Chapter 9

"Feisty little runts aren't they!" Drakak said as we were staring the demons down. They didn't attack at once yet, but I refused to let my guard down even a little bit. This was my first demon encounter, so I knew I had to take this very seriously.

"Ok guys, should we charge in or split on the flanks and separate them as much as possible?" I asked everyone else,

"I'll stay back and shoot them with my bow; you guys should try to take them out up close." Aireon said as he was notching and arrow

"Alright, shall we?" said Mythrik

Drakak didn't even give any second thought and charged in head on against the demons, so Mythrik and I followed. I approached an Evistro, and boy was that all it took to almost make me lose my lunch. They were about the size of a dwarf, and they are red, bald, had black eyes and three unnecessarily sized claws on each hand. I spun my staff around and hit it directly in the left temple; which usually kills people. But it reacted with a swipe of its claw into my right leg, but only barely grazed it. Another Evistro joined his friend, but Drakak firmly planted a hammer into his face.

"We might need a few extra hands here! These damn things are tough!" Drakak shouted, after he finished speaking an Evistro came up from behind him and put a small gash in his back. Aireon saw he was in distress so he shot two arrows into the demon, but he didn't go down. Mythrik sparred with one for a bit while this was going on, and then he cut him down half his original size. Mythrik started to run our direction when Drakak and I started getting clawed and bit in all directions.

"Drakak," I said while blocking a claw attack from the demon in front of Drakak, "I need to do thunderwave!" I shouted while trying to get the Evistro in front of me to get my staff out of his mouth.

"Feel free to- OW! Why you-," one of the Evistro bit him on his left shoulder and was currently hanging there, "Go right on ahead while I knock this one's lights out!" he said,

"Need a hand? Here's a sword!" shouted Mythrik, he pulled off the Evistro and gave him a gash on his chest, but he didn't go down.

"Well, it might turn you deaf are you sure?" I asked him, these things might be small but they are insanely difficult to fight against.

"I don't care do something we're being overrun!" he shouted

So I did what I always do, and willed the power of thunder throughout my entire body and through my staff. I saw two of the Evistros fly through the air, along with Drakak.

"Drakak!" Mythrik yelled, "Morgukia go help him before he's overrun by those things!"

I looked towards Drakak and saw two more demons come into the Frey, and before I could get there the two demons I sent sprawling through the air got up. One came after me and the other towards Drakak, so I needed to go through that one before I could save Drakak.

"I could use some help!" Drakak screamed, I think he was suffering a hearing loss because he was shouting like, well, like he was deaf.

"Morgukia, get over there he's gonna get overrun!" Mythrik yelled again while fighting one of the demons.

I looked over the demons shoulder and saw Drakak flailing his hammer around trying to defend himself against the horde of Evistros, so I fought with all my will to get past the demon in front of me. He wasn't prepared for the flurry of attacks I sent his way, and I eventually knocked him aside and out of the fire circle altogether. So I started running towards Drakak; he smacked a demon in the head but another crept up behind him.

"Drakak behind you!" I yelled while sprinting towards him.

He was still unresponsive, and the demon behind him slashed down his back with both claws. He reared up in pain and dropped his hammer on the ground, and then he instinctively grabbed his back from the pain. After that he tumbled to the ground on his stomach and they swarmed him, I started to fear for my friend's life more than I ever had before.

"DRAKAK NO; COME ON WE NEED TO SAVE HIM!" Mythrik yelled as he cut down the demon he was battling.

I sprinted over there as fast as possible, but it was too late. Drakak was now an eviscerated corpse lying at the feet of three Evistros, and I almost couldn't believe my eyes. However, my disbelief and grief quickly turned into rage and fury. I instantly turned into a whirlwind with my staff, and Mythrik became the thundering strike of a hurricane with his swords, and Aireon was the piercing hail from an ice storm. The Evistros were reduced to three broken, dismembered corpses.

Mythrik went over Drakak's body and held what was left in his arms; the last true family he had left has now been taken by Marfedelom too. He started to weep, and then the fire circle disappeared. The archangel from the vison was standing right outside it with six other angels, and after looking at the other angels closely they seemed to look like or resemble one member of the whole group. I saw Aikugrom among the others, and even a dwarf that looked like Drakak. But they didn't have faces, just gold or silver hoods you couldn't see into.

"Do not weep for your friend Mythrik, for he is not done yet," the archangel said. He then put his hand over Drakak and a type of light started to fall from his hand into Drakak; it looked like the ash of a campfire as it was falling to the ground. They eventually covered Drakak in a cocoon of light, and then dissipated. Drakak was whole again, but alive I could not say.

"Drakak? Are you alive? WAKE UP!" Mythrik smacked the dwarf across the face, and the previously dead dwarf responded with a check across Mythrik's jaw.

"BY ODIN'S BEARD, WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" he shouted as he got back up from the ground. "I was enjoying me a nice nap, and having good dreams too. I saw me mother and she prepared a whole table of food and ale; it was awesome." He said lifting Mythrik up from the ground.

"You were dead master dwarf, and the archangel saved you from the clutches of dinok (death)." I told Drakak, he got a shocked look on his face from the sudden realization that he was almost gone; but he just shrugged and grabbed his hammer.

"Stand fast men; a dragon is headed here and I have to direct my forces to the main battle. I need you to handle it; kill it or deal with it I don't care how you get it done just do it! Here before we go I will restore your energy" the archangel said, he then waved his hand and I could feel my strength return with extra resilience. After that he and the other angels flew off.

