Here's the 3rd chapter. Sorry it took so long for this one to be up. I have a tendency to be very lazy, but I'll always try my best to put up a new chapter for everyone who reads this stuff, whether they review it or not. I hope I haven't driven you all away by taking a long time to update.
Deragado reached the Ring of Stones at last. It hadn't been that long of a trip, but it wasn't the length that made him consider it long, it was his anxiousness. Here would be his revenge on that queen for what she had done. He walked over to the fallen stone block, where underneath lay Mor'du, the demon bear. He had heard the stories about this bear, how it took off King Fergus' leg and how it had terrorized the land for so long. And soon the bear would be his to control.
"What's this?" He saw some footprints on the ground. They looked like they belonged to people, but closeby were footprints of a creature he had never encountered in his life. They were big, only three toes at the end. There were also a long, smooth trail following behind the footprints. A creature with a tail, no doubt, Deragado thought to himself. There was no time to follow these footprints to see where they led, for he had work to do. Turning his attention back over to the cracked stone and thrusts his hands into the air, chanting an evil spell. High up, the sky, as well as the clouds, grew dark. The clouds swirled around the area Deragado was standing at.
Slashing down from the sky like knives, lightning bolts collided with his hands, forming two small balls of electrical power in them. He continued the chanting spell, causing even more lightning to form with the balls, until they were about the size of his head. Deragado thrusted one of them at the fallen stone, causing it to shatter instantly. Deragado gleamed happily at the sight that befell him. The broken and fallen body of Mor'du. The body wasn't rotted away too badly, but still, the bear must be at full strength. Chanting some new spells, the sky grew lighter as green and purple lightning bolts zig-zagged out of the sky, striking the remaining ball. After a few more lightning strikes, Deragado stopped his spell and tossed the ball at Mor'du, the ball washing over the bear's entire body in purple and green liquid. The liquid seemed to take a life of it's own as it moved all over the body, seeping into whatever cracks, crevices, and wounds were on the bear's body.
A flash of lightning revealed the body beginning to move and shake. Mor'du had been revived and fully healed! The demon bear stood on his back legs and howled his might loudly into the sky. The last thing he remembered was that he was going to attack that other bear and the girl, but something slammed into him. The stone that other bear slammed me against must have fallen on me! With anger, Mor'du slammed his front paws on the ground as he returned to all fours. Some lightning strikes caught his attention, causing him to turn around and notice Deragado. He roared angrilly at the human, and even though it had a ball of blue energy in its hands, he wasn't going to be tricked again by another human. Just as he charged forward with speed that did not match his bulky size, the human threw the ball straight at him. Unfortunately, he couldn't change direction in time, so the energy ball collided with his space, spraying a liquid of sorts onto it. At that moment, a sense of peace and calmness, which had been devoided for so long in Mor'du's head, washed over him. As he relaxed and sat down, he heard another voice other than his own in his head, which was probably the human's.
"We are much alike, you and I, Mor'du. You see, we both have grudges. After seeing what you have saw before dying, you probably want to get that other bear and the little girl that were with her, don't you?" Deragado asked calmly.
Mor'du nodded his head and snarled. Even the mentioning of that event made him mad.
"Well, my sister was killed somehow by a queen, and after recognizing that girl as being the princess of DunBroch, I can only speculate that somehow, someway, the queen was that bear. Now, we can either go our separate ways and struggle to accomplish our similar goals on our own... or we can join forces and easily accomplish our goal. All you need is my help. What do you say?" Deragado asked.
Mor'du thought about this for a moment. Even with his nose leading him to where the queen and her princess might be, it would take some time. Looking at Deragado, Mor'du nodded his head and grinned an evil, bear-like smile.
"Excellent. I had a feeling you'd see it my way. Now, there's one more thing I have to do before we can leave." Deragado left Mor'du's mind and starting chanting up another spell, this time causing red lightning to form a ball in his hand. After a couple more lightning strikes, he launched the ball at Mor'du, and in an instant, the demon bear started growing larger and larger.
Mor'du saw the ground start to shrink, as well as the human. He roared in surprise and lifted up onto his hind legs, seeing the ground shrink even more until after a couple seconds, he stopped. As he looked out around himself, he could see everything. The entire forest, the Crone's Tooth, the Fire Falls, the Castle of DunBroch. everything.
Deragado smiled evilly at his newly created monster. It would be known as the tallest creature known to man when he returned with it to his home kingdom. With this brute's newfound size and strength, nothing will stop me! he laughed to himself. He mentally returned to Mor'du's mind, who himself was shocked at his size, and started speaking to him. "We are ready to leave. You lead the way since you're tallest and can probably see it. I will follow on ground." Watching the giant bear start to head forward, Deragado started to follow, inadvertantly stepping in the footstep of the mystery creature. The sorcerer accidentally trips over a large bone sticking up somewhat out of the ground. "Hold up," he said to Mor'du, causing the bear to stop and turn around. "Hmm, I wonder what this creature could be?" the sorcerer asked himself. Stepping out of the footprint, he waved his hands around, causing both a blue mist of energy to appear around his hands, as well as cause the bone to rise out of the ground. Other bones started rising out of the ground and came together with the original, forming a strange creature.
The creature had a long neck with a tiny head on the end, as well as flippers instead of arms, two in the front and two in the back. On the end was a tiny tail. Its appearance made Deragado believe it to live underwater, as well as be able to journey onto land.
"Interesting creature, I'm sure it can also help in our fight," Deragado said, intrigued by the unique form. The sorcerer started the procedure he used to bring back Mor'du and increase his size, and in no time, the creature was alive once more, flesh on the bones. He saw the creature's skin was a bluish sort of color, mixed with gray. Little did Deragado know, but the creature in front of him was what would be called a Plesiosaur in the future. Even though it wasn't too big, the plesiosaur's body came up to Mor'du's knees while the top of it's neck reached Mor'du's neck. The lesiosaur started to leave, heading in the direction of the sea, but Deragado mentally thrusted itself into its mind. "Stop right there or the bear will eat you."
The plesiosaur amazingly managed to understand what the sorcerer was saying and stopped in its tracks, turning its massive neck around to see Mor'du standing there, looking at it with a hungry look in his eyes. As soon as that second of intimidation passed, the voice returned. "Excellent. Now do you see the buildings off in the distance?" Seeing what the voice was talking about, it nodded its head, causing the voice to continue. "I want you to head there, but use the waters. When you see buildings by the shore, stay there. Just circle around close to the shore as you can get." The plesiosaur nodded and started leaving for the ocean, plowing through trees and any other unfortunate objects that got in its way.
After that, Deragado went back to Mor'du's mind and talked to the bear. "The sea creature is just in case we need extra help or if some of the people have the bright idea of sailing away. Lets go and find that queen and make her pay for what she's done."
Mor'du nodded his head and began walking toward DunBroch, eagerly anticipating the moment he would kill the queen.
End of Chapter 3
A/N: What will happen when Deragado and his monsters reach DunBroch? Massive destruction? Find out next time.