The Dragon Wars of Tork

Chapter 4 Into the Maze

As Zerk and Jean got everything they might've needed they plunged into the maze. They walked on untill they came to threeway turn. "So which way do you think we should go?" asked Jean.

"Well I can hear for a mile and down those two paths are filled with noises so we zshould go down one of them."

"Why would we go down a path with an obstacle?"

"Because if you didn't notice they're most likely going to make the right path harder."

"True, so lead on which way super ears?" Jean taunted.

As they moved on he relized the thing he head was patrolling. Which meant it most likely wasn't on the right path but just moving from one to another. Which sucked because now they were heading toward it. Zerk now felt as though he should tell Jean. Just as he was about to announce his failiure he saw the creature. It was a sphinx, and she wasn't moving but actually sitting in front of one path. The sphinx was female she would've been pretty if she didn't have a lion for a body.

They approached with their swords drawn ready fir her to attack only she didn't. She let them approach and then said,"The path I am blocking is the right one but there are many horrors waiting for you. I am your first obstacle to pass solve my riddle correctly. If you fail I attack if you are quiet you may leave or pass through another path.

"Ok, let's hear it."

"What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes but not in decades years or days?" asked the sphinx. Jean and Zerk looked at each other but they were both dumbfounded.

"Can you repeat the question?" asked Zerk.

"That is in incorrect you must now die." was the sphinx's answer. He had just relized what had happened when the lion pounced on him. She dug her claws in Zerks skin and shredded upwards. He yelled in pain as she sunk her teeth in his arm. She had actually tried his kneck but he shoved his arm in her mouth instead. She let go of him and roared to something at her side. She turned and her blood feel all over Zerk. Their was a long deep gash at her side because Jean had sliced her. The sphinx lady pounced at Jean and they backed out of sight. Zerk looked at his rib cage and urged himself to heal as the wounds closed he could feel his arm healing too. He got up and heard a scream the sphinx was thrown across the cavern not by Jean but by a fifteen foot tall cyclops who was roaring at at Jean. The sphinx landed and pounced at the cyclops slicing him while he grabbed her and threw her down on the floor.

The cyclops then stomped on the injured sphinx. Their was a sad crunching noise and their was no more roaring. Zerk's arm was fully healed and he slung off his bow and notched an arrow at the cyclops one eye. He let it fly as it flew Jean got up sliced pretty badly and stumbled toward Zerk. Zerk turned just as the cyclops roared Zerk ran to her and healed her the cuts closed until she was as good as new.

They silently crept around the cyclops but apparently he could smell really good because he turned and roared at them. He ran at them ready to smash them with his fists. But something caught his leg and he tripped face first. Standing behind the cyclops with arms wrapped around the cyclopses legs was Peakle. Who was making his arms retract standing tall and proud ran over to them. "I had to fight a diffrent guy but he was smaller then that," Peakle explained.

"We can talk later right now we have a cyclops to kill," Jean said. Now the cyclops was up and running toward them again. Just then Peakle grew as big as the cyclops and tackled it. They fell to the ground wrestling. Once Peakle was on top and had the cyclops pinned both Jean and Zerk unsheathed their swords and plunged them into the cyclopses throat. The cyclops was pinned and couldmdo nothing but slowly sufficate to death.

"Well that was gruesome. I can't believe I found you guys. I was searching when I heard yelling roaring and screams so I came as fast as I can," Peakle explained.

"Well we know one thing for sure that's the path that leads to the dragon eggs."

"Well let's get a move on." Jean commanded. They walked in silence waiting for something to happen but nothing did. They walked for twenty minutes until something happened. Weasels the size of wolves came from both ends of the hall they were in and they were trapped. The weasels caught up and now up close they relized they weren't weasels. They had the same look except they had rows of sharp teeth like a shark and scales. Their were ten of them each circuling them. Their mouths were foaming, and they jumped at the children. Peakle had grown a giant fist and smashed two of them Jean sliced one and caught another that she smashed on the floor with her super strength. Zerk had stabbed one and sliced another, another one jumped at him and time slowed down.

He caught it and used it like a bat to hit the wall it's skull cracked open and he dropped it dead. The last three weasel things all jumped as one on Zerk. He stabbed one and killed another by punching it in the face. But the last one sank it's razor sharp teeth in his stomach while useing it's claws to cut and slice him. He ripped it off and spiked it like a football.

Zerk yelled in agony looked down at his wound to see it already healing.

"Are you okay oh I forgot you heal?" asked Jean.

Zerk replied,"ya I'm fine let's get going." They kept talking about the days events as they walked on nothing found them. They made it to a cavern with a dead sphinx in it an arrow coming out of it's head. Standing over it was a giant lion, not with a human face a lion and it was staring right at them but to make matters worse there was a cyclops and a troll too. They weren't moving though Zerk asked,"what do you think is up with them?"

Jean looked at him as if it was a dumb question,"they're statues next to each exit apparently they all lead to the dragons but you have to slay one to get there." was her answer.

"Let's go to the cyclops because out of everything we faced that is the easiest. Plus look at all the footprints going in there people must have chose that the most and it's bound to be slain already." commented Zerk. No one had any objections so they walked on to find a dead body in a cyclops hand. There were more dead cyclops bodies on the floor like six. They must have put in a cyclops after one was slain.

The cyclops must have been twenty feet tall and this one had a club. No spike but it didn't need one because this club was made of steel. Zerk spent no time wasted he shot an arrow at it's eye. Only than did it notice the three meant to slay it. Peakle grew to it's size and punched it in the face. It fell back but hit him in the side with his club. Jean screamed and hurled her sword into it's kneck!

"Peakle, are you all right," yelled Zerk

"Ya" he replied. He then fell over knocked out. Zerks fury caused him to stab the cyclops foot. Jump on his head and stab it's forehead. Meanwhile Jean was stabbing it everywhere apparently cyclops were dumb too. Because he hit himself trying to get them soon he was nothing more then a dead body. Then the floor wall opened up to reveal stairs.

"Whoa didn't see that coming. Let's wake up Peakle," said Zerk. Zerk was celebrating inside after all of that he was finally going to maybe get a dragon! Well at least he wasn't in danger of dying anymore. He walked over to Peakle and slapped him in the face hard. Peakle woke up and said,"Is the cyclops dead?"

"Ya, and we need to get up those stairs so we can get a dragon," replied Jean.