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Chapter XXII

Gregory was sitting on the throne at the top of his citadel, plotting his strategies against Lucien, when he saw a number of armoured figures walking toward his tower. He looked carefully, and then laughed. They were the Knights of the Round Table! Intent on having some fun, he ordered all of his forces guarding the tower to teleport into the dungeons underneath, and temporarily disabled the magical powers that effectively made the tower a deathtrap. He then had the gates opened, and teleported back up to his throne to continue thinking.

He pondered his plans against Lucien for about three hours before the Knights finally made it to the top. As soon as they were all up on his floor, he said,

“Finally! I am glad you have made it here. I was wondering what took you so long to get up those stairs.” The Knights readied their weapons silently and Merlin prepared his spells.

“Don’t fight. I promise I won*t kill you here. If you try to fight, I will simply have you imprisoned. Please don’t fight, because then I won’t have a chance to talk to you.” At this, they all looked puzzled, and Merlin made a step towards him.

“How can you imprison us? I don’t know how you got this tower, but if you were not capable of stopping us from getting this far, how can you stop us from killing you now?*

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“Let me put it this way. I have created this tower from a lot of hard work and have put many, many spells into it. There are so many traps, that you would all be dead by now if I had not disabled them. I presume you noticed the portals dotted all over my citadel?”

“Yes we did. They are dormant.”

“Dormant to you, yes. Dormant to me, no. And furthermore, I have over 200 thousand troops hiding in the basement right now, just waiting to come through the portals and massacre you.” At this, Merlin and all the rest of the Knights stiffened.

“How do we know you aren’t... bluffing?”

“Want me to prove it? Gregory closed his eyes and cast a heavy spell on the citadel, making the four turrets at the corners of the tower gleam with power running through them. He also enabled the hundreds of traps in the tower, making them visible so the Knights could see what kind of death they could have been experiencing. The Knights watched with dismay as hundreds of red, gleaming tiles appeared around them.

“You see all this? This death could be yours.” Merlin said, “Teleport.” Merlin cast a spell on all of the Knights to teleport but they couldn’t.

“But my power lets me teleport in the wilderness!!” Merlin shouted.

“Not only is there is a teleblock for the wilderness, there is also a teleblock for the citadel, so you will not be able to teleport out of here,” Gregory stated.

“What do you want with us?” Merlin asked determinedly.

“I wish to talk. Why did you come back to me? And how did you find my citadel?”

“Merlin cast a spell of awareness on you. It made it so he knew where you were all the time. We found you and came here, although we did not expect what we found.”

“What!!!!!!! You...” Gregory instantly mentally ordered an army of about 600 undead armoured demons to teleport to throne floor of the tower.

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realized it was you. Take it off!!” he demanded.

“I will not,* said Merlin. “It is useful and we need to keep watch on...” At this point Merlin saw demons pouring out of the portals, and watching him menacingly. The Knights as well watched with growing fear, and looked at the King worriedly. King Arthur was only calculating how many demons each of his Knights could kill before they would be defeated.

“I suppose we will surrender...” stuttered Merlin as he removed the spell of awareness. “No!!* said the King. “We will fight and die heroically, and weaken him so that Saradomin can fight him better.”

Gregory laughed loudly and stated, “Arthur, there are only 600 demons here. I have more than one hundred thousand more to bring against you. Even if each of you brave Knights killed a thousand demons, you would still have me to reckon with and many, many more thousands to come. Fighting is pointless. Besides, I’m on your side. Wouldn’t that be a waste?”

“What?” asked Merlin. “You destroyed the altar of Saradomin at Camelot. You cannot be on our side.”

“That was when I was under the influence of Lucien. I was unaware that Saradomin was the god I should fight for, but now I am in a war against Lucien. I may be in need of your help,” he said as he cast a spell of passage on them all, “and you may now leave the tower in peace. You may use the portals now, just leave the tower then you can teleport.”

30-Nov-2011 06:37:32

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Chapter 23

“Our plans must be done quickly. Gregory is growing in power, and I should get an attack in before he gets the upper hand. However, the help of other Mahjarrat would be helpful.”

“Do you know any others who could aid us Lord Lucien?”

“Well, Azzandra won’t help as he is always loyal to Zaros, but Zemouregal might aid us.”

“We will contact him Lord.”

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“Help Lucien? Why would I help Lucien? He has always undermined every move I have made, and caused nothing but trouble for me.”

“Lucien promises that we will share the power with you obtained from Gregory’s destruction. All you have to do is come and help at the battle against Gregory.”

“I have been watching this Gregory. He doesn’t seem so bad an ally. Why does Lucien want to fight him?”

“Because the boy’s actions are fueled toward good, and obviously Lucien does not want to have a power growing in that direction.”

“Wasn’t it Lucien that wanted this boy to become powerful in the first place?”

“Yes, but he miscalculated how much power the boy would obtain. Gregory is now dangerous, and could easily destroy some of the weaker Mahjarrat.”

“Well, I am not one of the weaker Mahjarrat, and I could care less if they are defeated. This boy’s intentions can easily be turned towards evil with a few temptations, and will be a strong and effective ally. I refuse to be spoken with any more, and you will leave now.*

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“Lord Lucien, we may have to fight this fight alone. It does not seem as if other Mahjarrat will help us, especially as talking with them will only raise suspicions against us.”

“True. Yes, I should just prepare to fight alone. In fact, I will attack a town, Varrock, and obtain the fear of the people in Asgarnia and Misthalin. No knights will be needed. I will go myself and summon a demonic army to join me.”