We watched as they flew away, and then we saw some commotion coming from the Cliffside behind the monastery, so we gathered our equipment and charged over there. We saw a young white dragon devouring a squad of solders, and when he saw us he seemed to recognize us.

"Ahh, the troz(thorn) in Marfedelom's side; tell me, are you really going to win kein(wage war) against Marfedelom? You have no buriis(hope) of defeating him, but anyways let's talk business hmm?" the dragon said

"Well what do you want snake?" Aireon said

"Two-hundred diamonds, and no less!" he shouted with a sinister chuckle, as if we couldn't afford his price.

"I have a counter offer dragon; one that is very beneficial for all our sakes." I said to the dragon, and shot Mythrik a look that said waste him.

"Oh you do now? Well let's hear it shall we?" he said as he menacingly strode closer to us, lightly hissing on his way.

"Your head, on a pike!" Mythrik shouted, we all charged the dragon.

Mythrik sliced up the side of its face and Drakak ran up and smashed the side of his ribcage and made the dragon howl in pain. Aireon stabbed at it with a halberd I've never noticed before, and then I smacked his face around with my staff. He reared up with a breathe attack ready, but I stood firm. He blew stinging ice at us, and launched Drakak and Mythrik backwards. They got right back up, covered in frost, and charged him again.

Drakak uppercut him with his hammer, but when Mythrik went to strike him across the face he nearly missed him and almost turned into a dragon chew toy. The dragon then swiped at all of us with his claw, but only managed to hit Drakak.

"Morgukia, I have a plan!" Drakak yelled while dodging the dragon,

"Go ahead I'm listening, but make it- crap," I shouted back, the dragon blew frost all over us again and sent me backwards this time.

"If you can get close enough put your staff on its head I'll hammer it in like a nail!" he yelled back, this was actually his first good idea.

"Alright, were doing it your way this time! Mythrik, Aireon, get me close!" I shouted to my companions.

Mythrik and Aireon started to distract and attack the dragon while Drakak and I got close. They were hitting it and insulting it until we got right were we needed to be, and then we stuck.

"Now Morgukia; we need to do it now!" Drakak yelled,

Mythrik stuck his sword through its jaw to pin it to the ground while Aireon stabbed it in the neck to keep it still, and I ran towards it and used my staff to propel me in the air above it. I jammed it down as hard as I could on the top of his head, and Drakak came up from behind me and struck down on the end of it like a nail. He did that with such force it went straight through its skull and into the ground. The dragon squirmed around a bit after, but it finally died the rest of the way shortly after.

"Well, that was immensely awesome. Let's get Morgukia's staff out of the skull so we can continue on." Mythrik said, and after quite some pulling we released my staff.

"Look! Over there in the main battlefield!" Aireon shouted

We looked across the battlefield and saw something completely astonishing, but horrible. The heavens opened up and light poured from the sky, and then a legion of thousands of angels flooded out of it. But, at that same exact moment, a legion of demons flew up towards them to meet them in a glorious battle between heaven and hell; with the earth as their warzone. When they met in the air a supernova event happened and it decimated both sides, and no angel or demon survived the event. The archangel appeared behind us and spoke,

"Good, you all survived. Now we need to re-group our forces and I need to muster up more angels. It was good fighting alongside you," and he flew away.

We went back inside the monastery and were greeted by the Grand Master; instead of directing troops he was directing healers and medics.

"You are still alive and well; you not only match but exceed my expectations. All of you do. Without your help the monastery would be ablaze, and many men would have been slain by the dragon. You saved countless lives, but now we ne-"we were interrupted by a gust of wind so fierce that it knocked us all to the ground.

We got up and turned around a saw a large red dragon; with Marfedelom riding him. He clapped slowly, mockingly, at us

"Bravo gentlemen, bravo. Seriously though that was a very great display, the dragon's death was actually my favorite part. Right under Drakak's death, but anyways I can't stay long I just wanted to drop something off for your master; a crown!" and then he pointed his hand towards my master and a dim gold crown appeared upon his head, and he stood motionless and quiet. "Well, good day gentlemen, time to go," and he flew off.

"That coward, he should have fought us!" Mythrik yelled as he left, but I had my attention turned towards my master.

"Master? Hello, are you okay?" I asked him, his eyes widened and he grabbed me by the throat and took me to the ground.

His eyes didn't look the same; they were darker. I couldn't breathe and my attempts at resistance were useless. If it were not for Drakak my neck would probably be broken, and he would've attacked someone else. Drakak had run up and hit him in the back of the head and knocked him unconscious, and then we tied him up as fast as we could.

"What the bloody hell was that? He just snapped!" Drakak exclaimed

"Crown of madness, it's a spell that turns control of the victim to the spell caster." Said someone behind us, and when we turned around we saw the paladin from the black water vision.

"It's you, we saw you in a vision where you rallied the other kingdoms and the angels to fight for us." Mythrik said

"Yes that was me, but how you know that is oblivious to me. But there is something more important to attend to right now; Drakak, Marfedelom has attacked your home city and plans on destroying it. We need to leave now, let's take my dragon!" he shouted, he then blew a dragon shaped whistle and a large blue dragon landed and we proceeded to climb aboard.

"I'm sick of dragons today," Mythrik said