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Great World War
“My king, we have to sound the retreat” said a middle aged dwarf in steak slim armor.

The king looked out along the line of his warriors. They had been fighting the orcs continuously for six hours and they were starting to take their toll. If he didn't do something the orcs were going to find a point and break through the line. The orc general must be thinking along the same line for the orcs intensified their attack. But even as the king watched his soldiers started to fall in ones and twos then in great swarms but they fought on. Like a machine under the test of time it started to fail.
“No the humans are counting on us to hold them back and if we aren’t able to prevail there will be massive death and destruction all across these lands”said the king.
STRIKE A.D 1920
Strike the orc king sat atop his wyvern overlooking the field of slaughter he laughed for the tenth time that afternoon for the force that the dwarves had engaged was but a tenth of his combined force. the others were concealed under a contraption that he was very proud of.
“Fire,” yelled Strike the orc king riding a massive black wyvern!
For as far as the eye can see a barrage of boulders started ripping through the dwarf army.
Snowdy A.D 1920
“Signal for the beast riders to attack the orc catapults,” said king Snowdy to the trumpeter.
All along the dwarf line creatures burst from the dwarf lines. Manticore’s,hydras,wyvern’s, and a single immense dragon that flew and landed beside snowdy. Lowering itself onto its front paws so that snowdy could clamber onto his back.

They heard trumpets blaring and turned to find themselves staring at the most massive army they had seen. But, the army was poorly equipped; they had bronze armor, shields and swords. Any well-made axe or sword could cut through bronze armor like a hot knife through butter.
“Whose army is that?” asked a dwarf to Snowdy’s right. ‘‘They are the humans. They have come to lend us a hand in driving these orcs back to where they came from.’’ answered snowdy.
“Forward!” yelled king Arthur. Arthur led his warriors in a charge against the green skins. Arthur smashed into the orcs and cut down anything in his path with a flaming sword. In seconds, he was half way through to the other side of the orcs, when a dragon landed on the other side of the clearing. The dragon spewed fire in different directions over the orcs. Whatever the fire touched died. In seconds, the orcs were all dead or big piles of ash. A giant of a warrior slid off the dragon, walked up to the dwarf king, pulled out an axe and swung at the king. The king blocked, but the force of the blow drove the king to his knees. The dwarves near their king growled and lunged at the warrior. The warrior fended them off with ease.
“Stop! Leave the warrior alone!” barked Snowdy. The dwarves dropped back away from the warrior breathing hard. “Krell, what are you doing here? I haven’t seen you since the Great War and where did you get a dragon,” Inquired Snowdy?
“A lot of questions old friend, but the explanation is going to have to wait. An even bigger force of orcs is coming this way. This was just a scouting party and I thought we could use a hand with the larger force, so I brought along an old friend you might know”.
Krell let out a piercing whistle. A tall man in a cloak that seemed to suck in all the light, slid off the dragon and proceeded to join Krell and the Dwarves.
“Krell, is that Sunix? The last time I’d seen him he was but a young lad serving in the war.”
”Yes, that’s Sunix and he’s more than just a mere private anymore. Now he's a super powerful warlock. Sunix, why don’t you give them a demonstration,” responded krell.
Sunix pointed to a dwarf and beckoned for him to come forward.
“Come forward I need you to go to the other side of the clearing and stand there for 10 seconds. Then, start running into the forest” said Sunix in a deep husky voice.
The dwarf took off running towards the other side of the clearing, stopped, waited and then took off running into the forest.
Sunix stepped forward, concentrated and a golden sphere sprouted from the forest with the dwarf safely within. Sunix brought the sphere to the ground next to Snowdy. The sphere disappeared and the dwarf sat on the ground glassy-eyed.
“Well Snowdy, what do you think? That’s just the least of what he can do?” said Krell.
“I think we could use him,”said king Snowdy.
“We are not going to be using anyone. Everyone that is going to help us fight the orcs is going to do it on their own accord,” said Sunix.
“Let's go talk to the humans,” responded Snowdy driely.
Krell and Snowdy went to talk to the humans.
“Arthur, where are you, we need to talk,” yelled Krell.
“What,” came a call from behind.
Krell and snowdy turned to find a well muscled man that had long blond hair, almost translucent skin and carried a giant 2-handed broadsword.
“Arthur, meet my old friend Krell”, said Snowdy. “You have not met him, because he only interferes if if there is something that could wipe out the human race, or if he sees that his friends’ army are on the verge of defeat,”
Krell inquired. “Arthur, we need you and your men. We have a massive army of orcs heading this way. And we need all the men we can get. But first, we need to get your army equipped for battle”
“Will you come with us?” asked Snowdy.
“I will come with you, but with one exception, my men get to keep the armor,” Arthur replied.
“ your men can probably keep the armor but you will have to talk to snowdy about it,” responded Krell.
“What are you two talking about,are you saying that you are going to make me give them the armor” asked king Snowdy?
