The townspeople were joyful at the return of their heroes, and the four adventurers happily absorbed all the praise.
"Oh yeah, it wasn't too much trouble, heh heh. So how about a reward?" Blaze asked… 'modestly'
"Oh most certainly!" The town elder exclaimed, handing Blaze a sack of weapons and gold. Blaze's eyes lit up with greed.
Very righteous greed.
Well… probably.
The artefacts that had brought them together suddenly started glowing once again in their ethereal blue, and it's silky voice, leaning towards neither masculine or feminine told them to go to the old wizard's tower.
"Hey old guy!" Natsu called out to the town elder.
"Yes?" He responded, patience being tested.
"Do you know if there's an old wizard around here?"
"Yes, you must mean Lord Jung. He lives in that big tower at the edge of town."
Findle sighed. "I guess should've seen that one coming."
They continued onwards to the tower.
Reheirdon knocked politely on the door to the tower.
…
…
…
No response.
Nalhcal kicks the door in. Everyone stares at him.
"Me no like wait."
The rest of the group shrugs and walks in. They walk down a hallway full of bookshelves to a staircase, where they ascend a floor to another hallway where an ominous shadow loomed ominously at the end ominously. Ominously. Reheirdon panicked and began casting explosive blast, but before he could finish, Nalhcal backhands him, launching him out of a nearby window.
"Hello!" An old man with wrinkled skin and kind eyes greets them cheerily, ignoring the disappearance of Reheirdon.
"Hi." Nalhcal takes the lead.
"Ah, I'm glad you could make it, let me put on some tea!" The old man, seemingly Lord Jung tapped on the letter of a book, causing it to glow and the bookcase covering that portion of the wall fading away leading to a dining/kitchen area. The old man beckoned them inside and sat them at a dining table, and then hurried over to the kitchen and set a kettle of water over a flat surface being heated by some kind of magic. The five waited in comfortable silence until a screeching noise began to emit from the kettle, the water boiling. Soon, everyone had cups of tea.
Reheirdon opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, the wizened figure interrupted. "You would like to know why I summoned you here."
How did he-
"You see, there is something coming. A threat like no other. I am one of the five grand wizards of Eragon, Lord Jung."
Reheirdon, Natsu and even Blaze were taken aback. Reheirdon was the first to respond. "T-the grand wizards!? But you're said to be powerful enough to rival lesser gods!"
"Indeed." Was the grave response.
"But, what could be powerful enough that even you can't fight it?" Blaze answered seriously.
Lord Jung looked off into the distance, thinking deeply. "You know what I specialize in, I assume?"
"Well," Reheirdon started. "They say you uncovered an ancient magic that deals with Fate, allowing you to control the universe to some degree."
"Yes, this 'Fate Magic' is what made me the most powerful of the five grand wizards. It not only gives me some control over the universe, but some degree of foresight as well."
Blaze started. "And this… foresight, something's coming."
"Yes, I don't know what, but I do know, that we are all fated to die."
"What!?" Everyone sans Nalhcal (who didn't really understand what everyone was talking about) screamed.
"Yes, that's why I gathered you four. I manipulated Fate to draw you to Veluna, and gifted you those blue stones, which have now expired. Everything up until now was a test." Jung stopped for a moment, letting everyone process the information, then continued. "Some, I've discovered, seem to be completely outside of fate, not factored into the destinies of the world, not having any kind of preset destiny themselves, causing ripples across the predetermined universe. So I gathered all that I could find in Eragon. I think you know who they are."
"Us." Reheirdon responded.
"Yes, you are quite literally the only ones who can save the world. I'm afraid I must leave you now, but before I go, I will tell you this; at the end of the Noontide War of one-hundred years past, we five wizards created a vessel, a great vehicle and gifted it to the Arkhosians before their ultimate defeat at the hands of the Tieflings of Monoxia. Go talk to the king of Bael Turath, the capital of Monoxia, it's likely they recovered the vessel. I shall see you again." Lord Jung of the Fates faded away.
