The Black Fountain

I

The day is November 17, of the second month after the battle of Koad. I am now in our main fort, Getrau’. I was resting by the warm fire with my comrades when the results came in. It seems our first wave of attackers that were going to end this foolish war had been annihilated. The captain approached me slowly. I had no idea this was the beginning to a great but horrible adventure that I, or any other of my squad would ever forget.

My name is Tanzarian and I am 25 years of age. I am the leader of the Quad Squad in the Militan Military. My squad consists of me and 5 other men. We are small but very battleworthy group of men. The first man in my squad is Tank. Tank is a huge man capable of insurmountable strength. He is a man of few words and often keeps to himself. Many a time he has saved our whole squad, including the time he led the Militan to victory in the battle of Bosh. The next is a small man and also the weakest. His name is Derek and many fear him. He may be small but his accuracy with his bow is beyond anyone in the Militan. The next is a master swordsman, Xavon. He isn’t the greatest swordsman, but a time ago after his training with master Cove he became more than a normal swordsman. Next up is Fradox. He has no special talent that any would call a talent (Besides the amazing amount of Gosh Taffy he consumes daily). He holds a secret though. One that I saw him perform in the battle of Fresh SeaTown. I was sworn to secrecy on oath and a Quadsman never breaks an oaf. Lastly is Lock, the mischievous elf we came across while stranded in the Mok forest. He has the power of Magic which is extremely rare today. Magic, although, used to be very widely used. But once the curse of Verd was set magical creatures of all ---were caught in sickness, and few survived. The caster of this spell, Verd, was an evil king who spent his life tormenting all who held magic. No one for sure knows why. A small village known as Tant was tired of his evil doing. So a group of creatures from all kinds formed a fighting team to destroy Verd, at the cost of all of their lives. Once they had beaten Verd and he was on the ground begging for mercy, He cast the spell. Because the warriors were so close they all died instantly and Verd died also, because he also used magic. The spell also had a side-effect. All wands and any other thing with magical power was turned to steel. The Human survivors used the newly found substance of steel to make swords. Now you know the story of Deckbin, our world. That is my squad. And nothing could have prepared us for what happened next.

The commander approached us and told us what ---happened. "Something has been troubling Serta Forest. We believe it is a dragon for Gonz's army. If he does indeed have a dragon heading our way we need your squad to take it out.. Can you handle this?" Fradox stepped up." We are ready for anything Commander Johnson" "Yes," came in Lock "We can handle a dragon. In fact I think we only need two of our warriors to take out a dragon."

The commander looked worried. "I don't know.