User blog:Vertroyer/The Dark War - Chapter 2

The Earth was shaking and so were the trees of Gloomwoods.

Minions of stone wielding stone swords were being summoned in the area, by none other than the Witch herself. The Witch was one of the most major threats Drakkonbane ever witnessed. Summoning minions of all varieties, mind control, magical attacks and spells of all sorts, she was a massive pain in the ass to deal with.

Luckily for our upcoming heroes, there wasn't that much rock or stone in the area, the Witch was only able to summon 3 so far.

Witch: (whispering) This area is too large, three won't be enough.

And it was true, the area was indeed very large. There were also many trees and old broken city architecture throughout the whole area, which made hiding a lot easier and searching a ton more harder. The Witch needed to go look for more stone on the other side of the Gloomwoods to summon more stone minions.

Witch: Minions! Start searching the area for that cursed Addfire! I want her in your custody ASAP!

The minions were silent, since they were made of stone and couldn't speak, but they obeyed and started patrolling the area in search of Addfire. The Witch teleported to the other side, unaware of whatever was possibly happening with her minions.

Meanwhile, Addfire slightly opened her eyes... eventually waking up. She sat up from her bed and looked around. She was still sleepy but to her goodness, she was awake. Slight parts of the ceiling were falling down due to the rumbling magnitude the stone minions were causing. She knew something was up, the Gloomwoods hasn't had any events occuring in it for ages, so why now?

She looked around for her battle clothing and her gear.

Addfire: Ah! There you are! cheeky clothes!

After getting dressed up, she was in a brown shirt with few gold tracings over it. She had black pants on with a chain dangling from her pocket, an accessory attached to the chain read "Let's add some fire!". she had gauntlets on her arms and wore winter boots because the Gloomwoods were pretty cold. Her hair was freely behind her and she was opening her closet for the weapons.

Two deadly scimitars and a katar. She equipped the katar on her right hand and set it back into it's sheathed mode. The katar was so nicely made, it fitted perfectly into her hand and wasn't an obstacle for her melee combat. She picked the two leather scabbards and wore them both behind her back, she always loved to pick her swords out that way.

On both of her scimitars was a button on the hilts, it was a red one with the fire symbol engraved on it. Whenever Addfire felt the need for it, she could use that button and her scimitars would heat up to ridiculous temperatures, allowing her to slice through steel and leave molten residue with ease. The sword would use up lava stored inside the handles of the swords however, and the handles weren't that big, and she was far away from any locations with lava. But Addfire wasn't always the conserving type.

Add, along with Haw, were the most skilled melee fighters of The Iron Shield. They were both the main melee fighters of the team, they would hold off dozens, even hundreds of melee enemies for very long periods of time. But it was only Haw who knew how to deal with ranged enemies, Addfire on the other hand, faces difficulties when ranged opponents swarm her or gain too much distance.

Addfire had a unique ability, the telepathy to read minds of people and use it to her advantage during battle. While it really does help her, too many enemies at once would pose a problem. She can only read so many people's minds at once before they start to pile up and she doesn't see a strike coming from somewhere she wouldn't expect.

Without delay she ran up the stairs and aimed for reaching the surface.

Meanwhile, the nightmare wearing a hoodie had arrived at the Gloomwoods.

Spicy: This place creeps me out....ugh.... I don't like the look of this.

A stone minion to the right of Spicy spotted him, Spicy noticed as well. The stone minion walked towards him with a sword unsheathed in hand, Spicy recognized this as an obvious hostile.

The 2 other stone minions were to the left of Spicy and were also walking towards him, but he didn't see them because he turned around to face the minion on his right.

Naturally, he had already drawn his revolver and fired a full clip to the minion's head. Few chunks of stone blew off his head but he was still moving and still very durable.

Spicy: (thinking to himself) Hmmm.... I'm not gonna waste too many bullets on this guy. Since he's only one, I'll just raise and drop him. He's only one after all, I just need to be careful.

He swinged his arm to the top, and the minion was now levitating in the air. Swinged it back down, and the minion was full of cracks, most of his body was blown off but he still stood up and tried walking towards him. Spicy reloaded his revolver and took aim at the most cracked part in his torso. BAM! The minion was destroyed.

He barely felt tired, he started remembering just how powerful he used to be back then. Some more nostalgia.

The sound of the stone getting blown off from the minion was too loud however, he didn't hear the minion behind him forming a 4 foot-sized rock in his hand and hurling it at him. When he turned around, it was too late, the boulder was already in proximity of half a meter from him.

He was hit in his chest so hard, he was flung all the way to a stone wall. The impact was so hard that the wall itself cracked, and Spicy was coughing up blood. The minions continued walking towards him, still hostile as ever, and their swords were slowly getting raised to amputate the fallen hero.

Spicy looked up to see a feminine figure dropping down through the moonlight, and his eyes widened. Addfire clung to the minion behind and placed both her scimitars around his neck, then she backflipped and tightened the grip of her swords on his neck, slicing it. She landed back on her feet as the pieces of the stone minion were thrown far off behind her.

Addfire: Hey blockhead!

She sprinted to the minion up front with her scimitars in hand, the stone minion was slowly turning around with his sword still raised to deflect her attack. When she got close enough, she jumped and rotated her body to be in a horizontal orientation while still flying towards the minion. Then she spun with her swords in hand so rapidly and made a final swing upon landing in front of the minion that slashed though not only his sword, but his whole stone body, cleanly slicing them all into pieces.

She ran to Spicy instinctively to help him out.

Addfire: Oh god! Are you alright?

Spicy: Got hit by a boulder straight into my chest, got my back struck to the wall, coughing blood..... yeah I'm totally fine.

Addfire: You're still an ass... here, lemme help you.

She helped him up to his feet, but he was still coughing up blood. Neither of them had healing abilities or medications on them so they had to deal with the injury for the time being.

Spicy: Thanks a bunch... *cough* *cough*

Before Addfire could smile and reply, the Witch was already up on an obelisk to their left watching them. She had been able to summon 3 more stone minions but used up all the stone available. She ordered them to stand guard in front of the obelisk while she was performing a summoning ritual for a much bigger danger.

Witch: You're both as foolish as ever. What hope do you have in restoring Drakkonbane? You can't even have your team together again!

Spicy: Says the punk who lost control over the Werewolf... *cough*

Witch: That was a mistake! And still he is far more powerful than any of you pests can handle! I have my own armies now!

Addfire: yeah..... 6 stone minons who are a bit slower than a snail?

The Witch got pissed with the roasts, and ordered her 3 newly made stone minions to take them out.

Spicy: *cough* triggered *cough*

Addfire heated one of her scimitars up, and with one slash, sent a sharp lava-hot fire wave towards the 3 minions. All 3 were hit at the torso as their top parts fell off, showing a clean cut at the edges of their parts and the stone around it melting.

Addfire: ... 6 dead stone minions?

The Witch couldn't care about Addfire's roast because she bought enough time to summon one of her boss minions.

Witch: Come forth Garada!

A portal was opened from the sky, and a large minion 10 times the size of the heroes fell upon the ground. He had 2 horns on his head facing upwards that looked like scythe blades. His torso was part grey and part brown. his head was basically a black skull, the rest of him was just purple.

Witch: I don't care about your existence anymore Add.... You can rot in the 10th circle of hell where you belong. Garada, Wipe them off of existence.

And with that, the Witch teleported out of the area, leaving the 2 fighters with their newly found threat.

End.