by TurboBrycerox » Sun May 22, 2016 5:26 am
Day 8 (Late Morning)/Veneficus/156/Where: Death Mountain Crater/With: Tbh I'm not entirely sure anymore
Veneficus heard a loud boom and instantly recognized it as the hand cannon that he had given to Jakub. The magical energy resonating from it was more than he expected though.
There's something else powering his cannon shot... Veneficus thought to himself. He turned around to look at the source, but was caught off guard by a sudden blow to his back. Sebastian had taken the opportunity to slash at Veneficus with the sword on his tail, causing him to be thrown over to where Ferondir stood as he activated his magical tendrils. The dragon laughed maliciously, knowing that he had weakened Veneficus greatly, until he noticed a bright light in front of him. The volcano shook with the explosion of Jakub's cannon shock, and the lava began to erupt from various openings. Ashley dove deep into the lava before the explosion hit her, causing her to stay mostly unharmed. Sebastian, however, was severely weakened by the explosion. After half a minute or so, the smoke began to clear, and the dragon's outer layer of skin was charred in some places and completely burnt off in others. His wings were damaged to the point that he could no longer fly. He was alive, but barely. Veneficus was in a similar state after that blow to his back. Most of the group was now outside of the mountain on a safe ledge.
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Upon seeing Veneficus severely hurt, Della got out her cauldron that had conveniently fit into her purse (Zelda inventory logic, it's totally canon) and tossed in an assortment of ingredients she had on her at the time quickly, trying to make a healing potion for him. Sebastian began to slowly climb up from the pool of lava that he had fallen into. Della hurried as fast as she could in her potion making, and at last, completed the recipe without an explosion. She scooped up the serum in one of her bottles and put a cap on it.
"Veneficus!" she shouted. "Catch!"
Della tossed the potion into the air in Veneficus' direction. If it worked right, it should heal most of his injuries and replenish his magic according to her potion making guide. Before it could reach Veneficus though, Sebastian's head broke through the rock wall seperating the group from the inside of the volcano, and he grabbed the potion with his teeth. Swallowing it, he laughed again as several rocks fell from the hole he had created in the volcano wall.
"HA HA HA, PITIFUL FOOLS." cried the dragon. "YOU CAN'T STOP ME WITH THAT PETTY PIECE OF METAL. I'M INVINCI-" Suddenly, there was an explosion in the dragon's lower throat that came from the potion he swallowed. Smoke seeped out of various openings in between his scales, and his head fell to the ground. The weight of his body in the center of the volcano dragged his neck back until one of his horns was caught on the edge of the volcano wall and stopped his head from going any further. Sebastian was dead. Veneficus struggled to get to his feet and coughed.
"Guzore..." he said, breathing heavily. "You're invulnerable to lava... go get the sword..."
Guzore took a moment to process what sword Veneficus was referring to and nodded his head. He rolled into the volcano through the hole in the wall, following the dragon corpse to the end of it's tail, and retrieved the sword. He rolled back up to where the rest of the group was, laughing.
"Hohohoho!" he exclaimed cheerfully. "We got all the swords, brother! And the Bordix still don't have our dragon skull!"
Before anyone else could cheer, however, footsteps were heard behind the group.
"Oh, really?" called a dark and mysterious voice. "You think you have the only dragon skull now? The one you stole from Lanayaru City?"
Guzore turned around and saw the Bordix man from earlier walking up to them.
"H-hey!" he shouted, surprised at the man's return. "Don't get any ideas about taking our skull back, or we'll do what we did to that dragon to you!" Guzore pumped his fists together.
The Bordix man laughed. "Oh, I don't need that skull from earlier." he said calmly. "It appears that you've managed to find another one for me anyway, so I guess we can each have one." The Bordix man looked at Sebastian's corpse and pulled out a rod. Aiming it at Sebastian's head, he fired a beam of energy out of it and disintegrated the remaining flesh off. He lept onto the skull that was left behind and snapped his fingers, causing purple sparks of electricity to surround it.
"Nothing can stop us now." The Bordix man said maliciously. "Once I get this to Dalgar, we'll have all the ingredients we need to create the Fused Shadow. Your pitiful efforts to stop us were pointless from the start." The Bordix man pulled out a tribal horn and blew into it. An ear-piercing loud sound was heard from it, and a portal opened up above the Bordix man.
"War has begun."
The Bordix man and the dragon skull evaporated into the portal and it closed behind them. From the top of the volcano, the group could see across Lanayaru Desert into the purple mountains of the Bordix' homeland. Several war horns were heard from that direction as well.
"May the Goddesses help us." Veneficus said grimly.
EXPLORERS OF HYRULE - CHAPTER 4: THE INTERLOPER WAR
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Ashley climbed out of the lava of the smoking volcano, exhausted from the battle and eruption. She crawled up the rock walls until she reached the top and looked at the destruction caused by the eruption. She was tired of battling. She was tired of vengeance. She only had one desire left then, and she knew what she had to do next.
"I'm gonna find you, Casette."

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