Grerro shook his head, he felt something clamped around his arms. Grerro looked up and saw that he was being dragged through a tunnel. Then he turned to look at who was dragging him, two griffins in brown and green leather cuirasses with grim faces. The one holding his right arm noticed he was awake.
"Hey, he's up!" He said to the other griffin, who looked at Grerro.
"Well we'll see if he can walk, drop him." Suddenly the pair dropped him, Grerro stumbled but soon stood up, a bit shaky though. "Ha! Knew that he was a fighter when we picked him up, eh?" The other griffin said to the first.
"W-who are you two?" Grerro asked, the pair smirked at him.
"Ulf and Wulf, at your service." The pair of griffins said in sync, Grerro's eyes widened.
"You were there to pick me up and take me here!" Grerro yelled and Ulf, or maybe Wulf, laughed.
"Yeah, but now we're here to get you out of here!" Wulf said, just as the ground suddenly shook.
The three griffins turned and looked back the way they came, the ground behind them was rising up and falling down. Then a small bright light slowly grew from far down the tunnel, Grerro yelled in shock and shoved the twins.
"Move!" He roared and the trio sprinted down the tunnel, the fireball was making the tunnel brighter which meant it was getting closer. Suddenly Ulf throws his body to the side and disappears, Grerro soon finds himself getting thrown through the wall by Wulf. He groans and pushes himself up, Grerro looks around and his beak drops.
They were inside a massive room, there were four pillars in each corner and what appeared to be a massive pipe organ on the other side of the room. Grerro turned to Ulf, who was also looking around in awe.
"How'd you know that wall was fake?" He asked, Ulf turned to him.
"I-I didn't, I was just pulled into here!" Ulf said in surprise, suddenly the sound of heavy footsteps echoed loudly in the room. A pair of Brass Knights walk into view, both had glowing white glaives and large white cloaks, these were Brass Praetorians. They were walking behind a towering soldier, a Brass Tower to be precise. The colossal soldier stopped in the middle of the room, then walked towards the organ, his Praetorians following behind him. The Tower pulled a large chair from under the king of instruments and sat upon it, the two Praetorians suddenly turned and spotted the three griffins. The Tower let out a loud chuckle, it echoed in the room.
"Let this be the last thing you hear, before we erupt from the earth." The Tower said as the pair of Brass Praetorians marched away from each other and towards the griffins, then the Tower raised his hands to the pipe organ. The sound that played was so chaotic, but it still played loud and clear.
The Praetorian on the left suddenly ran forwards at Ulf, who quickly pulled a sword out and flew into the air. The other Brass Praetorian slowly walked towards Grerro and Wulf, then pulled an arm back and threw a white orb at the pair. It arched and landed between them, then it exploded and sent the two griffins flying. The first Praetorian thrust his glaive at Ulf, but he flew around it and slashed at the Praetorian as he swooped past, the royal soldier let out a small grunt.
Wuff rolled to the side as the Praetorian tried to crush him under his boot, then Grerro's vision tinted. His talons turned a brass colour and he looked at the Praetorian that was about to throw another explosive orb, Grerro suddenly dash to the soldier and smashed a fist into his chest. The Praetorian stumbled back and grabbed Grerro's throat, he raised the griffin into the air before pulling his glaive back and thrusting it through Grerro. The griffin yelled out as the Praetorian raised his glaive over his head and then launched Grerro into the floor, the other Praetorian felt Ulf fly past him and spun around with a haymaker ready. But Wulf flew forwards and slammed into the Praetorian's leg, the soldier stumbled and Ulf slashed at his head.
Grerro roared and flew into the air, the Brass Praetorian stood his ground as the enraged griffin bellowed in anger. Then Grerro disappeared, the Praetorian turned his head slightly then felt something sharp. The soldier roared in pain as Grerro appears, talons covered in black blood. The Praetorian held a hand against his side and stumbled a little, then he morphed his glaive into a large sword. A large white rune ran down it's blade, the Praetorian turned and held the greatsword so that it was pointed at Grerro. But Grerro didn't charge him, but instead spun around and smashed a fist into the back of the occupied Praetorian's head. The soldier stumbled forwards, both Ulf and Wulf took initiative and slashed at the Praetorian's shins. The Brass Praetorian fell forwards and landed with a loud bang, as he pushed himself up, Wulf walked to his head and shoved his sword deep into the Praetorian's faceplate. The other Praetorian stepped back as the other royal soldier dissolved into ash, he stopped and took a stance. Then Grerro appeared in his vision and smashed a talon through the Praetorian's faceplate, the soldier collapsed and dissolved next to the other pile.
The music stopped and the three griffins turned to the pipe organ, the Brass Tower stood and turned around to glare down at the three griffins.
"Well this is a surprise, you managed to survive. Then before you kill me, I'll make your objective clear." The Tower walked to one of the empty walls and placed a hand on it, soon it opened outwards and revealed a long hallway. The Brass Tower then turned to the three griffins, pulling a large sword from a scabbard on his hip. The Tower raised it above his head, but Grerro quickly dashed forwards and slammed his talons into the Tower's throat. The large soldier shuddered and let his sword slip over his head, the massive blade made a thunderous clang. Grerro slowly descended and turned to look at the twins, who were in awe.
"WHAT WAS THAT?" Wulf roared and Grerro cringed at the volume.
"It... it just happens when I fight, I change." Grerro said and Wulf blinked. "But enough of that, we need to find out where we are." Grerro said as he walked through the open door, soon the twins followed.
After wandering down the hall for what seemed like hours, Grerro came across a large door. He pushed it open and found himself on a balcony, the trio of griffins moved to the edge and gasped. They were hundreds of feet up in the air, they could make out the shapes of houses below them and fires that were sweeping across them. Suddenly the sound of a door opening caused the griffins to turn, there was other door and coming from it was a Brass Knight.
"How did you get up here!?" The knight yelled as he pulled a sword out, Grerro tackled the knight and tumbled through the doorway. He raised his talons up and slashed through the knight's throat, the Brass Knight dissolved and Grerro looked up. Down the new hallway was a number of doors, a lot of doors. Suddenly one of the farthest doors burst open, a knight was thrown back and slammed into the wall and dissolved. A dark shape emerged, with the silhouette of a pegasus. The pegasus turned their head towards the griffins, then simply faded away.
"The buck was that?" Ulf wondered aloud, Grerro just shook his head.
"It's nothing, come on." Grerro said and ran to the open door, he peered in and saw a large open area with lots of crates. Then Grerro saw an airship fly past, this was a dock. Hundreds of griffins in both brass armor and leather were clashing with knights, Grerro turned to Ulf and Wulf with a smirk.
"Let's free Griffinstone!" Grerro bellowed and charged with the twins into the fray.
Within the Brass Throne room
The towering shadowy shape apon the throne slowly clenched a fist, then let out a low growl. The Praetorians that were standing in the throne room by the doors flinched, suddenly the shape apon the throne let out a roar and smashed a fist down.
"Those pests have ruined everything! They have stopped the organ, they have assaulted our stronghold and now more are coming!" The shadow growled and stood up, the Brass Praetorians cowered slightly. "It's time, to make the heavens fall..." The shadow stated, immediately the pair of Praetorians gripped two levers the were nearby and heaved on them. The throne descended and the shadow raised his hands in front of him, towards the far wall. Suddenly they burst into a bright orange colour and a massive swirling pool appeared, shapes moved within and slowly grew larger...