The Epic War against the Avatar

Chapter Two-The Imp's Tale

The imp began telling a 'short' version of his and Belial's history together. He told from the first day he met him, to what happened with his final visit.

It was his first time being a real Dungeon Keeper, and he had chosen to go to Flowerhat.

In the south was where the gold and gem rocks were as well as portals and earth for building space. The area was shaped like an oval, covering the entire southern part of the land. There were three Dungeon Hearts in the land, and they all were in the south: One in the east, one in the west, and one between the two. The advantage of the middle Dungeon Keeper was a better gold supply as he had three gem rocks instead of two like the neighboring keepers. There was a small area already dug out that connected the south to the north. In the north stood lava. The lava carried over through the northern area, which was equal size to the southern. Surrounded by the lava stood the hero fortress. Beyond the hero fortress is where they kept secret items and stranded captured creatures.

During Belial's first visit, he ended up taking place of the inactive Dungeon Heart in the east. Already had there been the western and middle keeper. They were at war with each other, and the heroes waited for the outcome. Yet they were all so distracted with each other, that they hadn't realized the presence of Belial in the east. The eastern keeper was a green keeper, and the middle was an orange keeper.

The orange keeper attacked the cornered green keeper. The green keeper resisted greatly. It was a battle right in green's barracks. Several dragons, warlocks, and orcs were attacking green, all of high levels of training. Green reacted by placing several strong bile demons up front, while he backed them up with vampires and wizards that he had converted from the heroes. Aside the bile demons were skeletons, all with the ability to control lightning almost at will. Fireballs were fired, harming bile demons and killing skeletons with furious explosions. The dragons were breathing fire that soared across the room. The wizards responded with water and ice spells that destroyed the fire and pinned a dragon against the wall with giant ice shards, killing them. Lightning fried the warlocks dead. The orcs split up and went around the room to attack from the sides. Several vampires saw this, and began to drain the life from the orcs as well as stop them in their traces with powerful slow and paralyze spells. One of the warlocks controlled ice, and was quite the master. He froze the ceiling and created ice spikes from above that rained specifically on the vampires, pinning them to the ground. The bile demons charged forward and met up with the dragons and intoxicated them with gas while the wizards froze them in place. The ice warlock created powerful beam of ice energy that he fired at a single bile demon. The bile demon was frozen to the ground, and the beam cut a hole right through his unhealthy heart killing him. This angered the green keeper, and he cast a powerful bolt of lightning right on the warlock, injuring him greatly. The bile demons smashed the dragons dead, as the orcs were finished off by the few skeletons remaining. The wizards and the vampires that were not pinned to the floor by giant spikes of ice finished the warlocks with powerful ice/fire magic as well as powerful curse spells. Green won this battle, and began to reclaim the land he lost because of invisible imps.

Meanwhile, another battle takes place north of green's barracks. Several warlocks battle on with vampires from orange against green. The vampires are powerful, but there are few of them and they aren't too well trained. The warlocks hold the advantage at number and all are in a fire unit organized by orange. Explosion after explosion occurs, and eventually the vampires are defeated. This was a victory for orange until…

Belial had his dungeon built within the first week containing the lair, hatchery, and treasury. He kept a low profile he mined for gold and built his other rooms, and worked surprisingly quickly. He slowly mined a tunnel reaching the lava. He had been unnoticed. He reached the entrance of the hero fortress. There were surprisingly were no guards. Belial constructed a bridge as quickly as he could, making sure everyone of his creatures pitched in some way. The green and orange Dungeon Keepers were too busy with their own dungeons to notice anything. Within a few hours, Belial had a bridge over the lava that connected to the hero fortress. Then he and his creatures fled behind locked doors that were rigged with traps. The doors were a direct passage to his dungeon, but he made sure no one would enter.

Slowly the imps of the orange keeper got the time to claim the land to the bridge and then the bridge itself. They claimed land of the heroes, and reached a wooden door. They felt the strongest urge to claim the land beyond the door, and broke it down. This attracted the attention of the heroes, and they began to make their way towards the Dungeon Keepers.

It was shortly after orange's victory against green's warlocks that the heroes arrived. Belial watched as the heroes brutally killed the orange Dungeon Keeper. Injured, they were attacked by the green Dungeon Keeper, who expected to see the orange Dungeon Keeper. All hell broke loose, and as the battle went on for ages, Belial sent his imps to claim the land and had his creatures prepare for ambush of the victors over the battle that had occurred. Being injured, the heroes managed to get a slim victory and successfully killed the green keeper.

