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Chapter 5: The mountains

Nate was looking at a vast mountain range, snow and ice covered the mountains and trees dotted the landscape. The sunset lit up the mountains with red and yellow light.To the west He could see an Empiric port city and to the south was another, more inland, city. Nate was on Gorgo's back, preparing his gear. They planned to fly to the top of the mountain above the Roomadon's camp. Then they would make their way down the treacherous slope and speak to the nomad people.
Spindle veered toward the peak of the tallest mountain and Gorgo followed suit.
When they landed, Spindle looked around, "This looks like a good place to make camp." he said.
Nate and Gorgo agreed and pulled out their supplies.
"Tomorrow, we will find the Roomadon village and speak with their elders." Gorgo said.
The sunlight was almost gone, so they quickly lit a fire and distributed the food. Soon they had finished dividing up guard shifts and were ready to go to sleep. Nate had the first shift, he sat next to the fire, poking it with a stick. He listened to the fire crackle and looked up at the sky. What would the nomads say? He wondered. They might not agree with the dragonkin's ideas as they are not bothered by the Empire as much. Nate wondered what Tirent, Sorak and Zephy were up to. He imagined that they were bored out of their minds back at the Dragon Isle.
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Tirent flew over the mountain pass that the Empire used to supply their cities. Seeing the mountains made him wonder if he would see Nate, but he knew that Nate was much farther north.
Once he and his battalion reached their secret cave in the mountains, they took a break. Zephy and Sorak walked over to Tirent, " So are we staying here for the night?" Sorak asked.

12-Feb-2011 21:42:02

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"No" Tirent answered, and Zephy stomped his foot in frustration.
"This would be the best time to get farther into the Empire's territory. By cover of night, we can easily fly by undetected." Tirent explained.
Then Colliea walked over, "Hey guys,what are we doing next?" she said, saluting casually.
"Well, first we will stay here for another hour or so, then once it is dark enough we will continue farther into Empiric territory" Tirent explained.
"Ooh, a stealth mission" Colliea grinned, "Sounds good to me."
Once the sun slipped beneath the horizon, Tirent ordered his squad to fly. As they flew, Tirent kept a close eye on the ground, searching for signs of movement. If they were seen, their whole mission could be in jeopardy. Everything was covered in the darkness of night, but a dragon's vision is very good so Tirent could see everything just fine. The mountains that Tirent had originally been flying over had now become hills, covered in trees. Up ahead was a city. Tirent ordered the battalion behind him to increase altitude to avoid being seen. Tirent knew he couldn't go to high up though because Sorak and Zephy wouldn't be able to handle the air pressure and lack of oxygen. After a few minutes, Tirent decided to drop back down to a normal height. There was a forest below them now. It would be a good place to stay, but Tirent wanted to get closer to the capitol of the Empire, Contoral.
After about an hour of flight, Tirent saw a building surrounded by forest except for a meadow behind it. Tirent immediately recognized the place as the facility. This was actually a good thing as the Facility had at least three cities nearby and Contoral was only a bit farther away. Now all Tirent needed to do was find a good camp. The mountains next to the camp were connected to the northern mountains that Nate was headed for. That meant the nomads would control them. If other dragonkin were discovered, the Roomadon might suspect a trap.

12-Feb-2011 22:01:42

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Farther away from the mountains, Tirent saw a large gap in the trees. As they flew over it Tirent saw that it was a canyon, that had a cave at the end of it which burrowed into the mountains. He had found a place.
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Nate hiked along the icy ground with trees on either side of him with Spindle and Gorgo behind him. The slope of the mountain made walking incredibly hard and Nate had already slipped at least three times and was beginning to get aggravated.
"I hate ice" he mumbled.
"Yea, me too" Gorgo agreed.
Spindle just kept walking letting Nate and Gorgo continue complaining about how awful ice was. Then Spindle stopped, Nate turned to him, "What's wrong?" he asked.
"There is someone up ahead of us." Spindle whispered.
Nate slowly pulled out a throwing knife and crept forward scanning his surroundings for the person. Suddenly, a tree shook and a cross bow bolt shot out at Nate who dove aside, narrowly dodging the attack.
Gorgo drew his sword and spindle prepared a fireball. Then out of the tree shot a figure who two daggers. Nate whipped out his daggers and rushed at the man. The four blades crashed into each other and Nate and the man began quickly exchanging blows. Spindle hurled his fireball at the man who quickly ducked and took out Nate's legs as he did so. Both the man and Nate slid down the hill. Nate maneuvered himself in front of a tree and prepared his legs for an impact. Then he slammed into the tree, using his legs to cushion the impact and used the rest of the momentum from the collision to push himself to his feet. The other man, put his weapons back in their sheaths. Then, as Nate watched in awe, the man turned into a tiger and pushed his claws into the ground, stopping himself.

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The tiger walked up the icy slope with ease, using its claws to keep balance. By this time, Gorgo and Spindle had caught up with Nate and noticed the tiger. Gorgo ran at it and tackled the cat. The two tumbled about, but soon the tiger got the upper hand. The tiger was about to claw at Gorgo's face when Nate grabbed the beast and threw it to the ground with his dagger to its throat, "Turn back" Nate growled.
The tiger morphed back into a human.
"Are you going to kill me?" the man asked in a raspy voice.
"No." Nate answered, " I just want to ask you some questions, but you really didn't give me a chance."
The man nodded as if to say "fair enough" and Nate let him to his feet.
The man was dark skinned and wore a hood and cloak, underneath the cloak was a blue chain mail that Nate recognized as mithril, also the man wore leather chaps and a belt with all sorts of weapons including his two daggers, throwing knives, and a crossbow.
The man explained that his name was Arrius and he was a Roomadon assassin. It was his job to scout out the upper reaches of the mountains, and saw Nate, Spindle and Gorgo and assumed they were Empiric soldiers.
"We are far from Empiric soldiers," Gorgo laughed, "In fact we are the opposite!"
Arrius looked at them in confusion.
"We are dragonkin, we live on the dragon isle, the last place that the empire doesn't control, other than your mountains of course." Nate explained.
"Ah, I have heard about you," Arrius answered, then stopped, "but what are you doing here?"
"We want to propose an alliance, between our two races." Spindle explained, "We were headed down to your village until you attacked us."
Arrius smiled, "Then I am sorry for attacking you, I personally think that an alliance would be a great idea"
"wonderful," Nate said, "Do you think you could take us to your village? Arriving with one of their people would help us avoid misunderstanding between us and the Roomadon."
"yes, yes that is a good idea" agreed Arrius.

12-Feb-2011 22:42:17

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Alright, I finished chapter 5. lol Xballistica0 got Arrius in, i can't make him like a assassin that will be paid by anyone though, since i need him to be apart of the nomadic tribe. but he is still an assassin. :P
Also I'm starting a new story (don't worry i will continue this one) that will be called the Ellimia. That story will have the rest of the new bios i got in it. So check that out! lol :D :D :D

12-Feb-2011 22:57:05

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