Epic Problem : Prevention

[Jemal]

*Shayuri* - The storm dissipates several seconds after they scoop up the orb and dissapear, and as for the Dimensional Lock, whether it worked or not, they were out of your sight for long enough for someone to have Dispelled/Disjoined it.

Soon, the sky has returned to the way it was before, the dark clouds breaking up to leave only a few normal clouds in the otherwise sunny skies. As Athear looks down from his high vantage point, he sees the Dark Army retreating at full tilt towards the coast (several miles away), the Knights are in the process of cleaning up, several riders on horseback shadowing the army to keep an eye on it. There is also a small gathering near the gate, where you spy your companions... And note, upon looking around, that apart from yourself and Xialanet, there are no dragons within your (considerably good) sight.


The Knight puts Mary down and smiles "You saved my life, and so carrying you this far was the least I could do. As I've told your companions, I am King Thelsan Sarutobi of Lyrevan, Miss Polis, and sadly I'm not surprised to hear your purpose here. I was just questioning your companions as to a few more details, and to see if I can aid you."

 

[Pyrex]

Lochlan walks up to the king and bows, "King Thelsan, it is good to meet you. And indeed, fortuitous that we found you as soon as we did. The truth of the matter is that we joined the battle at your gates by the grace of the divine; we knew nothing of the battle beforehand, but rather were on our way here to seek you out."

 

[Wrahn]

Minathiel will chant and touch Mary, holy energy flowing into her. He turns and looks at the king noding at Lochlan's comments, "Our presence here, as you have deduced, is indeed indication of dire event. The Gatekeepers have fallen and persons of great power are wandering the world. We represent a faction here to protect the mortal realm."

"It is true that it was chance that brought us here at this moment, but we came here with a purpose. We need to use the Sphere of the Ages." Looking at Mary and the rest of his companions, "And perhaps a place to rest."

 

[Jemal]

The king raises his eyebrow and stops walking, turning to face Minathiel "The Sphere of the Ages? Yes, I have the artifact, we keep it safe in our mages tower. Your timing seems quite fortuitous, the Sphere opens only once a year, and that is 3 days hence. Be warned, though, that it can only answer one question, so that question must be well thought out before hand... If there is any other way to obtain the information, we should attempt to find it first. Perhaps, then, a few days rest in Islo while we search for your answers." He turns to walk again, and a young knight, covered in dirt and blood, runs up to him from outside the gates.

"SIRE! I must speak with you, it's..." He stops, and looks at the rest of you in awe.

"Speak, young..." The king thinks for a moment, trying to remember the boy's name "Justin. Tell us, Sir Justin, what is wrong?"

"It's.. It's my dragon, sire. She's dissapeared. All of them have, and we can't reach them. The only ones still here are dead."

 

[Shayuri]

On seeing the storm breaking up on its own, Athear growls, "We must tell the others what we've seen here today. This is grim news indeed!"

He twists around and banks into a steep dive, plunging nearly straight down as the clouds burst apart around him until he looks like a silver teardrop riding a beam of sunlight down towards the city. He spreads his wings to break the dive finally, swooping down within a hundred feet of the ground before pulling up again and flapping powerfully towards the city, where he sees the rest of his companions in parlay.

"They took the dragons!" the silver dragon trumpets angrily as he lands. "They had some magic orb that had the heads of dragons showing in its surface. Somehow they stole all the dragons!"

 

[Ivellious]

"They took the dragons!" the silver dragon trumpets angrily as he lands. "They had some magic orb that had the heads of dragons showing in its surface. Somehow they stole all the dragons!"

Tharivol reaches the team in time to hear Athear proclaim that, and looks up to the sky in worry only to see Xialanet land shortly after the older dragon. "That was some battle! We're lucky that we all made it in one piece!" The younger dragon exclaims as the half elven paladin covers his face in shame

 

[Darimaus]

Mary shook her head at the younger dragon's procaimation.

"Luck had nothing to do with it. We won that battle because we had to. We continue on in the service of good because we have to. We will defeat those who threaten this plane because we have to. And if I have to lay down my life for my cause, I will gladly collect the suffering of every kind soul in existence onto my shoulders and perish into oblivion."

She surveys the battlefield with a sad, regretful look.

"Mark my words, I intend to end this suffering and chaos, if its the last thing I do."

 

[Wrahn]

OOC:

Sorry, meant to OOC, Minathiel uses his last Heal on Mary.

 

[Jemal]

*Mary is healed another 150 from Minathiel's Heal*
The King's Eyes go wide as first the Knight, and then Athear proclaim the dissapearance of the dragons. "So, they think Lyrevan will be helpless with out our Silver's? We'll show them that's not true, They can send their blue's and white's and black's and all the armies of the Alliance at us... They can send all the Undead monsters of the Swamp while they're at it, and we will beat them back. We WILL prevail, and we WILL find and rescue our trusted companions." He looks at Mary with a nod "Because we Must."

King Thelsan looks up at Athear "Do you know where they went? Or why they would wait until after the battle to steal our dragons? Presumably they would have had a better chance of beating us without our Dragon knights."

Meanwhile, the other knight can't help but grin slightly at Xialanet's childish remark, before he again remembers the severity of the situation.

 

[Shayuri]

"They were able to teleport away," Athearkepeskorn demurs. "No way to tell for sure where they went. As for the timing..."

The dragon considers.

"It wasn't until the dark one released the storm that I saw the orb, up in the sky. That was before the dragons vanished. It was moving then, towards the center of the storm...which is where the dark one picked it up. Maybe they waited as long as they did because there was no choice."

"I am curious as to why Xialanet and I were unaffected though..."