Chapter 5 Mysterious Mage
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The slime creature melts through the floor slowly, as they ooze out Sherley and Peter's corpse.
"What the hell was that?" I asked, turning to Laura.
"Those things were parasites, Nathan. They are called Plauji."
Laura says, as she inspects the basement.
"What about the kid?"
Dale asks.
"Looks like the kid figured out what was going on. They killed him before he could do anything. I found his corpse upstairs, with that being said. They need meat to sustain in their human-like forms or else they will begin to decay and turn into stone. It looks like they killed him before we got here."
Laura puts the flash drive back in her pocket.
I began to inspect the basement out of curiosity.
Finding some documents and a journal.
On a desk I pick up the journal.
Opening it, I began to read.
"I'll call Sanders this way out of our league at this point. We don't know who is behind this or what we are dealing with," Dale says.
Dale takes out his mobile device, dialing Sanders' number to call him.
"Hey, what did you find, Nate?" Lauren asks, walking towards me.
"Looks like some research, I can't make it out." Handing the journal to Lauren, she begins to read it.
"I need you here now Sanders, it's urgent," Dale says, approaching the stairs.
"This is more than we can handle the way this basement was set up. I feel like this house was turned into a social experiment. This individual wanted to see how these intelligent parasites would integrate themselves into our society. Using these people as their vessel and the child must've got caught in the middle, seeing that these are his grandparents."
Laura says.
As Dale walks upstairs, a man kicks him down.
"Ouch!"
Dale grunts, falling down the steps.
"You all smell like wet dogs."
The man taunts us, standing over Dale.
He wears a long red cloak covering his face with a hood.
Laura drops the journal she is reading.
"Who are you?"
Dale asks.
"You're the man who did this. You are behind all of it."
Laura says, she gets in her stance.
"That doesn't matter, I didn't expect any intruders to be there. It looks like you killed my test subjects."
He sighs.
The man walks down the stairs further.
"This is as far as you go!"
Dale shouts.
Dale stands up, punching the man.
Dale is immediately countered as the man catches his punch.
Redirecting Dale towards him.
Dale staggers from the steps towards me.
Catching Dale, I tried to move as fast as possible.
But the man is agile, he rushes at me and Dale quickly.
Before we could react.
He kicks Dale in his face.
Dale falls on top of me limp, he is now unconscious.
"To slow."
The man says.
Laura is gathering energy from the crystal boulder that glows.
The boulder begins flowing into several shards.
She's breaking it down, making more shards.
"Dale!" Laura shouts.
The man stands over me.
He grins as his hands begin to spark.
Pushing Dale off me.
I got up rushing at the man.
The man jabs me in the face.
The jab was too fast.
Stumbling, I catch myself being hit with pure energy.
The shock was so great, sending me flying.
My back slammed against the wall.
"Argh!"
It feels like electricity running through my body.
Looking up, Laura already starts her attack, as the shards shoot at the man like bullets.
"Die you scum." Laura says.
The shards strike at him but they are deflected at a certain distance.
"You dare attack me?" The man asks, smirking.
The boulder tears apart, energy surrounds Laura.
She creates a storm of shards.
Laura begins emitting energy, shaking the house.
Cutting everything inside her storm.
Laura directs the shards against the man.
"Incredible it's been a long time since I've seen someone manifest this much power!"
The man says, grinning.
As Laura's shards grind against the man's invisible shield.
Creating sparks, the barrier begins to crack.
This is my chance.
Sprinting at the man, I roared.
"HAAAAAAA!!!"
He turns to me, but it's too late.
His barrier is shattered as shards fly past us.
I punched him in the face as hard as I could.
"Gah!"
The man grits his teeth.
The man is pushed back holding his hands up.
I go for another but I'm sent flying once again as he releases a shockwave knocking Laura down.
The crystals fade away.
"I'm going to end this now!"
The man yelled.
"I'm going to burn all of you to hell!"
He raises his hands and huge lightning bolts shoot out at high speeds from both of his palms.
Hearing the wood fall, I saw a fire starting above us, hearing parts of the house fall apart.
The man skims the basement with his eyes searching for something, he raises his hand from his red cloak underneath three glowing rings.
Something inside the slime shines rising from it, like pure energy condensed in one tiny bright sphere.
The pure energy slams into the rings as he catches it.
"Now let's finish this."
He was interrupted.
Hearing the police sirens, the three of us walked outside.
Sitting in front of the house inside the truck.
He scoffs.
The man walks up the steps, but all I and Laura could do is look at him leave.
"Dale.." I reached out to him.
The house is slowly being engulfed in flames.
I grabbed Dale's forearm, lifting him up over my shoulder.
Laura stumbles fatigued from using too much energy.
Laura and I are coughing as smoke clouds the basement due to the raging flames.
Laura managed to get upstairs.
I barely have any of my strength left.
Laura turns around, grabbing my hand to help me up the steps.
The smoke is making it hard to breathe.
The entire house is now clouded with terrible odors.
We made it to the living room. I look at the kitchen as it collapses completely.
Now it's just a giant hole filled with flames as the upper floors and ceiling fall in the pit of flames.
The basement was open. Before we opened the front door, it was kicked down by Sanders.
The same man Dale called earlier, he sports his usual suit, with his shiny shades.
I followed behind them.
Reaching outside, me and Laura were coughing.
I fell to my knees exhausted.
"Glad you all made it out in one piece."
Sanders says relieved.
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