Real Life RPG (14 page)

“Now what Sal is trying to say, it was hard to come up with how to pay you back in the method you deserve” Frankie said as he circled around me. “On one hand we can’t let disrespect like this pass, on the other unless we plan on keeping you like this until the end of time we can’t punish you as well as we want. So, with help from your friends at Imagery they have made us something to pay you back with”.

I watched as two assassins came into the room, each holding an enormous wrist brace of some kind. Frankie stood there smiling as my stasis wore off. I went to utter the words of teleportation as the braces were forced on to my arms. As soon as that happened my mana went to zero, that’s when Sal started laughing.

“You see those are special mana blockers you have on your arms there, as long as you wear them you aint got no magic” Sal said he walked around me looking smug. “Yeah you could attack us but we all know you can take away huge bits of health but you can’t finish the job. Even if you did and decided to escape, those are hooked on you until I take them off. You work for me now”.

“What makes you think I would work for you?” I asked as I tried ripping the braces off.

“Ah, because I can disable those braces for a little while” Sal said as he walked up to me, my height towering over the huge man. “Now I wouldn’t dare do anything like that unless you can prove you are a good boy. For one minute a day, your braces will disable themselves, in case you decide to leave us prematurely and need a way back. Now first things first, give me a soul stone”.

I glared at the gangster but saw no way out of my predicament and handed one over. He looked at it and smiled then disappeared with Ferocity, minutes later he was back as a big green troll. He strutted around for a bit and took a few test swings with the huge club he now carried.

“You see when we came out of that castle, we only have 24 hours to use the soul stones” Frankie said as he admired Big Sally. “We spent that time on trying to kill you and could not change our race. It was a good thing you did that too, or we never would have met my new friends, the Horde. Now you have the chance to be my friend too, all you have to do is accept that you are now working for me, whenever I need you to help put the squeeze on someone, you better be there or your magic will disappear. No more fire that can’t be put out and kills everything and everyone.

I accepted as Sal came over and put his arm around me and smiled before saying “Welcome to the family, Gray”.

“What about the soul stones?” Agony said as he walked over to the now troll.

“You will get your stones goblin” Frankie said as he put his hand on the goblin’s shoulder. “Whenever you get someone who wants to join your little group, let me know and I will make sure you will get one. Now Gray, we need you for a very special mission, you see while you were gone, we found a secret path that leads to the Elf God Panamere. There is a huge force field blocking the place up, over 100 million and it keeps refreshing every ten minutes back to its original health. We want you to get us in there and help fight whatever we find inside.