Scepters of Empyrea

by Vignesh Ravichandran

  Great!!!! I am impressed, said Ameer, excitedly.

  This, my Lord, is your chariot, I would ride this for you, said Tyrant and showed him the chariot which had the flag of Dinolaya. It had been tied with the four fastest veloxes.

  Chariot!!! Looks great but I have no intention to sit in the chariot and watch everything that’s going on. Once I reach Falconnia, I will turn into a tyrannosaurus or a Spinosaurus and showcase my strength to Empyrea, said Ameer.

  I am happy to hear that you have learned about your transformation powers. Now nothing can stop you, you are the velox, you are the tyrannosaurus, you are the Spinosaurus, you are the triceratops, you are the Quetzalcoatlus and much more, praised Tyrant.

  (The Dinomen started to chant Lord! Lord! Lord!)

  Yes! I am the most powerful person in this universe and will make others bow down to me and to my powers, I am the lord of Dinolaya, said Ameer, swelling with pride.

  Late evening at the Naga camp,

  Kraity came to Lee’s tent. He was busy counting the Egas stones one by one and segregating it according to its color.

  Lord! I have some important information but wait, what are you doing! asked Kraity.

  Can’t you see!! I am counting the gems, there are totally 358 of them. Today we need to carry a bigger sack. And, I told you to call me Lee, not as lord, flirted Lee.

  Pick!! Pick all of them because after tomorrow no gem will be left for you, said Kraity.

  What are you saying!! I don’t follow.

  Tomorrow Dinolaya is going to conquer Falconnia, they have been warming up with their vast troops, said Kraity.

  What!!!! Conquering my Falconnia, no wonder he was stopping me from revealing the truth about Empyrea to Manav. I only discovered Falconnia first, so it’s mine!! No one can desire to conquer it and take it away from my hands, raged Lee.

  Yes!! You were the one who found it but you also made the mistake by trusting your backstabbing friends, now you need to face the consequences, manipulated Kraity.

  Consequences!!! Hahaha!!! I learned how to transform myself into a snake, (Kraity was shocked hearing this) I will make him pay, said Lee.

  You learned!!! How? Let me see your snake face, laughed Kraity.

  In the morning, I went to Falconnia. I learned it through the crafts in the Empolosseum. Though you are an Empyrean, you are a female!! You would be scared to death to see my snake, flirted Lee.

  I have seen a lot of snakes in my life, transform yourself, let’s see how good you are, said Kraity.

  Lee holding his scepter focused on his rage and using that power transformed himself into a black mamba and hissed at Kraity.

  Now, you look just like a little kid, a 5feet snake won’t win the 55feet dinosaurs, they will crush you by their feet, get back to normal. The size and strength depend on the extent of your rage. To transform yourself into a gigantic snake, you need to get more furious, violent and destructive, said Kraity.

  Of course, I know that. I didn’t feel the need to reveal that to you. I can’t afford to waste my powers on you. This is reserved exclusively for my dear friend Ameer. He will regret the day he decided to conquer Falconnia by outsmarting me, raged Lee.

  This is what I need, fight against your friend and lose your life so I can get my scepter back soon, thought Kraity.

  Why have you become all quiet all of a sudden, when are they going to march towards Falconnia, asked Lee.

  Tomorrow morning, they are all prepared and will set out to conquer Falconnia and they seem to have five types of forces, said Kraity.

  Hahaha!!! Ameer might be the strongest and have different forces but he can't outsmart me, said Lee and laughed cruelly.

  Early morning at Dinolaya,

  Everything and everybody was set to conquer Falconnia. The five different forces were waiting for the arrival of their Lord Ameer. The insignia of the Dinolaya is the tail of the dinosaurs and this was present on the armor, shield, chariot and everywhere in the dino army. Ameer came out from his tent wearing a typical battle dress of Dinolaya, with the insignia of Dinolaya on his armor.

  The moment we have been waiting for is finally here, within hours Falconnia would be united with Dinolaya, and the lord for both the regions will be Lord Ameer, Hail Ameer, shouted Tyrant.

  (Dinomen hailed Lord! Lord!)

  Know who you are! Know why we are heading to Falconnia! Know what we are going to do there! Know we are the most powerful people in this universe, said Ameer.

  (Dinomen chanted Powerful! Powerful!)

  The Army started to march towards Falconnia. They looked enraged and deadly. They were demonic and chanting Kill! Kill! Kill! No mercy! No mercy.

  No other army could stand before your army my Lord, look at them chanting away, they are all set to tear Falconnia apart, said Tyrant.

  Falconnia is the place where I am going to showcase my powers and announce my entry to the universe, said Ameer.

  Just a few steps more and we would conquer Falconnia by the afternoon, said Tyrant.

  Afternoon!!! No!!! I need this done within the next hour, make the Rhinorios and the creatures fall under my feet, ordered Ameer.

  As you say my lord! With your transformation power, (Ameer Chuckled) you could turn them to dust within seconds, said Tyrant.

