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DragonlustChapter XIII: Going Out With A Bang
Lord Void stormed out of his bed chamber and confronted Majisto.
“What was all that clatter? I was sleeping!”
Majisto stood his ground. “I have captured Reno, sir!” he crowed happily.
Lord Void did not believe him. He stamped to the cells and stopped dead. Huddled on the ground in the top-security cell was Reno, still completely out.
Lord Void returned to Majisto and grinned. “My friend, you have done well! I am much pleased! But what has happened to your face?”
Majisto touched his cheek, where tiny shards of crystal, the only remains of his staff, were embedded.
He quickly told his master everything. Lord Void was impressed. He smiled and said, “Your staff is no matter, I'll get some slaves to mine some more crystals and I’ll personally make you a new staff. But come, let us eat!”
Lord Void threw an arm around Majisto and led him upstairs.
Things are going rather well... thought Majisto.
Reno’s eyes began to focus. His pack lay outside his cell. A single Deather stood guarding. Reno picked up a small stone from the floor, and threw it in the opposite side of the room from the Deather and the stupid Deather went to see. Reno took full use of this opportunity. He threw his arms out and took a firm grip of the bag, and pulled it inside. He pulled out his potions set and mixed two potions together.
“Elf’s hair, and dwarf’s hunger!” he shouted. The potion began to burn, he slipped it into the lock, and let it fizz. The Deather ran back and the lock exploded wiping the door clean off its hinges. It flew through the air and clattered into the Deather, knocking him out cold.
Reno pulled out the mixed dragons blood, found a sword, and smirked.
“I wouldn't go anywhere if I were you.” said a calm voice.
Reno froze. Lord Void and Majisto stepped out from the shadows, Lord Void wielding his gigantic, powerful staff. Majisto stayed slightly behind his lord, he was severely less powerful with no staff.
Reno’s eye darted about, trying to find means of escape. There was none.
“Who are you?!” he shouted at Lord Void in defiance.
“I am Lord Void, and this is Majisto. We are both wizards of the Dragon Masters.”
Reno’s head spun. Dragon Masters??
“Where -- where I am??” he stuttered.
“In the dungeon of the Fire Breathing Fortress, my fortress.”
Reno said nothing.
“I have something of yours, I think…” smirked Lord Void. He withdrew the two Pendants from within the folds of his vast cloak and waved them in front of Reno's face. Reno snatched at them, but Lord Void was too quick. He stepped back and laughed.
“Ah! So they are yours...good.”
“You megabloks!” spat Reno.
Lord Void just smirked. He continued, “My dear boy, what are you angry? What upsets you so?”
“Perhaps he is mad at us for capturing him…” suggested Majisto from behind Lord Void.
“Yes…” Lord Void pondered this, “Maybe he is mad that we took him away from his dear Shainya…”
Reno looked up sharply. “Shainya! How do-?”
“We know a great deal about you Reno.” stated Lord Void sweetly, “We know all about the dear Crusader peasant girl, and that little boy Luxus, and your brother...and…” Lord Void eyed Reno keenly, “We know about...Dale.”
Reno snarled. He leaped forward and was about to raise his blade when Lord Void flicked him aside with a jerk of his thin, white hand.
Lord Void stood over Reno, grinning. “Give us what we want...and we'll dispatch that troublesome Dale away so you will have sweet Shainya all for yourself...why do you say to that?”
Reno paused. It would be wonderful to have Shainya to himself...but was Dale’s life worth it?
Reno spat in Lord Void's face and screamed “Never! I won't do anything for you!”
Reno grabbed his backpack of potions and slammed it against the stone wall. The bottles within smashed and their contents mixed, Dragon’s blood with healing lotions, volcano sulfur with beer, and the cremated horn of an unicorn with seawater. The giant explosion that followed shattering the walls and the floor above.
Timbers cracked and metal wrenched as the entire lowest floor of the Fire Breathing Fortress was leveled. Reno was blasted out the back wall and two hundred feet away into a nearby river, fire scorching the clothes off his body. Lord Void was able to shield himself, but Majisto was instantly incinerated as a particularly deadly fireball blasted his way. Destruction of the cells ended with a final explosion that blasted the protected Lord Void through the remains of the floor and into the entrance hall.
To the Sorcerer-King, a wielder of magic from abroad, who was outside and about to pound on the giant oak door, it seemed the entire fortress sank eight feet into the ground.
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