Ligma: "so does anyone actually know where to go?" she says standing with anticipation.
Waifu: "..."
There were two staircases that lead down from the tower to two different sides of the wall, one that was to the left and closes to the bonfire and one that was to the right.
Nia: "I say go to the right because right is always right!" she says with confidence.
And so, the unlikely trio set of... to the right.
The staircase was attached to the side of the tower in an almost half spiral. As Nia, Ligma, and Waifu made their way down the stairs in that order, they heard footsteps that sounded too close together to be the steps of a humanoid. Then a low growl bellowed out in front of them, then Nia was face to face with an undead dog.
The dog's skin was all but rotted away, holding on like a wet paper towel wrapped around its body. The dog let out a loud BARK before lunging at Nia. Nia thinking quickly raised her arm so the dog would attach to her arm instead of her neck.
The dog's teeth now sinking deeper into Nia's arm it starts to try and rip it off with ferocious tugs. Waifu who was in the back notices what is happening, so she hastily raises her wooden staff above her head.
Waifu: "come forth SOUL ARROW!"
And in a second a blue flash shot from the top of her staff and like an arrow it struck the undead animal through the back legs crippling the dogs back side.
With the dog now crippled Nia was easily able to hack the dogs head off with the hand axe she had on her back.
Nia: "That was a close one nice going Waifu" she said while looking back and holding her wrist that is now bleeding onto the ground.
Ligma: "NO, it's not over" she says pointing past Nia.
A couple of feet away from Nia was another undead dog but this one was bigger and noticeably darker than the other one.
Ligma ran down the stairs as fast as she could almost tripping on the lose brick. when she made it to the base of the stairs, she was only a few inches away from the charging animal.
Then unexpectedly she grasped a talisman that was resting on her belt and assumed a position of prayer much like her... earlier one.
Ligma: "With this tale of lord Gwen I cast HEAL... UNFALTERING PRAYER"
And within a second a flash of yellow light expanded for about 5 ft all around Ligma. Before the light even faded the dog bit Ligma's neck... but something wasn't right, despite the rabid animal gnawing at her neck she remained unmoving.
Nia without a second thought jumped over Ligma and onto the dog landing with her body facing the away from Ligma. She held onto the dog as tight as she could then clinched her fist jamming it into the dog's belly.
Nia: "COMBUSTION"
In a second the dog burst into flames with Nia still riding the animal. After a couple seconds of flailing around the dog went limp and from the smoke Nia emerged with no major burns thanks to her pyromancer cloths.
All that was left behind of the second dog was its black chard skeleton.
Ligma: "Are you ok Nia?" She said smiling and blushing a little while holding her neck.
Waifu: "Umm I'm worried about Nia too but that dog bit your neck" she said nervously holding her staff close to her chest.
Ligma: "oh don't worry about that it's not as bad as it would seem." she said as she removes her hand revealing that the teeth didn't even break the skin. "I used my faith and a little more of my mana than usual to put a protective barrier over myself. while it provides protection it doesn't make me invincible."
Nia: "interesting... I also noticed that spell... what did you call it (heal), well it completely stopped my bleeding and even restored a little of my lost blood." She said now walking back to Ligma and Waifu.
Ligma: "Well that's enough about me you guys had some interesting tricks of your own." She said while looking at Waifu and crossing her arms bellow her chest.
Waifu: "o- oh yes tha- that was one of the only sorceries I know unfortunately." she said now holding her staff even closer now.
Nia: "As for me I only know the most powerful of all the magic FIRE MAGIC also known as pyromancies." she said with a grin on her face.
The conversation comes to a halt when they all look out to where they were going before they were attacked.
The wall extended to the next tower but there were at least 20 hollows scattered about. Hollows warriors who have lost the will to fight and with it their minds, now all they can do is rot, wander, or pray to a god who forsake them long ago.
It looked as if every hollow there was hopeless, praying to taller more unmoving tree hollows, but there was one Hollow who was much taller than the rest who wielded a halberd. The hollow must have been at least 7ft tall.
Luckily it was on the other side of the path and to far way for it to see the trio.
The trio gets serious.
Waifu: "That guy sure is big" she said trembling a bit.
Nia: "he sure is... I got a plan, we will slowly kill the praying hollows, I don't want them to get in the way."
Ligma: "As much as I don't like the idea of striking a defenseless hollow minding his business, I can't ignore how many of them there is."
Nia: "good then we are all on the same page." she says as she takes a step towards the praying hollows.
The praying hollows deaths came quick they were so far gone they couldn't even survive a single back stab from a physical weak sorcerer. And with all the praying hollows dead all that remained was the big one.
The trio took a ready position with Nia at the front, ligma behind her to the left, and Waifu behind to the right.
The large hollow walked down the stairs from the other tower they saw before. The hollow stops in its tracks its eyes are sunken and pitch black and its mouth forms a black toothless smile.
Within the blink of an eye the hollow strikes, it goes for Nia with a powerful overhead strike.
Nia: "Predictable, truly befitting a hollow" she said as she rolls to the right.
The hollows halberd crashes into the ground lifting stone and dust into the air. The hollow looks up and sees a blue light through the dust.
