Shadowgate

The figure leaps and spurs, casting a blackened veil over the room. Shifting the buckler from your back, you bend in relief as your arm hinges into formation.

With a ghastly cry, the specter surges around you. Arm held close, you snap forward with a rush.

You gape blankly as the buckler molds effortlessly through the glowing silken robes. A shrill shriek sifts through your nerves as the apparition swirls unaffected about you.

The metal clangs to the bloodied moss beneath you. Vision blurring, you fight to keep yourself standing. Eyes flaring up in blue embers, your distorted scream fade as flesh falls in heaps from your body. Muscle and bone glistening in the smoldering fire, a hellish screech stirs the chamber as sapphire flames engulf you.
End Of Story