Lord Darkslain took the final swing at the green dungeon heart. It cracked widely, and light shined among the heroes. A loud scream of a dark male voice of the green dungeon keeper before the Dungeon Heart shattered completely and the soul of the Dungeon Keeper completely died. The pedestal on which the Dungeon Heart remained and so did the rooms. The normal land in which the Dungeon Keeper had owned and saw through vanished. "That was a difficult one… were are only six of us remaining…" Darkslain's voice was weary; he held his sword on a loose grip as he spoke, "Wizard Darin, Monk Adam, see what kind of abilities this Dungeon Keeper owned in the library." "Yes sir," they both replied, and hurried off to the ruins of battle that is the library. "I'm not too familiar with your face young sir… but do you mind taking a look inside the keeper's treasury?" Darkslain spoke to a young thief, "Fill every pocket you have." The thief's eyes were filled with cash, his mind blanked out as he thought of the money he would find; his voice was filled with his own fantasy and greed, "Aye aye, sir…" The thief walked out to find where the treasury was. "Now, you two giants, destroy every room you can, we don't want another Dungeon Keeper to use them," Darkslain told them, and they both replied, "O…kay…"

While they fulfilled their orders, Darkslain lied next to an earth wall, tired from the battle. "No one should still be fighting at my age…" he whispered to himself. "Well then I'm sorry to disappoint you…" whispered a dark warm male voice that echoed around each and every wall. Immediately, Darkslain responded by jumping to his feet, grabbing his sword, and entering his elite fighting stance, "Who's there!? Show yourself coward!!" From a nearby lair, several dragons emerged from the darkness and entered Darkslain's view. Following the dragons were mistresses, and warlocks. "Allow me to congratulate you for killing two Dungeon Keepers… you've done my work for me…" Belial, the dark warm voiced male, spoke rather coldly as his heart was filled with excitement. Darkslain's heart was not, and he backed away against the wall, "Holy sweet Avatar… what treachery is this?" "The treachery of a real Dungeon Keeper…" the words slithered out of Belial's mouth and slid across his dungeon to reach Darkslain's ears, "My, I wonder what will be of your remaining followers? What should I do with them?" Darkslain's voice and mind were corrupted with anger and he stepped forward, "You shall not harm them! I will not allow it! You cannot defeat me!!" Darkslain charged forward, and engaged in a short, yet great battle against Belial's creatures. Yet little did he know it was his last.

It was battles like this the imp told. Belial was a powerful mastermind Dungeon Keeper, who worked coldly against his enemies. He manipulated greatly to gain victory against any enemy. Yet, he strangely was a Dungeon Keeper of comedy. Around his dungeon with his creatures, especially the more likeable ones, he relaxed more and spent a lot of good moments around his creatures. He was a completely different person. Such an interesting tale would be in Wishvale.

The heroes were dead, and it was just the blue keeper and the red keeper. Both Dungeon Keepers were outwitting each other, as if they each had spies. They battled on with each other. The blue keeper was getting the land around Belial, and then had his creatures, mostly dragons, attack like a snake squeezing the life out of an enemy. Belial figured the blue keeper's idea instantly when he saw the creatures coming around, and waited for an ambush and rigged areas with traps. Yet the places he placed gas traps, the blue keeper had bile demons infiltrate. Belial created lava traps but that's where a massive horde of dragons entered. And then Belial sent all his creatures for defense, and they charged shouting the name of their Dungeon Keeper. "For Keeper Phil!!" "For Keeper Belial!!" and then the Dungeon Keepers paused, but the battle did not. The Dungeon Keepers realized who the other was, and laughed that they hadn't figured it out earlier. Quickly each Dungeon Keeper pulled their creatures back and commanded the end of the battle, saying that it was pointless. "What's going on?" the creatures asked their Dungeon Keepers in multiple ways. "Keeper Belial is not the enemy!" Keeper Phil's voice was joyful for a male Dungeon Keeper, "Holy crap, how the hell didn't I see that coming before!?" "Keeper Phil is my friend. I knew him from the Dungeon Keeper's dimension," Belial explained peacefully, "I lost contact with him when we became Dungeon Keepers through…" "Can I still hit this warlock?" one of Belial's trolls asked, slightly annoyed while pointing to one of Keeper Phil's warlocks. "Why?" Belial asked him curiously. "He turned me into a chicken in the start of the fight…" the troll answered. Belial looked at the troll, and then looked at the warlock. "…make it quick…" he whispered. "Hey man, that was back when we were enemies…" the warlock's voice was a stereotype hippie voice. Yet the troll ran after the warlock, and the warlock ran while as fast as he could under robes, "I'm going turn you back into a chicken!" "This was really uncalled for… right Phil?" Belial spoke as he watched the troll in pursuit. "Yeah," was Phil's short answer.

This was the Dungeon Keeper's friend that he talked about. He did speak of another Dungeon Keeper, or that could have been Pladitz's imaginadtion. He could have been referring to the same friend, and maybe he wasn't.