  Meanwhile at Armania,

  Royston was completely stressed and once again was experiencing nightmares with his daughter Sylvia. Sylvia was coming in the chopper along with the Interpol officer Rayman but Royston was firing at the chopper with his rocket launcher without realizing that Sylvia was in it. The chopper exploded. Sylvia’s unicorn toy flew into pieces and with that Royston woke up with a start.

  Now, he had fully recovered from his wound. When he woke up from his bed, there was no one around him.

  Royston took his scepter and came out of the hut but once he saw the greenish and elongated skull Empyreans outside the hut, he returned back. The reason being, he still didn’t know anything about Empyrea. Royston sitting inside the hut started to notice all around the camp of Empyreans and seeing the eight feet greenish elongated skull Empyreans suddenly went into a frenzy and thought of escaping from the camp.

  He noticed the boats at the banks of the river and started to move towards them tiptoeing behind the huts and the trees. When he neared the boat, he was nearly seen by the Empyreans but managed to hide. But those Empyreans hadn’t moved from that place, they seem to be engaged in a serious conversation.

  (Ejee! Rhinorios tasnu egihutris antagamus jertoij, elod nukakalei, paathuka paley naeblo obna) Ejee! Rhinorios are a fierce people but they are a primitive tribe, and without the lord, they can’t survive. If we do not protect them, then there will be a bloodbath, said an Empyrean.

  (Lior emrak jipa enthropo nichy besi, sjiep ehgc ausk, instva hsnjytenthi) I am praying the lord Emra for quickly rescuing our emperor, let’s hope for the best. No one is there in the hut, I need to go and take care of him, said Ejeeth and both moved from the place.

  With this Royston moved to the boat and unchained it, slowly pushed it into the river and started to paddle it and got out of Armania.

  Meanwhile, the Army of Dinolaya reached the borders of Falconnia,

  Halt!!! Halt!!! Halt!!! Today, we are going to make history. Do not show any mercy to your opponent, kill as many creatures as possible, capture as many people as you can to be our slaves, Falconnia needs to be a bloodbath, don’t show any mercy, ordered Ameer.

  (Dinomen chanted, No mercy! No mercy! No mercy!)

  Blow the horns, ordered Tyrant.

  (A Dinomen blew the horn)

  The Dinomens madly rushed into Falconnia. The Quetzalcoatlus started to fly faster, the strong triceratops was literally breaking the ground. The army of Dinolaya was all set to make Falconnia meet its doomsday.

  But on the other side, the army of Falconnia was nowhere to be seen. Everything was so quiet and the banks looked empty, there was silence spread across the inner forests as well and seemed like no one was a
round.

  The region without the lord!!! Hahaha!! Seems like the people and the creatures were terrified of our arrival and have exited the region even before we landed!! Hahahaha!! We have captured Falconnia my lord, said Tyrant all excitedly.

  No!! Something is not right, stay alert (Ameer signaled a Quetzalcoatlusback archer to look around Falconnia) let’s move forward, said Ameer.

  As they advanced into the region, the infantry Dinomen saw some group of Rhinorios so Tyrant ordered the Dinomen to catch them, the veloxback fastest soldiers started to chase them. Each Rhinorios ran for their lives.

  Follow them!! They will lead us to their camp, and then we can kill all of them, ordered Tyrant.

  Each one of the army men and creatures started to chase the Rhinorios. The Rhinorios were running towards the falcon rock.

  (Do not leave them, ordered Tyrant)

  Meanwhile, Ameer noticed the external environment of Falconnia, it looked bizarre to him. He saw some dead bodies on his right.

  Halt!! Leave the chariot. We go down on foot, ordered Ameer.

  (Ameer went near the dead bodies)

  These bodies are Rhinorios, they seem to be slaughtered with some weapons, will the Rhinorios slaughter themselves?? No!! No!! We have walked into a trap, get back ordered Ameer.

  The running Rhinorios reached the falcon rock and suddenly they halted and turned towards the dino army. The veloxback soldiers were spinning the axe weapons and approached them in the coasts of Falconnia but the Rhinorios stood still at the falcon rock not showing any signs of fear about the attack.

  (Rhinorios shook their hands and made a signal of Bye! Bye!)

  Soon the group of wooly rhinoceros came out from the lush forest and hit the veloxback soldiers and hurled them into the Empyrean ocean.

  Some of the infantry Dinomen soldiers walked towards the net traps and were now hanging upside down in the nets, some of the triceratops fell into the trap pits and were struggling to come out from it, the Quetzalcoatlus was attacked by the flaming arrows of the Rhinorios. The Falcons carried huge boulders by their claws and dropped it on the Dinomen and the infantry Rhinorios started to attack the dino army.

  Stop!!!!!!!!! Stop!!!!!!!! Stop!!!!!!!! (Battle place echoed) That came from the back of the falcon rock, all heads turned towards the rock. A leader wearing a greenish battle dress with a weird war helmet walked on the falcon rock.

  Is that Horus, shocked Tyrant by seeing the leader.

  You said there is no lord for this region, now who is he, questioned Ameer to Tyrant.

