The noise was so loud it was not surprising that the twins and Markus both jumped up out of their bedrolls. The twins went into their rucksacks, both pulling out short swords and stood next to each other at the ready. Markus reached into his bag and when he brought his hand out, he was only holding onto a pommel, but no blade! 'That won't be much use in a fight without a blade' Rex thought to himself. With a quick flick of his wrist, Markus's sword came alive and out of the pommel came a silver liquid that quickly turned solid, forming the blade. 'Ok, now that was impressive' Rex thought. Reaching into his bag, Rex felt around, besides clothes and spare shoes, he had nothing to fight with! With the looks on the other people's faces, it looked like he was going to need something! "I don't have a weapon!" He called to Markus. "You're a Magnus, you don't need one!" He called back, "inside of you is power most people can only dream of having, that is more useful than any weapon I c
As the group was getting closer to the mountain ranges, Rex decided to ask about the place and the people who lived there. “Those are the Ragnar Mountain ranges, the people who live there are called the Bohl, they are a race of hybrid human and ogre, the ancestral caretakers of the dragon called Ragnar,” Markus replied. “I once saw one of them open a door for Iris, I only saw his hand, and even that was enormous!” Rex said. “It is uncommon for any Bohl to be under 6 foot tall, if I’m not mistaken, they are born at 2-3 feet tall, not a small feat, you will see when you meet another of your father's generals at the capital. No doubt you will be invited to one of their massive feasts.” Markus said. As the sun started to set on day 2 of traveling, they came up onto the edge of a lake that stretched all the way to the mountain base. Rex strained his eyes and swore he could see a house on the other side below the mountain. “That’s where we are headed.” Chirped Raz seeing Rex looking
Seeing Nessa’s face as Rex approached her showing off the part of Fafnir he was able to conjure gave him a sense of power for the first time in his life. After so many years of torment, this seemed like a good change, after all he was a Prince! “You seem to have lost all sense of yourself there, do you yield?” Rex said. “You only got me for a second!” Nessa yelled jumping back to her feet. She definitely had no idea how she was going to combat this new threat, and to her it looked strangely similar to pictures of dragon’s feet she had seen. But morphing into a dragon was impossible! Or so she had been told. “Yield or regret it” Rex said, he was trying his hardest to prevent fighting her and had hoped the scare tactic would enough to stop her. Seeing as she had jumped up and seemed to regain her composure made him sigh a little. He did not want to be enemies with her. Seeing the look of conflict on Rex’s face Nessa decided that was the time to strike! Closing the gap between them qu
Stepping inside, Rex took a breath. This isn’t creepy at all he thought to himself. A door that opens by itself with someone inside who has been waiting for me. As Rex made it to what must have been the entertaining area, he noticed there was 2 people sitting on the couch in front of the fire. Hearing the footsteps from behind them approaching, the two people turned around to face him. Walking towards the couch the voice he heard from the door called out once more, “take a seat and I will be with you shortly.” Taking the advice from the strange creepy voice, Rex walked around the couch and sat down on the end. Sitting next to him was a gigantic man, almost as large as the one he had seen while still in Oak, when his grandmother had someone open the door for her. I’m sure Markus said this person was supposed to be my ages, he is huge! Rex thought to himself when he saw his size. Shortly after Rex sat down, the man stood up, bowed at the neck and said to him while putting his h
As Rex walked out from his meeting with the Seer, he had a few answers, but also a lot more questions. He now understood why he seemed to have such powerful abilities straight up, seeing how powerful Fafnir was, in fact he was one of the most powerful beings ever. Why Fafnir chose him or what this plan he had with Rex was something else he wanted to know. He also did not understand why the Seer thought he would be a force for destruction, why would I destroy the one place that is my home? He thought. An odd statement from her. Walking back out to the room with the fire and lounge, Lizetta and Charr’is stood up and started to bow, “Please! Don’t do that, it isn’t needed” Rex said stopping them. “You are the son of the emperor…we would be punished if anyone saw us not bowing” Lizetta said panicking a little. “No one else here but us” Rex said raising his hands and looking around. This statement made them smile a little seeing how low-key Rex wanted to be. “Would prince mind if staye
“What or who is Balrog?” Rex asked, the name sounded quite ominous, especially if it was something that worried someone as big as Charr. “Her be spider demon who live under Mountain, make babies who boys fight to be man.” Charr said. “No one seen it in many years, but it babies are big to kill young warrior who not fight well.” “Then how do you know it lives that way?” Rex asked tilting his head a little. “No one has seen it in a long time.” “Strong warriors who go too close to that part mountain not come back.” Charr replied. “I not want eaten by spider.” “Well I have an idea” added Lizz, I know a way to get around that part of the mountain, we have to head more west, but I also know there is another problem that way, Shaitan. He is a bandit lord that constantly harasses trade caravans around eastern Bhutan.” “So, either way we go, there is a possibility to death?” Rex asked sighing a little. This prompted a little arguing between Lizz and Charr over who was more dangerous, Shait
As the companions were walking along the main road that led them alongside the mountain range, Rex enjoyed listening to Charr explain parts they saw. The mountain range was created by the dragon Ragnar and he brought his tribesman with him into the mountains and named them ‘Bohl’ which meant warrior in dragon language. “Story told by elders say Ragnar make us from ogre for strong and man for other weak things like emotion and brain” Charr said shaking his head, “Bohl no need brain, only need strong back.” This made Rex and Lizz look at each other and burst out laughing. “I no understand you two laugh at Charr” he said confused. “It’s nothing big guy, you do you and we will help fill in the gaps when strong isn’t needed.” Rex added winking at Charr. This made Charr smile and slap Rex on the back, yep, that is going to bruise he thought to himself stumbling forward from the force. A few hours later they were passing by a rocky outcrop Lizz noticed something off towards the edge of
Hearing what Fafnir said, Rex’s palms got a little sweaty. He knew he was in for a big night and hoped he was up for the challenge. ‘We don’t have a lot of time, so we will learn the basics to attacking and defending yourself.’ Fafnir said the moment Rex approached. ‘Last I knew, Balrog’s weakness was fire, so I will show you how to give her some.’ Fafnir put his hand onto the ground, brought it up and dragged a mound of dirt to use a target. “Do you mean shoot fire out my mouth?” Rex asked curiously. ‘How you use fire depends on the situation. I would have thought you would want to throw it at her, but you want to get close and personal I see, I like that.’ Fafnir said grinning. “Well no, I don’t really want to get that close.” Rex added, a little shocked. He did not want to be anywhere near an ancient demon, let alone one that was a giant spider!! ‘Hmmmrpf, fine! We will practice creating fire first.’ Fafnir said he seemed a little let down at Rex’s comment at not wanting to get