Xander says, “I assume that’s the giant?”
Sword nods in reply. Sword and the party make it to the out lines of the woods where Xander, Tasen, Jack, Bhass, Wrathale and Reed had boulders and trees and tree stumps thrown at them. Then they all hear a loud roar and loud stomping as the ground begins to shake. They all look around and see, a giant covered almost from head to toe with different armors like chain, plate, cloth and leather. The giant is also carrying a giant club and a large bag coming from the woods.
Sword then yells, “Quickly, we must run for the door!”
Everyone then runs as fast as they can to the door. They all make it to the door just in time as the giant smashes his mace against the mountain wall. Xander, Sword, Tasen, Jack, Reed, Wrathale and Bhass all quickly jump inside of the dark mist area.
“Well,” Xander begins, “How are you going to go about telling them that we are on your side now?”
Sword replies, “I will need to bring one of you with me to do so, but not right now, I will go talk to them, and they will listen.”
Sword then takes out a special pair of glasses like the ones Xander had taken from the mirror bedroom door and heads off.
After a few minutes of waiting they see Sword coming back with handful of twenty men all armed and ready.
Sword then says, “Which one of you is coming with me?”
Xander then says, “Well none of them are really all that diplomatic, so I’ll be going.”
“Very well, follow me. The rest of you must stay here. You will be watched by fifteen of the twenty I brought. The other five will be following me and Xander.”
Everyone nods in acknowledgement at Sword’s orders. Xander then follows Sword and his five men over to the castle door.
Xander and Sword all make it to the castle door and about twenty more lizards come out and make a circle around Xander and Sword. On the inside of the door, Xander sees a golden lizard in a robe looking at him and gesturing for him to come in with a grim smile on his face.
Sword then says “Hold on a sec. The agreement was that he comes out here.”
Xander then says, “Why?”
Sword replies, “Magic does not work in this plane of existence.”
Sword then walks inside of the door and begins to talk to the golden lizard. Xander, who is outside, looks around at the lizard men surrounding him, nods, and then looks back into the door.
The golden lizard looks like he’s yelling at Sword while Sword remains calm. Finally, the golden lizard comes out with another lizard wearing a robe and carrying something in his hand.
The golden lizard then speaks, “We will accept that you will help us kill the giant. However, we will only hand you forty of our best men. You will also be taking him with you.” The golden lizard points to the other robed lizard. “You need to be at least within one hundred and sixty feet of him.”
Xander replies, “Why?”
The golden lizard then looks at the other robed lizard and nods. “This is why,” says the golden lizard as the robed lizard jabs a small orb-like thing into Xander’s chest.
“That is a tool we use to make sure people follow our every command,” says the golden lizard.
“What does it do?” Xander says shaking off the pain in his chest.
“You will find out if you go past the one hundred and sixty foot mark. He will set it off if either you betray us or if your out of the one hundred and sixty foot mark.”
“So it’s supposed to kill me?” Xander replies
“Precisely.”
“Well do you have another one of these things?” Xander says while pointing to the orb-like object in his chest.
“Yes, why?” replies the golden lizard.
“I wish to use it on the giant,” says Xander.
The golden lizard thinks a minute, then says, “How would you be able to put it on him?”
Xander replies, “I have abilities that are a little different than Magic. I will put it inside of the large sack of whatever he has.”
The golden lizard nods. “I see, very well then. We will get you one more.”
“Just a quick question,” Xander says. “do they both have to same activation code?”
“No,” says the golden lizard.
After a little while Xander gets another orb and says, “We’re gonna have to set up a trap and set out our plan.”
Wrathale, Tasen, Reed, Jack, and Bhass all sit around in the black mist waiting patiently when they see Sword, Xander and thirty-five more lizards behind them.
Xander walks up to his five party members and says, “Let’s go slay that giant.” Everyone nods and follows Xander through the door.
Once everyone is through the door Xander yells out so everyone can hear, “We will be fighting the giant that has killed your kind numerous amounts at a time. I understand if you all are scared, but we will not perish, for we are strong, and we will survive this battle, and we will emerge victorious!”
Tasen translates what Xander’s saying to the other four.
All of the Draconian’s roar in acknowledgement.
Xander then looks to Sword and the Draconian wizard.
“I have a plan,” Xander begins “from past experience it seems that the giant likes the forest quite a bit. I say we set trenches in the ground near the forest and cut some of the trees down. Have the trees not chopped completely but easily breakable by a whack of a sword.”
“What would be the point of doing that?” Sword asks.
“So that when I have the orb on him, we can have someone run through there getting the giant’s attention. Then the giant will chase him. Boom off it goes and down comes the giant.” Xander says.
“Who can we get to do that?” asks the Draconian wizard
“Reed can. He has the boots of speed. He should be able to outrun the Giant and meet us back up here.”
Sword thinks a minute, “Hmm, could work, and you would be risking your friend’s life as well. Very well, we will do so then.”
Sword then orders the soldiers to dig trenches and cut trees to the brink of falling.
