by Andy Nadir
Chapter Seventeen
After the match, Abbadon relinquished power over my body. I immediately headed to check on Bakar and Cynthia. They were both fine, so I sat with them for a little while, talking about how I beat Dusk. Cynthia was amazed. “Transmutation? You realize what you did? You absorbed both your Energy book and Shadow!”
I nodded. “I spoke with Shadow about this before it happened. He was content with doing this; he said something about having a second body.”
She frowned thinking. “Well, anyhow, you can control when your dragon armor comes out?” she asked.
“Yep” I answered”
I left her to think, and went to check on Dusk. He was lying in bed, awake. He saw me enter. “You are truly powerful. In fact, I don’t have to guess why.” He said.
I frowned. “What do you mean?”
Dusk took a deep breath. “Nobody but Lance Starfinder could be that powerful. And besides, I don’t forget old friends easy, Abbadon.”
“You know Abbadon? How?” I asked.
“We were both trapped in the abyss for a long time. We became friends during that time. This was all before the great demon king, went on a rampage, and blew several holes into the abyss, allowing us to escape.”
I sighed. “I guess it had to come out sooner or later.”
He smiled. “I won’t tell anybody. Well, it is nearing time to leave back. I think I will be seeing you around in your Magi College, if your headmaster allows me in.”
I went over and gathered Cynthia and Bakar. We headed to the teleport station. We got to the engraved circle, and imagined the front of the Headmasters room. The world spun, and we were standing back in Magi College. We knocked on the Headmasters door. He opened it. “We did it” I said.
The headmaster laughed, and hugged us. There was a huge party for us, because now many new students were streaming into the school, because of my awesome victory. We all soon started getting a fourth roomie. This went on for weeks. One day, as we returned from classes, we noticed a letter on my bed.
I opened it and read it. “Lance, Bakar, And Cynthia. Your unit will be relocated to house an extra addition. Relocation takes place immediately. Go to room 204 after you finish this letter. Your new roommate awaits you.”
I looked at them. We all started packing up our stuff, preparing to move. I removed my space enchantment on the room, and it shrunk back to normal. After we got all our stuff, we went off to find room 204.
We found it, and entered. We looked around and saw 4 beds. The room was a blueish gray, with lines painted on the sides. We had a glass roof that looked up onto the stars. I plopped my bags down on one bed, and Cynthia and Bakar did the same. We started moving our stuff to our draws. “Hey, didn’t the letter say the roomie would already be here?” asked Cynthia
“He is” Came the reply from above.
We looked up, and saw Dusk sitting on one of the bunk beds. “Dusk! Come down here” I yelled up, laughing.
We all introduced ourselves properly, and went to bed. The next morning, we showed Dusk around the school, and we talked about past experiences. We told him about Abel, and how he was still on the loose somewhere, and that many experts were looking for him. Then it came time for finals.
To pass finals, we had to beat a circle five monster in the arena. No problem. When I was called up, I just had my ruby use Bone Sentence, and the monster was slaughtered. Bakar unhealed its heart, and it died from a stopped heart. Cynthia surrounded its head with mist, and it killed itself because of poison. Dusk just opened his mouth so wide it could just go around the monster, and he ate it.
With finals done, we spent the next weeks getting to know each other better. We all studied spells and generally messed around. None of us had anywhere to go for the summer, so we decided to all stay in the school. Cynthia’s parents were both working all time, so she couldn’t go there, and Bakar’s parents still didn’t like him. I couldn’t go home, because I’m still a criminal and I would be arrested. Dusk couldn’t go come because that he would not return until he was a full-fledged mage.
So when summer came, we all stayed at the school, because we had nothing better to do. There were a few other units that stayed as well, but we didn’t really know them too well. There were also a few teachers left, but not too many. About two weeks into summer, the castle shook. We went out to look at what was going on and were stunned. There were monsters. Monsters everywhere. We immediately started calling for help. Within moments, the entire remains of the school were up here. “We can’t let them destroy our school!” I roared
“Get them!”
