Slowly turning around, I faced the source of the thing breathing down my back. I think it was suitable to call it a monster. It took the form of a rat. Normally, you would think of those small furry grey rodents. But this wasn’t anything like that. It was about 3 meters tall (9.9 feet), and had brown fur that looked and probably felt like metal spikes. My knees were clearly buckling now, but I gathered my courage and willed them to stop. Stopping the buckling, I realized that the rat was looking at me, and hadn’t attacked yet. Realizing this, I jumped back in order to gain some distance. While jumping back, I cast [Gust] on myself to propel myself away from the rat by creating a gust of wind. I think the rat took that as a threat, because all of it’s furs stood up straight, and it looked nearly twice it’s previous size. Seeing the rat raise it’s paw and prepare to strike me, I immediately cast another spell, this time I cast a defensive spell, [Wall of Wind]. My spell created a wall of wind in front of me, and successfully blocked the rat’s paw… Or not. *BAM* I was smashed by the rat’s paw and threw across the garden. Feeling myself barely conscious, I got really angry. It enraged me, to feel so powerless. Casting [Heal] on myself, I got back up, only to fall back down, throwing up blood and stomach acid, not a pleasurable feeling. Thinking to myself, I pushed all the blame to the rat, and decided that no matter what I did, I would kill this rat, I would annihilate it.
Ignoring my body’s screams of pain, I poured all of the mana in my body in order to cast one of the strongest spells I knew, the intermediate-class fire spell [Fireball]. I felt all of my energy, my mana, being pulled out of me through my hand. Feeling the searing ball of fire in front of me, I used the last of my will to fire the fireball, locking onto the giant rat. With the last of my energy, I jerked my head up, and saw the burnt remains of the giant rat. Feeling a truly happy, proud feeling of success in my chest, I felt the lump of rage within me dissolve as I passed out, completely exhausted. On the brink of consciousness, I heard gentle voices calling out to me.
“ARTY!!!!”
...Or maybe not so gentle, but caring nonetheless. Hearing the yells of concern, I felt safe once again, and I finally fell unconscious.
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The Fireball surely raised the hair on the over-sized rodents body! Enough so, to keep me reading on..will we learn what the outcome of the spell was?
ReplyDeleteI can't say at the moment. Keep on reading to find out... or maybe not.
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