"Derrick!" cried Rogan. He jumped onto his feet and ran to his brother. Derrick was embraced with a big hug. 

He was looked surprised for a few seconds then returned the hug.

"I was so worried about you," said Rogan, "We hadn't heard from you in days, and after the lightning strike I feared the worst."

"Don't need to worry about me," said Derrick with a  smile, "But I did find out somthing about the enemy, something that might be ver helpful."

"Oh really," said Rogan with a raised eyebrow.

I smiled and started to walk over to them. If your wondering what Derrick actually looks like, he has brown hair that lays flat on his head and he has blue eyes, but they were a very dark blue, almost black. 

"Who's this," said Derrick with a raised eyebrow, both brothers seemed to use that expression.

"This is Derrick," said Rogan with a smile, "Same name and just as interesting as the original one."

I laughed, "Pleased to meet you, Derrick. I've heard a lot about you."

"He also has a dragon, and the flame blades Ignite and Raze," said Rogan.

Derrick stopped still for a second and his eyes narrowed, "Really?"

"Yep," said Rogan with a smile.

"May I see them?" asked Derrick.

"Sure," I replied.

I summoned both the swords to my hand. They appeared in a swirling mass of flames. Derrick looked at them with studieing eyes. He looked back at me, right into my eyes. I stared back, although his gaze was quite intimadating, I knew he was only like that because of the amount of time he spent alone. 

I felt him probing at my mind, I strenghtened my shield. He didn't even flinch from the fire shield surrounding it, but he did pull away. 

"You are very interesting," said Derrick, "May I see your dragon?"

'Hey Reflamen, I've got someone here that wants to meet you,' I said.

'Oh come on! I've just got the hang of flying!' said Reflamen, 'Do I have to.'

'Yes,' I replied, 'Don't worry, Sophire will understand.'

'Okay,' said Reflamen. He started to fly over to us.

"He'll be here," I said.

Derrick nodded.

We stood there, waiting for Reflamen to land. I found myself starting to imagine, remembering how Derrick got his Forbidden Blade.

Derrick started to slowly crawl along the edge of the sand-coloured wall. It was along way to down, over a hundred metres, but what made it worse was that he couldn't stand up, in fear of being discovered by the hundreds of wild dragons flying around the temple. On one side of the wall, was a huge drop into the jungle, and on the other side was another drop into a pit full of sand. The only hint that there was something in the sand was when the sand slightly moved, and sometimes when the huge head of a mongolian death worm raised its ugly head.

So he had to slowly crawl along the wall, painfully slow. Derrick was not a patient person and like to get his missions done quickly and pricely, not slowly like he was doing now.

'What even am i doing here?' He asked himself.

He had seen the temple, and just went for it. He didn't even no why, but now he was regretting his decision, but now it was way to late to go back. So he continued the slow crawl along the wall, trying his best not to slip.

Suddenly he heard an angry cry come from above. He looked up, and saw a large angry, red dragon flying at him with incredible speed.

"Oh great," He said.

He pushed himself up and started to sprint across the wall, not missing a single step, but the dragon was steadily gaining on him. He saw the end of the wall coming up fast, he got ready to leep, just as the dragon hit him with with a backhand.

Derrick got blasted of the wall, and he was momentarily stunned, but he gained his composure quickly. He looked down and saw that he still had a long way to fall. He unhooked one of his roped shruikans from his leather tunic. He threw it at the wall. It hit the wall and the sharpened Shruikan peiced the wall easily, but he still fell, the rope untangling as he went. He took out to more shruikans and waited for the rope to end.

When it did he was jerked forward, and he started to rush towards the wall. As he got closer he put the shruikans out in front of him, waiting for impact. When it happened the shruikans stuck into the wall, and he kept hold of them, preventing himself from being sprung off the wall. Suddenly the rope snapped. Derrick looked up in surprise and saw the red dragon at the place where the shruikan had hit. It snarled at him, and started to fly down it him

'Stupid thing won't give up,' thought Derrick.

As the dragon got closer Derrick did the only thing he could do, he let go of his shruikans. He dropped like a stone. Derrick drew his short sword and stabbed it into the wall. He slid for a few metres down the wall, cutting a huge gash. The dragon saw it and went after Derrick again.

"Oh come on!" yelled Derrick, getting frustrated.

He swung himself onto the top of his sword, so he was standing on top of it. The dragon saw this move and opened it's mouth, breathing a giant fireball. Derrick lept of the sword, and started running down the wall! He let his feet speed up, until he was going faster then no human had ever done before. Just as he was about to hit the floor, he lept of the wall and landed on his feet, still running as fast as he could to try and get to the end of the sand pit, before the death worms got him. Just as he was about to get to the end, a death worm came rushing out of the ground, right under him.

Derrick was thrown back nearly a hundred metres. As he was flying through the air, he cast a will spell, and stopped himself in midair. He felt his energy beginning to sap quickly. He tried to think of a plan, but he couldn't. He was completely defencless, besides six throwing daggers and one roped shruikan. They wouldn't do much against over ten mongolian death worms.

Suddenly one of the worms lept up at him, it went surprisingly far. Derrick cursed and cancled the spell, making him drop back to the ground. He spotted a brick circle only about twenty metres from where he stood. He made a beline for it, dodging the death worms as he went. He jumped onto the circle and saw a death worm run into it, and get cut into peices, blood was throwen everywhere.

Derrick looked at his surroundings. As he suspected he was on a large brick circle. It was grey and covered in hundreds of different symbols, but what drew his attention the most was a large single edged sword that was just lying on the ground. Derrick walked over to it and picked it up. Power seemed to flow through him. The sword fit perfectly in his hand and the weight was perfect.

"What would a perfectly good sword like this be lying around here?" he asked himself.

Suddenly he spun around, with out even meaning to, and sliced the sword through the air. The sword quadribled in size and shadow engolfed it. The death worm behind him was cut in half, easily. Derrick took a step back and dropped the sword. It dissappeared. Derrick didn't notice and he looked at the monglian death worm.

"How," he noticed the sword had gone, but he didn't look for it, he just stared at his hand, "No way."

He put up his hand and the sword appeared in a swirling mass of shadow.

"The Forbidden Blade," said Derrick.

Derrick was still studieng me with an intense gaze. Reflamen appeared in the sky and he glided down to us.

"You can fly!" I said. 

Reflamen smiled, 'It's awsome! I'm the first one as well. The wind against my wings feels amazing! Do you think you can ride me yet?'

"No, not yet," I said with a smile. I turned to Derrick, "This is Reflamen, my dragon."

Derrick walked over to Relflamen and studied him, "He's an interesting colour. Is he sick?"

"No," I said, "He was just born that way."

Derrick nodded.

"He's healthy, and big for his age," said Derrick. 

I smiled, "He is, isn't he."

"Well, you're a good dragon rider, and you're powerful, but lets see how you go against the sword," said Derrick. He reached for his scabbarad and pulled out his sword.

"New sword?" said Rogan.

Derrick smiled, "Yeah, picked it up on the way.'

'Oh great,' I thought, 'He's going to use the forbidden blade.'

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