Lingering nearby, Arkmaar began to slowly lurk closer. Closer to the beast. The bad-tempered Chimera. The roars grew louder and seemed to turn into growls. Volrik lowered herself to the ground and crawled forward, ever so carefully. Then there was silence. Not a single sound. The wind had served to stop blowing, the birds went silent. The roars and hissing ceased.
Arkmaar stood tall now, even though the dragon nearby was motioning to stay down. He looked around and saw nothing. Confused, he pulled the map out once more. The was weird, the Chimera was supposed to be here. He had even heard the growls and the hisses. But not the goat noises. Yes, this was the exact area. But where was the creature? Volrik knew well, although she said nothing to warn the poor and rather confused gryphon.
An audible roar echoed through the clear area. Arkmaar looked up with wide eyes. The mighty Chimera pounced right at him, fangs bared, claws extended, snake tail about to bite. He was thrown down by the great force of the creature as Volrik continued to watch with widened eyes. But the gryphons wouldn't give up, he let out a lot battle cry, scaring away the birds from the treetops. The lion head roared back.
Arky raked his hand claws along the stomach of the Chimera. This caused the beast's lion head to let out a cry of pain as blood dripped from its cuts. The snake tail eyes Volrik carefully. She knew that the snake would be highly toxic, but lunged toward it anyways. The dragon clamped her powerful jaws around the neck of the snake. It hissed loudly, alerting the goat.
At the same time, poor Arkmaar was being bit around the neck and becoming a mess of feathers and blood, but he squirmed to make himself harder to attack and kicked at the creature fur his life. The side of Volrik's face was being slashed across by the goat horns, Blood began to trickle down her cheek. She then switched position at Arkmaar's words.
"Step on the tail and bite the goat!" He shriek through painful bites delivered by the lion's sharp canine teeth, while he sat blood from his beak.
The dragon now realized what she had to do and quickly swung her leg over, striking the snake in the throat and forcefully bringing her foot to the ground, choking it. She then bit down hard to the goat. The goat tried to scream but it was just a really loud "BAAAAA" noise. Then the lion backed down and kicked Volrik off.
"You both are strong fighters. I reward you with the crown relic." Roared the mighty voice of the lion as the goat opened its mouth and dropped an ancient crown at Arkmaar and Volrik's feet. The snake then began to speak.
"Thisssss isssss only one challenge, however. You will ssssstill have to do a lot before you can get the resssst of the relicssss," It hissed.
Volrik picked up the crown and placed it in her bag. Arkmaar just picked his map up from when he dropped it, when he was tackled by someone. He went to go face this someone but they were gone. A distant roar, however, proved they were still lurking.
