55 Shadows of the pas (2/2)
”See... You... Soon!”
Part 2
”Evlin!!! Evlin!!!”
Evlin woke up from her nightmare and heard Ashley screaming at her.
”Evlin!!! What happened to you!!??”
”...?”
Evlin could not speak. She gazed at herself and realized she was drenched in sweat, her body would not stop shaking, her heart was beating at a crazy speed against her chest and she was having difficulty breathing. She felt like she had been inside of a blender for the last six hours. Her body would just not stay calm.
”Evlin!! Evlin please speak to me!!”
Ashley and the rest of her friends kept staring at her trying to understand what was wrong. She tried to speak but fear was overcoming her.
”... Coming... Is coming!!!”
”What are you saying?? Who's coming??”
”Everyone!!! They all are back!! And they all are coming to kill me!! To kill all of us!!”
Ashley didn't understand what she was saying but before she could ask another question Evlin just started to hug her with all her strength while continuing to shake.
”Its ok Evlin... I'm right here... Everything will be fine...”
Ashley tried to hug her back in an attempt to calm her down but it was barely working. Evlin could not stop thinking about what she just saw. Every person she ever angered in one way or another was now working together to come after her, all wearing armors and weapons reinforced with blessed energy. She kept thinking about the image of all of her friends being killed by those weapons, all because of her.
She needed to warn them but her body continued to not listen to what she says. She couldn't stop shaking and crying.
She tried to take a deep breath to calm down but still kept trembling. Not knowing what else to do, she simply formed a fist and smacked her own face with all her strength.
The group looked in shock as Evlin fell on Ashley's arms after hitting herself out of nowhere.
She realized that the shaking had finally stopped and she could breathe normally again.
”Ahhh... Much better...”
She proceeded to stand up from Ashley's arms and tried to take another deep breath before truly calming herself down. She noticed everyone staring at her as if she was crazy.
”... We need to talk...”
Part 3
Evlin had finished explaining what had happened during her sleep. About how all of her old enemies had joined together, about how they all were equipped with massives amounts of silver metal provided by Marcus, and how they were all coming to the demon kingdom to kill her and her group.
”That's about it... Long story short... We just gained another trouble to deal with...”
Ria looked concerned.
”... Can... Can we beat them...?”
”... I don't know...”
Evlin truly did not know. These people all came really close to almost killing her many times but she always managed to avoid it due to some stroke of luck.
”Xadi is carrying my old gauntlet so he will probably be able to create much larger magic spells than before. All of the demon-slayers will have much more silver metal so their speed and power will be nothing compared to when we last faced them... On top of that, Marcus can blind Lilith's future sight so we can't rely on her to properly ready ourselves. As if that wasn't enough, we still will be dealing with all the demons of the kingdom.”
”...!!!” x 6
”I hate to say it... But these are some terrible odds...”
Ria tried to speak again.
”So... What do we do...? Just let them go to the demon kingdom and let both sides destroy each other?”
Evlin honestly thought that wasn't such a bad idea but Gustav interrupted her thinking process.
”We can't do that... They are coming with Marcus, and they will all be carrying tons of silver metal... If they do in fact manage to take over the kingdom, they will receive the gratitude of the south god instead of us.”
Evlin understood what he was trying to say. If they lost the support of the south god, West would abandon them, and they would have no means of defending against Marcus and his new pack of Evlin-slayers. They needed to secure the city themselves, as well as facing off against this new threat and still trying to find out how to get the power of curses.
Ashley left out a sight and started to think of a way to solve all their problems at the same time.
”If only we could make a truce with the demons...”
Evlin looked at her confused.
”A truce with the demons...?”
”Well, Ria suggested we let both sides destroy each other but we can't do that. I was hoping that maybe we should try to become allies with one side to help defeat the other...”
Daren understood her suggestion.
”And of course, Marcus would never ally himself with us... Because we threatened his stupid mommy...”
”So a truce with the demons would be our only remaining option...”
Ashley finished his sentence.
”...”
Evlin pondered about the thought for a while. How could she manage to get the demons on her side? She came up with an idea and tried to ask Ashley again if that was their best option.
”Ash, are you sure making a truce is our best chance?”
”Either that or we stay here and wait for them to come. We won't have the best odds but its still better than fighting with a kingdom of demons right behind us...”
”No... It's too risky to fight all of them in our current state...”
”Then yeah... A truce is our best bet... If we can get them to help, them we will have more power to fight Marcus, which will give us a chance to acquire information about the kingdom that we can use for our eventual attack, and might even give us the opportunity to find out about curses...”
”I see... So it really is the best option... Sphinx!! Let's go!!”
”Eh...?”
Evlin approached Lilith with Sphinx right behind her.
”Lilith, I need you to use your future sight... Is there any small nest of monsters anywhere around here?”
Lilith stared into possible futures to confirm Evlin's request and proceeded to give her an answer.
”There is one not too far from here...”
”Perfect... Lead me there.”
Ashley rushed towards her sister as she began to move with Lilith.
”Evlin what are you doing?”
”Just hold on for a second... I need to test a theory.”