The Griffin suddenly leapt at Zack .
Rainbow colored light split the room, a magic barrier formed keeping Zack on one side, and his friends on the other.
The Griffin had leapt into the air, flapped its wings once, and in a second was in front of Zack, it swung its talons at him ,trying to tear him apart, with twelve inch long sharp talons .
Zack jumped back, and the talons of the Griffin hit only air .
Zack's armor was glowing blood red ,and the Embossed dragon on the front of the breast plate, started to glow with a silvery white light.
The armor seemed to sense an attack, a second before it happened, not a lot of time ,but for some one with the speed and reactions of Zack, a second was enough for him to move out of the way .
The Griffin's golden eyes noticed the smallest of movements, the Griffin took in details most would not notice, or even see.
Zack had jumped back and avoided the talons , however the Griffin had responded to the movement of Zack ,at the same moment Zack jumped back, the Griffin swung its Venom tipped snake like tail, the tale struck Zack,and sent him flying across the hall.
Zack hit the wall so hard, that he was embedded in the smooth rock of the wall .
The Griffin spread its wings and bolts of blue lightning shot forth and struck Zack over and over lightning hit the rock wall and the stone floor and every where the lightning hit melted.
The Blood Armor had energy flowing over it, glowing blood red, the lightning struck the energy of the Blood Armor and was blocked. Thanks to the powerful Blood Armor ,Zack had sustained no damage, and the Armor was not even scratched.
On the stone platform the sword was glowing brighter than before , the sword sensing its master was near, longed to be with him and the armor once more.
Zack pulled himself free of the wall, and jumped high into the air and became mist , Zack avoided the Lightning attacks by becoming mist, and moved away from the Griffin .
Zack reformed and was floating in the air ,fire encompass his entire body.
Quickly the fire grew, and became a great ball of fire in front of him ,the ball of fire flashed out and headed straight at the Griffin, the flames struck the Griffin in the chest.
The Griffin screeched in rage, but the flames have done nothing to harm it.
The Griffin flapped its wings and feathers harder than steel ,and as sharp as a razor flew at Zack ,as they hit his armor the feathers disintegrated.
One of the feather ,had sliced open Zack's unprotected cheek, and blood flowed from the deep cut.
The Blood Armor protected his body ,not his head ,the crown of the king provided protection for his head, however Zack was not currently in possession of the crown.
Zack used his power of blood, to bring all the blood that he had spilled, every drop even the blood that had hit the floor, into a ball of condensed blood that,that floated before him, Zack threw it out as fast as he could at the Griffin .
The Griffin moved with a speed defying its size ,and the blood ball hit the smooth rock wall of the hall, a large hole was made in the rock, and the blood ball returned to Zack's hand .
The Griffin swung its tail ,and the tail shot poisonous venom at Zack, the venom hit the space that Zack had been, a second before Zack stepped to the side ,and the venom hit the floor ,and like a strong acid melted the stone where it touched .
Zack ran forward and struck out with his sword, the Griffin blocked the blade with its wing ,and Zack's sword broke .
Zack had no weapon ,the Griffin had broken the elven made sword ,the strength of the Griffin was impressive.
The swords made by the Dark Elves, were of the finest steel, magic was embedded in the steel during its forging process, making the blade virtually indestructible.
The Griffin hit Zack with its other wing and once more Zack was sent flying into the wall .
Zack hit the wall with such force that he coughed up blood ,Even though the armor took the brunt of the impact, Zack had still been hurt his ribs were broken they were healing fast but the wind had been knocked out of him and he fell to his knees . The Griffin screeched and attacked Zack with his talons.
Zack sank into his own shadow and disappeared from sight the talons of the Griffin hit the shadow on the ground and nothing else .
Zack was not sure how he had done it but he had used shadow power and became a appeared in his own shadow realm the strikes of the Griffin could not touch him .
Zack moved through the shadows, a dark shadow within the shadows .
Zack cautiously moved towards the stone platform where his sword rested .
The Griffin was enraged he could not sense his opponent, he could not smell nor see him, he had vanished , the Griffin knew he was still there somewhere, and yet he couldn't find him .
Zack had moved closer to the sword and the Griffin had not seen him .
Zack decided that his best chance was to get the sword and then attack the Griffin .
Zack reached the platform and emerged from the shadows, reaching forward Zack quickly grabbed his sword .
The Griffin screeched at Zack .
"How dare you" screamed the Griffin .
Zack held his sword, and he felt the connection between himself the sword and his armor .
Power flowed through him, and Zack knew that he now had more power than before, his armor was stronger now ,his sword felt like it was an extension of himself, and in a way it was, the sword and armor contained a very small part of his soul, as did and the crown and the Ring ,when they're all brought together in the possession of the true king, the power is unlocked .
The sword and the armor were together, the armor although powerful on its own, had increased in power being united with the sword .
The Griffin unleashed lightning and fire at the same time, the lightning hit Zack, and a second later so did the fire the Griffin had thrown at him .
The lightning and fire ,struck the glowing energy of the Blood Armor and dissipated.
Zack was unscathed ,the attack from the Griffin had caused no damage to him .
Zack rushed forward from his position, and leapt up into the air ,he swung his sword at the head of the Griffin and missed.
The Griffin had sensed the attack and moved its head out of the way.
Zack's sword had passed within inches of its neck.
Zack floated up into the air and bat wings came from his back, Zack threw the blood ball at the Griffins head, and disappeared into his own shadow once more .
A dark shadow moved across the floor and behind the Griffin.
Emerging from the shadow ,Zack swung his sword at the body of the Griffin, and at the same time called the blood ball back to him, and threw it towards the head of the Griffin once more.
Zack's blood ball missed ,but the sword did not, his sword had sliced a deep cut into the left wing of the Griffin ,almost severing the wing completely .
Zack sank into shadow again ,and this time Zack gathered all the shadow in the hall together, and cast the hall in shadows.
Zack could move freely, and the Griffin could not determine where he was.
Zack flew up level with the head of the beast, and with his sword stabbed the Griffin in the eye ,his sword went through the golden eye of the Griffin ,and pierced the brain of the creature .
Zack pulled his sword free from the Griffin, the Griffin screamed ,and flames and lightning flew everywhere, the Griffin leaped across the room and landed on the other side of the hall ,blood streaming from its eye.
The creature fixed its one good eye on Zack, and stared at him with a look of pure hatred.
"You will die now little thing , I will feast on you " said the Griffin.
Zack ran as fast as he could towards the Griffin ,and threw the blood ball out again ,this time the blood ball was blocked by flames from the Griffin ,and when the blood hit the flames the blood ball disintegrated.
Zack turned to shadow once more, and disappeared before the Griffin could attack again.
Zack suddenly reappeared right in front of the Griffin, and stabbed his sword though the chest of the beast ,right into the heart of the Griffin.
Zack pulled his sword from the body of the Griffin ,and as the creature took it's last breath it said ,"you were a worthy opponent " and the life left its body .
Suddenly the magic power that was contained in the body of the Griffin ,turned into particles of golden light, and passed into Zack.