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Confront the Shadows
an illustrated tale
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    Suddenly Garalt could see the red dragon flying above him.  Garalt first thought that he would come to his rescue, but it soon became clear that Formeathan wanted to do more damage to his sister.  Formeathan flew toward the wounded dragon, and in one pass, wrapped his fingers around the base of her wings and ripped them completely off!  Again, the black dragon screamed in horrible pain as Formeathan flew off carrying two disembodied wings.  But this time, however, there would be no recovery for the black dragon.  Without her wings, Tel'Karak Zrahl began to free fall like Garalt, head first towards the ground.

    Garalt attention was quickly shifted by a sharp, hot pain coming from his right hand.  Garalt quickly looked and saw that his gauntlet was covered in the black dragon's blood.  Garalt hadn't really paid any attention to the amount of blood that must have come from the dragon's eye.  But to his surprise, as Garalt looked closer, the blood was actually eating away at the gauntlet and was now burning his hand.  Garalt quickly pulled off the tainted glove and tossed it into the air beside him.  Garalt stared at it for a few seconds, as it disintegrated into nothing.
    "FEATHER FALL!" a familiar voice called out from below.
    Garalt looked about and noticed that he was no longer falling near as fast as he had been.  
    "Greylen you wonderful man!" Garalt shouted, smiling.
 
    Garalt turned just in time to see the black dragon, at full speed, slam into the mountain side.  The dragon hit with such force that though Garalt was in the air, he could almost feel the countryside shaking.  The dragon lifted dirt and debris high into the air, causing a cloud of dust and earth several hundred feet high.  The dragon quickly tumbled out of the cloud and down the slope of the mountain, pushing mounds of earth out of her way.  She came to rest not very far from where Garalt seemed to be floating to, and did not move much afterward.  As Garalt touched his feet to the ground once more, all he could hear were the feint breathing sounds coming from a very injured beast.
    Suddenly the green dragon pounced upon the black dragon, pinning her to the ground.  Tel'Karak weakly struggled against her brother, but it was to no avail.  Garalt put his hands on his hips and smiled at the scene.  

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