• It was a friday evening and I was out with my friends Das and Brittany in our favorite hiding place: an Old abandoned mausoleum that had been buried in a landslide behind my inherited mansion. we had dug it up in search of one of Brittany's custom pistols. Inside it was fairly roomy none of the coffins were intact nor were their plates legible, it was dry and kept a steady temperature in both summer and winter.
    "ugh!" groaned Das as he hefted another twenty-five pound weight."Ta-da!"he said with a grin and added it to the other five weights in his other hand.
    "Great job Das! Last winter you could barely hold three!" That was Brittany she had a thing for Das but he had no clue "set those at the end of the hall with one of these skulls on top so you can see what I learned these last few months" Das went to an alcove and selected a skull and started down the hall. I herd the telltale clicking of Brittany cocking her .40 SW caliber pistol and turned to look at her when a shot rang out and the skull in Das's hand shattered with a loud crack."200 yards, moving target, and bystander safe"
    "******** Das. and promptly tipped the stack of weights over breaking through the brickwork of the wall. the gust of stale crypt air that followed put out all of the candles in the hall."Brittany? are you still there?"
    "yes. but where are you? your voice is coming from three directions at once." she said slightly hysterical. She had disliked the mausoleum in the first place, and seeing the majority of the bones were skulls didn't faze her, but when it came to the dark she was terrified."My flashlight doesn't work!"
    I rolled my eyes and started chanting "xurwk mitne svaklar mobi ui whedab" and suddenly we could see "there now you know there is nothing from the crypt that is coming to get you (yet)" and I listened to the sounds of the words awesome and tight leaving my friends mouths.
    Then Brittany said "you have improved too Set! A year ago all you could do is summon fire balls that flashed out after two seconds now your messing with lights that seem to be coming from nowhere"
    "all I did was changed the darkness to light and sealed it into the mausoleum..." I said inwardly smirking at my next thought "confn ekess ve miulkari!" and Brittany screamed I frowned and checked the book again Wasn't the spell supposed to activate after three repetitions? yes, so then what had scared Brittany? looking over I spotted that it was a large python sized cobra shaped skeleton with green fire instead of skin and it was slithering out of the hole Das had made tipping over the weights.It looked at us and we looked at it.
    "well are you going to finnish the spell or not mage?" questioned the undead serpent "It's been forever since I've seen a good animation spell at work"
    "er, yes, quite, let me just finnish the spell,( I nervously clear my throat) confn ekess ve miulkari, confn ekess ve miulkari, confn ekess ve miulkari!" and the snake looked impressed as three of the whole skeletons started to wake up and Brittany passed out.
    "well, I guess being holed up in that wall for 200 years has left me senile because if I remember corectly I burned the book where that spell was..." said the snake "and It's writen in draconic so there is no way you could have cast that spell!" It looked at me "sulta jacida tija"
    I couldnt see anymore but I heard the skeletons turn back into corpses and fall clattering to the ground "svaust re wux?(who are you?)" I ask in perfect draconian to the snake still glowing softly with green flames.
    "si mi Ashkore wer torke, shar wux shilta relgr ve Ata jaka visp ve munthrek svaust re wux vur kii re wux tenpiswo? (I AM ASHKORE THE ANGEL, but you can call me Ata now tell me human who are you and why are you here?)" Ata said also in perfect draconian impressed at how perfectly I spoke his language.
    "I am Bedwyr, my friends are Britany and Das." I said in english so Das could understand "we are here to hang out and talk. we do this once a year to update each other on our lives and have fun. we are sorry if we disturbed you Ata..." I trailed off as he looked at me again.
    "wake your friend and all of you follow me" he said softly "My master wishes to make you an offer" I said the light spell again and brought Britany to conciousness with a flick of my finger and a silibal. Ata saw this and started off into his hole. following close behind him. (how do you determine a flaming immortal snake's gender? I don't know his voice is male and Ashkore doesn't sound like a girls name)


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