The Dragon Wars

[cats]

Char

IC: I watched a dragon up over to my side, a big red, raise his head and say some insperational words about an expidition with Brazous. Well I can't say why but something clicked with me. Staying here I swear I was just waiting for some slayer to pick me off, or worse some random human that dosen't even know what dragons truelly are. I had the strange image in my head of my head.... mounted on a wall as a trophie.... like some stupid deer.

"I'll go." At the very least it'll get my mind off the slayers. It better had I'm way to nerves after that first slayer it almost killed me. Infact I thought I was dead and for all acouints I really shouldn't even be alive right now. "I'm going." Just think of that expedtion and not of the slayers. Green trees, sheep, people, nonslayers.... nonslayers....

I go back to eating. I really need to relax.

 

[hybirdx]

Fin saw the towns lights on since it was begining to darken "Finnaly..."

"Geez! It takes you this long?"

"Of course not, it usaly takes me 5 minutes or so."

"THEN WHY DID YOU-"

"So you wouldn't remember how we got here"

Leka gave an low growl, he was about ready to tear his brother part

"This way..." Fin slowly walked thrugh the allys until he stoped at a house, that seemed to be slightly broken down. "Leka, watch her for a few minutes"

With out thinking, Leka taken Shim, and watched Fin stop at the porc of the house, "Its Fin! We have an emergency!"

 

[dave6398]

Kaikish

"Alright that's one, anyone else? We have to get ready for this and it may take awhile, I let you in on what we are goning to do after you sign on. I think that no more then eight volunteers will be needed." Kaikish said.

 

[chewbacca71]

Pyrymis

Pyrymis leaves the council chamber with a disquieted expression on his scaly visage. He bugles out to his son who recognizes his fathers voice. Brazous quickly wings back towards the council chamber. He can tell my his fathers expression that something is wrong. "What is it father, what went wrong in council?"

Pyrymis sighs and looks at his son. "Actually , everything went well. We have universal support for the idea of going after the Slayers. However, none of those hidebound idiots would give any actual bodies to help with the attack. Also Rune and Oldwing were nowhere to be found. I wonder if the Slayers got to them already. Make haste my son, have yourself and your fellow dragons that are making the journey meet me in the North Meadow in about 30 minutes. I have to get some supplies to finish the ritual that we need. " Pyrymis dismisses his son, and quickly moves towards the home formally owned by Oldwing.

He looks around the room, locating quickly what he will need. He had never done this sort of thing under these emergency situations. He hopes that his nerve will hold out so he can finish the summoning. He packs up what he needs and walks towards the meadow. Making a small detour in the prisoner pens, he arrives at the meadow a few minutes before the other dragons and gets immediately to work.

 

[hybirdx]

THe door slowly opened for Fin and an little girl appeared "Fin! why are yo here?"

"Its an emegency, where is your mother talia?"

"MOM! Its Fin! He said its an emergency"

The elder ldy walked down from the stairs qickly "Whats wrong Fin? You look worried!"

"Leka! come over here quick!" Leka slowly walked up, tring to keep an straight face still having shim on his back

"Oh my! What happened?!"

"Not sure, when I found her, she was badly wounded"

"Here give her to me, I'll make sure she recovers" She taken Shim from Leka's back "Will you two staying for a while?"

"We can not, it will be too much of a hazard for you, we have slayers after us."

This surprized Fin, he thought Leka hated all humans "We better get going lets go Leka!"

"right!"

 

[dave6398]

Kaikish

He took another look around "No one else wants to kill Slayers? Fine, Whomever wants to come, come, who won't come stay and rot for all I care. I'm leaving to get ready." Kaikish looks once around and growling, leaves.

 

[dave6398]

Kaikish

As Kaikish left he heard that the gathering for the expedition was at the north meadow, so shrugging, he heads there. When he gets there he sits down and waits.

 

[cats]

Char

IC: 'No one else wants to kill slays?' Don't think about slayers.... Slays is that what this mision is about? Maybe humans aren't as bright as I figured. Bringing sleds to war, this will be so easy.

I fly after the large red dragon.

 

[chewbacca71]

Brazous

Brazous flew towards the North Meadow. Following him were two dragons that had volunteer to come with them to the Slayers homeworld. As the three of them settled down at the edge of the treeline, Gadrath and Restral looked towards Brazous for an explanation as to what his father was doing. Brazous shook his head towards him. " I am honestly not sure exactly what my father is doing. He has some abilities that others are not aware of. Sometimes he even scares me. We will have to keep our eyes open and see what he has in mind. "

 

[chewbacca71]

Pyrymis

Pyrymis finishes cauterizing the grass in a rough circle on the meadow floor. He inspected his handiwork carefully and was happy with his work. He turned to the human that was cowering away from him in fright , it had tried to climb a tree once they arrived at the meadow. Pyrymis grabbed the human with one claw-ringed hand. "I am sorry little one, your life was misspent. But you are being used to help further the greater good of Dragonkind. Maybe if you are reborn , you will be reborn a dragon and will reap the benefits of your own unwilling sacrifice. "

Turning a slow arc around the circle of burned grass, Pyrymis holds the human in his other hand and uses a razor sharp claw to cut his open from neck to bowel. Hot steaming blood flood out of the man as life leaks from his body. Pyrymis carefully drips the blood along the circle, making a complete circle of blood on the ground. Once the circle is completed, Pyrymis comtemptously threw the lifeless hunk of flesh into the woods for the carrion birds to feast upon. He raised his arms above his head, starting to chant words that the others could not hear.

