"Look Serna! Look at that!" The kurori whispered excitedly.
"WOW!" The Shield Maiden gasped, "You know what, that gives me an idea."
Serna closed her eyes and concentrated her thoughts on her charm bracelet. Then she opened her eyes, stepped right up to the palantir and allowed her charm bracelet to come in contact with it first before she took the ancient device into her hands.
"Whatever you're gonna do, Serna hurry it up!" Caliaphy ducked down behind the palantir as another blast of negative energy was deflected in their direction.
The bear roared again and again to keep the attention of the mad elven princess. Rearing up on its hind legs, the animal came down hard against a crumbling pillar and pushed out a section of the stone. The sound of stone cracking and breaking forced Eilionwy to step back and off to the side.
As the blast of negative energy flew towards Serna, the Shield Maiden used her shield to deflect the energy onto the palantir only this time her charm bracelet was in direct contact with the ancient object. Serna hoped that all the palantir needed was a spark to come back to life. She believed that between that energy blast, her shield and her charm bracelet she might be able to awaken it.
The loremaster kept her sole attention fixed on Eilionwy as she repeated deflected the magical attacks towards the shield maiden's weapon of power.
The elven princess scowled again and again as to why her attacks weren't dropping the loremaster. The red dragon said she would be unmatched in her rise to power. She blasted Arlhenwe again with a much stronger focused blast that finally hit its mark pushing her back. "Hahahaha! You can't stop me!"
The magical energy built up and surged with intensity with the combined will of a child with a weapon of power and the charm bracelet burst forth into the palantir. The beach ball sized solid glass orb hummed to life as a beam of brilliant white light shot up into a focus crystal pouring up and out over the city of Northaven.
"WHAT?" Eilionwy snarled turning in Serna's direction, "YOU LITTLE HUMAN BRAT! YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!"
"I don't think so, you mean nasty traitor!" Serna shot back at Eilionwy.
The elven princess's form shapechanged into a huge red dragon who hungrily snapped in her direction.
"WHAT IN THE REALM?! YOU'RE A DRAGON?!"Serna activated her shield in an effort to protect both herself and Caliaphy.
Caliaphy teleported her and Serna out of the way just seconds before the razor sharp teeth of the red dragon struck. "Phew! That was too close! Okay, Arlhenwe, anytime now!"
"Tell me about it!" Serna gasped in relief.
The loremaster raised both staff and sword into the air and blasted the red dragon with lightning. **SHRACKKK!** "Now, Caliaphy!"
One que, the kurori teleported all of them out of the undercroft and up inside the city walls of Northaven.
"Why didn't you tell me she was a dragon?!" Serna looked to both Arlhenwe and Caliaphy, "That is not something you should keep from a friend! Bad form, you two, REALLY bad form!"
Collecting her thoughts, the loremaster looked down at the shield maiden, "Serna, that was Eilionwy, she is an elf who is 'possessed' by something magical willingly or not, she is more of a threat than she was before. I always knew she was power hungry I just didn't realize how bad she had gotten. And three, hopefully your friend, Alyson can knock some sense into her before she goes completely mad."
"I think she's already there," Serna concluded as she held her shield close.
The kurori fluttered about anxiously, "Bad Form? Hey I didn't even know Eilionwy could do that. Arlhenwe is right, Eilionwy is pretending to be a dragon."
"If she's pretending to be a dragon," Serna quipped, "Then she's doing one hell of a job of pretending. So, what do we do now?"
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