The War Against Drakath
In this chapter, our heroes will plan a rescue mission for the admins that have been captured…
Gosh, I need to start updating more, don't I? It's been a year and a half since I started this story, I believe. On the bright side, I should have more time once I've wrapped up some other stories. In retrospect, working on so many of them at once isn't such a good idea…I hope I can get through it…
Chapter 30: Storming the Tower
It seemed that more and more admins were disappearing. At this point, almost the entire staff was missing. What was possibly going on?
I had recently received a letter from Gravelyn telling me to visit the castle. Something horrible must have happened if she was having an emergency meeting.
Masamune34 and I went towards the castle, where I saw Gravelyn standing next to a bunch of people. Apparently they were friends with the victims.
"Everyone, I have bad news to tell you. All of the heroes you know and love have been captured." Gravelyn explained.
"Aren't I a hero?" Masamune34 asked curiously.
"Well, you're not as famous as the heroes that have been kidnapped lately." Gravelyn continued.
"Oh, right." pouted the warrior.
"Anyways, I was sent a letter recently. It says that it's from Maximilian Lionfang. He claims that he's placed all of the heroes in his care, and that he's going to be coming after me once he's bended them to his ways. I'm not exactly aware of who he is, but I suppose you just want an explanation, don't you?" Gravelyn asked.
Everyone nodded.
"Anyways, he says that he's surrounded the tower where they're being held with a death fog, so each and every one of you will need to be turned undead."
"What?" they all exclaimed.
"I'm afraid so. But look it at this way. Artix himself would become undead himself in order to save each and every one of you. In fact, he would be the first to volunteer."
"That seems rather ironic…" I thought.
Suffice to say, a lot of people volunteered despite this unfortunate truth…naturally this included Masamune34 and I.
Masamune34 chose to become a skeleton…while I chose to become a zombie. Yeah…we have pretty different personalities…and yet we seem to get along so well. Perplexing, isn't it?
As soon as we came to the tower, we noticed that it was heavily guarded. I couldn't help but wonder how Lionfang's minions could survive being in that nasty fog.
Speaking of Lionfang, I recall having a dream that featured him along with King Alteon. I suppose I should tell you what happened, shouldn't I?
"Lionfang, why are you attacking my prisoners?" bellowed King Alteon.
"Why should we even take prisoners? They chose to turn to the dark side. They should be punished!" Lionfang explained his actions.
"I understand that, but that was completely uncalled for!" Alteon continued.
"I fail to understand why this is such a big deal…" Lionfang murmured.
"Well, I'm afraid I have no choice but to suspend you from my group of knights. They stated that you even tried to kill one of the inmates!" King Alteon shouted.
"He tried to pick my pocket!" Lionfang answered.
"That was completely disproportionate! From this day forward, you are no longer wanted in my castle. Take him away!" ordered King Alteon.
"Mark my words, you'll see my ways of thinking eventually…" whispered Lionfang as two muscular guards grabbed his arms.
"That guy really has some issues…" I thought.
Anyways, thanks to the help of our friends (including our friend Whitemage7, who decided to become a ghost) we managed to get through the tower and to where the prisoners were being held.
But naturally, Lionfang wouldn't allow us to release them so easily…
"End of the line!" he yelled.
"Give it up, Lionfang! It's over!" demanded Masamune34.
"Over, I'm afraid it's just getting started."
Lionfang immediately hopped on top of a lion…which for some reason proceeded to attack the two of us. Apparently it had been trained to attack anyone that was invading the tower.
But thankfully, I managed to tame it using some conveniently located pieces of meat.
"Aargh! Curse you!" screamed the deluded former knight.
Suffice to say, Masamune34 and I released the prisoners that had been locked away, freed Warlic from his magical restraints, erased the chalk circle Cysero was in, and broke Twilly's cat carrier. Boy, that was a mouthful, huh?
Afterwards, King Alteon told him that he should stop committing evil and that he should join them. Even his followers had decided to team up with King Alteon…and interestingly some of them decided to side with Gravelyn…the Great Truce can work both ways apparently.
Unfortunately, Lionfang refused, and jumped out a nearby window. Due to the fact that he said he would plot his revenge against Swordhaven and all of its heroes right before doing so, I'm not sure whether he survived the fall or not.
But one thing's for sure, Masamune34 and I managed to save the day once again.
Suffice to say our reputation had grown even larger…
Which was a good thing, because not long afterwards we received an invitation to come to an island…Yokai Island to be precise.
"I wonder what that is…" I thought to myself.
Guess what the next arc is going to be about…suffice to say we'll be encountering the 4th Lord of Chaos pretty soon…will our heroes be able to defeat him? He'll be their toughest foe yet, that's for sure.