Chapter 3

Church:

Choir or Fiber Wire?

Cloud landed on his feet in between the four fountains of Varrock surrounded by the bodies of black knights who were killed earlier that day. "Tch, clean up your messes Zezima" Dys commented on the mess in Varrock.

"Cloud how could you live in a shithole like this?" Enigma asked.

"THIS SHITHOLE WAS ONCE A REALLY NICE PLACE ASSHOLE!" Cloud said in rage.

"Hey, chill Clodsky, you know he was just fuckin' around..." Dys tried to play referee. Cloud looked to the sky; the sky seemed to turn a pale gray as the time ticked by. "What the hell is happening to Varrock? Is it just me or does it seem like there's more changing than us putting more bodies here than usual" Dys asked.

"There's definitely something odd going on here" Cloud commented.

"Well fuck you guys, can we get back to business?" Enigma instructed. Enigma led them to the manhole cover.

"Ugh, I haven't been here since I was young" Cloud remarked. Dys pushed the manhole cover to the side and began scaling down the ladder. The other two followed quickly as they reached the dirt floor, they heard the squeaks of mice running wildly around the floor. Cloud led the two east a few yards as they reached the wall they looked frantically for some sort of way to open this 'panel' that Novalyfe spoke of.

Dys looked at the wall closely but saw nothing peculiar. "You sure we're at the right spot Clodsky?" he asked.

"Yeah, look" Cloud answered as he pushed a brick in the wall inwards and the sound of shifting stone caught their attention as the wall shook and dirt fell from the ceiling above them. The wall finally moved to the side creating a passage they could walk through lit by torches. "Convenient eh?" Clodsky said as he led them through the passage. Cloud passed several suits of armor covered in the markings of the gods, Zamorak, Saradomin, and Guthix. The passage finally opened into a large, quaint little hexagonal room with 3 sets of runite armor, and a steel door on the other side of the room. Cloud instinctively walked to the door and pushed it, but the door opened for a mere moment then slammed quickly pushing him back and knocking him down. "What the fuck? A door with an attitude now?" Cloud mocked the crazy door.

"Enigma, you do see what I see right?" Dys asked.

Enigma looked over at the set of Guthix rune, "Yeah, I really didn't know unknown gods had armors to represent them and try to kill us to gain some popularity".

Dys looked back at Cloud, "Any suggestions?"

Cloud pulled the Dragon 2-Hander from his back and jumped into a battle stance, "Yeah, stand and fight!" he pronounced as he jumped and stabbed his Dragon 2h into the Zamorak Runite's Plate but bounced off, landing on his back he took a moment to recover almost being decapitated by the Rune 2h that the Zamorakian armor was wielding. "FUCK! Little help here?!" Cloud proclaimed jumping backwards as the 2h came closer and closer to hitting him.

Meanwhile Enigma had managed to toy with the Guthix armor. Enigma would cast a quick blast of ice barrage and run up and take the Rune Scimitar from the armor. "Aw how you gonna fight me if you got no weapon to beat me down with little cutie?" Enigma mocked the armor. But Guthix would not stand for such impudence and quickly bum rushed him shattering the Guthix Helm but knocking the wind out of Enigma, and it quickly reached down for its Scimitar and raised it to finish him when Cloud jumped backwards and coincidentally landed on the Guthix armor's back he jumped up in the air and the Zamorak armor destroyed the Guthix armor with one foul blow of its 2h.

At the same time Dys was fighting Saradomin's armor in a halberd fight except the armor was wielding a kiteshield while still using the halberd. "Damn, this bastard's cheating I swear" Dys muttered to himself as he stuck the halberd blade in the air and pushed himself into the air, pulling the blade out and spinning into a somersault cutting the Saradomin Helm in half but at the same time he couldn't keep his balance and fell to the ground and the Saradomin's Halberd nearly impaled him but merely cut his Dragonhide Body a slight bit. "HEY! THIS IS MY ONLY SET OF THIS SHIT" Dys exclaimed while he ran at the Saradomin armor and impaled the platebody and flung it towards the door. While the armor 'attempted' to recover, Dys ran towards it and impaled it again into the door, he left the blade inside the armor as he let go of the halberd, pulled out his Magic Shortbow and shot it a few times with Rune arrows causing the armor to incinerate. "You guys done yet?" Dys asked the others while they fumbled with the Zamorakian armor.

