Level 40. The Dragon (300 fighters) and The Serpent (140 wizards) are waiting. Full crew fight. Everyone gets a moment. They win and take both as prisoners.
[Verse 1]
Level forty
And they were waiting
The Dragon — three hundred fighters
Disciplined, armed, ready
The Serpent — one hundred and forty wizards
Already casting, already moving
Twelve versus four hundred and forty
The math did not favor twelve
[Pre-Chorus]
Solara looked at her crew
Her crew looked at the field
Herc cracked his knuckles
[Chorus]
Dragon and Serpent
Four hundred and forty
Dragon and Serpent
We go anyway
This crew has been to thirty-nine levels
This crew has fought a Leviathan
This crew has a cook with a fifty thousand bounty
Dragon and Serpent —
We go
[Verse 2]
Herc went first
(obviously)
(Herc always goes first)
(three hundred fighters, Herc, approximately four minutes)
Cassie took the left flank
Lara from above — wings wide, not gentle
Aldric in formation behind her — precise
Castor moving through the middle like starlight
Rion — distance, every shot counted
Persy — negotiating with anyone who paused
(nobody paused)
(Persy fought anyway)
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Cygnus danced through the wizards
(this sounds wrong)
(it was extremely effective)
Crotus — all four legs, all of them working
Draco and Hydra watched from the prisoner position
They were technically still prisoners
They watched very carefully
[Chorus]
Dragon and Serpent
Still standing, barely
Dragon and Serpent
The crew is standing
Twelve against four forty
Every crew member moved today
Every crew member contributed
Dragon and Serpent —
We won
[Bridge]
The Dragon stood
The Serpent stood
Both of them looked at twelve people
Who had just done that
Nobody spoke
[Final Chorus]
Dragon and Serpent
What do we do with you
Dragon and Serpent
They won’t talk
Solara looked at them
Looked at the gate to level forty-one
Looked back
“You’re coming with us”
[Outro]
The Dragon said nothing
The Serpent said nothing
The crew moved toward level forty-one
Plus two
[footsteps — fourteen now]
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