Chapter 5
'What do you mean dangerous' screamed Melbu Frahma
'I mean the foretelling it said that those six are extremely dangerous it can't tell us they're names but they can tell us what they are known as in the realm of prophecy and…'
'well what are they known as?'
'um… there are nine of them known at the moment and they're called the accursed flame, the lady of light, the Earthshaker, the bloody fist, the siren of the skies, the Soul Fighter, the scholar, the shadow and one who has no name in prophecy but plays the deciding part we cannot find him my lord we believe he may be a Kha'zior and so we are asking to launch a full squad to attack the first six and have them killed'
'very well launch three squads each the first two with a score of DarkGaze winglies their sect has always been extremely good at assassination and a third group of ten dhavols and twenty centaur led by a vampyre agreed you have your orders now leave me be'
in the capital city of Gloriano the young emperor Diaz sat on his throne and fought to stop from sweating as the wingly ambassador, Karioz stared at him.
'why have you begun preparations for a large spear thrower and started training soldiers when you have professed peace with the winglies if you have decided to go back on that promise it will be the last mistake you make'
Diaz grinned and suddenly a wave of happiness washed over him. 'you come into my city and try to threaten me you winglies really are arrogant aren't you?'
There was a shimmering of air and suddenly five winglies with a shadow wrapped around their eyes appeared with weapons drawn, the Karioz gestured and a long blade with a red hilt and a shimmering golden blade appeared in his hands, he laughed and flashed forward and killed one of Diaz's guards with a single slash, he turned and spoke.
'we have reason to be, now surrender the city, destroy the spear weapon, and execute all the soldiers or you and your city will die today'
Diaz drew his long blade and dropped into a fighting stance 'come then let us fight', with that he jumped backwards and hurled and throwing knife at the wingly and saw it bury deep in his shoulder, a platoon of humans ran through the door and attacked the winglies.
Diaz circled Karioz and struck at him only to have the blade nearly thrown out of his hands as Karioz struck a light blow and then lashed out with his foot and sent Diaz flying into a wall, as Diaz got to his feet and was thrown back again and again until he fell and Karioz let his blade fall with the point a scant hairs breath away from his neck.
'surrender or you will aaaaaagh…' Karioz threw himself forward and a blade slid out of his back, Karioz turned and hit a green pad on his arm and teleported.
Diaz turned back to his saviour and threw himself back, it was a wingly!.
The wingly just smiled as he saw Diaz scrambling away and spoke ' if I wanted to kill you I could have a second ago or I would have let that idiot Karioz do it for me but I helped you and in this city that incurs a debt, no?'
'yes , yes it does and I suppose you want the debt repaid now' 'yes I wish to have no record of this meeting to be known or that I saved you' 'I will on one condition, that you tell me your name' 'very well I do not require a name but you may call me Soul' then he turned and disappeared in a flash of silver.
Zieg pulled back on the HellRunners rein as a group of men suddenly appeared with an army of dhavol and centaurs led by a man with a horribly disfigured face as they walked forward Zieg recognised the leader as the bandit that had attacked them so long ago long ago that was only a few weeks ago but so much had happened that it seemed an age ago instead of a few weeks.
The leader stepped forward and laughed 'you six are what they sent a full attack force after ,what was Frahma thinking, but it is ended now tonight you die'
He drew a long shimmering golden blade out of the folds of his cloak and pointed it towards the sky 'unit advance', suddenly Syuveil ran forward on the back of his HellRunner and pulled on the reins so that the creature picked up the struggling creature and Syuveil stuck his lance in the things throat but the creature just smiled and stuck his blade through the HellRunners chest and into Syuveil' side.
Zieg squared off against two centaurs and a dhavol and was battling for his life after he realised that the army was linked through a hive mind all attacking in unison, he slit a centaurs throat and barely parried a blow from the other centaur kari zarok letuis, muttered Zieg as he cut off one of the dhavols arms only to see it grow back almost instantaneously and swung a mace at his head which nearly knocked Zieg senseless and he only barely kept conscious enough to block some of the blows.
Rose danced forward on her HellRunner and sliced a winglies throat and then cut another but there were too many of them and she started to tire and let in blows.
Shirley ran through the fray, her HellRunner cutting a path with an axe it had taken off a dead wingly, she was firing off arrows at the enemies who seemed most dangerous and keeping the weaker ones away with a blade she had taken off another corpse but then she reached over and her quiver was empty and then the blade snapped off a winglies armour she backed away her HellRunner defending her as best it could but slowly she was being cornered.
Kanzaz had jumped onto the back of his HellRunner his feet sliding into grooves between the scales and his fists always killing instantly but his reach was severely limited so he grabbed a long sword and was furiously slashing when a Belzac crashed in beside him, cutting a bloody path through the attackers and then suddenly a group of dhavols drove him back and one of them sliced open his upper arm and a blade was crashing towards his throat when suddenly all the attackers stiffened and thunderbolts crashed down simultaneously and sent them crashing to the ground, blue lightning flashing throughout their bodies.
Bathed in blood and gore Zieg looked up towards their would be saviour, fully fifteen feet tall with jet black wings stretching out from two ridges on its back, long and lean with a slim black staff held in one of his hands, Zieg suddenly recognised the Kha'zior from the arena in t'k'parek.
