Book 3 | Agent 34 and the Storm of Darkness

Chapter 45 | Battle in the Storm

Thad saw them all. Skeletons and verom, all running into the Zena at full speed. "Ready, set, go!" Thad said all in one breath. His soldiers ran towards the army, and the dwarf already knew who was responsible for this: Braunick. He heard a roar above, and saw dragons colliding in the sky. Thad's heart sunk as he realized that they might not be able to get up and stop the storm.

He shrugged it off and focused on what was coming. Thad ran into battle, raised his hammer, and threw it down in the nearest skeleton. It's skull cracked open and the little thing began to stumble backwards a little. "Four!" Thad yelled, and swung his hammer back and rammed it into the side of the skull. The head flew like a golf ball over the battle and back into the mountains where the skeletons came from.

The dwarf was suddenly thrown to the ground face-first by an enemy from behind, and was rolled over onto his back to see what it was. A giant skeleton, much like what Xander looked like; stood before him. 

"Whadda we got here, Tot?" The skeleton said, clearly ignoring the battle going on around him. Thad felt a blade slip up under his neck as he began to back away. "We gotta runna'!" The skeleton behind him chuckled, his skull falling into Thad's lap as he laughed. "Ah, sorry mate–I have neck problems," The skeleton picked the skull up and juggled it between his fingers before tossing it backwards and landing it on the bony neck.

"Looks like we got ourselves a dwarf," a skeleton said from behind the big one. The giant skeleton was then shoved forwards as an even bigger one stomped in front of Thad. "What's this? Can it be?" The skeleton backed away and started to act all giddy, which was of course, an act, and said in a high-pitch voice, "Lord Thad! Ahah! Leader of the Zena! I'm so happy that I finally met someone as famous as you!"

The skulls bounced as the skeletons around Thad laughed. The giant skeleton in front of him slapped his knee and began laughing. As he slapped, his head spun around his neck and bounced up and down from laughter. Quickly, the dwarf whipped up and grabbed the blade out of the skeleton's hand and jumped up. The skeletons quickly got serious and surrounded him, waiting for him to make a move.

"Whaddya gonna do, buddy? You're just a little dwarf," The original giant skeleton said. Thad smiled as he thought out what he was gonna do to them. 

Suddenly, his eyes went yellow. He muscles tensed as hair began to grow rapidly fast along his arms. His teeth sharpened and grew, voice going deeper as well. Fingernails shot outwards as he fell onto his hands. He howled towards to the sky as he launched at the nearest skeleton and ripped off its arm with only his teeth. 

All the skeletons ran at Thad, but the werewolf was able to defend them quite well. He ripped off their bones and gnawed at them with his teeth. He scratched at them as well, sending chills through his enemies. Once done, he'd toss the enemy behind him and move onto the next. However, the skeletons could not defend from the beast very well. Thad's favorite bone was ribs, and once the rib cage was dislodged from the body, all of it tumbled to the ground in a heap of bones.

After Thad finished with the skeletons, he headed to the veroms and aided his fellow members of the Zena.

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"Give up, brother," Braunick said. "There's no way to beat someone as powerful as me,"

Agent 34 ignored him and whipped around quickly. Jumping into the air, he threw down his sword towards Braunick. The evil king flew backwards in the air, dodging the blade with ease. Again, his brother threw another blow towards him, but the powerful enemy dodged it once again by flying to the right. 

"We can rule Renya together, brother!" Braunick said. "Join me! Join us! Renya can be ours! We can start a new world! A better world!"

"Never!" Agent 34 cried, jumping towards Braunick with all the speed he could gain. He spun around mid-air and as his blade began to collide with Braunick's black and white armor, he was thrust backwards. He flew until he hit Venon's scales, rolling and coming to a stop at the edge of the dragon. Braunick flew in front of him until their faces were inches apart. "All this power," he stated, his eyes twitching a bit. "could be yours. We could rule Renya,"

Braunick flew backwards a few feet and extended his arm towards his brother. He slowly lifted it upwards, Agent 34 lifting as well. Braunick's fingers twitched and tingled, Agent 34 feeling strange cramps in his body when they did. The evil twin then began to close his fingers in closer to his palm, and Agent 34's body went stiff. "We could rule Renya," he repeated. "together,"