CHAPTER 3 Immune!
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CHAPTER 3
Immune!
The Magic-User looked into and examined Rat Stars eyes.
“He seems like a normal ten-year-old boy,”
“None of my detection spells can find any form of a curse, geese, or hex on him!”
The Redheaded ‘Rouge’ twins from the water well looked at each other.
The sister was called ‘Skarlet Rouge’.
The brother was called ‘Krimson Rouge’.
They had brought Rats Stars to the nearest medical Magic-User, Prof Enow Nil MG.
(A MG in this world is like our version of a medical MD.)
“Do you know who you are? Young man!”
“I think I know that my name is Rats Star, sir.” Rats replied.
“But that is all I know”
Rats instinctively guessed that is would be a phenomenally bad idea to tell the good magic doctor any more than he had to.
Rats was certainly NOT going to reveal what he had already worked out about himself or anything about his true nature.
Skarlet Rouge piped up!
“What if he is some kind of Satite spy?”
The Magic Users eyes grimaced. It was not the stupidest thing he had heard all day, but it was one of the top ten!
“Young Lady, I am sure even the Satites do not use 10-year-old children as spies thousands of miles away from the nearest skirmish, let alone the extra thousand from there to the nearest war border or war front!”
“It is far more likely that he has just hit his head!”
“Nothing more”
“Let’s do the basics first and magic away all those scrapes and bruises, shall we!”
“He pulled out a blue wand and flurried it casually with barely any real attention”
“There!”
“Done!”
“Now next…”
“NOTHING HAPPENED!” shouted Skarlet a bit too loud!
“What?” snapped Prof Enow Nil. MG.
He turned to look and saw that indeed, all the scrapes and bruises on Rats face were still there.
“Sorry young man.” He said to Rats, I must be feeling a little tired.
He flurried his blue wand again, this time concentrating, giving off a faint yellow glow.
Again, there was no effect!
He scowled and went to a nearby medical cabinet and got out a new blue wand.
The tried again, this time the yellow light given was a little brighter.
He held the wand to his temple and sent a message to a Nurse to fetch the two other medical Magic users in the building.
They came and they each also tried.
Then they each tried again, with newly unpacked wands.
Then they all tried together giving a flinchingly bright yellow blast of light!
But the scrapes and bruises were still there!
They huddled and chatted and glanced worried at Rats a few times.
Skarlet looked smug.
Her brother Krimson looked worried.
Prof Enow turned to Rat.
“Nothing to worry about!” He smiled, but he was a terrible liar.
“We just want to give you a special test”
“Errrrr? Ok!” Said Rats slowly, getting suspicious in his bones.
“We are going to give you an object.”
“All you have to do is take it to that room and put it in its proper place!”
“Simple? Yes?”
Skarlet grinned with self-righteous glee.
While Krimson felt a deep pit of dread in his stomach as he realised where this situation was quickly going.
“Hold out your hands please.” Prof Enow smiled without feeling.
Reverently they placed the object in Rats hands and pointed to the room he had to go to.
Rats looked at the object.
Rats blinked.
“It’s a….”
“Yes.” Said the professor,
“Just go and put it in its proper place in that room, please.” He said, again pointing to the relevant room!
“It’s a…”
“Yes, we know,” Said the professor.
“We just need to know and confirm for absolutely sure that you are not a Satite spy.”
“That all!”
“It’s a toilet roll!” Said Rats confused
The whole room gimmicked and emotionally baulked.
“We all know what ‘it’ is! Young man!”
“Polite people do not speak of such things!”
“Please just go and put it in its proper place in that room!”
Rats looked at the room sign.
“That’s the…”
“Yes, we all know…!” Exclaimed the Professor.
“Just do it!”
“DO IT NOW!”
“That’s the toilet…!” Said Rats confused.
“YES!” the whole room said in unison in exasperated mild social manners horror that Rats had used both the words “Toilet” and “Toilet Roll” In such quick succession.
