'Sup? FINALLY I'm done with Dirge. I couldn't think of how to describe that battle!

But now I get to have some fun with Celosia. . Read on, read on.

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Dormin's Speech

Sound Effects

Thinking

Chapter 12

The Boar

BOOM

Subconsciously, Wander was aware of the bodies around him rapidly fading. Groaning, he got to his feet and looked at the rubble where Dirge's statue had been only moments before. And so another idol fell.

Hearing the rumble of Dormin's presence, he looked up as the light got brighter.

Thou hath done well on thy quest so far. But six colossi remained.

The young man felt a thrill as They told him this. Only six were left. He looked back at Mono, and for the first time saw white doves pecking at the stones around her alter. He counted them. Ten doves. Ten Colossi dead. Puzzled, he looked up at the light. "I am ready for the next Colossus, Lord Dormin." he declared.

The god's chuckle rang in his ears. Trying not to avert his eyes, Wander stared confidently at the spot where Dormin's light shone brightest.

Very well. Thy next foe is...an alter overlooks the lake...it's guardian set loose, it keeps the flames alive.

Hoping he wasn't about to come face-to-face with some sort of dragon, Wander mounted Agro and set out. Dormin watched as Their tool went. They really needed to give him a break when he returned to the Shrine of Worship.

Wander had looked for hours when he suddenly saw one of the giant pits had a ramp leading down into it. Dismounting, he entered the pit to see a lake with land on the other side of the pit. He swam to the edge and looked up to see another ramp leading to the next level.

Ascending the ramp he found a hole in the rock wall in front of him, which led to a chamber filled with man-made pillars with flames on them. Curious, he approached it to find stairs leading up. Sighing at all these upper floors, he went up the staircase to find himself on a sort of balcony overlooking the tunnel he'd just gone through.

To the right there was another balcony overlooking the lake. At one point there might have been a small bridge leading to it but whatever was there then...wasn't now. He'd have to jump. He was about to leap when he realized that there was a low growling sound reverbrating through the alter. Shrugging it off, he jumped to the other balcony.

The growling suddenly got much louder. He looked up to see a dark shape, twice as big as a cheetah, leap from a platform above him and land in the middle of the balcony. It was then that Wander realized he'd found the Colossus.

It had two sharp horns curving from the sides of its mouth, and had iron claws on its feet along with rock armor on its head and back. It was even smaller than Kuromori!

Seeing no exposed flesh except for the legs, which were rock solid, Wander thought for sure this thing was going to spear him. Shaking rocks and dirt from its form, it growled softly and waited for him to make a move. Wander was sure if he moved a muscle that it would charge. Unfortunately, he couldn't stay still for long.

Rolling to the side he unsheathed the Ancient's Sword and looked up to see two blue dots rapidly approaching him.

BAM

THUD

Wander lifted his head and found the Ancient's Sword was no longer in his hand. He looked around. Where was it?! Trying to sit up, he heard one of his ribs crack and gasped. What had happened? Wander remembered being hit with the force of a small train, and he'd been hit in the chest and knocked into the tunnel between the two balconies.

Looking up he saw the Colossus looking at him from the balcony, growling softly. It had rammed him over the edge! Hissing with pain, he slowly stood and carefully made his way to the balcony opposite his opponent. It was waiting for him to come back. Gaping, he saw the Ancient's Sword had been embedded in its neck from when it'd smashed into him.

"How am I supposed to get it back?!" he hissed.

Celosia fears most what he is sworn to protect. He fears the flames.

Leaping to the other balcony, Wander flattened himself as Celosia charged again. He wasn't used to Colossi being so fast! The beast barreled right over him and Wander quickly climbed the tower, then he crouched and tried to find a way to get the flame down to Celosia.

He didn't have to.

WHAM

Wander toppled from the pillar as it was hit with such force that it shuddered. He groaned and closed his eyes, waiting for Celosia to finish him. It didn't.

He opened his eyes to see a stick, the end on fire, next to him. Celosia had made a whining sound and backed away while keeping his eyes on the torch. Knowing it'd be blown out soon, Wander picked it up and retreated to the space next to the pillar. As soon as the torch went out Celosia approached and tried to claw its way into the space where Wander was hiding.

Lighting the torch again, Wander waved it in front of Celosia. The beast, in terror, backed up and out of a hole in the rock behind it. When it hit the ground below, the beast's armor cracked and its backplates fell off to reveal a furry back. Its momentum caused it to keep going, and it flipped from the small platform onto the ground below. Wander leaped down and grabbed the Ancient's Sword, which had fallen out of the beast's armor, and propelled himself to the Colossus, point down.

Celosia shreiked when the blade hit its vital, and it shook wildly before racing away from where it had fallen. It took Wander with it.

Wander twisted the blade, causing Celosia to stop, and he stabbed it again. Celosia fell to the ground and didn't get back up. Surprised that this was all it took to kill Celosia, Wander stood as the beast's body began to darken and didn't see the tendrils until they impaled him.

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