"Dys if you're so good, how about you take this one too?" Enigma offered.

"...But then you wouldn't be doing EVERYTHING, remember?" Dys reminded Enigma.

Cloud got sick of toying with the armor and finally ducked the armor's 2h, grabbed the handle, spun a 360, threw the 2h across the room after the 180, finished his spin and incinerated the armor with a strong shot from his Dragon 2h. Cloud ran towards the door and shoulder rushed it, knocking it off its hinges. "OW I BROKE MY HINGES!" Cloud panicked.

"Clodsky... you don't have hinges..." Enigma reminded him.

"Oh yeah! I guess that was the door" Cloud ran through the door into the dimly lit cavern. Passing many cobwebs and ancient artifacts resembling the symbols of the gods, Cloud and party finally reached a large open room; daylight was creeping in from a gaping hole in the ceiling of the room. Across the room was a Zamorak High Priest, his crimson red robes draped over him loosely and his staff of Zamorak was clearly well crafted, and he wore an unknown amulet, but resembled Zamorak's unholy symbol. "YOU! You were the one Nova spoke of! Why have you taken bribes from Zezima to make attempts on our lives?" Cloud demanded answers.

The High Priest raised his Unholy Book from the prayer altar and turned towards the trio, "Nova has misinformed you. Whatever you feel you can do by killing me, is not true and will only end in futile bloodshed. Your deaths are inevitable, and even if you kill me where I stand, the black dragons approach from the south as we speak. I command them in case you didn't pick up that much" the priest explained.

"Guess I don't have time to waste then asshole" Dys stated as he pulled the Mage Shortbow from his back and quickly drew the Rune arrow back and shot him in the head.

"...Wow, Nova really did underestimate us if he thought we couldn't take THAT guy" Enigma laughed. Enigma quickly ran up to the priest and stabbed his Dragon dagger into his face. "For good measure bitch!" he proclaimed. Then the sounds of claws crackling along the tattered and broken tiles of a civilization's past began to surround them. "...Run quickly! The black dragons are still approaching from the south, nearing our position the longer we wait" Cloud proclaimed as he tore the Zamorak amulet from the dead High Priest's neck.

"How quickly could one of those things move in a cramped cave like this?" Enigma asked as he claimed the priest's staff of Zamorak.

"More than quick enough" Dystridev spoke softly, picked up his crystal bow then proceeded to shoot a mithril grapple hook through a conveniently placed hole in the ceiling of the cave. "Come on, follow me" he instructed as he began scaling the wall upwards.

"Come on Dys, hurry up!" Enigma yelled.

"Yeah, I got a bad feeling about this" Cloud said in concern.

Dystridev finally reached the surface, "Okay guys, move quick; the black dragons are tearing Varrock apart!"

"Shhhi-" Enigma was interrupted by the screeching roar of a black dragon scout that had spotted them. "Move Clodsky, move!" he yelled in a panic. Cloud sped up going up the rope frantically and rolled onto the surface. Enigma quickly followed just in time to see dragon breath scorch through the hole and incinerate the grapple hook along with the rope.

"Ruuuuun!!!" Dystridev commanded as he yanked the Dragon halberd from his back and quickly decapitated the black dragon scout that was attempting to fly out of the hole and attack them. Dystridev hastily made a 180 and started running behind Cloud and Enigma. Throwing his halberd on his back, he grabbed his crystal bow and began firing at the dragons above Varrock.

"What're you crazy?" Enigma said, still traumatized from his close encounter. "The second they decide to fight back, we're all dead!"

"Well, you can be heartless and let them all die but I refuse to let the innocents die needlessly. We pissed the black dragons off and it's our responsibility to take care of the problem. Now it's up to you; you can turn and run now or you can stand by me and fight". Dystridev looked at Cloud, "The same goes for you as well, turn and run, or stay and fight".

Cloud looked down at the grass, thought for a moment, then looked back at Dystridev, "I'm with you; I won't allow my hometown to be slaughtered just because we needed to kill a High Priest of Zamorak. It's simply a waste of their lives and it is our responsibility to clean up our mess". Cloud pulled the Dragon 2-hander from his back and looked to Enigma.

