Chapter 47: Madrey1's Revenge

I vomited, for the fifth time. Only ten minutes ago, had the exploration team entered the gooey presence of the third floor. It absolutely horrific-it smelt awful, for a start. The walls were coated with a thick, glutinous, green slime. There were decomposed animals, and even tentacles coming from them. The gates on this floor had tentacles growing from the top, and when I smashed it apart with Silverlight, I had to pinch my nose, because an awful smell hit the air. It was called the pit of pestilence for a good reason-I felt really sick just standing here.

Amy11 screamed as a lump of green slime fell on her shoulder. She scraped it off, retching. Osrie1 kept trying to cast water strike at the walls, to wipe some of the green slime off, only succeeding in causing more of the stuff to fall from the ceilings. I knew that evil forces were plotting away not too far from here….Mort, according to my vision/dream, had joined them.

Mort was the leader of a vampire tribe that had been living upstairs, until now. I'd spent the last few hours running from them, only to scare them away with a massive show of anger. I was secretly terrified of the vampires-if they bit me, just once, I could die and come back as one. Haldir6 said the only way, traditionally, to kill a vampire, is either by ripping it apart, or putting a steak through its heart. I didn't understand, however, how a piece of meat could kill a vampire, and when I asked Haldir6 about it, he just laughed.

We continued trudging through the filth. Just ahead, I saw another gate. It gave me a mocking look with its red eyes as I approached.

"I'm not opening for you," he said coldly. I gave him a quick, warm smile, before smashing him to bits with my hammer. We stepped over the wreckage, and continued.

Ahead, I saw what looked like a lake of slime. In the lake, there were skeletons floating, and in the middle I saw the remains of a wrecked, small wooden boat. I was about to continue, when I heard a roaring. I swung around.

Green, bull-like beasts surrounded us. Their eyes were a sickly green, with a shade of red, to suggest they were possessed. Roaring furiously, they stamped their filthy green hooves, before walking slowly towards us. One of them used what looked like a white spray on me. I suddenly felt all dizzy and disorientated. I spun around groaning, not telling Osrie1 from Haldir6. I massive blow to my back brought me back to earth with a bang. It was the green, bull-like creature, hitting me with its horns. They all ran towards me. I tried to dodge, but no luck. One smashed into me, and sent me flying into another one. I groped the handle of Silverlight, and was about to stick it into one of them, but it was knocked out of my hand. Amy11 grabbed it for me. Haldir6 slit one of their throats, and green blood came spurting out. I retched, and was bowled over by another one. I was quicker this time-I grabbed Silverlight, and pointed it in front of me. A green bull ran right into it, and it went right through his brain. He roared, collapsed, and transformed into bones and a small pile of cash.

After ten minutes, we were surrounded by the dead bodies of green bulls. After we'd buried all the bones, we continued trudging around this green lake.

I heard loud, crunching footsteps from behind us. I swung around, and was greeted with a fist to the jaw. Coughing up blood, I fell backwards, into a pile of green crap. I sat up, and saw my attacker.

It was Madrey1. I gasped with horror-he'd changed his look altogether now. He still had beetle-black eyes and the same wicked grin, but he'd obviously been working out. He was twice as strong and muscled as he was the last time I saw hi, that day at the Easter party. Instead of wearing his dragon armour, he wore full Guthan's. He still had his strange orange shield (the same one Duke Horacio and Sir Vant had) and his dragon sword, though. Phantom, still clad in silky black clothes, stepped from seemingly nowhere.

"Hello, noob," he said coldly. "Remember me? You humiliated me and Phantom here by sheer luck. Since then, I've been completely remodelling myself. I've made myself stronger. I scrapped my old tin can armour, and now I've got even better armour. My only ambition has been to completely wreck you lot. I'm going to start with you," he sneered, pointing at Amy11. He stepped towards her, and she backed off, whimpering.

"NO!" I yelled. I jumped towards madrey1, planning to pull off his helmet and throw it in the green slime lake (like I'd done previously with different helmets). He was too quick for me, though-I saw on the floor with a massive stab mark in my side. Madrey1 snorted.

"This'll be too easy," he chortled, and he grabbed my leg. He threw me up in the air, caught me by the arm, and swung me around at full speed. I felt all the bones in my arm snap, and I roared with pain. After ten seconds of swinging, he threw me into the green water.

I sunk into the putrid water. The water was too thick and slimy to swim in-and it smelt awful. I struggled to try and get to the top, my oxygen running out. My mind was numb, I couldn't think, I was drowning…. And, meanwhile, up the top, madrey1 was laughing like Christmas has come early.

Haldir6 stepped up to madrey1. "You, sir, are a bastard," Haldir6 snarled, and punched Madrey1 full out on the nose. Blood dripped down madrey1's face as his nose snapped. He stumbled back, and sent his sword flying through haldir6's shoulder. Haldir6 yelled with pain. He pulled out the sword, and noticed me struggling with life at the bottom of the slime pool. He dived in, grabbed my arm, and forced me to the top.

We both collapsed on try ground, covered from head to toe with slime, coughing up the stuff. I retched, and fell back, breathing in pure air. Madrey1 stepped up to us two, while Phantom took on osrie1 and Amy11.

"So, the slime lake failed to drown you, huh?" Madrey1 bellowed. "Let me take care of it for you, nice and easy." He ran towards me, and punched me on the jaw. It hit, and I was sent flying into the air. I gasped for air as madrey1 sent his fist into my skull. Stars appeared on my eyes. Madrey1 then smashed his shield into me. I was pounded into the ground.

Pain filled my body like a poisonous gas. My battered and bruised body lay there at an odd angle. Madrey1 chuckled lightly. Haldir6 elbowed him in the face, and they fell back in a wrestle. I tried, and failed, to get up.

Meanwhile, osrie1 ran up to Phantom, and sent a fire strike at him. Phantom deflected it with a shadow spell. Amy11 tried to insert her dagger through his neck, but he swiftly dodged, and gave her an uppercut in the chin. Osrie1 ran towards him, intent on bowling him over, but he just grabbed osrie1's head, and sent him flying into Amy11. Madrey1 managed to wrestle Haldir6 to the floor, and knock him out with his shield.

"Right, we'd better make a move on if we want to beat these losers and Master Samuel to the final reward. Do not worry about these losers-if they don't die by themselves, the scorpions will have them for supper," Madrey1 chuckled. Phantom took madrey1's arm, and with a puff of smoke, they were gone.

I tried, and failed again, to sit up. One of my lungs felt punctured. I looked feebly to the side. Amy11 and osrie1 lay in a pile, moaning. Haldir6 was unconscious. I was blacking out…someone was walking up to me….a man….in a white uniform…I heard….a roar….flames….blackness…..