Discovered and Uncovered

IV. Discovered and Uncovered

 The Bishop led us down a set of spiral stairs, his wood cane clicking at each step. "Where exactly are we going?" Luke asked.  "Somewhere as far away from Six as possible." Circe laughed, "And where would that be?" The Old man stopped and said, I don't know, I've never used this exit before." I slapped my head. "You've got to be kidding me!"   "Quite the contrary, the Bishop tends to forget things." Solem said. Upstairs the door crashed down and the pounding of footsteps preceded them. We went faster now not wanting to fight in a tight space where Six's Soldiers would have the advantage over us. "We need to find open ground so we can face them in a fair fight." Luke exclaimed. "Over there!" Solem pointed to a platform before a set of stairs. It seemed as if we were in a burial tomb. On the circle platform we waited for the soldiers to come. The pounding of the boots stopped as it reached the doorway. The we heard a roar even worse than Luke's singing. (Sorry bro). I backed away a half step as I heard the banging on the metal door. Circe became a scarlet blue dragon and approached  and approached the door and a beast, no a hybrid the size of a small house came crashing through the door.

It had a Large head feathered in green and purple covered in the blood, of which I hope was not of its previous victims.  Its large pointed snout concealed venomous fangs and rows of needle sharp teeth, the tail was as long as a tree with a large club protruding from the end. The creature roared and lunged towards Solem, who managed to slide under its curved yellow claws. He slid and rebounded of the wall  hands on knees, “That….was….too close….for comfort.” I slashed at the clubbed end of the beast which roared and hit the moonblade with its tail. Sparks flew off of the sword and showed the Kyrullan guard. Luke wove his way through the guard cutting down any that got in his way. I don't know if I imagined it but the Hallowed axe started to glow red. The beast roared and charged again at it’s prey,  I dove to side feeling it’s hot breath against my hair. Solem was slashing and cutting the beast jumping around like an orange frog, Circe, now a  black dragon soared up and crashed down on the beast's’ back. With a roar of anguish it crashed down flattening some of the Kyral imperial guard. Luke stood dumbstruck as the clubbed tail crashed down just feet from him. I chose that moment to spring into action as the venomous teeth came sliding towards Luke.  Pushed him away from the venomous teeth and everything went dark.

Solem

I looked around the surrounding area which was covered in blood or dust to find Luke lying twenty feet away from the hybrid and Mark under it’s claw. My brethren the kyral were all dead or wounded so I hastily got to my feet and woke up the blacksmith. As I was waking him I noticed the shadow had shrank to its normal form and was watching Mark closely. The Bishop came over to me and said, “Are you alright my friend?” I  nodded and replied. “Fine, I’ll grab the blacksmith and you grab Mark.” The Bishop stooped down to retrieve his staff and set off to get Mark.  We set off to get out of the city before more guards showed up. While encamped in the forest I pondered what was wrong with Mark and the shadow until the bishop told me, “The boy, he has been poisoned by the venom of that creature. You must get him to the untouched desert to cut the root of the cactus and give it to him otherwise, His face darkened. “He’ll die.” I picked up Luke who was starting to awaken and looked back at the bishop. “Don’t worry my friend.” He smiled. “I still have a few tricks up my sleeve, I’ll be fine.” I sighed and strapped my daggers to my belt, “If I’m not back by dawn in three days take Mark to the nearest village maybe the have some of the cactus root." "The old man nodded, "I will take him but I doubt they will have any, less give him some." I sighed and quickly sped off to the untouched desert. The Bishop looked at Mark's prone form and sighed, "Solem I hope for once you do the right thing.