VI
"So, basically." Reheirdon had pulled out a map. "We need to get here." He pointed to one end. "And we're here." he pointed to the other end of the map depicting the continent.
The newly created adventuring party, defiers of fate were staying at the best inn in the town of Ollentia, it was at a discount due to being the heroes of the town, but even though it would be a subpar inn anywhere else, it was criminally expensive here, even with the discount.
"You see, ladies," The owner of the inn, who had a garish and nearly indecipherable accent told them. "Thems new kings be puttin' a real big tax on ye' ol' lads and laddies of this land."
"Bad king guy?" Nalhcal asked.
"Er, ye' er' supose me lad."
Nalhcal nodded sagely. "Lad."
The inn owner was left very confused by the robotic man.
Back in the present, Blaze made an observation. "Well ok, we just need to go through the Dwarf place," he pointed to the Dwarven countries of Varuska. "And over these mountains, then we're basically there!"
"Ehhh, that's so far away." Natsu complained.
"Actually, those are the Garulean mountains, and are territory of the giants, going through there would not only be risky, but there aren't even any paved roads, making travel by carriage much harder. It would be easier to go around through Tern, the Elvish kingdom of Eragon, and pass through the Dynasty of Yaban, ruled by the Deva. Then we make our way North to Bael Turath." Reheirdon spoke slowly and drew a line of their path with his finger, as if explaining this to people with the intelligence of five-year olds, which, he probably was.
"Ugh, we get it, stop patronizing us." Natsu was miffed.
"We walk to place?" Nalhcal asked for confirmation.
For what he suspected would not be the last time, Reheirdon sighed. "Well, technically we'll be buying a carriage and a couple horses, but yes, we'll be going to a place."
Nalhcal nodded in approval.
"Alright, everyone in agreeance, say aye." Reheirdon concluded.
"Aye." Said Reheirdon and Blaze, while Nalhcal screamed "LAD!" at the top of his lungs, er, breathing mechanisms.
"Uh, Blaze?" Reheirdon asked, his patience waning under the strain.
Blaze looked up from the dagger he'd been fiddling with "huh? I wasn't listening."
Just as Reheirdon looked like he was going to explode, there was a knock on the door. Reheirdon calmed back down and sighed. "I'll get it." At the door was the owner of the inn. "What can I do for you?" Reheirdon asked politely.
"LAD!" Nalhcal once again screamed, before Natsu clobbered him in the back of the head in an attempt to get him to shut up, before Nalhcal turned around and batted him across the room with one hand.
"'El me lad, seems yer time be up fer stayin' here." The inn owner said warily.
Reheirdon was outraged, "But we paid for three days! It's only been one!"
"Yes, 'ell ya see, I don' have no mo' money, so, yer' gonna' have to skedaddle here."
"Fine. We'll go." Reheirdon declared icily, striding back into the room. "Alright everybody, gather up your stuff, we're leaving." Reheirdon stuffed a few books into a knapsack as well as his now prised 'neck dagger'.
Natsu stumbled to his feet on the other side of the room and complained. "Aw, but we just got here, now we're going to have to walk places." Reheirdon turned back and shot him a glare, until he started packing.
"I'm going and buying a cart and horses with the money the town gave us, please don't… burn this place down or whatever I'm sure you're all thinking." Reheirdon slammed the door behind him.
"No promises!" Blaze yelled. "Man, what's got his knickers in a bunch?"
"Heh, knickers." Natsu giggled.
"You really are annoying aren't you." Blaze deadpanned.
Natsu looked offended. "Hey at least I'm not stupid like you!"
"Ok, you want to go, wyrmling?" Liquid flame began to drip from Blaze's fists.
"Bring it! You couldn't even touch me!" Natsu pulled out a short sword that began to glow blue with a light enchantment.
"No fight." Nalhcal walked over and tapped his fists on both their heads, dropping them like stones.
VII
The two volatile dragonborns awoke to a rumbling sensation.