"Ugh, you all are stupid" Enigma said in frustration, clenching the staff of Zamorak in his right hand. "Okay, here are some anti-dragonfire potions, use them sparingly as they need to last". Enigma handed them both a potion.

Reaching the south gate of Varrock they spot 4 dead guards scorched and clawed, sprawled by the guard house. Looking up, they see the black dragons flying away. Dystridev looked down in disappointment, "Dammit, we were too late..."

"Maybe the dragons were retreating?" Enigma said in hope with a dumb smirk on his face.

Dystridev punched Enigma in the arm for his comment. "Do you see survivors!?" he asked in anger.

Enigma rubbed his arm "...no... I was just trying--"

Cloud cut him off, "My hometown is in ruin, I don't wanna hear it. They're dead, all of them, if only we'd been more like Dys, we might've saved them".

Dystridev turned his back on them, "It's not like it was out of courage; I was merely trying to make up for my allowing of the Khazard massacre".

Enigma was confused, "Wha?"

Cloud had the same look of confusion, "Dys, what the hell are you talking about? You? The Khazard massacre? How?"

Dystridev turned back around and took a deep breath, "Okay, about a year ago I worked for General Khazard in his private guard, the ones who guard Port Khazard and Khazard's little fight arena. Well anyway, the day of the massacre, a mutiny broke out shortly before the occurrence because of his sadistic treatment of his P.O.W.s. Anyway, me, and a few others killed the general and his troops went into anarchy. Shortly afterwards, we went back to free the P.O.W.s to find them all mutilated. Nobody's quite sure exactly what happened that day, but the massacre isn't exactly something I like to think about".

"Shut up Dys, suck it up. Don't complain about your post-traumatic stress disorder in the heat of battle" Enigma said ignoring the seriousness of the issue.

"Heh, had no idea Dys" Cloud nodded to him. Cloud frowned at his decrepit town's downfall, "How could they do this..." he trailed off as an unknown mage appeared in the distance, walking from the square towards them.

"Dys!" ?? yelled to the group.

"? No way. Bloody boy?" Dys cheerfully greeted his old friend.

"Long time no see. I see you've met Varrock's unwanted guests. But I assume I'm a little late" Bloodwarrior said.

"Dys, who's your butt buddy?" Enigma asked him.

"Shut the fuck up Enigma, he's a friend from the Khazard times. He goes by the name Bloodwarrior" Dys introduced him.

"Yeah, you can just call me Blood of course" he smiled to the group.

"Blood, these 2 are some random allies I've gotten accustomed to being with in the last few days, D2H boy is Cloud, and 'Mr. I'm so fucking cool with my tiny ass dick' is Enigma" Dys introduced them.

Enigma fell on the ground, "What the fuck, Dys you're a bastard".

"Good fight sir" Dys ridiculed him.

"So Blood, why have you come to Varrock in such a dire situation?" Cloud asked.

"I'm with Falador's army, and I was instructed to see what was happening here. Apparently Varrock's military has all shifted into the wilderness. Intelligence believes that Zezima's building a fortress in the wilderness now. And that the military will be like his own personal guard" Blood explained.

"Shit. So you're telling me that... basically... we're fucked?" Enigma asked.

"No dumb shit, he's saying that anyone who has the balls and the courage should get something together to start making attacks on them before they're finished setting up camp" Dys clarified.

"And HOW do you expect US to do that huh smart ass?" Enigma ridiculed Dys' plan.

"Well, you see, the first step, is to stop asking STUPID QUESTIONS!" Dys yelled at him.

Cloud stepped in, "Seriously, must you guys argue so much? Blood, what's the plan?"

"Falador is requesting help from any and all allies willing to give such help. I was about to pay good ol' Bostonjoe a visit, would you all be interested in joining me in a journey to Rellekka?" Blood offered.

"Yeah, sure I'm game. And if I'm game, that means these other two retards will come with me" Enigma told him.

"Wow, look who's calling who the retards when he has his cape on his HEAD like a HOOD" Cloud mocked Enigma.

Blood held out his lyre, "All of you hold on, I'll teleport us to Rellekka". They all held the lyre and were instantaneously teleported to the Fremmenik Province.