Chapter 32: Dread Lord Sorix

Sorix:

I can feel the same dragon who burned my underlings, and chased after the survivors, in my city.  Not only did that overgrown lizard did not do his part to cleanse the world, he keeps getting in the way. I can also feel the boy. The one who is chosen to serve the Elder Dryad. 

Up a tree, hiding. Not using the trees and the soil to poison the humans who infest this settlement. Not doing his duty. Yet, maybe I shouldn't blame them for their lack of action. After all, they were not promised a place in the new world. The world I will create. 

I can also sense the necromancer. He is one of mine, even though he doesn't know it. How much will it hurt the two champions, if their companion turns against them? I lick my lips, and make my way towards the necromancer. 

A window slams as I pass through the once busy streets. I don't care that the people here know who I am. If there wasn't a temple in this city, I would have sacrificed them all to my master. The Dread doesn't want the occasional caravan anymore. I must give him a feast. For the sake of everything I hold dear. 

When I make it to the graveyard, the necromancer is inspecting an empty grave. I smile, and begin to clap slowly. That seems to gain his attention.  

"Who are you?" The young man asks. I smile brightly at him. 

"I am no other but your liege lord. Dread Lord Sorix. I don't remember calling you to me, but you will serve your purpose," I say. The man takes out his dagger, and coats it in necromantic mana. "Come now. Did you really think that you can have the power of the Dread, without serving him?" 

"I won't do as you command," the young man says. I sigh. Well, there are so many necromancers out there, that one or two lost won't make much of a difference. I open my arms wide, and then let the smoke of the Dread envelop me. The man doesn't let me finish my transformation, and throws his dagger at me. 

"How rude," I say, as I catch the dagger with a tentacle. The mana of this young necromancer is potent, but the champion of the Dread can't be fallen with necromantic mana. "Now, shall we dance?" 

I zap myself right in front of him, and try to slash him with his own dagger. He seems to be able to duck, and roll to the side. The next thing I know, he has a sword out. We circle each other, as I look for any openings. Much to my dismay, he knows a thing or two about fighting without the use of skeletons. 

"What are you doing in here? Harika defeated the Dread centuries ago," I can see that the man is trying to make me slip up. To get all the information he needs from me. Yet, I only give him a smirk. He should have watched his legs. As my tentacle closes around his foot, I foist him up in the air. 

I slam him against a tombstone, then throw him in the hole in the ground. A part of me wants to punish the traitor. Here he is, using the Dread's power, but refusing to contribute to the creation of the new world. I should steal away his mana...

I feel the heat at my back, and jump away. The fire passes through the spot I used to be in. I turn back, to see just what sort of mage managed to snick inside my city. Yet, it is not a mage I see. Rather, an albino man with the clearest blue eyes I have ever seen. 

I pause, to take in his measurements. Slight built, plain features. Yet, his mana. It calls out to me. I want to raise this creature from the dead. I would like to keep it by my side. 

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"You are both equally rude, you know that?" I try to appear disinterested, but my heart is beating like never before. I have not been this excited, since the Dread told me of my purpose.  

"Well, we are soulmates. Now, how about you tell me where the corpses are?" The dragon, for there is no mistaking this mana, asks. I shrug. 

"Where they belong," I say. That doesn't seem to satisfy the being because he takes in a deep breath, and readies another burst of fire. This time, I am prepared. I pull up a barrier. There is no way that this dragon's flames are as potent in his human form, as they are in his dragon form. 

When the barrier becomes a spider web of cracks, and the dragon's fire stream doesn't look like it is going to stop anytime soon, I jump out of the way. 

Instead of anger, I feel something more. Something almost soft. The Dread never said anything about me bringing other living beings into the new world. And such a dragon would do wonders, as someone to sit by my side. I teleport before him, as the fire finally dies down. 

Before he has any chance to protest, I wrap him in my tentacles made out of smoke, and bring him closer to myself. 

"Why aren't you living up to your purpose? I can sense the prophecy hanging on your head," I whisper in his ear. He tries to struggle, but my tentacles sap him from his mana. "You have a purpose, and yet, you do nothing." 

"To hell with you and that prophecy," the dragon snarls. Then, he tries to bite me on the neck. I let go of him. I have no idea if his bite is poisonous, or no. Until I get to know him better, I can't act rashly. 

"You are as fiery as your breath," I say, with a fond look on my face. This is someone that the Dread would approve as a consort to his only Dread Lord. The only being that is to be left alive, once I am done. 

I feel a sharp pain between my ribs. Turning around, I see the young necromancer. I smile at him. Doesn't he know anything about Dread Lords? 

"You do know I will be back, and that will happen before the sun sets," I ask, as the necromancer twists the dagger. 

"If it was just me that you threatened, I wouldn't have cared. But Givontair is precious to me," I blink at that, as my body begins to turn into black liquid.

A necromancer, in love? Maybe there is a chance for me as well. I will steal this dragon from this novice who doesn't even believe in the Dread. But for now, I need to go and speak with my master. 

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