A darkness was raised inside the circle. A curtain of neverending night made it impossible to see through to the other side of the meadow. Pyrymis strained as he tried to smile over towards his son. He then lowered an arm as he drew a claw over his own hardened scales. A line of blood welled to the surface as he walked an arc around the circle, adding his blood to the blood of the martyr. Grabbing a bandage from his group of supplies, Pyrymis closed up the wound in his arm. After the wound was securely bound, Pyrymis turned back to the circle.

The darkness seemed to stretch from the ground up towards the heavens, an infinity of impenetrable blackness better suited to the heart of the evilest creatures on their world. Pyrmis kneeled down on the ground and dug his claws into the circle of blood. Parting the circle, caused a rip to appear in the curtain of darkness. Struggling to stand up, Pyrymis pushed his arms further apart. "Come now warriors, I am holding open this portal which will take you to the dimension of the Slayers. I will hold this portal open for your return for as long as their is still blood running in my veins. I wish you the best of luck on your mission, may the embrace of the Mother take in those of you that do not make it back. "

 

[chewbacca71]

Brazous

The other two dragons shake their heads in wonder as the powers of arcade magic are displayed by his father. They turn to Brazous as one and ask if they can trust his father to keep the gate open for them to come back. Brazous chides them for their lack of faith. "You heard my father , while he is still alive he will keep this open. That is good enough for me. I will go through first, you two follow right after me. All you others , meet me on the other side, so we can put together a gameplan as far as what to do to best end the threat of the slayers once and for all. "

Brazous calmly walks towards the veil of darkness that is pervading the meadow. He nods over to his father, and gently pats him on the shoulder. "I believe in you father, maybe this will atone to the colony for all the problems that you have caused in the past. I will see you when we come back with heads of many slayers. " Brazous knelt down under his fathers arms and entered the circle. As soon as his body entered the circle, his body vanished to the others. Gadrath and Restral exchanged glances but did as they were told. They followed Brazous into the portal , their tails disappearing into the blackness the last thing the other dragons saw.

 

[cats]

Char

I take a step forward. Hmm, strange way to get to the montains. I step into the portal. I hope this dosen't take to long. After all we have to find some defence against the slayers. So there are five draons going and Pryrmis is useing magic instead of fighting. These must be some really big slays.

 

[hybirdx]

"Fin rushed to the meadows without any hesitation "Got... to get there! he stoped as soon as he saw Brazous and he others looking at Pyrymis doing some kind of ritual "Eh! if we just came for some kind of ritual, then we shouldn't have came..." He muttered, only the 'EH!' wasaduidible for his brother to hear.

seeing that Pyrymis had opened a odd portal, and his son had already stepd in with others, Fin decided that it would be righ to follow "I didn't come here for nothing," he said with an sigh "And I still want my revenge for my parents death Pyrymis... but, I can not let my fellow dragons go in there alone" With that, Fin went into the poral with out any hesitation.

Leka gave a low grumbe, knowin h had to follow his suicidle brother. He quickly went after Fin into the portal

 

[dave6398]

Kaikish

Kaikish looked at everyone. "Well I never wanted to be old anyways." And he stepped into the veil of darkness with no concern "Bye Pyrymis don't wait up!"

 

[chewbacca71]

Brazous

Walking through the portal, Brazous has a few moments of disorientation as a series of bright lights go by. He closes his eyes for a moment, and suddenly his feet once again touch solid ground. Brazous opens his eyes and quickly looks around. The landscape does not look much different than where they had just been except for a few differences. The land around was all covered in trees and shrubs that were all a universal red color. The nearby stream was greenish, and all the stones that he could see were mostly black. They seemed to have landed in a valley of some sort, since looking around his perimeter, he could only see higher walls of land around them.

He sat down on a large rock and waited for the others to arrive. Gadrath was the first to arrive, his clawed feet stumbling as he landed on the hardpacked earth. He took one look around and noticed Brazous. "Whew, I am glad to see you . This is one odd looking place. " Gadrath lost his footing as Restral landed almost on top of him. Restral helped the other dragon to his feet. Brazous turned to them, "Why dont you move away from the center, the others should be here soon. " Brazous watched as they quickly moved out of the way.

 

[hybirdx]

Fin landed almost perfectly as he shot out of the portal, still in his winged wolf form "Whoa.... what a rush..."

Leka soon followed and almost hit Fin, but missed by an inch. "Brazous, are there any more comming? If not, I sudgest we leave now, I feel something is not right here."

 

[cats]

Char

IC: I saw darkness with a few bright lights. A very curios phenomin. Hearing a sound I turned around a light gets bigger and bigger as it comes towards me. Then it passes by me and I feel my body pushed off coarse.