“Snowdy how far away is your closest stronghold,” inquired Krell.
“It's about a day's run from here,”answered Snowdy.

Krell let out a piercing whistle of 3 ascending notes. Sunix ran towards the dragon and climbed aboard. The dragon took off and the two of them went wheeling into the sky over head.
“Krell, what was that?“ asked Arthur.
“That is the signal for Fury and Sunix to fly over head and keep an eye out for trouble” said Krell.
“Who’s Fury and wouldn’t Sunix be more help on the ground if there was a fight?” asked Arthur.
“Fury’s my bonded dragon and and no, Sunix wouldn’t be more help on the ground. Sunix’s spells are mostly ranged attacks, but he has some hand-to-hand spells” replied Krell.“Let's get going. We should reach my home by nightfall.”
“Arthur and Snowdy for the first part of our journey, we are going to be on our own. The trees are too thick for Fury to help us, if we get in trouble. So, stay close and follow me” Krell told them.
Krell led the group through the trees and out into the sunshine on the other side of the forest.
Arthur and Snowdy started to walk forward, but Krell stopped them.
“Krell, why did you stop us?” asked Arthur. “I stopped you because you were about to walk off a cliff.” said Krell.
“What are you talking about? There's no cliff here.” said Arthur.
“Oh but isn’t there?” replied Krell in a mischievous voice.
Krell took out a length of rope with a chain on the end and threw the chain in front of them. The chain landed and then slipped into some unseen void.
“You weren’t kidding about the cliff.” said Arthur.
“This whole grassy plane image is an illusion to get you to fall to your deaths .” said Krell. “Then how do we get to your home?” asked Snowdy.
“There is a bridge leading to my home and we are going to cross it. Sunix should be waiting for us there.” replied Krell.
Krell walks over to a tree near the edge of the abyss.
“It should be around here somewhere, Ah here it is.” said Krell.
Krell holds onto a length of rope connected to the tree.
“If we hold on to this rope and follow it, we will find my home. But we need to hurry, the orcs will be here soon.”said Krell.
Krell leads the way across the bridge to find a group of Elves and Fein camped out around a small house.
“Krell, you're here!” came a call from above them. Then, Fury and Sunix land beside Krell.
“Sunix, who are these refugees?” asked Krell.
“This is all that's left of the massive army of the Fein and Elves”, replied Sunix. “They went into battle with almost twenty thousand warriors each. They were being pursued by the orcs and I couldn’t just let them die. So, I had Fury pick them up and bring them back here. Then, I held the orcs off until Fury came and got me.” said Sunix.
“How many refugees are there?” asked Krell.
“About 150 warriors and they’re all trained”, said Sunix.
“What are they trained in?” asked Krell.
“About half of them are trained in swordsmanship and the other in archery” said Sunix.
“Well let's get them equipped for battle and go kill some orcs,” replied Krell.
Two hours later the army was equipped for battle and ready to go.
“Sunix, where are the orcs headed?” Krell asks.
“Dead man's pass.” Sunix responds.
“Well, I have an idea. We should have Fury fly a group of us there, come back and get another group of us and fly them there. We need the best warriors there first, to hold the orcs off until the rest of the warriors arrive there.” “Fury, are you up to flying us all there?” asks Krell.
“Yes I can do it but afterwards I am going to have to rest,” said Fury in a deep feminine voice.
“Well then, I guess we should get going” replied Krell. “Fury take Sunix and I with Snowdy’s best warrior's.”
One hour later Sunix and Krell and 100 dwarves stood in dead man’s pass facing an innumerable amount of orcs.
“Krell, I am going to go up on the side of the pass to get a better view of the battlefield” said Sunix.“Krell, go and do what you do best.”
Krell charged at the orcs and destroyed everything in his path. Nothing could stand against this awesome warrior, everything he touched died. That is, until he reached the last row of warriors. Each one of the warriors were a dragon troll.
Suddenly Soulwing, the dragon of death, showed up screaming a battle cry. The battle cry had such an intensity and sound that it killed anything that had better hearing than humans.
Fury screamed a challenge and launched at Soulwing. Deathwing received the challenge and raked his claws down Fury's unprotected side.
Fury let out a blood-curdling scream and struck out with all her strength, that opened a small thin cut on Deathwing's under body.
“Fury, get back!” ordered krell.“Sunix, get me up there and then do everything you can do to slow it down,”
Sunix transported Krell to the head of Soulwing. Then he started to launch boulders, wagons, and battle axes at Deathwing.
But nothing made an impact on Soulwing.
“Krell, get out of there,” said Sunix.
Krell reached down and shoved his battle axe between two of Soulwing's scales. Being careful to keep his axe's blade between the scales, Krell slid down Soulwing's side. As Krell progressed down Soulwing's side, his axe opened a deep gash in Deathwing's side, that grew with every inch he slid.
