Gifted: Hermitcraft

The Menace is Here.

(Python's POV)

I gasped as I realized who had arrived.

It was the myth, the legend, no other than the Phantom Menace himself.

His eyes glow coldly under his Phantom mask. 

"Why, hello there.", he growls, walking towards Xisuma, a bloody diamond sword in his right hand.

X grits his teeth. "Greetings, Menace.", he replies coldly.

Menace grins. He teasingly touches the tip of his blade and lightly runs it across X's neck, causing only a small scratch. "Welcome to our prison. I hope you don't hold your DEATH too much... this prison is the DIE for!", he growls mockingly.

Wels groans at the pun.

Menace then looks around the watching hermits and Egos. 

"I will give you a chance. Choose two of yourselves, hermits. You two will fight against me. If you win, well, we'll never bother you again.", he says, his crafty eyes scanning our faces. 

"Andifwelose?", I end up rambling.

Menace grins, leaps over to me, and grabs my collar. "Why, I think you'd know this by now... We invade you."

He steps back. "When we fight, no one watching is to interfere. I hold my word on that.", he adds, still smiling sinisterly.

I can see X's purple eyes glimmering cleverly, thinking of his response.

He nods his helmet. "Agreed. I hold my word as well. False and Ren shall go against you.", he says.

Ren?!

Why Ren?

I understand False; she's a master PVPer, but Ren was.. no offense.. all bark and no bite to villains. (BA DA BUM!)

But they nod, and face Menace, who grins determinedly.

Then, he charges.

False does, too, but Ren stays behind to shoot with a bow at times.

False gives some good swings, and Menace doesn't do anything but dodge.

Then, I realize; he's only toying with them.

Then, False kicks him in the shins, knocking the smaller but wily opponent down.

She raises her sword. "Any last words?", she hisses.

"Sure. NEVER TRUST A PHANTHOM, LOL!", he laughs, and two ghostly floating claws, like a real phantom's appear a foot away from him. They clap together, scratching False's face. Menace laughs, and then starts fighting for real.

Menace matches False blow-for-blow, and I realize he's still toying with False, even if he takes a blunt hit or two, or scratches with his extra claws.

He leads her to a hole in the ceiling. 

It's full of cobwebs, and looks for sure abandoned.

But, Ren sniffs the air and growls at it.

He starts running for False. "WATCH OUT!", he yells, as he shoves her away from the hole.

Instantly afterwards, a blast of ice magic hits where False once was, and freezes Ren's tail. He yelps.

Afterwards, The Frost Queen jumps down, a blindfold over her face, wildly and blindly swinging her staff around.

"That's no fair!", I protest.

Menace only grins at me again while parrying a strike from Ren's daggers. "Oh, no, not at all! I'm sure I said, 'When we fight, no one watching is to interfere.' Queen isn't watching."

I growl, knowing that Menace was technically right. I notice that the others are also shaking slightly.

False yells angrily, and switches her attack onto Frost Queen.

But she heard the yell, and pointed her magic at Stress, and blasted a beam of ice at her.

False was flung onto a wall, her wrists frozen to the wall.

Frost Queen smiles and slowly walks towards False, using her staff as her guide.

Indignantly, when Frost Queen gets near, I see False work up some saliva in her mouth, and she spits in Frost Queen's face, who growls, and raises her staff.

Looking over to Ren, I see that he's unarmed, and is being backed into a corner.

I start forwards, but X grips my shoulder. "We have to help!", I protest.

But X's response was merely a horrified whisper. "We can't... I promised."

"Why Ren? Wouldn't Iskall have been better?", I further protest.

"I suspected trickery. He helped so far.."

I gulped, and held my breath as I saw two hermits about to die.