Zane POV
"Okay, now what?" Jay asks me. We have just successfully snuck into the fortress through the open hallway windows at the top of it. It was a bit of a challenge, but Jay and I managed to climb the fortress and slip in through the window. Haru had inspected it in his owl form prior and we found out that there are warriors posted against the walls on each side every 30 yards. We now sit lingering in the shadows of the hallway where we got in through the window. I see some warriors pacing back and forth down the hallway every few minutes.
"We should follow them." I say. "We are bound to find something about this place eventually." The three of us silently move through the shadows of the hallways. We move down the hallway and we round several corners until we reach a large spiral staircase with multiple openings leading into hallways that looks to be going down hundreds of feet. I look to the others to see them looking at me. I shrug and start to descend the staircase. The others follow close behind me.
After climbing sown several flights, we hear talking from one of the open hallways and we duck into the shadows. The talking doesn't seem to be coming from stone warriors, but people. Emerging from the hallway are two men who start to descend the staircase, away from us. They continue to speak in hushed voices as they walk.
"Haru, they're speaking Dark Islander, right?" I whisper to him.
"Yeah, they are." He says back.
"What are they saying?" Jay asks him. Haru stays silent and listens to the conversation. It's growing fainter and fainter the further they walk down, but Haru can make out just enough to tell us, "They're talking about seeing the Overlord!"
"What? What else did they say?" I ask him. Recently, Katelyn helped to download the Dark Islander language into my data base so I can understand what they are saying, but I haven't used it much and the language confuses me at points, so right now, I'm leaving the translation to Haru.
"They kept talking about 'the plan' and how they think it is a 'wast of time' and that he should have 'killed them when he had the chance'."
"Who's they? And what plan?" Jay asks him.
"I don't know. What I do know, is that they're going to go see the Overlord right now! We should follow them before we loose them." He proposes. I nod.
"Well, let's get going then." We descend the staircase once more in an effort to catch up to the two men. We keep our distance as they turn into a hallway and walk all the way down to a set of large and heavy doors. Two warriors stand attended at the doors.
When the two men present themselves, the warriors slowly open the doors and they walk in. Before they can close the doors, we slip in undetected and duck behind some banners. The room is a large oval-shaped room with deep purple walls and a large and tall throne at the end with tall metal torches cupping an orange and purple flame on either side of the throne. Hanging all around the room are banners with many pictures on them, almost like they're telling a story. A black and golden rug runs from the door all the way to the foot of the throne.
Sitting on the throne, at the edge of several steps leading down to the floor, is a figure who seems to be made out of pure black and purple shadows. He wears golden armor from head to toe. The armor covering one of his hands is in the shape of a golden claw, similar to that of a dragon's. He taps his golden clawed fingers on the throne impatiently, his face showing resentment and an unimpressed gaze. The Overlord...
"Why have you disturbed me?" He says in a terribly raspy and deep voice to the two men. His voice sends a shiver down my spine. The men quickly drop into a kneel/bowing position a few feet from the foot of the throne.
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The Dragonkin Twins
FanfictionThis is the first book I EVER wrote, so read at your own risk... Updates every Wednesday and Sunday if I remember! ---------- Seventeen years ago, Garmadon and his wife, Misako, had two children-one boy and one girl-who were twins. One year later...
