Post by StoryGirl83 on Nov 9, 2011 9:40:50 GMT -5
Chapter Twenty-One – Mud
Demons surrounded them on all sides. It would be difficult for two witches to handle under normal circumstances. When one of them was mostly magicless, it became a whole lot harder.
It was a well known fact that being without magic didn’t mean powerless. Chris ducked down as acidic substances sailed over his head. “I don’t think they like us.”
“You think,” Brianna retorted as she kicked out her leg and tripped a slimy demon that was advancing on her. “An active power would be nice right now.”
“Yeah, that would,” Chris retorted as he slammed his fist into another demon. “How are you with spells?”
She grabbed a tree branch out of the mud and swung it around her, knocking several demons down. “Passable.”
“And you’re the best among your friends?”
“Not hard when CT’s the only other witch,” she retorted as she whapped a demon that was charging Chris over the head with her branch.
“Thanks,” he chuckled as kneed a demon in the groin and ducked the punch of another.
“Spell huh,” she commented. “Close your eyes.”
“That doesn’t seem smart,” Chris commented as he caught motion on the edge of his vision and kicked the demon down into the mud.
“Use your sensing,” she suggested. “It should be able to tell you where everyone is and how to avoid them.”
“Like your empathy does,” he shot back as he ducked from an energy ball.
“Totally different power,” she informed him. “Fine, just make sure you close them before I finish the spell.”
Chris ducks under another demons attack, grabs up a sharp stick, and stabs it into the demon. He grinned as he watched the demon explode even as he got covered in demon gut. “One demon, five to go.”
“Which still isn’t an easy feat,” she reminded him as she swung her branch at the demons knocking one of them down. “Bright as light off the snow, make this fighting ground glow. Blind the eyes of those who look . . .”
Chris ducked down as another fireball whizzed over him, right where his head had been a moment before. He closed his eyes and forced his attention on his sensing power.
Brianna leaned away from an incoming stream of acid before continuing her spell. “So their vision I will have,” she chanted closing her eyes before finishing, “took.”
All around them a blinding white light filled the vision of the five remaining demons, blinding them. Several seconds passed before Brianna opened her eyes. The light had abated and the demons where in a state of confusion. Brianna watched, a little surprised, as one of the demons hit another with acidic spit and the second demon burst into nothing. “Two down, four to go,” she announced followed with, “you can open your eyes now.”
“Correction,” Chris turned to face her, pulling a branch out of a demon as he did so. “Three down, three to go.” He opened his eyes but didn’t bother looking behind him as the demon exploded into globs of goo that covered them in muck.
The three remaining demons didn’t bother fighting anymore. They shimmered out and left the two witches alone.
Brianna grinned and dug into the dirt. She pulled up a muddy sphere. She wiped it off with her sleeve and looked at the see through globe in her hand. She handed it to Chris.
He stuck the orb in his pack, no longer bothering to ask why they needed such odd ingredients. If they did they did. He wiped some mud off his face and looked at her. “Are you all right?”
Brianna nodded as she combed mud out of her hair with her fingers. She spit some out of her mouth and nodded. “Yeah, I’m fine.” Belying her statement she limped a few steps. She gave him a shrug. “I’ve had worse.”
Chris shook his head with a smile. “Tough girl, huh?”
“You got it,” she agreed before sighing. “Well, so much for the easy part.”
“The easy part?” Chris asked in disbelief. “How was that the easy part?”
“Yeah,” Brianna confirmed. “Now, we have to find a unicorn.”
Chris stared at her for several seconds and burst out laughing.
Brianna glared at him. “It’s not funny. You ever try hunting a unicorn?”
“No,” he denied. “I wouldn’t bother. Come with me and I’ll introduce you to my brother’s pet unicorn.”
This time Brianna stared at him in disbelief. “You have a pet unicorn?”
He shook his head. “No, my brother does.”
“How does one keep a unicorn as a pet?” she asked, trying to comprehend this.
“By making everyone think it is a white horse,” he informed her.
“And how does one keep people who know from stealing horn dust?” she pressed. “Or even the whole unicorn?”
He chuckled at that. “You’ll see. Are you going to take us there, or not?”
She nodded. “Oh, yeah, I’m coming.” Her eyes glow eagerly as she adds, “I can’t believe I’m going to see a unicorn.”
Chris laughed at this. “Well, you’re going to have to get us there, because we both know I can’t.” He looked at the items collected in his pack. “Is this everything else we need?”
She nodded. “That’s everything else.”