Nigga Lamp - Remastered

Chapter 13 - Ice Breaker

"ah lad"

Paddy was stranded in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by beautiful white snow.

He had been walking for a while now, and headed in the direction of what looked to be a big stack of smoke.

"ah... finally... for fuck sake."

The Grand Wizard definitely did not pull his punches when it came to teleporting. Maybe he had received Dylan's teleport location too? He didn't see any footprints alongside his, so he wasn't too sure.

"Hello? Hello?!"

A short man, equipped in an outfit you would expect to see in a snow covered land like this, greeted Paddy.

"lad, im not going to lie. im fooking lost can ya help me for a bit?"

"Oh sure! We rarely get visitors out here, after all."

"we?"

The man dusted off the snow from his rather long beard, as he brought Paddy inside one of the houses.

"how come theres no snow around here?"

Outside the house, the outpost had no snow on the ground at all.

"Surely you felt it, no? Did you not see the yolk outside?"

Paddy had no clue what he was talking about.

"Here, come out for a second, actually."

"OK, see that? Surely you feel the heat now."

Paddy hadn't realised it from the state he was in, but there was a massive coal furnace outside in the center of the tiny town.

"what about your snow suit thingy then lad?"

"Oh, you mean this? I was just about to go hunting before I copped you. Surely you don't think we can spent our whole day in the town?"

"why dont ya just move to somewhere where the food is?"

. . .

"Anyways, I usually gather the food. Ricky and Jim gather the coal for that goliath of a machine you see before you."

"ricky and jim?"

"Yeah, they're usually in the mines. We consist of only 9 people, so it isn't too hard out here. Nice, peaceful area where all the folk get to enjoy themselves. No trouble from the monsters, apart from the occasional few."

"ah, sure nine isnt too bad."

"Well, actually, there is technically 10... but we don't really talk to her, if that's how you would phrase it."

"sure whats the bother, she a loud snorer or something?"

"No, she's actually quiet enough. The poor girl was blessed with power, in fact, too much power."

Paddy could probably use this to his own advantage. He could beat up that White prick, and complete his quest... well, that's all he had to do really.

"can i go see the young missy?"

"Er... sure you can..."

"Now, don't mention anything about rifts, the rift, or riftwalkers, alright... what's your name?"

"paddy."

"Alright Paddy, just remember that and you'll be fine.

"ok so."

Paddy entered into the house, heading down the hall.

"Amy, you have a visitor!"

And with that, he closed the door. Paddy never got his name in return, but oh well.

He entered into the room om the right, and saw a girl, no older than 16 sitting down on a sofa.

"hello..?"

"well miss, hows it going?"

Her hair was black, pupils were black, but to balance it out, she wore bright colourful clothing. A white dress, matching the snow just barely outside.

"you are new..? who are you..?"

"names paddy. how about you?"

"it's Amy..."

She wasn't much of a talker.

"so, you can make rifts? what they even do? i heard youre pretty strong, can ya show me?"

"..what did you just say..?"

"your rifts, no?"

"What?! No! No. no..."

"why not miss? i have a fella that needs to be knocked down a peg or two."

"I SAID NO!!!"

The whole house shook in its place.

"pretty please..?"

"STOP!!!"

Tears burst down her face, and instead of her pupils being entirely black, it was now her eyes. She stood up and walked over to Paddy.

"so youll help?"

Now that he looked closer, her eyes resembled a bit of purple and blue, alongside the black, almost like a galaxy in both of her eyes.

She put her hand on to his chest.

"miss, what the fook are ya doing now like-"

Immeasurable pain swept over Paddy's body, and he fell to the floor.

"ah... fuck miss..."

"I will delete you like the rest before you. Begone."

It was like she was being controlled by an entirely new entity, not acting like her previous innocent self.

He summoned the lamp quickly, but was suddenly brought back up to his original position, with her hand now on his chest again.

"ah fuck miss... cant we talk about this... shite..."

The lamp began to glow and glow, rapidly pulsing like heart.

"It never takes this long!!! Just disappear already!!!"

"miss, calm down... what?"

She suddenly fell limp, and passed out beside him on the hard wooden floor. Beside Paddy opened a rift. From the spell failing, or her summoning some sort of being, it couldn't be good for Paddy, so he bolted right out of the room.

"fuck this shite!"

Paddy barely got down the hall before he heard two loud bangs hit off one of the walls, supposedly the one parallel to the rift.

"YOU DUMB RETARD!!!"

"ah sure miss, not my fault that came out of no where."

What? Was he hearing this correctly?

Paddy?

"OK, um, let's just get back to the job at hand...  nevermind, where the fuck are we?"

The woman of the group complained as Paddy hid around the corner. He didn't know what to do at all.

"miss, sure look at that. theres a young one on the ground like."

"That is strange. This day is getting weirder and weirder by the second... OH SHIT, OUR PORTAL IS GONE"

"ah lad."

They began to walk out of the living room and into the hall. Shit. Shit. Shit. Fight or flight, Paddy. The clock was ticking.

"now lads..."

"Wait what?"
"wha??"

"... dont bate the shite out of me, but it would seem we have a problem."

Paddy came face to face with some lady, and... himself?

"aurora, wha the fuck is this about like?"

"Don't ask me, idiot. It's an impostor!"

"wait lads, just let me explain..."