"Ugh, where am I?" Blaze asked the nothingness of his vision, as he tried to regain his senses.
"No Nalhcal, we're supposed to be going North! This is South you fool!" Reheirdon's voice pierced through the fogginess.
Nalhcal seemed to reiterate a statement. "Horsie say go this way."
"But the map-"
"Bad map."
There was a crinkling of paper and Blaze opened his eyes to see a wadded ball that was once their only map go flying past his face and out into the wilderness and landing in a small pond, rendering it unusable.
"Uh, what's going on here?" Nalhcal, who was at the front of the carriage, as well as Reheirdon turned back to look at the newly awakened Blaze.
"This buffoon is driving us the wrong direction! We're headed south to Frazione when we should be headed northwards to Sophrase." Reheirdon argued his case. Blaze turned his head to Nalhcal.
"Horsie say this way."
Blaze shook his head and sighed. "Welp, that answer is good enough for me!" and then he dropped back into unconsciousness.
Moments later, Natsu raised his head and spoke somewhat sluggish. "Something about horsies and the wrong direction?"
"Nalhcal's driving" Reheirdon said by way of explanation.
"Well, why don't you just drive?" Natsu asked reasonably, albeit with a whiny inflection.
Reheirdon scoffed "That's below my station, and you and Blaze were unconscious, so…"
Natsu just gave him a look like 'seriously dude?' and then his head thunked back down to the carriage floor.
VIII
Blaze and Natsu were awake by the time they arrived Frazione, the carriage rumbling into a mostly destroyed town.
"Man, this place is a ruin, what happened here?" Blaze asked nobody in particular.
Nalhcal suddenly turned his head towards the sky and yelled "Gladius! Analysis!" and the cheese sprung forth from his forehead.
"It appears, based on the patterns of destruction, the marks left behind and what buildings seem to be destroyed… Let's see here… the prints seem to be fairly deep punctures… The ruins seem to have been ripped open and trampled… And the primary buildings destroyed were residential homes and markets. The most logical conclusion is that this town was ravaged by massive insectoids."
"Insects? That's pretty stupid, I was kinda hoping for something actually interesting like a dragon or something." Natsu kept petulantly whining whilst everyone ignored him.
"Hmm, I've heard of something like this before.." Reheirdon began to ponder. "Yes, we had these back in the Feywild, especially in some of the more rural areas. Some strands of insects (Especially in the Feywild) at some point adapted to counter certain types of magic, usually by absorbing it. This most commonly causes them to grow to enormous sizes and sometimes gain an elemental subtype. However this does not answer the question of why we're here Nalhcal."
Nalhcal shrugged. "Horsie say so."
"Whatever, this is not our problem, let's g-" Reheirdon was interrupted by a wild scream.
A commoner wearing simple, strained cloth had somehow encroached on the bickering four and after getting within five feet began to scream at the very top of his lungs. Nothing they could do would calm him down and after ten whole minutes of the commoner screaming with no pauses, not even to breath, he stopped. The eerie silence washed over everyone as they stared at the man, even Nalhcal was mildly disturbed.
"This…" The man said. "Will explain everything." A few seconds passed and the man's head exploded, his body falling to the ground.
"What the f-" Natsu, who was saying what everyone was thinking, was conveniently censored by a sudden rumble of the earth. Followed by another. And another.
"It appears," The cheese helpfully added. "That a few hundred giant ants are currently invading the town. As a side note, I've pinpointed the location of a strange magical energy."
Blaze piped up. "Well I'm not dealing with three-hundred ants, so let's go to that magic source Gladius. Oh hey a butterfly!" Blaze went chasing the butterfly. Reheirdon moved to go get him, but decided that that was beneath him, Natsu didn't care and Nalhcal didn't notice… probably, no one ever quite knows what secrets lie within the Nalhcal.
BUUM, BUUM, BUUM!
The ant army was entering town and the wayward three took this as the best moment to discover the what the strange magic was, completely abandoning Blaze and the town.
