Chapter seven
Into the maw
While the group was preparing themselves outside an escort of The Kirin Tor's battle mages came out down the path leading to the prison. 'Are you the ones?' One of the mages asked, walking up to the group.
'That's us.' Marsh' answered. He recognized the mages uniform as that of one of the Wardens, who guarded the prison.
'Please follow me.' With that the Warden turned on his heel and marched back down the path he had just come. 'We don't have much time. My colleagues are holding off the Blues as best they can, but with their magical ability there is little we can do against them. What we need is time, but we require almost all of our mages to tackle the Blues. What we need from you is to get us this time, so that we may prepare an anti magic seal around the prison and stop the portals opening.'
'Portals?' Marsh asked. 'What portals?'
'The Blue dragons have found away to bind themselves to an area,' The Warden informed Marsh' 'Then they send themselves into the prison. The connection between the dragon and the area they are connected to allows for a path to be formed between the two, allowing more dragons to pass through.'
'Seems like at any minute the whole Blue Dragon flight could come storming out.' Marsh' said, clearly worried about the situation within the prison.
'While the situation is indeed dire it is not all bad. The down side to that type of portal is that it takes a long time to setup. Also if the dragon that attached itself to the area is killed the whole portal will collapse. So if you and your team are able to knock down the portal binder fast enough you will be able to cut off the portal before any dragons are able to come through, it will also allow for you to recover while another portal is trying to break through.'
'Oh, is that all?' Klash said sarcastically. 'Well that's just perfect for us. A lightning bolt here, a lava burst their, sorted!'
'Yes, quite' Said the Warden clearly displeased with the shamans attitude. 'My name is Alturas. This is as far as I can take you. Once inside you can relieve the battle mages within and we will seal you in.'
The group watched as Alturas and his battle mages walked away to prepare their spell.
'How do we open it' Bella asked turning back to face the door.
'Like this' Taking a key from his pocket, the group watched as their leader placed it against the door, the key began to glow and the door slid open.
As soon as the door opened the sound of battle rushed out to meet them. They could see in the distant flashes and hear the clash of metal on metal. The group rushed inside.