Xander then walks up to the wizard and says, “I want you to remember this when the giant goes behind the trees, use it, okay?”
The wizard then nods and watches everyone prepare for the battle ahead.
Xander then walks over to Reed and says, “when I have the amulet, I’m gonna want you to run through the woods and knock down all of the trees that we are cutting and yell, ‘I’m breaking down the forest. Then laugh like a mad man and run very fast because once the giant disappears from the wizard’s sight you’re gonna need to go really fast .Okay?”
Reed nods and waits for the time to come.
After about an hour the Draconians all sit in the trenches along with Tasen, Reed, Wrathale, Bhass, Jack, and Xander. They all wait for the giant to show.
After about five minutes they hear a loud stomping noise coming from the woods. Xander then says “Everyone yell, we need to lure him here.”
All of the Draconians then yell, and they hear a loud stomping noise again. The ground begins to shake as they hear a loud roar and a large humanoid comes charging out of the woods it stops in the middle of the dirt trap and looks around.
All of the Draconian’s then jump out of the Trench and roar as they all swing at the giant. Xander then jumps up and makes himself ethereal and attempts to jump inside of the giant’s bag. He makes it and begins to look for the amulet.
Tasen, Reed, Jack, and Wrathale all attack the giant while Bhass sits in the trench looking around for anyone that may be getting hurt. The giant then swings his mace down on the Draconians and hits a few of them. They shrug off the attack and they continue to attack the giant. Xander looks through the bag some more finding bent swords dented armor and a few boulders. Tasen swings at the giant and hits. Wrathale tries an upward slash but his sword is stopped by the Giant's armor. Everyone swings once again at the Giant and they all hit as Xander keeps looking for the amulet.
After a few minutes of scrambling through all of the junk Xander finds the amulet. He holds it and gazes inside the gem. While staring deep at the gem he sees a Mans face. He then Takes the amulet and puts it in his pocket while he leaving the orb inside the bag.
Xander exits out of the bag then re-solidifies. He notices that one of the Draconians must have cut the bag because there is a hole in the bag.
Xander then yells “REED, NOW!”
Reed then stops attacking and runs off towards the woods yelling “Hey look Giant I’m harming the woods!” As Reed breaks some of the trees down the Giant turns his attention towards Reed and runs after him leaving the Draconians and the other party members behind.
The Giant roars and begins to throw boulders at Reed but Reed dodges them easily. After a little bit, the giant runs out of Boulders to throw and starts throwing swords and armor at Reed from the bag. As Reed makes it to a hill, as the Giant moves behind the tree line, The Giant then throws another handful of weapons and armor at Reed and one of the weapons gets caught between his legs. Reed trips and falls as he struggles to get the weapon untangled from his legs.
Meanwhile, Xander watches the Giant chase after Reed and sees it disappear behind the tree line.
Xander then says “Now”
The Wizard nods and says a strange word while pointing in the direction of the orb. It explodes and a puff of smoke is seen rising from the tree line. The trees begin to wither and die.
Reed finally gets the sword untangled and jumps quickly on top of the hill as the Giant Explodes in a black puff of smoke. He looks at the sword and in his head he hears
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do that to you.”
Reed looks around, and back at the sword “Are you the Sword.” Reed replies
He hears in his head “Yes, I am the sword… I was once used for battle but now I am sick. I can be most useful in battle but I need repairing…”
Reed replies “I will find someone to help and perhaps you can help me at some point”
The sword replies, “I will most defiantly help you if you help me get better.”
A short time later Tasen looks around where the explosion took place with a sad expression. He sees a small figure running really fast towards them with an object in his hand. It is Reed coming back to the group and when he makes it to them Tasen picks him up in with a hug.
All of the Draconians cheer in accomplishment.
Sword then says “Good, about time that monster died.”
Everyone then steps back through the door into the black smoky mist and head off towards the castle door.
When they make it to the castle door, Sword says “I’ll be right back. I’m going to go notify him.”
“Wait,” Xander says. “Here, you’re going to need this.” Xander then throws Sword the amulet.
Sword catches it and smiles at Xander. Sword heads inside. The Wizard catches up to and talks to sword. Sword looks at the wizard, nods, and they head out of view. The golden Lizard comes up the stairs inside the castle and sees Xander.
The Golden Lizard starts to yell at the wizard pointing at Xander Through the door and the wizard just shakes his head. Sword comes back out the door and grabs the orb in Xander’s chest and pulls it out. Sword then walks back inside and Places it in the Golden Lizards Chest. The Golden Lizard stops and looks back at Sword. Sword comes back out of the door and says “All of you must leave. It’s not safe for any of you anymore.”
Xander nods, gathers everyone else, and they walk over to the bedroom door. As Tasen walks through the door, he falls back to the ground and his vision blanks and he sees right above where the destroyed caravan is. He also sees an army charging towards the giant gate and the caved in door. Tasen then says “Hey guys, we’ve got trouble.”
