The Legend Of The Wizard's Apprentice (Book 1) (38 page)

Thinking fast Kerwyn drew in on the One Power and cast a spell at the Lynch Dragon before it could attack.

“Veneficus Requiro!”
Kerwyn yelled at it. Fifteen magic missiles shot towards the Lynch Dragon from Kerwyn’s outstretched hand, striking it.

Amarok felt the pain of those magic missiles and turned towards Kerwyn, getting ready to breathe its magical breath attack at him. Fafnir attacked Amarok first, sending a blast of super hot fire over its entire body. They could see the magic of the Lynch Dragon at work as the flames lit up its body but that was all; the dragon was not hurt. Perhaps that is why dragons are very fearful of Lynch Dragons, because they are immune to a dragon’s most powerful weapon; their breath attack.

The Lynch Dragon started to laugh at Fafnir and lined up its own breath attack at him. Before anyone could do anything the Lynch Dragon spewed forth its own breath attack and blew out a blast of electric blue lightning. Fafnir’s muscles and jaws clenched as he collapsed to the floor breathing heavy, still twitching from the after effects of being electrocuted. Dragons are made of strong stuff but they are still a living, breathing creature, and no creature does well against a lightning attack.

Master Sernett finally broke from his fear and cast a spell using the Staff of Power.

“Levitas Offendo!”
Master Sernett called out. From the tip of his staff a white-hot blast of electricity slammed into the Lynch Dragon, knocking it over where it hit the ground.

Some of the cartilage and bone was charred and burning where the lightning had hit it. Still, the Lynch Dragon was getting up. Roaring in anger the Lynch Dragon was focusing its eyes on Master Sernett, as he seemed the one most capable of hurting it the most.

Korowai and Durin now free from the Dragon Fear as well charged in and started to attack the Lynch Dragon. Korowai chanted and called upon her Druid Magic to send vines around the Lynch Dragon, trying to either tangle it or, at the very least, try and keep it on the ground long enough so Durin could get close enough to crush its bones with his magical silver hammer.

Kerwyn again drew upon the One Power and cast a spell.

“Acid Telum!”
Kerwyn shouted while holding his hands out. Kerwyn shot nine green glowing acid arrows at the Lynch Dragon, Amarok, striking it with eight of them. Green acid splashing the dragon’s bones and cartilage, sizzling as the acid burnt its way into the dragon’s bone marrow.

Roaring in absolute pain and anger, the Lynch Dragon turned its focus back to Kerwyn and, opening up its mouth, it unleashed its breath weapon at him. Kerwyn opening up his eyes and felt the first strings of electricity touch his skin and bring each of his hairs to pinpoints of pain receptors. Screaming in agony, Kerwyn was bathed in an entire blast from the Lynch Dragon’s breath attack. Kerwyn’s blue eye opened wide and turned green as Mother Nature was there inside of him, taking control of his body protecting him from the deadly attack. Mother Nature using Kerwyns body as an electrical conduit absorbed the lightning to save Kerwyn from the blast from this creature. Glowing green, Kerwyn’s body stopped thrashing and relaxed under the full brunt of the dragon’s breath. Slowly dropping to his knees, Kerwyn opened both eyes and with the help of Mother Nature cast one final spell.

Korowai seeing Kerwyn blasted by the dragon’s breath, turned back to the dragon and attacked like a frenzied warrior with nothing left to lose. Time and time again she slashed with her sword using her super speed. Scoring hits on the Lynch Dragon’s legs and under torso. Enraged that this creature was hurting Kerwyn, she began to chant and cast her spell of rockslide. From the ceiling, huge chunks of rocks broke off and fell directly onto the head and back of the Lynch Dragon. The heavy blows knocked it completely to the floor and buried most of it under the rubble.

Durin went in for the killing blow only to be swatted away by the dragon’s thrashing tail as though he was nothing more than a small fly. Durin sailed across the chamber and smashed against the wall, going down in a heap.