IX
As Natsu, Reheirdon, Nalhcal and the flying frozen cheese approached the magic source, streams of thousands of ants could be seen climbing into a verdant forest, coalescing somewhere just beyond the tree line.
Suddenly a frenzied scream alerted them to the presence of another individual.
"BAD BUTTERFLY, BAD BUTTERFLY, BAD BUTTERFLY!" Blaze suddenly burst out of the trees, soon followed by a massive glowing butterfly. He flipped around and formed a ball of acid in one hand, the other channelling it through a rod. With a grunt he whipped it back at the butterfly, catching it in the wing and disabling it's flight capabilities. The butterfly landed on the ground and, swinging it's other wing, shot a gust of wind directly into Blaze, sending him flying backwards and landing at Natsu's feet. "Oh hey guys, how's it been?"
Reheirdon sighed, "What a buffoon." he threw a condensed ball of fire at the butterfly, which whipped it's wing again to create a small whirlwind which combined with the fire blast to create a typhoon of flame that began to tear it's way back to the four adventurers. This would also coincidently create a forest fire that would lead to the creation of a young fire elemental grizzly bear that would one day be named smokey, which mean only REHEIRDON could have stopped that forest fire.
But that's a story for another day.
"Uh, whoops." Reheirdon looked at least somewhat sheepish.
"Great, now you're the 'buffin' or whatever you said, you Haploid." Natsu retaliated… probably overcompensating for something.
"I don't think you know what haploid means, Natsu." Reheirdon asked skeptically
"Actually," The cheese started. "A haploid is a-"
"No Talkie now." Nalhcal charged forwards, summoned his hammer from the earth and jumped into the burning whirlwind, only for the typhoon to dissipate once Nalhcal entered the form of the winter's herald, a blast of icy energy ripping the air attack apart and cooling the flames. His wooden parts began to grow more bark-like and seep over some of his metal plating, he also grew moose-like horns and the ambient temperature dropped by about ten degrees. "BAD FLAPPY THINGY!" He smashed his hammer downwards into the butterfly, crushing it into the ground.
"Well that ends that!" Blaze announced happily and began to laugh, getting to his feet. "Well, onwards!" And with that he led the charge into the forest, soon coming upon a large ant-hill.
"I'm not going in there, I'll get my designer robes dirty and-" Reheirdon was cut out in the middle of speaking by Blaze.
"Thanks for volunteering!"
"Hey what's that supposed to mea-" Once again cut-off, Nalhcal picked Reheirdon up by the hood of his robe and lobbed him into the hill and down the tunnels, Reheirdon screaming the whole way.
"Hmm, sounds solid enough," Blaze pondered "Hey Reheirdon! You good down there!"
"I hate you!" Came an echoing voice.
"Sounds good to me!" Blaze exclaimed before hopping in after him, Nalhcal and, somewhat reluctantly, Natsu as well.
Once they hit even ground, they found Reheirdon crumpled in a pile of robes as he got up and (Somewhat unsuccessfully) tried to dust himself off.
"Alright you're going to buy me new ro-AAHH!" Reheirdon stopped mid-sentence to leap out of the way of mandibles attempting to cut his head off. "OK, can I complete ONE sentence today please?" Reheirdon whipped out a wand and his trusty neck dagger, with a few flicks of the implement he summoned a large hand of flame and, mimicking his own hand, he tried to crush the giant beetle-thing that attacked him. The flames manage to sink it into the ground a bit and snap two of it's legs, but then it's abdomen lit up a fiery red-orange and it suddenly shot dozens of embers at Reheirdon, who was immediately more concerned with his designer outfit then himself, ripping it off and stamping out the flames on it, before treating his own first degree burns. "Stupid fire." He muttered under his breath.
"Hah, you call this fire? Eat this!" Natsu reared his head back and flames gathered in his mouth, a small explosion suddenly enveloped Natsu's face, blasting him onto his back. "Ouch…" he moaned.
