Once the voice came through the trees, the 3 companions stopped dead in their tracks and stood there looking around the woods. The sound was terrifying and felt like it came from all directions at once. ‘What have you gotten us into?’ Rex said to Fafnir. ‘That is an old trick, spread fear in the camp, try to make their opponents less effective for fighting.’ Fafnir said. ‘Yes, well look at us, seems to be working a little.’ Rex said gritting his teeth. To be honest even he was a little scared. ‘I told you we would come out victorious, trust me.’ Fafnir growled, ‘I am 100% confident at least we will survive.’ ‘What about them? They followed willingly with me.’ Rex huffed. ‘Burden of leadership I am afraid.’ Was Fafnir’s reply. “You’ve spaced out again Rex!! I really hope you don’t do that when we have to fight!” cried Lizz pulling him away from his conversation with Fafnir. “Yes, I’m here, sorry.” He replied. Looking around, nothing was moving, there was no other sound bes
“So, am I going to die?” Rex asked Fafnir. Lifting his head, he replied. ‘Between your strength and mine, it may take a while, but like I promised, you will survive this.’ Lizz and Charr both ran to Rex after he collapsed. After Balrog was rendered to ash the weight in the air of the place started to lift, they could feel the warmth from the sun start to come through the treetops, and it started to brighten up a bit. Lizz’s mana reserves started to fill again. It had seemed Balrog’s presence here had a terrible impact and now she was defeated the place returned to its original beauty. “Must stop prince bleeding” Charr said to Lizz pointing at the fang wounds. “I can cauterize it to stop the bleeding, but with his temperature rising, it seems there was also poison which I can’t help with” Lizz added feeling Rex’s forehead. Hearing they were close to the river, Charr picked Rex up and they brought him closer to the river. Well Rex turned out to be right, they were close to the river
Hearing Charr call out, Lizz dropped her makeshift spear she had for fishing at made her way quickly back up to the camp. Looking around to see what had alarmed Charr she gasped immediately. A wyvern!! A mature aged wyvern could easily kill 3 hunters if they were caught unaware and ill equipped, and they were both. “What should we do Charr?” Lizz asked panicking a little. She had only read about wyverns in the town library, and the stories she read did not end well 50% of the time. “This mountain lizard, we need one more warrior, unless you wake prince and he help” Charr said, he was able to injure it, but even Charr knew he got lucky and the wyvern would try and make him pay for that. Leaning over Rex, Lizz spoke into his ear, “Rex, if you are in there, we need your help.” ‘So if you take your fathers place, then you will be crowned…it seems they are in need of your help.’ Fafnir said looking up and cutting off his current topic. “I am willing to help, if I can” Rex said jumping
It had been 4 days since Nessa had reached the start of the Kadota Desert, she had only a few days of water left in her skin and only a few pieces of dried meat left. She was getting incredibly weakened by her wound constantly draining her strength and having already been heavily rationed for a few days with her food and water did not help her case. I need to get there soon, or I will be another victim claimed by the sand she thought to herself. She had given up looking around for landmarks 2 nights ago, the desert seemed the same day in day out. From the descriptions her mother had said during her stories, she was on the lookout for a cave that sat next to an oasis. Water in the desert…everywhere she looked the illusion of water was there! This had led her off on wild chases more than once and had led to the same outcome every time, nothing but sand, sand everywhere. If it were not for the healing magic this woman possessed, she would not would have even dreamed of coming into the d
“Wake up, we have preparation before the sun rises” Al’ik said to Nessa. Groaning she opened her eyes, it was still dark out, “I thought we were waiting for the sun to begin” Nessa said rubbing her eyes and sitting up. “Yes I am waiting for the sun to rise before I get to work but we need to prepare the wound and prepare you mentally for the day” Al’ik replied, “The longer we wait the more that will take its toll on you and you will never regain your full strength.” Standing up Nessa followed Al’ik outside, there was an altar style bed already setup just outside the cave mouth with a cloth thrown over the wooden frame. I hope this works Nessa thought to herself, the wound was sapping her strength everyday and she wanted it fixed as soon as possible. Al’ik threw Nessa some dried fruit and meat for something to eat before saying, “You should meditate before the sun rises to help clear your mind of doubt, I can help dull the pain with the drink I have been brewing, but it will still h
‘We will begin with some teaching’ Fafnir said to Rex after he had sat down in from of him in the mind vault. He spoke to Rex about the Blood War and why it was started. Rex’s father, Rector, had given Ean some land to satisfy his need to help rule the kingdom, which had never been done in the history of Dracoterrum, this also enraged the elders because no one is allowed to rule without passing The Dreaming selection. Rector was able to ease their anger by telling them he is ruling under him and he had to answer to him. Ean took this as disrespect and slowly greed and power poisoned his mind. He dreamed of a day he would take Dracoterrum by force and once the citizens of Vale trusted him, he used their army to attempt to invade. He coaxed a few of Bhutan’s high mages to assist him and Ean marched on Hale. Rector knew because of his connections he had placed to watch Ean and had his armies waiting for him at the border. Instead of backing down, Ean wasted thousands of lives in that batt
Once the man had burst out of the keep he came to a halt in front of the 3 companions, still ranting about dealing out the death penalty for the murder of his brother. “Who the f**k are you 3?” he yelled in their faces. They could see the vein popping from his neck, Lizz thought they were going to die. “These are the 3 accused of Dreg’s murder” replied a guard who was near them. This made the red-faced man leer at them, if looks could kill they would have all died by now. “I hereby sentence you 3 to death!!” he screamed pointing at them. “They cannot be sentenced to death without a trial my lord” said another man. “Typical politician” he sneered looking up and staring the man down, “Very well Jules, a trial it is. Tomorrow morning, we will sentence these 3 to death by hanging!!” he cried out lifting his arms, this made the crowd surrounding them start to cheer. This made Lizz cry out, “This is not right, how is it a fair trial!!??” “It’s fair if I say it is, you killed Dreg, so
Rex jumped up the moment the memories matched about who the person was. He quickly half dried himself, threw on some of the clothes that were put out for him and went in the direction he saw the woman walking. Not having a clear heading, he wandered aimlessly for a while looking into the faces of the maids he saw. Rounding a corner, he ran into Stug who was giving out orders to a man wearing a cloak, getting the man moving he looked back at Rex, eyed him up and down and saw him still half wet and asked hurriedly, “Is everything ok prince?” “Yes, one of the people you’re looking for is here! I saw her walk past my room” Rex said. “Really! They have the nerve to try and sneak back in, I will sort this out immediately!” he said and paced off towards his majordomo and said something to him. The majordomo nodded and immediately walked off to the main room of the building. He looked straight ahead and clapped his hands 3 times and then walked outside. Not a few seconds after the third clap