We all became afraid by the evil aura the old man emitted, sensing the crushing pressure that seemed unrealistic.
I have never felt a presence like this.
The old man before us had the feel of death and was overflowing with bloodlust which stopped us in our tracks.
None of us could move a single muscle in the face of the emaciated man.
What surprised me the most was how he effectively communicated with us despite being a seemingly primitive villager. Nothing about this was normal!
We have to do something. Or else…
I didn't want to think about the consequences of leaving things as they were.
Still, I couldn't decide on whether to order everyone to run or to fight him. With myriads of thoughts flashing through me, my leadership skills failed me as I remained frozen, stuck in my indecisiveness.
Suddenly, Jake my closest buddy in the team brought out a pistol and shot the old man.
Bang!
The sudden gunshot snapped me back into reality, but what I was met with defied all logic.
H-how is that possible… I gawked at the sight before me as my eyes widened in shock.
I couldn't believe it. The old man seemed to have created a bony wall immediately to stop the bullets.
''Where did that wall come from?'' Jake asked looking dumbfounded by the strange phenomenon.
Everyone was equally surprised, but the old man was just beginning.
"You all can't stop what is about to happen, it's simply fate, Lord #$&@+# has lured you all here so he could feast on you. Just give up and accept your fate already!" He grinned, raising his voice.
Suddenly, layers of bones emerged from nowhere and blocked all the possible entrances for escape.
"Shit, what the fuck is this?!" Germaine yelled, finding it difficult to understand how such a strange occurrence was taking place.
My mind pushed past the unbelievable phenomenon, only considering one thing.
We have to stop the old man somehow!
"Everyone, pull yourselves together! Now is not the time to be standing there like some noobs!" I shouted, instantly rousing everyone within the room, everyone but the old man.
"I know what I said before, but everyone… Unleash hell!"
I instructed everyone to go all out and fight back while keeping our distance.
He's too dangerous! My mind rang
We all were armed with guns and started to shoot but all our attacks were blocked.
Just how exactly is he doing that, is it magic?!
Bones emerged everywhere to stop all our attacks. It appeared that every effort we made was futile.
Fredrick brought out a dagger and fought back against the horde of bones that assaulted us, breaking through the layers of bone as he closed the distance with all his strength.
Finally finding himself directly before the old man, he raised his weapon and made to kill the man once and for all.
"Die!"
What happened before us suddenly got us stunned, what seemed to be a black eerie thick fog flowed out from the strange man at that instant and he had Fredrick, he was engulfed instantly like a black hole that pulled in its victims. He had no time to react or make a sound as he got pulled into the abyss.
" One down, six more to go," the strange man said and grinned as he looked towards us like he had cornered his prey.
"Fredrick" we all shouted even Germaine that was the calmest and most calculative of us did the same, unknown phenomenons were all taking place and we were at the suffering end.
" Ahhh ahh ah!" Sanchez had lost it, seeing the strongest of us get easily overwhelmed had sunk his mind into fear and he released barrages of bullets towards the old man. We followed suit and shot our pistols towards him but just like before, he easily countered with his bones that formed out of thin air, it created a wall in front of him and stopped the bullets from hitting him.
" What should we do? what should we do?!" This thought rang in my head as I shot like a mad man towards the Man. Attacking from a long-range does no good and we can't fight up close against him either. I shot till I and the crew went out of ammo. If that's the case then, I pulled out a long dagger and gave the rest a stern look, immediately they understood me and followed suit. We are going to strike simultaneously from different angles towards the old man. Running forward, Sanchez, Belle, and Jake went around him and stood at a distance while Germaine, Sasha, and I stood in front of him with our daggers out plotting to strike.
"You think that's going to work against me, you all underestimate the power I received from my Lord. I better make this swift, I wouldn't want to anger my Lord" he said as he noticed our plot, well that wasn't surprising, it was an obvious plot and that was the only thing I could think of, " sorry for not being so bright" I cried in my mind as I thought of my teammates, I had let them down, " No No No, this isn't my fault, this isn't within the realms of normal, I can't be blamed for this" I thought trying to validate my powerlessness.
"Yahhhhhhhh!" I cried as I tightened my grip around the base of my dagger with sweat dripping off from me as I ran to strike, others followed suit and we all ganged up against him but just before we could cover up the distance and hit, the old man defied all odds as he uplifting himself up in the air just before the ceiling of the tall temple.
"THIS IS THE END!" he said as he once again spread out his seemingly black eerie fog however this time it was a lot larger and it encompassed all of us sucking all of us entirely into it