Blaze sighed, before pulling off his own dragon's breath, scorching the beetle even through it's own fire affinity. Nalhcal charged forwards and slammed his hammer into the staggering beetle, crushing part of it's thorax and damaging a leg, as well as increasing it's overall weight, causing it to sink into the earth. Reheirdon threw another scorching burst spell at the crippled insect, slowed by another ember-spray, but completely overpowered by another beetle arriving and spitting fire as well, a wave of flame overtaking the entire cavern tunnel back at Reheirdon and Natsu.
"I got it!" Natsu yelled victoriously, as he got up and swept his short sword through the flames, completely dispelling them. His sword glowed light blue and had the signature rune of the icebound sigil spell. A sudden 'WHOOSH' noise cut threw the air as Natsu threw his sword, at the end of it's flight connecting with the fire-infused abdomen of the newly arrived fire beetle. The volatile mixture of magic exploded outwards, silencing the beetle and knocking everyone else backwards. Just as the original beetle was about to build up for one more fire-spray, Blaze thrust his rod outwards and muttered a spell, ice crept up the beetle and bound it in frost. Nalhcal dropped the butt of his hammer onto the insect and shattered it.
Natsu panted. "Wow, that really bugged me. Get it, get it? Cause bugged like-"
"Stop. Bad pun, no one like you." Nalhcal cut-off and insulted Natsu, attempting to shut him up.
Needless to say, it failed.
Natsu was highly offended "Hey, everyone likes me! Right guys?" Blaze and Reheirdon stared back at Natsu unconvincingly, but offered nothing to the conversation. "Yeah… yeah that's right, they like me! Eat that Nalhcal!" Everyone was once again silent. "Let's, uh, just start exploring."
After a short, but awkward minute of walking, they arrived at a split in the path.
"Good adventurers go-!"
"Right." Blaze started excitedly, but was cut-off as everyone ignored him and walked ahead, led by Reheirdon.
"Sometimes I'm really unappreciated." Blaze muttered to himself as he caught up with the rest.
"AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Natsu suddenly came down the tunnel, dashing past Blaze. Soon followed by a massive (by normal standards) bee. Really it was just closer to about six times the size of a normal bee, but the really odd part was it's legs, while proportionate to it's body, were that of a human.
"What the hell is wrong with that bee?" Blaze asked, very confused.
"I DON'T KNOW!" Natsu yelled, before smashing into a wall while he wasn't looking where he was going. The bee descended upon Natsu. Blaze made to move, but then the bee started… purring?
"Is… is that bee purring?" Blaze, even more confused now, asked.
Natsu was at a loss for words. The bee looked up at him with puppy-dog (bee?) eyes before floating down into his knapsack and taking a nap.
"What happened here?" Reheirdon asked, arriving on the scene.
"A bee cuddled Natsu and purred." Blaze responded dully.
"Wait… what?" Reheirdon was understandably and much like Blaze confused.
"I don't know." Blaze said. "I don't… know."
Natsu, still sitting on the ground got up and continued down the tunnel.
"Where's he going?" Reheirdon, asked, mildly alarmed due to Natsu not making a stupid remark.
"I DON'T KNOW!" Blaze yelled.
They stood together a minute, contemplating reality, before continuing after Natsu.
After walking for what felt like hours, the tunnels finally opened up into a larger alcove. A purple glow illuminating the room. Stepping in, the glow was evidently coming from a large purple crystal in the middle of the room, surrounded by five giant ants.
Blaze immediately initiated the combat before the ants even knew what was happening. A ball of acid sizzling through the closest ant's natural chitin armour and into it's blood. The ants all began to click their mandibles and swivel towards the adventuring party.
"Well if that's not disturbing, I don't know what is." Reheirdon stated with a shiver, before launching his signature scorching blast spell into their ranks, severely burning some of the insects.
"You do bad, not enough smash." Nalhcal adamantly said as he walked towards the ant sizzled by the acid orb and smashed it into the ground with his hammer, the remaining chitin cracking and crunching beneath the weight.
