The driver was panicking since he couldn't find Nelle or Thomas.
-Nelle-
She started to cut the strings by summoning saw blades with an orange glare. The puppets fell to the floor but they started to walk or crawl towards her. She ran back to where the door was but it wasn't there.
"The door is gone."
"I can see that," she said as she caused the wood to rot.
"My puppets!" Pohrsin summoned two mannequins that were 7 feet in height.
Nelle made a circle in the wall and managed to get into the hallway she entered from. Pohrsin's mannequins followed her unaware that Jorrah was free. She ran outside while shooting spheres of light at them.
-Thomas-
"Chaotic rain!" Jorrah laughed.
Random objects started to fall and disappear from gray faint clouds. They lasted a few seconds before vanishing.
Thomas grabbed a plastic ball, managed to set it on fire and threw it at Jorrah but it disappeared before it hit him.
A spade went through Thomas' heart and blood started to flow out.
"No no no, you can't be done, the fun has only just begun," Jorrah said as he stood back. "Healing dice."
Dozens of dice with a green and red glow were thrown onto the floor. There were dice that ranged from six sides to twenty sides. They moved towards Thomas like a magnet with each one healing him at a different amount depending on the number. Thomas no longer had any wounds and was feeling better. He still had a blood stained shirt.
"Why did you heal me?"
"I wanted a fair fight but you died easier than I hoped."
All of a sudden they heard hundreds of thumps from outside the door.
Jorrah started to laugh. "I wonder if that's him."
They ran to the door. When they opened it they found a puppet made of rotten wood.
Jorrah giggled "I'll tear him limb from limb."
They ran outside and saw Nelle fighting Pohrsin.
"Conglomerate," Pohrsin's puppets moved towards him creating the shape of a torso. It grew four arms and a head. It started crawling towards Nelle but they both heard cackling.
"Spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts, all of them will tear you apart!" Diamonds were thrown at the puppet monster breaking some of them.
Jorrah turned to Nelle and Thomas. "I'll deal with you later. I have someone I need to break."
He juggled four orange balls and they each exploded into balls of flames setting Pohrsin on fire. Pohrsin tried to grab Jorrah but he was too quick and kept on teleporting around him.
"You're still immature aren't you?"
"Shut up Jorrah."
Jorrah threw jack-in-a-boxes onto the floor. They popped up and shot green spades, pink hearts, cyan diamonds and yellow clubs at the creature. He managed to grab Pohrsin's back and pulled him out making the puppets fall.
Nelle turned some of the puppets into rotten wood while Thomas tried to set some on fire.
"I'm going to kill you all for this!" yelled Pohrsin.
Jorrah laughed and tied him up with a rope made of rainbow handkerchiefs.
Jorrah walked to Thomas and gave him a Jack-in-a-box. "I'm sorry for your troubles. If he ever finds you again or you need some help just open it and a copy of myself will appear."
"I'm telling!"
"Shut up Pohrsin," Jorrah giggled.
"Telling?" Thomas asked.
"He's my younger brother," Jorrah said.
Nelle and Thomas walked back with the Jack-in-a-box in Thomas' backpack.
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The broken gear
ФэнтезиSet in the early 1900s, we follow Thomas Henderforth, a relatively kind noble as well as a skilled warrior born in England Minor. He gets sent to Switzerland to protect one of the 8 gears that controls a positive aspect of humanity. He then encounte...