As they kept walking, the desert terrain was changing to complete rock with

little patches of grass growing on the small there was actually soil. After a while

they realized the path was leading to the mountain. Which they all dreaded except

for Frances because she loved rock climbing.

"I am really getting tired of this game." complained Yeliah in a half-whinny

voice. "I wanna go home!" said Damian completely whinny. "I really this king

shado-" at this moment the sky went dark and silent, the earth began to shake and

the familiar whisper started but this time a slight louder; 'Den malum crus skall

increbresco hos sin varv att forstora omnis quae decires nytta och ren.' Everyone

was fighting to stay up, and barely paying attention to the voice. The noise stopped

and everything went back to normal, they just then realized the right side mountain

had erupted. "No one ever say that name again!" said Carl with a raised voice.

They all shook off the recent turbulence. "Yeah," agreed Lyndsey "I wonder what

that voice is saying?" "I bet if we repeated it, it would be a one way ticket out of

here." said William very convinced. No, the evil guy would not say the words that

would get us out of here, and evade the chance to destroy us." said Carl. All the

pride William had in what he just said was gone. He walked the rest of the way

with his head down.

When they were in front of the mountain, and saw the path went straight up

it and then threw it. The path went up on a 115° angle, or so Carl said. The little

cobble stones stuck out so they could grab hold of something on their way up.

"Well, I guess we have to climb up a mountain, a steep mountain, no harness."

said Carl, now wide eye. Just as Frances put her hand on the first stone, they heard

a loud screech, and a Griffin came down from the shy, "Stay back!" it said in a

screeching-heaving voice. "Get away, Griffin!" shouted Carl. "You shall not

pass!" it practically screamed. "And what will you do to stop us!" shouted

Damian pulling out his sword. The griffin screeched horrifyingly, "Now that my

Master knows of your presence, he wishes you salutations and farewells.." he

finished, screeched again then flew away.

"What did he mean by Salutations and Farewells?" asked Damian putting his

sword back. "He meant, hi and goodbye, I'm going to kill you before you win."

said Lyndsey. "so he truly thinks we're going to lose." said Matthew looking mad.

"He wishes we'd lose then he'll still be alive!" said William. "Not really,

regardless we win or not, he will still live, we are not the first to play this game,

but hopefully we are the last." said Carl. William turned red with anger from being

corrected again. "Well, let's go we have a whole mountain ahead of us." said

Frances. As they were climbing they all felt the tingling feeling that they were

being watched. "Oh my God!" called up Yeliah to the whole group; since she was

at the lowest altitude. "Oh, suck it up, were almost at the gap." called down Matt.

"Yo, man shut-up, we are tired." said Damian looking at him angrily. Let's not

fight!" shouted Carl from the highest altitude with Frances.

They finally got to the horizontal gap. The last person to get up was Yeliah,

she fell on the floor as if she weighed 300 pounds. Then Matthew said "At least

the hard part is ov-" just then a screechish roar sounded. They all looked up and a

dragon came gliding down. "Oh dear God." said Matthew calmly, "I broke my

watch during the climb." "MATTHEW, THERE'S A HUGE FIRE-BREATHING

BEAST COMING TOWARDS US!" yelled Lyndsey. "Oh, that to." he responded.

The dragon landed and looked at them caringly, then he roared and shot out a thick

ray of fire with a fire spiral surrounding it at them. They were all able to dodge it,

Damian pulled out his sword, but the whole group already knew this wouldn't do.

Carl thought for a second then shouted "Damian, the aurora anfalas, it's been 3

days, crush the pedals!" "Oh yeah." said Damian sitting down and taking the

flowers off his belt, he put them on the floor and started to crush them with the

tool Old Lady Liggins gave him. Meanwhile the group was fighting off the

dragon, William jumped on it and it started to freak out, it was shooting fire in

every direction, it almost hit; Lyndsey, Carl, Damian and it did hit Yeliah a bit on

the left arm. On top of the right mountain was a pair of big eerie red eyes watching

the whole group fight, they worked as a camera for King Shadow, who secretly

watched the battle, to see what he was up against. William jumped off the dragon

and landed on his head, he passed out, Carl ran to go help him but the Dragon

swung his tail hitting Carl towards one of the walls. Damian finally finished, he

put all the sparkles in a little pouch. Then pulled out a pinch put it in the palm of

his hand and blew it off towards the dragon, when it hit it; the sparkles surrounded

the dragon and it turned into a topiary. Everyone cheered, and William woke up,

they all congratulated Damian. "Great job Damian, maybe you're not as useless as

we thought, just kidding, that was very awesome of you." finished Carl. "Well this

was a great victory for us but we still have a whole game ahead of us. They

walked a bit until the got to the ledge, they looked at all of northern Univista, from

on top of the mountain, it seemed so tranquil and calm, except for a black castle,

surrounding by molten rock. They saw everything plus more, this sight gave Carl a

slight idea of what would happen next.