Part 5
The huge masonry blocks of stone in the walls started moving from their positions, scratching the floor heavily as they went. Then they all lifted slightly alleviating the noise but hugely increasing the dangerousness and speed of the moving blocks, and if that weren't enough huge iron spikes started to protrude from the ceiling, and started cranking themselves down. There was no exit! Pickle stood up and ran forward just dodging a block, Lord Fear was using all his powers to divert blocks around his body instead of wasting time and ruining his ice cold image by dodging them. Hordriss made straight for the opposite wall and started feeling all around it, ducking for a runaway piece of masonry. This whole experience really should have been degrading Pickles nerves but instead he was becoming more and more angry. 'Ggrrr!' He gritted his teeth and sprinted to the wall Hordriss was desperately examining. 'What are you looking for?' Pickle shouted to Hordriss. 'There has to be an exit here somewhere, the bricked up wall is only an illusion' He replied. Lord Fear shouted something along the lines of 'hurray up you twits' as he stood less that content fending off blocks. Since Pickle was quite a bit shorter than Hordriss, after all the average height for an Elf was 5'3", he logically started at the ground and Hordriss higher up. Time was running out and the spikes were nearly touching Hordriss's head, he looked up with a panicked face and then slouched down a notch. Still Lord Fear was shouting obscenities over but luckily they were inaudible. Although he kept a serious face Lord Fear was obviously a little 'off put' by the impending doom and was now squatting in the room, anxiously looking up every few seconds at the lowering spikes. Hordriss was sitting on his knees now frantically trying to find this door, a bead or sweat trickled down his left brow. Pickle more determined than ever, had a steely look on his face and was almost robotically placing his slender hands on every block and pushing slightly, until a slight scraping noise. 'IT'S HERE!' he called. 'WELL DONE ELF!' Hordriss called back. And the two pushed with their combined strength and magic on the wall, a beam of light emerged in a sort of small rectangular shape, just big enough for the three of them to crawl through, pushing it further Pickle pulled himself through it, followed by Hordriss and then the very amusing sight of Lord Fear scampering through and getting his rear end stuck in the doorway! 'GRR! HELP ME YOU FOOLS! IIINNNGGG! COME ON DON'T JUST STAND THERE!' He ferociously screamed at the other two. Pickle looked at Hordriss and let out a wry smile, Hordriss returned it, then they both grabbed an arm each and pulled the somewhat tubby Lord Fear out. He looked thoroughly embarrassed by the whole ordeal, but the group walked on with the sound of screeching in the background as the spikes met the stone floor.
Next was an empty rounded room with a conveyer belt at the end of it, they all knew it was the corridor of blades, and since they could see the blades coming - unlike a dungeoheer, how hard could it be? Stepping on seemed tricky enough for Lord Fear as he nearly slipped stepping on the belt. Pickle was taking no prisoners; he had had enough! And so he marched straight forward down the tunnel into the relatively unknown. But no blades. This was all very confusing for the trio, who ventured on down the tunnel. Then all at once some of the slats they were standing around opened down to a gaping dark pit. Lord Fear was now split from the other two, who looked around behind them, in doing so missed more slats in front of them opening. Pickle twirled around to see the fall, and jumped right over it and carried on, dodging the other falling slats. He made it to the end and carried straight on, Hordriss and Lord Fear would catch up.
Pickle walked down a bare corridor, which ended in a clearing with huge paths leading off in every direction. Pickles ears picked up on a faint rumbling sound, thunder? No it was getting closer and closer, there was only one possibility - boulders! Pickle scampered up to the closest tall tree and much like a monkey might hopped straight up from branch to branch, till he reached high enough to spot the falling boulders, one coming in each of the four directions, Pickle put his right hand up over his eyes to gain better sight, then looked down to the corridor exit where Hordriss emerged. 'LOOK OUT! FALLING BOULDERS!!' He roared down. Hordriss immediately spotted the danger and in a flash disappeared into nothingness. Next Lord Fear emerged and Pickle shouted the same warning, he also spotted the danger but walked right through, it looked like he was going to become an evil squished pulp when the boulders came rolling towards him. But instead of crushing him they shattered into many little fragments with simply bounced off Lord Fears armour. 'Oh so near and yet so far.' Pickle thought to himself, as he crawled back down the trunk.
The three carried on till they reached a lake/loch of some sort, the water looked a tinted grey and lilac, and not the sort of water you would trust drinking and/or swimming in. They all looked around, no boats or rafts so Lord Fear and Hordriss simply in true Jesus fashion walked across the surface of the Loch. Pickle furrowed his brows and made a suggestive cough, along the lines of 'Ahem!' Hordriss turned back and beckoned Pickle over. Pickle now somehow in a sort of delusion did exactly that and first foot into the Loch and he fell right in drenching himself completely. Both Hordriss and Lord Fear burst into simultaneous fits of laughter and carried on their way. 'GRR!' Pickle let out. 'That's not fair! Wait for me!' but neither even looked back. So Pickle an Elf of many skills dove into the water and swam underwater towards the other shore, popping up every few minutes or so for air, his hairdo was completely ruined now! As it flopped down over his peachy face. As he drove down for the umpteenth time he caught sight of what appeared to be a colossal whale like creature with burning red eyes, green wing like fins and a mouth that opened as wide as its body with vicious yellowed 20" teeth! 'AAAHHHH!!!' Pickle screamed on reaching the surface! 'MONSTER!!!' Both Lord Fear and Hordriss looked back but looked unworried, and so turned back and continued on their way. until of course the beast leapt about 30 feet in the air and came straight down with its mouth open towards Lord Fear who didn't even get a change to scream before being swallowed whole. The creature returned to the water and Pickle swam like an Olympic star to the landmass. 'Oh.' Hordriss commented. And decided that preserving his dignity wasn't worth it and ran to the other side. They both pulled themselves up on shore and turned to face the Loch. Hordriss with little splash marks on his cloak, and Pickle drenched, dripping all over the grassy edge, randomly spitting out gulps of water and breathing heavily, his blond hair pasted over his face, he didn't even realise it was quite that long. They watched the still Loch for any signs, just then Lord Fear popped out the surface, gasping, spluttering and struggling along. Hordriss magically appeared a safety ring, and threw it out to Lord Fear, who grabbed it, while Pickle pulled on the other end of the rope. Hordriss found this all very amusing, and sat chortling on the bank. Lord Fear pulled himself up out the Loch and stood upright gasping for air still. 'Oh shut up Hordriss!' he called. 'That wasn't funny!' Hordriss still giggling said 'Oh dry up!' and burst out in fits of laughter at his originality and wit. Lord Fear rolled his eyes and started wringing out his cape.
After drying off for a bit then walking to the temple like building at the top, it finally seemed like they had reached ground zero, all three could feel and evil presence in the air. And sure enough in a blaze of burning light Warria appeared in front of them. Lord Fears eyes widened. 'Iniquitous.?' he asked. She looked over at Lord Fear. 'Yes. Iniquitous, Warria, Mars, whatever, it's me!' she continued to explain 'I am from a dimension quite unlike this, when I discovered it was run by weakling, nincompoops then I decided to do some recon' as your new henchman - Iniquitous. Has a nice ring to it doesn't it?' The trio stood shocked, Lord Fear most of all. 'So what's your real name?' Pickle asked. 'Oh unpronounceable in your pathetic vocabulary, anyway from now one I am your majesty; I have decided I own this world and all who dwell within it. So get used to your new emperor.' 'So why bring us here?' Pickle inquired again. 'Well I have no interest in you - weakling Elf, but I felt I didn't want any of the most ahem powerful leaders here interfering in my plans so I brought you here to die, well you should really be dead by now but I guess I underestimated your integrity, no matter I shall finish you now!' and she waved her hands around creating a cloud of purple smoke, but before she could do anything Hordriss created a wave of magic and directed it to Warria. Warria was knocked back a few inches but retaliated by knocking Hordriss back into the wall, thus knocking him out! Next Lord Fear outraged by this challenge put his right arm out in front of him and clenched his fist, Warria felt a strain on her neck and put her hands round her neck to try and free it, Lord Fear let out an evil laugh, but Warria wasn't defeated - far from it. She raised both her arms towards the roof and stared at Lord Fear, bolts of lighting conducted through her very arms emerged through her eyes and hit Lord Fear. He screamed in pain, and clenched his chest, dropping to his knees and then collapsing unconscious on the ground. Warria then turned to Pickle and sneered, Pickle closed his eyes tight shut and prepared himself. Just then the door burst open and flocks and flocks of Elf people horded into the room, all with fixed evil stares pointed at Warria. 'Wha..?' Pickle looked confused. Lilly stepped forward. 'You called us here to help.' She explained. 'No I didn't, I said nothing of the sort, plus I thought I was an outcast now I had left the Elvin Kingdom?' 'You summoned us with your mind, we Elves have primal powers that are only activated in dire need!' Lilly answered. Another older wiser Elf stepped forward. 'We Elves stick together, you're not an outcast, you're one of us! And always will be' A ripple of resounding affirmatives rose from the crowd. Hordriss woke up very weak but called to Pickle 'Its not the book that found Treguard, it was you.' 'What? I don't understand.' Pickle looked back in confusion. 'The book you hid from me, the book of so called spells, it a hoax, you did it with your mind because you believed you could.'
Part 6: the conclusion v.soon!
The huge masonry blocks of stone in the walls started moving from their positions, scratching the floor heavily as they went. Then they all lifted slightly alleviating the noise but hugely increasing the dangerousness and speed of the moving blocks, and if that weren't enough huge iron spikes started to protrude from the ceiling, and started cranking themselves down. There was no exit! Pickle stood up and ran forward just dodging a block, Lord Fear was using all his powers to divert blocks around his body instead of wasting time and ruining his ice cold image by dodging them. Hordriss made straight for the opposite wall and started feeling all around it, ducking for a runaway piece of masonry. This whole experience really should have been degrading Pickles nerves but instead he was becoming more and more angry. 'Ggrrr!' He gritted his teeth and sprinted to the wall Hordriss was desperately examining. 'What are you looking for?' Pickle shouted to Hordriss. 'There has to be an exit here somewhere, the bricked up wall is only an illusion' He replied. Lord Fear shouted something along the lines of 'hurray up you twits' as he stood less that content fending off blocks. Since Pickle was quite a bit shorter than Hordriss, after all the average height for an Elf was 5'3", he logically started at the ground and Hordriss higher up. Time was running out and the spikes were nearly touching Hordriss's head, he looked up with a panicked face and then slouched down a notch. Still Lord Fear was shouting obscenities over but luckily they were inaudible. Although he kept a serious face Lord Fear was obviously a little 'off put' by the impending doom and was now squatting in the room, anxiously looking up every few seconds at the lowering spikes. Hordriss was sitting on his knees now frantically trying to find this door, a bead or sweat trickled down his left brow. Pickle more determined than ever, had a steely look on his face and was almost robotically placing his slender hands on every block and pushing slightly, until a slight scraping noise. 'IT'S HERE!' he called. 'WELL DONE ELF!' Hordriss called back. And the two pushed with their combined strength and magic on the wall, a beam of light emerged in a sort of small rectangular shape, just big enough for the three of them to crawl through, pushing it further Pickle pulled himself through it, followed by Hordriss and then the very amusing sight of Lord Fear scampering through and getting his rear end stuck in the doorway! 'GRR! HELP ME YOU FOOLS! IIINNNGGG! COME ON DON'T JUST STAND THERE!' He ferociously screamed at the other two. Pickle looked at Hordriss and let out a wry smile, Hordriss returned it, then they both grabbed an arm each and pulled the somewhat tubby Lord Fear out. He looked thoroughly embarrassed by the whole ordeal, but the group walked on with the sound of screeching in the background as the spikes met the stone floor.
Next was an empty rounded room with a conveyer belt at the end of it, they all knew it was the corridor of blades, and since they could see the blades coming - unlike a dungeoheer, how hard could it be? Stepping on seemed tricky enough for Lord Fear as he nearly slipped stepping on the belt. Pickle was taking no prisoners; he had had enough! And so he marched straight forward down the tunnel into the relatively unknown. But no blades. This was all very confusing for the trio, who ventured on down the tunnel. Then all at once some of the slats they were standing around opened down to a gaping dark pit. Lord Fear was now split from the other two, who looked around behind them, in doing so missed more slats in front of them opening. Pickle twirled around to see the fall, and jumped right over it and carried on, dodging the other falling slats. He made it to the end and carried straight on, Hordriss and Lord Fear would catch up.
Pickle walked down a bare corridor, which ended in a clearing with huge paths leading off in every direction. Pickles ears picked up on a faint rumbling sound, thunder? No it was getting closer and closer, there was only one possibility - boulders! Pickle scampered up to the closest tall tree and much like a monkey might hopped straight up from branch to branch, till he reached high enough to spot the falling boulders, one coming in each of the four directions, Pickle put his right hand up over his eyes to gain better sight, then looked down to the corridor exit where Hordriss emerged. 'LOOK OUT! FALLING BOULDERS!!' He roared down. Hordriss immediately spotted the danger and in a flash disappeared into nothingness. Next Lord Fear emerged and Pickle shouted the same warning, he also spotted the danger but walked right through, it looked like he was going to become an evil squished pulp when the boulders came rolling towards him. But instead of crushing him they shattered into many little fragments with simply bounced off Lord Fears armour. 'Oh so near and yet so far.' Pickle thought to himself, as he crawled back down the trunk.
The three carried on till they reached a lake/loch of some sort, the water looked a tinted grey and lilac, and not the sort of water you would trust drinking and/or swimming in. They all looked around, no boats or rafts so Lord Fear and Hordriss simply in true Jesus fashion walked across the surface of the Loch. Pickle furrowed his brows and made a suggestive cough, along the lines of 'Ahem!' Hordriss turned back and beckoned Pickle over. Pickle now somehow in a sort of delusion did exactly that and first foot into the Loch and he fell right in drenching himself completely. Both Hordriss and Lord Fear burst into simultaneous fits of laughter and carried on their way. 'GRR!' Pickle let out. 'That's not fair! Wait for me!' but neither even looked back. So Pickle an Elf of many skills dove into the water and swam underwater towards the other shore, popping up every few minutes or so for air, his hairdo was completely ruined now! As it flopped down over his peachy face. As he drove down for the umpteenth time he caught sight of what appeared to be a colossal whale like creature with burning red eyes, green wing like fins and a mouth that opened as wide as its body with vicious yellowed 20" teeth! 'AAAHHHH!!!' Pickle screamed on reaching the surface! 'MONSTER!!!' Both Lord Fear and Hordriss looked back but looked unworried, and so turned back and continued on their way. until of course the beast leapt about 30 feet in the air and came straight down with its mouth open towards Lord Fear who didn't even get a change to scream before being swallowed whole. The creature returned to the water and Pickle swam like an Olympic star to the landmass. 'Oh.' Hordriss commented. And decided that preserving his dignity wasn't worth it and ran to the other side. They both pulled themselves up on shore and turned to face the Loch. Hordriss with little splash marks on his cloak, and Pickle drenched, dripping all over the grassy edge, randomly spitting out gulps of water and breathing heavily, his blond hair pasted over his face, he didn't even realise it was quite that long. They watched the still Loch for any signs, just then Lord Fear popped out the surface, gasping, spluttering and struggling along. Hordriss magically appeared a safety ring, and threw it out to Lord Fear, who grabbed it, while Pickle pulled on the other end of the rope. Hordriss found this all very amusing, and sat chortling on the bank. Lord Fear pulled himself up out the Loch and stood upright gasping for air still. 'Oh shut up Hordriss!' he called. 'That wasn't funny!' Hordriss still giggling said 'Oh dry up!' and burst out in fits of laughter at his originality and wit. Lord Fear rolled his eyes and started wringing out his cape.
After drying off for a bit then walking to the temple like building at the top, it finally seemed like they had reached ground zero, all three could feel and evil presence in the air. And sure enough in a blaze of burning light Warria appeared in front of them. Lord Fears eyes widened. 'Iniquitous.?' he asked. She looked over at Lord Fear. 'Yes. Iniquitous, Warria, Mars, whatever, it's me!' she continued to explain 'I am from a dimension quite unlike this, when I discovered it was run by weakling, nincompoops then I decided to do some recon' as your new henchman - Iniquitous. Has a nice ring to it doesn't it?' The trio stood shocked, Lord Fear most of all. 'So what's your real name?' Pickle asked. 'Oh unpronounceable in your pathetic vocabulary, anyway from now one I am your majesty; I have decided I own this world and all who dwell within it. So get used to your new emperor.' 'So why bring us here?' Pickle inquired again. 'Well I have no interest in you - weakling Elf, but I felt I didn't want any of the most ahem powerful leaders here interfering in my plans so I brought you here to die, well you should really be dead by now but I guess I underestimated your integrity, no matter I shall finish you now!' and she waved her hands around creating a cloud of purple smoke, but before she could do anything Hordriss created a wave of magic and directed it to Warria. Warria was knocked back a few inches but retaliated by knocking Hordriss back into the wall, thus knocking him out! Next Lord Fear outraged by this challenge put his right arm out in front of him and clenched his fist, Warria felt a strain on her neck and put her hands round her neck to try and free it, Lord Fear let out an evil laugh, but Warria wasn't defeated - far from it. She raised both her arms towards the roof and stared at Lord Fear, bolts of lighting conducted through her very arms emerged through her eyes and hit Lord Fear. He screamed in pain, and clenched his chest, dropping to his knees and then collapsing unconscious on the ground. Warria then turned to Pickle and sneered, Pickle closed his eyes tight shut and prepared himself. Just then the door burst open and flocks and flocks of Elf people horded into the room, all with fixed evil stares pointed at Warria. 'Wha..?' Pickle looked confused. Lilly stepped forward. 'You called us here to help.' She explained. 'No I didn't, I said nothing of the sort, plus I thought I was an outcast now I had left the Elvin Kingdom?' 'You summoned us with your mind, we Elves have primal powers that are only activated in dire need!' Lilly answered. Another older wiser Elf stepped forward. 'We Elves stick together, you're not an outcast, you're one of us! And always will be' A ripple of resounding affirmatives rose from the crowd. Hordriss woke up very weak but called to Pickle 'Its not the book that found Treguard, it was you.' 'What? I don't understand.' Pickle looked back in confusion. 'The book you hid from me, the book of so called spells, it a hoax, you did it with your mind because you believed you could.'
Part 6: the conclusion v.soon!