Rats said slowly, to make sure he understood clearly.
“As a medical ‘test’ you want me to take this ‘toilet roll’ and put it in its proper place in the ‘toilet’…!?”
“YES!” They all said again.
The mood of the room was now getting impatient and angry.
Rats shrugged his shoulder bemused and said,
“Ok!”
“Finally!” Exclaimed the professor irritably.
He glanced at Skarlet sharply,
“It is ONLY a precaution young lady!”
“You are extremely unlikely to be able to boast ‘I told you so’ at us all”
Rats shrugged his shoulder again.
He went into the toilet.
He saw an empty toilet roll holder.
He slapped it on.
Then left.
Feeling a little foolish about all the weird fuss.
“Young Lady,” Said the Professor.
“Would you be so kind as to check the result!”
Skarlet’s face was deadpan serious now.
As the reality of her earlier glib remark about the possibility of Rats being a spy, now sank in.
Her pale skin became much paler as she walked towards the toilet as fear gripped her chest.
She looked in.
Then she came out.
Now she was even paler still!
“Well?” asked the Professor.
Quietly she said
“He did it wrong.”
“He failed”
Then with a croak in her voice and on the verge of tears, she said in total horror
“I told you so…”
There was a blinding flash of green light as all three Magic users threw everything they had attacking Rats with fear-induced attack magic!
Lightning, Fireballs, and Magical energy plasma all hit Rats with deadly accuracy square in the chest.
Even though these were blue medical wands, there was enough force there to reduce a small barn to ashes!
Certainly, enough raw power to turn a mere 10-year-old child into a gooey puddle.
Rats was totally taken by surprise! Hit at point-blank range!
Skarlet dived into the toilet and locked the door.
She was now crouched in the far corner screaming in terror.
Krimson had not moved.
He was simply too stunned by sudden events to move an inch.
Rats was, however, not the puddle he was supposed to now be.
He looked down at the huge hole in the chest of his already ragged clothes.
Only to see his, totally unharmed, own skin.
All that raw power had done nothing to him.
It had not even tickled.
The Magic users all attacked again but this time to the wall to the side of them.
Blowing a huge hole in the side of the medical building.
Then they all ran!
Then when they had gotten over the initial panic, they all teleported themselves as far away as they safely could.
Krimson was left still standing there stunned.
Skarlet was still screaming in the toilet.
“WHAT THE WIPE!” Shouted Rats!
Noting to himself, again, the unusual swear words of this place!
“How can I have gotten that test ‘Wrong’!”
“What the Wipe, did I do to deserve that level of extreme reaction!”
Skarlet heard none of this over her own screams
Krimson was in a deep fugue state, blankly staring!
Rats sighed and stepped over the rubble and walk casually into the nearest bit of nearby woodland to access all that had happened.
“What the Wipe was going on here!”
In another dimension,
The Lord of All Evil Chaos marvelled at his work.
At its own artistry!
The drunk bet had been made five hundred years ago.
It had taken five hundred years to get this far.
ONLY FIVE HUNDRED!
It would have thought that it might have taken at least two thousand if not three.
Even It was amazed at how easy it had been.
Within another mere fifty, he will have easily won his silly drunk bet against the Lord of the Evil Void.
“DAM I’M GOOD AT THIS STUFF!” He said out loud admiringly to himself.
It seemed all but official.
Who’d have guessed it?
Mortals really were that stupid!
Mortals really could be made to destroy themselves over ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING!
With only one final push needed,
Not even a real push, just only a mere nudge left to do!
It will have won.
It was almost disappointingly easy!
That world was nearly as good as “Wiped” out… already!
It giggled to itself over its own self told bad pun joke!
Delighted with itself in so many ways.
The Dark Lord of Chaos would wine and dine this victory over his friend the Evil Lord of all the Void for the rest of eternity!
What could possibly stop it from winning now?
But what it did not know,
Is that his friend the Evil Lord of all the Void was trying to secretly cheat…
- Writer
