The dragon narrowed his eyes, regarding his opponent carefully. He sent his mind forth to his opponent, searching for a crack or crevice. Slowly, a reptilian smile formed, his forked tongue tasting the air for show. "Got you no-" His body jerked, writhing in surprise as he roared in pain. "What?!"
His opponent's fiery wings beat at the air as he hovered in place, playing liesurely with the daggers that somehow refused to melt in spite of the intense flames. "You didn't think I would just let you, a master telepath, into my mind, did you? Is it not fully known that you, oh ancient beast, have long studied the art? What fool would not
anticipate the possibility of a mental
assault?"
"You should have done more than just throw me out," growled
Nicol Bolas. "Eventually, you will make a fatal mistake."
"Perhaps. Or perhaps I just read
Urza and Misha's journals better than you did." At the dragon's look of surprise, the avian head tilted. "Did you think I wouldn't guess how you forged me? Even you, with all of your years and experience never sought the madness of Phyrexia. How, then, would you decide, with little time to get it perfect, to breed a Spark to steal?" He gestured to his heart. "So you stole their journals and combined
Urza's notes on his Legacy project with
Mishra's obsessions with life enhancements. You bred, jn a rigorously ramped acceleration of generations, a child descended from both
Urza and
Mishra's bloodlines. Not an easy task, mind you.
Gerrard doesn't realize he is my Grandfather, that you used his daughter, my mother, killing her in your desperation for
renewal. I do." A
fireball gathered over his open hand. "You made a mistake, though. You did not have access to all of the secrets in their journals. You couldn't have found them. You see," he chuckled, "you don't have their
blood running through your veins. But I do. This new body? I should be
dead. But I knew the secrets you did not."
"Impossible," Bolas growled. "I used your parents to read them for me. I know all of their secrets-"
"No, you don't. You see, some of their secrets were hidden in the other book, secrets so important to be kept they could think of no better place to
hide them. Only one such as I could have found them. And those secrets are now
gone forever."
"What?!"
"Oh please, do you really think I would tell you even that much if there were a possibility I had NOT destroyed the books already? I am not stupid enough to let you try again for the full information."