I jumped of the balcony, and my dragon armor grew around me. Abbadon took over, and We flew around the battle field slashing and destroying minions. Just as we launched a massive black hole into the enemy, we saw a glimpse of Bakar unhealing groups of enemies, and teachers fighting, and summoning monsters. I summoned a few goliath skeletons to help me fight. As we pushed all the monsters back slowly, there was a massive blast.
“Retreat!” somebody called
We all pulled back to the battlements. The monsters retook the ground we had just fought for. “Why did we fall back?” I growled.
“Look” somebody said, pointing at a large figure.
Then we watched as Abel emerged from the crowd of monsters.
“Students of Magi College! Today, you will fall before the might of my master! I give you only one chance! Leave the school now, and I will spare your life! You have 5 minutes!”
“What do you want with the school?” I called to him.
“Your school, the first magic academy, is the first of five magic academies. To be able to take Terra, I must conquer all five in order, and take the making stones from each one. You only have three minutes left!”
“Why do you want to take over Terra?” Bakar yelled.
“Because it is the source of magic! You fools, Don’t you know that many powerful demons like my mas… me, have been locked out of it? We simply want back in to destroy it!”
We talked with each other for a little. “He wants us to just leave the school? But we have too many artifacts to gather in five minutes! This is unacceptable! We will fight!” one of the students yelled.
Everyone took up the chant. “We shall fight! We shall fight!” The chant rang throughout the school. Then I turned back to the monster crowd. “We will never surrender! We are the Magi! Fear our might!”
As we continued the chant, a strange power entered me. The voice returned. “Hello, Lance.”
“You know that you won’t be able to beat him on your own, don’t you?
I nodded.
“Well then, I guess it’s time for me to finish the triangle. My name is Michel, and I am the angle.
An amazing power filled me. Light began streaming out of my eyes. “I am Michel, I am Abbadon, I am Lance! Together, the angel, devil, and human jumped from the school. “Holy Cannon!” we roared. “Black death!” We roared. Black light streamed from my left hand, and white light streamed from my right.
The twin beams destroyed hundreds of monsters, but more came to take their place. We laughed. The school roared a challenge and charged into battle with me.
Abel faded back into the crowd, allowing his minions to die. I was so mad, my now twin swords started glowing. Suddenly, bones from the monsters I had killed flew up and slammed against my swords. Slowly, they all melted into them, and the swords became longer, and wider, like a very long cleaver, but with spikes along the blade. I grinned. “Now we’re talking”
I swung it at a monster near me as an experiment. It was much faster than before. It cut clean through his hand. Then as I watched him, bones in his body burst out from under his skin, and he was turned into a living porcupine. I grinned. “I name you…The Twin Boneplagues”
Slowly, Twin Bone
plague’s disease spread between the monsters, it didn’t take long to reduce much of the monsters population. They all pulled back near Abel, whose presence seemed to counteract Boneplague’s disease. I saw that Bakar was dragging Cynthia off the field, because of a leg injury.
I walked up to Abel. “One on one.” I said.
“I win, and you and your monsters leave and don’t come back. You win, and we surrender. Deal?”
Abel thought for a moment. “Deal” he said. I launched forward, and my Boneplague slammed into his clawed hand. We traded blow for blow, matching each other’s power and speed. Suddenly, his tail whipped out and stabbed me through the heart. Abel cackled. “It looks like you lose, Lance.” “Say goodbye now” I burst into laughter.
You cannot beat us that easily, we are the servants of the Lord! We carry his will, and by killing the human half, you just allow us free reign! Besides, we have three hearts, one on each plane of existence, hell, earth, and heaven. Our human heart will regrow. Now, die!”
We raised the twin Boneplagues. They started glowing with black and white light. At a speed faster than the human eye can trace, they launched forward, and carved him into pieces.
“Foolish human, you may have beaten me…but you…cant…possible…challen…challenge…Shargon...” Abel collapsed to the ground, dead.
A massive cry arose from the demons, and they retreated. Shouts of victory were heard all over the battlefield. The moment the last demon had left the battleground, I fell to my knees. Abels words ran through my head. The war wasn’t over.
But, I couldn’t give up yet. After all, Cynthia and Bakar owe me a cake for saving the school. For now, I think I’ll Just sleep.
My body toppled forward, and I fell into blissful darkness.