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Humans Don't Make Good Familiars- Part 59
🕑 Added 2021-12-08 03:38:44 +0000 UTCJake’s POV
I first imagined gathering oxygen and a fuel to burn, in this case I decided to use hydrogen since it burns hotter and is already in the air, then I imagined heating them like I did the metal in the blacksmiths shop. Before I knew it, I had a seven-foot-wide ball of fire a few meters above our heads.
“Incredible…,” Von-Pac said, “I have never seen such a pale blue flame.”
“It’s so big,” Vindicta said.
“Okay, now I will throw it over into the darkness and let it brighten up this dingy place.” I joked. I then manipulated the spell and flung it into the darkness. I wish I hadn’t done that… because we were not alone.
“What was that about waves of sound?” Von-Pac asked as he slowly made his way to a large opening in the wall.
“Wh.. what are those things?” Vindicta asked. Along the walls of the cave were monsters of some kind, dog sized reptilian beasts I think, but I didn’t get a good enough look before the light from my fireball faded away.
“I don’t know, get back into that tunnel though.” I told them as I summoned Aegis and Mori.
“Tunnel though.”
“Tunnel though.”
“Tunnel though.” The monsters echoed one after the other from the darkness, with what little light remained I was able to see that it was in fact these… things.. that were echoing the sounds. Their mandibles clicked and twitched as they did. As quickly as I could manage, I created another fireball and moved it to the shadowed area in order to see those things again. This time I got a better look, they were covered from one end to the other in greenish scales, has long mandibles and tentacle-like feelers on their head. They had a lizard-like body, but their head seemed more like a cross between an insect and a fish. Their ears, or what I assumed were their ears, looked more like protruding fins from a fish’s side.
“Everyone get into the tunnel; I will close the entrance again.” Von-Pac said.
“Suma, as soon as Von-Pac does that, unsummon me.” I told her, keeping an eye on the creatures. They were each beginning to turn and crawl towards us, so I really didn’t want to stay any longer. I could feel my heart pounding in my chest, like it was going to explode, my ears were ringing, and there was an unswallowable lump in my throat… I really didn’t want to be eaten by a lizard ant thing.
“I’m not just going to leave you with those things!” Suma yelled. When she raised her voice, some of the creatures twitched and slithered closer.
“Yes… yes you are, just for a few seconds.” I told her urgently. I turned away from the monsters for just a moment and picked Suma up to place her into the tunnel, were Von-Pac and Vindicta had already gone into. Kneeling down and tossing her inside, I turned to Von-Pac and said, “Close it.” I was trying to be careful not to raise my voice. He collapsed the tunnel as soon as everyone was inside. I turned around and realized I was now face to disgusting scaley face with one of those beasts.
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Suma’s POV
Jake roughly and quickly tossed me back into the tunnel we had come from, then Von-Pac closed the entrance he made. I scrabbled back straight and unsummoned Jake as soon as I could. “JAKE… JAKE!” I cried out desperately.
“I’m fine, I’m back home now, get out of that tunnel!” He shouted, we did not argue. We flew away as fast as we could manage, each of us took turns collapsing sections of the tunnel as we went just in case they were following us. Von-Pac used Nature magic as best he could to seal the collapsed areas, but he was now completely out of mana, so Vindicta and I simply had to do our best, but neither of us specialized in that type so it wasn’t perfect. If the trip to that opening felt long, then the trip away from it was an eternity, but we went as fast as we could manage. There was no care about safety while flying, several times I clipped a wing in the narrow tunnel, but I forced myself to power through and not slow the others down.
“I see a light; we are almost there!” Vindicta shouted.
“I don’t think they are following us, but don’t slow down. As soon as we exit the tunnel fly up and towards the peak. We need to be sure we are safe, so I will seal the exit as best as I can.” Von-Pac stated.
“But you’re almost out of mana.” Vindicta pointed out.
“I will summon Paxus, I can use his mana.” He said.
“Great plan, but you need mana for a summoning, and you are out.” I reminded him. “Jake has enough mana, we can use him.” I suggested. Normally, I would want to ask Jake before doing something like this, but I feel like he would agree.
“Fine,” Von-Pac agreed. We shot out of the cave, and I summoned Jake.
“SENTINEL!” I shouted. Jake began to appear before me, but something was wrong, he was laying on the ground, and had blood running down his arm! “Jake!”