'the debt is repaid for you assistance' it said to Kanzaz 'but I would know why you were attacked by a full attack squad instead of a smaller party which could have wiped you out but I assume whoever did this thinks your dangerous, Soa only knows why but I have decided to aid you, for the simple reason that I don't like Melbu much and I think you might be able to help me anger him'. His eyes which looked like two slash's across his face focused upon the HellRunners.
'young ones why do you run as beasts of burden for lesser races when you ruled as one of our greatest races when we ruled the world, you were nearly as powerful as the dragons at your greatest, what has happened during the sleep of the ages'
what in the name of Soa is he talking about' murmured rose to me.
Syuveil suddenly gasped and jumped back 'y-you-your Rhuarc, the last lord of the Kha'zior but you were killed by Ducahra Frahma seven thousand years during the war of freedom how is this possible????'
'Rhuarc' was busy staring at the HellRunners then suddenly he hissed and threw himself back as six fireballs exploded where he had been a second ago, the six HellRunners advanced weapons appearing in their hands they rose up on their wings and slashed at him in perfect synchronisation.
'Rhuarc' jumped back and then flung out a hand and a shimmering ball of air appeared at his fingertips which rocketed off and threw all the HellRunners back a few feet, Rhuarc' narrowed in what I presume was concentration then he looked startled 'MindStaples' he muttered to himself then the HellRunners staggered and a hole appeared in the same spot on all of their heads and a small metal sphere rolled out and feel on the grounds to where six bolts of lightning blasted them into nothingness.
Rhuarc suddenly turned to us and began speaking 'those things in their heads were MindStaples a wingly construct designed to make anyone a slave with no will of its own except its orders which are given through a telepathic link, which I am now going to tap into and find out who did this I might be unconscious for a few hours if we are attacked stab me in the arm to wake me goodnight'.
Rhuarc glided through the darkness of the void following the glowing cord of a mental link until he reached the end which was stuck in a wingly who must have been at least seven foot tall with large golden wings stretching out of his back, focusing his mind Rhuarc sliced the link, suddenly the wingly turned and looked right at him then a flame orb appeared and shot through the air towards Rhuarc and then passed straight through him and melted part of the wall behind him.
Rhuarc stared at the wingly in shock, It was Melbu Frahma, Overlord of the winglies and wielder of the dragon buster, and the signet sphere. creator of the dragon blades, a weapon which while similar in appearance to the dragon buster slightly less powerful and while the dragon buster gives you massive magical power it blocks you from killing yourself by simply drawing too much and your body just collapsing from the strain, the dragon blade had no such safeguard and you had to train from birth to be able to use one.
Melbu Frahma's face was strangely disfigured as part of a rite of power to allow him to open the Vault Of The Winglies, a vault where the dragon buster, the dragon block staff and the main signet sphere are kept.
Then he smiled, which due to his horribly disfigured face made it seem like a rictus of pain.
'hello Rhuarc I see you have returned we know you cannot run so just shift into the real world and then we may go easy on you'
Smiling Rhuarc shifted into the real world and smashed his fist into Frahma's face, then he shifted back into the void.
'heh, you are pathetic Frahma , now cease trying to kill my accomplices or I will kill you.
Then he cast his mind back into his body.
As Rhuarc slept Zieg walked over to the HellRunners and spoke to them.
'Um…hello my name is Zieg what are yours'
The HellRunner who Zieg had ridden looked at him with large unblinking eyes.
'we are leaving' and true to their word they rose up on their wings and flew away.
'damn now how are we going to get to stariak?. Rose walked to his side 'how are you?'
'surviving, you' 'hurt one of my wrists but I'll get by'.
Syuveil lay inside of one of the tents with Shirley trying desperately to staunch the wound.
The corpse of the bandit suddenly jumped to it's feet, its eyes rolling inside it's head. Rising quickly for a man of his size Belzac rose drew his axe and swung it at the things head.
Spinning the thing struck once and Belzac' axe went flying across the camp and struck again and Belzac was sent flying after it. Rose and Zieg both drew their weapons and struck at the thing in unison. Zieg' sword was ripped out of his hand and then rammed through the muscle on his right arm. Roses rapier was broken by a punch and then the things hand gripped her jaw and lifted her, struggling, into the air.
As his grip tightened agony racked roses body, then just before her jaw broke it threw her across into the centre f the camp where a massive oak sat. There was a terrible cracking noise as rose crashed against the tree.
Kneeling to pick up Syuveils lance the creature glanced and located Rhuarcs body then turned as it sensed a creature behind it.
As it looked behind it, it saw the Kha'zior standing there. Looking back it saw the body gone, and as it turned it just saw the Kha'zior smash it's fist into it's face. Then as it scrambled to it's feet it saw the Kha'zior nowhere, then it's head exploded, then its arms then it's legs and lastly it's feet.
Turning Rhuarc flexed his mind and Belzac, Zieg, Syuveil, Rose and Shirley floated towards him. Four of them were injured badly so he stopped the bleeding but he could not do much more.
'Shirley, where is Kanzaz?' she looked puzzled 'I don't know he just walked off after you went to sleep'. Rhuarc swept out with his mind and found no trace of Kanzaz.
'Shit'.
