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Myths
Chapter Seven: Ogres
Eli let an arrow fly. The shaft tore into an ogre’s left shoulder,
which caused it to bellow out in rage. “Forget
the powder and find something useful!”
He dodged the beast’s massive club, adorned with five inch spikes for
better effect, and fired two more arrows at the ogre’s back.
“But it is useful. If I could just find it...” Mark knelt on the rough ground with his pouch
open and both his arms inside up to his elbows.
“Maybe it’s in the bookcase behind the Inner-Outer spell book?”
Another ogre almost clobbered Mark with her club
but Frunz knocked it aside with his quarterstaff. “Mark, get up and help!” Frunz pleaded. He used the staff as a third leg and leaped
upward. He kicked the attacking ogre in
the chest with his hooves. “I’m the
coward, remember? I’m not supposed to be
the one fighting.”
“You’re doing a fine job,” Flitty remarked. She zipped around the third ogre which caused
the she-beast to follow the fairy with her head. Dizzy, the ogre stopped to hold her head in
place. Flitty fired a pixie-bolt in the
beast’s face.
Eli managed to scramble up various broken statues,
and then spring onto the top of a broken wall.
He fired a net arrow. Strong
spikes unfolded from four corners of the expanding net. Each one bore into the wall, trapping the
ogre. “One down.”
After a shout of inhuman rage, the ogre ripped the
net open and charged the wall that Eli stood on.
Eli somersaulted over the creature as it shattered
the free standing wall. “Guess not.” Eli
said as he landed on a smaller stone wall.
Lyndi’s mouth formed a thin smile. She pushed against one of the she-ogres, her
hands clasped with the beast. Each one
tried to push the other to the ground.
“Fall,” the ogre demanded. “Why won’t food fall?”
“I was wondering the same thing,” Lyndi replied
through gritted teeth.
Flitty buzzed around them and suggested, “You could
beat her in an instant if you simply did you know what.”
“Quiet,” Lyndi hissed. “I’m as strong enough in this form. I won’t do ‘you know what’ because of a
stupid ogre.”
“Food calls Untha stupid?” the ogre growled. “Untha not stupid. Food stupid.”
