The remark from Rosalina leaves the apprentice warlocks cowering in terror… which makes High Senator Alexa Dragonforge learn that if the Iron Horde fear her, so can the Twilight’s Hammer.
“All right.” Tylyryous says while bashing one of the warlocks in the face in his shield. “Where is the child!?”
“I said you’d have to…” the orc soon shivers in fear at the sight of Rosalina. “…beat us-” he is interrupted when Ironclaw disembowels his fellow apprentices in his saber teeth, leaving only a pile of entrails near their lifeless corpses. “I can’t tell you. Xzavyarian would rip my neck in half if I did.”
“,Ach!,I’ve killed orcs hundreds o’ times stronger than ye, ye bastard!” High Senator Mitchell Dragonbeard exclaims. “Now tell us ‘fore I give some o’ my hammer t’ taste!”
“Enough! I’ll reveal her location: the main chamber where the summoning is being held is through this tunnel beneath the trapdoor, as there more than 10 passageways to it. However, it is stained with gore: more than 2 metric tons of internal organs line the hall.”
The thought of seeing a severed internal organ lining a hall is starting to make MacKenzie feel extremely defensive over the well-being of not just her niece Athena and her son Darius, but also for all other children in the Grand Alliance.
“You didn’t just happen to… pull those out of your torture victims did you?” she demands. “You didn’t happen to kill an innocent child, did you?!”
“Those victims were only 30 years old, bitch! And your child will be next to line th-”
Uh oh: the Rosenbergs are really angry… and so are the rest of our heroes!
“How DARE you intend on murdering my son, you worthless warlock scum! He is all we have!”
“If I pass, he will succeed me as Grand Highlord of the Legion of the Silver Dragon!” Tylyryous angrily adds. “And he is to be Baron of Dragonshire!”
“The weapon I will teach him to use shall be the axe, you horrid warlock!” Alexa continues. “And yet you DARE threaten an innocent little child!”
“Anyone who would do harm to a child will keep a bullet to remember me by!” Cassius adds. “NEVER, and I mean NEVER… EVER… threaten my nephew that way!”
Now the warlock realizes his attempts to escape are completely ruined… because;
“My promises were but a fraction of those of Deathwing. But, how would the Aspect of Wisdom herself know of such-”
“Shut up, ye bastard!” Dragon Heart Councilor Maurice Ironhammer snaps. “Ye’re gonna pay fer threatenin’ the boy.”
“I agree.” Mariana says. “I can’t believe you would think on killing a child!”
“Arimi is my daughter, while the boy is the Rosenbergs’.” Joanna adds. “Children are to be loved, not beaten and abused.”
“Rosalina ‘ere ain’t likin’ sshhtuff like that. “Soilsprocket says. “One of my boysshh told me of her dissshhlike of child abussshhe.”
And just as the warlock is about to make an escape attempt;
“Not t’day, pal!” Arms Master Antoine Blackhammer says. “Ye ain’t gonna get away this easily! HAYMAKER!” He runs up to the warlock and throws a super charged punch, sending the orc bouncing around the chamber like a rubber ball… quelling our heroes’ anger long enough to laugh at him… even after he lands on the floor.
“Where did you learn that, dwarf?” the weakened warlock painfully inquires.
“Muradin taught me ‘fore I joined.” Blackhammer says. “It’s among the strongest attacks a mountain king can learn. Ain’t tha’ right, Rosalina?”
“Ironclaw, finish him off!” Mariana orders, and the frostsaber sinks his huge saber teeth into the orc’s chest, killing him instantly.”
“We apologize for yelling like that, Rosalina.” Alexa says. “Darius is all I, my brothers, and my and sister-in-law have. And just the thought of seeing him get hurt just irks me.”
“Ye ain’t th’ only one, m’lady. Vincent Kingforge, one of Mackenzie’s strongest sophomore paladins, says. “But now the way’s clear.”
“You’re right. Let’s go!”
And after Ironclaw dislodges the trapdoor, our heroes traverse the tunnel… which is stained in blood and gore. It’s a very good thing our heroes are 16 and older.
