Chapter 24
Atacir and Sampson were waiting outside of a cave when using powers identical to the mages of Ebulon, an Ulnath appeared from shadow. Sampson briefly wondered if he could do something like that but his thoughts were interrupted when the Ulnath began speaking. “The enemy is gathering at Sorn field.” he informed them. “The army is already on the march. You two need to join it now, especially if you want the power of the Shadow Stone.”
The Ulnath vanished as quickly as he appeared leaving the two of them alone with their thoughts and each other.
More than anything Sampson wanted that power. He was especially eager to see how the Shadow Stone would increase the power of his stolen wizard wands. With the wands being the key to accomplishing his own villainous goals he knew that all would be lost without the Shadow Stone’s powers. “Atacir?” Sampson questioned. “We are joining the march aren’t we?”
“Yes, of course.” Atacir replied distractedly.
“Air Raid will be useless for battle you know,” Sampson said testing his companion.
“Not a problem,” Atacir answered leaving Sampson to wonder how much attention the alien general was paying to what he said.
“I’m going to go join the march now,” Sampson said preparing to teleport himself there.
“Sampson,” Atacir ordered causing Sampson to stop what he was doing thinking he was in trouble for making a decision to leave without permission. Atacir continued, “You must go join the march. I saw a large dragon which looks very powerful. I’m going to capture it and will join you when I’m done.”
“Nice to know you agree that I should go,” Sampson said sarcastically. He figured Atacir wouldn’t hear him as he had already taken off to find the dragon though just in case he was wrong, Sampson didn’t hesitate to magically teleport himself to the march as quickly as possible.
Atacir chased the dragon, which was fast. As he and Golden Flame zoomed through the sky he thought for a moment they might not catch this one but soon she proved to be the fastest dragon around as the distance began slowly closing between Atacir and his target. Atacir noticed that some of his previously captured dragons were having trouble keeping up but didn’t worry about it. Being under his control he knew they would catch up to him eventually.
When Golden Flame finally caught up to the other dragon Atacir quickly had her use her powers to put it under his control. Soon the new dragon flew to join the others. In celebration Atacir flew Golden Flame in a loop around all the captured dragons. Then he flew down to the ground. “This is going to work well,” Atacir said to himself as he glanced up. Flying above him was enough dragons to make a large army. All of the dragons looked battle ready and best of all they were under his control.