Twin Sigils
The sky was dark with thundering clouds. Flashes of lightning lit the battlefield, where scores of soldiers lie dead. The dragon exhaled one more breath of chilling air at the surviving soldiers and extended its wings.
“It’s going to escape!” shouted the captain.
Two robed figures dashed past the captain and pulled back their hoods as they did. Nathan, armed with a dividers in his right hand, followed his twin brother Blake, who’s moving swiftly ahead.
“Pincer attack on the head!” Blake pointed at the already airborne dragon with his dividers in the left hand. Then he jumped and flew towards the dragon’s fleshy part near the chin.
Bracing himself, Nathan jumped after his brother and vanished in mid-air, to appear above the dragon’s mouth. Falling down, he aimed his dividers downwards and plunged the sharp ends onto the dragon’s snout. As he did so, Blake pierced the dragon at the underside of its mouth with his dividers.
The foul beast roared in pain and knocked Nathan off. It reared its head and snapped at Blake, who managed to dodge away from its maw. Then he flew after the falling Nathan.
As Blake caught him, Nathan traced a sigil and sent it glowing red towards the dragon. The brothers spun around once in the air and a glowing white sigil streaked from Blake’s hands following the red sigil.
The twins landed just as the red sigil contacted Nathan’s dividers and the white sigil hit Blake’s dividers.
“Phireohm!” shouted the twins, with their hands extended towards the dragon’s mouth.
Fire exploded from the red sigil, engulfing the mouth of the dragon. Lightning streaked from the clouds to join those erupting from the white sigil. The dragon writhed in pain for a while, struggling to keep aloft, before giving one final roar and fell to the ground in a great ball of crackling flame and lightning.
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This is a short story featuring a pair of twins who are math wizards. Phireohm is a spell combining both fire and lightning.
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I play D&D semi-regularly. I like magic users (thus mostly falling into controller roles). I tell funny adventure stories.
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