Let's Game, a monster freebie story for my Work In Progress, The Players Are the Thing was the result. I posted Part 1 last Wednesday. Here is Part 2...
“What?” Amber drew her blade, ready to attack her invisible enemy, only this enemy was inside a friend. “I can’t leave you here!”
“You must!” Isolde barred her teeth, thrusting her hands forward. Her fingers elongated, becoming talons. “I can’t hold her back!”
“No, you can’t!” the demon hissed with Isolde’s voice. “If you wish your friend returned to you, you’ll find this key of mine.” It turned sly and mocking. “Or do you intend to abandon her, Knight of the Eternal Summer?”
Amber gritted her teeth at the sound of a title which felt like it fitted her less and less as time passed. She couldn’t make the summer eternal any more than she could stop the seasons from changing. “We’ve looked. It’s not here.”
“Perhaps you’re not looking hard enough, eh?” The demon tilted Isolde’s head in a gesture her friend never made. “Perhaps I need to motivate you by snapping this one’s neck?”
“Do that and I’ll never give you your key.” Amberwyne felt the rage stirring within.
“I’m going to roll to activate Amberwyne’s power.” Rhane shuffled her dice over each over as if they were tiles. “As Knight of the Eternal Summer, she has the power to banish creatures of winter. If this demon resides in this crypt, she should be vulnerable to this.”
The smile vanished from Beatrix’s face, pulling the corners of her lips down. “Go ahead and try.”
Rhane grabbed a handful of dice, breathed on them, and tossed them, praying for success.
Amberwyne opened herself up to the light, burning within her, capable of driving out the force within her friend…
…Rhane gazed down at her dice with dismay.
Beatrix grinned in her sadistic element as the one overseeing the game. “Well, the good news is you succeeded in freeing your friend. In doing so, you opened yourself up to an old friend of yours.”
“Oh, no.” Rhane gulped, raising a hand to cover her throat.
Isolde shook her head, able to speak and move, no longer controlled by the presence in her head. “Amber, thank you,” she began…
…only to see Amber clinging to her head.
“Hello, my lovely.” Fidessa whispered within her mind. “So kind of you to have banished the pesky guardian of this place. Have you found my key yet?”
“Your key?” Amberwyne swallowed along with her player. “It belonged to you?”
“Make a perception roll.” Beatrix abandoned the table to go get another piece of pizza.
Rhane abandoned the dice she’d been using, since they didn’t seem to like her this evening. At all.
She dug into her gargoyle shaped container to remove seven pale lavender ten sided beauties along with two deep purple ones.
“Treat me better,” she murmured before shaking them.
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