slightly.
Both Zac and Lachlan were silent for some time. After about 2 minutes, Lachlan seemed to come to his senses.
"We should get back to work," said Lachlan.
"Yeah," agreed Zac.
"See you soon Zac," said Lachlan, "No matter what happens, you will always be my best friend."
Zac opened his mouth to say something, but seemed to think better of it, and merely nodded and disappeared in a flash of dark green light. Lachlan stared at the spot where Zac had stood, and slowly faded out of view, glowing with grey energy.
…
Brandon cursed loudly.
"What's up?" asked Ashlee.
"We've been trekking for hours now, without rest, across the middle of the desert under the beating sun with no food or water. No Ashlee, don't worry, nothings wrong. We're only walking 10Kilometres," said Brandon wearily.
"Yes, it is strange that we've been walking so long and have not managed to travel even 10 kilometres," said Sam pensively.
"Now I wonder why that could be," said Ashlee sarcastically, "Zac has the power of Earth!!! He must be shifting the sands!"
Three forlorn figures slumped to the ground in exhaustion in the middle of the boiling Egyptian desert. It had been exactly 3 hours since Sam, Ashlee and Brandon had begun their trek and the pyramid which they were travelling to seemed to be getting further away rather than getting nearer. Even the cups of pure water that summoned to their hands by Sam did not improve their moods. As they sat drinking thoughtfully, they thought of how to avoid Zac's power. Brandon suddenly jumped up, causing Ashlee to gag on a mouthful of water.
"I've got it!!! Oh get over it Ashlee, you aren't going to die from it, its only water. Now, we obviously can't travel in the air to avoid the ground, but if we travelled on something that separated us from the ground, we could get there easily," said Brandon excitedly.
"Good idea Brandon, but in case you hadn't noticed… WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A DESERT WITH NO SUPPLIES!!! What are we going to travel on if there isn't anything to travel on?" cried Ashlee exasperatedly.
"We'll have to improvise," said Brandon simply.
Brandon pointed his staff at the sky above their route. Dark black clouds rolled slowly over the area, occasionally emitting loud bursts of thunder. Soon they had formed a vast blanket of blackness over the desert. Brandon took a breath and from the end of his staff shot a small ball of yellow energy to the very heart of the congregated clouds. The ball hit the centre and huge ripples of force ran through the clouds. Suddenly from where the ball hit the clouds a huge, absolutely huge yellow bolt of lightning blasted down towards the ground. When it hit there was a huge crack and a flash of blinding light. After a while the flash subsided. Before the three officers was a huge crater that stretched right up to the base of the pyramids. All of the sand seemed to be disintegrated by the electricity, as there were no mounds of sand around the edges of the crater. The grey clouds had disappeared.
"Well that's great Brandon," said Ashlee, "All you've achieved is a great big hole in the ground, and I'm afraid that doesn't get us closer to the pyramid."
"Hmm… if only it was filled with water… we could cross the lake," said Brandon, looking meaningfully at Sam. Sam met Brandon's gaze and suddenly understood. Sam tapped the sand with his staff. A small puddle appeared at his toes and then proceeded to run into the crater. It slowly disappeared out of their sight. After a few moments they saw a huge amount of water that seemed to be getting larger and larger extending from the centre of the crater. In a matter of seconds, before them was a huge lake.
"Nice work Einstein," said Ashlee, "But now we have to swim which will take even longer."
"If only we had a wooden canoe," said Brandon in much the same manner as when asking for water in the lake.
Ashlee thought for a moment and then her eyes widened in sudden realisation. She frowned for a second as a wooden canoe fit for three people appeared (complete with oars) in a flash of light green energy. Without a word Brandon pushed the canoe into the water. It floated perfectly. Brandon stood aside slightly.
"All aboard!" he said brightly.
Ashlee and Sam boarded first, and Brandon followed them with the oars.
"Leave them," said Sam.
Brandon dropped the oars and hopped into the middle seat. Sam, sitting at the back, held his staff over the edge of the canoe. From it issued a huge torrent of water which propelled the canoe forwards at speed. As the three friends were carried away in their makeshift boat in their makeshift lake, they were silent, as they were unsure what the opposite shore would bring.
"5 minutes guys," said Sam.
…
"Keep digging!!! We must find the Bracelets as master Nick instructed!!!" cried Zac.
Zac was overseeing a huge digging operation in the lowest chamber of the great pyramid. A strong magical aura was radiating below ground, and Zac was sure he had found the Artefact Bracelets.
