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Chapter 13: On the road again

- This heat is killing me! How long till we get to Gelebron' s Tower? Asked Bratty, tired of all that walking as they didn’t have their horses anymore.- It shouldn’t be more than two days now. I guess everyone is tired but I don’t hear anyone else complaining. But hardly had Alyss finished her sentence when she saw something large crawling beneath the scorching sand. Run! Run as fast as you can! There is an abandoned building not far ahead!

- Why? Gosh, I just told you I can barely move and now you want me to run? Just who do you think you are telling us what to do? Said Bratty annoyed but then she saw it! A huge dragon- like snake popped from under their feet! It had humongous fangs and saliva was drooling from them. Its two red eyes locked gaze on them. It was trying to decide where to strike first!- I take back everything I said! I can run like the wind, who said anything about being tired? And Bratty wanted to run but she tripped and fell head first into the sand.

- Too late for that now! Now we have to fight it or we' re dead! Screamed Alyss from the bottom of her lungs. Everyone attack with all you got! And don' t look it straight in the eyes or it will stun you, you won’t be able to move until it will be too late. Attack!

And she drew her arrows and started firing at the giant snake! Mean

focused and then he called a firestorm to rain down on the huge dragon – like snake. Harry saw that the snake was about to bite Bratty who was still on the sand so he threw his axe with all his might towards the snake' s head. It was a perfect hit and the snake left Bratty alone and turned around to see who had hit it. He saw his target and was preparing to spit venom towards Harry when Adi the cook, overcoming his fear, put the frying pan in

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Harry' s face and so the venom hit that. The frying pan melted as soon as the snake’s venom touched it!

-Oh, yeah, forgot to warn you about that! Don’t let it spit its venom on you because it is toxic, it burns everything it touches! And saying that Alyss released another arrow.

-Anything else we should know?? Like maybe a way to kill the beast? Asked Mongo hoping that Alyss would have an answer for that too.-That we will have to find out! I never killed one!- I have an idea, said the cunning Ulo. What if we gather some of its venom and use it against the bastard?

- Your idea is crazy enough that it might just work. If it doesn’t, we will just have figure out another way, said Alyss and the rest also agreed. But how can we gather the venom? It burns and melts everything.-Leave that to me, said Mean. I will use one of my spells to harden one of the cooking pots. It will be unbreakable. But that is the easy part, the difficult part is to find the fool, I mean the brave hearted man or lady to be the bait and make the snake spit the venom in it…- I' ll do it! Offered Alyss. I can run as fast as the wind. It will never catch me. Just work your magic on the cooking pot Mean and give it to me! Then Mean put a spell on the recipient and handed it to Alyss.- Hey, big guy, look at me! Alyss started yelling to draw the snake' s attention. The snake turned and went for Alyss. Then Alyss stood still and waited until the last moment, then when she heard the snake hiss she knew it would spit the venom so she put the pot in front of it and all the venom went in it. Now it was time to run with it and give it to Mean and then she had to keep running and to make the giant snake follow her until the two mages, Bratty and Mean, would figure a way to use the venom against the snake.

- Here, take it Mean because as you see I am in a hurry! Said Alyss finding the power to joke even in dire situations as she had the snake on her trail.- Well done, now keep it busy until we find a way to use this poison. Said Mean who took the recipient in a haste from Alyss' hands. After deliberating on the best way to make use of the poison they agreed to imbue one of Alyss' arrows in it and then she would have to shoot it at the snake' s eyes, blinding it. With the snake blind it would be a lot easier for them to chop off its head.

- Hey, Alyss, yelled Mean so Alyss could hear him, after you are done with

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the jogging maybe you could take this arrow and shoot it at the snake’s eyes?

- Jogging, are you trying to be a wise guy?

- I was just kidding, now come for the arrow and do your part, blind the bastard!

- But if I look at its eyes it will stun me! Have you figured out anything for that?

- Yes, you will shoot it and then I will put a dispel spell on you! But you only have one chance, if you miss we are as good as dead. If you blind it, then I will dispel the stun and we will kill it!

Alyss then took the arrow, put it in her bowstring, took aim and released

the arrow which went flying through the air like a bolt of lightning. Then she was stunned by the snake’s gaze. She couldn’t move but she could still hear everything. She heard a fierce battle cry and she recognized Harry' s voice. Then after what seemed like an eternity she heard Mean' s calm voice. Next thing she could move again! She was back! She turned her head to see what had happened and she saw the giant snake with its head chopped off. She was so relieved to see that! And also everyone was ok, not even a scratch. They had done it!

- We make a good team Alyss! Said Mongo and they all hugged her, grateful that she was such a good archer. Now hopefully we won’t come across any other beats. Let us head for the abandoned building you told us about earlier and camp there. I think we’ve had enough adventures for one day!- I am dead tired. You are right, let’s camp there. It isn’t far. And it is safe, it is camouflaged with a thin veil reflecting the sun. Nobody knows of its existence but me. So we will finally get some rest before heading for Gelebron' s tower.