Part 6

"The Black Cloud is getting closer to where she is! We have to act fast if we want to save her! The cloud will be there in about a week, I don't think even Bigears can handle this by himself."

After a silence that seemed like an eternity, the voice said:
"I know who we can send"

After Eirika helped the people of Lakeshire in Redridge, she had been redirected, south to Duskwood. After having been there for about a week she knew her way around pretty well. Today she was headed clear to the other side of the map, to the Raven Hill Cemetery.

In Duskwood there is a main road that runs East to West, in the center of that road it splits into two directions, one heads south to Strangle Thorn Vale, the other keeps heading either East or West.
As she was running along Eirika thought it strange that she didn't hear any sounds of birds chirping, animals running away, or even the annoying buzz of bugs in her ears. But she simply shrugged these off and continued down the path. As she was passing the road to Stranglethorn Vale she heard a strange sound, and felt what she could only describe as a steady, earth-shaking, pounding.
Eirika stopped, dead in her tracks, petrified with fear, she gazed into the fog ahead of her as Fluffy began to arch his back his fir began to stand on their ends, and he began hissing wildly. She stared into the fog wondering what was waiting on the other side. As she stared, the rumbling getting louder (and fluffy's hissing and spatting got louder and louder) she saw a shadow through the fog, she hoped her eyes were playing tricks on her, she even rubbed them several times before she believed what she saw.
As the fog started lifting the figure became clearer and clearer. Then Eirika let out a scream, for what was standing before her was an abomination of human (and inhuman) parts, the thing was 15 feet tall, and almost just as fat, it looked like it was sown together out of parts of different bodies. The skin was pale, as if it had been down in a laboratory for months, and it had this stupid, ugly, look on his face, like it missed its share of brains when it was being created.
Eirika watched tears of fear in her eyes, as slowly its head pivoted toward the sound of her scream. Upon seeing her it just stared at her, for what seemed like an eternity it stared straight into her eyes. it seemed like it was looking into her soul, trying to figure out what she was, and what he was going to do with her. Suddenly, just as the thought to start backing away slowly entered Eirika's mind, the Abomination decided what he was going to do with her. It suddenly started barreling toward her, a hungry look in its eyes, as if it hadn't been fed in months.
But right at that moment the sky grew dark as if it were a full moon, Eirika had barely enough light to see ten feet in front of her, looking past the abomination Eirika saw a legion of Undead. The only reason she could see what they were was because their skin glowed under what little light there was.

The sun had been blocked out by all the huge bats which carried the undead here, as they circled the sky above, waiting for their masters to finish their task, it blotted out the sun.

As Eirika stared at the legion of Undead standing on the other side of the Abomination, She saw that they were not staring at her. But, instead, they were all staring at the abomination that lay between them, and Eirika. Upon seeing this "feast" the abomination started yelling "Stitches hungry, Stitches hungry!"
I will not go into detail at this time as to what happened after Stitches started toward the Undead army, but I will say this, It was a mass slaughter, none of the Undead survived. And after witnessing this, Eirika was even more frightened and even more frozen in place by her fear.
As Stitches remembered that there was another living thing there, he slowly turned his head to look at Eirika, and said "hungry! Stitches HUNGRY!!" at that moment Eirika screamed as her knees gave way and her legs buckled underneath her.

before the echo of her scream had died out she had a female voice yelling at her, "OUT OF THE WAY!" at that moment a horse with a fiery main, hoofs, and eyes, Leaped over Eirika. As the mysterious figure jumped off her horse she unsheathed her sword, and holding the blunt side at both ends, she held the blade up to her face and as she closed her eyes she began to chant an incantation in a tongue Eirika could not recognize. As the figure cast her spell of summoning she channeled her power through the sword, which amplified it, allowing her to summon more powerful minions.

As Eirika watched this she suddenly realized she was being hoisted up onto a saddle by a pair of gloved hands.She may have tried to fight if she hadn't had been so drained of energy at the time. But it was taking all the energy she had to stay awake. But as soon as she felt herself being seated on the saddle, she felt her eyelids droop down over her eyes.

To Be Continued…