The Elantra Pirates

Chapter 28

Brentha slowly stepped up the stone stairs while aiming down her rifle. She knew that she needed to be in a hurry but she was just being careful. Even with all of the urgency all of her nerves got to her.

Peering around to the last set of steps from the spiraling staircase a wooden door was closed shut. She nervously followed the remaining few. Reaching it she reluctantly held out her hand, hesitating to turn the doorknob.

Finally gathering up the courage she approached it like ripping off a bandage. She threw open the door and quickly got back to looking down at the ironsight. Uff was sitting down in the middle of the room with his legs crossed. But, strangely he wasn't actually touching the ground, rather he was floating a few feet in the air.

His eyes were closed and he was doing a constant humming tune. He was in the middle of a drawn circle with blood. Six candles were surrounding him with them all slightly being dimmed a bit.

He seemed to not notice her at all, having been captured in an incognizant state. It was an awkward moment of her just standing there not acting. It was definitely weird where she knew that she had to put him down, but being granted such an opportunity like this is insanely bizarre.

Though caught in a strange convenience, she held up her rifle. Aiming it perfectly at his head she shakingly pressed down her index finger onto the trigger. A bullet blasted off and sailed right to him, stopping right before it would've collided. It floated in the air and he opened his eyes but there weren't any pupils filling the middle, only a white void.

In a brief second the flash of white overtook her vision and a huge wave of force blew off, destroying everything around it. Brentha got blasted backwards, only being saved by clinging onto the ground, digging her fingernails into the floorboards. Slowly being pushed off the edge and then at the end where she inevitably fell off.

Quickly she grabbed onto the remnants of the ledge, forcing her to drop the rifle to use both of her arms to support her weight. Clouds of dust and smoke filled the surrounding area and debris crashed down onto the ground below. She took a peek down the realization of how high up she was hit her and gave her the encouragement to drag her body back to the top.

Out of breath she used the sudden adrenaline rush to pull back onto solid ground. Uff snapped back to reality from his entranced stipulation. Being enraged as he slammed the ground in front of him.

"Who the fuck did that!?" He looked around frantically in a frenzy.

Spotting Brentha getting back to her feet covered in dust. Eyes squinting with metaphorical fire in his pupils sparking. Standing up he was an intensely ominous figure looming over her in weight, height, and just outright muscle. The way he kind of blended in with the looming smoke, leaving an intimidating shadowed outline.

She eyed him, trembling where she stood. Her gaze darted down to the ground where she detected the packet of blood on the floor. Without hesitation she lunged toward it, basically diving for it as she hit the ground. Grasping it immediately and then scrambling around to get back up.

"You bitch!" Uff started chasing.

With the bag clenched in her palms, she tried going over to the original exit but debris blocked her path and with Uff right on her tail she went back over to the edge, trying to see if there was anything to jump down to.

Right below her was an awning that was a few feet down, then right below it was a roof that she could land on right after. With having no other good option in the already limited she was granted, she lept right off.

The explosion at the office went off, causing Fringerly to look up right at with debris coming down towards him. Some pieces of stone plopped down and crashed around them. He covered his head and backed up to get out of the way.