Chapter 3: Dredge and sudden reversal
Szadek actually opened a portal that led him somewhere.
Savra felt something strange as she was commanding her slaves to dive into the mystical swamp, but they ended up on nothing. Some were scared to jump but they were more afraid of Savra's wrath. Others were casting spells on air and thinking that they would be able to open the dimensional warp hole while shamans kept on chanting.
"Stop! Stop! STOP!!!" shouted Savra
Footsteps were nearing and branches of rotten trees froze. The Golgari minions looked at each other and stood still. A silhouette became clearer and clearer as it went nearer. Savra clenched her fists and squinted at the vague creature approaching.
"The sisters would come to aid us…" Savra murmured.
"I hope so…." A Golgari troll whispered.
Fog came out of the blue and then enveloped them.
"muahahahahahahahaha!!!!" Savra laughed hard.
She knew that it was Szadek.
"Prepare!"
Golgari war wurms suddenly rose out from the soil raging towards Szadek. The trolls grabbed their clubs behind their heads, saving enough force. Not a second later, hundreds of Szadeks came raging towards Savra's army. She knew that they were doppelgangers.
"Fear not! Szadek is neither one of them!" exclaimed Savra.
Claws, clubs and swords clashed. Doppelgangers fell to the ground with slices across their bodies. Trolls were knocked out vomiting blood from their wounded lungs. Savra stood tall chopping and enchanting doppelgangers in the form of Szadek. Dark Golgari horses trampled the shape shifters. Wurms even swallowed some doppelgangers. Soon, the battle field was so grotesque that it was submerged in blood and bones of different species of imps, ghouls, wurms, doppelgangers, shamans and trolls.
Suddenly, Savra was gasping and wounded. She fell on the ground and looked at the sky from the bloody field searching for the creature that slashed her deeply. As she was catching her breath, the real Szadek stood still, blocking her view of the sky. He enjoyed every second looking at Savra's dying body. He tasted the horror and fear in Savra's bloody eyes with tears flowing out.
"Savra! All I wanted was a joint force so that we would be capable of bringing Razia to her knees, but you kept on making a name for yourself. Ousting the sisters of stone-death from their position! And you are expecting them to help you!"
"th…..ey…'re….huuu…here…." She said with blood viscously flowing out of her mouth.
Minutes later, the sisters of stone-death arrived seeing the corpse of Savra with a severed throat. They made a deal with Savra's soul that they would revive her in exchange for their place back and in exchange for her total cooperation on whatever they would command. Savra agreed and with a couple of blood compact rituals, Savra rose with arcane chains shackled around her neck.
After everything, Szadek and his officials visited the places and were surprised. The sisters gazed at Szadek's remorseless face and with their stone gaze, Szadek was petrified. The officials did not bother to look at the stone-death sisters, they escaped with magical words that teleported them back to their lair. Savra angrily smashed Szadek shattering the petrified vampire lord all over the field of blood.
"Looks like the Dimir will forever remain a folktale to scare little children" Savra exclaimed as she moved with the sisters.
A shadow from above passed and gave a split-second eclipse to the field and the second time it passed it gave such radiance and luminance to the sky and the ground.
Chapter Summary: The guild wars finally started. The unexpected death of Savra and Szadek makes the war between the 2 guilds more complicated and an unknown creature is soaring in the skies of Ravnica. What could it be?
New Character/s: Sisters of stone-death