The Hunt for the Power Stones

Chapter - 34 You can run, but you can't hide

The Aqua Marine lake Stone was a stone like no other, " The mage states that the dragon containing this stone had the ability to completely liquify and dissolve in the water, " said Malik. " Are you kidding me, how are we supposed to kill someone that can turn into water?" said Gabriel. " He also says that this Dragon was one of the Hardest to locate, Servic had spent several days looking for signs of the beast and they could only find it in lakes, They eventually figured out that the Dragon only traveled during the day. Servic had ordered all of his men to split up and locate the dragons whereabouts. 

Several days later Damos had found the Liquified beast emerge out of the water and travel on land. He had quickly called for the rest of the men and they knew he would return to the lake as there were no other lakes nearby. Servic had made the executive decision to grab the Sapphire ice stone and dunk it into the water the moment the Dragon returned. 1 hour later the beast had returned and was slowly entering the water that's when Servic jumped towards the river and slid the stone in the water instantly freezing the lake. The Dragon had only half of his body submerged and only his long neck and head was sticking out. Servic and the men ran across the frozen lake and they all attacked and cut off the neck of the beast and out came the Aqua Marine lake stone." read Malik out loud. 

" Wow, that's incredible but we still don't know what other abilities the stone has," said Nathaniel. " We're going to have to find out, as to the Sapphire stone, Luckily we've got it, We have to get James back here and begin the Hunt for the stone," said Malik. " What we do know is that whoever this man is, he is nearby and can only travel through lakes," said Gabriel. Moments later James had arrived and Malik filled him in with the details. " Let's get moving, we need to split up but don't get too close to the water, he could be anywhere," said Malik. "Let's use the Sapphire stone and freeze the lake and hope that he either freezes to death or is forced to emerge and it should be easy finding a man made of water on land," said James. Malik asked for Nathaniel to hand over the stone and he did just that, Malik slowly walks towards the lake that was the size of 5 homes and carefully dips the stone into the water, and just like in the book of stones, the whole lake begins to freeze over. " SPLIT UP, HE COULD BE COMING OUT OF ANY POINT OF THE RIVER, We cannot let him escape " yelled Malik. 

He quickly handed the stone back to Nathaniel and they all split up, Malik stayed put with Jeffrey while the 3 men dashed in opposite directions searching for the killer. Suddenly Malik had a genius Idea, he forgot that Jeffrey was the Kingdom's best tracking dog, he quickly shouted at Nathaniel to return and just like that Nathaniel comes running back, "Quick give me the box of stones" demanded Malik. Nathaniel hand's over the box and Malik quickly opens it up and just as he expected he was glad the Mage had drawn on the box with the allocation of where each stone should go. Malik saw the slot of where the AquaMarine Lake stone belonged and asked Jeffery to quickly take a sniff at the correct section and just like that Jeffrey began wagging his tail and Barked loudly, He had gotten the scent of the stone holder and had begun running, Malik yelled at James and Gabriel to follow him and the 4 men were chasing after Jeffrey as he was hot on his trail. A hundred feet away from where they froze the lake, James had spotted wet footprints in the mud, that's when they all saw a man transforming to his human form, they instantly knew who it was it was Melanthos...