Bah
By Medeve. Filed in Saga |
People annoy me. “I put a period, but its at the top, not the bottom.” How am I supposed to respond to that. If it’s not at the bottom, then its obviously not a period.
Anyway, I need to vent. And I want to do it in a creative and productive manner. And so without further delay I present you a chapter in the life of Turrance, Lux, and Katrina. (Note that this is highly inaccurate in what happened as I didn’t take notes. Maybe next time I will if people like this. Also only Tur is my character, so I’m guessing on exactly what the other two should be like):
Turrance looked at the door that stood less the fifty feet away. It seemed to mock him. He was not looking forward to trying to cross the room again. It hurt like hell last time he tried it, but at least it saved one of his companions. The fact that said companion did in fact later die to mummies grimly floated in his head.
He looked back at his companions. Galem, the soul-warped golem they freed the previous day appeared to be disinterested in what was happen. On his back he carried the body of his friend who had also been freed, only to have fallen when ambushed by the mummies.
Katrina also looked disinterested in what was going on, although it may have been she just didn’t want to be here any longer. Turrance understood, but felt obligated to at least atempt to get the real sword for Mark.
The tiny sand dragon Titus walked around the back of the room, head held high. The draconic features of the young creature were foreign to Turrance. Save for the rare occasion that the dragon made its feelings known, Turrance could never guess what it was thinking.
And then there was Lux. Within the last few days Lux had managed to turn from something Turrance had hopes of bringing back from the dark into something he’d rather just go ahead and leave here. Between nearly killing Titus while Turrance’s back was turned to offering to kill Galem as an act of ‘mercy’. The less time spent thinking about Lux the better.
But now he had to think about Lux. The human female had recently shown an aptitude for getting past traps, and it looked to him that her newfound ability would be the only thing that would get them past this without any harm.
“Lux, come over here,” he called.
“What up?” Lux responded as she walked up to him.
“I need you to go over to the otherside of the room and see if you can figure out how to disarm the trap.”
Lux looked at Tur incredulously. “Are you insane?”
“What? Your the most agile out of us, and even if any of us make it to the otherside, we can’t stop the trap.” Lux just continued to stare at him. “Go do it already. We still have no idea how far ahead of us they are.”
Lux reluctantly made her way towards the door. As she approached the middle of the room, almost at the exact same location Tur was hit on their orginal walk through the room, Lux quickly picked up speed and made a mad dash for the door. As she passed the halfway point a beam of crackling green energy shot out at her, missing her by a good foot. She continued to run and threw herself against the door, her hand instinctively going for the door knob to open it only to find that it was locked. She dropped to her knees and began to work on the locked door while she motioned for the rest to come over.
“Is it disabled?” Tur asked as he neared Lux.
“No. And the door is locked.” Lux looked over at Katrina. “I can’t get it fast enough. Your turn.”
Katrina smiled slightly as she pulled her sword out of her sheath, the slick grey adamantium gleaming in the sunrod’s bright light. She took a step back and jumped up in the air, and swung at the door, taking a solid chunk out of the door as she landed on the ground. She took another step back and repeated her actions, this time knocking a hole large enough for them to walk through. She put away her sword and walked through the newly produced doorway, followed by the others.
The hallway lead another fifty feet down and then stopped in a door. As they neared the door Lux suddenly frooze.
“Shh..” she told the rest who also stopped moving. “I hear people on the otherside of the door. At least two, maybe more.”
Turrance nodded his head in response, and his hand went for the door. Locked. He looked back at Katrina and nodded his head.
“After you,” he told her.
Again Katrina pulled her sword out and began to beat down the door. After the first impact, voices could be heard from the otherside of the door.
“Shit! They’re here!” A voice screamed and suddenly dropped to a low murmuring they couldn’t make out. Another two solid hits to the door from Katrina and it crumbled to nothingness. Tur quickly jumped into the room and began to shape himself into one of his favor forms [Ed note: Cannot remember name of creature, will replace], a large furry four legged dinosaur.
“He’s going beaver!” he could hear Katrina call out, her nickname for the animal that she continued to use, much to Turrance’s annoyance. Turrance ignored the outburst, and looked around the room, not entirely pleased with what he saw.
Any comments (ignoring the horrible spelling errors I probably made. I don’t have spellcheck here at the work computers, just at my home machine)? Then leave one bellow fool.
Thursday, August 3rd 2006 at 2:18 pm |
::applause:: well done, as always your writing interests me, i’d like to see a book published one day, and ill buy the first copy =)