Chapter 42: The Black Fly

Just as I turn around, I hear yells of "Die! Die! Die!" from the corridor. As I turn around, dozens of dark wizards came around the corner, hissing, and red-eyed rats at their feet. I grab Silverlight, preparing to fight to the death. Just as I run forward, I hear some sort of whooshing sound, like some sort of mechanical device starting up.

Just as I pull Silverlight out of my belt, I see a black shape fly past me, and straight into Creator, who was sent flying back into the wall behind him. The speeding, black shape flew briskly towards Osrie1. I saw a quick flash of green, and Osrie1 had a huge, deep cut in his stomach. He gurgled, fell back, and Slinky and Aubury rushed forwards to aid him. The black shape stopped, giving me just enough time to see what or who it was.

It was a man. This man, however, didn't wear clothes from this time line. He wore sleek, black leather clothes that fitted him at exactly the right angle. His taut muscled rippled under his leather costume. He wore a vast, black, goggle-like mask, hiding his face, which had green on the edge. A black belt with several sword-shaped pouches hung from his waist. Green, metal machinery hissed and puffed on his back. On his large, black boots, there were round pouches.

The most curious part about him, though, was what he was riding on to keep him in the air. It was very curious-it looked like a massive, silver stick, with more green machinery on it. The object was emitting a loud humming noise, and there were two fans at the bottom, which were whirling, making the hum. Flames erupted from under the metal stick.

This man on the metal stick pressed a button on his hand, and his mask disappeared behind his head. I cold see red eyes, red hair, and pale skin. His eyes flickered to my eyes, which were pointing at his metal stick. He chuckled maliciously.

"I'm guessing you like my Sky Stick," he said. "I am the Black Fly. I came from another world-I was sent here by Zamorak himself to aid Master Samuel and his people with their plan. All this machinery I have here is from the world I, and possibly you, come from. Enough chat, let me do what I came here to do-decapitate you all!" The Black Fly snarled. He took a sword from his belt. It glowed a strange green, was sharper then even Silverlight, and buzzed with energy. He swung it towards me, but I jumped, and an unlucky dark wizard behind me got decapitated.

Chaos broke out. Several binds of pain flew over my head and, unfortunately, Mark got caught in one. His armour protected his body from the spikes. Amy11 warded the possessed giant rats off with her dagger, while Haru smashed his axe into the skulls of dark wizards. Haldir6, shouting a war-cry, and sunk his poisoned dagger deep into the gut of a rat. All this time, I was running. I was running for my life from a furious Black Fly.

Controlling his Sky-Stick, he flew after me, as I ran as fast as I could through a corridor. From one of his pouches, he threw a black dagger at me. I ducked, and it sunk itself into the wall, before flying back into the Black Fly's hand. Just as he went close to me, he made a motion with his sword to stick it right through me, but it missed. Just as I was running, I hit a gate.

This gate was unlike any other gate I'd ever seen; it was black, rusted, and very big. The most interesting feature about it, however, was the red eyes at the top of the gate. They stared, unnerved, at me, running from the Black Fly. I shook the gate's bars angrily.

"Can you open up, please?" I begged the gate. I'm sure that the gate would smile, if it had a mouth.

"Normally, I would open up if you answered a question, but some strange force has given me free will, which is strange for a gate of war like me," the door answered sourly. "I don't want to open for a noob like you, thank you very much." I screamed with frustration, looking behind me as the Black Fly closed in on me, grinning ear to ear.

In a bid for freedom, I smashed my hammer into the gate of war. It shook violently, and the gate made a grunt of pain. It couldn't fight back, because it was a gate. It shook violently at being hit, though.

I continued bashing it with everything I could-my fists, my hammer, Silverlight, even a rock from the wall. It was too late, though; The Black Fly had his sword at the ready. He waved it at my neck, but I ducked, and instead it hit the gate. The gate seemed to scream; it flew off its hinges, and collapsed at my feet.

"Thanks," I laughed at the Black Fly, ducking under his Sky-Stick, and running back to the fight.

