Sunday, September 22, 2013

Snakes, Bones, and the Occasional Embryo, Part 4

Part 4
I decided it would be a good idea to go to page 18:
The she-devils are strong and powerful, they feast upon their foes with the uttermost attentiveness. They tend to feast when their prey is not looking or distracted by some odd or shiny object on the she-devil’s scaly arms…
As I read this information I almost immediately knew what was going to happen next. I dodged the furious strike of the she-devil.  I knew there must have been something in the book about how to fight them or something else about them.  I flipped through the pages until I found what I was looking for…
 …when fighting she-devils you need to be swift and agile the only way to harm one is to lodge a sharp object between their scales, or by fooling them into letting you go. This can be accomplished by letting them thinking you know some valuable information that they can’t let get into the wrong hands.
I finally found it now all I needed was some information that I could use against her, or a sharp object to injure her with.  My best bet was to make my way into the kitchen. I might be able to make a dodge for it, but first I needed her to think I have another person in the room waiting to kill her.
“Shh, Henry you need to sneak around her and jump on to her back.” I said this in a loud whisper, just loud enough for her to hear me but not loud enough so it sounded like I wanted her to know.
  She then turned to face her “opponent,” that is when I made my move for the kitchen. I made it without a problem, but as soon as I did make it into the kitchen the she-devil realized what I had done. She let out this roar that could raise the dead LITERALLY. Skeletons rose up from the ground to face me, and as I charged at them I thought that they might splatter into a pile of bones. Luckily it worked, but then I could hear clanking and as I turned around to face the pile of bones I saw them reforming, this time as a different form as though they were becoming tougher.
“Now you see what my children can do.” She told me as she slithered into the kitchen.
 The book? Of course, didn’t the book have a section on skeletons? I flipped the book open to page 79 and there is the picture of the skeleton I start to read as I rumble around the room dodging the attacks. Until I finally read:
Skeletons are usually controlled by she-devils, but some colonize in the depths of Fulmar’s fortress. It is difficult to kill a skeleton when their bodies are intact. What you want to do is hit them with something and then take any one of their bones this makes them unable to reform because every bone is needed in order for the reformation process. If you do kill one, be sure that no other skeletons can use their bones to make them stronger, and remember to take the same bone or kill them quite a ways from each other because they will take the bones from other skeletons…
I read this and instantly knew what bone would be easiest to take, the skull. As I watched the skeletons charge at me, I saw the she-devil just watching and awaiting my death.
“Why are you trying to kill me, I thought you needed to train and use me!” I scream.
“That was their plan, Fulmar’s plan is different he wants you dead NOW!” With that she lunged at me with all of her force.

I dodged the advance and she flung into three of the six skeletons. I quickly grabbed each one of their heads and threw them into the other room. With that I looked at the she-devil she snarled what sounded like “He has the book, get it from him before he reads it all; if we let him read that we will get far worse than punishment from Fulmar!”

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