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Aviditas, and Virtus entered the tavern Drunk or Dead. Aviditas scanned the room until he saw in the back of the room a booth with one very well dressed, and clean man surrounded by several very large men who was obviously protecting the man. Virtus started his way over to the bar, but Aviditas grabbed him by his collar, and pointed him in the direction of their contact. "You're no fun." Virtus pouted as his brother shoved him forward. As they made their way over Virtus couldn't help but to pickpocket the tavern's patrons completely unnoticed.

Once the brothers approached the booth the rather intimidating guards looked them up and down. The brothers didn't show any sort of sign of intimidation. "Let them through." Their boss ordered. "Freyd." Aviditas said. "Ah the Trevand brothers! How are my favorite mercenaries doing?" Freyd asked as the two sat down across from him. "You know, same old same old. Bored out of my mind. Seriously how do you even live in a city like this? I'd go crazy within a week." Virtus answered as he leaned back in his seat. "Yes, well I find other things to occupy my time."

"Enough of this frivolity. What is the job?" Aviditas asked. "Ah Aviditas, as blunt as ever I see? Very well." Freyd replied as he took a sip of his drink. "Some of my people have spotted a dragon outside the city. I'm sure you're aware how rare these creatures are. I've got some people ready to contain the beast, but I need you two to subdue it." Freyd stated as he continued to drinking. Virtus looked over at his guards, then back at Freyd. "And why can't your goons do this?" he asked. "Well, my people are useful mind you, but they're not as battle tested as you two. I'd prefer not to lose a couple dozen of men over one monster, no matter how valuable." Freyd replied. "But you have no problem with sending us into the fray? Here I thought we were your favorite mercenaries." Freyd just replied with a chuckle.

"What's the pay?" Aviditas asked bringing the conversation back on track. Freyd snapped his fingers and one of his guards placed four large bags of gold on the table. The boys mouths were practically watering at the sight. "Very well, point us in the right direction and we'll get it done." Aviditas said as he regained his composure. Freyd snapped his fingers again and a different guard handed them a map that showed the location of where the dragon was last seen. The guard also gave them a flask filled with some kind of purple liquid. "I had my top alchemist whip this little number up. All you have to do is throw this in the lizard's mouth, and boom, it's in a deep sleep for several hours, long enough for us to get it contained. Good luck boys." Freyd said, then he and his men left the tavern. "Oh this is gonna be fun!"

The two left the tavern not to soon after. "Oh man! I can't wait! Haven't faced a beast like this in a while!" Virtus exclaimed to his brother. "Settle down. This won't be a walk in a park. Dragons aren't welcome in Valon, and since it isn't on a rampage it's most likely under control by a dragon rider." Aviditas stated. "Oh! You think he'll be there? Haven't killed a rider before!" Virtus was obviously excited by the prospect of facing someone as skill as the dragon riders of legend. The two returned to their safe house and set up their horses to the carriage.

They quickly rode out of the city and towards the location on the map. Once they arrived they were greeted by several of Freyd's men with very large nets. "Are you the mercenaries?" one of the men asked. "Who else would we be?" Virtus smirked. "We've been ordered to follow your orders. the dragon is over this ridge here." the man replied. "We'll go down and subdue the dragon. I need four groups of men on each side of the dragon. Watch for a signal from me incase we get overwhelmed, then you'll come down and back us up. Once it's subdued you all need to rush down there and toss your nets on it."

"Ok people get into position." Aviditas ordered. He threw a nod over at his brother, and Virtus went over to the back of their carriage. "Let's see....no.....no......ah ha!" Virtus said as he rummaged through some things on the cart until he found a flask full of a black powder. This was a smokescreen. He also grabbed his bow and quiver, and stood next to his brother. "Alright, we're doing the Fulcan Shift." Aviditas said to his brother. Virtus smiled, and gave him a nod as he dashed away from him.

Aviditas took a deep breath, and exhaled. He went over towards the mighty dragon, making sure his presence was known by smacking his axe against his shield. He scanned the immediate area, looking for the rider, he didn't see anyone. "Where's your master beast?" Aviditas asked making sure it's attention was fully on him. Then up on top of the ridge Virtus threw the smoke bomb directly into the dragon's eye, causing a thick cloud of smoke to cover the entire creature's body. Virtus then started to fire arrows rapidly into the cloud, with most of them just breaking apart when they hit the dragon's scales. Aviditas held up his shield, and prepared for combat.