"Move!" That was Ruk yelling at us all, the skin creatures were coming fast, we'd killed a couple getting out of the basement and between that and Jules screaming (of which she was continuing to do) the entire group was alerted, and there were a lot of them. For my part I was using my pistols on anything that came close, it was about a 70/30 shot on if they worked which was better than when I'd previously tried them. Ruk was firing on anything, instead he had his hands full basically carrying Jules, the twins were freezing and setting everything on fire they could see. The town which had looked just run down before now looked like something out of a nightmare, flesh creatures howling, buildings caught on fire, and our small group running down the middle of town hoping to dodge both things. For my part I was doing pretty well to keep up with the group and try and take out the damned creatures as best I could. I did look in horror at my gunbelt as my ammo was slowly disappearing (naturally you can't fire and drop bullets and not run out of them).
I was actually looking down at my ammo when I felt a fleshy hand wrap around my neck. I turned up to look for Ruk and the rest but they were gone. It was my own fault for basically walking backwards and firing, they had darted off down a side street and I'd kept on walking, and I would have kept on walking if the fleshless thing hadn't grabbed me. I tried to load the bullet I'd snagged from my gun belt into my revolver, but she'd lifted me off the ground and the round hit the dirt with a slight puff. The creatures face was missing, or I should say where there were normal face features there were bloody holes. It screamed at me and then hurled me into a nearby building, I was thankfull the glass of the former storefront window was not there or that probably would have been all they wrote for Trezlan Lorentino. With the impact the revolver I'd been trying to reload went skittering across the ground, it dissappeared under a shelf that currently had stocked nothing.
The creature shrieked again and the wooden empty window disentigrated into wood chips. It was moving slow, slow enough for me to grab my other revolver and not fire it because it too was empty as I was reloading the first one before I got to the second. I tried to kick the legs out from under the creature, but it didn't work, whatever grounded it was not in the bloody stumps it walked on. It did stop the creature for whatever that was worth. I could feel magic being raised up, whatever had been done to me had not stopped my ability to at least know of magic. The air around me felt tingly and then the floor under me was gone.
There was no basement in this store only the crawl space under the floor boards, but her attack had caused the shelves and other forgotten furniture nearby to collapse on top of me. Not painful, but a little alarming. I figured I was pretty much dead at that point, the creature would plunge an arm through the wreckage and finish me off, but there was nothing. I heard boards creak up above and then it was gone. I didn't dare move, whatever it had done it figured it'd finished me off and I wasn't about to dispell it of that notion. I could hear the howls leaving town, probably chasing after Ruk. I also heard a strange song over the screams of the creatures. I figured that was that lady in white, denied her sacrifice she was coming after it in earnest.
Or maybe she was merely after me, wanting to rid herself of the former necromancer she'd run into before I ruined whatever plan she was up to. Either way I was too afraid to move out from my place of hiding. I was actually so afraid I went to sleep, its amazing what fear can do for you! Well fear and a bunch of junk on top of you.
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