Natsu smirked. "Hah! That's pathetic! Watch this!" Natsu reached for his sword, only to realise it wasn't there. Flashbacks of it exploding inside the fire beetle erupted in Natsu. "Uh, crap." Natsu began to sweat.
"Here! I can fight at range for now." Blaze threw his katar to Natsu, who barely caught it.
Natsu began to fumble with the odd weapon. "How do you use this thing… OW! Hey I cut myself on this thing! Your blade sucks Blaze!"
"Give it back if you don't want it!" Blaze yelled, agitated as he slowed down an approaching ant with frostbind.
"Whatever." Natsu sighed moodily as he rushed an ant with the katar, now enchanted with magic weapon.
Reheirdon sighed as he swept a giant flaming hand through the ants he had already his with scorching burst, further crippling them. Why couldn't they all just get along? Just as he was casting a final scorching blast on the ants, Nalhcal charged in and brought small waves of earth around him, battering the six-legged foes with planetary material, finishing them off.
"Hey! That was my kill!" Reheirdon told Nalhcal off.
"No, all kill is me kill." Nalhcal stared with emotionless eyes into Reheirdon's own angry ones and he was just disturbed enough to not continue arguing.
"Uh… fine." Reheirdon turned away and walked over to find Blaze and Natsu bickering.
"Your blade still sucks!" Natsu said, handing it over.
"No it doesn't I find it to be quite effective actually." Blaze said haughtily.
"How are you even supposed to hold it?" Natsu asked irritatingly.
"Like this." Blaze channeled liquid fire down the blade as he cut up an ant carcase.
"Whatever." Natsu was unimpressed as he walked away.
Reheirdon made eye contact with Blaze and the stared at each other for a moment.
"So," Blaze started. "Are you going to go on some spiel about how Natsu is really just misunderstood and we should actually like him for some reason?"
"Nah, he's just really effing annoying." Reheirdon answered honestly.
Blaze grunted an agreement.
X
Back in town, the four found it to be nothing but a wasteland, with only a couple buildings and an orphanage/housing center remaining. The main wave of insects (and a few arachnids) had passed, but a gang still inhabited the ruins of the town, scavenging what little was left.
"Man, twin fire beetles, a few ants and a… giant centipede? Gods that's creepy." Blaze shivered, before steeling himself and lighting up his katar with acid. "Time to have some fun!" He screamed as he charged into battle, glowing with critical hit energy and decapitating the first ant.
Reheirdon exerted his magical energy and created a wind blade, immediately chopping it into the side of an ant, causing it to click it's mandibles aggressively. Nalhcal clicked his eyes closed for a moment and focused his primal magic, opening them back up they resembled more the eyes of a hawk as he swung his hammer above his head and knocked a spider that was hiding in the trees into the earth and crushed it. He spotted two more such spiders. Too bad he didn't really care enough about anyone else to tell them about it.
"AAAHHHH!" Came Natsu's scream as a spider descended upon him from the shadows of a destroyed building.
"Be more get good." Nalhcal said to Natsu as he walked past.
"Not even going to help me. Wow." Natsu said dryly before screaming in pain as the spider bit into his shoulder, poisonous venom spraying everywhere as the spider injected it into Natsu's bloodstream. As his left hand went limp, Natsu brought up his dominant hand carrying a short sword and stabbed through the arachnid's head and throwing it off his body, before dropping to the ground and pouring his trusty curative admixture, the artificer's signature spell/creation, into his wound.
As the massive centipede began to encroach on Blaze, he opened his mouth and the air began to crackle with static electricity as energy gathered inside his body, until he shot a torrent of lightning out at the many-legged invertebrate. It reared up and fell backwards to try and block the strike, failing utterly, before it retaliated with a cloud of noxious gas. Blaze inhaled, his dragon lungs allowing him to hold his breath longer and easier than any non-dragon-like creature, but was failing due to having just expelled a breath attack. Suddenly a blade of wind energy cut through the gas and dispelled it. Reheirdon standing triumphantly over the defeated corpse of a massive ant. He sent his blade forwards towards the centipede before firing the scorching blast spell, sending it through the wind blade and causing it to explode into a spiral of flame that drilled into the centipede, killing it.
