Tales of Nyandor 4: The Blood Hunt

Chapter 13

Drums played in triumph and dwarven beer imported from Kazugor. They were celebrating the birth of a new champion, a new glory age came for the orcs as messages to all the other clans were sent out. Dura sat on a throne at the end of a long stone table filled with food, beer mugs and drinking horns.

'So Dura, whats your first order gonna be?' Rebecka asked excited for her friend. 'I don't know. I have never led anyone before so being here is...weird.' 'No one is prepared to lead I know. But you will grow into it.' Elena advised her.

'On other matters. You young man actually rode a dragon! Do you have any idea how rare that is?!' Robert seemed beyond excited to study the swords properties closer. 'No but I have a good guess. Maybe we can stop by here again before we make our final assault on Aztaroth. Just imagine if I rode another one into the final battle!' 'Ok stop bragging! You're the coolest one here now we get it!' 'No I wanna brag some more!'

And so Eldarin and Rebecka argued away. It was a comfort for Dura, seeing her friends carry on as usual. Perhaps it was with them she belonged.

She turned to Robert 'So we have two out of three now. Any idea where the shield might be?' 'Not a clue I'm afraid! Rainar described a type of human never seeing before. Almond shaped eyes and architecture never seeing before...I'm gonna need to think.' No one even knew where to start.. so much for their victory streak.

She stood up and went to the speaker, perhaps the most ancient orc in the world would have something.

She described the humans and place that Rainar described to them before.

'I'm afraid I don't know where this land is either but I can tell you this. I remember about ten thousand years ago there was a continent that went missing.' 'Missing? How can a entire continent go missing?' 'There are powers even far beyond the axe you carry in this world Dura. But if the shield of reflection truly is part of this set then its bound to the other weapons some way. Perhaps you and your human ally carries the keys'

'He's not an ally speaker. He's a trusted friend.'

He did not respond to that. She went over to Eldarin and tapped his shoulder. The party went away from the celebration to test it out. 'Ok so how do we do this?' 'Maybe...tap the weapons together?' Rebecka suggested. 'Tap them together? Rebecka this is highly complicated not to mention powerful artifacts! Surely there's more to it than..' Rainar was interrupted when light flew up in the air towards the star filled sky. It flew miles south west till it stopped and stayed there as a flashing star, sticking out in the massive gathering of other stars.

'..that...' 'So who is the best??' Rainar sighted heavily 'You are...' 'And don't forget it!'

One of the orcs approached 'Dura! Bad news. It turns out your former clan wasn't alone. There was two of them.' 'What?!' 'Ya one of the warriors and that shaman confirmed it.' 'Dammit! That means Aztaroth is stepping is stepping his plans. No southern clan is safe!' 'We need to move towards Sunstrike fast. Can any of you offer us fast transport back to Kazugor?' 'We'll ready the wolves.'

As they got on their temporally mounts alongside the escort Dura was partly stopped by some of the orcs. 'Are you leaving Dura? What about uniting the clans?' 'I'm needed elsewhere. This mission we're on will decide the fate of world as we know it. Until I return the speaker is in charge.' they obeyed her orders as they rode out of the fort down south.

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They got back to the dwarven city by sunrise. The wolves truly did travel much faster trough Kandiva than any horse could.

They were happy to know that the Crimson Maiden's crew had worked to keep the ship supplied for whenever they returned.

'Well Gundarr I suppose this is where we go our separate ways. Thank you for helping us.' 'I just did my job Rainar. For whatever its worth I hope you succeed in...whatever it is you're doing.' 'Thank you. You can tell the king that you performed to the highest standard.' then he turned and got on the ship.