Chapter 10- Temptation

{Narssia -narrator}

A few hours later, Dartz finally awoke. I was overjoyed and so I told him of what I did to save him. However, to my surprise, he said nothing as I told him of my great new powers and the ability to breathe fire. I began to fear that the Leviathan had done something to him. He told me what he remembered of the Leviathan holding him captive within his own mind, but that still did not explain what was happening.

To make things even worse, Dartz started having nightmares about the battle the night after it. I yearned to be in his place to take the burden from him but I could do nothing about it, only share his pain as it came to me through our mental link. The dream began as it always did as Dartz had already awoken once from it but this was far different from the others that had come before. Usually Dartz would awaken after such a dream but this time he did not. I pawed at him, begging him to awaken but still nothing.

I growled in frustration and laid down beside him. The next morning, I awoke. I wished for some change in his condition, something new, but I knew still that he probably would not return. I decided to see if I could enter his mind. It was fairly easy and soon I was drifting within hundreds of memories.

Who could he be to live this long? A sorcerer? A magician? I shook my head and walked through the memories. Some were saddening, some were frightful, some were rather quiet romantic.

Finally I found the one that I wanted, the nightmare. I carefully looked at it . . .

The next moment I was spinning through the air. I landed in what I though was a dream but would turn out to be real. It was a dark and dreary place of shadows. The perfect place for the Leviathan to hide in, with its darkness. I got to my feet and began to walk around.

Up head was none other than Dartz. I rushed up to him in glee. He looked at me slightly before returning his attention to a stone platform raised to eye level. I wondered what he was looking at. Suddenly a tail of darkness rushed out toward him.

No, I cry and follow my master.

It didn't take me long to catch up with them. That tail dragged him to what looked like a cemetery. It entered first and I followed. Suddenly I heard a deep growl that seemed to echo from the deepest shadows.

You have done well my servant, the darkness hisses.

It couldn't be! We crushed him. Well I did but still! A dark head emerged from the shadows to reveal the Leviathan himself! His large yellow eyes caught sight of me immediately and he let out a low, long, dreadful hiss.

Seize her before she runs off and tells the others about us, the Leviathan snarls.

The tail dropped Dartz and started to come toward me. I back up until there was no more room to back up.

Release my master at once! I snarl.

Or what? The Leviathan asks.

I will fight you, I growl.

The Leviathan chuckled at my reply. I rushed at him and sliced his left eye open. I backed up, startled, as he closed the eye that I had just slashed open. I growled and dove toward the serpent again, this time scorching his chest with my flames.

Finally the Leviathan bellowed, Release Dartz and retreat for there is nothing that we can do to stop the little one.

A few minutes later, I awoke back in the real world as the sun was just rising and, to my surprise, Dartz was also waking up.