Chapter 33

After He finally died a bright light Shown through the cave and there now stood human form of Satyros.

"Such Putrid blood" She Gagged spit on the body of the commander. Soaryn chuckled as he got up and picked up his swords and Aerd's scythe. He walked back into the torture room with Aerd where there were fifteen dead goblins, all with knives stuck between their beady eyes.

"You let a few get past Soaryn" Aerd said Chuckling.

"Well Sorry I was kind of fighting for both our lives." Soaryn Snapped back not in any mood for Aerd agonizing jokes.

While Soaryn and Aerd talked Satyros went back to digging the tunnel as quickly as possible. After an hour Satyros Suddenly stopped digging when he came upon a small room, which he believed was in the upper levels of this dungeon. In the corner of the room was a lone skeleton crouched over seemingly protecting something. In his hand was a Small Silver strip of metal that seemed to look like a small Popsicle stick. It had a small skull at its base; shifting into his human form she picked up the metal and started her long trek back to the boys.

Soon Satyros emerged from the mole made tunnel his Eyes slowly adjusting to the dimly lit room. Once fully adjusted he spotted the Forms of Aerd and Soaryn Sleeping their backs slanted on each other propping themselves up and their heads resting calmly on their chests. The scene would have been endearing had there not been bodies of dead goblins lying around them and the boys not being covered in their blood.

Meanwhile in the royal palace Ulelinn was pacing in the palace study. "Where are they?" Ulelinn whispered to himself as he paced the floors off to his left he duly noted the rest of his brother's group.

"We don't know sir, the last report we have of Soaryn is that he went into the bank and then a lockdown occurred," Said the royal spymaster in a timid nasally tone.

"We need to talk about your failure to keep track of Soaryn" Ulelinn said in a low threatening tone as he grabbed the man by his shirt collar.

Ulelinn dragged the man into a room at the far end of the hall, Raethien being a scout absently minded the discrete noise of the door lock engaging. She was worried sick about her idiot of a boyfriend and his best friend.

"Wherever you are I hope your ok" She whispered before mental exhaustion slowly took over and she drifted off to sleep.

Aerd began to open his eyes his back aching and his throat sore. Trying to push his body up to a standing position he momentarily forgot his right arm no longer being there and he tumbled forward. The sound of Aerd hitting the floor was enough to jostle Soaryn awake. Looking around Soaryn surveyed his surroundings until he spotted Aerd face down on the floor.

"Aerd!" He exclaimed scrambling over to Aerds body intending to check on his best friend. "What?" Aerd groaned his head hurting from the stone floor his head was previously introduced to. Letting out a breath Soaryn helped Aerd to sit up, "Does it hurt?" he whispered his eyes glued to the the flat cut where his best friends arm used to be.

"No, Not anymore at least" He whispered back his mind wandering back to the how it happened. Seeing his friend so upset Soaryn decided to try and lighten the mood,

"Hey Aerd remember when we went out to drink and the next morning was terrible".

"Yeah my head felt like it was about to explode" Aerd said slightly smiling at the old memory.

"We had no idea how much we inhaled" Soaryn said wistfully.

"Are you two done jabbering we need to get out of here" Satyros growled cutting into the boys momentary reminiscing.

The three of them left the room, Aerd and Soaryn leaning on each other for support while Satyros lead the way in his Panther form. After 20 minutes of walking they eventually came to a dark purple glass like door at the end of a the hallway. Satyros shifted back to his human form and twisted the knob before turning around.

"It's locked" She growled out

"Thats Ok" Aerd sighed, "We have the keys from the commander right Soaryn?"

"I was supposed to grab those?" Soaryn slowly backed up at the glare from Satyros. "No Soaryn not at all, Aerd and I wanted to stay here and rot to death….OF COURSE YOU WERE YOU IDIOT" She yelled stomping over to Soaryn.

"I'm sorry who said we needed keys, We have a magical being and two of the strongest people in Druiga just blast the door open or something" Soaryn said hastily.

"That would work if the door wasn't made of Mana infused Straesium" Satyros sighed in annoyance.

"Strae-what now?"Aerd asked.

"It's a nearly indestructible mana-Absorbing metal" Satyros explained.

"Wait you said nearly indestructible" Soaryn said with a criticizing look.

"It can be broken by brute force from something that can't use magic" Satyros spoke slowly.