It's All Fun and Games by Dave Barrett

Author:Dave Barrett [Barrett, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkshares
Published: 2016-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

TJ sat bolt upright in alarm. An air-raid siren was going off somewhere, and he jerked his head around, looking for the source. No matter which direction he turned, he couldn’t pinpoint the noise. It was only after several long seconds that he realized the noise was coming from between his two ears. He dismissed the alarm spell with a thought, irritated that it was nondirectional. He could have sworn that it was supposed to indicate which portion of the perimeter had been breached. That was what his instructors had said would happen.

Unless . . .

A light tinkling noise rang out from his left. And his right. Then behind him.

“Wake up!” he shouted, rousing Allison and Jimmy from their bedrolls. Stu, having sprung up at the first jingle, already had an arrow nocked and was scanning for targets. A shape charged in from the left, and the arrow streaked toward it. The figure emitted a muffled grunt and dropped. No sooner had Stu released his string than he’d pulled another from its quiver. Again he drew and fired, this time in the opposite direction. A second whatever-it-was dropped.

A slight fog had blown in. While it did not completely obstruct TJ’s view, it made it difficult to pinpoint details. “Light!” he shouted, raising his fist into the air. A dazzling brilliance sprouted from it, giving him his first clear look at the area. Allison reached for her helmet and mace; she had been sleeping in her breastplate. Jimmy was also on his feet and had his sword out in front of him, his back to the campfire.

Most disheartening was the number of enemies that had begun to crowd their camp. A quick count showed a dozen or more in just the front row, and movement in the trees behind suggested at least that many in reserve. They were large, hulking brutes, with knotty foreheads and arms that nearly reached the ground. They wore no armor and carried thick wooden clubs as wide as a man’s thigh. Despite their lack of sophisticated weapons, they looked plenty formidable.

Jimmy took two steps forward to meet the first rank and cut at them with his giant sword. Cries of pain and rage followed the tip of his blade as trails of red opened up across arms, chests, and abdomens. Unaware or indifferent to his greater reach, they continued to press in on him and received another slice for their troubles. One toppled, and then another. A third staggered toward Jimmy, club raised high, but the berserker pirouetted, his sword a silver streak that severed both arms and head from the creature’s torso.

Stu continued to fire arrow after arrow, but it seemed that his first shots had been lucky to drop the creatures. He now found himself having to fire two or more at the same target to get it to fall, and he was running out of both arrows and space to fire. One stepped close, and he spun his bow around like a staff, catching it on the side of the head.

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