Originally written for a contest: mixing horror, fantasy & erotica (limited to 1800 words)
Iranne's Caller
As the air around her cleared, the mage's breath came in small puffs of white vapors. The creature loomed in front of her shadowed in the light, covered in her companion's frozen blood but otherwise completely unaffected by her most powerful spell. It took a deep breath. Blood shattered all around it in a frozen shower that sounded like crystal falling from it.
She screamed until everything went black.
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Iranne awoke. She must've been out for hours, when she had followed her traitorous companion to the other building it was dawn. Now it was mid-day by the sun's light on the floor. As she pushed herself up she felt cloth beneath her touch. At first she brushed it off as her mage's robe, then realized that unlikelihood and looked down.
"Where are my clothes?" she asked. She saw that what she sat on was a ragged blanket laid out on the floor. Looking around she saw nothing of her belongings.
Had it not been for witnessing the very bloody death of her companion, she would have thought that double-crossing human boyfriend of hers would have set such a situation up as a surprise for her.
Still, "Kern?" she called tentatively.
Grabbing the blanket, Iranne wrapped it around herself and went to look out the window.
"Kern, I don't know what you're doing, but it isn't funny. That monster was really scary and I don't know how you managed to talk the other mages into creating him, but it wasn't nice." She desperately wanted to believe a different reality.
Looking outside, Iranne saw the ruins sprawled for miles and she was three stories high. She couldn't see the building where her companion was killed and she had no idea where she was.
"Great," she groaned. "Kern, you better know how to get back to camp!"
She turned to look for Kern, her belongings, and a way down. She froze.
Tckβ¦ tckβ¦ tckβ¦
"Kern, tell me that's you tapping on the wall." Iranne clutched the blanket to her closed eyes. But she heard deep breathing that made her heart thunder with fear and smelled a heady musk that wasn't Kern.
She peeked one eye open and saw a shape that filled the room's doorframe. "No," she squeaked.
The monster at first stood as though it had just landed, then hunched, bringing its hands to the floor and slipped inside the room.
"I'll be good! I promise!" Iranne backed up into the wall behind her. Visions of her no good partner shredded by this demon before her rampant in her mind.