Rebirth Online 3 by Michael James Ploof

Author:Michael James Ploof [Ploof, Michael James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Traveling Bard Publishing
Published: 2019-01-21T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The blast had come from the middle of the sand less than fifty feet away from us, and I was lifted off my feet by a wall of green flame and deposited near the wall. A wave of sand covered me, and I lay on the ground struggling to breathe. I pulled myself up out of the sand and looked around, but there was too much dust to see through.

“Kit, Trinity, Anna!” I called. “Where is everyone?”

They groaned and called back to me from close by, and then the surrounding dust suddenly receded back from the center of the blast. I found everyone sprawled out around me, and the stands were in chaos.

“Look!” Cecilia said urgently and pointed at the pit that now smoldered in the center of the arena.

From the depths of the smoldering pit came a black creature that looked to be made completely of shadow. It hovered over the smoldering pit, halfway between my guild and the Harvesters of Sorrow. I nodded at the other guild leader, and he acknowledged my silent gesture. I assumed that the creature was hostile, and the dwarven guards seemed to agree. They rushed past me and my guild and surrounded the shadow creature. There were at least twenty guards in all, and the stadium was packed with highly skilled players, but that didn’t stop the creature from suddenly shooting toward the crowd with a hair-raising howl.

Spells erupted from all around the stadium, over a thousand in all, but to everyone’s utter amazement, none of the spells hit the creature. They went through it as though it was smoke, and the creature swooped down toward my guild’s booth.

No, it wasn’t going for our booth, it was going toward my parents!

“Look out!” I screamed and unleashed a blast of Arcane Lightning. My spell was absorbed by the creature this time, as were the other players hundreds of follow up spells. The shadow creature held the collective energy in his long fingers and then suddenly released it all in a blast of light. Every spell shot back at its wielder, and I barely brought up my Fire Shield in time to deflect my Arcane Lightning.

I ran through the fiery chaos, dodging and deflecting run-away spells, desperately trying to get to my parents. Everyone around them was clearing out, but they stood there in shock. I saw my father finally unsheathe his blade, but it turned to ash with a flick of the shadow creature’s wrist.

“Run!” I screamed, but it was too late.

The shadowy figure raised its hands palms out, and black tendrils shot out of its hands and wrapped my parents in a dark, misty webbing.

“No!” I leapt up onto the barrier wall and kicked off, launching myself twenty feet into the air. I reached for the shadow creature, intent on driving it to the ground and killing it for messing with my parents, but just like my spells, I passed right through the creature.

I landed in the aisle behind the fifth row and turned to see my parents floating through the air behind the shadowy figure.

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