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As the other
warriors tired and had to fall back, the few with the stamina to
continue the fight had to move their line back to a narrower portion of
the ravine. Freki refused to step back and soon found himself alone
amidst the undead. His weapon had but to touch them for the magic that
held them together to fail. Collasped and nearly disintegrated corpses
lay in a ring around him. He managed to thin the ranks enough that the
warriors were able to hold their ground and keep the undead from
reaching any of the tunnels which held the rest of the clan.
Finally, the waves of undead finally relented and Freki
found himself surrounded by rotting flesh and fallen warriors. Though
many had died, the majority of the warriors had survived. They began to
hail Freki as a hero when they all heard an unfamiliar sound. It could
only be the wings of a great beast above the tree-tops. The warriors
scattered to the caves. They would face the undead, but a dragon was
completely different. Freki stood his ground against this new menace,
he had faced down the undead, now he intended to let the dragons know
their time was at hand.
In a booming voice easily heard by all the clan, the
dragon spoke from overhead.
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"I have
allowed you to live in my territory for generations, because you bother
me and my armies not. Now I find you are unhappy with our arrangement,
you intend to create an issue of yourselves. You have lived in my realm
for your entire lives, I am RendGrave, your Master. You must learn the
folly of your ways," with the last word, RendGrave exhaled a cloud of
light blue gas that slowly drifted into the ravine.
Freki's sword glowed with a bright red flash, dissipating
much of the cloud. At the sight of the red flash, the dragon seemed to
feel pain and tore aside the trees, diving into the ravine. RendGrave
found Freki standing in the mouth of the ravine, sword pulled back to
strike. With two lightning quick strikes with his claws, both swiftly
blocked by Freki, RendGrave hunched down and leapt into the sky. Freki
pressed the attack on the retreating dragon and managed to clip a piece
of the wing which flew up the ravine into the remains of the gas.
The bluish gas floated down into the mouths of two caves.
Screaming was instantly heard from the warriors within. Everyone in the
path of the gas hurried down the interconnected tunnels to safer
caves.
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