The War Against Drakath

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of update, I've been working on a bunch of other things lately.

I hope that I don't get too busy to continue the story, because that would be bad, because this story would end up in the hands of the Grim Reaper, now wouldn't it?

I suppose I'll have to just hope that I'll be able to finish the story, there's enough dead fics around as it is…

Chapter 29: The Thief Revealed

Following the events of Mogloween, we discovered that yet another admin had gone missing. This time it was Cysero. I wondered what had happened to him. Given what I saw happened to Artix, he was probably in deep trouble as well.

Anyways, I was visiting the local bank, when we noticed that there was a robbery.

"Hands up where I can see them!" demanded the thief.

"So that's who was responsible for all those thefts." I thought, remembering how there had been various reports of items being stolen as well.

"Alright! I won't resist!" agreed the bank owner.

I couldn't help but wonder why the thief was doing this. Was he simply greedy? Or was he a violent fellow? For the moment though, this didn't exactly matter to me. I decided to do something about this considering that I was a hero, and lunged at him with his sword.

I hit him dead on, giving him a cut on his cheek.

"How dare you!" he screamed, pulling out a pistol and shooting a few rounds at me. Thankfully, they bounced right off my armor.

Unfortunately, he turned towards my partner Blackmagic13…but thankfully she launched a fireball at the thief's gun, knocking it right out of his hand.

"This isn't over!" he bellowed. "I'll be back!"

And so the thief vanished in a puff of smoke using a smoke bomb.

I certainly hoped that he would be brought to justice in the near future. What he was doing was unacceptable.

Anyways, the bank owner thanked for our assistance, and told us that we were welcome to deposit gold at his bank at any time. Naturally, Blackmagic13 was hoping for a reward, but I persuaded her not to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Anyways, we tried to track down the thief, but we weren't able to find him.

We did however, find a wanted poster. Apparently he had attracted the attention of the authorities.

His name was Klepto, and he was wanted for armed robbery among other crimes. He also had a bounty on his head, which suffice to say was a lot of gold.

If only we managed to catch him…I thought.

Afterwards, we decided to explore Greenguard Forest. A lot of new monsters had appeared ever since we relocated Battleon.

There were wolves, spiders, you name it. But thankfully none of the monsters we faced were particularly strong.

There were a few boss monsters though, so we decided not to stay there for too long.

Unfortunately, on the way back, a large branch fell and hit me on the head, knocking me out cold.

Judging from Blackmagic13's shocked reaction when that happened and where I woke up, she must have taken me to the local hospital.

Anyways, once again I had a strange dream, one that suggested that Cysero had met the same fate as Artix.

"So, you're saying that you invited me over for a party?" Cysero asked.

"Yes, a very big party." Lionfang replied.

"Don't listen to him, Cysero! He's trying to trick you!" warned Artix.

Artix was locked up in a jail cell, and was trying to get out with no success.

"Why is Artix locked up?" Cysero asked Lionfang curiously.

"Oh don't mind him, he just had a little too much fruit punch and now he's all crazy." Lionfang explained.

"Alright, if you say so." Cysero replied, not suspecting anything in the slightest.

Lionfang then told Cysero to stand right in the chalk circle he had written.

"How come?" Cysero asked him.

"It's supposed to be a surprise party, so close your eyes for a second, will you?" Lionfang told him.

"Ok. I love surprise parties!" Cysero exclaimed stupidly.

Lionfang proceeded to draw an arrow pointing to the circle saying "Do Not Cross", effectively trapping Cysero due to the fact that he was not right in the head and didn't realize that he could simply walk across the chalk line despite what the pointed arrow said.

"Alright, you can look now." Lionfang told him.

Cysero looked around him, and saw that he was trapped.

"Er, I don't see any balloons or anything. And could you help me out here? I seem to be stuck." Cysero told him.

"Don't you get it by now? I tricked you! Now you're trapped! Just like your friend Artix here!" Lionfang exclaimed.

"Nooooo!" yelled Cysero, finally realizing the grasp of his situation…or so it seemed. "Wait, does this mean no party?"

Lionfang sighed. "Well if it makes you feel any better, I'm going to be bringing your friends here."

"Yay!" squealed Cysero.

"Good grief Cysero, I can't believe you fell for this!" Artix berated Cysero, clutching his forehead in his hand.

"Pipe down, Artix! You've been a bad boy! That's why Lionfang locked you up!" replied Cysero.

And that's where my flashback ended.

This was not good. Now Lionfang had both Artix and Cysero in his hands, and worst of all, I had no idea where he was.

Why was he kidnapping all of the admins? And was there anything we could do to stop him?

As it turns out, Blackmagic13 was still sleeping. What was she dreaming about?

I decided to go back to bed, seeing though that there wasn't anything I could do to stop Lionfang for the moment.

Come to think of it, we've never been able to thwart the first stage of an evil villain's plan, haven't we? No matter what we did, we hadn't been able to stop Drakath from summoning his chaos beasts. Sure, we've been able to take them down, but we still haven't been able to do anything about them getting summoned in the first place.

Hopefully that would change in the future. If not, I get the feeling that Blackmagic13 and I might be in trouble.

I hope that this chapter makes up for what's been going on lately…I'll try to see if I can get Chapter 30 up and running in the near future now that I've finally stopped pursuing other interests.