Brines (#Wattys2015)

Chapter 27: Darkness and Light

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Seto's POV

My grandfather smirked "I could... But right now it leaves me with the upper hand..." As he said that, he raised his hand towards me. My hand then immediately flared in pain and I gripped my hand tightly.

"And I always prefer to have the upper hand in a fight Grandson..."

I looked at my hand to see the notch damm symbol back on my hand, glowing in pain and making my hand feel like it was on fire...

Mitch turned to me and stared at my hand "Seto, what the nether is that?!"

I opened my mouth to reply but I was cut off by my grandfather laughing "You haven't told them have you?! Then again, it makes sense why you wouldn't..."

Jerome turned to me and frowned "Seto, what's he talking about?"

I gritted my teeth and turned to my grandfather. "This psychopath here is Dominic Malum, my grandfather, well what's left of my grandfather..." (Malum means evil in Latin, don't judge meh)

"You mean the guy that wrote all those journals?!" Mitch demanded.

All I could do was nod.

"And that symbol?" Ian asked.

"Oh that was curtesy of me." Dominic chuckled "Seto here finally decided to read my journals, I merely gave a taste of the power they contained..."

Ryan growled "You're a sick twisted B@stard!"

"Your point?" He asked with a smirk, "Being twisted isn't exactly a bad thing on this side..." He said, snapping his fingers...

Immediately, whatever was lurking in the aisles surrounding us finally came into view. They were shadows, large black entities with piecing red eyes. They didn't seem to have a solid form, they just seemed to have a human like shape with long black claws and fangs, black mist pooled off them as they crawled along the floor or bookshelves towards us.

There were around 8 aisles surrounding us including the one Dominic and Bella were down. Shadows also began to creep around the dark sorcerer, who just chuckled. Dominic turned and nodded at Bella, who raised her sword at Mitch. Mitch just sighed and raised his own sword.

Then the shadows charged and all nether broke loose.

Bella ran at Mitch and swung her sword at him, Mitch raised his sword and deflected blow, not fighting back. Bella just continued to swing her sword, obviously trying every trick she knew to harm the Canadian.

Mitch just gritted his teeth and fought back carefully, using different disarming techniques to make her drop her sword, but Bella clearly wasn't going to have it.

The others drew their swords and charged at the shadows, slicing thought them, but it seemed that for every one that they cut down, two more took its place.

I drew my own sword and sliced the head off a shadow that came at me, before I ducked just under another one's claws, one of them just catching my cheek and leaving a long, but thankfully not deep, claw mark. I may be a sorcerer, but Sky had insisted that I should learn the basics of sword fighting, and right now, I'm grateful that I'd listened to him.

I jumped back out of another shadow's bite before hearing the sound of someone murmuring in a strange, yet all too familiar language... My eyes widened and I immediately threw myself to the floor just as a large black and red fireball sailed over my head, singeing the hair on my head.

I turned and shouted a warning at Ryan to turned to see the fireball heading for him. He gasped and threw himself to the floor as the fireball sailed into one of the bookshelves and exploding on impact, sending, bits of wood and burning books everywhere.