Waifu: "SOUL ARROW!"
The hollow is struck in the face by magic moving just as fast as an actual arrow. The hollow grabs its face in pain, it's now bleeding through where its nose once was.
Before it could even grab its weapon with both hands it is hit from its right side by a hard mace. The impact causes the hollow to fall to its left, it only was able to catch itself with its left hand. he now only has a lose grip on the halberd with his right hand.
Nia: "ITS OVER, RAAAAW."
BAMM!
A loud noise rang out where Waifu was once standing. She was gone and, in her place was another tall hollow of similar build, but this one wielded a huge axe far too big for a normal person. It looked like it had just hit something with its axe like a bat hitting a baseball.
Ligma: "oh no" she said with horror in her eyes and a tremble in her voice.
Nia and Ligma look over at what the hollow hit; the cloud of dust cleared and reviled Waifu slumped against the large brick railings of the tower. she had a huge slash on her stomach, her insides were slightly hanging out and she weakly tried to keep everything from falling out.
Nia: "WAIFU!"
The halberd hollow uses this time and gets up and ready's a powerful overhead strike at the distracted Nia. Remembering the hollow right next to her Nia quickly looks over to see a halberd crashing down on her.
Nia: (in her head) "Shit I have no time to dodge I can only block with my axe."
Without missing a second Nia uses two hands to blocks the attack with the blade of her axe.
Nia: "Go heal Waifu! I can deal with him I just need to concentrate on this. I put my trust in you for this!" she says while she matches the hollow in strength.
Ligma runs over to the axe hollow and grabs her talisman like before but this time she crosses her arms in a X shape, a white light starts to emit from her body. As she stops in front of the axe hollow it looks at her with its dead gaze and not a second later that white light erupts from her body pushing the axe hollow back and over a railing.
Ligma then runs over to Waifu who is bleeding out from her stomach.
Waifu: "Li..."
Ligma: "don't talk." Ligma gets in the same prayer position as before and the same yellow light emits from her. "HEAL." she says as a wave of yellow covers Waifu, closing her wound. "you're not completely healed yet so stay out of danger."
Ligma looks back to see the axe hollow walking towards her, it seems that the edge he fell off of had a staircase that led up to the wall that the trio did not see when they first got there.
Back over to Nia. she is slowly overpowering the hollow until she gained enough leverage to push the halberd to her right. The halberd hits the ground lifting dust into the air.
Nia: "ITS OVER" she says as she grabs the hollows face. "COMBUSTION." the hollows face is set ablaze, but it tries to stand up despite this. "COMBUSTION, COMBUSTION, COMBUSTION." She says now spreading the fire to the rest of its body.
The hollow starts to flail because of the flames and accidently pushes away from Nia to fast and rips his own head off. Nia stands there with the hollows burnt head in her hand.
Nia: "didn't even break a sweat" she says clearly sweating.
Back over to Ligma.
Ligma: "Shit I can't fight this thing alone... but i can buy some time!" she says getting back into her prayer stance. "HEAL... UNFALTERING PRAYER" Unlike before the yellow light did not burst from her instead it remained along with the protective shield.
The axe hollow rushes Ligma and leaps high into the air slamming his axe into Ligmas back.
Ligma threw up some blood when she was hit but remained poised.
Now with Nia's fight done she runs over to the axe hollow and with two hands chops its left arm off with her axe.
Nia: "Sorry I'm late, it took longer than expected." she says catching her breath.
Ligma smiles looking over at Nia, she releases her spell healing all the damage she took and fully healing Waifu.
Waifu, Ligma, and Nia all standing side by side prepare to attack the injured hollow.
Ligma: "I'm out of mana so don't die"
Nia: "same here and likwise" she says smiling at Ligma.
Waifu: " let's Fucking kill this guy." she says with hate in her eyes.
The hollow watches emotionless picking up his large axe with his right hand. The hollow swings from top right going down to the left.
Ligma swings her mace into the axe blocking the axe with great effort, she is brought to her knees blocking the attack.
Waifu: "come forth HEAVY SOUL ARROW" she says as a bright light blue comes forth from the top of her staff.
The blue light forms into an arrow wrapped in a spiral, it hits the hollow directly in the gut. The spell is meet with some resistance from the hollows skin, but it fully penetrates through its whole body.
The attack brings the hollow to its knees. Nia stands over the hollow shrouded in shadow in its eyes, the only thing visible is the glint of her axe.
Nai: "It's over." she says bringing her axe down splitting his head open.
The hollow falls to the ground defeated. Ligma and Nia falls to the ground exhausted.
Waifu: "So that last attack took the rest of my mana" she says with the same tiredness in her eyes.
Nia: "join the club" she says standing back up.
Waifu: "We should go back and rest for now" she says still on the ground.
Nia: "yes but we must not rest long hollows always get back up after a while, it all depends on how far gone they are. but these guys seem pretty far gone so we should be able to get a full recover before they come back."
So, the trio slowly make their way back to the bonfire to rest. The dark sun shines its haunting light over Lothric, the wind once again stale, and the screams of hollows always present.