Master Sernett watched in horror as Durin was picked up and thrown against the wall. He drew on the One Power and cast his lightning spell again.

“Levitas Offendo!”
Master Sernett called out and again the white-hot lightning reached out and hit the Lynch Dragon in a part of the chest that was exposed from the rocks.

Roaring in pain, the Lynch Dragon tried to get up. It found an extra bust of strength, lifted the rocks off of itself and turned again to Master Sernett, thinking that it had been him who dropped the ceiling on it. Amarok also thought that Kerwyn was no more of a threat to it and that he would be dead from its breath attack and didn’t take the time to check and see if its breath lighting attack had in fact killed him. It knew that Kerwyn would be dead because it could kill regular dragons with one blast and he was, after all, only an elf. As it turned its head to face Master Sernett it opened its mouth to blast him with its breath weapon.

Kerwyn at this point was drawing in, as much of the One Power as he could draw, and the energy channels of the One Power were being manipulated by Kerwyns will. Kerwyn called out with as much of a shout as he could muster while pointing at Amarok the Lynch Dragon.

“Putus Niveus Navitas Telum!”
yelled Kerwyn.

Master Sernett hearing the words to cast the Pure White Energy Bolt turned and yelled at Kerwyn to stop, and not to cast that spell. It all was happening in slow motion; Master Sernett was standing there watching one of his greatest fears unfold before his eyes.

His son, and apprentice had called on the most powerful spell, and the most advanced spell that any good Master Wizard could call on. It had drained and killed nearly every wizard that had ever tried to cast it. It was the same spell that he himself had cast when he thought Kerwyn had been killed, and it was always used as a last resort. Now he was here listening to his son casting that same spell powerful spell the he, almost died from.

Almost in slow motion, as if time itself had seemed to slow down, Master Sernett watch the One Power jump from Kerwyn’s hand in a blinding blast of white light, streaking towards the chest of Amarok, the evil but very powerful Lynch Dragon. The blast of power slammed into the dragon’s ribcage and the explosion that followed rocked the entire dragon lair.

Gold, jewels and other items were thrown all over the lair and everyone was knocked off of their feet. The Lynch Dragon was completely blown to bits as the magic that held it together was destroyed. The evil Amarok was no more and, there, in ghost form and sending out wave after wave of evil where the Lynch Dragon had been was the Dark Master himself. He had been controlling Amarok the entire time with his necromancer magic’s.

As everyone scrambled to regain their footing, as they were trying to get ready for another battle; and this one the party didn’t think they could win. They all felt completely drained as Kerwyn’s spell had taken all the One Power from the area and used it up. If Kerwyn’s Pure White Energy Bolt couldn’t hurt the Dark Master what could they do against the pure evil magic of the Dark Master?

“I see I need to pay closer attention to you, my little Legendary Wizard. Oh yes, I now know who you are. I made a mistake and thought that I could kill you all before you came into your power, but I see that I am already too late. That was quite an impressive use of the One Power and the mighty spell that you have just cast. But I notice that you are all looking a little weak, one might even say drained, from your spell casting. Maybe I should kill you myself right now and be done with you all. But where would the sport be in that? I know, maybe I’m a little sure of myself but this time I’m winning and you will end up dead. Yes I do like the sound of that, the Legendary Wizard dead and working for me. Oh that’s good, yes, when I kill you I will bring you back as my slave. I will have you act as my personal dog and have you hunt down and kill any who resist me. Oh, I do like the sound of this plan. Be warned little wizard, we will be making a new legend for you this time around, one that will be the end of all life on this dreadful world. I look forward to meeting you on the battlefield when the time is right, because now I know who you are, and where you are going. For now though, know that you might have won this battle, but I plan on winning the final war,” the Dark Master said this and then he faded away until nothing was left of him but the shadows where he had come from.

