Sieghart, Mari and I left around mid day due to the fact we all had over slept because to last night's activities . Mari had set up a snow navigating vehicle that she called a snow mobile. the machine was large enough for all three of us to ride on. Mari operated the machine while Sieghart held on to her and I held onto Sieghart. We were moving fast, it was almost as if we were just flying over the snow covered fields. we rode through the fields for almost an hour before Mari made a sharp stop almost sending me and Sieghart flying off over her.
"What's wrong?"
I screamed over the roar of the machine. Mari pointed forward and I could just barely make out a large canyon that was almost one hundred meters across. We all got off the snow mobile and stepped carefully to the edge of the canyon. It was pitch black in there making it impossible to tell how deep it went. Mari twirled her hair with her right finger seemingly pondering our next course of action.
"I could make a device to cross this canyon, but it would take about twenty minutes."
As Mari finished this sentence I swore I could here the sound of something moving from deep in the pit. The sound reminded me of sand being pushed away as you buried your feet into a warm sandy beach, but then a small a large scaly figure of what seemed like a large building coming in our direction and it was coming quick.
"MARI, SIEGHART! BACK AWAY!"
I screamed while grabbing both of them and took a large leap twenty feet back from the pit right before a large serpentine tail smacked into the the spot we where just in causing snow, dirt and rock to be sent flying into the air before it retreated back into the canyon.
"What was that?" Mari asked.
"I don't know, but we are sure to receive the answer"
Sieghart replied as a large serpent head slowly rose from the depths of the canyon hissing as it began to tower over us almost 50 meters into the air while the rest of it seemed to hide inside the depths of the canyon.
The head alone of this beast was easily the size of the average house you would find in Kanavan or Hamel and its body was just as thick, but seemingly slightly smaller. I grabbed both my swords and took a defensive stance as Sieghart and Mari did the same with their weapons. Siegharts massive greatsword casting a large shadow into the snow as he held it effortlessly infront of him and Mari's four nasod dynamos circled around in a quick motion. The serpent let out another deep hiss that was deafening before it lurched it's head back.
"Here it comes!"
Siethart shouted as the serpent striked foward and was closing the distance between it and our group in mere seconds. Sieghart, Mari and I all lept in different directions to avoid the serpent's attack and luckily no one was hit. Sieghart was the first to act on the moment and rushed towards the serpents head while it was still in striking distance. Sieghart lifted his massive great sword over his head as he was about to bring it down crashing onto the serpents head, but before he could connect the serpent had already pulled it's head back and was hovering it over the massive canyon looking for it's next opportunity to strike us down.
In this moment however a cannon ball had struck the serpent square in it's nose I looked over at Mari who had already created two cannons, each aiming down the serpent and launching cannon balls every three seconds. Mari's quick building abilities still surprised me no matter how many times she did it. The serpent, obviously hurt, but angry with Mari's assault lurched it's head back and stared down Mari while dodging the cannonballs.
"Elesis! Now!"
Mari screamed to me. I already knew what to do. I quickly ran over in front of Mari and in that moment the serpent striked again with its mouth fully widened. it's mouth could easily fit all of us in it with one bite and still have room for at least another thirty people. I grabbed both my swords and as its mouth clamped down onto my position I plunged my right sword into its upper gums and did the same with my other sword into it's lower gum all while carefully dodging its teeth that where twice my size. I stopped the serpent dead in it's tracks.
"Sieghart!"
I screamed, but sieghart was already running up the serpent knowing full well what to do already. He really was a true knight of the battlefield, a Lazy and annoying one, but still a knight. He quickly reached the top of the serpents head and plunged his great sword into the beast's right eye. The serpent convulsed into a large spasm of pain as it tore itself lose of my grasp all it while taking my left sword with it and launching Sieghart into the air off of it. Sieghart hit the snow with a loud thud, but quickly got up again. The serpent with a defeated look in it's one good eye sulked back into the depted of the canyon with one of my favorite swords.
