Necrofairies

Part 6 - The Library of Adarna

Neen suddenly had the sensation of travelling in all directions at once. It felt like her body was being dissolved. It was painless, but terrifying at the same time as she felt her mind detach from her physical form and then also slowly disintegrate to nothingness.

Then as suddenly as it started the sensation stopped and in a blue flash of light she found herself hovering mid air in the middle of a wide city street. Sliver hovered to her left and Heliodor stood to her right just as they had in the shack. It was approaching dawn but the street lights were off, which left everything in semidarkness. She felt a little dazed and let herself drift back to the ground. At the same time Heliodor fell to his knees.

"Are you ok?" asked Neen.

"It's teleportation sickness. I need a few minutes to rest," mumbled Heliodor, sweating like he had just run a marathon.

A tormented groan suddenly echoed out along the street behind them. Neen spun around instantly, drawing her blessed pistol as she did so. Sliver followed suit, but instead drew his sword. In front of them was the library of Adarna, an ancient fortress like stone building. It stood in complete contrast to the more modern office blocks that filled the remainder of the street.

In front of the library was a large crowd of undead who were clambering relentlessly over each other to get to the heavy metal doors that led into the library. Several huge zombie orcs were amongst them, but the majority were formerly human and they each battered away in a rhythmic pounding of flesh against metal. Despite their relentless determination the doors held firm.

"Looks like we are going to need another way in," said Sliver.

At the sound of his voice one of the undead orcs turned towards them and let out a deathly howl. Suddenly all of the undead were staring at them.

"Damn it! I should have anticipated this," gasped Heliodor as he tried unsuccessfully to stand. The undead started ambling in their direction en masse.

"Get up, we have to move!" urged Neen.

"I...I can't. I need more time," replied Heliodor.

"Great! What now?" cursed Sliver.

Neen pulled the trigger on her blessed pistol and dropped the two nearest zombies in quick succession. As soon as the bullets made contact the zombies each let out a chilling howl before disintegrating into a cold black mist as their souls were returned permanently to the abyss.

Satisfied with the result Neen holstered her weapon again momentarily and hovered above Heliodor. She grabbed one of the pouches from her belt and took out a pinch of sparkling silver dust. She mumbled the words of a spell and sprinkled it onto Heliodor's forehead. As soon as the dust touched his skin his head started to become transparent. The effect quickly spread across his entire form until he was completely invisible.

"We will try and lead them away. You have about three minutes before the spell wears off. Then you are on your own, so you had better get those legs moving!" ordered Neen.

She stowed her pouch again and drew her gun once more. She started floating down the street away from the now invisible Heliodor, disintegrating several undead as she went.

Sliver followed more slowly, hovering just above the pursuing mob, darting down amongst them to strike at them with his sword then quickly dashing back out of their reach again. Those that fell to his blade disintegrated into same black mist as they dropped, much to Sliver's satisfaction. It was almost like it was a game to him and he even started to use some more extravagant moves as though he were showing off for her.

The two were able to slowly draw the crowd of zombies away from the library, but as they went more undead seemed to be attracted into the throng. Soon they started coming from all directions and they risked being surrounded. An undead female half blood elf suddenly came charging at Neen from a side street. The half blood moved much quicker and more aggressively than the human zombies and she had to move fast to avoid her thrashing hands and gnashing teeth. She spiralled upwards firing downwards as she did so, disintegrating the half blood as she passed by.