Kingsroad I

Chapter 5: Trap

Chapter 5: Trap

They appeared on the edge of the forest, a broken down stone hut in front of them. As they got their bearings, HallowFire took flight suddenly, blowing fire in pain. HadiesStar ran over to check what had hurt his pet, then stumbled as the ground fell out from under him.

“CRAP!” yelled HadiesStar. Everyone except The Forest Sage ran over to look at where HadiesStar had fallen. There was a perfect square trench in the ground, with sides made of steel.

“Help guys!” HadiesStar’s voice echoed down the hollow trench, failing to notice that behind them, the sage was charging a green energy ball at the end of his staff. Wizshark charged up an ice spell to create a stairway and was about to cast it, when he got hit in the back with a bolt of green energy. Wizshark stumbled and accidentally shot the spell at HadiesStar.

“Wha-” said HadiesStar, frozen solid. Mosspath looked back and saw a crow cawing at him.

“Hey little bird-” the crow bit Mosspath.  “Ouch! HadiesStar? I have a crow problem.”

“Mhnnhhhmhnhnhm!” mumbled HadiesStar through ice.

“What?”

“Mnh, Mnh, Mnnnnnh!” (Let… Me… OUT!!!)

“C-CAW CAW C-CAW”

“Woah, an eagle!” DarkSkies exclaimed, looking up to see an eagle’s shadow fall on them.

“MNH, MNH, MNNNNNNNNH!!!” HadiesStar attempted to talk while frozen, meaning for someone to get him out of there.

“Okay, okay, calm down,” Mosspath chided while HadiesStar tried to get out.

HallowFire was flying in circles while his master was trapped. Now he alighted down into the trap and started breathing fire on to HadiesStar to melt the ice. Once he was freed, he yelped, since his dragon started to burn him. “ENOUGH, ENOUGH!!!” Quickly, he climbed onto HallowFire’s back, who snorted in impatience and took off into the air, quickly climbing the air and getting out of the trench. HadiesStar was in fumes but started to cool down a little. They tried to put out the fumes but it didn’t work. So, they poured their water supply to attempt to put out the fumes, which thankfully worked.

“Great, now we have no water.  Thanks a lot HadiesStar!” muttered Wizshark.

“Well if you didn’t freeze me, we wouldn’t be in this mess!” retorted HadiesStar.

“Guys, calm down, we can always melt some of Wizshark’s ice for water” DarkSkies chided.

“That sounds like a good idea,” said Mosspath

“Okay, we’re calm,” replied HadiesStar.

“Let’s do what we came to do,” said Shadow.  

The group turned around and to their surprise a tall muscular person was standing behind them next to The Forest Sage.

“This is PolarChris, he is a knight like you, DarkSkies,” introduced the sage.

“Oh, cool.” said DarkSkies.

“Oh and by the way, we need to kill you now,” warned PolarChris.

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The sound of a bow being drawn was picked up by the sharp hearing of an eagle. Kheto circled around, trying to locate the source of the bow. Once he found it, he dived, charging towards the source of the sound. He screeched, clawing at the bow’s owner, then flew away out of the bow’s range. Suddenly a fireball roared towards him. He looked towards the ground. A group of people was trying to hurt his master! Kheto dived towards the ground, his talons stretched out in front of him. He dodged fire and ice on the way down. He caught a mage in the face, screeching in triumph as he flew away.

Kheto’s master was calling to him. Something about staying away from the male mages? He charged towards the lower level mage, dodging the ice the mage shot at him. Suddenly he was encased in darkness, being shot at by the mages. He called to his master, hoping to get help. Suddenly the darkness lifted. He shot away from the mages and into the sky.

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HadiesStar was stunned. An eagle had just dodged his dragon, and was finally caught by Wizshark’s shadow hand, only to fly out once Wizshark had been hit, losing control of his power. He shot a fireball towards PolarChris, only to have it deflected by his sword. They were losing, and needed help fast. HadiesStar called to Wizshark, hoping he wasn't to cut up after being hit with PolarChris’s shield.

“Wizshark!” yelled HadiesStar, getting desperate.

“Mrph,” said Wizshark weakly, muffled by the ground. “Have you ever tasted the dirt in this area? Good stuff, even better than where I came from.”

HadiesStar ran over, getting a thermos out of his backpack as he ran. “Are you okay?” he panted, giving Wizshark some of the liquid from his thermos.

“No, I’m not okay. I just got shot by a shield while I was trying to kill a bird,” snapped Wizshark, sipping some of the honey wine he was given.

“Guys!” yelled Mosspath, “We need to retreat.”

HadiesStar looked around. DarkSkies was battered and bloodied, his sword and shield dented. *BOOM* Shadow was unconscious, knocked out by a bomb trap. Mosspath was on her last arrows.

“Okay, just concentrate on me!” commanded HadiesStar.

“Trying to escape, eh?” said PolarChris, deflecting another arrow from Mosspath.

“Yeah!” said HadiesStar. “One, two, three-” *SNAP* the bamboo trapdoor under the guild collapses, again.