Chapter 3

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(Author: Thank you for reading my story I hope that you have liked it so far. Please keep sending in reviews. Remember the more reviews I get the faster the chapters come out. And I will try to get them out before too long. I did think long and hard about changing the story from script form. I did decide to change it which you might have noticed.)

They woke that night to the howling of wolves. Jason jumped up to see James standing with his bow in his hand. The meadow was swarming with darting flames. James was launching off arrows as fast as he could. As Jason's eyes adjusted he saw hellhounds and willo-wisps encircling them.

"What is this?" yelled Jason to be heard above the creatures.

"We must have entered the Burning Meadow."

"What?"

"It's a place that is inhabited by hellhounds and willo-wisps. Not to many people have heard of it in Serdio since it is so far east. Few many have ever made it though alive." answered James.

"Why didn't we see them during the day."

"They only attack at night, during the day they hide under ground…Now shut up and help me out."

As soon as he finished saying that one of the hellhounds leapt at Jason from the back. James fitted an arrow into his bow and prepared to shoot but before he had a chance Jason drew his sword and sliced through the hound's chest. Another three charged, the first two fell to the ground with an arrow through their necks while the last dropped with a pierced chest. They both grabbed their packs and James drew his sword and put away his bow. They ran as fast as they could to try to get to the river that marked the end of the meadow. As the wolves jumped at them, Jason and James dropped them almost as fast as they were coming. As they got closer to the river they came upon a few trees. The wolves grew greater in numbers as they went. Finally they were surrounded. They stabbed their swords into one of the trees and swung themselves up onto one of the branches that was too high for the wolves or willo-wisps to reach. They both took out their bows and started to shoot as many of the wolves as they could.

"How long do you think that we will be able to hold them off?" asked Jason.

"I'm not doing too good on arrows I'm running out."

"Should we use our swords?"

"We have to do something we can't keep this up very long." responded James.

"Hey, what's that?

"What?"

"It looks like a…bird!"

"No. It can't be, no bird would be crazy enough to come into this place."

"No, it is a bird, a red bird coming this way."

"It's not like some bird can help us out anyway."

As the bird came closer Jason noticed that it was a white bird with red marks on its tail, it also had something in its mouth that glowed red. The bird flew right over them and dropped the glowing ball into Jason's hand. It glowed as he held it. The light drowned the sound of the wolves' barks and whistle of the wilo-wisps, as it grew larger. Then there was a flash of red light and Jason appeared wearing a full suit of red armor with green gems and two wings that looked as if they belonged to dragons. Jason flew down onto the hellhounds slicing through them at a rate about three per second.

By now James was getting exhausted from all the heat of the fires not to mention the heat from the fight. He was getting dizzy and was trying his hardest to keep from passing out. His vision started to get so blurry that he didn't even notice it when one of the wolves jumped up to the limb that he was sitting on and knocked him off. As he passed out the last thing he saw was a bright red light flash and then it all became dark.

When James passed out he thought that he was dead but what really happened was that as the hellhound was about to bite his neck Jason came down on the wolf and slit it through its back. After Jason had killed the rest of the hellhounds and wilo-wisps he returned to normal, but he still had the glowing red ball in his hand. He sat down next to where James was sleeping and thought about it. He knew, even though he had never seen one before, that what he was holding was a dragoon. Thought he couldn't figure out how that bird got it. It was morning then and so he put the dragoon spirit away and decided to wait up for James so that he could explain what happened that last night. As he sat down next to the tree he noticed that the grass had already started to grow back again. By the time James woke up again the grass was already ankle high.

"What…happed?"

"Don't you remember?" joked Jason.

"Well…kind of, but I thought I was dead!"

"Well you probably would have been if I didn't save you."

"Oh yea! You had the red-eyed dragoon!"

"Hey how did you know that it was a dragoon?"

"Dude don't you remember; I have seen one before." responded James.

"Sorry."

They started to head east again after about three hours of walking they came to a town. (Actually it shouldn't be called a town it should be called a city because of its size. Hey and also remember that this is no longer in Serdio or the continent of Endiness.) The city was really large yet neither James nor Jason had both been there before. As they entered the city the sound of the merchants voices rush through their ears.

"What is the name of this city? We are too far east to be in Serdio any more so I have no idea."

"It is called Sapharinn. Thanks to this city I now know where we are." remarked James.

"Where is that?"

"Well Sapharinn is directly east of Bale so…" James was saying when he was cut off by people screaming.

They ran down the street to see a small group of bandits ransacking the local shops. As they drew their swords another group of bandits rode up on horses. The one riding in the very center of the group was a giant of a man that when off his horse he stood about eight feet tall. The street became almost silent. The bandits stopped ransacking and the people gathered around silently. As the giant got off his horse he pulled from his back a mace and chain about five feet long. The giant stared at them both and then all of a sudden he charged swinging the mace and chain. The two drew their swords for battle.

(Author: Thanks for reading this chapter and I hope you enjoy what happens next.)