MLFW Part 4- "Plan B"

"Plan B" is the fourth Part of "Miracula Luxia: Four Worlds". It was released on 06.02.2020.

## Plot

Jared and Annie approached the site where the dark shadows were located. However, what they see there is exactly the opposite of what they expected.

Defeating the spirits might be a difficult task for our heroes, way too difficult.

## Story

Our heroes arrived to the site.

It was eerily quiet. There were no workers. Or guards.

This made Jared suspicious. Annie, on the other hand, was very terrified.

"This is not good!"- She said to Jared- "We... we need to flee... warn the mayor... "

Jared shaked his head.

"No Annie. This is not the time to be cowards. I promised the Mayor that we will drive the evil spirits out of this site and I'm going to stay he--"

Before he could finish his attempt to convince Annie to join him, he was attacked by someone.

He fell to the ground and looked up. It looks like one of the ghosts had possessed one of the workers.

But it wasn't just one worker. Moments later, other workers came out of their hiding spots.

Jared was a little worried now. How the possessed worker knocked him down with just one hit was... definitely not normal.

Somehow, the spirits' possession had made the workers much stronger than usual.

Annie screamed as one of the possessed workers chased her.

"*Oh, God.*"- Jared said to himself- "*This is a nightmare. I... I have to put a stop to this!*"

With that, he grabbed Annie's hand and ran away with her, the possessed workers chasing them in a hot pursuit.

As they hid in a dark corner, they contemplated their chances against this new threat.

"What do we do now, Jared?"- Annie wondered.

Jared thought about it for a while. He figured out something, but most of the plan was still dim.

Maybe he will remember more of it as they try to execute it.

"I have a plan."- He said- "But he have to be *very* careful."

Annie realized that the situation was very serious now. She nodded.

"Understood. What's our plan?"

Jared explained how they could use the possessed workers' strength against them.

"I like this! But... the plan's kinda dim."- She said.

Jared sighed.

"I am working on it. Okay?"- He said impatiently.

Annie nodded and came out of her hiding spot, with Jared being right behind her.

She managed to trick one of the possessed workers (who charged towards her almost immediately) to crash into one of the buildings.

However, he stood back up again almost immediately.

Jared and Annie realized that their plan was not working.

"I hope you have a Plan B!"- Annie yelled.

"I do! Stay calm and follow me."- Jared answered.

They ran towards the Eiffel Tower.

"Jared, this... this is dangerous! Don't do it!"- Annie tried to stop her boyfriend, but failed.

He shaked his head.

"Go get an exorcist and bring him up there! I'll handle the rest!"- He yelled as he ran towards the top of the tower, with the possessed workers trying to kill him.

Annie did so and found one of the few exorcists in town. She brought him up where Jared and the workers were located.

They were about to kill him. However, thinking quickly, the exorcist managed to save him by tapping the backs of the workers's heads.

Somehow, this freed them of the spirits possessing them.

The exorcist gave Jared a small mirror and told him to imprison the dark spirits within it.

He did so and quickly imprisoned all of the spirits.

Once the deed was done, the exorcist told him to break the mirror.

"Is this a good idea?"- Jared wondered.

"I know that it sounds crazy, but I promise that it will work. Try it out!"

With care, Jared smashed the mirror with his blade. He realized that the light within the mirror had purified the spirits. They came out of it, now purified and white.

"Hopefully, they will reach the places from whence they came."- The exorcist said.

"Let's hope so."- Jared hoped.

The workers stumbled around, barely conscious. Unable to comprehend what was happening around them. Or who was around them.

And, most importantly, where they were going.

One of the workers almost fell from the Eiffel Tower, but was saved by Jared and Annie who pulled him back up.

"Wh... what happened?"- The man asked them.

Jared and Annie were unsure what happened back at the working site, so they said nothing.

The exorcist cleared his throat.

"I think that this is the work of a more malevolent force than those spirits. Like, say, a necromancer."

