The Journey of Occavatra Book 1: The 13 Lords of Chaos Episode #19: Three Heads are a Lot Worse than Two

(Occavatra and Irene took a few minutes to catch their breaths and dry off before they have to face the newly summoned beast.)

Irene: *dries off her hair with a towel.* What is that? I thought I saw three serpents in the lake.

Occavatra: It would make our fight easier if it was, but it’s a three-headed hydra and it’s flooding the cliff houses. (Both of their eyes widened as they witnesses one of the hydra heads spew water at a residential section. Not everyone had time to react, sadly.) If these hydra heads keep adding water, then the flood could spread to Mobius. We have to take it down.

Irene: Come on, then. Let’s go. (She and Occavatra finished drying their heads and they walked to some kind of grass beach. The moment they see the runed rocks, they became curious about what they were doing there.)

Occavatra: I think we came to some ancient civilization.

Irene: (kneeling down to examine them.) Those rocks don’t look ancient and their stance is vertical just like the other runed rocks.

Occavatra: Maybe the magic inside lingered all these years.

Irene: I doubt that. Look. (She points at the beam of light that touched the Inverted Tower.) There’s no way Escherion’s reign existed that long. Those rocks are supporting the tower.

Occavatra: Oh? *smiling* I got it. The only way to get rid of the Hydra is to knock this tower down. Not only will we free Cody, but this will give people in Mobius a fighting chance.

Irene: That’s great. To make the process go faster, I’ll destroy one and you destroy another.

Occavatra: *worried* What happens if the Hydra is smarter than it looks and knows what we’re up to?

Irene: It wouldn’t surprise me, but we’ll do okay. They’re not powerful enough to drown us because we know how to swim.

Occavatra: It’s great that swimming comes in handy during times like this. (Irene winks at him just as a warrior with a wooden club approaches them.) Hello, we’re relieved that another fighter has arrived.

Pyths: Likewise, dude. Renn and Zio sent me here to investigate the lake, but from the looks of that creature, it’s not quite possible. I wouldn’t bother destroying these rocks with your magical powers. They’re invulnerable.

Irene: *worrisome* Oh, no. What are we going to do now?

Pyths: Don’t despair, young lady. What I meant was they are immune to every power in the world except for a hydra’s tooth.

Occavatra: It sounds troublesome because then, we’d have to beat up the hydra heads.

Irene: Like I said, they’re not powerful enough to drown us. *smiling* We can take them.

Pyths: Wow, you’re braver than I thought. Who are you?

Irene: My name is Irene and this golden-armored man is Occavatra. And you are?

Pyths: You can call me Pyths. I’m a resident in Mobius and I have resisted Escherion’s reign since his very arrival.

Occavatra: It’s good reason to be sent to us. Are you ready to resist some more?

Pyths: *lightly tapping his club on his palm.* Yes, I am ready. (He, Occavatra, and Irene rush to the cliffside and confronted the hydra. One of them stopped flooding the cliff houses and began to chomp at Occavatra, only to have both of its teeth yanked out.*

Occavatra: Talk about a trip to a dentist. Irene, look out!!! (Another hydra head opens its mouth and rushes toward a cornered Irene, but she took out her wand, aimed it at the ground, and casts a spell that causes a piece of the ground to slant upwards and hitting the head’s front teeth, knocking them out of its mouth for Irene to catch.)

Irene: Don’t worry about me. I got it under control, but things are a little rocky on Pyths’s side of the battlefield. (The third hydra head chased Pyths across the coast and each time it came close to biting him, Pyths jumped back a little and kept running. Suddenly, Pyths tripped on a rock and dropped his club. His eyes widened helplessly as the hydra head gets ready to go in for the kill. He grabs his club, aims at the teeth as if they were a pitch in a baseball game. The head got near Pyths and the next thing that happened was that he swung the club and knocked ninety-eight percent of the head’s teeth out. Pyths picked them all out and rejoins Occavatra and Irene in the fight against their individual hydra heads. The third head comes to, moves over toward Pyths, and joins its fellow heads in going in for the nearly toothless kill.)

Pyths: What could they do to us now, swallow us whole?

Occavatra: *gulping* It can happen, but we can’t stay idle long enough to find out.

Pyths: Use your special attacks! (The hydra heads open their mouths and leaned toward the trio, but Occavatra launched several fireballs, Irene punched the air to form several powerful gusts of wind, and Pyths hit a hydra head on its scalp. All three hydra heads become temporally immobilized.) Whew, we did it. It should keep the hydra heads out of our way for a bit.

Irene: We still have to use these teeth to destroy the runed rocks. We’ll split up to make this process go faster, but we must hurry. The hydra heads won’t be out cold for very long. (And so, the trio run around the beach to puncture the rocks with the teeth. Several scratches were enough to shatter each rock into several dozen tiny pebbles. A few minutes later, Occavatra destroyed the last rock and the tower started to sway back and forth. Concerned, Irene and Pyths rush to Occavatra and pulled him out of the way.)

Occavatra: We finally disabled support of the tower. It’s going to fall down any second now.

Irene: Suppose it leans in that direction. All of your bones could get broken.

Occavatra: It would’ve been terrifying if it did. *shudders.*

Pyths: *pointing at the tower.* But look. It’s not swaying in that direction. It’s coming down toward the heads.

Occavatra: *smiling* That’s perfect. All we can do now is watch. (The Inverted Tower sways more and more off-balance until it slams down on the hydra heads, rendering them trapped underneath the broken tower. The trio cheered.) Woohoo!!!

Irene: We saved the cliff residents and more importantly, Mobius.

Pyths: We couldn’t have done it without each other.

Occavatra: We couldn’t have broken the rocks if you didn’t tell us that we needed the teeth.

Pyths: *smiling* It’s nothing. I do that sort of thing all the time. *sighs* The deed is done and Escherion is now helpless. I’ll be right over to get the residents over there. You two go trap him in his own domain until I get there.

Occavatra: You got it, Pyths. (He shakes Pyths’s hand and Pyths dashes off with Occavatra and Irene waving after him. The duo look at the crack in the tower and smile at each other.) Going in?

Irene: Don’t mind if I do.

Occavatra: Ladies first. (Irene entered the tower and Occavatra, taking a deep breath, follows her inside, to confront the First Lord of Chaos once and for all.)

 

Until next time;

-Occavatra