Sir Thomas and the Golden Dragon

Chapter Six: Brutilis

After a few throws, Brutilis is woken up by a large log hitting his head. “Eh ah what the hell” as his blurry eyes try to focus he screams “ooooowwwww my head what hit me?” Finally, his eyes come to focus to reveal a sword at his neck and a crossbow at his head. “Get up Brutilis the troll” Thomas yells “your head will be mine after what you did you derserve to die.” “Wwwaaaaiiiitttt! wait Sir Thomas you don’t understand.” “I am not a knight do not call me sir, troll.” “Of course, master Thomas” Brutilis answers “you don’t understand I am here as a guard to test you on your journey from the great black dragon.” “Black dragon, what black dragon Brutilis” Thomas asks. “His name is Zerok I do not know his true face, but I serve him, he knows of your travels and is out to stop you” Brutilis explains. “That’s all I know master Thomas honest now please let me live master.” “Well, have I passed your test Brutilis” “yes master, but there is one more thing take THIS.”

As Brutilis shouts he throws a bottle on the ground and disappears the clouds become dark and out of nowhere a ten-foot monster is born. “Behold my true form!” Brutilis shouts as he sits on two demonic legs with spikes protruding at the knees, his torso is tight and muscular as steel and his arms that were meek and frail before sports massive claws for fingers and spikes protruding his elbow. His head where before set an average warty cranium is now a massive brain pulsating almost out of his skull, his pointy ears had become batwing like and fused to his head and his eyes and teeth were both blood red and huge. “Now you die human” Brutilis lunges forward and slashes at Gerum with his mighty claws. Gerum quickly dodges and shoots an arrow that bounces off Brutilis’ massive pulsating brain “that is not good enough human” Brutilis shouts.

Thomas quickly cuts off Brutilis’ left arm with a loud whoosh. “AAAAHHHHH” Brutilis shouts in pain as purple blood come pouring out. “Give up Brutilis you can’t beat the both of us.” “Oh, really fool I have already won.” Thomas looks in horror Brutilis’ arm grows back, while the other arm grows a new body. “Cut all you want fools I’ll keep coming back!” “This won’t work” Gerum says to Thomas “I know but what other choice do we have?” “Let’s try stabbing and shooting for his heart” Gerum explains “I’ll try anything at this point” Thomas says.

“Quit your whining and give up!” Brutilis uses his telekinetic power to pick up logs and stones and begins to throw them at the duo. “You can’t win” Brutilis charges like a wild beast “Thomas now!” Gerum shouts Thomas quickly lunges at Brutilis and his sword pierces his heart. He screams as blood pours from his mouth “it’s over Brutilis” Thomas turns the sword to end the beast quickly only to discover the other two monsters vanish into thin air and all that remains is the frail first form of Brutilis with a blade in his head.

Thomas quickly pulls his sword as the illusion fades “damn, I now have more questions who is this Zerok and why does he want me stopped, Gerum are you alive back there? He asks, “yes one moment Thomas then we can get going.” Gerum bends down to the corpse of Brutilis and mumbles a spell at the corpse. Suddenly the corpe explodes in powerful light and a ghost-like figure appears from the body.

Gerum then points to Thomas and shouts “rekombeknox” and the soul flies into the armor. In shock Thomas mind is instantly invigorated by the soul and Thomas looks in shock “you know magic gerum?” Thomas asks. “Only that one spell I learned many years ago. It transfers the souls of the dead into armor and weapons to invigorate the user with a special skill.” “Who taught you this spell?” Thomas asked, “my old master” Gerum replies

In confusion Thomas’s head began to pound. “My head feels like its burning Gerum” Thomas says as he rolls on the ground in pain. “That’s just your mind adapting to it don’t fight it brother let it wash over you and engulf you in its power.” Thomas relaxed and felt power flow through his mind to the rest of his body. When he opened his eyes again it seemed nothing had changed, however, when he sat up he noticed stones and twigs of trees were floating in midair. “Hahahahaha that’s it brother you have gained Brutilis’s power of telekinesis go on try it out” gerum yells excitedly. ‘Telekinesis’ Thomas looked at his hand and looked at a nearby tree.

While pointing his hand he shouted up tree and the massive tree began to shake. Thomas concentrating harder says “up tree” and his head begins to hurt but the tree breaks free from its roots in a massive burst of power Thomas sends the giant tree flying and blacks out immediately after. As Thomas woke back up night has arrived Gerum had made a fire and was roasting some very succulent meat and savory vegetable soup he made.

“You over did it, new powers are great, but they take a toll on the user, come brother eat.” Thomas, without saying a word, comes to the fire and makes himself a hearty bowl the aroma is mouthwatering, and the taste though was divine. “How did you learn to cook so well brother?” “I taught myself when I was a boy just like you now let’s eat and rest so we can get back to the journey tomorrow” “I agree” Thomas answers with a mouth full of food “just one more thing Gerum.” The tension became stiff between the two. “What do you know about this great black dragon Brutilis spoke of?” “I don’t know” he shouts, “maybe an excuse from a man about to die” Gerum explains “I’ve never heard of a black dragon of any kind but hey if one does exist we will kill it too eh.” “Your right” Thomas laughs, and they ate happily.

Finally, with full bellies they laid by the fire and fell fast asleep. The next morning the duo were awakened by rainfall and a loud yell.

“RRRRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR” “what on earth was that?” Gerum shouts as they scramble to get out of the rain. “I don’t know” Thomas responds, “sounded like it came from the foot of the mountain.” Suddenly a huge boulder was flying at sonic speed towards Gerum. “Move!” shouts Thomas as Gerum turns to face the boulder. The boulder hits the ground with a sickening smash and Thomas looks on in horror as it seems like Gerum was crushed. “GERUM” “I’m ok brother it barely missed me… watch out!” Gerum shouts as another boulder smashes into a nearby tree barely missing Thomas. “We have to get out of here” shouts Thomas “I agree” Gerum shouts back “we can run to that clearing beside us” Thomas says, and they run as fast as they can. They discover a clearing of trees and are safe from the boulders for now.