As krell reached the ground, he turned around and slid his axe up under a scale and pried it off. Krell turned around and took off running towards the fortified entrance of Deadman's Pass.
“Sunix, will this help any?” asked Krell as he shows sunix the scale.
“Where'd you get that?” asked Sunix.
“I took it from Soulwing's side,” responded Krell.
“Yeah, it will help; I can create an exact clone of Soulwing to fight for us,” said Sunix.
Sunix made a complete copy of Soulwing and set it out after Soulwing. The clone of Soulwing leapt forward and slashed Soulwing across the face . Soulwing retaliated by leaping over the clone and slashing the clone all the way down the back. They went after it for a while and they were both equally weakened.
Soulwing, with one final effort, killed the clone.
But, just when the the clone was about to die, it started to change. The clone’s wings shrank into its body. It’s horns, head and face shrank down to the size of a human head and helmet. The torso shrank, becoming the arms, chest, stomach and armor. Finally, the hindquarters shrank, losing a tail but gaining legs. The transformation was complete with sword, shield and axe.
Standing 12 feet tall, fully armored and outfitted for war, the clone went into battle against Deathwing. Moving faster than the eye could follow, the clone went on the attack. In several leaps and bounds, the clone made it to the head of Soulwing and proceeded to hack at Soulwing’s horns.
“Krell, we cannot let the clone take the top of Soulwing's horns, or else the copy could control Deathwing.” “Krell, I will teleport you to the top of Soulwing's head and then I will teleport you and the clone several miles away,” said Sunix. “Then, I will heal Fury and Soulwing and we will come relieve you from fighting the clone,” said Sunix.
With a burst of light, Sunix teleported Krell and the clone to an old decrepit castle, that stands on Mt. Jiuhua, which has a staircase that leads from the base of the mountain all the way to the summit. There, Krell and the copy fought viciously, one gaining an advantage and the other finding a way to negate it, until they reached the balista. The clone jumped behind it and aimed it at Krell.
In the distance there was a flapping of wings that grew steadily louder, until it reached a crescendo. The clone looked around and saw nothing but an open sky. There wasn't even a cloud.
With a sudden roar, Fury and Soulwing materialized with Sunix on Fury's back. Soulwing swooped down and engulfed the clone in a giant clawed paw, then slowly closed the paw tightly. As Soulwing closed the paw, there pursued a couple of wet pops and a spurting of blood from between the claws. Just like that, the clone was dead.
Soulwing opened his paw and dropped the remnants of the clone on the ground for all to see. The clone, or what was left of the clone, was bloody and a mangled body.
Soulwing landed and proceeded to clean his paw.
“Krell, I attacked you, so why do you and Sunix help me?” inquired Soulwing?
“We are helping you because you helped us,” responded Krell.
“What are you talking about?” asked Soulwing?
“You helped us by killing all those orcs with your battle cry,” replied Krell.
“But then you helped me by keeping the clone from cutting off the top of my horns,” replied Soulwing.
“can we stop side stepping around the issue here? You helped us and we helped you so that makes us even. What Krell is trying to ask you here is will you join us on this adventure? We could really use another dragon. And I think that Fury is a little lonely with no other dragons to communicate with,” said Sunix bluntly.
“Sunix stop talking about me like I’m not here. But I agree with what you said we could use another dragon and it would be nice to have another dragon to communicate with” said Fury in a deep feminine voice.
“Yes it would be nice but no offense Soulwing but what can you do that Fury can not” asked a tall blond haired warrior carrying a giant two handed broadsword?
“Jesus Arthur where did you come from” shrieked Sunix with a startled leap.
“I just came from deadmans pass and you weren’t there so i scouted around and i found this amulet as soon as I picked it up I saw you and this giant of a warrior fighting. Here and as I watched I saw the giant of the warrior get the better of the exchange. Its kind of hard to explain but I somehow traveled to here well not exactly here but all the way down there.”said Arthur pointing down the stairs and a little out of breath.
“You say you climbed those stairs did you happen to count”asked Sunix hopefully?
“Did you really just ask me if I counted those stairs of hell” asked arthur breathlessly?
“Well did you” grated krell?
“Yes I did 21,995 stairs give or take 4 or 5 you happy now” asked arthur?
“No i’m not satisfied i’m going to have to count them myself and I might as well get started” Said Sunix in a mock bad mood.
“Not right now you're not We have to get back to my house and send out a warning to the dwarves,elves,humans and necromancers. We need to see if they will join with us to track down what is going on. And why the orcs are leaving their land and coming into ours.
“ Soulwing can you fly Arthur to my home and then go pick up the dwarves at deadman's pass ,” asked Krell?
“Yes I can do that. But after that i have to go back to my lair. My mate was killed shortly after she laid our eggs,” Said Soulwing.
“Why don’t you come and move into the cave next to mine there is plenty of space for your eggs and for anything else you may need,” Inquired Fury?