I began to move downward but then I bounced back upaward and cept this arching patern fo the rest of the trip. It was like some magic barrier kept me from drifting below or above where I was supose to go. With each bounce I gained speed and momentum.

There was a bright light and I closed my eyes. I felt a strange sensation as if I missed a bounce flying way up into the air. Then the wind bushed by me and I felt as though I was being pulled down ward at a speed just as great as when I went up.

Opening my eyes I saw that I had arived. I was in there air and falling just past Brazous into the ground.

"Ouch" I rolled over to get on my feet my back being what hit the ground. I looked around there wa a dragon shaped as a winged wolf. "I didn't see you enter the portal, so howd you get to this side before me?"

 

[cats]

Char

IC: I saw darkness with a few bright lights. A very curios phenomin. Hearing a sound I turned around a light gets bigger and bigger as it comes towards me. Then it passes by me and I feel my body pushed off coarse.

I began to move downward but then I bounced back upaward and cept this arching patern fo the rest of the trip. It was like some magic barrier kept me from drifting below or above where I was supose to go. With each bounce I gained speed and momentum.

There was a bright light and I closed my eyes. I felt a strange sensation as if I missed a bounce flying way up into the air. Then the wind bushed by me and I felt as though I was being pulled down ward at a speed just as great as when I went up.

Opening my eyes I saw that I had arived. I was in there air and falling just past Brazous into the ground.

"Ouch" I rolled over to get on my feet my back being what hit the ground. I looked around there wa a dragon shaped as a winged wolf. "I didn't see you enter the portal, so howd you get to this side before me?"

 

[hybirdx]

"I do not know, and frankly, do not care, as long as you made it safe, dose it matter?"

 

[cats]

Char

IC: "yea it dosen't matter, I just hope the trip back has a better landing."

 

[Zirconn]

Yang

Some things were not meant to be. Yang had longed to go into that small fishing village to seek some help. But for some reason, the smoking volcano drew him in. There was a strange mystery there that made his senses perked up. As if something was drawing him in, despite his pain and weakness from his injuries.

The path up to the mountain was not too difficult to find and traverse. The Lesser Beings were always thinking about their own comfort, which was why the path was rather well-worn from travel. This suited Yang, as he still did not have enough strength to morph back into a full-sized Dragon and just fly up to the mountain.

The morning sun was beginning to make him uncomfortable. Even when he had washed himself of all the salt in the river, he still felt a dirty. He wished fervently that he was back at the Colony soaking in the underground pool. He was also thinking of Jess, when he was surprised by a villager.

“Who are you? Where did you come from? Where are you going?”

So many questions, and yet, Yang’s vision began to falter, and the last thing he saw before darkness was the toothy villager peering over him…

 

[Zirconn]

Haldram

Haldram was one of the first to arrive at the Northern Meadow. He partially hid himself in the shadows, and watched the sheer bravado of the young ones, puffing themselves up, in readiness to face the Slayers. This was no game, and he knew that many would not return. And yet, he was compelled to follow. There was a certain excitement in embarking on an adventure that he had not felt in a long time. It was a time to re-capture the youthful spirit again.

He saw the amount of energy required for Pyrymis to open the portal, and then he knew for certain that Pyrymis would not be following. But it was good in a way, since Brazous was leading the pack.

“…may the embrace of the Mother take in those of you that do not make it back…”

Haldram braced himself for the trip ahead. He had no illusions of the difficulty that lay head. He just hoped that some of the youngsters would keep their heads and come back to live till a ripe old age. He was the last to go through the portal, with a slight wave of his stub to his old friend, Pyrymis, before the darkness engulfed him.

The land beyond was definitely different. Red trees, greenish rivers, and black rocks. Something out of a nightmare, or someone with a distinct lack of color coordination. But he was alert, now that they have all passed through the portal. He hoped that this will not be a one way trip.

“Brazous, I think you’d better send some scouts ahead. We may need a camp, or a base of operations. And be mindful that we’re now in THEIR territory, not ours. Meanwhile, let’s find out if there is anything here that we can eat, besides Slayers, since I’m famished…”

 

[dave6398]

Kaikish

As he went thorugh the portal, Kaikish felt dissy, sick. "Whoa what a rush! So what's next Braa-" And he caught his words as he looked around. What a place. This looks like the meadow. But with red. "As I said what's are move chief?"

 

[cats]

Char.

IC: Where the hell are all these dragon comeing from. These must be some big sleds.... Don't lie to yourself you made it here theres no going back now slayers or not.

 

[chewbacca71]

Brazous

Brazous looked over at the grizzled warrior. "Ah, Haldram, the years have not dimmed your senses not one whit. Hopefully, you will help me as much as you have helped my father in the past. I need Fin and Kaikish to scout to the North of here, so that we can quickly set up a base of operations and get some rest at this point, for I fear that there will be little rest lurking in our future. Please only go out about 100 clicks to the North of here. That should be sufficient to make sure we are secure in this area. "