Spy Mage System

54 A New Ally, A New Deal

Nikki crawled out from behind me and started walking towards Malachi as if she didn’t care that he was literally going to end us. “What are you doing?!” Tisiah loudly whispered, “We don’t have much time!”

Nikki stopped right in front of Malachi’s group and stood up on her feet again. Her face was red with anger as she stared him right in the eyes, and she held her wand at her side in her hand tightly. She had a small smile on her lips and she looked like she was ready for a fight.

“We’re gonna die,” I sighed, looking around the cave as I realized there was no other way out of here but the way we came in.

“I don’t care,” Nikki said.

Tisiah whispered to her, “They aren’t going to kill us. Not without us escaping.”

He looked to the side and then glanced up, seeing the small hole in the top of the tree that led outside of the cave. There were no steps leading up to it though, so we wouldn’t be able to climb up out of here that way either.

I crawled towards the entrance to the cave and looked out into the forest in front of us, seeing a long stretch of land in between us and where we needed to go to escape. We would never make it across that distance without getting caught by Malachi. I looked back at the three people with him and they all had their wands aimed at us as they were walking towards us now.

They must have heard us talking, which meant they were close enough for us to hear them as well now. Clearly this time. “I don’t think there is any hope of making it,” Nikki said, looking over at Tisiah with a worried look on her face.

“I don’t know,” Tisiah said, “But we have to try.”

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I looked at Tisiah, wondering why he wanted to go back out there with those guys if he thought that there was no hope. But then, all of a sudden, shouts and yells came from ahead as if another group was charging.

Malachi and his three other men turned their heads in that direction as they saw what was coming towards them. But I could see Malachi’s face light up when he saw what was coming towards him and his group. He turned around quickly and started walking away from us and towards where I saw what was coming.

“It’s another group, and crazy one as well,” I reported. “We need to get out of this cave now.”

We quickly slid away from the cave and ran away, as clashes echoed through the forest. But it wasn’t just one group; there were two different groups of people that were fighting each other. They were in two separate groups, but they were attacking each other with magic attacks as if they were trying to kill each other with those weapons instead of just trying to incapacitate each other with them.

“Okay, let’s try and find that cave, clearly this was a waste of time,” Nikki said, as we continued on, hoping to get out of here before those people saw us and chased after us again.

“We should have just tried to run away when we first came in here,” Tisiah said, looking over his shoulder at us, “I’m telling you, there’s no way we’d make it.”

“So what?” I asked him, “We still have to try.”

“Okay,” Nikki said, “But I’m going to take the lead this time.”

We all nodded as we all continued to run away from the cave, hoping to get out of the forest before Malachi or those guys saw us again.

Time had passed and we still had not found a cave. It was now daytime as the sun began to rise on the grasslands around us, but there still were no signs of any caves around us either.

“I’m so tired,” I complained. “We’ve been running for an hour now, and we haven’t found anything yet.”

“There are caves around here though,” Nikki said as she took a quick break from running and pointed behind me into the forest.

I looked at where she was pointing and saw some sort of opening in the trees behind me but I couldn’t tell what it was yet.

“You think that’s a cave?”

“Let’s hope so,” Nikki said, taking another quick break from running as she stopped for a few seconds to rest, “This place is getting really annoying.”

We walked towards the opening between those trees, and I realized that it was actually an opening between some tall trees. As we walked closer, I saw a huge rock wall with a bunch of cracks and holes in it that made up the entrance to a cave. I walked into the entrance first, and then Nikki and Tisiah followed me into the cave behind me.

“Well this is quite a grand entrance, never saw this with our cave,” Tisiah muttered, as he looked around at the inside of the cave and its surroundings.

We walked a bit further in the cave before I noticed a small path leading away from us towards what seemed like another opening in the rock wall that I could barely see in the shadows of the cave. “Look,” I said, pointing towards where I saw that opening, “that looks like an opening to another cave over there.”

Nikki and Tisiah followed me as we made our way over to where I pointed, and all of a sudden we heard someone approaching us from behind. We all turned around to see who it was as soon as they came into view. It was another person but I wasn’t sure who they were yet because they weren’t wearing a costume or anything that would let us know who they were.

The person walked towards us with their arms held down at their sides as if they didn’t want to be seen by anyone. They had brown hair that was cut short on one side and long on the other side of their head, and their eyes were blue like Tisiah’s and mine.

“Who’s this?!” Nikki shouted, having her wand gripped in her hand, “I know you’re one of the people who attacked me before!”

The person stopped walking as they stared at Nikki, and then they turned their head around towards us, noticing me for the first time. They gave me a slight nod of their head, but they didn’t say anything yet. I could tell that they knew who we were but they wanted us to introduce ourselves first.

“I’m Connor,” I introduced.

“I’m Rin,” he responded. “I’m just new to this whole WAC contest, but it’s brutal. Is it okay if you guys can help me for some time of the match?”

I felt a bit uneasy, but Nikki just rolled her eyes and looked over at Tisiah with a smirk on her face. Nikki shrugged her shoulders and turned her head to the side. She seemed like she was completely unimpressed with his question and was probably about to get up and leave him here with us.

Tisiah was looking at him too but he was just staring at him intently with his arms crossed over his chest as if he was trying to figure out what he was really thinking.

Nikki walked closer to Rin and then turned to look over her shoulder at us, “We’ll help you out if we can. But you have to help us in return.”

I could tell by the way she was talking that she thought he would agree to her offer. I wasn’t so sure. He didn’t seem like he was going to agree with her offer. He was just looking at us as he tried to figure out what was going on with us, but he didn’t seem interested in joining in on anything else that was happening here.

“O-okay,” he stammered, looking back at us before looking back at Nikki again, “I’ll try.”

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“Great!” Nikki said excitedly, “We’ll come up with some sort of plan.” She turned around and walked off into the cave with her hands behind her back, leaving Rin standing there alone with me and Tisiah.

“I guess follow us,” I said nervously, turning around to follow Nikki.

Rin was walking a bit slower than we were walking but he quickly caught up with us as he started following behind us again. I looked back at Rin and saw him staring back at me with a confused look on his face as well. Soon enough we entered the deep of the cave, where there was a fire that was still swaying on the ground and crackling.

Rin looked over at me with his brows furrowed, and I could tell he didn’t understand why we would have a fire in this long cave when there were plenty of caves outside the forest that we could use as well.

“It’s fine,” Nikki said as she turned to look at us again, “I want to use this fire to light torches. That way we can be even more prepared.”

Tisiah gave a quick nod and then turned back around to stare into the fire. I was watching him as he stared into the flames. He was looking really peaceful right now; not like he was upset about anything.

“It looks sort of like the one we made with Matt and Mari,” Tisiah said. “Maybe its possibly here, or it’s similar.”

I could see Rin turn his head to look back at Tisiah when he heard him talking about Matt and Mari, but he didn’t say anything for a few seconds. He just stood there quietly, not saying anything else.

“You’re right,” Nikki said after she saw Rin’s reaction, “I think it is the place. Let’s search for the wands, then.”

Nikki led the way through the cave as we searched for wands again. The cave felt more mysterious as we walked, like something was telling us to look over to our left or right every now and then, but we weren’t sure what it meant. But we searched all over the ground for them anyway, as we knew we had to find them soon because it was getting darker in the cave with each passing minute.

As I continued walking, I felt something, like a linear structure of a stick.