The party was looking around at each other, seeing who was hurt and who needed medical attention. Korowai ran to where Durin went down and started using her healing magic on him. After a few minutes the rest of the party heard Durin grunt and complain about how Korowai was manhandling him. They could overhear him say that he was a dwarf warrior and not some frail human female.

The Cyclopes came running into the lair from a back entrance that was big enough for all of them to enter. They looked around and were complaining that they had missed all the fighting. They also said that they were waiting before the lava pond and when they heard the dragons roar and went outside to investigate. That’s when they found the other entrance to the lair, the one big enough for a dragon to enter from behind the lair. Not realizing that the party had fought a deadly Lynch Dragon just moment before, and only seeing the Golden Dragon lying unconscious on the cave floor. The Cyclops then pulled out their weapons and were getting ready to start slicing pieces off of it. Master Sernett told them to put their weapons away, and that this was the friendly Golden Dragon, Fafnir and that all the bone pieces all over the floor were from the evil Amarok, a deadly Lynch Dragon that was being controlled by the Dark master himself, and said that if it wasn’t for Kerwyn saving their lives they would all be dead.

About an hour after the battle Fafnir started to come round, changing back into humanoid form and becoming Rinfaf once again to prevent the dragon fear. He was looking around at his lair and he was wondering how long it would take for him to locate all of his treasure and to get the smell of the undead out of his home. Thanking Kerwyn and the rest of the party for killing Amarok and saving his treasure, he offered them a king’s ransom as payment for saving his home from the evil Lynch Dragon, Amarok who surly would have killed him had it not been for Kerwyn. As each person came to terms with what they had seen and what they were all involved with, Master Sernett had them all take their seats around a fire that Fafnir graciously got going with a small puff of fire from his mouth.

“You all now know the truth. Kerwyn is the Legendary Wizard come back from the past. He is here for two reasons; one is to capture or kill the Dark Master, and the other is to replant the Tree of Life to save the world. You all know the risks and the dangers and you all have to make up your own minds whether you care to continue on with our journey or whether you will leave us and go your separate ways.

I hope that you all will continue to journey with us as we could use each and every one of you on this dangerous adventure. The time had come for all the creatures of this world to join against the evil that has risen up against our world and is coming. The fairy queen said this herself that all good creatures must come to battle because all the evil creatures will. If we do not have all races and species of good, we will all pay the ultimate price and every living thing will die on this world. I am not trying to scare anyone into continuing on with us but there will be no place to hide anyway, all life will die,” said Master Sernett.

“I am with you till the very end,” said Korowai.

“I am with you as well,” said Durin.

“We are with you, Sanctus Abbas, you are our Holy Fathers and where you go, we go,” said Byamee.

“I am also with you,” said Rinfaf, “I will be in Rinfaf form and I expect you to talk to me as such. I do not need to scare the locals by having them know that I am really Fafnir, the Mighty Golden Dragon: the oldest living creature in the River Glen Forest.”

“Then we are all agreed,” said Master Sernett, “Our journey shall continue and we head out at first light.” Lifting his Teacup in the air Master Sernett said in a loud, proud voice. “Here is to the party of the Legendary Wizard Kerwyn, and to the task of stopping the Dark Master, and bringing back the Tree of Life into this world.”

Here ends Book One, of the Legend of the Wizards Apprentice…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mike Ezekiel spends a lot of his time searching out new, and intriguing Fantasy books to add to his evergrowing library. Fantasy has always been a huge part of his life, even from early childhood. Dungeons and Dragons the roll playing game, had consumed many hours, upon hours of time. All that time well spent, bringing all the magic, monsters and adventures to life. There in the small town where he grew up, was a good group of friends, which used to play D&D and where they would have epic campaigns. Within each and every one of them, the creation and desire to become a legendary hero, God infused Monk, or an all Powerful Wizard, made the game come to life.

Now as a grown man, The D&D game has been set down, and the Pen has become the magical sword of all power. Within the Pen all things Magical and all things supernatural come to life once more. Married to his best friend and wife, with two children, who now bring the Magic back to the land.