"You think this will work?" We had gotten into the factory and aquired barrels of black powder, I say we but it was really me and the rest sitting at the door looking on like the damn cowards they are. I was currently overloaded with the stuff. Stretched to my limit with each overwhelmingly heavy barrel, I worried for a moment that the lantern I was carrying would set one of these off. It was only a moment though because honestly if it set it off its not like I'd be around to complain about the result.
"No, but its not like we have a lot of choice honestly, food's running out and doubly so with me here, and no one else is coming. It's this or we go out there and try and curse it away." Cursing something away sounded hilarious, but I was sure I didn't actually want to try it (still haven't, or I haven't found that in cursing something with words it actually does anything, there are blood curses that can be quite useful, though probably not on fog creatures). My logic unassailable they opened the door enough to basically toss me out in the fog and shut it behind me. I heard the latch set before I could even turn around.
The idea was simple in theory. The fog was one large creature, each part of it could be hurt individually with a bit of fire and explosion. So spread enough of those explosions out and you'll kill the whole creature (again if they were right about the beast, I had my doubts obviously not enough of them to not try). The creatures in the fog were still there they had been cloistered near the doors, as I walked they followed just outside of lantern light. I got far enough away from the factory (because my black powder wasn't the only black powder there and if I blew up the factory I don't think that Hanlon would be too happy), and set my first deadly charge of black powder, I had a total of five kegs loaded up on my back, and I had to hope they'd be enough.
With my first charge laid I uncorked the next one and started dragging it towards the next spot. I figured a large circle do the most damage (a killing blow as it were). Also it allowed me my best chance to actually set fire to the damn things. So I drew my circle of black powder all the while the fog creatures seemed to keep their distance as if in curiosity. I made my to the middle (When blowing up a circle of blackpowder, what safer place to be than in the middle of it you ask? well anywhere really). And placed the lantern on the ground. I could hear the creatures around me, feel the tiredness seeping in. With a flourish of my hands I lit of circle of fire around me, it burned the grass and lightened the fog, the creatures recoiled back. With the fog drawn back I could see one of my kegs and willed it to ignition. I've heard loud things before, this was one of those. The first keg exploded and the next four followed with it like a really simple game of explosive dominoes. As loud as the black powder explosion was, a roar echoed above it. And the fog all receeded.
I was about to congratulate myself on another job well done when I heard something (ever so fainlty over the ringing in my damn ears) crunch to the earth behind me. I turned around my sword raised to see an opaque looking dragon, its eyes full of murder.
"Crap." Was about all I could think of, and if I wasn't fast enough, crap was all I was about to become.
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