Title: story Post by: bloom on May 19, 2006, 09:21:07 pm [log]
I was going back to guild with minotaur called Angnus. He was brave warrior from famous family which symbol was golden eagle. Like every member of his family he was wearing it proudly on breastplate. Angnus knew the way back, so he was leading us home as we took few ranks and decided that we are tired from ranking. When we found ourselves on a big arched stone bridge, we could clearly see some valley on the west. However, it it was black and burned. Remains of trees were charred and envellopped with the white clouds of smoke and layer of ash. In black and grey color of defiled valley we could distinctly notice long blue hair of an elf, who was fighting with zombie. I wanted to take a closer look on him, so we went down in the valley. It was her. Long waves of rich hair were shinning on the sun, reflicting the sunlight as she was moving swiftly and graciously trying to evade her foe. She was young, with small, rounded and pretty face, shinning blue eyes and cherry-red lips. Her cheeks were red because of excitement and danger of battle. It was obvious that her foe was much stronger. However, she managed to kill him. Her armor was the armor intended for persons of much higher rank. She was wearing exquisite and powerful rings, and her extravagant armplates were relic. Hmm, so powerful things on someone who holds middle rank? It was quite suspicious to me. I was thinking should i complain how she is favored from someone. Her name is Inthiniel, red mage. She saw that i was staring at her gear and she understood what i was thinking about. 'Follow me and I'll show you how i got such armor', she said and pointed her staff in the direction of nearby big and black hole. I nodded. 'Excuse me', said Angnus, 'but i am not going there. I will be in Palanthas if, er... when you come back...' We smiled at his joke and joined to her. While we walked to the hole, Inthiniel gave us quick instructions. 'There is Gharak living down the hole. It is powerful foe, almost unkillable; but it has a weak spot. I killed his twin using that spot and got this gear. One can kill him instantly if you pierce his heart with hawthorn arrow or spear.Gharaks are something between ogre-mages and vampires. They are not burned instantly by sun like vampires. However, they are still hurt by the sun, so they prefer living in dark places, places like this catacombs we are going into. They are fat like ogres and they do not have to drink blood, though most of them can cruelly eat flesh. In fact some of them look civilized in some situations. They collect treasures. Their wealth is the most important thing in their life. They hate everyone, but thieves are their worst nightmare. Therefore they are agressive and they will kill anyone who enters their domain. They kill with fireballs. Ghorak is able to shoot fireball from his mouth. Fireballs itself are not fast and are often easy to evade. On the other hand fireballs are massive and deadly. One shot in fatal in most cases. You may survive the first strike, but when fireball explodes, fire keep to flow surrounding you burning you to death. Their claws are also dangerous. With sharp claws they can slice part of body. They use claws when they eat or when they fight. Such is our foe. The only one they greet here are merchants and traders. Traders make appointments so they can safely meet with Gharak and bargain for rare items or to sell beautiful female slaves...' We approached to the hole. From outside, the hole was looking like a mouth of a huge hungry monster. We went down using a small staircases. It was quite dark place and man could not decide what is a shadow and what is something else that could be dwelling here. We walked through a long tunel On its end, the tunnel was continued by spreading into a wide stone corridor. The spiral corridor was leading us deeper down the hole which become a wide hall. Something black was laying all over the stairs. My mage told me those were undead bodies of thieves and unlucky adventurers. Those bodies could not move, but if would happened that some new traveler comes here and walk near without seeing them, such undead creatures would catch traveler legs, bring traveler down and eat him until he becomes undead like them. That was working as security device against intruders and it was invented and built by Gharak itself. I thanked to Inthiniel again for her infravision spell. When we evaded all traps and finally went down, we saw shadow of Gharak in his hall. Few torches were lit. Gharak was walking tirelessly all over the hall, probably making plans of how to add some new precious things to his collection. As Angnus was tougher than both of us, Inthiniel made simple strategic plan of defeating Ghorak. With her fire shield she protected Angnus, so he could withstand 2 or 3 fireballs. During that time, Inthiniel and me should be trying to hit Gharak's heart. Like every brave warrior Angnus entered quickly in the hall with his fiersome warcry. Gharak grumbled. It was like we planned. Gharak ate the bite and began to shoot his hot orange-red fireballs with yellow heated core. Soon the hall become very hot place. Ball of fire were flying all around, hitting stone walls and exploding into thousand sparks, releasing tons of energy, waves of heat and deafening sound. One of them hit Angnus. His face was covered with painfull grimasse but he released another warcry and flexed his muscles still standing on his iron strong legs. Inthiniel and me were quite unsuccesfully trying to hit Gharak's heart. I was throwing spears and Inthiniel tried with arrows. The problem was that we had to come very close to Ghranak to pierce his fat skin and to hit the correct place. But he was swirling all around with his long clawed hands, so it was very hard to come closer. With cunning maneuvre Gharak turned away from Angnus, spinning around he made his next fireball to have an unpredictable line of flight, thus surprising Angnus and hitting him right into his torso. 