Maylstrom raised an eyebrow. "You came here alone? Did you not want to endanger the other mages of the towers or did they not like you enough to help? Either way, you've made a grand error, Wizard."

"The only mistake in coming here was yours, Maylstrom. You should have stayed in your own time. As for my mages, this is between us. I'll not let you use their lives as a crutch to distract me from giving you what is due." Seanan yelled back. "But enough banter, this will end here and now."

The mage and the dragon fought for several hours destroying Maylstrom's lair in the process. The Dragon was reluctant to use his fiery breath weapon at first for fear of destroying his experiments, but a lightning blast from Seanan's staff turned his large scale alchemy experiments into mostly ashes and fire. Finally, Maylstrom let loose all of his power and destroyed a good portion of the great forest in which he resided. Smoke and ashes blew into the horizon and was noticed by another red dragon. This one was large for a dragon, even by today's standards but no where near the size of Maylstrom. Soaring through the sky, Galeru saw the smoke rise from miles away. The smoke had a unique darkness to it and Galeru knew that it had come from dragon fire. He headed towards the devastation as quickly as he could fly. A chain of colorful light left Seanan's staff and hit Maylstrom in his wings binding Maylstrom down to the earth where he crashed with am earthshaking thud. Maylstrom roared as his fire breath engulfed Seanan where he stood. Maylstrom groaned as he saw a shield of light surrounding Seanan blocking his fire attacks.

"Face it Maylstrom, this is the end." Seanan said plainly before zapping Maylstrom's legs and arms with some unknown spell. Maylstrom's limbs fell limp and the dragon laid on the earth unable to stand or claw at Seanan.

"If this is the way it must end, then this is the way it must end" Maylstrom said with a sound of defeat in his voice. "Send me back, Seanan. Send me home" he pleaded.

"You know I can't do that and you should know that I wouldn't. This is your end" Seanan replied with almost a look of sadness in his old voice. "You've brought enough pain to this world in our time and in this one. It's over."

Seanan raised his staff and concentrated on the spell he was about to perform. Maylstrom began to mutter a spell of his own and both realized that they were in a war of words. Both spoke quickly, Seanan in an old forgotten language and Maylstrom in his dragon tongue.

Maylstrom seemed to have finished his spell in a very short instant before Seanan did and energy from both beings collided forcing a grand explosion that cleared more than 80 acres of forest. The force of the blast sent Galeru spiraling out of control towards the earth. He regained composure and maintained flight only a few hundreds yards from hitting the ground. He gained altitude and waited for the dust to settle. 30 minutes passed by before Galeru landed.

All around him were various pieces of the former great red dragon. No trees, grass or plants had survived the explosion. All that lay around Galeru were small parts of Maylstrom and the limp corpse like form of Seanan who had somehow managed to remain in one piece, despite his long beard and his robes being burned and tattered. Oddly enough, a sack strapped to Seanan's back remained unmarred.

Galeru reached for the sack only to pull back as if his hand were being sent through excruciating pain. He leaned his head down towards Seanan and saw that this old man was breathing, although barely. "Not all treasures sparkle" Galeru said to himself with a slight smile. Galeru picked up Seanan's limp body in one clawed hand and leapt up into the sky.