As they scaled they wall they smelled something like a piece of meat burning smell. Once they got over the wall they saw the lava dragon roasting the tents with the orcs in them also destroying the castle leaving ruins were it once stood. As they watched this beautifully evil beast sweep over the tents burning everything in its path. They saw something strange the dragon seemed to memorized Derrick into its evil gaze. The dragon then perched right before him looking straight at him and started toward him before it flew off into the sunset looking like a sunset itself. Derrick regained his normal state and said he was all right. Then they scaled back down the wall and ran back to the makeshift base. The base was looking better than before the roof was being patched up so it looked better. Also some gates were being installed so they could be more secure. Then as that was done they broke out some holes in the walls and put in some glass. So to sum it all up it looked like a house with about fifteen other houses and four gates. In the perimeter of the space the houses expanded into a hotel and market place. The general was being devastated by mail-in votes for mayor of this crossroads. The rangers decided to sleep there for the night. In the night the Florians decided to take the front lines instead of their orc friends. The Florians were shooting lightning spells at the guards on the walls shouting o To arms!o . Derrick awoke with a shudder at the sound of heavy breathing near his tent flap. He slowly and silently drew his sword and tiptoed toward the enteric of the tent. He hoped it wouldn't be a Florian from all the stories that he had heard meeting one of them would paralyze him in his tracks. The heavy breathing stopped and he heard the crunching of feet on frosty grass becoming louder and louder. Then as an instinct he rolled over to the huge wooden beam that held up the huge tent and exactly as he did that a blast of fire came through the tent flap. The blast of fire burned everything in the tent except the hardwood beam in where Derrick was hiding behind. Derrick the lashed out ready to obliterate the foe that stood before him and as he came out from the beam he saw the lava dragon breathing heavily and staring directly at him. Derrick just stood there stunned for a moment then he started to run for his life. The dragon chased him with its claws digging up the ground it stepped on. Derrick ran past a few soldiers who were combating the Florians and they seemed to be winning. Then Derrick ran into a stone tower running all the way to the top. The dragon scaled the side of the tower and blasting holes in the walls around it. The dragon got to the top before Derrick and started to make the floor white hot. Derrick got to the surface then he almost tripped on to the floor but he stopped himself before he could. Derrick reviewed his options one take his life and kill the dragon while at it. Two take out his bow and shoot buckets full of water at it and risked being disintegrated into a pile of hot dust. So he sided with his second choice. He took the buckets that were next to him and attached them to the arrows he had and shot them at the dragon forcing the dragon to be immobilized in stone. The dragon formed rock started to crack and an emit soft glow. The dragon soon broke loose flinging pieces of rock everywhere around Derrick. Derrick started to run for cover but soon tripped and was a centimeter short he had to get his whole body under the roof of the staircase. The dragon sniffed the air and flew off. Derrick wondered what the dragon smelled because he sure didno t smell anything strange. He got up and looked around right when he looked behind him he saw the creepiest thing in his life. A Florian. It looked like a man in a black ragged cloak. Ito s blood red eyes pierced through the shadow that hid only a few features of its face. Derrick looked down toward the bridge of the nose the skin that showed was peeling and burnt with third degree burns. The last thing he saw on the Florian was its jagged unclean bloodied tooth smile. After that he was cast down the tower getting knocked unconscious by a stone block on the tower. Derrick awoke with a start and he was covered in sweat. He looked around and saw that he was in the medical tent. When he looked toward the entrance flap he saw about twenty guards trying to hold off his dragon from crushing the tent. Derrick then looked to the left and saw Halt looking at him. He said that Derricko s head got hit by a stone block at the top of a tower. Derrick then tried to stand up but his leg got cut up by a stone on the ground where he landed. Derrick then blacked out again. When Derrick awoke next he was in a new padded tunic. In a warm bed in the hotel. Derrick found that his wound was healed by a form of healing magic. He stood up and walked to the corner of the room where a sword lay with a note o This was Roseo s but she was captured while protecting you from the arming orc forces.o Derrick almost passed out reading that. Rose always hated him why did she try to save him? Derrick was wondering about that as he stumbled down the stairs. Splendor was down at the breakfast table devouring his breakfast. Derrick was making some noise at the bottom of the stairs where a floorboard creaked. Splendor looked over with a part of a piece of bacon coming out of his mouth. When Derrick took one look at Splendor he cracked up. Splendor ran over after he swallowed his huge bite of eggs and bacon.
Derrick was crushed by a bear-hug once Splendor reached him. As Derrick was gasping for air he managed to say o Its good to see you to.o