Hissing with rage, he chassed after me, swinging his huge sword at me with a massive amount of force. I ducked, swung around, and punched him squarely on the mask. He hissed again, and before he could fire up his sky-stick to chase me, I was gone.

When I got there, it was pandemonium. Both sides were fighting the better fight. Clayguy7, using his clay axe, chopped a rat in half, while a dark wizard caused Amy11 a great deal of pain. At that sight, my inner demons roared in protest; I marched up to the wizard, and punched him in the nose, causing it to break. He screamed in pain as blood, scarlet and fresh, poured openly down his face. I smashed my hammer in his gut, and he keeled over. I laughed manically, unlike myself. I was causing pain-and, for some reason, it felt great! Amy11 stared at me, her mouth agape. When I looked up and saw that, I instantly felt ashamed for my moment of enjoyment in the pain of others. That still didn't give me an excuse NOT to kill this wizard. I thrust Silverlight into his heart and he felt no more.

Haldir6 marched up to me, kicking a knocked out wizard in the gut as he passed. "We need your help over here," he whispered urgently to me. I nodded, and followed him. In a corner of the room, I spotted Osrie1, Mark and Slinky being cornered by James and a small army of dark wizards. He cackled at the sight of me.

"Hello, Mainiac97," he said. "I remember our last encounter clearly-wasn't it hanging off the edge of the Varrock Palace? I'm going to dismember you, nice and slowly," he said, a manic grin on his face. He grabbed me by the neck, and threw me to the other side of the room. Wizards, allies and black stone walls melted together into a mad palette, as I was sent crashing into the opposite wall. I ran up to James, and kicked him in the groin. He shuddered, and, with a blast of darkness, smashed me into the floor. Haldir6 helped me up, ordered me to get more people to lend a hand, and tried to sink his dagger into James's flesh. I called Haru and Clayguy7 over to help, and ran over to kill a Dark Wizard.

After ages of fighting, the Black Fly flew over us. "To my people," he shouted, his voice booming over all of us. "Master Samuel has sent me a message-all people are to report straight to the second floor." He flew away, being followed by James, and all the people, leaving all of me and my friends alone with many dead bodies.

Aubury called us all to gather. "While fighting, I have thought of a battle strategy," he explained. "We will split into three groups- the exploration group, the attack group, and the support group. I have written down who will be in which group on several pieces of paper, which is being handed around." Creator passed me a note. I read it.

Exploration:

Mainiac97

Osrie1

Amy11

Haldir6

Attack:

Haru Axe-man

Mark

Slinky

Aubury

Support:

Clayguy7

Capablanca

Creator

Sinlimitless1234

Sin stepped forward.

"This is how it works," he said. "The Exploration team will go right through the stronghold, being backed up by the attack team. They will try to find out what Master Samuel, James, the Black Fly, and the mysterious cloaked figure are up to. Once they've figured out what's going on and gotten to the final floor, they will then team up with the attack team, and try to stop the plan.

"The attack team is the sister team to the exploration team. They will go ahead of exploration and support, and destroy anything that will pose a threat-that means possessed creatures, gates, and dark forces. They are consisted of the strongest players. They are basically clearing the way, so we don't run into anything too bad. They are to team up with the exploration team at the final floor, since it is the most dangerous.

"The final team, of course, is the support team. They have the least important roles, yet also they are very important. They will stay at the very back-if any team needs aid, then one member from the support team will go back. At every reward, one person from the team will stay behind. Let us say that the exploration team is in serious trouble with something on the second floor-they will go back to the first floor's reward, alert the support member there, and that member will go to the world above to get extra help. They will be happy to supply extra information."

"Any more questions from anyone?" Sin asked. The place was silent-so silent you could hear a pin drop from the other side of the stronghold. "Fine, the attack team will go first, and then the others will follow."Haru Axe-man, Mark, Slinky, and Aubury gathered, and went forward into the corridor in front. A few minutes later, my team-the exploration team-followed, into the dark unknown.