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Three days later, Gregory was sitting at his throne, still thinking about what to do with Lucien, when suddenly his magical summoned creature, which he had been using to spy on Lucien, began sending him torrents of information. He instantly teleported to Varrock. A terrible scene awaited him.

There were massive tormented demons, some almost 25 feet tall, filling the city. There were about 2000 of them, and they were massacring the populace. Saradomin had apparently also noticed, for there were about 500 icyenes there as well, and more coming. He saw outside of the city Lucien summoning more and more demons nonstop, and the demons charging towards the city recklessly. Gregory froze, and within a matter of seconds took in the whole situation. As a demon swung downward with its full weight to crush him, Gregory stepped aside, blasted a demon to shreds with a combination of earth and ice, and then created a portal in the middle of the city.

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It had occurred to him that there was not a limit to where he could place his portals, and he could teleport the thousands upon thousands of undead creatures in his citadel to this area. He mentally ordered 5000 undead mithril dragons to come out of the portal, and teleported to Lucien by means of the small spell he had cast on him previously. He appeared behind Lucien, and Lucien was so concentrated on his summoning that he did not notice. The teleport spell made him appear behind Lucien because it had been cast when Lucien was facing away, making it possible to surprise him.

Realizing his advantage, Gregory charged up the greatest burst of energy he had ever cast. Using a combination of ice, smoke, blood, earth, and water energy, he sent a massive surge of energy right into Lucien. The Mahjarrat stopped summoning and furiously sent a barrage of smoke towards Gregory. He countered it with air, which was returned with blood. Just as he was about to have his blood sucked out of him, Gregory also cast a massive blood spell at Lucien, and there was no real effect as they both obtained the blood of the other.

Lucien was casting his spells with difficulty, for the attack which Gregory had surprised him with was very powerful. He summoned another ten tormented demons around Gregory, and cast an ice spell at him. At this point, Lucien had moved about ten yards away from Gregory, so just as he was about to be frozen with tormented demons ready to batter him to shreds, he teleported behind Lucien again. The ice spell, which naturally was intended to follow Gregory, turned around and headed toward Lucien, puzzling, and then frightening him. Lucien turned around just in time to be hit by another blast of energy from Gregory’s direction.

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Lucien was exhausted. He had been draining his own energy by summoning so many demons, and after getting not one but two surprise attacks from Gregory, he was ready to give up. But no. He was not ready to be defeated. So he went to his last resort.

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Gregory felt a strange feeling of being forcefully moved. He almost blacked out, but when he regained his sight, he found himself in Lucien’s throne room with a large, round stone behind it. Lucien was dragging himself toward the stone. Before Gregory realized what was happening, Lucien had touched the Stone, and looked back at him grimly.

Gregory jumped up, realizing he was about to face Lucien yet again, but this time fully powered, and with the power from the Stone of Jas rushing through him. He tried to teleport, but Lucien had placed a teleblock in the room.

“You thought you could win, did*’t you? Never. You caught me by surprise. You caught me at my weak point. But now you are here. And you don’t even know how I regained my power after all those heavy blows I gave you.” Gregory was aware that Lucien thought he was ignorant about the Stone, and preferred to keep it that way.

“Well, I can promise you, you will never, ever win.” Gregory cast a huge ice spell at Lucien, but it instantly melted when it touched him.

“Hahahahahahaha. You can’* hit me. I am indestructible. And you will now die.” Lucien cast an ice spell at Gregory, and just as Gregory was about to be hit again, he realized a teleblock was stopping him from teleporting out, but not from teleporting somewhere else in the room! He teleported behind Lucien again, and as before, the ice spell turned around and moved back toward Lucien.

30-Nov-2011 06:40:42

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This time Lucien knew what was happening, and turned around quickly... but not quickly enough. Before he could stop him, Gregory had touched the Stone.

“Aaaaarrrggghhh!!! Nooooo!!!!!!”

“Gregory cast an earth spell at Lucien, sending him flying backwards.

*I told you that you couldn’t defeat me. Now I will prove it.” Gregory cast another massive spell, consisting of earth, water, ice, smoke, shadow, and blood. Lucien also cast a spell of about the same strength, and both of them groaned as they felt the force of the other hit them. Then Gregory had an idea. He cast a tiny little teleportation spell just behind the Stone while Lucien was occupied, to give himself a good method of access to the Stone.

While he was doing this however, Lucien caught him by surprise with a chilling ice spell, which made his veins burn with pain. This ice spell was much greater that the others Lucien had cast, because he had only cast ice and not any other elements. As foolishly walked up to Gregory, intending to make the last blow, Gregory sent a surge of fire towards Lucien, taking away his sight temporarily and melting the ice holding Gregory.

After this, they both jumped up to touch the Stone of Jas. For a moment, they stared at each other menacingly. Then Gregory laughed,

“Just think, we are fighting each other as if there will be an end to this fight, but when you think of it, this battle will never end. The Stone of Jas is here for the touching, and as soon as one of us is weakened, we will touch the Stone for the replenishment of our powers. I say we call it a truce, and end this fight for now.*

30-Nov-2011 06:41:05

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“That is what you think, young one. I have another secret weapon. And this rest has reminded me of it.” Lucien cast an ice spell at Gregory to stall him, then jumped to a cabinet in the wall. He opened it, and took out the Staff of Armadyl. Gregory gasped as he saw it, for he had heard of its power, but before he had time to do anything Lucien cast a blood and ice spell at Gregory.

“The spells seemed to suck his very life out, but as he touched the stone once more to revive himself, he had one more idea. He started exerting his powers on Lucien, attempting to take his mind. Lucien himself gasped as Gregory did this, for the influence of the Stone of Jas was so great that it multiplied Gregory’s hypnotization powers by many hundreds of times.

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