Story

The small stones fell of the mountain as if they were afraid of something up there. Steven and Mike looked miniscule compared to the massive mountain. “I guess we’re here” Steven said. Mike gave a small grin as if they accomplished something fairly simple. Their journey for the sword took longer than they thought.“We have to find the opening in the mountain.” Mike excalimed with a serious tone.
“What are we waiting for, let’s get going.” This set their journey off. In the first hour they went a third around the mountain and successfully found the entrance to the maze. They started climbing. Most of the rocks weren't stable and when stepped on crumbled. This mountain was created by the eruption of the volcano on the top. The lava spilled and a layer of fragile pumice covered the ground. After a while of walking they needed a break. They found a rather flat space and sat down. Their shirts got blackened because of the dust that was created by the volcano. Steve looked at mike’s short black hair and took in his facial features. Why was the main word in his mind. Why him? Why is he doing this? Why was he here? All these emotions burst out and he just had to ask. “Why are you doing this?”
“I don’t know really, but I have had these weird dreams lately. They told me that i should find you and.. And here we are. It started not too long ago actually, a week or so before we met up”
“I also had these dreams, they come up once in a while."
"Do they tell you anything?"
"No, they're relly just images but they can't get out of my head."
A rumble from the inside of the mountain stopped their conversation. They thought that something
mightve been happening so they left as soon as possible. They put the half eaten sandwiches in their bags and set off. They walked for what felt like a mile before they reached the mouth of this cave.

The smell of rotting bodies which reached their noses instantly was so powerful, they needed to cover their noses. They ripped some of the fabric off of their shirt sleeves and wrapped it around their heads and noses. This benefited them a lot as something upcoming was about to get dangerous. A massive shreik like an eagle's but almost being like a lions rawr at the same time. The two guys knew they were in trouble. They took out their knives and got into a ready stance to protect themselves from any upcoming attacks. A massive creature with the body of a lion and a head of an eagle stood up to them and was making the distance between them smaller by the second. To their surprise the wings that they had were not as strong as they thought they would be.With a quick strike, Mike cut the creatures leg really close to its wingsIt was limping. "Let's go!" screamed Mike but he said it too soon. With it's powerful legs it hit the wall and the stalactites fell off the ceilings. Mike was unfortunately placed under all of them. Steve shouted to watch out. Mike jumped but it was too late and one of them  impaled his shin. With a great scream of pain, mike fell to,the ground. Steve threw the knife at the beast to buy himself some time. He went over to mike and said "i need to finish this off myself since you can't."
"Do it for me" mike said. As Steve started to go to mike said "if i don't make it tell my family i will miss them.". With a heart pumped with fire from Mike he went into the battle.

He ran at it with an attempt to intimidate it but he had no chance to scare such a beast. He got another cut on the legs but on the other one. This was his chance. He ran off the wall at it but with a powerful strike from the beak it threw him a couple meteres away. It was weakened and if steve didnt take this opportunity they would get a certain death. He ran at it with a scream and with a final blowto the neck he killed the beast. The sword was theirs and a chance to kill Olum arose...