"But... aren't necromancers supposed to only *reanimate* the undead, not use their spirits for bad deeds?"- Jared wondered.

The man shaked his head.

"This was the term about the old necromancers. The new necromancers are also able to control the souls of their victims and use them for whatever bad deeds they wish to perform. Heavens, they can even use the soul of a *living* person to achieve their goal!"

Jared nodded.

"So, is this the case? A living human's soul, stolen by a necromancer and used for nefarious reasons?"

"Well, we cannot be sure about that. But maybe it is possible. Hopefully, the poor souls will find their rightful owners and return within them."

Having said that, the exorcist left the top of the tower, along with Jared, Annie and the workers (who barely got down because of their dizziness).

Jared and Annie escorted the workers back to their workhouse and traveled to the City Hall afterwards.

They told the mayor everything that happened back at the work site and at the Eiffel Tower.

"So. Possessed workers? This... this is not what I expected."- The mayor admitted.

"What was weird about them was they were in a similar state, as if they were "akumatized" by the spirits in some way."- Jared said.

"Like a black butterfly? Yes, it's understandable. We might have a new evil here."- The mayor concluded- "Maybe someone who's even stronger than Hawk Moth was."

"Or maybe this "someone" is just commanded by a bigger force to do those things."- Annie suggested.

The mayor nodded.

"Also a viable option. But we won't really know until we find-- "

Before he finished his sentence, a fireball flew towards the mayor. He barely dodged it.

The three of them looked at the person who had just casted the spell. It was a person (?) in black robes, carrying a staff with a dark gem inserted in it.

The creature lifted its hood to reveal that it was actually a Slith.

"A slith! Here?!"- The mayor said, shocked to see one of the most dangerous creatures of Avernum.

The Slith hissed, as if to mock the mayor.

"Weak as always. I thought that thisss city might have lasted longer than it did. But no."

"Well, ordersss are orders. Ah'Zoth was sent by the evil ones to kill the mayor. And kill he shall!"- The slith yelled and prepared to call its undead servants.

The mayor ducked behind Jared and Annie.

"Jared. Annie. You're my only hope. Please, keep them away from me!"

Jared nodded.

"Don't worry, mayor. We will keep you safe from those deadheads."

Jared and Annie pulled out their weapons and started killing the undead.

The Slith hissed in anger as its undead servants were smashed into bits.

"No! My beautiful children! You will pay, humansss!"- He yelled and charged at Jared and Annie.

It was only after he got very close that Jared realized that he was holding a knife in his right hand.

He tried to dodge, but was wounded in the shoulder by the knife.

Annie tried to save her friend, but was also stabbed in the shoulder.

As both heroes struggled to stand up, the Slith necromancer laughed hysterically.

"Pathetic! Just like your father! Now you will go and see him!"- Ah'Zoth hissed as he tried to stab Jared one last time.

Jared looked at him, endless anger in his eyes.

"You did **what?!**"- He yelled and drew his sword out.

He stabbed the Slith in the abdomen and kicked him to the ground.

The Slith hissed in laughter.

"Your father is no longer here. No, he isss not dead. He'sss just sssomewhere else."

Jared looked at him and smirked.

"Hmph. He's useless. Kill him."- Jared said.

Annie tried to do so, but the mayor stopped her.

"Wait, Annie!"- He said- "Maybe we can question him before he dies? It might yield us some useful information."

Annie nodded.

"What do you say, Jared?"- She asked her boyfriend.

Jared looked at the dying Slith and decided not to kill him personally.

"Well."- He began- "He hasn't done anything to my father, so my honor demands that I should spare him."

"But if he tries to kill us again while we interrogate him, my mercy for him will quickly fade away."- He added.

"Understood, lizard?"

Ah'Zoth smiled.

"Why, of courssse I will not. Go ahead. I am already too weak to fight."

The mayor called two soldiers to tie him up and brought him to the interrogation room.

Jared and Annie looked at each other, shrugged and went into the interrogation room themselves, ready to question this dangerous creature and extract whatever information they could from him.