The War Against Drakath
Gosh, it's been a year since I made this story…maybe I should work on it more often…oh well.
Chapter 27: Showdown Against Vath
Unbelievably, we managed to climb all the way to the top of the mountain…which interestingly was filled with lava like a volcano.
Vath was waiting for us, a smile on his face. "So, you decided to follow me all the way to the top of the mountain? I see you're simply eager to meet your demise."
"It wasn't easy mind you." Masamune34 told him. "Do you have any idea how tall it was?"
"Yes, yes I know….anyways, I should let you know that I'm bringing Stalagbite with me for this battle….I'd like to see you try to beat me now….soon you shall meet the same fate as the dwarves that are futilely fighting to get their home back…" he grinned with satisfaction. "And to think you already managed to defeat that fool Escherion….you must have gotten lucky."
"Funny you should mention that…I believe that right now they're winning…" I pointed out to him.
"What? Impossible…." Vath looked down below, and saw that the dwarves were indeed winning, which of course meant that he was losing the war. He snarled in rage, and his eyes even turned red.
"What the heck has gotten into my troops? I thought I raised them better…" he muttered under his breath. He then turned back to face us. "We'll see how well they'll fare in battle once I take you down and show them that fighting me is a lesson in futility!" Vath called for Stalagbite, and soon enough he flew right next to him.
And so the battle began.
I decided to take on Vath (mainly because I found his arrogance annoying) while Masamune34 decided to take on Stalagbite.
Vath kept on taunting me during the battle, much to my frustration. Between dodging his sword strikes, he kept on saying that he would defeat me (and of course he also said that his partner Stalagbite would defeat my partner with ease as well)
Eventually I got tired of his constant bragging, and I used a bind spell on him to put him in place.
"AARGH!" he screamed, struggling to break free.
Taking advantage of the situation, I fired several fireballs at him. He looked furious, but he still couldn't break free.
I decided to look at how Masamune34 was doing. He was still fighting Stalagbite, dodging his fire breath and avoided being crushed by his feet.
He eventually managed to penetrate his scales, stabbing him between them. Stalagbite roared in pain. Interestingly enough, his blood was purple, just like his scales.
Unfortunately while I was distracted, Vath broke free from his restraints and pushed me into a boulder, which naturally was quite unpleasant. He then picked up his sword and pointed it next to me.
"Any last words, puny sorceress?"
That was not a good choice of words. Before Vath's arrogance had been a mild annoyance, but calling me weak was the last straw.
Using a spell I knocked Vath's sword out of his hand, which fell into lava and melted. All of a sudden Vath looked very worried for a change.
I looked at Masamune34 for a second. It seemed like Stalagbite was about to eat him, and he was struggling to keep his jaws from closing.
Vath laughed once again. "It semes that your friend is about to become dragon chow!"
I couldn't let that happen. Despite our moral differences, he had put up with me for quite some time. In fact, he was pretty much the only person that could stand being around me, given how mischevious I was.
I decided to quickly pick up Vath's Chaos Amulet before he could react and throw it into the lava, causing it to melt as well.
"AARGH! What have you done?" he screamed.
Suddenly, Stalagbite stopped trying to eat Masamune34, allowing him to hop out of his mouth. He then turned to Vath.
"YOU!" he screamed.
Both Masamune34 and I were startled by this. We had no idea that Stalagbite could talk.
Stalagbite lunged towards Vath, and what happened next wasn't very pretty.
All I'll say is….he let out one heck of a burp…..
Stalagbite then thanked us for everything we had done, and said that hopefully we would encounter each other again.
We said our farewell to him, and then proceeded to go back down to the mountain to see how the dwarves were doing.
As it turns out, they had actually won the battle, but not without costs. Many dwarves had either been wounded or met their unfortunate end out in the battlefield.
This unfortunately included Ironfist, who despite everything the dwarves had done was unable to be cured of his poison. All the dwarves mourned his loss.
I guess war isn't as glamorous as I once thought…makes me wonder why people wage wars in the first place….
The dwarves checked to see who was next in line to be the dwarf chieftain…and surprise surprise! It was none other than Snowbeard!
We received many thanks from the dwarves including Snowbeard for helping us take down Vath (although technically Stalagbite did so himself) and created statues of us to be hailed as heroes. (I personally thought I was a villain, but oh well). MacGuyver was also fittingly given a Medal of Freedom for helping his dwarves break free from the compound.
We said farewell to the dwarves (as well as the new dwarf chieftain) and decided to go back to Battleon.
"To think that we took down not one Chaos Lord, but two…" Masamune34 thought.
"Yep, we've done a lot, haven't we?" I answered him.
We noticed that as of late many items had gotten missing from Battleon. We wondered who was responsible….
Hopefully whoever was responsible would get caught….
But for the time being we were satisfied for what we had done.
And so ends the Dwarfhold arc….in the next chapter, we'll see who's responsible for all these thefts in Battleon….