The War Against Drakath

Chapter 23: The Chaos Dragonlord

When we entered the Dwarfhold, we immediately saw that everything had gone to the Void.

Aside from the strange creatures that were now roaming the place such as Albino Bats and Glow Worms, there were several dwarves taken prisoner and in chains, being forced to mine for a mysterious substance.

The Drow Soldiers that were their slave masters were treating them horribly, whipping them if they so much as dawdled while mining.

"Who could have done something so cruel to them?" I said aloud. "Beats me." Blackmagic13 said.

"Help us!" one of the imprisoned dwarves explained. The Drow Soldier whipped him hard, causing him to cry.

Even Blackmagic13 seemed to feel pity for those poor dwarves that were being forced to work (possibly to death even, depending on how long they were actually being forced to work)…I guess she's not as evil as she might think she is…

"Whoever is doing this must be a monster." Blackmagic13 commented.

We looked around, and we saw the dwarf chieftain, who seemed to be hiding from the Drow Soldiers so that he wouldn't get enslaved by them as well and get forced to work in the mines. I felt sorry for him, up to now it had been said that Dwarfhold was impenetrable, this must be the absolute worst day in his life. Blackmagic13 frowned as well.

"Are you here to help?" he asked. We said yes, and he introduced himself as Ironfist. Apparently, the mountain had been attacked by the third Lord of Chaos (which was weird, considering that we hadn't actually faced the Second Lords of Chaos), a strange Chaos Dragonlord…and we weren't ready to face him yet. Apparently, first we had to learn some more about him if we were going to stand a chance, and so we picked up a magical artifact known as the Memory Stone that contained the memory of the dwarves….

The Memory Stone shed some light on the situation. Apparently, the Chaos Dragonlord was known as Vath, and he was a Drow himself, not to mention he had a chaorrupted dragon on his side. He also had a huge chaotic sword and a Chaorrupted Dragon Amulet as well. It seemed like he was pretty powerful, seeing though he conquered the Dwarfhold in just a few hours.

He also seemed to be a rather horrible person, as Blackmagic13 said. He treated the dwarves worse than animals….I don't know if this was because of a personal grudge against the dwarves or what, but he seemed even worse than Escherion, and believe me, he was a pretty bad guy. I knew from experience.

"We have to stop him!" Blackmagic exclaimed. "I agree." I responded to her.

We set to work helping out everyone there and making sure they received much-needed nourishment after their forced labor, which including fighting the Ore Balboas, Balboas, and Vultdragons outside to get the items they dropped. We also had to fight the dangerous Chaos Draconians and the Drow Soldiers themselves…how we were able to defeat them is something I can't quite remember…

Finally, he asked us to talk to Geopetal, a living stone statue in charge of the Heartstone Forge, who had us do a few more chores so that we could get to Upper Dwarfhold, where apparently we would be able to get to Vath and stop his crazy plans.

According to her, Vath forced her to provide her with the Heartstone Forge by saying that he would destroy it if she refused, and would not let any dwarves into the upper city. Now the dwarves were being forced to create chaotic weapons for Vath's soldiers. Once again I felt sorry for the poor guys.

Vath was also searching for the Chaos Gemeralds buried in the island, although Geopetal was unsure what exactly he wanted them for. I doubted he planned on using them for anything good.

Geopetal told us to collect some of the chaos gemeralds. We also had to take down a giant mole….known as Amadeus. It wasn't that easy, mind you. The giant mole loved digging into the ground and popping out to attack us….also it had very sharp claws that dug into our flesh.

Fortunately Blackmagic13 was there for me, and was able to blast it with magic in the event it got far away from me while burrowing.

Finally we managed to get our tasks done, and we were able to open the door to Upper Dwarfhold with Geopetal's assistance…..

But that wouldn't be the end of our Dwarfhold experience….oh no…we still had quite the task on our hands…