Six Stone Souls (The Pack)

Chapter 14

*Sorry if the last chapter seemed a bit rushed, it was late and I just wanted to get it done :P So as a way to make it up... Here's an early update :3

Warnings: Blood, slightly gory

     ~Jerome's P.O.V.~

As I lead Vikk and Lachlan through the dark halls of the fortress, I pay special attention to stay close to the walls and check around each corner for any mobs. The last thing I want is to lead a ton of mobs to Mitch and risk getting him killed the second he's revived. Speaking of which I didn't even tell Vikk or Lachlan who it is... Meh. They'll see in a minute. I tell myself, rounding the second last corner before entering the room containing Mitch.

"He's just up ahead." I inform Vikk and Lachlan, approaching the last corner before the room.
"I'm surprised we haven't run into any mobs for a while." Vikk comments.
"Don't jinx it!" Lachlan hisses, to which I roll my eyes.
"As if there's gonna be a whole group of mobs waiting for us." I continue, "Come on guys he's just around... This... Corner..."

My sentence fizzles out as I stare at the scene ahead, my stomach dropping. Lachlan makes his eyes half lidded and stares at me, him and Vikk still around the corner.

"There's a whole group of mobs waiting for us... isn't there?" Lachlan rounds the corner, takes one look, and sighs. "Yep. Dangit Vikk, why'd you have to jinx it..."

Vikk casts a sideways glare at Lachlan, but none the less tosses him his diamond sword, so Lachlan can dual wield two diamond swords opposed to just one. After all, his power being water doesn't exactly work in the hottest dimension in all of Acrion.

"Jerome, they haven't noticed us yet." Vikk points out. "Lachlan and I will hold off the mobs, you go get... Is that Mitch?" Vikk questions, straining his eyes to make out the figure in the centre of the room.

I nod.

"Ha! I called it!" Lachlan declares, Vikk and I giving him questioning looks. "Erm... In my head." He adds in quickly.

Vikk's about to say something else when suddenly, three fireballs are shooting for our heads, the three of us just barely ducking in time.

"We've got company!" I bellow, summoning a shadow ball, and hurling into the centre of the mass of wither skeletons and blazes.

Vikk sends me a reassuring nod and him, as well as Lachlan, give it all they have to create a path for me. Vikk explained earlier that all I have to do is run up and touch Mitch, and that will bring him back. So using the distraction Vikk and Lachlan created, I barrel through the cluster of mobs, straight to Mitch's frozen form. I don't have much time to check, but even in the few seconds before I touch him, I can see his stance. He's standing straight and tall, a defiant frown set upon his face. One arm is held out to the side, in a way that would suggest he was keeping someone behind him to protect them.

A wither skeleton tries to strike at me as I pass, but before it can hit me a diamond sword it protruding from its skull, Lachlan heaving the sword our a second later. 'Do it' he mouths, diving back to engage with a blaze. Without hesitation I press my fingers against the warm stone, instantly backing away as a blindingly white light is shining, in the shape of a heart, on his chest.

Everything, Vikk, Lachlan, Myself, wither skeletons, blazes, everything stops dead in its tracks and turns towards Mitch. Cracks start to form beginning at his heart, and spreading across his entire body. And then, all at once, the stone cracks and falls away. Mitch shakes his head, his expression changing from defiance to one of confusion, as he surveys the scene before him. The mobs around us still continue to freeze, the same with Vikk, Lachlan, and I as Mitch's eyes move between the surroundings, to the mobs, to us. He seems to choose his words carefully, before muttering a weak: