AN- To all my reviewers I will not blame you if you threaten my life after this chapter.

It will only help me to type faster.

7

WATER MONSTER

ONCE I OPENED THE DOOR I WAS ALMOST WAS BLINDED BY THE LIGHT. This chamber was made of ground the first twenty paces and the rest of the chamber was a pit of water. There was a stone bridge that made a circle around the middle of the pit. And there across from us was a wooded platform that led to a door that shined bright with…

"Daylight", I said.

The other warriors looked at each other both surprised and glad that we had, finally, made it to the exit.

"What the hell are we standing around here for!" yelled one of the warriors. "Let's GO!"

We all started running to the door out of here. When there was a splashing sound and suddenly something rose out of the water and before we could truly see what it was it snapped at me in a flash of fangs and feathers.

I leaped back and as soon as it snapped. The other warriors where also quick to follow my lead.

I leapt up to see a great green serpent-like creature with a crest of white feathers on the back of it's head and two ram-horns on either side of it's head.

"Oh Damn!" I muttered, "a water serpent".

"How did you?"

"It's a long story. Men back off! I'll handle this!" I yelled to the warriors.

I ran at the water serpent unsheathing my scimitar along the way.

"Hey you dirty, smelly scum! OVER HERE!" I yelled.

The serpent lunged at me. I quickly dodged out of the way to see the serpent lunge once again.

"What do you want us to do?" Hammet called.

"STAY BACK UNTIL I TELL YOU OTHERWISE!"

I dodged another blow from the water serpent. Suddenly it started spitting a thick vivid green poison. I ran along the bridge, trying my hardest to not get hit. If I was to be hit with the poison, death would issue almost instantly.

Come on! I thought suddenly, think!

What could I do that could distract the beast?

It was then I came up with another of my more reckless ideas.

The serpent lunged, I dodged but not before the scimitar was knocked out of my hand. Seeing this as my only chance I took action.

I jumped onto the back of the serpent's neck. Quickly I grabbed a hold of the water serpent's silky white feathers.

"GO!" I yelled at the warriors. "MOVE NOW!"

The water serpent started to swing its head around rather dangerously. I glanced over to see three of the prisoners run over the bridge.

One of them stopped at the doorway.

"Akkadian!" he called, "I speak for all of us when I say how can we ever thank?"

"WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP AND GO!" I yelled, trying to get a better hold.

"I won't forget your kindness and good will, Warrior", he called as he ran through the doorway.

The serpent started to throw its head around even more dangerously. If I didn't come up with another idea there was a vary good possibility that I would get impaled by the water serpents horns or worse…

"MATHAYUS!" yelled a voice.

I managed to see Hammet throw the scimitar to me I reached out. I could feel my fingers close around the handle.

With all the strength I had left I stabbed the back of the serpents head. Dark green blood seeped.

I yanked out the blade. The serpent gave a few screeching mournful cries and suddenly I saw (well I mostly felt) the serpent start to fall onto the bridge. Whenever it was safe enough I jumped off on to the bridge. It was a good thing I did as well, at that moment when the water serpent's dead body hit the bridge a part of it collapsed.

I took a deep breath, suddenly vary tired.

"I am sorry that I disobeyed your order," Hammet said. "But I thought you may need some help".

"Well," I said sheathing the scimitar, "thank you for your compassion".

I turned around to see the doorway. Casually I walked through the doorway too a rocky crag. I breathed in the sweet desert air. Never before had blazing, burning sunlight felt like such a blessing.

"Ah!" Hammet said walking into the light right next to me. "It's too bright!"

"Well," I said, putting my hands on my hips and nodding my head towards the door that led to the underground prison, "you could always go back underground old man".

"After all those years of hell and now being able to get out," Hammet said, looking at me like I was insane, "I'd rather not".

I grinned and looked onto the horizon, looking for a familiar landmark. It was at that moment I noticed something vary strange.

A black cloud, it looked like, seemed to waft from one of the distant valleys.

"What's that?" I said, shading my eyes.

"That looks like… smoke", Hammet said frankly, answering my question. He too was looking at that valley.

"That's strange isn't it?" I asked

Hammet nodded.

It was then I saw a vary familiar river that seemed to snake it's way around those mountains. In fact, those mountains seemed familiar as well…

Wait…Those mountains… the river… that valley.

I suddenly felt my insides shaking. My heart was pounding harder in my chest and my breath was coming in shallow gasps as if I had run a great distance.

"N-no!" I said with a horrifying realization at this. "It-it can't be!"

"Wait, Akkadian isn't that…?" Hammet stopped at the look on my face.

I stepped back as if I had received a terrible blow. I guess you could say that, in a way, I had.

"Yes", I said hoarsely, answering Hammet's unfinished question. "That means…"

I could not find it inside myself to finish my sentence.

"It means, great gods," Hammet said, shocked at the brutality of what was unfolding before us. "Magus' vengeance has come down upon your people".

Emotions of all kind came crashing down inside me. Emotions like pain, insanity, and guilt.

Suddenly I found myself running down the rocky crag.

"Where are you going!" Hammet called after me.

"I MUST HELP THEM!" I called back to him.

Nevertheless, as I ran I knew this:

I could try to help them.

But I later discovered I was too late, in more ways then one.