Sir Thomas and the Golden Dragon

Chapter Eight: Tremous

Tremous was, as stated by Gerum, huge with skin like onyx stone and as green as a swamp. His face was covered in warts, and he had a nose as big as a house and teeth that could crush stone. His fangs were cracked and chipped and his ears were tiny almost like a walnut on a tree. As he woke he opened his mouth to reveal corpses stuck in his teeth that made his breath worse than death itself. His arm pits looked like a dark abyss because of the hair and smelled as if one thousand pigs had died all at once and were rotting for weeks.

As Tremous looked around he caught a whiff of something disgusting “what is that?” he shouts “flowers, I hate flowers” As he looks around he begins to smash everything in search of the horrid smell of flowers. “Where are those disgusting flowers?” just then an arrow goes flying and pokes his arm it smashes into pieces against his hide “I found you!” He shouts as he moves a huge bolder and discovers Thomas and Gerum hiding.

“QUICK RUN” Thomas yells as they scramble to run away from the bolder as Tremous slams it down to crush them. “You can’t hide from me” Tremous yells as he begins to chase the duo. “Maybe if we split up it will confuse him” yells Gerum. “That sounds like a great idea” thomas yells back, “aaaaannnnddddddd go split up!” Thomas yells.

Gerum goes left into the woods while Thomas stays on the path. “You can’t hide from me” Tremous screams as he throws a huge stone at Thomas “oh no” yells Thomas as he comes to a quick stop as the stone slams into the path right where he would have been standing if he had not stopped. “I got you” Tremous shouts as he grabs ahold of Thomas and begins to squeeze the life from him like a snake squeezing the life from its prey.

Thomas in agony screams “why do you hate us great Tremous we were only passing through?” “LIAR” Tremous responds “I smell dark magic on you and my brother, Brutilis’ smell is on your armor, you killed him I can feel it.” “He started it, and I am no dark magician, but I do have this.” Just then Thomas managed to free an arm and grab his sword and with a woosh Thomas cut Treomous’s fingers clean off.

Tremous screams in pain “why you little worm I’ll kill you!” Just then an arrow flies into Tremous’ eye he falls over in pain. “Gerum” Thomas shouts “it’ll work for a little while nice shot” Thomas praises. “Eh it was nothing, but a small wound like that won’t keep him down for long what are we going to do?” Gerum asks. “I have an idea; can you keep him occupied for a minute while I try something?” “I’ll do what I can Thomas but don’t take long Tremous’ weak spot is his eyes your sword got lucky.” Just then Tremous gets up and locks eyes with Gerum “you little runt die.”

He grabs Gerum and throws him the length of a large town Gerum screams the entire time and hits the ground hard. Rolling around he is stopped dead by a tree and loses consciousness. With only one eye Tremous begins to smell the air “where are you swordsmen?” Suddenly a small rock hit Tremous in the head with a thud ‘what the hell was that?’ as Tremous looks up he notices there is something blocking the sun but cannot see what exactly because he only has one eye its hard to make out the object.

‘Wait I smell blood and my brother’ Tremous turns quickly and sees Thomas bleeding from his nose and eyes “this is for you Tremous die like your brother!” Suddenly the shadow of the object became fast and clear. Thomas had used his telekinesis to pick up a boulder the size of a mountain and place it high enough above Tremous to crush him entirely. “Oh no!” Tremous screams as he puts both of his huge arms in the air to stop the boulder, but he forgot to regenerate the fingers on his left hand the ones Thomas cut off.

Just then the boulder slipped and slammed Tremous to the ground crushing him with unbelievable force. Thomas blacked out and collapsed where he stood the woods then became silent for what seemed like days. As Thomas awoke he saw Gerum standing over him. “You ok Thomas?” Gerum asked as a green light washes over Thomas. “I’m ok Gerum what about you?” “I’m ok after I got a lesson in flying, hitting a tree and I became how do you say intimate next thing I know Tremous is dead and so were you or at least you looked dead.” Gerum explained “so I found a green potion in your bag and poured it down your throat I hope that was ok” Gerum said in a worried voice.

Thomas sat up and said, “yes that was a healing potion my father taught me, it heals my wounds almost instantly how long have I been asleep?” “Two days.” replies Gerum. “That explains why Tremous smells worse now than before” Thomas laughed. “Oh, yea that reminds me are you ready to eat I have made food I stayed by your side and made camp here while you were asleep.” “Yes that sounds good” Thomas answered with a groan “I feel so weak.”

“Here eat this” Gerum responds while handing Thomas a bowl of hot and steaming fresh soup they ate and drank until they both were completely recovered. “Aaaahhhhhh that really hit the spot thank you brother” Thomas says to Gerum, “don’t mention it. By the way are you ready for the soul power of Tremous?” Gerum asks. “Yes let’s do this” says Thomas. “Ok here we go” Gerum begins to chant and points at the armor suddenly as before a white light flies from Tremous and slams into Thomas’s armor.

Thomas is overwhelmed and moves back six steps before feeling the familiar wash of power come over him. “This is incredible” Thomas smiles and shouts “I feel invincible oh my what power.” After the transfer was complete Thomas felt fully energized and had to release it somehow. “I feel so powerful but have no idea what I received” says Thomas. “Why don’t you try picking something up and we will see what happens” Gerum suggests. “Ok” Thomas answers and walks over to the stone that crushed Tremous.

“Wow this feels like a twig in my hand I feel as though I can crush it as easy as a weak old branch this is truly an amazing power.” Gerum says “hazah that is wonderful because we will need all our strength for the final troll brother Doscare.” And where does he reside?” “In a cave at the base only 100 meters above Tremous you could say Tremous was his bodyguard” explains Gerum. “If that’s the case then this will be easy” says Thomas. “Don’t get cocky Thomas, Doscare has never been beaten in battle and has no equal in terms of magic he will be incredibly difficult to defeat.” Thomas confused asks “is there any point on the way up to Narvaria’s keep that does not have powerful enemies in our path?” “Unfortunately not, I’m afraid” germ answers in a dreary tone. “Ok then let’s go” says Thomas as he gets up and prepares to move.

Suddenly Thomas stops moving and speaking and falls back to the ground with a loud thud. “Thomas are you all right?” “I don’t know. I felt fine then all of the sudden I felt dizzy and confused next thing I know I’m on the ground.” “Ah yes well that’s what I forgot to tell you about the spell” Gerum replies. “The spell has a side effect even though it makes you powerful It also drains your energy until you get used to the new power.” “Wow thank you Gerum for those words of wisdom now” Thomas says sarcastically.

“Your welcome brother anytime” Gerum replies laughing. “Don’t worry brother you’re strong and adapt well you will have mastery of your new strength in no time just as you did the telekinesis for now, let’s rest and regain our strength then we will go after Doscare and finally up to the peak for Narvaria.” “Sounds like a plan brother” Thomas answers in a tired manner and fell instantly asleep. Gerum eats another bowl of soup then lies down to sleep too.