"Keep digging!!!" cried Zac.
"You're not digging any further!!!" cried a voice from the chamber entrance.
"Sam, Brandon, Ashlee!!! Nice of you to drop by," said Zac, "leave us," he added to the workers.
All the workers in the pyramid disappeared, leaving the huge chamber empty. Zac tapped the ground with his staff. A huge boulder appeared at the chamber entrance, causing the exit to be blocked.
"For you, it all ends here!!!" cried Zac.
"This is your last chance Zac! Surrender and you will not be charged for your crimes!" yelled Sam.
"Never!!!" spat Zac.
Zac pointed his staff at Ashlee and Brandon. Curls of dark energy slowly wound themselves out of the ground and enveloped Ashlee and Brandon in them, leaving nothing but two big balls of darkness. In retaliation, Sam blasted Zac with a huge torrent of water, and waved his staff at the dark orbs, causing them to release their prisoners in a blue flash. Zac was already on his feet. He sent small, rapid blasts of dark green energy at the three officers. They parried the blasts, but Zac didn't stop.
"You guys hold the blasts and I'll stop him!" cried Brandon.
"Right!" cried Sam and Ashlee in unison.
Brandon sprang back a few feet, and Ashlee and Sam moved closer together to cover the gap, while still parrying the blasts with their swiftly moving staffs. Brandon raised his staff, pointing it at Zac. Golden Energy began to accumulate on the end of his staff, until there was a huge ball of energy on his staff. Suddenly, Brandon unleashed the ball of energy upon Zac in the form of a huge bolt of golden lightning. The lightning hit Zac square in the chest, causing a huge explosion of energy.
When the smoke cleared, Zac was leaning heavily on his staff.
"Together!" cried Sam.
Sam, Ashlee and Brandon all unleashed huge beams of energy which combined to form a rainbow coloured beam of energy. It was huge. Zac hastily stood up straight and unleashed a dark green beam that was just as big. The two beams met in mid-air, and struggled against each other. It was too much for Zac. The rainbow beam engulfed Zac's beam, and then hit Zac. When the last of the beam was gone, Zac was left standing, his outline shimmering with rainbow energy. A ball of dark energy suddenly peeled off his chest and slowly faded away into nothing. Zac's eyes flashed with dark green energy and then became wide. He looked at his hands with a look of disgust on his face.
"What have I been doing?" he said weekly.
Zac began to fall over backwards, dropping his staff as he fell. Sam ran over and caught Zac just before he hit the ground. Sam held Zac in his arms.
"Y-Y-You must remove the darkness from Nick's Heart. It's the only w-w-way. He's still good. It's the darkness. It j-just t-takes contr…." wheezed Zac, unable to finish.
Zac began to cough, and suddenly, patches of his body started to just disappear, till all that was left was his head with a hole in his forehead.
"Be c-careful… Nick… in… other… worl…," stuttered Zac, when suddenly, he fully disappeared in a small shower of dark green sparks.
Ashlee sniffled and wiped her nose in the background. Brandon stood looking at the ground. Sam stood up slowly and turned around. Suddenly, out of the ground flew the Artefact Bracelets. They stopped in mid-air and just floated, as if asking Sam to take them.
As Sam moved forward to take the bracelets, a bat suddenly swooped and grabbed them in its abnormally large mouth, and flew to the now clear entrance to the cave… where Nick was standing. What was worse was, he wasn't alone. The bat suddenly formed into a pale faced Vampire with a pure black robe, clutching the bracelets in his pale hand. Next to Nick was a dirty skinned Pirate with a large cutlass and an old-fashioned pistol. He wore mostly dark shabby clothing, and a huge hat with a feather. Next to the was a normal looking person wearing jeans and a T-shirt… except he had one eye.
"Thank you, Syliss," said Nick lazily, obviously addressing the vampire.
"Nick, put those down!!!" Roared Sam.
"He'll be doing no such thing mate," said the pirate in a cruel growling voice.
Brandon pointed his staff at the pirate and let out a bolt of yellow lightning. Just as quickly, the guy with one eye let a huge blast of red energy flow from his eye and clash with the lightning. Both attacks fizzled out.
"Who are these people Nick?" roared Sam.
Nick replied by slowly fading out of view with his companions.
"What did Zac say, Sam?" asked Ashlee softly.
"He said that Nick was in another world. And I think he brought those guys with him." Said Sam…
To Be Continued… … …