Turn I: Daemons in Rat's Clothing
You raise your sword, the steel reflecting the flickering flames developing in your mouth. You lunge forward to the rat, and as you swing in midair the rat bashes it away. You land on the floor, and the rat descends upon you. Its large paws pushes down on your back, and its jaw opens, revealing gigantic, knife-edged teeth. It tries to bite you, but you turn your body around and shove the rat off.
Malachi appears above the rat, and he arches his arms and points his blade downwards to the rat's head. The rat turns around with lightning-fast reflexes and jumps on Malachi! The rat bites Malachi's shoulder, and blood drips down the servant's robes, screams complimenting the sound of the bone crunching. You get up from the floor, preparing sword. In your rage you let loose fire, but aim it away for fear of burning Malachi, and the fire burns the sword.
You look at the sword, burning bright orange, runes you did not see earlier clearly showing. You cannot read them, but they look familiar. It matters not, and you rush toward the wicked rat! You arch the sword to your right, and as you near the vermin you swing. The rat lets go of Malachi, and attempts to grab the sword! The burning hot metal scalds the rat, and it lets go immediately! It goes to the floor, hands smoking. You take advantage of this, and you swing once more! It hits the rat in the arm, severing it! Steam and blood rise from the smoking stump. The rat screams in agony! The rat falls on the floor, and you swing once more and stab right into the beast's chest! You twist the blade inside the rat left and right and the rat breathes its last.
You pick up Malachi, and carry him to the entrance. You open the trapdoor to find Kaphio! He looks revolted at the quickly infecting wound on Malachi's shoulder. He picks him up, and puts him on his shoulder.
"Whoa, what happened? I met Mali and she told me you went down here! What happened to Malachi!"You explain everything about the rat, and when you mention the part where we was bitten, his expression turns grimmer.
"I better take him to Luri. Thrud told me about these corrupted rats. They aren't even rats! They're daemons in material form. Form is incomprehensible to them, and no form is inconceivable to us, so they appear as manifestations of wicked things in our minds. Daemon poison can't be completely cured without a special reagent. I'm sure Mali said something about a medicine chamber down here. You'd best find it! Good luck Sjek."With that Kaphio goes on his way. You go back down and frantically search for a door or entrance to somewhere else. You can't find a door, but the rat's blood flows through the cracks on the floor, forming a pointer of sorts. You follow it and you stand in front of a stone wall. You push your hands on the cold stone and feel around, and you push in a loose brick and the wall moves!
Inside is even darker, and you can't find any torches on the wall. You choose to spark a small flame in your mouth and reflect it on your sword, making a makeshift torch. You walk down the corridor and you see small humanoid creatures scurrying around. Not taking any chances, you let loose flame from your jaw. You briefly see three red-skinned things in the orange glow, and afterwards you see three red-skinned things on fire.
The things fall dead on the floor, crawling away and smoking. Imps. You've heard your mother talk about them with Malachi once. Daemon goblins. You look over them, searching them for things. You find nothing, and you continue your way down the hall. You quickly find the door, but it's locked obviously.
You kick the door down, and you hear something croak as the door and a green beast fall down a staircase. The door smashes against the wall, and the green thing rolls down the stairs. It looks like a gigantic horned bullfrog with humanoid hands! It looks at you with malice, and it opens its gaping maw. It lets loose a long tongue, but you dodge just in time as the pink slimy tongue smashes into the wall next to you.
You swipe your sword upwards, slicing the tongue in half! The frog reels back in pain, and it leaps toward you in anger! You roll down the stairs as the frog headbutts the wall!
You ready your sword for combat!
Party:Class: Magos
Godfather: Corleone (Dragon God) (Dragons) (Fire) (Flight)
Race: Half Dragon
Abilities:
Burn I 15 MP
Fly I 15 MP
Dragonscale 20 MP
Dragontongue I 20 MP
Magic ResistantSpells:
Fireball 10 MP
Empower 15 MP
Truthspeak 20 MP
Sense 30 MP
Stats:
HP: 48/50
MP: 30/50
Quests:Cell-ing Out [Started!] [Find Reagent for Malachi!]
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Topic: Godslayer (Chapter II: Secrets) (TSG) (Read 10008 times)