Sorry for the delay everyone. I had been fighting the flu for the past few days and I had just recently started to recover. And I also had to put in extra hours at work to make up for all the time I took off, so I've been a little exhausted as well, but it'll all work out. Hopefully I haven't had you waiting too long.

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19 - Lodestone Myr & Myr Enforcer

It migrated from the mountains. A Myr's whose alloy was composed of Lodestone and had the capability of absorbing another artifact's energy source to temporarily increase its own. Such Myr's were labeled as maverick and they had to be monitored for safety purposes. A Myr Enforcer had been following it for the past few sun-rotations in accordance to its instructions. Unlike most Myr's, the Enforcer was not small. To most, it looked more like a bizarre sumo wrestler with its massive lower core and diminished upper torso. Even it's beak shaped head seemed molded into its shoulders, giving it a more distinctive look. Despite the lack of a neck it had, the Enforcer was still able to observe its target. So far, the Myr it followed has not detected its presence.

The Lodestone Myr grabbed a stray chunk of rusted iron, and violently ripped it from the rest of the mountainside. With its large hands, it crushed the iron into powder, and allowed the debris to slip between its large fingers. Like the Myr Enforcer, the Lodestone was built with a massive frame to promote it's brute force The Lodestone was familiar with it's own abilities, but longed to test them on an actual creature instead on inanimate objects. When it suddenly turned to face the way it had come, it caught a glimpse of a silvery blue shoulder trying to hide behind an iron stone.

Empowered by the thought of a threat, the Lodestone Myr charged forward, it's arms wide, and tackled the hunk of iron the Myr Enforcer attempted to hide behind. The iron chunk broke free from its place and rolled away from the Lodestone's impact, completely exposing the Enforcer.

Realizing that it had been discovered, the Myr Enforcer braced itself for a fight. It hunched down and brought its elbows in with raised fists. The Lodestone Myr did not wait; it rushed forward, kicking with a mighty foot towards the Enforcer. The silver-blue Myr crossed its massive forearms and blocked the attack, with a twist of it's waist, the Enforcer then threw a punch. The Lodestone deflected the attack with it's own massive forearm and shunted the limb away. The Lodestone stepped closer and attempted to head butt the Enforcer, but the Enforcer halted the Lodestone by firmly pushing back against its chest with both hands.

The rustic-red Myr then took a firm hold on one of the Enforcers wrists and with a violent twist, snapped the Enforcers hand off from the rest of its arm. Though Myr's did not feel pain, they were familiar with danger, and the Enforcer was certain the loss of one limb placed it at a disadvantage. This confrontation had to be dissolved quickly before things got worse, it decided. With every ounce of it's advantage in weight, the Enforcer stabbed outward with it's remaining hand and pierced through the Lodestones mana core that it bore on it's chest.

As the last remnants of the mana source that gave life to the Lodestone drained from it, the Lodestone Myr, in dying desperation, threw it's weight into one last punch, into the Enforcers center mass, where it's own mana core was housed. With a sickening crunch, the Lodestones fist imbedded itself in the Enforcers belly.

Both Myr's died with their fists impaling the other. Together in death, the Myr brothers remain...

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Here's a bit of Myr trivia for you. It's not common knowledge, but when Greg Staples, the artist who created the artwork for the Lodestone Myr and Myr Enforcer, commissioned the art, they were originally meant for the Iron Myr and Silver Myr cards respectively. However, the card designers thought that the Myrs that Greg Staples painted looked too powerful to be on cards meant to be 1/1 creatures, and decided to use the art for different Myr cards.

This appeared in an article at some years ago, but the name of the article escapes me for the time being.