We had arrived at the Water Dragon Isle. Korcha stayed at the shore with the boat while Serge and myself continued inland. The island was most beautiful. Water was everywhere, and it was so clear that you could see to the very bottom. We hopped across a pond using suprisingly strong lilypads. In the next area, Serge stopped and had a strange look on his face.
"There should be fairies here." he said quietly.
At this point, I noticed that there wasn't any sound at all, not even the sound of wind. We both drew out our weapons, sensing danger ahead. We went into the cave at the back of the isle, noting that the water near the cave was green, and filled with muck. Upon entering, we saw a few small dwarf-men.
"What are they doing here?!" shouted Serge.
Unfortunately that attracted quite a number of the little fellows, and they weren't too pleased to see us. They all were brandishing shovels, hammers, and pickaxes. Obviously, they liked to do more than mine with the tools. About a dozen or so attacked us while the rest ran to warn the others.
"They won't be hard to beat." said Serge as he charged at one, performing his Dash&Slash attack.
But, all twelve Dwarves, blocked the attack! They were combining their defenses.
"You beat us once, but not twice!" they said in unison as they all attacked us simultaneously.
Before we knew it, hammers, shovels and the flat side of pickaxes were hitting us from all sides. Once we were able to pull away from their attack, I tried one of my own. I cast Ice in the air, jumped up, and swung my sword to the ground through the Ice spell. My sword hit the ground amongst the Dwarves with a loud CRACK as shards of ice went flying in all directions. Apparently, the Dwarves were accustomed to the cold, as the attack didn't seem to affect them. Serga then told me to stand back for his next attack. Serge stretched hims arms out to the side and began hovering in the air about a foot or so. "Luminaire!" he shouted as a sphere of powerful electricity quickly expanded from him. When it hit the Dwarves, we could see the electricity arcing through their bodies as they flailed around from the attack. After the attack though, they just laughed.
"Hahahahhahahah!!! Thank you for the charge!" they shouted.
"They couldn't absorb electricity before." said Serge with a confused look on his face.
"After what you did last time, we began training more!" said one of the Dwarves.
They hurriedly formed a circle around us and before we could move, electricity was moving from each Dwarf to every other Dwarf, many of the 'lines' passing through us. Soon, all the electricity formed in a sphere around Serge and myself, then promptly exploded, sending sparks everywhere, as well as hurting the both of us quite a bit.
"Time to go all out." I said to Serge, who replied with a simple nod of his head.
I began a charge at one of the Dwarves, performing a Dash&Slash of my own. As expected, the Dwarves gathered close to block my attack. At that moment, Serge cast Aeroblast right into the middle of the bunch, sending them to the ground. I then jumped into the air, and stabbed my sword into the ground in the middle of the Dwarves. As my sword hit, it cast Bushbasher, sending the dozen Dwarves flying in all directions.
"I don't know why or how they came back, but this time will be the last." said Serge.
"They seem to be quite crafty, and I have a feeling that they won't be getting any easier to beat." I replied.
We then continued down to the lower level, where another dozen Dwarves were ready to fight us. Before we could attack, they cast Anit-Green on us, preventing us from exploiting their weakness. We both readied to charge, and once again, the Dwarves formed a tight group to block the attack. Serge and I then rushed forward and used X-Strike. Luckily for us, the attack was too strong for the Dwarves to block, and the attack sent them flying in all directions as well as cutting two of them in half. They formed another tight group and cast Thundastorm, zapping us once again. We used X-Strike again, seeing as how it was effective against their defenses. Two more Dwarves were cleaved in half, leaving eight. They formed another group and cast Earthquake, causing massive chunks of the ground to rise up and smash us. At this rate they would beat us first, so we had to change our strategy. I attacked next with a cyclone attack. Holding my sword outstretched in front of me, I began to spin rapidly. I leaned back as I spun faster, so as to put more power into the attack. I then manuevered to the Dwarves spinning rapidly. They gathered together to block my attack. Though my attack was not pressing through their defenses, I continued to press against them, forcing them to strain themselves blocking. Serge ran behind them and used Dash&Slash. The force of the attack sandwiched the Dwarves between the two attacks, effectively killing six of them. The remaining two ran into the deepest part of the cave.
"Here." said Serge as he handed me an elixer, and drank one himself.
We then proceeded into the last part of the cave, where the Dwarves were going to make their last stand. They would have a good chance too. There may have only been three Dwarves, but the third one was in a most impressive war machine, that appeared to be very well built.
"You ready?" I asked Serge.
"Of course." he replied with a stern determined look on his face.
The war machine looked like a tall tank, with spikes on the front of it, two small cannons on the side, a large cannon in the middle, and the Dwarf Leader, perched on top of the contraption.
I cast Ice into the air, Serge cast Magmabomb, which hit the Ice spell, forming Antipode. I jumped into the air, and hit the spell with my sword, hitting the large cannon. The two cannons each fired an Icicle Spear, one at each of us. Serge cast Aeroblast at the left cannon, causing a great deal of damage. But after the attack, the two Dwarves began repairing the machine. I cast magnify, followed by Serge casting Carnivore. The spell smashed the two Dwarves on the side of the machine, killing them. The two side cannons shot a pair of GravityBlow spells at us knocking us to the floor. Serge cast Strengthen on me, and I jumped into the air, cast Strengthen on myself as well, and and came down with a powerful blow, destroying the left cannon. The machine then rushed forward, trying to ram us with its spiked 'grill'. We were able to avoid the attack. Serge threw his swallow at the othe side cannon, almost breaking it off, I followed with another jump-slash, knocking it off completely. At this point, energy was drawn into the main cannon. "Omega Yellow!" shouted the Head Dwarf. The immense blast of energy hit me, sending me flying into the cave wall. Serge used Revive on me, then turned to face the machine. He cast Icicle Spear, and the spear got stuck in the cannon. When it tried to fire again, it merely exploded, killing the last Dwarf.
"Thank you for saving us!" we heard from a tiny voice.
Several Fairies came out of hiding. They healed us, and fed us as thanks for stopping the Dwarves. We searched the island a little more, but we did not find my sword. We then returned to the boat to head to another island.