  Lord of Dinolaya!! We will give you a final chance to leave our region if you proceed further to fight, you will have to face the consequences, announced the leader on the falcon rock.

  Whoever you might be, you haven't faced me before. Today we have marched here to conquer your region not just to take your advice to leave the place. We are ready to face the consequences, Dinomen don't show any mercy, kill them all, announced Ameer.

  Ameer sent his Veloxback soldiers upfront and backed them with the triceratopback smashers led by Tyrant.

  The fastest veloxback Dinomen soldiers were approaching the falcon rock with full speed, they seemed to be terrific and their faces were filled with full of terror to rip their foes flesh. But, all of a sudden violent winds started attacking the soldiers one by one. The veloxback dino commander had no clue what was happening until he got his head hammered by the sharp beak of Phorusrhacid bird, the fastest predator.

  Soon a flock of Phorusrhacid birds with enormous beaks that served as deadly scythes approached the veloxback soldiers with merciless speed. When the veloxback soldiers turned to run back, they saw Tyrant with the triceratopback smashers but Tyrant also stopped in his tracks shocked, his face had an expression of utter disbelief because they were surrounded by more than hundred Phorusrhacid birds.

  Nobody dared to move. This was a deadly moment in the war field. Then the first bird attacked! A giant beak knocked one of the Triceratop raiders off his giant dinosaur! They all stared in horror as the creature reared its head. Wham! Wham! Also, its bloody beak hammered into the helpless veloxback soldiers.

  The rhinos attacked in groups, the veloxes were squashed to death when two rhinos attacked it from both sides.

  Ameer watched as the ground troops were scattered in disarray as the Saber tooth tigers flashed past him taking the lives of his dino army. Meantime, Ameer noticed his scepter blade, it reflected a lunging saber on him from behind. It was a huge saber tooth tiger, 10feet long, its six inch teeth snapped at Ameer! The animal let out a terrifying roar! Ameer grabbed its jaws and snapped it into half.

  Advance!! Don’t leave a single life in Falconnia, ordered Ameer and started slashing the Rhinorios with his scepter.

  All of a sudden, from the top, the falcon birds struck the dino army. It swooped down from low-lying murky clouds picking and tossing Dinomen in the air like limp rag dolls!

  Stop!!!!!! Stop!!!!!!! Stop!!!!!!! (Battle place echoed) That came from the falcon rock, all heads turned towards the rock.

  Lord of Dinolaya, we will give you a final chance to leave our place, turn back your troops and head back your way, announced the leader.

  I will give the same chance to you, and also I would consider some mercy on you if you surrender yourself, announced Ameer.

  Then, we didn't have any chance to protect you from our next surprise, said the leader and clapped his hands.

  Hissssss!!! Hisssss!!!! A sound in the middle of the battle, a Dinomen went near to a rock to check on the noise. There was nothing behind the rock, (the hissss sound came once again) the Dinomen looked upwards, a black 13feet length and 2feet width ebra snake fell from the tree. Soon everywhere, all kinds of snakes started to fall on the Dinomen. They were crushing and grasping the dino army to death.

  Things were not looking good for Ameer’s army. The giant snakes were swallowing the dino army one by one. And on the sky, falconback Naga soldiers were injecting their venomous arrows on the Triceratops and Veloxes.

  Stop!!!!!! Stop!!!!!!! Stop!!!!!!! (Battle place echoed) we gave you a chance to live but you declined it, now face our wrath, said the leader and removed his helmet.

  Leonce!! Shocked Ameer.

  Leonce!! Leonce!! Leonce!! (Battle place echoed) You are standing on the wrong side, do not try helping these falcon people. Otherwise, you will face your death in Empyrea, shouted Ameer.

  Ameer!! Ameer!! The Lord of Dinolaya!! I saw you as my best friend for more than two decades, but now it’s not going to be the same. Get out of my Falconnia I will give you a chance to live, ordered Lee.

  Do I look scared, take a good look at my vast army. Surrender yourself. I shall consider being merciful, said Ameer.

  Hahahahaa!! Ameer!! Ameer!! You are standing in my place, we captured Dinolaya last night itself, now you have come looking for a fight, and we are happy to oblige, said Leonce.

  Even if your army of Nagamalya has partnered with the army of Falconnia, you can’t defeat the army of Dinolaya. And you have reduced my work, in this same place I will win this battle and conquer both of your Nagamalya and Falconnia. You will see my vast army defeating you, said Ameer and ordered the Dinomen to slaughter the Rhinorios and Nagas.

  The scepter’s blade of lord Ameer slashed five Rhinorios in a single blow. The Dinomen enraged got right back into the war field, the falconback Naga soldiers were defeated by the Quetzalcoatlusback Dinomen and the archers on it started to set aflame on the wooly rhinoceros. The triceratopses were hurling the rhinoceros out of their way, the veloxback soldiers were taking out the hearts of Nagas and Rhinorios. Tiny Compsognathus started to lunge on the saber-tooth tigers and took out chunks of flesh.