02-03-2015, 09:55 PM
A horrid scream escaped the nurse’s maw as she lurched forward and slashed her knife across Atelos’ cheek. The Spartan let out noise that was a mixture of rage and confusion, but before he could react, the woman lunged at him and tackled him to the ground. With his shield pinned between his bulk and the ground, the Grecian warrior had only his hands to defend him against the nurse’s erratic slashes.
“Get-off-of-me!”
Despite his great strength, the Spartan was shocked to realize that he was struggling—struggling!—to push the bloody, emaciated woman off of him. He managed to get a hand under her neck and push her half a foot up, and just like that, she was gone. What looked to be a giant bolt of yellow lightning lashed forward and slammed into the nurse’s chest and head. Her grip evaporated and the concussive force threw her clear from the Spartan, who was left wide-eyed on his back. It took him a further moment to realize that his beard had been slightly singed by the blast’s immense heat.
Rolling onto his chest, the Grecian glanced up to see the child standing a few meters away. The armored boy’s right hand had turned into some sort of miniature cannon and was smoking slightly. While his eyes were hidden, the scowl on Blues’ face was an emotion Atelos had never seen, even on the grittiest of Spartan boys.
A few yards away, Shang stood, seemingly devoid of emotion to any passerby. The Spartan knew the sorcerer’s nonverbal cues enough to know that his partner was now silently sizing up the child. Something like this wasn’t information that Shang Tsung wouldn’t forget.
“We should move back to camp,” Blue remarked, his voice mature beyond his apparent years. “I don’t know what that was, but I don’t want to find out if there are more.” Without waiting for either man to reply to him, the armored child slipped back into the darkness that led to their campsite.
“He’s not a child.” Atelos remarked as he stood up off the ground. For good measure, he pulled his shield off his back and ensured that his sword was at the ready.
“No, he certainly is not,” Shang shot back as his eyes scanned their surroundings. “He’s probably just like you or me.”
“I struggled with that creature, Shang, and he felled it in one blast!”
“I saw that,” the sorcerer replied matter-of-factly as the two allies started back toward the campsite. “For all we know, Spartan, that… ‘child’ could be stronger than the paladin.”
Atelos scowled, clearly frustrated with that parcel of information. Shang felt the same way, but he had a better poker face than the Spartan—his emotional displays were always intentional and preplanned. Before either man could break the silence, the booming voice of their party’s leader tore through the silence of the forest.
“Foul beasts! Send them all back to oblivion!”
Drawing their weapons, the two men charged through the trees. When they burst out the other end, they saw that their camp was under attack by a collection of mortifying creatures. Some looked human… others appeared to have been ripped straight from the nightmares of an asylum inmate. At the center of the camp, the two warriors saw the paladin start to glow with a radiant white light, but before they could watch, both were swarmed.
“Get-off-of-me!”
Despite his great strength, the Spartan was shocked to realize that he was struggling—struggling!—to push the bloody, emaciated woman off of him. He managed to get a hand under her neck and push her half a foot up, and just like that, she was gone. What looked to be a giant bolt of yellow lightning lashed forward and slammed into the nurse’s chest and head. Her grip evaporated and the concussive force threw her clear from the Spartan, who was left wide-eyed on his back. It took him a further moment to realize that his beard had been slightly singed by the blast’s immense heat.
Rolling onto his chest, the Grecian glanced up to see the child standing a few meters away. The armored boy’s right hand had turned into some sort of miniature cannon and was smoking slightly. While his eyes were hidden, the scowl on Blues’ face was an emotion Atelos had never seen, even on the grittiest of Spartan boys.
A few yards away, Shang stood, seemingly devoid of emotion to any passerby. The Spartan knew the sorcerer’s nonverbal cues enough to know that his partner was now silently sizing up the child. Something like this wasn’t information that Shang Tsung wouldn’t forget.
“We should move back to camp,” Blue remarked, his voice mature beyond his apparent years. “I don’t know what that was, but I don’t want to find out if there are more.” Without waiting for either man to reply to him, the armored child slipped back into the darkness that led to their campsite.
“He’s not a child.” Atelos remarked as he stood up off the ground. For good measure, he pulled his shield off his back and ensured that his sword was at the ready.
“No, he certainly is not,” Shang shot back as his eyes scanned their surroundings. “He’s probably just like you or me.”
“I struggled with that creature, Shang, and he felled it in one blast!”
“I saw that,” the sorcerer replied matter-of-factly as the two allies started back toward the campsite. “For all we know, Spartan, that… ‘child’ could be stronger than the paladin.”
Atelos scowled, clearly frustrated with that parcel of information. Shang felt the same way, but he had a better poker face than the Spartan—his emotional displays were always intentional and preplanned. Before either man could break the silence, the booming voice of their party’s leader tore through the silence of the forest.
“Foul beasts! Send them all back to oblivion!”
Drawing their weapons, the two men charged through the trees. When they burst out the other end, they saw that their camp was under attack by a collection of mortifying creatures. Some looked human… others appeared to have been ripped straight from the nightmares of an asylum inmate. At the center of the camp, the two warriors saw the paladin start to glow with a radiant white light, but before they could watch, both were swarmed.
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