'RETREAT!' Inthiniel exclaimed and we run to exit door. We got out of the hall, running upstairs when one of late fireballs went through window and made Angnus to feel like in a furnace. Flame tongues were eating his body, disintegrating him and he disappeared. However, that was not the time for the sorrow because we had to quickly save our lives too. When we went to safe place, we gave respects to the soul of my dead friend Angnus. We had one more reason to kill Gharak and it was revenge. However only 2 of us have left and we had to find better plan. Then brilliant mind of Inthiniel came forward with nice plan. I put her hands together on her back and tied them with a rope. The rope was not tied too strong so she could free herself easily if needed. Now i was a slave trader and she was my beautiful female slave. We were ready to join to first merchant or traders. Finally some of them were here and we joined them. We had no problems to come close to Gharak because the courtesy of his hall was always there for merchants. We were standing in his hall again, surrounded with boxes of silk robes, mithril shirts and other lesser items. But, one item among many was unique. Everyone become silent and watched with wide opened eyes when one of merchants took something and put it before Gharak. Gharak was stoned; his breathing stopped for a long moment while his eyes were greedily swallowing the shinning piece. It was a twin ruby, known as 'The soul of Archangel'. Twin rubies are the rarest among nature precious stones. They were made in the natural ways. Two rubies are connected with a thin ruby liaison. Because of this junction, light that enters the twin-ruby resonates and gives to a ruby the glow for thousand times stronger than usually. They are very hard to find and even harder to mine witouth splitting them. Thus such rubies are something the most precious in the realms. Masterfully crafted and shaped, 'Soul of Archangel' was crown of jewelry, was the lord of all twin-rubies. For the moment i forgot why we are here. I remembered that I should expect the sign for action from Inthiniel. She released herself and took her crossbow but she couldn't target well because of merchants standing around Gharak. With snap of his fingers, Gharak released a wired cage to fall down on Inthiniel. Her quick jump aside saved her and she avoided that trap. Seeing what is going on everyone run out in a second. We shoot several arrows very close to his his heart and that weakened him; he was shooting his fireballs and running around blindly after Inthiniel trying to catch her. She was jumping over stones laying on the ground, making Gharak to follow her over fires from his own fireballs. He was burning but that was not enough, he was nearly impervious to fire. Finally Gharak made one lucky jump and grabbed Inthiniel's waist with his fat hand. With one hand he was holding the twin ruby and the second hand with sharp claws was near Inthiniel's neck. I was targeting with crossbow right into Ghorak's heart. In threatening voice, Gharak shouted 'Her or the ruby?' I had no second thoght knowing that i must save her. 'Her' i said calmly and Inthiniel eyes met my eyes and began to shine. Simply by looking at each other, we knew feeling between us. She felt my feelings in her heart and I felt her's. Neither we nor Ghorak, master of underworld, knew one thing : Ghorak's are vulnerable to divine feelings such as love. Ghorak's body instantly crumbled to dust. Ghorak's head was still whole to say only one word 'HER?'and then crumbled too. When we got out we decided to continue to grow separately until the day when we will meet again. From then i live for such moment. Four days have past since then, and now i am drinking in tavern. 'One more glass please'. I become very thirsty when i remember of hot fireballs. A bartender approaches and begins new rumour while he is cleaning the table. 'Do you know', he said, 'people are talking of some fool, lost in the maze of Kalaman mountains. They talk he was wearing some burned breastplate with the picture of the golden eagle. What an unlucky fool he is when he likes to play with teleport potions...' When the bartender raised his eyes instead of me he could see only an empty chair and glass with barm. I was already on my way to Kalaman to find 'unlucky' Angnus, who obviously used teleport potion in the last moment to save his fat tricky *ss, hehe [/log] Title: Re: story Post by: Solmir on May 25, 2006, 04:19:04 pm Nice... yours?
Title: Re: story Post by: bloom on May 26, 2006, 12:22:40 am Nice... Just for your pleasure...yours? Yes, mine, and i wont give it to anyone! Title: Re: story Post by: Solmir on May 26, 2006, 11:03:11 am Continue please ;)
ps Or we can a play a game :) Anyone who want may add a chapter or some sentences to this story.. after some time we will get a whole book.. sell it.. and become rich... ;D ;D |