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Humans Don't Make good Familiars- Part 58
🕑 Added 2021-12-07 03:36:00 +0000 UTCSuma’s POV
“This place is enormous.” I said inspecting the new tunnel Von-Pac revealed. “It’s as wide open as the Grand Temple.” Von-Pac was still weak, but managed to stand and fly over to the opening he created.
“This place is incredible!” Vindicta excitedly shouted. After she yelled that, the room was filled with taunting chants!
“Incredible!”
“Incredible!”
“Incredible!”
“Hello?!” I called out. We were not alone in this place!
“Hello?”
“Hello?”
“Hello?”
With each new voice replying my anxiety grew. “How are they doing that? How are they using our voices?” Vindicta asked afraid.
“Paxus!” Von-Pac said quickly summoning his familiar. He had a good idea, one Vindicta and I quickly did as well.
“Argosa!” Vindicta yelled.
“Sentinel!” I shouted. Normally I would ask Jake first, but this was an emergency. “Jake, get ready for a fight! We are surrounded!” I said to him just as he fully appeared.
“What?” He started looking around carefully and quickly. “It’s too dark I can’t see!”
“Who is out there?!” Von-Pac called out. “Show yourself!” Once again the creatures repeated our words. Jake looked around concerned while Vindicta panicked.
“Why are they doing that?” She asked scared.
“What are they doing?” Jake asked confused.
“Can’t you hear them? They are repeating our words!” Von-Pac said still focusing on the surrounding darkness. Jake looked confused for a moment, then glared stunned into the darkness, then he started… laughing.
“HAHAHAHA… *gasp*… HAHAHAHA!” He then lowered the weapon that he had summoned after arriving.
“Are... are you laughing?” I asked dumbfounded.
“I’m.. I’m.. ahahahah… I’m sorry, I just… *snicker* I can’t believe… ahahahhaha!” Jake gasped and giggled.
“This is serious! Stop your laughing and get ready! Who knows what they want.” Von-Pac snapped. Jake laughed a bit more, but slowly regained his composure and started to explain.
“I’m sorry, it’s just that there is no one out there. Those are just echoes.” Jake told us.
“What are… echoes?” I asked.
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Jake’s POV
“Echoes are just sound waves bouncing off the hard rock walls, then coming back to us.” I explained. “Things like this happen all the time on my world. My people live in places similar to this, so we hear echoes all the time. I guess since your people live in vine buildings, trees, or just tunnels to small for echoes to be of any substance, you haven’t had to deal with them too much.”
“How can you be sure?” Von-Pac asked still unsure of my explanation.
“Let me show you,” I said. I had an idea, I would use this opportunity to practice my fire magic, and create enough light to illuminate the huge cave I had been summoned into. I wasn’t happy about being here again, but at least this place was open enough for me to stand up in. I sent away Destiny and Aegis, then focused on my spell. Fire is a strange thing; it is a byproduct of the high-energy converting chemical reaction that bonds oxygen and carbon into carbon-dioxide. It is technically a high-energy gas, so to make it all I need to do it burn some fuel. 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.
