Mann had left for a stroll, and the human that stayed in the cave was trying to think of a way to shape corpses together. While animating and giving life to corpses was no easy feat, a couple skeletal rabbits was relatively simple. Was one given the task of reanimating a pony-sized corpse, with flesh instead of just bones, it would take a lot of research and time to create a twitch in the dead. Our necromancer friend was sitting on a stool, looking at a pile of decomposing pony carcasses. He had a notebook with him, and said notebook was filled with drawings and doodles. He took a look at a page, then sighed, and proceeded to flip it over, looking at another picture. One caught his interest.

“Zombies.. Relatively simple, plain, not very dangerous to someone who can deal with basic threats. Any necromancer worth their salt can create a lot of them from corpses, and they are usually not very strong. However...”

As he was talking, he unconsciously stood up and started to assemble corpses in a pattern, muttering to himself all the while. He finished his ramblings, and noticed that he had created a structure out of the corpses. It had countless legs twisted into strong, sturdy limbs. Random organs and flesh seemed to be stuck inside a cage made of ribs, spines and hide. It had hands made of guts and tendons, with hooves sticking out where knuckles and nails should be. There were countless skulls adorning it, the most prominent one was probably its head. A large, deformed skull was resting atop the creature. It looked to be from a goat, as it had two horns curling back. The creature was deformed, but it was a creation Ali couldn’t have been prouder of. He knew what was left to do, and was excited to proceed. He grabbed a jar full of blood that was next to the stool, and started to draw various signs around and inside his monster. He finalized it by drawing a smiley face onto the goat skull, and, after rummaging through his pockets, took out five items. One was a black diamond, the other a while pearl, a rainbow-colored crystal was the third. Fourth was a chunk of wax and string, and the last was a matchbox.

He placed the pearl in the left eye, the diamond in the right, and placed three candles on each shoulder, five running down the back, one in front of each horn, and a final, tiny one inside the skull. He lit them up with a match, giving the creature a jack-o-lantern look with the lit candle inside his jaw. Placed one hand on the torso of his creation, and with the other started to channel the power inside the crystal.

‘This is more straining than I thought it would be... I hope it works..’

As Ali continued to drain the power from the crystal and transfer it to the mass of corpses, the crystal started to lose its glow, and cracks were appearing along its surface. The golem on the other hand, was starting to pulse, like a beating heart. The organs inside began to shift and move about, while the tendons, muscles and bones seemed to adapt to their unusual placement. The legs fused together, skin tightened and ribs covered the places where innards were leaking. The arms and hands clutched and unclutched several times, as the hooves started to form a protection of some sort. The candles adopted a more bloodied aspect, having flesh crawling up to the wick, and bones protruding out of some. Both diamond and pearl gained a glimmer to them, and the skull adapted to fit them and the body under it. Horns grew tiny spikes to seem more terrifying, and the smiley face looked life-like. Finally, the crystal lost its power, and crumbled into dust. Ali looked at the dust in his palm, smiled, then passed out.

Right before hitting the ground, a fleshy hand shot out and stopped him.

Author's Note

Sorry for the short chapter. I hope you enjoyed it however, and thank you to all the people who are reading this!
P.S.: Give me suggestions for the golem's name!