The two fire beetles descended upon Nalhcal, catching him in-between two blasts of fiery embers. His outer shell was charred and damaged by the time they were done, but once they were, Nalhcal was angry. He lifted his hammer above his head and smashed the first one six-feet underground. Literally. Then he spun around and swung his hammer into the second one, alight with the golden power of critical hit. The beetle was sent spiralling out of the town, falling apart as it did so.
"Well then." Blaze said, staring along with the other two adventurers at the angry robot. "Remind me never to get on your bad side."
Reheirdon laughed at that, while Natsu just grunted and whined for attention about his injury in the battle.
All he got for that was getting left on the ground as the others mounted their cart, ready to continue their travels.
"Wait!" An old man hobbled past the prone Natsu and to the adventurers getting on the cart. "Thank you for all you have done here. Now, we can start rebuilding this great village." The elder smiled at them as he gave them an old hat with pile of gold inside it.
"Your ver-" Reheirdon was just about to graciously receive the gift before Nalhcal slapped his hand away and took it, dumping out all the coins and donned the hat.
The old man laughed at the antics. "Oh, recognise the symbol do you?" On the hat was a golden plate engraved with a hammer and pickaxe, the symbol of Varuska and their political party of Moradinism. "Wait a minute…" The wrinkled man started, "Aren't you Nalhcal, The D-"
He was cut off by Nalhcal yelling "Time go!" and jumping in the driver's seat, whipping the horses to gallop away into the sunset.
This was of course undercut by Natsu running behind the cart screaming "HEY, WAIT FOR ME!" as the cart sped off in front of him.
A/N: This was a joy to write, remember what I said about the chapters getting longer? Yeah... 5000 words. This is the longest chapter of Fanfiction I've written yet and it may or may not hold that title for awhile. I'm not sure. Every chapter I realize just how dialogue based this story is, and that probably won't change anytime soon. There are a few things I wanted to talk about actually, so I'm just going to get it all out of the way with this A/N.
1. Expect this chapter (and precious ones) to be re-uploaded with some updates, as I got a new Beta (the term means editor, for those that don't know. She also doesn't use this site and is just a personal friend)
2. For those that wonder why, say Nalhcal doesn't use Winter's Herald more often, it's because this is based off 4th edition and it works off the; at-will, encounter, daily, system and Winter's Herald can only be used once per day. Actually, I think I might just start posting a list of everyone's ability's for clarification here every chapter.
Reheirdon:
L1:
At-Will:
-Scorching Blast
-Flame Arrow
Encounter:
-Burning Hands
Daily:
-Wind Blade
L2:
Daily:
-Feather Fall
Blaze:
L1:
At-Will:
-Acid Orb
-Burning Spray
Encounter:
-Frostbind
Daily:
-Lightning Breath
L2:
Encounter:
-Dragonflame
Nalhcal:
L1:
At-Will:
-Thorn Strike
-Weight of Earth
Encounter:
-Roots of Stone
Daily:
-Form of the Winter's Herald
L2:
Encounter:
-Eye of the Hawk
Natsu:
L1:
At-Will:
-Magic Weapon
-Thundering Armour
Encounter:
-Burning Weapons
Daily:
-Icebound Sigil
L2:
Encounter:
-Arcane Springboard
These don't include their racial powers like Dragon's breath, but whatever. Those are all encounters.
3. Did you know centipedes aren't insects? I only just realized that while writing this. They have too many legs. I guess I just kind of always associated them with insects in my mind.
4. Expect more chapters soon. Sorry I kinda went on a psuedo-hiatus there, but there will be many updates in the near future, a.k.a every couple weeks. Same goes for my other fic(s)
There was more I wanted to say but… I forgot. And this A/N is getting long anyway.
