Chapter 4
"Not so fast Chris Dragonblood, we have a score to settle," Maliestare said menacingly.
"Chris, what does he mean?" Susie asked.
"Guys I've never told anyone this before, but fifteen years ago when the death school was taken by Maliestare. He took seven novice students along with him, a Pyromancer, a Diviner, a Thaumaturge, a Conjurer, a Necromancer, a Theurgist, and a Sorcerer. My dad was a Grandmaster Sorcerer who, along with a Grandmaster from each of the other six schools traveled to Dragonspyre and almost defeated Maliestare. Though my dad and the others escaped with their lives, they didn't manage to save the novices. Now the novices are negative Magus Wizards." I explained.
"What's a negative Magus wizard?" Alex asked.
"They're Magus rank wizards who have been trained in the demon schools," I said, "Each of the schools in Ravenwood has a negative counterpart with a teacher. Maliestare hypnotized the novices and sent them to the negative school they corresponded to. The schools teach the same spells, but to cast it you draw the symbol upside-down."
"That is correct Chris," Maliestare said, "I did send those novices to the demon schools, and each of you will have a one on one duel with same student of your school. We will start with the elemental schools, then the spiritual schools, and end with Chris."
"I'll go first," Mindy said.
"Very well then," Maliestare said, "Ice come out here!"
A wizard dressed exactly like Mindy came out of a corridor. Maliestare pulled a lever and a duel arena rose from the lava. Mindy stepped in to place and so did Ice, causing the duel-ring to appear. Mindy battled hard against Ice and it was close, but Mindy managed to beat Ice. The same went for the others too in defeating Rain (storm), Pyros (fire), Leaf (life), Mito (myth), and Morana (death). Now, it was finally my turn.
"Lysandros, it is time to prove you are a worthy heir to my power," Maliestare said.
"Yes, my lord I shall not fall as the others did," he said in a deep voice. We stepped in to the arena and the duel-ring appeared. Right of the bat I hit him with a fire ball. Then he hit me with a negative fire ball. I cast an elemental shield spell and he passed, then I cast a spirit shield spell, Lysandros hit me with a negative scarab. Now with four pips I casted a kraken that did substantial damage. Then a few rounds went by of us just hitting with zero rank after zero rank until I had six pips.
"It's time to finish this!" I shouted and drew a balance symbol, but not just any balance symbol an upside-down one, "Go negative Hydra!"
The ground began to shake and a hydra appeared it hit Lysandros with a blast of fire, a blast of ice, and a blast of storm. He was instantly defeated and everyone cheered, that is, everyone except for Maliestare.
"We passed your test Maliestare, now let us go," I demanded.
"I'm afraid I can't do that Chris," he said, "You may have passed my test, but I never said I would let you go."
"The test to leave was not to beat my students; the real test for leaving is to defeat me!" he yelled as he jumped into the arena. Now I was worried, I've met grandmasters who almost didn't come back from battling Maliestare. How am I supposed to defeat him if they couldn't? Running the numbers through my head I probably have a one in a billion chance of beating him, but on the other hand I have a one in a one in a trillion chance of escaping… all the odds are against me. K. (Why me in the first place?)
I gave Susie one last hug before jumping into the ring. Right off the bat I got a power pip and I could have used my locust swarm attack, but instead I casted a Spirit shield card knowing that Maliestare's initial school is death, Maliestare simply casted a life shield. It kept on like this forever, me casting zero rank spells or passing and Maliestare casting low rank spells. Then I was maxed out with seven pips and Maliestare casted unicorn and put his health back to full.
"I need more power!" I shouted, "Guys, give me your strength, Alex toss me the card!"
Each of them managed to give me a boost of strength and Alex F. threw a gold treasure card to me. I caught the card and shouted to Maliestare, who had no shields or charms, "prepare to be finished!"
I drew a spiral symbol with my staff then shouted, "Rise Ultimate Beast!"
In the center of the ring appeared a jail cell containing seven wizards. Each wizard turned into a glowing orb with the color of their school. The wizards joined together as one white orb, destroyed the jail cell and formed into a gigantic beast. It had the head of a dragon, the torso of an ice giant, the legs and kilt of a Cyclops, a seraph wing on the left, a bat wing on the left, it has the cowl of a skeletal pirate and a kraken crown on its head, helephant feet, a seraph sword, in the left hand, a skeletal warrior shield on the right hand, and a scorpion tail.
"What is that thing," Maliestare and my friends (except for Alex F.) said in unison.
"Ultimate Beast," I commanded, "Attack!"
The beast ran up to Maliestare and froze and electrocuted him at the same time. Maliestare's heath hit zero and he fell to his knees.
"You'll pay for this Dragonblood!" he shouted as he teleported away. I staggered out of the arena and over to my friends. I was about to say 'let's go home' but I passed out from exhaustion.
I woke up in the spare bed at Alex F.'s house still in my armor. I got up and went down stairs where I found everyone sitting in Alex F.'s study.
The only thing I could say was, "What's for breakfast?"
The End